Britain's GCHQ Attacked Anonymous Supporters With DDoS

An anonymous reader writes "NBC News reports that, during a 2012 NSA conference called SIGDEV, GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group bragged about using Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against members of Anonymous during an operation called Rolling Thunder in 2011 (there is evidence that says it was a SYN flood, so technically it was a simple DoS attack). Regular citizens would face 10 years in prison and enormous fines for committing a DoS / DDoS attack. The same applies if they encouraged or assisted in one. But if you work in the government, it seems like you're an exception to the rule."

In defense of GCHQ...

[korbulon]

...No, I got nothing.

Re:GCHQ: "Hey guys.. DDoS attacks are illegal!"

[16Chapel]

That's what she said, WOOOOOOOO