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Anonymous To Release Sun, News of the World Emails
siliconbits writes "After having hacked Rupert Murdoch's flagship news website, thesun.co.uk, and redirecting its readers to a spoof front page and pilfering its email servers, Anonymous' unofficial mouthpiece, Sabu, has revealed that the group is 'sitting on [the sun's & NOTW's] emails' with a press release from Anonymous & possibly more coming in a few hours. While that website has already been taken down, the email bounty is likely to be potentially more damaging with Sabu releasing details of two of the Sun's top three employees, Rebekah Wade and Bill Akass, the former editors of the Sun and News of the World respectively as well as Lee Wells & Danny Rogers, Editorial Support Manager at News International and Sun Online Editorial Manager respectively, as a taster of what's coming next."
This scandal keeps getting worse; it's like the "penis pump" scene from Austin Powers....
How could they do such a cruel thing to the good people at News of the World?!?!?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
While I'm quite enjoying what Anonymous/Lulzsec are doing, I hope it does not compromise the criminal investigations that are to follow.
Outfoxed!
"Love heals scars love left." -- Henry Rollins
This is a stunningly bad idea. It may prejudice any subsequent criminal proceedings against NI and thus let them off the hook. Please don't.
Uh, the newspaper is called the "The Sun" and not "Sun". You are going to confuse people who are not thinking about the newspaper.
This won't help things, and is quite likely to make taking any sort of legal action against NI through the proper channels difficult or impossible. (in interests of transparency and honesty, I posted the "Noooo!" comment above while not logged in...)
Pay back is a bitch. As others have mentioned this may not be the best thing for the criminal investigations, but it will be interesting to see how News Corps responds to this since it was apparently ok for them (a private entity) to tap other private entities' phones and e-mails.
Time to offend someone
When is Anonymous going to hack Wikileaks as payback for Wikileaks hacking people to get stuff to report?
We don't need your stuff. Your ways and the closed journalist are too similar. I hate illegal and unethic beavior where I found it.
Why is there a Wokring... thingie at the bottom of every Slashdot article? What exactly is the spinning wheel working on? Thanks!
If this is real then this could prove to the public there are positive ways of hacking.
From http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rupert-murdoch-denies-911-victims-212945
"Rupert Murdoch said he had had no evidence whatever that any phone-hacking of 9/11 victims was carried out by any News Corporation staff, and said he thought it was “unbelievable” that it could have been carried out by anyone in the US."
From http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/07/despite-calling-it-the-most-humble-day-of-my-life-media-mogul-rupert-murdoch-flatly-denied-bearing-any-responsibility.html
"Instead, he pointed to “the people I employed or perhaps the people they employed” as being to blame for what appears to be the systemic use of phone hacking and payments to police."
This is in contrast to what is described here http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2001/sep/06/pressandpublishing.uknews
which depicts Rupert Murdoch as a micromanagement guy, repeatedly terrorizing editors if they did not obey his private follies.
"Sam Kiley, who resigned last month as the Times's Middle East correspondent, claimed yesterday that his reports were regularly censored by editors living in "terror" of irritating Mr Murdoch."
Ask Sam Kiley, he could probably inform the investigators in London a lot about Murdoch's behavior, and likely, to what extent he ordered the buggings of 9/11 victims. And, follow the entire chain of editors, and the people Rupert and James Murdoch employed as well as the people they employed in turn.
So, is Murdoch perjurious? Probably no, as the hearing is no court... How convenient.
Bring the Murdochs to court!
If your breaking the law by hacking them, whose to say that what you released is even real? Whenever you commit the same crime to expose a crime you lose all credibility. Fighting ethical misconduct by committing your own misconduct gains nothing! You end up being as big a piece of excrement as the people you say your trying to expose. Looking forward to hearing about more arrests. At News Corp International and members of Anonymous! Knock ! Knock!
It was Lulzsec.
Oh, I just love hearing about this on TV, everyone is crying HAX HAX JHAX!!11!1
STFU noobs, nobody is hacking, you just suck.
