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WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers
• prisonplanet.comHe is one of the newest recruits to Operation Payback. In a London bedroom, the 24-year-old computer hacker is preparing his weaponry for this week’s battles in an evolving cyberwar. He is a self-styled defender of free speech, his weapon a laptop and his enemy the US corporations responsible for attacking the website WikiLeaks.
He had seen the flyers that began springing up on the web in
mid-September. In chatrooms, on discussion boards and inboxes from
Manchester to New York to Sydney the grinning face of a Guy Fawkes mask
had appeared with a call to arms. Across the world a battalion of
hackers was being summoned.
