The Anonymous hacking collective this morning defaced the Web site of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in the middle of a live radio show that included a church spokeswoman and a member of Anonymous.
The defacement came just days after Anonymous issued a statement saying that it had no plans to attack the Church’s Web site. The statement had noted that an earlier letter said to be from the group that threatened online attacks on the church site was a hoax.
Members of the WBC church are known for their strident anti-gay views and for protests at funerals of slain military personnel and others. Last week it issued a letter challenging Anonymous to “bring it.”
The Anonymous member on the radio show today said it felt compelled to attack because of what it claimed was the church’s belligerent response to the hoax letter. “We had enough. We responded maturely. We said no, we don’t want war,” the Anonymous member said during the discussion on the David Pakman multiplatform politics and news talk show.
Prior to today’s attacks, WBC’s sites were offline for several days. That outage appears to have been caused by a distributed denial of service attack launched by a hacker called The Jester.
Here is a clip from David Pakman’s radio show:
Here is a copy of the Anonymous notice placed on the hate group site. Best line:
“God hates fags: assumption. Anonymous hates leeches: fact.”
The rest of the Anonymous message – the map of the Phelps sites.
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Two wrongs don’t make a right
The Theological Education and beliefs of Rev Phelps is questionable. But you can’t touch the guy because he’s not under any denomination.
This anonymous hacking collective and person called the jester is illegal It is illegal to hack and they have no right to do so.
There might be some laws to put the brakes on Phelps