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GoDaddy’s Service Disruption: How Anonymous Hacked the Media

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The media’s jumping on the claim that GoDaddy was hacked shows how little they understand Anonymous—and how they value speed over accuracy, says Cole Stryker.

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In Tuesday's GoDaddy service disruption, the media storm started with a tweet from an Anonymous-affiliated Twitter user named Anonymous Own3r. "I'm taking godaddy down bacause well i'd like to testhow the cyber security is safe and for more reasons that i can not talk now,” Own3r ungrammatically tweeted.

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