The crackdown on the WikiLeaks-defending hackers has begun: A 16-year-old boy in the Netherlands has been arrested in connection with the attacks that have brought down the MasterCard and Visa websites. The hackers, calling their collective “Anonymous,” have been orchestrating denial-of-service attacks against the websites of organizations and people supposedly critical of WikiLeaks. In an interview with the BBC on Thursday, a hacker going by the name “Cold Blood” claims that people are downloading a botnet tool that enables them to perform the attacks.
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