Anonymous’ cyber war with
the authorities of Tunisia was one of the most infamous hacks from Anonymous.
The oppressive Tunisian government was using phishing with a malware code.
Malware is a computer virus, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware
and other malicious programs that are in the form of executable codes, scripts,
active content, and other software. And
by using this technique, they were able to get Facebook, Twitter, blogs, emails
and many other user passwords to delete the content that they felt was
rebelling or voiced opinions about the government. The Tunisian Internet
Agency’s attempt to take away the right of freedom of speech in the cyber
community was overthrown by Anonymous beginning with DDoS attacks which took
over a minimum of eight websites which were those of the president, the prime
minister, the ministry of the industry, the ministry of foreign affairs, and
the stock exchange. Anonymous also targeted the government Internet agency that
was called “Ammar 404” or “Page not found” which appeared on censored sites. Anonymous
used Internet Relay Chat (ICR) that is an online discussion forum to plan the
operation. OpTunisia was a group that brought online activists together and a
member of Anonymous spammed the forum and bringing supporters from around the
globe together. Anonymous spread itself to Wikileaks and let information from
the censorship to the Internet users to see. Though the Anonymous website
itself was under attack with DDoS attacks, they were going to finish their DDos
attacks to the DNS server. I definitely do not think that Anonymous’ attacks on
the Tunisian government and Wikileaks were wrong because every human being; no
matter located in what country, what religion, or what color has the right to express
their freedom of speech. It is a
universal right. No other human being or beings such as a government has the
right to silence their citizens because it is the birthright of every human.
Why? Because God did not send down certain human being or beings as “the better
people” that are superior to anyone else and have the power to shut someone
else’s freedom of religion, speech, and open access to information. Everyone on
this Earth is equal. Just because some people are lighter than others, or have more
money than others does not give them the right to abuse others. And for those
that do not believe in God, science says we all evolved from tiny organisms,
called prokaryotes. Prokaryotes into eukaryotes, which were all the same. Every
single one of them. They then turned into animals. And then evolved into
humans. The color of someone’s skin is determined by the amount of melanin in
his or her skin by where they are located on the Earth. This chemical in
someone’s skin should not be the determinant of whether they have rights or
not. Just as the amount of paper in someone’s pocket shouldn’t determine if
they are going to destroy people’s lives.
This corrupt Tunisian government had no right to censor anything from
its people and go through their private accounts, especially if they themselves
are hiding themselves behind a secret curtain. This brings in the topic of just
and unjust laws. Martin Luther King Jr. voiced his opinion and stated that just
laws are those that a majority believes are right, that they follow and make
the minority follow as well. Unjust laws are laws that a majority group make a
minority group follow, but they in turn do not follow them because they are
there to repress minority groups and keep them from rebelling. This same thing occurred in Tunisia, where
the government made it illegal to express freedom of speech and censored the
Internet to their liking by going through Facebook, email, and other accounts. Hacking
onto government websites is said to be illegal, but the government says that.
They are enforcing this law because it is what they believe because they are
the majority. The minority (the people) may not agree with this. But that is
why they are called a “minority.” Because their opinions do not matter. But censoring
information on the Internet and keeping secrets from the citizens is not
illegal? And neither is invading their privacy by going through their personal
accounts on the Web. The government has the right to hack, which they have
renamed things such as “National Security Agency,” but Anonymous hacking is
called a threat and given the bad name of “hacking.” It is all double
standards. Hacking in order to help the freedom of expression and bring down
repressive forces is “illegal”. The majority defines all of these “laws” as
laws in their own words and definitions, and imposes them on majorities and
minorities, but they only benefit to the majority because it keeps all the
minority people at the same level. And this was the case in Tunisia.
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