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UK.gov Email Addresses Didn't Get Expected "Pornstorm" Email Attack
- The Register, Monday, July 29, 2013 2:10 PM
After the UK government put into place strict controls over the consumption of Internet online, the hacktivist group Anonymous encouraged Internet users to flood the inboxes of a few hundred government and county council officers with their favorite porn images as part of "Operation Pornstorm." The government took the threat seriously but it appears that the effort may have petered out before it ever got started. So far, the campaign has yet to impact the government's ability to send and receive email.
