The issue of Julian Asange's extradition has reached a diplomatic cul de sac but the protestors have threatened the government with a new kind of protest to bring back the founder of WikiLeaks into the nation. The showed their agitation with a display of their technical skills, hacking into the government websites of Britain. However, even after the issue the British government ceases to yield to the threats while it remains firm in its decision to extradite Asange to Sweden where he would face the hearing against the allegations of sexual offenses.

Last week, against the decisions of Britain, Ecuador had welcomed Assange by offering him diplomatic asylum. He had talked to his supporters saying that he would function from the embassy in Ecuador.

Anonymous, the renown hacking group, and infiltrated a few websites of 10 Downing Street, home office and the ministry of justice on Monday. On Tuesday, the functional status of the websites was back to normal. Officials stated that the ministry of justice website was hacked online at Monday in the night, BST at 8 pm. They also said that since it was a public information website there was no harm to the people and that it would not have any impact on the security of the people. Since it lacked any sensitive data too, there was no chance of the theft causing a problem to other departments of the ministry.

Anonymous were infamous for their denial-of-service attacks due to which the websites are drowned in a deluge of requests and hence slow them down to a great extent or even crash under load, major targets being corporate websites and international governments.

(AW- Anil)