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Canadian Government Servers Compromised By Anonymous
An anonymous reader writes: There was a cyber-attack on Wednesday by the activist group Anonymous, aimed at the Canadian government. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney says no personal information was compromised. Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack in protest against the recent passing of the government's anti-terror Bill C-51. "Today, Anons around the world took a stand for your rights. Do we trade our privacy for security? Do we bow down and obey what has become totalitarian rule? Don't fool [yourselves]. The Harper regime does not listen to the people, it acts only in [its] best interests." the group wrote in an online post.
I for one, welcome our Anonymous Canadian Overlords.
So, Anonymous protest against a law that targets hackers by ... hacking? And this will demonstrate to the government and the public that this law is not warranted? Please explain the logic in this, because I can't spot it.
when you were needed most by your country?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_machine_%28homosexuality_test%29
Fruit machine (homosexuality test)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Fruit machine" is a term for a device developed in Canada that was supposed to be able to identify homosexual people, or (offensively and derogatorily) "fruits". The subjects were made to view pornography, and the device measured the diameter of the pupils of the eyes (pupillary response test), perspiration, and pulse for a supposed erotic response.
The "fruit machine" was employed in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s during a campaign to eliminate all homosexuals from the civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the military. A substantial number of workers did lose their jobs. Although funding for the "fruit machine" project was cut off in the late 1960s, the investigations continued, and the RCMP collected files on over 9,000 "suspected" homosexuals.[1]
The chair was like one from a dentist's office. It had a pulley with a camera going towards the pupils. There was a black box in front of it that showed pictures. The pictures ranged from the mundane to sexually explicit photos of men and women. It had previously been determined that the pupils would dilate in relation to the amount of interest in the picture. This was called the pupillary response test.[2]
People were told the machine was to rate stress. After knowledge of its real purpose became widespread, few people volunteered for it.
Contents
1 Faulty test parameters
2 In popular culture
3 See also
4 Notes
5 Sources
6 External links
Faulty test parameters
There were many problems with the "fruit machine." To begin with, the pupillary response test was based on fatally flawed assumptions: that visual stimuli would give an involuntary reaction able to be measured scientifically; that homosexuals and heterosexuals would respond to these stimuli differently; and that there were only two types of sexuality.[3] There was also the problem of physiology. The researchers failed to take into account the varying sizes of the pupils and the differing distances between the eyes.[2][3] Other problems that existed were that the pictures of the subjects' eyes had to be taken from an angle, as the camera would have blocked the subjects' view of the photographs if it were placed directly in front. Also, the amount of light coming from the photographs changed with each slide, causing the subjects' pupils to dilate in a way that was unrelated to their interest in the picture. Finally, the dilation of the pupils was also exceedingly difficult to measure, as the change was often smaller than one millimeter.[2]
The idea was based on a study done by an American university professor, which measured the sizes of the subjects' pupils as they walked through the aisles of grocery stores.[2]
In popular culture
Brian Drader's 1998 play The Fruit Machine juxtaposes the fruit machine project with a parallel storyline about contemporary homophobia.[4]
If I ever need Anonymous to take a stand for my rights, I will shine a Guy Fawkes mask onto the clouds. Until then I am more than capable of managing what I do and do not want to stand for. Do not presume to speak or act for me.
You mean the countless layers of ineffective bureaucracy at Shared Services Cana-duh can't help?!
That makes no sense. If they expect people to respect them and support their actions, they need to not do things that endanger the very rule of law and find other ways to make their point. Otherwise they will be forever shunned and stigmatized by the law abiding populace that wants their information protected. -AC (no relation to the Anonymous terror group)
Self delusional, diminishing the GDP is what it is.
Who asked you to stand up for my rights? I didn't. Did any other Canadians? A bunch of anonymous hypocrites.
even a real country anyway.
The days when a security breach is big news is so over. When the US Government can lose control over the employment records of every, single employee, this kind of playing around by Anonymous is just kind of sad.
"We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us" - Faraday
Anonymous is more ideologically close minded than the Canadian government itself. Im sick of these smug idiots stroking their egos in the name of individual rights when practically NO ONE asked them for any help. Go get a real job you cocky basement dwellers.
It's like when John Lennon moved to the US. His music was horrible. His political views were a moronic failure.
Shit article, shit title. It was a DDOS, and in terms of impact pretty much nothing happened. IP based stuff went into failover, and there wasn't even a pick up in phone call-ins apparently.
Om, nomnomnom...
"The cyberattack and cyber security is an issue that we take very seriously,"
"We are increasing our resources and polices to be better equipped to face cyberattacks, whether they are coming from hackers from a group, potentially, that has said they did it today, [or] state-sponsored or terrorist entities."
if they took "cyber security" very seriously, they wouldn't need to increase their resources and they wouldn't have been hacked.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
More power thirsty than their "adversaries"
The Liberals voted for it (although they claim they were against it). If they had been in power, odds are Canadians would have gotten the shaft as well. The fact is that the political establishment only serves itself. It does not care about the citizens, or anyone outside of the establishment. Politicians lie through their teeth, or are so brow beaten by the fear, sorry, "security" establishment that they will happily throw away rights and liberties, because "terrorists". They'll tout completely discredited arguments (nothing to hide), claim that this bill isn't as bad as it could be (how is that a comfort?), and other nonsense all while the vast majority of Canadians are against it.
