Syrian Hackers Deface Anonymous' Social Network

CWmike writes "After the hacking gang Anonymous took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defense website, a Syrian group retaliated on Monday by posting gruesome photos on Anonymous' embryonic social network. The defacement of AnonPlus — the site Anonymous set up last month when it was booted off Google+ — did not include the name of the group responsible. The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, however, credited the AnonPlus defacement to the 'Syrian Electronic Army' in a message posted to Twitter. 'In response to your hacking to the website of the Syrian Ministry of Defence, the Syrian people have decided to purify the internet of [y]our pathetic website,' the defacement read."

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Thats Gruesome?

[ThatsMyNick]

Has the author never been goatsed?

Re:Thats Gruesome?

[SharpFang]

I doubt there's content gruesome enough in the entire Internet to shake the seasoned Anonymous.

Re:Thats Gruesome?

[ethan0]

attempting to deface anything of Anonymous is like pissing into an ocean. of piss.

(not to take credit for this, I do not know its origin, but it is what immediately sprang to my mind reading this)

Re:Thats Gruesome?

[shutdown -p now]

I can think of some things even then. E.g. Showing people their own entrails would likely elicit very strong reaction, even among veteran anons. And these "hackers" likely being Syrian secret police, I wouldn't completely discount such a possibility.

Re:Thats Gruesome?

[rtb61]

More likely they are paid off organised crime. The Syrian secret police are more likely to be involved in direct physical brutality, for personal pleasure and profit, the intellectual needs of that kind of pursuits are not very high and do not include computer skills.

In those states organised crime and secret police often include the same people at the higher levels and are tied back to the monarchical government. That monarchical government of course pretends to be what ever style of governments it wants to but basically boils down to a criminal organisation, that seeks to gain power and wealth via extortion, murder, protection rackets, looting the national treasury via corrupt dealings with equally corrupt foreign banks.

They of course keep in power and maintain the delusion of monarchy being a beneficial political system by torturing to death anyone who protests to loudly or effectively. All royalty, no matter their public relations claims, all had their basis of existence in exactly what is occurring in Syria now. Murderous psychopaths willing to kill off what ever portion of the population they need to, to feed their personal ego and lusts.

Proof that public hacking is like pro basketball.

[conspirator23]

Everybody wants to dunk on the other team's basket, but nobody wants to play defense.

Oh no they DI-ENT!

[Rifter13]

Sorry, had to say it.

This is shaping up to be a pretty interesting hacking game. I wonder if we could get some sort of network involved to make it into a true spectator sport, and not just the barbs fired off after each round?

Re:Ahem

[tpstigers]

Seconded. I know you Anonymous kids think you're pretty hot stuff, but you're not dealing with Microsoft here. These really aren't the kind of people you want to enter into a pissing contest with.

Re:AnonPlus has no relation to Google+

[mwvdlee]

I'm impressed by AnonPlus's ability to have been active for four years even though they only registered the domain on 16th July 2011 and have shown no indication of life before that date.
You probably meant the group "Anonymous" but... hey... it's a really difficult word and only mentioned three times in TFS; how could you have known?

Re:They sure showed them

[Xest]

Well, let's pretend we're very impressed by them.

That way they can continue spending even more resources attacking non-sites which means less resources available for blowing up and shooting innocent civilians in their own towns and cities.

So

[Dunbal]

The War of the Script Kiddies has begun.