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Hacker group vows ‘cyberwar’ on US government, business
Last Updated On: 3/9/2011 11:53:22 AM
“Our people break laws, just like all people break laws,” he added. “When we break laws, we do it in the service of civil disobedience. We do so ethically. We do it against targets that have asked for it.”
Anonymous is believed to have used this method in December, when it took credit for crashing the websites of MasterCard and Visa in retaliation for their decision to cut off service to WikiLeaks. It also claimed credit for shutting down government websites in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, which it thereby helping to stoke the uprising in those countries.
“We politely ask you to finally stand up and show some backbone,” said Brown, reading from the letter on his small laptop. “Unfreeze the account, or release the funds, so Bradley Manning and his lawyers can access it. Otherwise you prove you are nothing but a puppet of a criminal government, which is violating the Geneva Convention and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”
Brown, for his part, makes no bones about the fact that Anonymous plays rough.
(NBC News)
WIKILEAKS PERMANENTLY DOWN?
Enemy of the State???
Μάχη επιβίωσης δίνει η ιστοσελίδα WikiLeaks την ώρα που ο καταζητούμενος ιδρυτής της, ο Τζούλιαν Ασάνζ, «αγνώστου διαμονής», δήλωνε χθες ότι «μια υπερδύναμη θέλει να με δολοφονήσει».
Παλεύοντας «από σέρβερ σε σέρβερ», οι συνεργάτες του ενοχλητικού Αυστραλού ο οποίος επιμένει να δημοσιοποιεί κάθε είδους αρχεία επιχειρούν να αποκρούσουν τις αλλεπάλληλες συντονισμένες επιθέσεις από κυβερνήσεις, μυστικές υπηρεσίες και επιχειρήσεις. Εντάλματα σύλληψης, διακοπή διαδικτυακών παροχών, ακόμη και απειλές κατά της ζωής του συμπληρώνουν το παζλ μιας υπόθεσης που εξελίσσεται στον μεγαλύτερο κυβερνοπόλεμο που ξέσπασε ποτέ στην ιστορία του Διαδικτύου.
Σε online συνέντευξη που παραχώρησε στους επισκέπτες της ιστοσελίδας της εφημερίδας «Τhe Guardian» ο Ασάνζ δήλωσε ότι κινδυνεύει, «φωτογραφίζοντας» ως πηγή των απειλών τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. «Οι απειλές κατά της ζωής μας είναι γνωστές στο κοινό. Παίρνουμε ωστόσο τα κατάλληλα προληπτικά μέτρα στον βαθμό που μπορούμε, δεδομένου ότι έχουμε να αντιμετωπίσουμε μια υπερδύναμη» έγραψε απαντώντας σε σχετικές ερωτήσεις. Ο πιο διάσημος πλέον φυγάς του κόσμου καταζητείται από την Ιnterpol για μια μυστηριώδη υπόθεση βιασμού, την οποία ο ίδιος χαρακτηρίζει «σκευωρία». Η WikiLeaks υφίσταται ασφυκτική διαδικτυακή πολιορκία, αφού ο ένας μετά τον άλλον οι διακομιστές διακόπτουν την παροχή υπηρεσιών προς την περιβόητη ιστοσελίδα
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WikiLeaks went offline for the third time in a week.
The US opened new fronts in its fight against WikiLeaks today as civil rights groups accused the authorities of censorship.
The whistleblower’s website went offline for the third time in a week this morning – the biggest threat to its online presence so far. The site re-emerged later on a Swiss domain.
France joined international calls for WikiLeaks to be closed down, warning that it was “unacceptable” for a “criminal” site to be hosted in the country.
The moves came only days after Amazon pulled the WikiLeaks site from its servers after political pressure from Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate homeland security committee.
Lieberman is not finished with Amazon, and is planning to write to the organisation within the next 24 hours asking for details of its relationship with WikiLeaks. The issue is fast turning into a row over freedom of speech, as Democratic and Republican politicians joined calls for action against WikiLeaks, including emergency legislation for legal challenge.
Liberal activists saw echoes of the row involving China and Google earlier this year, censorship the Obama administration decried at the time.
The US civil rights group Human Rights First wrote to Amazon saying that its decision to cease hosting WikiLeaks raised serious concerns and asked the book group to consider this before responding to Lieberman’s request for more information.
Rainey Reitman and Marcia Hofmann, of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, which campaigns for internet freedom, writing on the organisation’s site, said it was “unfortunate that Amazon caved in to unofficial government pressure to squelch core political speech. Amazon had an opportunity to stand up for its customer’s right to free expression. Instead, Amazon ran away with its tail between its legs“.
There have been calls on blogsites for a boycott of Amazon.
Leslie Phillips, communications director for the Senate homeland security committee, disputed any parallel with China’s censorship of the internet. “It is not at all the same,” she said. “In China, there is a fiat from above.”
Lieberman, she said, does not have the authority to shut down Amazon or tell it who its clients should be….συνέχεια εδω