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Anonymous hacks Anguilla, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Australia governments
HACKTIVIST GROUP Anonymous has taken over from Lulzsec, targeting the government servers of Anguilla, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Australia.
Lulzsec and Anonymous launched Operation Anti-Security a week ago with the aim of attacking high profile targets like banks and governments. Lulzsec disbanded over the weekend, ending a 50 day spate of attacks, but Anonymous is filling that void by releasing a number of payloads today.
The first is government data from Anguilla. The second is passwords for Brazillian government servers. The third is the user base for the Zimbabwe government, with Anonymous claiming it gained access to everything on all gov.zw servers. The last revelation is data from the Mosman Council in Sydney, Australia.
The files were uploaded to the file host service Mediafire, where they are still accessible. Anonymous promised to upload a torrent with all of the data tomorrow, along with "some surprises".
Unlike Lulzsec, which appeared to have no motive beyond having a laugh, Anonymous claims its attacks are a form of protest against repressive regimes, censorship and other obstructions of justice. It slated many goverments, claiming they "do not even bother to stay within the law themselves".
Anonymous has been relatively quiet while Lulzsec gained attention around the world over the past two months, but now it looks set to regain the limelight. It will likely also regain attention from law enforcement agencies, as government hacks make Anonymous a significant threat. It joked "arrest us finally", but with the arrest and charging of alleged Lulzsec hacker Ryan Cleary, this possibility might be weighing heavily on some hackers' minds.
This does not look to be the last of the attacks, as Anonymous commented, "we have some major US companies left". If that was not worrying enough for American firms, it added, "the best is yet to come". µ
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It seems that whenever a hack occurs, there is always someone who says "They shouldn't do that or they'll censor the Internet!"
Don't do what the government doesn't want you to? Is that the message that should be taken from this? That we should fear our government taking away our freedoms?
"Don't record the police! They'll arrest you!"
"Don't challenge authority! They'll hurt you and maybe us!"
What kind of mentality is this? Do you think that by keeping your head down that you'll get your freedoms back? Nothing ever changed by lying down. Freedoms are earned, not given.
Look around you. Do you truly believe that everything is right? That your governments have your best interests in mind as opposed to their own? What do you pay taxes for that YOU want?
Anonymous says no. This is no way to live. And we refuse to take it any more.
On June 15th The Plan was initiated. Over the course of the next year we will change the world. We are not criminals, but seekers of knowledge. Our weapons are information and the support of the people. The corruption of the System is our enemy, and we will change it through (ideally) peaceful reform.
If you will continue to lay down as your freedoms are stripped away, believing as the government would want you to believe, then continue to do nothing. We cannot stop you.
But if you think as we think, and feel as we feel, then you are Anonymous.
Help us shape the face of the future, free of corruption.
whatis-theplan(dot)org
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
We are Anonymous.
We are here to help.
Expect us.
Okay, okay, then, Anonymous, The Pirate Bay, and Goatse.cx liberated Iran, and we missed hearing about it. Presumably Libya and Syria too. Well done. Now for Anguilla, and I still am missing the point, I suppose, why exactly?
Or are they just pissing up any wall they come across just because it's there - as I really suspect?
They DID go after Iran, in 2009 and 2011. This is one of the public facing sites they went through to do so http://forums.whyweprotest.net/categories/iran.305/
The protests and activism in Iran following the 2009 "election" was facilitated/aided partly via The Pirate Bay and Anonymous, yet most oldmedia sites claimed it was corporate/state friendly twitter and facebook of all places. This isn't mere ignorance or the old media echo chamber, but a matter of stupidity. Tell me, why the hell would an Iranian activist, fearing reprisals from the regime and Basiji, risking imprisonment and death, go on FACEBOOK of all places?! Common sense answer: he wouldn't. He'd avoid that site like the plague and use anonymity, and Anonymous and TPB helped facilitate that. This alone has made me lose all faith in the journalistic integrity of the old media's corporatized establishment. A lot of Iran 2009 was Anon's doing, yet they fed people this garbage that FB was responsible--it wasn't. Matter of fact, facebook WILL pull your account and group if you use a pseudonym, even if using your real name associated with activism in such a repressive country will be a death sentence. Facebook simply doesn't care. In spite of all that, we've got commenters like Carnegie who have no clue that Anon DID go after Iran TWICE already, and people like Bob saying every one of these people should be sent to prison. No worries, Bob, with the current establishment anyone trying to incite change in repressive regimes like Iran or elsewhere will hopefully be fully identified by your glorious FB and executed by the glorious state. Ignorant twits.
Hacking is a crime. Send every hacker to prison.
With behavior like this, it may bring about the very thing they are against. Increased regulation of the net world wide and censorship.
And their "parliamentary representative democratic dependency" and "pluriform multi-party system", the bastards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguilla and, no, neither did I until just now. And not even now, really.
Anonymous seem to be going for a lot of English-speaking targets, aren't they? And not say Iran. Well, Mossad has that covered, probably.