I see that Anonymous are up to their tricks again.
Online activist group Anonymous has targeted an American security firm that claimed to know the identities of its leaders.
The secretive organisation is being investigated in several countries over strikes on Visa, PayPal and others.
Over the weekend Aaron Barr, head of HBGary Federal, said he had discovered the names of its most senior figures.
The group retaliated overnight by breaking into the company’s website and hijacking his Twitter account.
Of course, if they hadn’t engaged in illegal acts of vandalism in the first place, no one would be bothered about who they were.
It seems that Aaron Barr was planning to divulge who these nasty little “activists” are and they don’t like it very much.
Meanwhile, a message on the company’s website said that Anonymous had “seized” HBGary’s operation in order to defend itself.
“You brought this upon yourself,” the statement said.
“Let us teach you a lesson you’ll never forget: don’t mess with Anonymous.”
Nice. Very nice. These are the kind of people we are dealing with – spiteful little bullies. The sooner they are identified, arrested, charged and prosecuted the better, frankly. For all their claims to support the leaking of information, when it comes to their information, they are rather more coy – or a I like to call it; hypocritical.
The group said it had gained control of all the company’s e-mail, erased its files, taken down their phone systems and placed copies of many internal documents online.
Mr Barr could not be contacted for comment, but the hacked site was later replaced with a placeholder page.
If Mr Barr has any sense, he would have backed everything up, won’t he? Mr Barr, you did make backups, didn’t you?
While some of the things that Anonymous claim to be supporting are good, their methods are reprehensible and I cannot condone them. The old adage that my enemy’s enemy is my friend doesn’t hold true. Anonymous are not an organisation those of us dedicated to liberty should be allying ourselves with. They do not represent liberty, merely another controlling organisation that wishes to impose its own agenda on the targets of its ire. They are just a bunch of control freaks in silly masks.
If Mr Barr has any sense, he would have backed everything up, won’t he? Mr Barr, you did make backups, didn’t you?
You would think he would have would’nt you, mind you at the college I work at the number of students that have lost work or even lost their laptops without any backing up are astounding.
John Gibson
Ah, you see, you’ve made the mistake of assuming they actually are a political organisation.
As any anon will tell you, the main motivation is not liberty, or equality, or what not, but teh lulz. Only teh lulz.
That’s pretty much what I think of them, too.
There has always been an “Anonymous”, because it’s the dark and uncivilised side of human nature. Where you hide your humanity behind a mask, form a mob and bully the people you don’t like.
When I think of historical examples of “Anonymous”, the first one that springs to mind is the KKK.
Yes, I saw a similar point being made on the Guardian website. This, of course, raises a contradiction. Anonymous’ press releases clearly state that they are activists. This means ta they are lying. Which is fie by me – they are not activists at all, they are criminal scum and should be treated accordingly. Vladimir’s point about the KKK is well made, I think.
The old adage that my enemy’s enemy is my friend doesn’t hold true.
Not when there are three sides in the battle.
It does in this case – anonymous are most certainly not our friends.