Anonymous vs. Australia

Karl Hungus

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/anonymous-unfurls-operation-titstorm/

Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group Anonymous unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship.

The group, which previously brought down Scientology’s websites has also undertaken a host of other online pranks. It dubbed the new attack “Operation Titstorm” to protest the government’s move to require the filtering of pornography that uses adult actors if they appear underage. Violent material targeting children is also to be censored.

Anonymous’ past targets include uncool virtual worlds, an epilepsy message board and a Neo-Nazi webcaster. The group sent Australian media e-mail messages warning of the attack, the Sydney Morning Herald said.

Interesting. Personally, I think Anonymous are sometimes on the ball with their campaigns. Their clash with Scientology for example. Internet censorship is a very serious issue, so I'd also give them a thumbs up for this, although it's probably not going to do them any good and could perhaps even making the situation worse.

Thoughts?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Generally don't have much time for hackers (or crackers, whatever)
But Internet censorship in a westen democracy, a common law country...
Good on 'em

Doc

Currently living in Australia and I would be more concerned with the fact that my tax money would be wasted trying to censor the internet which they really wont be able to do. With a bit of effort you will still be able to see whatever you want on the net.

Karl Hungus

Doc wrote: »

With a bit of effort you will still be able to see whatever you want on the net.

Sure, but that's not really the issue, is it? It's with the government taking steps towards censorship.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

So does this mean that Britney Spears is banned over there?

Seiously, though, at least they're doign somethign about it. Not saying that they are right or wrong, but protest is better than sitting on your backside moaning.

Run_to_da_hills

Funny, I hope this snowballs and spreads to other countries that goes down this route.

Doc

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Sure, but that's not really the issue, is it? It's with the government taking steps towards censorship.

Its all just talk "Won’t somebody please think of the children!"

It’s not going to happen.

Duggy747

Australia are bad for the censorship on entertainment (Games, TV & Film, etc)

Filtering the internet is like trying to remove milk from your tea. (Hmm.......)

Overheal

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

So does this mean that Britney Spears is banned over there?

I had forgotten about that. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ipag_britney-spears-hit-me-baby-one-more_people

Still, its not pornography.

AnonoBoy

Why did anonymous attack an epilepsy message board?

Karl Hungus

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Why did anonymous attack an epilepsy message board?

It wasn't really an attack. Some idiot thought it would be hilarious to post up flashing .gifs on the message board.

DamoDLK

Doc wrote: »

Currently living in Australia and I would be more concerned with the fact that my tax money would be wasted trying to censor the internet which they really wont be able to do....

I agree with Doc, I too live here. IF i had a job I would be proper pi$$ed off if my 'would be' hard earned dollars were wasted on such a futile operation.

Biggins

LOL WOT!
Austrailia hopes to censor the internet - aye, like that has worked very well for the Chinese. LOL
Come on Austrailian government. Have ye a bit touched in the head or has ex-pres' Bush been visiting infecting ye all with his madness?

GLaDOS

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Why did anonymous attack an epilepsy message board?

"Anonymous" don't have any one goal or leader, and quite frankly it's quite easy to use the name. Some people prefer to take on humane cause such as this and against Scientology, while others will do horrible things such as that attack. Some will both, "for the lulz"

When it comes to the Australia attacks, I fully agree

4zn76tysfajdxp

Biggins wrote: »

LOL WOT!
Austrailia hopes to censor the internet - aye, like that has worked very well for the Chinese. LOL
Come on Austrailian government. Have ye a bit touched in the head or has ex-pres' Bush been visiting infecting ye all with his madness?

Bush was the American president, not Australian.

CiaranC

Karl Hungus wrote: »

It wasn't really an attack. Some idiot thought it would be hilarious to post up flashing .gifs on the message board.

To be fair, I laughed

Karl Hungus

CiaranC wrote: »

To be fair, I laughed

I didn't. Sometimes anonymous pranks are absolutely genius and are truly epic lulz, but that was just malicious. Getting Oprah Winfrey to say "Over 9000 penises!" on the other hand, is absolutely brilliant.

Prof.Badass

I didn't think we were allowed mention that site here...:D

The important thing is that if internet censorship comes to Ireland not only will we do this, we will also do the 10,000 letters idea that was proposed for something else (a letter is far less ignorable than an email).

Karl Hungus

vinylmesh wrote: »

I didn't think we were allowed mention that site here...:D

What, 4chan? I think people frown on the site, but I do believe I've mentioned it plenty of times. I'm looking at a thread about Operation Titstorm on there now, and it's epic. They're attempting to bring down the Australian stock exchange website at the moment.

jonnybadd

Not a great idea for an attack on censorship but its nice to see something is being done. The Ozzies seem to have a really stern opinion on outside influences and the net/games just seems to be the most recent.

Slugs

Epic, absolutely epic. Absolutely love the idea of anonymous, and love ED as well ^^

Slugs

Karl Hungus wrote: »

What, 4chan? I think people frown on the site, but I do believe I've mentioned it plenty of times. I'm looking at a thread about Operation Titstorm on there now, and it's epic. They're attempting to bring down the Australian stock exchange website at the moment.

Well my thread on some kids attack on 4chan and anonymous (which I know was trollbait but whatever) got closed. Suppose mentioning it isn't too bad o.O

Sheeps

OH THE EPIC WINNERY IT IS TO MIUCH FOR MY HEAD IT WILL EXPLODE ASUTRALIAN GOVERTNMENT = EPIC FAIL

Sheeps

I mean that in the most satirical sarcastic sense, in that anonymous or 4chan is a stupid piece of shit.

Karl Hungus

Karl Hungus wrote: »

It wasn't really an attack. Some idiot thought it would be hilarious to post up flashing .gifs on the message board.

Genius.

Dr. Feelgood

I think they're pretty dangerous and get involved in things they don't really know much about. I personally wouldn't promote anything they do, or want anything to do with them.

meditraitor

Dr. Feelgood wrote: »

I think they're pretty dangerous and get involved in things they don't really know much about. I personally wouldn't promote anything they do, or want anything to do with them.

Your one of THEM arent you?

AnonoBoy

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Getting Oprah Winfrey to say "Over 9000 penises!" on the other hand, is absolutely brilliant.

How? What? Do tell....

Wazdakka

AnonoBoy wrote: »

How? What? Do tell....

Damnit.. I'd find a clip but Youtube is blocked in work

EPIC Stuff..
Kind of brought 4chan into the spotlight a bit tho, and was a contributing factor to it being taken down for a couple of weeks.

AnonoBoy

Wazdakka wrote: »

Damnit.. I'd find a clip but Youtube is blocked in work

EPIC Stuff..
Kind of brought 4chan into the spotlight a bit tho, and was a contributing factor to it being taken down for a couple of weeks.

Found it.

So they just posted a message on her website?

I was hoping for something a bit more, I dunno, better.

Stercus Accidit

Apparently they have gov.au or some main government site down for 40 hours now, and the media is downplaying it as 50 mins under government instruction.

They are censoring the government for censoring them, I am in full support TBH, no vote on the issues the gov have censored would have passed, it is dictated censorship. Women with small breasts banned from being in porn because they look like children is the logic, FFS, get a set of vile plastic airbags surgically deforming your body and its ok.

Australia is a holy joke for censorship.

General Zod

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I didn't. Sometimes anonymous pranks are absolutely genius and are truly epic lulz, but that was just malicious. Getting Oprah Winfrey to say "Over 9000 penises!" on the other hand, is absolutely brilliant.

BTW the 3 people involved in this wrote a guide for the owners of the epilepsy site on how to best secure their website and prevent anything like it happening again and assisted in the implementation of their recommendations.

They posted up 3 or 4 flashing gifs, which were taken down after an hour or two. noone was actually hurt.

General Zod

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Found it.

So they just posted a message on her website?

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She read it out live on her TV program.

Jumpy

Why on earth is squirting on the banned list?

AnonoBoy

General Zod wrote: »

She read it out live on her TV program.

Yeah I know but she could have just not read it. They didn't really 'trick' her into it she just decided to say it.

General Zod

she read it out because she thought it was a real reply to the topic on her website.

If you have to think too much abut it you're missing the point.

AnonoBoy

General Zod wrote: »

she read it out because she thought it was a real reply to the topic on her website.

If you have to think too much abut it you're missing the point.

No I get it alright. It's clearly a ridiculous statement and she just went ahead and read it out as fact.

I just don't think it's as great as all that. I should be laughing my head off. What's wrong?

Maybe I'm just not in the mood today, I dunno, more coffee might help.

General Zod

It's funny because it's Oprah Winfrey saying "over 9000 penises".

we're venturing way off topic here.

Prof.Badass

Jumpy wrote: »

Why on earth is squirting on the banned list?

Because the government has decided that no respectable person would look at porn involving urination. so they made it illegal (not sure what sort of punishment you'd get). They also consider female ejaculation to be urination.

