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The members of a group claiming credit for causing a series of government and political party websites to go down on Wednesday afternoon described it as a “digital … sit-in” to protest Bill C-51 and a handful of arrests in Halifax.
“Honestly, we just want people talking about what’s happening here with C-51,” one of the members told the Citizen.
Members of the group, calling itself ‘Op Cyber Privacy’, were contacted in an online chat group.
Through the afternoon, a series of denial of service attacks, which overload website servers, brought down a number of government websites.
“(It’s) the digital form of a sit-in protest,” the member said. “We are taking up all the seats of these sites so no one can access them temporarily.”
“It does not damage the website nor do we access information on said websites.”
The group said it had taken down the Conservative party website, the Liberal party website, Peter MacKay’s website and the justice department website, among others.
They said to expect rolling outages of websites throughout the afternoon and evening. At various times, some of the websites were down. Others were up and running. The group said members weren’t keeping websites down for long.
“This is after all just a protest,” the one member said.
“We are in a digital age. Cyber protest is no different than street protest,” another added.
Members of the group said the government was putting up some “counter measures,” and the group had announced beforehand that they would be taking down websites.
It’s all part of what they described as an Anti-Canada Day Protest.
Officials for Shared Services Canada and other targets were not immediately available for comment.
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“Honestly, we just want people talking about what’s happening here with C-51,” one of the members told the Citizen.
Members of the group, calling itself ‘Op Cyber Privacy’, were contacted in an online chat group.
Through the afternoon, a series of denial of service attacks, which overload website servers, brought down a number of government websites.
“(It’s) the digital form of a sit-in protest,” the member said. “We are taking up all the seats of these sites so no one can access them temporarily.”
“It does not damage the website nor do we access information on said websites.”
The group said it had taken down the Conservative party website, the Liberal party website, Peter MacKay’s website and the justice department website, among others.
They said to expect rolling outages of websites throughout the afternoon and evening. At various times, some of the websites were down. Others were up and running. The group said members weren’t keeping websites down for long.
“This is after all just a protest,” the one member said.
“We are in a digital age. Cyber protest is no different than street protest,” another added.
Members of the group said the government was putting up some “counter measures,” and the group had announced beforehand that they would be taking down websites.
It’s all part of what they described as an Anti-Canada Day Protest.
Officials for Shared Services Canada and other targets were not immediately available for comment.
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