Tässä BBC: artikkelissa, ja ainakin yhdessä näkemässäni siteerauksessa, DDoS-ryhmän toimista, sana hakkeri on suhteellisen oikeassa kontekstissaan. Hakkerietiikan mukaista on vastustaa nettisuodatusta, myös näillä omilla tavoilla, ja hakea asialle maximaalista huomiota. Maailmanlaajuinen julkisuus tekee hyvää Australian hallitukselle sikäläisen lexnokiansa kanssa.The sites were intermittently blocked on 10 and 11 February. The action has been condemned by various bodies including the Systems Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU) and Electronic Frontiers Australia.
"All it takes is a few people to basically send junk traffic to their websites which is causing them to be offline," the man, calling himself Coldblood, told BBC News.
"The people who are currently attacking (the government websites) are planning to keep doing it. It will probably keep happening until either they get bored or it gets sorted out."
A man claiming to be a representative of the group said that around 500 people were involved in the attack. The method they are using is known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS).
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