AnonoBoy

It's really just one more reason not to go to Australia.

Although sleeping with one Ozzie woman should convince any man that it's a country to stay away from. *shudder*

kraggy

General Zod wrote: »

She read it out live on her TV program.

Just had a look for it on youtube. To no avail. Was it actually broadcast? And what was the background as to how they got her to say it on the show? Looked up google but not much on it.

Cianos

kraggy wrote: »

Just had a look for it on youtube. To no avail. Was it actually broadcast? And what was the background as to how they got her to say it on the show? Looked up google but not much on it.

here it is;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liYfhRgXGk

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Cianos wrote: »

here it is;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liYfhRgXGk

Briallaint idea, very poorly executed. That's juts going to spread more fear and bring in more *cough* "safety measures".

Karl Hungus

Slugs wrote: »

Well my thread on some kids attack on 4chan and anonymous (which I know was trollbait but whatever) got closed. Suppose mentioning it isn't too bad o.O

I guess because some internet tiff wasn't really seen as worth any discussion, whereas this is certainly an issue worth talking about.

Dr. Feelgood wrote: »

I personally wouldn't promote anything they do, or want anything to do with them.

I would. I greatly support and admire the protests against Scientology, and if the Irish government would attempt to do anything similar in terms of internet censorship, I'd probably be right there with anonymous doing the same thing.

Stercus Accidit

vinylmesh wrote: »

Because the government has decided that no respectable person would look at porn involving urination. so they made it illegal (not sure what sort of punishment you'd get). They also consider female ejaculation to be urination.

There are grown men who put their willies in each others bums too.

Ban this sick filth nao!



:rolleyes: < Havin' to use these lately more than usual, just to be safe.

Dr. Feelgood

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I would. I greatly support and admire the protests against Scientology, and if the Irish government would attempt to do anything similar in terms of internet censorship, I'd probably be right there with anonymous doing the same thing.

They're a pretty ruthless group of people known for ruining peoples lives using social networking sites, hacking peoples emails, and hacking websites. They've even hacked an epilepsy website and put flashing images on it.

If you think they're protesting against Scientology because they genuinley care about the victims then I'd say you're wrong. They do it all just to get a reaction and of course, "for the lulz".

Stercus Accidit

Dr. Feelgood wrote: »

They're a pretty ruthless group of people known for ruining peoples lives using social networking sites, hacking peoples emails, and hacking websites. They've even hacked an epilepsy website and put flashing images on it.

If you think they're protesting against Scientology because they genuinley care about the victims then I'd say you're wrong. They do it all just to get a reaction and of course, "for the lulz".

They are a group of anonymous hackers on steroids who form the internet hate machine, they also frequent the hacker site, ebaumsworld.

Dr. Feelgood

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

They are a group of anonymous hackers on steroids who form the internet hate machine, they also frequent the hacker site, ebaumsworld.

:pac:

General Zod

Dr. Feelgood wrote: »

They do it all just to get a reaction and of course, "for the lulz".

come for the lulz, stay for the outrage.

Karl Hungus

Dr. Feelgood wrote: »

They're a pretty ruthless group of people known for ruining peoples lives using social networking sites, hacking peoples emails, and hacking websites. They've even hacked an epilepsy website and put flashing images on it.

If you think they're protesting against Scientology because they genuinley care about the victims then I'd say you're wrong. They do it all just to get a reaction and of course, "for the lulz".

Anyone can claim the anonymous name for any reason, there's no real group, with no agenda or goals (other than lulz), just a load of people who will act under that name. Sometimes it's a name used for malicious intent, sometimes people with a genuine cause will use that name. I think that you really just have to view each anonymous campaign or act on it's own. I doubt that the actual people who protested Scientology were the same ones who've hacked the epilepsy site or hacked Sarah Palin's email.

I do think that the anonymous protests against Scientology were carried out by people who genuinely cared, I know quite a few people who were involved in the Dublin protest and I know for a fact it was a cause they believed in and certainly didn't just do it for the lulz. But that's anonymous for you, it's just a name that can be used by anonyone.

GLaDOS

Dr. Feelgood wrote: »

They're a pretty ruthless group of people known for ruining peoples lives using social networking sites, hacking peoples emails, and hacking websites. They've even hacked an epilepsy website and put flashing images on it.

If you think they're protesting against Scientology because they genuinley care about the victims then I'd say you're wrong. They do it all just to get a reaction and of course, "for the lulz".

Sounds like somebody got all their info from fox news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

My favourite part is the random exploding truck