Anonymous Leaks New Batch of Data

Orome1 writes "Anonymous has made available for download another batch of data, including those belonging to the Zimbabwean government, Mosman Municipal Council, Universal Music Group Partners (umusic.com's usernames/passwords and other data), Viacom (internal mapping of Viacom and its servers) and Brazilian Government (dumps and passwords)."

Comments

Good for them

[tmosley]

I enjoy seeing nasty people like record executives and genocidal maniacs having their dirty laundry aired. I wish we had more detail, though.

Re:Good for them

[carpenoctem63141]

Now that they've dealt with Zimbabwe, maybe they can find out what's going on with all those Nigerian princes.

Re:Good for them

[the linux geek]

I had no idea that the people of Mosman (population 26000) elected genocidal maniacs to their Council, and for some reason I had thought that Brazil was a functioning democracy.

Re:Good for them

[PC and Sony Fanboy]

I had no idea that the people of Mosman (population 26000) elected genocidal maniacs to their Council, and for some reason I had thought that Brazil was a functioning democracy.

Eh, it's because you use linux. Don't worry too much about it, no one pays attention to what you think anyways.

Re:Good for them

[scubamage]

Brazil is a democracy, but not functioning very well. In Rio gang warfare is bad enough that it was considered worse than a warzone, and there is a hell of a lot of corruption. The only reason you don't hear a lot about it is because they depend on tourism. Source: best friend lived there 3 years as an inner city teacher. Also told me to stay in tourist areas if visiting, the population in general doesn't like Americans/Europeans.

Re:Good for them

[Opportunist]

You had me until you said "both sides". Next time, try "all sides". Try to notice that there are other options besides shooting or hanging before the execution.

Re:Good for them

[vbraga]

the population in general doesn't like Americans/Europeans

Also told me to stay in tourist areas if visiting,

Not at all.

Tourist area means the what cariocas call the "South Zone" (and parts of the "West Zone", namely Barra). This is where Rio's own middle class lives. Going far from this area doesn't mean trouble not just for tourists, it means trouble for middle (or upper) class Brazilians and tourists alike #)

While tourism is a significant share of the Rio economy, it's also hard to say that Rio depends on it.

Living in Rio as a teacher, unless your friend was teaching at a (big) University, actually sucks because salaries actually suck. A relative of mine who works as a teacher earns about a 1/10 of I earn as a software developer. This immense gap between the middle class and the poor has always been the root of most of Rio social problems.

Despite left wing protesters, I think no one care about Americans or Europeans. The only place where I could sense a dislike of tourists (Italians, actually) was in Fortaleza (northeastern Brazil). Most Italian tourists there go there for sexual tourism and, often, children exploitation. There was a general feeling among many people I met that the city would be better off without the tourists.

Re:Good for them

[EEPROMS]

They have elections and councils in Prisons? (remember this is Australia)

That old chestnut, the only reason they sent convicts to Australia is the English couldn't send them to the USA any more. FYI more convicts were sent to the USA than Australia, we only had a few ships before the english gave up as we released them when they arrived.

Re:This is what we get

[lennier]

When we secure servers with fear and obscurity. Looks like no one is safe, they all have less than ideal set ups.

We secure our servers with fear! Fear and obscurity! Fear, obscurity and 512-bit RSA public-key biometric tokens... I'll come in again.

A new era of security

[Synerg1y]

what's that? Most IT entities i've worked with (small business) don't have dedicated security teams, they have critical personal information that would make identity theft cheezy ez, but not security. The assumption has always been this can't happen to us, and chances are it never will, but NOW the "it may happen to us" mentality is starting to take over. Good time to work in the IT security sector, though some of the people I've met from there make me giggle :)

Wrong. Or at least probably.

[Jane Q. Public]

The article has it wrong. This is a group calling itself AntiSec (not an "AntiSec release" by Anonymous), which claims that it is a successor to, but different from, LulzSec.

In fact, the announcement of the release was so clear on that point that I do not see how the author of that article could have easily made that mistake.

I suppose it's possible that it's Anonymous claiming to be somebody else, but it is indeed a group claiming to be different from Anonymous, and I have neither seen or heard of any evidence that Anonymous was involved at all.

Re:Wrong. Or at least probably.

[shutdown -p now]

See this. Quote:

Welcome to Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec) - we encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path. We fully endorse the flaunting of the word "AntiSec" on any government website defacement or physical graffiti art. We encourage you to spread the word of AntiSec far and wide, for it will be remembered. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships.