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Antisec’s operation Paypal could be its most successful to date
THOUSANDS OF HACKED OFF activists are leaving the online payment firm Paypal as part of a mass Twitter led protest against its practices.
The action started this morning with a call to arms from the Anonymous and Lulzsec hacker groups, operating under their Antisec banner. Acting in response to Paypal's decision to cut off funds from Wikleaks amongst other things including its decision to turn stool pigeon, the groups called for a mass walk-out, and people have listened.
Although Antisec was predicting that Paypal could lose as many as 9,000 users in a week, it looks like it has achieved that, and more, in a morning.
"So far 20k+ accounts closed. | Waiting for Nasdaq opening," reads a tweet from the AnonymousIRC account, while a later message adds, "According to Twitter trends, this is the most successful operation ever done. Let's see what eBay stock says in 90 minutes."
Ebay could be next on Antisec agenda thanks to its ownership of Paypal and its tendency to increase its fees. So far Antisec has only hinted at taking action against the online auction web site, but its tweets are becoming more obvious in their message.
"While we wait for Nasdaq and eBay (who own PayPal) a friendly hint to all corps: Don't fuck your customers. They don't liek!", reads one warning, and another says, "Maybe we should mention that we possibly could have a special surprise for eBay, too? Ah, Naaah".
Anyone working at Ebay or Paypal datacentres that was planning an extended lunch break today probably ought to reconsider. µ
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Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Business_today , Paypal manages more than 232 million acounts. Losing 20,000+ (let's just round that to 30,000 to be safe) constitutes a whole 0.012931% of accounts!!!! That will show them. (I think I made a larger percentage difference in account numbers when I--and only I--cancelled my cable TV service and started using an antenna for over-the-air TV. But for some reason, the local cable company hasn't gone out of business.)
Yeah, I agree that this is Antisec's most-successful operation to date--but that's not something to be proud of.
This is great...too many people have put up with companies that treat people -- both customers and other companies --strictly as "money-dispensing appliances" for far too long. These companies are powered by money, and people can certainly control what they choose to do with their money.
If companies do not abuse their position in the marketplace, and seem to conduct their businesses in a moral and ethical manner, they probably deserve support. Ebay deserved the removal of support, and it is great to see a similar thing happening with B&N, Amazon, and various book publishers pulling out of Apple's App Store.
"Abuse power = lose your customers" can apply to many forms of abuse, including companies like Apple and Microsoft which use patent attacks to try and eliminate competition in the marketplace.
It's time to show corrupt, monopolizing organisations that we, the people, will no longer tolerate abuses.
Close your account and watch PayPal crash.
Wow, I'm closing it now.
I need it for ebay but will find some other way to buy stuff.
There are kids begin sent to jail for protesting online, they will be getting 15 years while a rapist gets 11.. So closing my paypal account is the least i can do. You should too.