Anonymous Hacks Tunisian Islamist Sites

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Anonymous Hacks Tunisian Islamist Sites

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 12, 2012 @07:11AM from the keeps-on-ticking dept.

eldavojohn writes "The hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed another victim by taking down Islamist sites in Tunisia. Similar to an earlier attack on Turkish government sites, #optunisia has resulted in several government blogs and sites being replaced with 'Payback is a b****, isn't it?' The message lists censorship as the motivation behind this activity. The AFP is reporting that this is also in response to the reintroduction of Salafist laws and the caliphate. An additional Anonymous message read, 'We are not against religion, we are Muslims, but we are defending freedom in our country.' Censorship continues wholesale in Tunisia."

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Safe target? by XxtraLarGe · 2012-03-12 07:14 · Score: 3, Interesting

I wonder if they're hacking these guys because they basically won't have any ability to retaliate, as opposed to the U.S. Government or the drug cartels in Mexico.

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1. Re:Safe target? by XxtraLarGe · 2012-03-12 07:17 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Note, I'm not saying that the hack without merit since it is in favor of free speech, but rather if that's the reason they're avoiding the big dogs, ever since the recent sting.
  
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Re:First problem by GameboyRMH · 2012-03-12 07:20 · Score: 5, Insightful

Freedom of religion is what leaves you free to have no religion.

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Not against religion? by ZeRu · 2012-03-12 07:33 · Score: 3, Interesting

So, when Anonymous hacked Vatican's site, they were against religion, but now they say they are not? I guess they need to take a more cautious approach when they know tomorrow could be thousands of angry people on the street screaming for their beheading.

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1. Re:Not against religion? by GameboyRMH · 2012-03-12 07:39 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Way to over-simplify and misinterpret:
  https://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/anonymous-hacks-vatican-website/10567
  They don't seem to like Scientology either.
  
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2. Re:Not against religion? by DigiShaman · 2012-03-12 07:53 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Anonymous is anonymous. It's a movement without any specific ideology behind their motives. There is no unity on anything they do. Accept for one. Anonymous can rest at ease that whatever actions they perform can happen safely and securely behind a wall of anonymity.
  As an outsider looking looking to group them to an ideology (false premise), you'll just end up confused viewing them as schizophrenic. Don't do that. It's the wrong prism by which to view them.
  
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Re:Pretty random attacks these days by GameboyRMH · 2012-03-12 07:36 · Score: 4, Insightful

Anonymous seems to just have its fingers in the wind these days, shifting its sites all over the placewith no real direction or purpose.
Who said they have any real direction or purpose? It's a big amorphous group of whoever wants to participate in whatever popular idea is floating around at the time, they don't have any long-term plan.

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Re:When you finally understand where all religions by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-12 08:12 · Score: 3, Insightful

You DO know "agnostic" and "atheist" are orthogonal right? All religions, as well as atheism, are belief claims, while a claim of agnosticism simply means "I do not put the same kind of confidence in this belief as I would in something derived deductively from prior principles." For example, an agnostic atheist says "I have no particular God belief, but this does not mean there never is, was, or will be a God or Gods in any place, time, or meaning."
Re:First problem by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-03-12 08:50 · Score: 4, Insightful

Actually, it's a lack of prohibition of having no religion that allows you to have no religion.

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