Hackers attack Swedish Police Website

After the raids of the Swedish torrent site Pirate Bay earlier this week, Hackers assaulted the official police website of Sweden by directing a large inflow of traffic to it bogging it down.

Police Spokesman Lars Lindahl spoke about the matter saying, "It is quite possible, but that is only speculation." concerning the Hacker's motives when asked about any possible connnections between the attack and the raids on the Pirate Bay servers.

The police should have realized that there are very dangerous, shady fans of sites like these and this sort of retaliation should be expected.

Somehow I'm reminded of Fight Club, the people that are angered in situations like this are the every day citizen who provides services everyone else needs. These people are vitally important to our world, but often get overlooked when decisions are made.

In the immortal words of Tyler Durden, "do not fuck with us".

*cheer for the obligatory Fight Club reference*

As a side note to this report, Sweden's Parliament Constitution Committee should begin investigating the actual cause of the original raid on Pirate Bay after the SVT, a Swedish public broadcaster made a report saying that the Justice Ministry took action on a request from the United States. This matters because Sweden's Constitution does not allow ministers to directly control police activity (see: collusion). So we'll see how this one turns out.

EDIT: Madsen over at LG had a pretty funny comic based on this debacle. Little Gamers

\\drew