Anonymous Claims To Have Defaced Hundreds of Chinese Government Sites

Hkibtimes writes, quoting the International Business Times: "The Anonymous hacking collective has landed in China, home of some of the most tightly controlled Internet access in the world, and defaced hundreds of government websites in what appears to be a massive online operation against Beijing. Anonymous listed its intended institutional targets on Pastebin and has now attacked them."

Comments

Must be true

[Anonymous Coward]

Visiting them I get a bunch of square blocks and some funny looking drawings.

Hundreds, you say?

[Sarten-X]

I have also "defaced" many sites on my own. I very recently defaced Slashdot itself, with a silly message mocking a group of hacktivists for contributing approximately nothing to the world but headlines.

My message is subtle enough that it will likely remain on the site for the remainder of its existence. Anonymous can't say the same for their messages.

Re:why not the message in Chinese?

[Chakra5]

You give the Chinese people way too little credit. Remmber Tiananmen Square? The Chinese do.

Yeah but most of them "remember" only what the party line was. I dated a gal from China a few years back who was a quite intelligent and reasonable individual living in the west, and she was quite perplexed by the western "portrayal" of that incident. ...remember that they aren't seeing what you and I are seeing, even when it's inside their own country.