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After hacking up government websites last week, and the week before, Anonymous has pulled off another hack to push their agenda of reforming computer crime law in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide. This time, they've leaked names, addresses, and other information about over 4,000 bank executives. And they did it all on a government site.
The leaked info includes titles, addresses, phone numbers, emails, ID numbers, and hashed passwords of the affected bank executives, and while that may seem sort of tangentially related to computer crime reform, that's how Anonymous has been spinning it.[ex/]
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What groups such as LulzSec and Anonymous do is attempt to stop the average person having a choice at all. In engaging in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against a business, so-called hacktivists are not promoting freedom: they are using force to promote their views, and removing the choices other people would have made.
It’s one thing to attempt to convince people to change their view – but there are many ways of doing this. Some of the recent non-violent rallies against Walmart (in response to a sexual discrimination lawsuit) in the US are examples of one, non-dogmatic approach.
Force and coercion do not create freedom – they only create fear, uncertainty and doubt.
But what about the 1000's of people that become victims in the process.
Originally posted by Swizzy
reply to post by Spookycolt
That's the beauty of computer security. There seems to be an antidote to almost everything. Look at countries with very strict internet laws such as China or North Korea. Even people there manage to keep the government on it's feet when it comes to this topic and this is no different to the situation in the western world.
They find a flaw, it gets fixed, they find another flaw, it gets fixed. It's a never ending game and the people in charge of security always seem to be a step behind.
Originally posted by jazzguy
But what about the 1000's of people that become victims in the process.
huh?
ill tell you what idiot people tell me when i talk about government tracking and monitoring.
"if you havent done anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about"
i hope every last one of those crooked CEOs gets a nice sodomizing from their cellmates
Originally posted by inj3ct0r
Anonymous is a very evil group. People think they are cool just because they go after the government. But what about the 1000's of people that become victims in the process.
Seriously I can give you many reasons why 'Anonymous' is evil but it will probably break the tnc's.
What groups such as LulzSec and Anonymous do is attempt to stop the average person having a choice at all. In engaging in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against a business, so-called hacktivists are not promoting freedom: they are using force to promote their views, and removing the choices other people would have made.
It’s one thing to attempt to convince people to change their view – but there are many ways of doing this. Some of the recent non-violent rallies against Walmart (in response to a sexual discrimination lawsuit) in the US are examples of one, non-dogmatic approach.
Force and coercion do not create freedom – they only create fear, uncertainty and doubt.
I can think of many governments who've been pushing this particular agenda for years.
Force and coercion do not create freedom – they only create fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Originally posted by Grimpachi
They do some things that are good. They went after Scientology which I wish they would do more of. That organization is the personification of evil.
I like Anon's stance on a lot of things in principle, but when I step back and think about it for a bit I realise that a lot of what they say is idealistic and simplistic at best. For instance, Anon are presently attempting to make DDoS an act of free speech, they liken it to a 'virtual sit-in', this is in itself a dangerous move as its not only Anon who make use of DDoS.
Originally posted by Darkphoenix77
The problem stems from thier Anonymity however, anyone can be "Anonymous" which means that eventually someone is going to get the idea to do something truly evil wearing a V for Vendetta mask and then the Government will have a new boogeyman terrorist group to wage war on no matter how much they deny the person who did the evil deed was one of them...
Originally posted by purplemer
Ddos is a form of peaceful protest. No different than a crowd turning up outside a bank to protest. The only difference being is one is digital in nature and the other analogue. We are now seeing hackers getting longer prison sentences than rapists. Something is wrong.