4chan has hacked Egyptian, Yemen government websites. Anonymous Egypt and Algeria operations show a complex cyber-movement. “Our assessment is that the Egyptian government is stable and is looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people.” Hillary Clinton, January 25, Washington “When asked about the revolt in Egypt, 72% of american adults agreed that they should overthrow the current Pharaoh.” Anonymous member, #opegypt IRC, January 26, Secretary Clinton received plenty of criticism for her statements about Egypt. Even when the State Department later offered a slightly less pro-Mubarak view — “the United States supports the fundamental right of expression and assembly for all people.
There was plenty of that in the #opegypt IRC channel, where Anonymous’s campaign to target the Egyptian government, and provide support to Egyptian protesters, was being co-ordinated. All, of course, while trying to maximise the DDOS attack on Egyptian government websites, primarily via the LOIC tool on volunteer computers across the globe.
Anonymous Internet Users Team Up To Provide Communication Tools For Egyptian People. “Internet not working, police cars burning,” sent out one Egyptian. “Today marks a great day for Egypt,” sent out another. These messages weren’t coming from mobile phones or computers, but from an amateur radio sending out Morse Code somewhere amidst the chaos in Egypt. The Egyptian government’s efforts to limit communications within the country has triggered a wave of activism from an international group of free speech activists on the Internet called Telecomix. Organizing using chat rooms, wikis, and collaborative writing tools, this largely anonymous group has worked to inform Egyptians about their communications options while receiving incoming messages from them.
Telecomix has previously worked on free speech efforts in Tunisia, Iran, China and other countries who have tried to censor or block parts of the Internet. Egypt has been identified as a “top priority” for Telecomix on one of its network sites, We Re-Build. Here’s a timeline of recent events for the group: Hackers Take Down Government Websites in Egypt and Yemen. In a protest against Internet censorship in Egypt, hacker group Anonymous took down the sites of the Ministry of Information and President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party on Wednesday.
The National Democratic Party's site is still offline. Anonymous is a scattered "hactivist" group that is best known for its attack last year on payment sites like PayPal and Visa that denied service to WikiLeaks. A spokesperson from the group told The New York Times that Wednesday's attacks are part of a wider campaign to support antigovernment protests.
Anonymous recently shut down government websites in Tunisia, where an uprising forced the country's dictator to flee, and Zimbabwe, which threatened to sue anyone publishing WikiLeaks. Yemen appears to be the group's next target. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, ssuni. Raidz - Protests at Gamal Mubarak’s London home scheduled for Monday, 4-6pm. We want internet | Ideas Y Debates. HASTA LOS MÁS escépticos sobre internet y sus alcances como herramienta política -yo, entre ellos- han debido rendirse ante la evidencia del sorprendente y decisivo rol que ésta ha tenido en la revolución árabe democrática en curso y que ya ha dejado tras de sí a los regímenes de Túnez y Egipto, considerados hasta ayer sólidos y estables. Según Foreign Policy, la revuelta tunecina no sólo tuvo como antecedente la dramática autoinmolación del ciudadano Mohamed Buoazizi, sino la revelación por wikileaks de un cable de la diplomacia americana, que describía con detalle la corrupción y nepotismo del gobierno de Ben Ali.
En este caso, wikileaks no fue inocuo o desestimado, como ha ocurrido con otras revelaciones, sino que aceleró y dio argumentos para extender el malestar y la protesta. ¿Ha cambiado o está cambiando internet la política? Sí y no. Peoples Liberation Front. Egypt versus the internet – Anonymous hackers launch DDoS attack. Hot on the heels of similarly politically-motivated attacks against websites belonging to the governments of Tunisia and Zimbabwe, hackers are bombarding official websites in Egypt with a DDoS attack.
The hackers' current target is believed to be the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, although at the time of writing it was still accessible. A press release shared via Facebook by the loosely-knit "Anonymous" group uses stark language to make their demands of the Egyptian government: "Anonymous wants you to offer free access to uncensored media in your entire country. When you ignore this message, not only will we attack your government websites, Anonymous will also make sure that the international media sees the horrid reality you impose upon your people.
" The internet attacks are against a backdrop of anti-government protests in Egypt, with police using tear gas and rubber bullets to break up demonstrations. EGYPT: A Complete Guide To The 2011 Revolution. Hacktivists target Egypt and Yemen regimes. 4 February 2011Last updated at 11:51 Yemen has become the latest target for hacktivists Hacktivists from the online group Anonymous have turned their attention to Yemen as part of their battle for greater net freedoms. The website of President Ali Abdullah Saleh has become inaccessible as Yemenis stage anti-government protests. It follows attacks on the websites of Egypt's ruling party and ministry of information this week. Last month Anonymous shut down some Tunisian websites, including the government's official site.
Anonymous's move into Middle East politics has alarmed security experts, who warn people against jumping on the bandwagon. "If you participate in these attacks, you are knowingly engaging in a cyber crime," said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant for security firm Sophos. Web freedoms "If you aren't prepared to go and throw rocks, then maybe you should think again about clogging up websites with traffic," he added.