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This is his motto: "We are legion, we do not forgive, not forget, wait for us. Anonymous." That's how close their announcements and this movement without leaders and without spokesmen , with voice but no face. Or rather to mask: the mask of the anarchist revolutionary V for Vendetta , [...]. The mask has become a symbol of a cyber-activist movement that does not walk by halves. collapsed last week the official sites of Tunisia , after the immolation of a young man of 26 years. Last Monday, the web took off with Irish Fine Gael party. attacked the SGAE and the English political parties to thread antidescargas law. And last month he had anything to Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Amazon, the companies turned their backs on Wikileaks. Anonymous is at the time. Its people are motivated. The persecution Wikileaks was the spur they needed. They will not stop. [...]
Anonymous
understand the universe is not easy, the phenomenon is the perfect reflection of the new world in which we live, the new society is emerging as a result of the digital revolution. All indications are that its members consider more than surpassed the old left-right dialectic. Overall, what's the governing center-left or center-right, everyone will do the same, all in the service of big banks and big business, everyone is going to continue trying to control the bar.
Well, here is a legion of young people who do not want to hide the plumbing of the snack bar does not drain well, they do not want to hide that there are several in the stall that reach into the box they do not want to be hidden that a dissident stall management wanted him silenced. [...]
This global movement, transnational, cross-sectional, it is also difficult to understand because it was conceived in the Network, the Internet's own inertia. Is the product of the moment, the interaction, the need to mobilize in a cynical world, corrupt and unjust. Is woven organically, conversation about conversation, idea on idea, proposal proposal. Anyone can be part of Anonymous, anyone can come anytime and join in the conversation on websites such as whyweprotest.net . Enter a world in which people gets progressively agree on an idea until a sort of spontaneous agreement indicates what the next target against whom to launch the next attack. One day, as The Guardian, has held that are more coordinated than they themselves believe. [...]
The DDoS is the weapon that have more to cyber hand. Allow operations to get a considerable media attention and affect the image of the mark against that target. Consist of sending simultaneously orchestrated thousands of requests to a server to crash. This happened on 8 December. Mastercard
decided to cut On that date the faucet to Wikileaks. Anyone who would like to make a donation to the platform Assange could not make it through a card from this company. The decision triggered the attack. "We recorded what we call a super heavy traffic," said in a telephone Cristina Feliu, Mastercard spokesman for Spain and Portugal. [...]
Talk to the people of Anonymous is not easy. Distrust of journalists, that their communications are intercepted. Do not look very favorably to traditional media, from their point of view, help to maintain the status quo. The fact that a newspaper as the country or The Guardian have participated in the dissemination of cables has meant Wikileaks says Hamster, London computer 26, a plus of credibility for the media so far unappreciated.
Last week we got in touch with members of Anonymous in Spain. Clarifying, as always, did not respond as advocates for anyone, because the movement has no spokesmen, declined to a telephone interview or in person. Anyone trying out a bit between anonymous is automatically rejected by the rest of the community. This happened in London in December with coldblooded, an anonymous giving face to the media in the days of Assange process. "Coldblooded has been ostracized," confirms Hamster, Anonymous member since 2008.
However, members of Anonymous Spain, which sent several weeks ago reported to certain media to update the information about different forms of attack, offered the possibility that I will send a questionnaire to respond so that agreed.
three channel managers responded # Hispanic, framed between the ages of 17 and 32 years, they said. [...] They are not spokesmen for nothing. But his words serve to reflect the sentiments of the community.
Question. Can you give any figures on how many people in Spain belongs to Anonymous? And how many international?
Response. would be impossible to give figures, and that is the grace of Anonymous. To begin, we must remember that it is an organization that does not exist and by definition is a (dis) organization. Anonymous is no one and can be anything. The distances, it is like a cell-based insurgent organization, we share a brand, Anonymous, but we are independent people, responding to a common ideology and who participates in each particular action according to whether or not to match their convictions.
