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Anonymous Launches a WikiLeaks For Hackers
siliconbits writes "Despite countless WikiLeaks copycats popping up since the secret-spilling site first dumped its cache of State Department cables last year, the new generation of leaking sites has produced few WikiLeaks-sized scoops. So instead of waiting for insider whistleblowers, the hacker movement Anonymous hopes that a few outside intruders might start the leaks flowing."
Because it would probably be hard to be credible if you rely on sources that are a far cry from legal. And while whistleblowers are certainly breaking contracts by handing out sensitive information, it is usually not illegal to do so. The whistleblower might face civil charges (for breaking contract), but it usually does not stretch into the criminal area. It's a totally different case with a true 'outsider' hacker.
The difference also carries over to someone publishing the information, afaik. I could well see how touching (and even more, publishing) information acquired by criminal means could be quite dangerous.
Also, WikiLeaks usually takes care to verify the source and make sure that it's not fabricated. It's kinda hard with hackers who, by their very nature, won't disclose a lot about who they are and how they got the files.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They are using .tk domains, just goes to show you what fools you're dealing with. Those domains won't last long.
Well well, and I thought it could not get any worse.
In this last month, we've seen "anonymous brazil" and "lulzsec brazil" branches trying to start up. They did a lot of DDoS on the federal government websites.
The clinch? Some people are trying to pass a law that updates the criminal code to punish internet crimes, and one extremely important vote about it happened last week. Most of us are _against_ this criminal code update in the form it is currently being pushed, because the usual suspects included a lot of "screw the customer, screw the ISPs, let's get more money in the hands of the music and movie industries by criminalizing music/movie downloads AND get the ISPs to be our police for free!" through lobby. I should add this law would NOT be good for criminal hackers either (which is the one good thing about it), but since it was coopted to be a damage to society, even the party that controls the federal government right now was trying to get it cleaned up and pushing back against its current adoption.
So, we have two supposedly hacker groups doing attacks in the government of a country in a way that makes it more LIKELY to pass legislation that is DAMAGING to civil liberty and internet use on that country (as well as to activities of criminal hackers), at the worst possible time. Coincidence? I think not. Whomever anoynmous brazil and lulzsec brazil are, they have been PAID WELL to do that. They've played anonymous and lulzsec for fools, too.
Thank you very much, your bunch of naïve children. When you start handling weapons to attack government sites in a whim, you MUST be intelligent AND dilligent enough to not be used as tools by others, damn it! At the very least never do that before doing some throughout research on the local conditions, through a LARGE number of people you can trust to not be NARCs or worse! This is NOT fun, and NOT easy. But if you cannot be dilligent enough to do it, keep your DDoS on your own turf and never lend bots to anyone.