>You have been kicked from the server and your IP banned - REASON: quit whining about hax noobs
Don't embarq on any sea voyages, or you might get what Robert Maxwell got.
On second thought, go right ahead...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
this group will release something that gets someone killed. It's just a shame that none of the hackers will be on the death toll list.
Is it just me, or is it all too easy to hack companies & governments nowadays? That's very very strange. - SONY didn't have proper security anywhere in its worldview. - The US military just had 24,000 files stolen. - The Sun just had its email hacked. - etc, etc, etc. I'm not a security expert, but I know enough about it to find it harder & harder to actually believe that these places with highly sensitive material, are being hacked without much of a problem.
when your server is hacked and people are cheering. It is all part of the fall of the house of hubris.
..to release the emails of a dead news paper.
By hacking into those servers, Murdoch's lawyers can easily claim any evidence was planted. Good going guys.
Guess why he fled the US...
Jail in the UK is probably better than in the US.
They are doing the very thing they say they are against, even if it was done against s dead child. I saw this once and it's true Slashdot == dumb
In case anyone is wondering a few years from now why their internet liberty will be so limited, it is this kind of abuse of freedom that will get us there. Thanks in advance Anonymous et al.
If information wants to be free, let's all get tracking chips today!
That post was too long (so I treated it just like any article on /. and didn't read it), so here's a synopsis:
* Alaska has a Chupacabra, but it's in the water (native Alaskans refer to it as Chupacabrosaurus or Cadborosaurus).
* No one has actually seen it but some video may exist (no one knows what's on the video so an Alaskan Chupacabra can't be ruled out).
* The fact that no one has seen it proves it is not only hiding but intelligent.
* Calls to Alaska's Bigfoot have not been returned proving an Alaskan conspiracy is afoot.
* Surprisingly, we haven't been able to contact the "They're Real, Really" desk at either The News of the World or The Weekly World News.
but I want the GOP propaganda machine known as Fox 'News' exposed for what they are. Now.
And here I was looking forward to finding out what *exactly* the erstwhile Sun Microsystems was thinking when it ran a fine tech company into the ground.
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the Internet. Blog
yes we should fall into line like good little citizens shouldn't we
Did the group just try to breach thesun.co.uk for the occasion or did they have the opportunity for some time and now decided to use it?
It's just somewhat convenient, but nothing rules out pure chance.
but it is certainly true that News Corp has always been a pirate corporation http://berlin.ccc.de/~andy/CCC/TRON/material/nds/20020415-afr.html
under color of journalism is a crime, as Murdoch & Co will soon discover. Much was destroyed by hacking, privacy, the sense of security and safety.
ChoicePoint, as we may recall, was that corporation which purged 91,000 Black-American voters from Florida's voter registration database, colluding with Florida neocon sleazoid, Katherine Harris. Bush "officially" won Flordia by only 537 votes, and it was later shown that the majority of those 91,000 purged (ostensibly for felony convictions) turned out to have been "in error" and were eligible to vote in that election.
Murdoch's Fox News early on reported that state to Bush, (and I believe it was a Bush cousin and employee of Fox who did the reporting that night).
Murdoch/Fox ---- ChoicePoint ---- Viet Dinh ---- USA PATRIOT Act: note any pattern here???
Yes - the only way to maintain Internet freedom is to avoid exercising it. Good plan.
The phone hackers destroyed no property, deprived no owners of any of its use. I don't think there is any real harm here.
NO HARM?! In case you missed the details of the original case that started the whole firestorm...
In 2002, Milly Dowler was kidnapped, then murdered later. When she went missing, News of the World hacked her phone. Seeing her voice mailbox was full, they deleted some messages (deleting potential evidence) so they could maybe get some new information. Meanwhile, the police saw that 'Milly' accessed her phone mailbox, so they downgraded her case, treating her as a low priority runaway. That meant that critical time tracking her was lost that could've got the police to her sooner and potentially saved her life.
No harm indeed...
