Anonymous Taking Aim At Chinese Firewall

[Mr. Dictator]

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Spoiler :

Last week, I wrote about how the hacktivist group Anonymous has a new Chinese branch, Anonymous China, which has been very active since it launched its Twitter account on March 30, 2012. The group has hacked and defaced hundreds of Chinese government, company, and other general websites to the point where China even acknowledged the attacks. The hacking has continued against various websites, but even more importantly, the group has declared a new target: the so-called Great Firewall of China.

Since my last two reports, Anonymous China has hacked shangzhi.gov.cn, publicly posting eight user names and passwords on Pastebay. This was soon followed by the hacking of szzfcg.gov.cn, which resulted in the site’s full database being leaked and posted to Wikisend. The document was hard to parse, but I could easily see that it included thousands of e-mail addresses, logins, and passwords.

I'm crossing my fingers on this. It'll be great to see such a shake-up on the world stage

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Is it the biggest firewall on Earth?

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Is it the biggest firewall on Earth?

Could be, but we've had far more efficient, decentralized versions in our minds since the bronze age. Those will be the real hard ones. This would probably be good practice though.

And tomorrow on FOX:

"Cowardly computer cartel cackles and threatens tourist trap"

 

[Flying Pig]

A proper clash of the titans here - will certainly be interesting to see what happens.

 

[Skwink]

What will they do? DDoS them? Or maybe break in a steal money from families? Change a website a little?

 

[GhostWriter16]

OK, I thought they were completely wrong when they cyberattacked the USA, but China deserves it...

 

[Kozmos]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine

 

[attackfighter]

Hey guise,

So there's this society that has different values from us and we're going to go vandalise it's websites because we can't comprehend a society having different values than us R00FLES!

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

I can't believe I'm saying this but, I wish anonymous well in this venture.

 

[Arakhor]

OK, I thought they were completely wrong when they cyberattacked the USA, but China deserves it...

Is that your moral viewpoint or simply a personal opinion? Should you have moral viewpoints at odds with your opinions?

 

[Crezth]

Hey guise,

So there's this society that has different values from us and we're going to go vandalise it's websites because we can't comprehend a society having different values than us R00FLES!

You're an idiot. China is an authoritarian police state, and the efforts of these admittedly naive hackers are intended on resisting the influence of that government. They're striking a blow for billions of oppressed Chinese.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I foresee many torn down posters.

 

[Crezth]

I foresee many torn down posters.

http://xkcd.com/932/

 

[peter grimes]

OK, I thought they were completely wrong when they cyberattacked the USA, but China deserves it...

I must have missed that one

What are you talking about??

 

[Flying Pig]

http://xkcd.com/932/

I thought of that one too, I'm afraid.

 

[GhostWriter16]

I can't believe I'm saying this but, I wish anonymous well in this venture.

This.

Is that your moral viewpoint or simply a personal opinion? Should you have moral viewpoints at odds with your opinions?

Which part of my post????

I think as China is a dictatorship that censors information, hacking their websites is justified.

As the US is NOT these things, but a democratically elected government, it is NOT OK to hack their websites (And we were talking about the US but it applies to any democratic country.)

 

[attackfighter]

You're an idiot. China is an authoritarian police state, and the efforts of these admittedly naive hackers are intended on resisting the influence of that government. They're striking a blow for billions of oppressed Chinese.

And what's wrong with an authoritarian police state? Would you rather China be a democracy like Iraq, where minorities such as Christians and Jews are stripped of their rights by the Muslim majority? Or what about Russia, it's a democracy too dontyaknow.

But I suppose you're right. FREEDOM IS THE ONLY WAY USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Arakhor]

Whether or not something would be ironic (a censoring body being hacked and information released) does not make it either morally or legally correct. Do we even know whether Anonymous are claiming this as some sort of misguided moral crusade or just because it would be "interesting" or "cool"?

 

[G-Max]

Our tax dollars went toward Chinese kids getting their computer technology degrees at American colleges... now they've gone back home, heads full of Internet memes, and China is about to witness its folly.

Grab the popcorn, because this will be an awesome show.

 

[Crezth]

And what's wrong with an authoritarian police state? Would you rather China be a democracy like Iraq, where minorities such as Christians and Jews are stripped of their rights by the Muslim majority? Or what about Russia, it's a democracy too dontyaknow.

But I suppose you're right. FREEDOM IS THE ONLY WAY USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no america is the ruler of the world dont you know anything