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Canadian Government Servers Compromised By Anonymous

Posted by samzenpus on from the for-your-benefit dept.

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.

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  1. Yeah, fuck Harper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I for one, welcome our Anonymous Canadian Overlords.

    1. Re:Yeah, fuck Harper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The difference is that previous regimes didn't pass quite as many omnibus budgets with blatant anti-Canadian clauses throughout, nor try to establish a secret fucking police in a formerly somewhat free* country.
       
      * no free speech, an obvious exception

  2. Conterproductive, perhaps? by jandersen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  3. Thanks but no thanks by drrilll · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Thanks but no thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Whoops - they had an opinion - they forgot to check with you first to see whether it matches yours. Because you apparently think that your opinion trumps their right to have a different one. But the truth of the matter is, while you're certainly entitled to have your own opinion and stand for whatever you like, no one else really gives a shit but you.

  4. Re:Troubling by Gramie2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tom Mulcair was on the CBC yesterday, and I have to say (as a non-committed voter who has voted NDP, Green, Liberal and --in a sad episode of my youth-- some Family somethingorother anti-abortion party) that I like the things he says and the way he says them. No hype, no theatrics, just intelligent arguments and thoughtful principals.

    With Harper, we will get a precipitous slide into government by the rich, for the rich; with Trudeau, a gentler slope but the same trajectory. I truly believe that Mulcair will try to roll back some of the encroachments on individual rights and liberty, and actually start us headed towards environmental responsibility.

    Is it possible that Mulcair will fall victim to the same hubris and vested interests as other politicians? Of course. But why not start out with at least a little hope for positive change?