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Is the Anonymous Threat to 'Erase' the NYSE Legit?
- caller9 15y agoNope
- wofser 15y agoPerhaps they can knock down the wibsite www.nyse.com for some time but thats not a very big thing.
- schrototo 15y agoIf they could do it, they would do it. There really is no point in announcing these sorts of things.
- localhost3000 15y agoqueue the pixies
- calebmpeterson 15y agowhere is my mind?
- thisisblurry 15y agoAttacking www.nyse.com !== 'erasing' the NYSE
- sp332 15y agooblig. xkcd https://www.xkcd.com/932/ https://www.xkcd.com/932/
- shabble 15y agoI can't find the original reference(s), but not that long ago the SEC suspended trading of some company for a short period of time because the site hosting some recently released financial report was DDoSed, leading to potential information asymmetry for investors. Not exactly a spectacular effect, but at least one way in which actions on the public web can have a (small) influence on trading operations.
- cheez 15y agoI like that you used !==.
- thisisblurry 15y agoIt's the JavaScript developer in me peeking out :x
- derrida 15y agoNo. The main anonymous twitter accounts have denied it and they suspect it is a ploy to get people to use LOIC to arrest activists associated with #OccupyWallStreet
- kleim 15y agoAhahah! Wait, they really took this prank as serious?
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- cbs 15y agoNo. They're just a bunch of script kiddies. Ignore them.
- nextparadigms 15y agoI thought it didn't sound like the way Anonymous would act, from the beginning.
- seclorum 15y agoIn this terrorism culture, what does this message sound like other than .. terrorism?
- EGreg 15y agoIt's tough being anonymous and set yourself apart from copycats. Actually the best attack some agency can do against anonymous is keep spamming "anonymous" videos to the point where there is so much noise that their message is tuned out. The thing is, if there really is no leadership, how does anyone even tell if someone is "really" in Anonymous? Or if some video is "really" from them? Can even members of Anonymous tell? Otherwise it's like github and forking, except of idealistic concerns.
- epenn 15y agoThe video threat against the NYSE included a call for Anonymous supporters to utilize the so-called Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) voluntary botnet tool to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack against the NYSE's website on the target date. Regardless of whether this is a threat from Anonymous or a fake, I really don't think DDOSing the web server(s) of the NYSE would have any affect whatsoever on their actual trading systems. I would assume (or hope) that there is no internal connection between the two.
- wcchandler 15y agoLast time I checked, NYSE internal trading is on a Savvis backbone while nyse.com is on an Akamai CDN. I highly doubt there's ANY connection between the two.
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- jrockway 15y agoI think you would need several very powerful bombs in order to erase the NYSE. Even then, pretty much every firm that trades equities has an internal database with tick-by-tick ask/bid information. I don't understand all the hate for Wall Street. They are doing as poorly as anyone else. Compare BAC's YTD share price: http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1317844800000&chddm=74676&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NYSE:BAC&ntsp=0 http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1... And take a look at it 5 years ago: http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1317844800000&chddm=494615&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NYSE:BAC&ntsp=0 http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
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- loganfrederick 15y agoThe problem in a lot of people's minds (and to a lesser extent mine as well) is that the stock price dropping largely affects the shareholders who are often huge money management funds managing 401(K)s and other retirement plans for the ordinary citizen, while plenty of bankers are still getting large salaries and bonuses not tied to their performance. This isn't strictly the case with B of A, but it's part of the reason for the negative sentiment towards large banks.
- pyoung 15y agoBank of America isn't exactly part of Wall Street. When I think of Wall Street, I think of the big (and not so big) investment banks. While their stocks are(currently)down, and most of these banks are laying off employees, I think the hatred stems from the fact that these investment banks profited from the inflation of the housing bubble, and for the most part walked away clean, despite the fact that their actions were borderline criminal. edit: Bank of America, is technically involved with investment banking, however that is because they acquired Merrill Lynch during the collapse. Before that, i believe that they were strictly retail.
- unkoman 15y agoThey just want attention. Which you just gave them.