We need a government, but we need a government that is *accountable* and controlled by the people. Politicians do not provide this. There's no way to hold them to account. Lose an election? No worries, get appointed to the senate! Or become a lobbyist! Or go work for the industry you most served while in office! Even those with good ideas and the best interest will eventually succumb to the corrupting factors of the system, or their voices are drowned out by the powerful.
We need a government that is *transparent*. Not oh here's a freedom of information act, or here's some highly redacted released papers, but completely transparent. If our tax dollars pay for it, we should be able to see it - save for personally identifiable information for individuals. There is a dire technological need to be addressed here. There should be no secrets where corruption, and incompetence, can hide. $1 million in fraudulent claims by the senate, $24 million to investigate it. If shit was required to be transparent, the audits could have been down by the citizenry or news organizations, for free, in an ongoing manner.
How do you have a continuing government that is accountable, that is controlled by the people (and not corporations, unions, those who fund)? I think it's high time we got rid of professional politicians and got regular citizens in government. A sortition, with an approval vote by the citizenry. A strong Charter that ensures all laws apply equally to born people (legal entities should not be entitled to these rights, and in some cases already aren't - eg prohibition of advertising, aka, free speech, for tobacco companies). And rather than a stick of accountability, a carrot of rewards. If the citizenry agree that the sortition did a good job, give them a massive tax free bonus. Reward good behaviour. If the sortition fails to do a good job, they get the median pay for the country. Incentives are there.
I saw an NDP friend of mine complaining about the hacks. Claims that they aren't part of the problem because the NDP was against C-51. Sorry NDP, but you're part of the system, you're part of the establishment. A small, ineffective, mostly powerless part, but a part nonetheless. And it's time we put an end to this mockery of a representative democracy that is the Canadian Parliament, and get something that actually represents Canadians.
It does nothing to stop the C51. The right thing to do is to donate to the opposition party that would against C51. They need the money the could get to deliver their messages to the voters. Alternatively, compromise the political party in power, expose their scandals, etc. This is no more than public stunt that does nothing to anyone other than earning a few headline news article, at best.
Bill C51 is particularly troubling... it has already been passed into law and as such may prove very difficult to get rid of by any later prime minister that disagrees with it without a majority government.
The most particularly troubling aspect of C51 is that it empowers CSIS to break almost *ANY* law... short of inflicting enduring physical bodily harm on someone, or acts of sexual violation... in the course of disrupting anything that they believe, rightly or wrongly, to be a terrorist threat, including violating even civil and constitutional rights. That means they can imprison people because of their race, or simply because of what that person believes, for example, even if that person has done absolutely nothing wrong. if CSIS has any reason at all to suspect that such factors link them to committing any act that corresponds with a terrorist threat, a phrase that by itself is so loosely defined (in fact, it isn't even defined in this law... in fact, it appears almost intentional to have left it undefined so that CSIS could apply the term as they saw fit), that even picketing or almost any other form of entirely peaceful assembly that might happens to disrupt some activity that the government is wanting to push forward could qualify.
It's interesting to consider, however, that because CSIS also outlaws the the distribution of terrorist propoganda, if, for example, Westboro Baptist Church were Canadian, then by Bill-C51, the government would have to ban the Christian bible, since WBC uses that text to justify many of their insane acts, and the bill explicitly outlaws the dissemination of literature that encourages acts of terrorism.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
They need to put Zap Rowsdower on the the case!!
This attack will be used as justification for increased security at the expense of privacy.
Who seriously thought they acted for the people? They aren't the NPD.
Literally, a "secret fucking police", i.e. gang rape as a means of terror to further their policy. Both RCMP and Conservative-allied dirty oil and gas companies hired such people. Have a read.
http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/how-to-destroy-a-political-movement/Content?oid=4679149
Harper and Alward allies SWN chose to "employ the services of multiple-time violent offender, admitted gang rapist, and self-professed RCMP informant and collaborator Stephen Sewell of Pabineau First Nation. In 2011, under the pen name “Chief Poison Feather,” Sewell penned a tell-all autobiography that, in graphic detail, laid bare decades of vicious crime; sadistic, drug-addled violence; extreme misogyny, especially toward First Nations women; and extensive dealings with the RCMP, including years as a professional snitch. In his book, there are tales of police–sanctioned gang rape, infiltration activities into New Brunswick-based gangs at the behest of the RCMP, informant work at the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne and extreme acts of violence against girlfriends and partners. The way Sewell tells it, he was so remorseless a criminal, with so few scruples or allegiances to anything but ultraviolent hedonism, that the RCMP identified him as a prime candidate for infiltration work. Plied by drugs, sanctioned violence and cash, Sewell claims he relished doing RCMP’s “dirty work.”"
some reports mention internal communications also - still unclear
Harper regime will deny they were disrupted seriously, so we'll be waiting for leaks on this one.
You are a bunch of fucking know-nothings.
Remember Trudeau, yeah the father of the idiot in charge of the Liberals, with Martial law, people put in jail with no arrest warrants, no cause. On suspicion only. With soldiers in the street. I WAS THERE ASSHOLES!
Remember Chretien, with his RCMP bombing barns, secret wiretaps, etc. I WAS THERE ASSHOLES
THE FUCKING STUPID LEFTIST ASSHOLES WHO KNOW NOTHING EXCEPT THE PROPAGANDA THAT THE FUCKING CBC STUFFS UP THEIR ASSHOLES!
"What is a denial-of-service attack? Most commonly, these events occur when mischief makers or hackers simply flood a target computer with more traffic than it was built to handle. ref
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Please stop using the word cyber on a tech site