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Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance'

Posted by timothy on from the revolution-will-be-cctvified dept.

Krystalo writes "The hacktivist group Anonymous today hacked multiple UK government websites over the country's 'draconian surveillance proposals' and 'derogation of civil rights.' At the time of writing, the following websites were taken down: homeoffice.gov.uk, number10.gov.uk, and justice.gov.uk. The group is not pleased with the UK government's plans to monitor Internet users."

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  1. Support Them? by tvlinux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hacktivisim at it finest. The more governments restrict freedom the more "terrorist" there will be.

    1. Re:Support Them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "You wont solve a political problem by non-political means."

      Really? The English gave you the colonies just like that, because you voted for it?

  2. Re:Counter-Productive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Paying them to write laws in your favor like the large corporations do?

  3. sad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Kinda sad when the only people fighting for your rights are a bunch of script kiddies in their basements.

  4. I can tell they did it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some of the words, like "colour" "centre" and "organise" have been cannily vandalized.

    It's quite a clevre plan.

  5. Anonymous? by VortexCortex · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can we just $_ =~ s/Anonymous/someone/i please?

    It would be far less confusing to those who don't realize it's just your average every-day folk behind these stunts. It's really just the common man turned vigilante... Either this, or label all vigilante acts with unknown perpetrators as the work of Anonymous -- Because that's what it's come to.

    Here, I'll demonstrate:

    Today, someone hacked multiple UK government websites over the country's 'draconian surveillance proposals' and 'derogation of civil rights.' At the time of writing, the following websites were taken down: homeoffice.gov.uk, number10.gov.uk, and justice.gov.uk. Someone is not pleased with the UK government's plans to monitor Internet users.

  6. Re:Surveillence State by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You taking the liberty of bringing down websites to ask for more liberties is roughly the same as if someone started to randomly shoot people proclaiming that he will continue killing people until murder will finally become legal.

    Er, you understand that the whole point of protest is to cause disruption, right? It is a vital part of democracy, the option to march down a street and hold the traffic up because there is no alternative. It's just a shame that we have got to the stage where it is pretty much the only option.

    DDOS'ing a web site doesn't seem to be any different that DDOS'ing a road by walking down it in a large group.

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