Wow! Had this been ancient Palestine the Murdochs would have been sentenced to, lo and behold, strangulation... At least if there are gems in the hearing room
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment_(Judaism)#Punishment_by_Chenek_.28strangulation.29
"A sage who is guilty of insubordination in front of the grand court in the Chamber of the Hewn Stone"
and given that the Murdochs in their senior positions must both be considered sage regarding the petty realm they were guarding, and were telling stories that didn't fit fit other observations. What were the gems? With all the ingenious lies and brilliant puns delivered over the centuries aren't they little gems in their outright own. So, they ARE in the Chamber of the Hewn Stone; in fact there must have been many a hewn stone over the years.
No, this is not funny, at all.
While this might be true, it won't affect associations like Anonymous much; what they're doing is already illegal in most places, and further limiting Internet liberty for the masses will not stop ne'er-do-wells from borrowing your tracking chip ID to continue doing what they're doing.
Publicly announce I have a ton of emails, but that I wasn't going to release them: News of the World is. Over the course of the trail, the emails presented as evidence would be made public. If any were held back, only then would I release my pool of emails. Then News of the World would be tried again for obstruction of justice.
check out Google News on News Corp, plenty of people know about this. Social Mention indicates that online sentiment regarding LulzSec is mostly neutral, with positive larger than negative.
I find it extremely unlikely that the state can re-engineer the internet to such a point that the limitations to internet liberty can't simply be sidestepped. Even less likely is that they can do that without destroying the very thing that makes the internet useful in the first place: all intelligence at the edges, simple neutral routing between the endpoints.
Although the army did have explicit order not to harm civillians back then.
.. the British preferred not to confront him because they realised he was the last barrier holding much more radically minded people at bay, and if he's removed, there will be an open, violent revolution. A threat of force is often more effective than the force itself after all.
Interestingly , the whole overblowing of the Tianamen square events has only recently been exposed by wikileaks
As an aside, passive resistance has never accomplished much. Worker's movement didn't achieve 8 hour working time by bending down their heads and politely voicing discontent, for example - they did so by a series of massive strikes.
I expect you are going to come up with Gandhi, but even he didn't
The first mile is slavery; the second mile is stupidity.
fyngyrz - - posting anon due to mod points
Murdoch is hoping that if enough heads roll, one of them won't be his. If the mob is satisfied before they get to him, he escapes with impunity.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
So a group of hackers, hacked another group of hackers and plan to publish their information because that group of hackers hacked some other people for use in their publication?
head 'splosion!
+1.
I'm sure that helping slaves escape was wrong at one time or another. That didn't make morally wrong though.
And lynching a black man who could have been near the scene of a crime was fine too at one point. That didn't make it right either.
neither do the two quotes to which i replied. So it's kinda even >:3
If you're so damned concerned about the tenuous freedom of "your internet," you are free to continue using it in its crippled state, or start your own and make your own rules. Ever heard of i2p? Freenet? Hell, you can even still use Fidonet if you are one of the people still using a landline telephone. There are far too many nets for the government to control them all.
Way to compromise the investigation of Murdock's company. Now any time that law enforcement tries to use any sort of electronic document (such as, but not limited to, their emails) Murdock et al can say "We never sent that email. Anonymous hacked us and planted it there."
Mark my words, this is going to happen. Anonymous just helped Murdock get out of trouble...
And before someone thinks that they are being clever by saying that the investigation was swept up the rug (as someone above did) - read the freakin' news - it has been un-swept at this point.
What morons...
Just when LulzSec was trying to arrest old Murdoch.
Then the cops get mad.
Curious timing. Very curious.
Murdoch blames his employees for the scandal.
Did Murdoch share % of company's profit with employees?
"The Lulzsec hacking group, which this week claimed to have obtained 4GB of emails taken from the Sun’s servers, has decided not to publish them for fear of jeopardising ongoing legal actions in the UK and US."
http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/lulzsec-we-wont-publish-news-international-emails.html on 2011-07-21