Anonymous Attacks China, Defaces Hundreds of Websites - finepributamon

Hacktivist group Anonymous has wrong-side-out its sights on China, reportedly defacing hundreds of Chinese websites, including a handful of local Chinese political science websites over the past hardly a years.

Accordant to the Wall Street Journal, many of the websites were defaced with a message from Anonymous, accompanied by The Who's "Baba O'Riley."

"Dear Chinese Government, you are non unfailing, today websites are hacked, tomorrow it will be your vile regimen that volition fall," the message take in English. "So bear us because we do not forgive, never. What you are doing today to your Great People, tomorrow will exist inflicted to you. With no clemency. Nothing will plosive consonant us, nor your anger nor your weapons. You do not frighten us, because you cannot afraid an idea."

Unidentified also had a subject matter for the Chinese people:

"Each of you suffers from the tyranny of that regime which knows nothing most you. We are with you. With you here and now. Simply as wel tomorrow and the coming days and then bright for your freedom. We will never give risen. Father't loose [sic] hope, the revolution begins in the heart. The silence of all other countries highlights the want of democracy and jurist in China. It's unbearable. We must each battle for your freedom."

Reported to the Journal, Unidentified also included a link to a varlet of tips on how the Taiwanese people could sustain around the "Great Firewall" of China, though the link now appears to be broken (it was reportedly hosted happening the hacked sites' servers, soh this makes sense).

Anonymous announced the hacks on March 30 connected its Twitter feed in, @AnonymousChina. The hacktivist aggroup also listed hundreds of websites it had reportedly hacked in a Pastebin post. Individual of the hacked websites belonged to local Chinese government organizations, including lower-level government agencies in Taizhou, Zhongshan, and Jiazhou.

According to the International Business enterprise Times, this fast turn on China comes just later China's state media announced an "all-encompassing crackdown on dozens of websites, penalizing two hot multiethnic media sites and detaining six people for spreading rumors of a coup d'état." The government reportedly started its crackdown campaign on Saturday, end 16 websites and closing forth the notice function for two microblog sites.

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Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/469685/anonymous_attacks_china_defaces_hundreds_of_websites.html

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