So wasn't Anonymous supposed to do something to NYSE today? Er..?

NYSE was backed up on floppy

'Anonymous' call for a massive attack on the New York Stock Exchange's website was met Monday -- but very, very briefly.

A group calling itself Anonymous, a name used by disparate groups of online "hactivists," threatened to take down NYSE.com at 3:30 p.m. ET today as an extension of the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations that have continued into a fourth week.

The website was slow and then unavailable from about 3:35 p.m. to around 3:37 p.m, after which it returned to normal. Keynote, an Internet monitoring company, confirmed that NYSE.com slowed down during that time. Another tracking site, downforeveryoneorjustme.com, also registered a brief outage.

Well, there you have it. The extent of Anonymous' capabilities.

All they can do is make me

And all the idiots that used the LOIC software undoubtedly has been tracked and now being monitored by big brother. I also fell hook, line and sinker into the story until I realized you have to connect to a secure server offering https connections.

To not be able to run software from your own or randomized IP address (anonimify) from a group such as Anon was fishy to begin with.

Then when I read that it's specifically asking for known-bad software, the LOIC stuff...that's what turned up the bs flag. I knew from then on it's just the feds trying to monitor and track people.

Like they always say it's the sheep led to the slaughter not the herder.