Anonymous

[Defy]

What's your take on them?


I personally agree with alot of the recent attacks they've been carrying out, fucking with companies who censor or support censorship.....plus I like V for Vendetta and those Guy Fawkes masks.

Hackers attack BART, Fullerton police websites
The effort by the group Anonymous in response to the deaths of two men was apparently thwarted in Fullerton. But officials at Bay Area Rapid Transit had to shut down a marketing site.


Garrett Therolf and Richard Winton, Times Staff Writers
August 15, 2011

A group of activist hackers launched attacks Sunday against the websites of the Fullerton Police Department and the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in response to the recent deaths of two men in confrontations with the agencies.

The attack did not appear to be successful in Fullerton, but officials at the San Francisco-area mass transit authority were forced to shut down MyBART.org, a marketing website designed to encourage riders to use the system for travel to leisure events.

The group posted the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords of thousands of Bay Area residents, but a BART spokesman said the website held no sensitive financial information.


"We are in the process of contacting our customers to offer advice and extend regrets that this has happened," BART spokesman Jim Allison said.

The hacker group Anonymous issued a statement saying, "We are your citizens, we are the people, we do not tolerate oppression from any government agency."

BART "stored their members' information with virtually no security," the hackers wrote. "Any 8-year-old with an Internet connection could have done what we did to find it."

The group targeted BART after the fatal shooting of a homeless man last month and because the agency shut down cellphone service in its trains and stations during a demonstration last week over the incident.

Allison said that the agency anticipated further attempts to disrupt its online presence and that it has brought in experts from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for assistance. The FBI is also investigating.

The threat to hack the Fullerton police website was in response to the death of Kelly Thomas during a confrontation with officers last month. The city deployed its information technology staff to secure computers and electronic communications and to monitor the systems for intrusions.

"It's definitely something we are taking seriously and doing everything we can to make sure our facilities are secure," Fullerton Police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich said.

No sabotage or disruptions have been detected, Goodrich said.

Michael Gennaco, who oversees Los Angeles County's Office of Independent Review and scrutinizes the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, will lead an investigation into the homeless man's deadly encounter with six officers.

 

[Legman]

goose pimples

 

[M BUTCHER 206]

i couldnt care less, but its going to suck when they pass some "protecting america from cyber terrorism bill" and start keeping tabs on everyday regular joes and can block certain internet providers at their whim, all cause of shit like this.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin]

I don't consider it a group at all.
Too loose.

 

[niguardian]

if they really fuck wit the federal reserve they'll go down in history, i actually like when people shake shit up and fuck with the system

 

[M BUTCHER 206]

its funny how the media makes these people out to be a huge group of evil dudes sitting in some underground high tech lair wearing ski masks and military uniforms

reality: a bunch of random nerds around the globe fucking with people for lulz, using elementary hacking measures to vandalize low-security websites

 

[Defy]

i couldnt care less, but its going to suck when they pass some "protecting america from cyber terrorism bill" and start keeping tabs on everyday regular joes and can block certain internet providers at their whim, all cause of shit like this.

I think the more they do shit the more attention they'll get, which will bring more followers making it much more massive.

I don't consider it a group at all.
Too loose.

I think its more of ideology to follow/hide behind. the idea of anonymity is something that people like regardless, but the fact that they're taking a clear stance on censorship will get more people to follow

 

[BOOBOO619]

I like their motive, but I think they'll fail. I think their more of a pest than anything to our evil ass Gov't. Most people just don't know who they are or are too distracted to give a shit about anything.

 

[StЯanGe]

i couldnt care less, but its going to suck when they pass some "protecting america from cyber terrorism bill" and start keeping tabs on everyday regular joes and can block certain internet providers at their whim, all cause of shit like this.

they are already gonna do that in the ruse of it being there to find pedo's

 

[M BUTCHER 206]

they are already gonna do that in the ruse of it being there to find pedo's

they already passed some bill with a crazy name like "protecting americas children from pedofiles" and what it does is makes ISP's like comcast hold all of you internet history for up to a year in case law enforcement needs to seize it. that was relatively recently

 

[Nuttkase]

Mark 7 and Chree are fucking screwed.

 

[smittycal]

I heard that FB is also there next target and so are a few other media outlets.

I agree with a lot of there points and shit but there execution is sloppy. Instead of taking it out the companies there trying to hurt there messing with more regular people then anything.

Either way Im not trying to piss them off lol

 

[Grapes Of Wrath]

these groups whove gone public recently but always been around in some form or another like lulz boat, script kiddies, antisec etc...are usually always foreigners.

and contrary to popular belief that its some big formless loose knit society of hackers its not. its little groups of dedicated knowitalls.

 

[fillyacup]

remember remember the 5th of november

 

[mrtonguetwista]

SAN FRANCISCO -- An estimated 50 protesters gathered on a BART platform in downtown San Francisco Monday to demonstrate against the agency's interruption of cell phone service to prevent a protest the week before. In response, BART shut down the platform.

Minutes after 5 p.m., dozens of protesters stood on the Civic Center station platform at the foot of an escalator. Some of the demonstrators held signs reading, "Protect free speech," "I believe in free speech," and "You can jail a revolutionary, but you cannot jail the revolution."

One person was wearing a "blood-stained" T-shirt, as organizers encouraged to symbolize what they said was blood on the hands of BART police.

More participants joined as the protest went on, some of whom attempted to halt train service through the station by standing in the doorways of train cars.

Police in riot gear then intervened, making a line in front of the trains entrances.

An announcement was made just before 5:30 that service to the station had shut down and everyone in the station was herded upstairs and outside the station.

Protesters then marched through downtown San Francisco, some of whom stopped cars driving nearby the station.

Minutes before 6 p.m., BART announced that the Powell Street Station had been closed and riders could exit at the Civic Station platform.

The hacker protest group "Anonymous" apparently organized the 5 p.m. protest, and was also taking credit for a cyber-attack that resulted in the release of personal information for at least 2,400 users of the agency's myBART.org website over the weekend.

Organizers from Anonymous said Monday evening's protest would be peaceful.

Updates on potential temporary closures of BART stations or changes to service during Monday evening's protest were posted at www.bart.gov and www.511.org

 

[fillyacup]

any pics of the protest?

 

[timebomb]

wps

 

[surcaliman]

i like what LulzSec did here...

Arizona law enforcement cannot be sleeping well tonight, with the keyboard anarchists of "Chinga La Migra" ("Fuck the Border Patrol," in English) claiming yet another hack with a corresponding data dump of local cops' personal info.

I only say "claiming" because I'm still accessing the torrent. (Hey, I never said I was Julian Assange.) However, the CLMers (or "AntiSec," or whatever they're calling themselves for the moment) have issued a press released stating that the information is from various chapters of the Fraternal Order of Police around the state.

The site for the Mesa FOP is currently down, and so is Tucson FOP. Also, the FOP Maricopa Lodge 5's home page has been defaced with the CLM press release in red on a black background, and a video of Public Enemy's "Hazy Shade of Criminal" embedded there to boot.

 

[Timm]

These groups are becoming more frequent now all around the globe, there are eastern european hacking groups now and some in the middle east, for example, this is what a group of hackers called the "cyber army of pakistan" did to the air botswana website (the official airline of the african country)

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I give them props just for getting it done, but idk how one could go about actually wanting to do this haha

 

[Asmodeus]

I dig the "idea" behind what theyre doing. Problem is groups like this can generally start to skew their morals for their cause. Which at that point can make them just as vile as what theyre protesting against. Guess time will tell.