Anonymous
group of hackers and who they are? This question was not still answered yet. We
can only imagine who is staying behind this group and how this group is big
compared to other groups. this name anonymous was appeared first in the 4chan
website and later on it was widely spread between hacker's communities.
Anonymous mean to me something more than other groups who was launching attacks
against FBI servers and NASA space servers. I have many reasons to say this
statement because it is obviously the first group who was intended to fight
against Scientology, for their beliefs and freedom of speech.
Scientology is
the huge religious organization which is exempted from paying government taxes
and who's leader was a Ron Hubbard. I had my own experience of having some
influence from scientology and their recruiting people who are involved in this
business. Ron's Hubbard books are cost a lot more than it should be, his
influence changed many lives in a negative way. Everyone who has past negative
stress or environment developed anagrams and in order for to rid off of these anagrams
you have to be clear in a scientology way but this means your life will be
completely different and you will not have your own choice to expand your life.
I was meeting some person who was having a master's degree and was totally
dependent and obedient to the church of Scientology. He could not take any
other choices to change his life and he was totally happy to spend most of his
time at the church of Scientology. I was seeing some people who was staying
close to the wall and talking to themselves by phrasing weird words to me. I
was shocked how people can be manipulated and changed and I left this of
treating my negative anagrams to stop my stuttering. I am strongly agree that
anyone should have freedom of his or her speech and should be able live without
any brainwash mind as scientology does to people. I strongly agree to the
statement that the Church of Scientology should not be exempted from paying taxes
as a regular American does. I agree that Anonymous should show to the world and
all media that no one will escape from their organization to fight for the
freedom of speech and defend the freedom of people who are mistaken led by the
scientology influence.
Tom Cruise was the famous actor to me but not
anymore longer because he is involved into scientology and I am not recognizing
him as my famous actor in his early
movies. His last marriage should be his freedom of choice but it was selected by
the Church of Scientology. It was not easy for these women to decline any offer
because they will be punished and work in dirty hard jobs for the scientology.
Tom Cruise speech was appeared on YouTube and later was taken out from YouTube
with scientology hands. Anonymous is the group who believes that freedom is the
Internet where they can do and express their ideas and no one can take our
freedom from the Internet like it was done by a Scientology to take off video
of Tom Cruise that was posted on the YouTube.
"The
anonymous group released a video on the YouTube titled: "Message to
Scientology" concerning their intentions to attack the Church of
Scientology. A robotic voice on the video begins with "hello leaders of
Scientology, We are Anonymous, " and continues by explaining their
motivations: "Over the years we have been watching you, your campaigns of
misinformation, your suppression of dissent and your litigious nature. All
these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video
into mainstream circulation the extent of your malign influence over those who
have come to trust you as leaders has been made clear to us. Anonymous has
therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed." (Wikipedia
source)
This message
on the YouTube was the first attempt of any way to stop the scientology
influence and make it clear for the Church of Scientology that war be declared
against them. many website of scientology were attacked and has been slowed
down, they were brought to complete stop or even removed from the Internet. Due
to this open challenge the Anonymous got more member to support them in this
war from other countries. People stand up against Scientology with their
demands to stop Scientology influence. The original members of Anonymous group
and 4chan were amazed about how many other people support their ideas and
demands and their power cannot be stopped even with Scientology hands including
FBI. People will stand up for their beliefs and ideas no mater of what could be
happened to them.
By describing
some good things about Anonymous hactivist group I have to say some negative
aspect of other member of Anonymous group called Lulz Security or commonly
known as LulSec. This group was consist of highly profile hackers who managed to
attacked the famous companies such Sony and CIA website. This group was pointed
on dangerous consequences of the password reuse and how vulnerabilities can
penetrate any secure website. The main leader of this organization was a very
intelligent and super smart individual called Sabu. Sabu was coordinating all
these attacks and managed their group members who will be involved into any
particular attacks. This group was even attacked newspaper websites and Fox
Broadcasting Company. This group was attacking any companies and website what
could be hacked and exposed any confidential information. I strongly agree that
this group is different from the Anonymous group and should be prosecuted for
their wrongful activities
Lulsec group
members hacked HBGarry and it that was
shown of how strong and dangerous hackers can be. This group released many
confidential information of many innocent people and caused an aggravation of
other hactivist groups by doing this. Other hackers groups promised to release
all information regarding this group member on-line. This LulSec hacked also
the database of X factor contestants containing information of 73000
contestants. The leader of this group somehow helped FBI to arrest his members
on the March 2012. it is now obviously for me how this group was tracked down
and how it was done but it is clear to me that the leader become a rat to his
trusted members. Someone said that Sabu was the leader of anonymous group but
there are no facts to prove this statement. Any hacker's organization as son or
later can be tracked down by FBI with all means to achieve this arrests. it was
done before when FBI tracked down the Kevin Mitnik but it is not enough to
realize for other hackers that anyone can be prosecuted.
Luzsec did not
appear to hack for financial profit, claiming their motivation was to have fun
by causing mayhem. they did things "for the lulz" and focused on
other possible comedic and entertainment value of attacking targets Everyone
can have a fun but some fun that relieves someone confidential information of
LinkedIn profiles and the names of 73000 X factor contestants cannot be called
a fun anymore and must be prosecuted by all mean available. This was happened
to LulzSec members and will happen to other hacking groups who is going to have
such a fun. I strongly agree if you are hacking for the for the discovery of
the security vulnerabilities in companies that is a different story but if you
are exposing the confidential information and people's profiles of the Face book
or a Twitter then you should understand all the consequences and legal
obligations of submitting these wrongful actions. As soon or later every hacker
who does these actions will be found guilty and prosecuted and I totally with this
conclusion.
I don't know where to start with this, as the ideas in this piece are far and wide and engulf many topics in many different directions. I will assume the focal point as being the hacker group Anonymous, mainly from the given title and pieces of the body. As noted, the group Anonymous has done many things, and has been met with mixed reception. On one hand, they have attempted to tackle a heinous and widespread problem in today's world called child pornography by shutting down an offending site and making information about its users public. On the other hand, they attack private servers, release confidential information, and do it with impunity, not bothering to realize whose life it may negatively impact and whether or not innocent bystanders may go down in the crossfire. Due to the controversy, this makes them excellent candidates to be gadflies. The question remains, do the ethics of what they do and their cause support this as well?
ReplyDeleteIn short, it does. Although they do employ controversial methods, and though there are some negative repercussions to what they do, a large part of the reason I would consider them gadflies is because of their intent. They have chosen to tackle prevalent, and deeply immoral problems, problems that have been neglected and in some ways, have not really been dealt with by law enforcement in an adequate manner, due to law enforcement either not having adequate resources to tackle the problem, or due to not having jurisdiction to deal with the problem in an adequate manner. The intent is noble, and though there may be innocent individuals caught in the crossfire, in my opinion, at the end of the day, the amount of good done by hindering the child pornographers and preventing the endangerment of children vastly outweighs the negatives.