‘Anonymous’ Warns NATO: ‘This Is No Longer Your World’ NATO has poked the bear of the internet (which responded by announcing that it’s actually a hydra).
Anthropomorphic confusion aside, a NATO security report about “Anonymous”—the mysterious “hacktivist” group responsible for attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, Amazon and, most recently, Sony—has led the underground group to respond by cautioning NATO, “This is no longer your world. It is our world – the people’s world.” (More on TIME.com: Spain Nabs Alleged ‘Anonymous’ PlayStation Network Hackers) NATO’s report, issued last month, warned about the rising tide of politically-motivated cyberattacks, singling out Anonymous as the most sophisticated and high-profile of the known hacktivist groups: ‘Anonymous’ Forces 40+ Child Pornography Sites Offline. 'Mass suicide' protest at Apple manufacturer Foxconn factory. Foxconn, which manufactures gadgets for the likes of Apple, Sony, Nintendo and HP, among many others, has had a grim history of suicides at its factories.
A suicide cluster in 2010 saw 18 workers throw themselves from the tops of the company's buildings, with 14 deaths. "We were put to work without any training, and paid piecemeal," said one of the protesting workers, who asked not to be named. "The assembly line ran very fast and after just one morning we all had blisters and the skin on our hand was black.