Bearing this in mind, and specifically in Spain, if I had to give a figure, I think we are talking about 1,000 to 2,000 people, ranging in various levels of commitment from a majority would be those who support our initiatives on Twitter , Facebook, etc., even the most committed, that would be something more than a hundred, which involved taking to the streets with real action, for example, Operation Paperstorm [distribution of brochures, flyers , painted] or concentrations Operation Demo [concentrations Wikileaks Spain for and against the law Sinde]. Internationally, extrapolating, we would talk possibly tens of thousands.
P. Of those, how many participate in DDoS attacks?
R. Here we can give more precise figures. In the December 20 attacks against law Sinde we had almost 500 users connected at the Beehive, which is the command and control system of LOIC DDoS tool that allows anonymous all attacking at the same time the same objective. This number, however, could be higher, because people would be added manually or from attacking Linux.
P. Any initiative in the actions of Anonymous had its origin in conversations Anonymous Spain?
R. really can not differentiate between Anonymous of this or that country. When considering an operation, if this is seconded, receives support from around the globe, there was support for our struggle against Sinde law in December and expect even more in the future. Proof of this is the call be in more than 15 languages, which have participated anonymous throughout the world, which calls on all anonymous to support virtual protests against the law Sinde.
P. What forums or websites you move?
R. Our main point of marriage is not a website or a forum, but a network known as IRC chat, which we call the IRC Anonops. Here we meet for discussion on different channels like # # operationpayback or Hispanic, the latter, which brings together the English anonymous, since there is pooled and put forward strategies. Those who are seconded are then distributed to the network by blogs and websites anonymous, up to the Twitter and Facebook anonymous individual. It is a highly organized structure in which, however, there are no leaders and no initial source.
P. What would you say to people who say that you are hackers?
R. Most of the anonymous hackers not in the classic sense of the word, are Internet users as anyone, only with a motivation for digital activism. What is certain is that we hackers among our ranks, for example, people who manage servers and other IRC networks, encrypted communications, or those scheduled LOIC [Low Orbit Ion Cannon, application resistance testing network computer] and attack tools. Behold the greatness of Anonymous, you just need a computer genius to set the tool, and when this tool becomes used by thousands of anonymous people, but they are not experts for practical purposes, is like having a thousand Cyber \u200b\u200b hackers can cripple any network or computer system if it is proposed. [...]
P. What are the current concerns of Anonymous?
R. important thing, the real concern is to keep fighting for the principles of our ideology, and on that basis we are working on various operations. Is advertising launched phase two of Operation Sinde, consisting of various protest actions around the 18th of January, when the deadline for tabling amendments to this law. Worldwide Operation underway Tunisia, in support of protesters against the Tunisian regime: DDoS attacks have been made against various official web sites and has also developed a computer-aid kit with encryption and communications programs for Tunisian dissidents . In relation to the future we are preparing Operation Quicksilver, which, if successful, will move online, but the details, by their very nature, are secret for now.
Wikileaks
Wikileaks has always denied being behind the operations Anonymous. His number two, Kristinn Hranfsson, it had a month ago in the heart of the organization in London. "Nor have we encouraged them to do, or have contact with people who are doing it, but neither condemn" had, cigarette in mouth, this Icelandic investigative journalist enlisted in the ranks of Assange. [...]
Anonymous Inside there are detractors of DDoS attacks. "I think these attacks discredit us," says Magnonymous. "They will be used to criminalize and to create negative propaganda about us." Magnonymous is clear: "We must not use violence in any case. Any member who proposed the use of violence would be rejected by the group." There is another space that also move class members: whywefight.net the blog information from "cyber soldiers". [...]
In February 2008, members met in the Internet from their homes moved their protest to the street, "real life." There were demonstrations in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Sydney. "It was when Anonymous more people have seen on the street, "says Hamster.
PayPal. Visa. Mastercard. Amazon. PostFinance. The website of the Swedish prosecutor, the Irish Fine Gael party, the Tunisian regime. There are no borders to Anonymous . The fight against Scientology joined them. The struggle for Wikileaks brought them together again. Any attack on human rights, any attempt to censor, takes place wherever it occurs, shall be punished by them with the weapons they have at their disposal. "If there was a revolution," says Hamster, "Internet technology would give us."
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