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"The anarchic hacker collective Anonymous brought down a government website last month \u2014 and now it wants to do the same for President Obama's State of the Union.\n\"There will be no State of the Union Address on the web tonight,\" read a post on the collective site Anon Relations. \"We reject the authority of the President to sign arbitrary orders and bring irresponsible and damaging controls to the Internet ... we will form a virtual blockade between Capitol Hill and the Internet.\"\nHow exactly the disparate group intends to do that wasn't mentioned, but presumably a denial of service attack on the official White House stream is intended. Even less clear was whether the other live streams of the speech \u2014 such as those on Bing and GOP.gov, not to mention major networks \u2014 would also be targeted.\nOn Jan. 25, members of Anonymous hacked the front page of the U.S. federal sentencing website USSC.gov. A screed protesting the suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz was followed by mysterious chunks of code named for the Supreme Court justices. The programs were described as \"warheads\" to be used in a forthcoming online \"war\" with the U.S. government, called \"Operation Last Resort.\"\nThe State of the Union \"attack\" was given the hashtag #opSOTU, though it hasn't exactly been lighting up Twitter. \nAn indication that the statement may be no more than online braggadocio is its ending line: \"Armed with nothing more than Lulz, Nyancat and PEW-PEW-PEW! Lazers, we will face down the largest superpower on Earth. And we will win!\"\nWe're sure Nyan Cat has done more than its fair share to affect the economy of the largest superpower on Earth through decreased office worker productivity. But somehow we doubt the 8-bit Pop Tart-covered kitty will replace any online feed of Obama's speech.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, leminuit"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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