“Anonymous” Posts Video Describing “Operation Payback” In Defense Of WikiLeaks

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by Colby Hall | 12:15 pm, December 9th, 2010

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For those unfamiliar with the depths of Internet sub-culture, “Anonymous” is a hard concept to understand. Simply put they are an anonymous crowdsourced set of vigilantes responsible for puling off some of the most newsworthy stunts in Internet history. But past projects like punking Scientology of flooding YouTube with porn fail in comparison to their recent attempts to disrupt the established entities who they deem to have alligned with the wrong side of justice over the WikiLeaks story. Now, in eerie and awesome fashion, a new video has been posted that describes their agenda in the most historic terms.

The video comes with the following text:

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

~George Orwell

“You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won’t help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

“He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither”

~ Ben Franklin Hello World. We are Anonymous. What you do or do not know about us is irrelevant. We have decided to write to you, the media, and all citizens of the free world to inform you of our intentions, potential targets, and our ongoing peaceful campaign for Freedom of Expression. Anonymous is peacefully campaigning for Freedom of Expression everywhere, in all forms, for all platforms.

The recent news of our efforts have been, at best, misinformed. We are not a terrorist organization or a group of “hackers” as governments, demagogues, and the media would have you believe. We are a diverse group that touches every aspect of philosophy, religion, and politics ever conceived by man. At this time, Anonymous, as a distributed consciousness, is focused on protesting peacefully for Freedom of Expression on the Internet. We ask the world to support us, not for our sake, but for your own. When governments control information they control you. We will resist until our dying breath. Pay attention citizens and governments of the world.

History is full of examples that show that governments can change when people stand united.

As an example in recent history: During the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1960s access to many businesses were blocked as a peaceful protest against segregation. In their efforts, the protesters of the time managed to make drastic changes to police and governments by refusing to be silenced.

In the spirit and memory of that movement and many others we will refuse to be silenced. We will protest!

It is here that we proclaim: Any individual, organization, corporation, and/or government entity which supports Freedom of Speech and a Free Internet is an ally of Anonymous. If you work to suppress Freedom of Expression and a Free Internet your efforts will be halted. Where others have made this promise and failed, we make this promise and aim to keep it for everyone. We would like to ask that you as a citizen, organization, media entity, or government do the same by joining us.

Signed,

Anonymous

The debate over the actions of Julian Assange have been hotly discussed in recent days, often in the most hyperbolic terms. The status quo have predictably labeled him a terrorist and enemy combatant, but libertarians and extreme leftists, who both share a deep distrust of governments and secrets, seem to agree that Assange should be labeled a hero.

Operation Payback is a loosely organized effort that is reported to have been responsible for attacking several websites of corporate institutions who have stopped supporting WikiLeaks efforts, namely Mastercard, Visa, Amazon, Paypal’s Blog and Swiss based Postfinance.

Watch the video from Anonymous below:

4chan, Anonymous, Julian Assange, Operation Payback, Wikileaks

Atticus Draco

The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. … Welcome to the desert… of the real. What if when you woke up, you didn’t know the difference …
lane

I’m not watching the video, just like I don’t watch the ones from Al Quada. But, I will say that Assange and his groups should be properly labeled anarchists. The rest of us are too busy working hard and raising families and contributing to society to care.

For those companies affected, it’s a good test of their systems. We build in many redundancies and other security plans, and you’ll see the companies will simply get a good test of their systems. We build in all sorts of redundancies not just for outages but also natural disasters.

The funny thing is, these idiots are too stupid and childish to realize how much companies experience these attacks, and any affects will be temporary and quickly resolved. Hacking isn’t new, and systems are created to handle all sorts of issues like hacking, natural disasters, etc.
Atticus Draco

lane said:
I’m not watching the video, just like I don’t watch the ones from Al Quada. But, I will say that Assange and his groups should be properly labeled anarchists. The rest of us are too busy working hard and raising families and contributing to society to care.

For those companies affected, it’s a good test of their systems. We build in many redundancies and other security plans, and you’ll see the companies will simply get a good test of their systems. We build in all sorts of redundancies not just for outages but also natural disasters.

The funny thing is, these idiots are too stupid and childish to realize how much companies experience these attacks, and any affects will be temporary and quickly resolved. Hacking isn’t new, and systems are created to handle all sorts of issues like hacking, natural disasters, etc.

WOW,, good entry
i sense you didnt stock up on cheeze whiz during the Y2K debacle?
Pablo

What you do or do not know about us is irrelevant.

I think the 16 year old hacker that was just arrested in the Netherlands is rethinking that notion right now.
The ReaI Royal King

These hackers support wikileaks which published documents of the Obama administration. Can’t we just label them as racisits and call it a night? Or doesn’t that work anymore?
lane

thx Atticus, Y2K was a lot of work, but the issue was know years in advance, the code was reviewed and fixed.
It’s just like this, Hackers attack sites all the time, and even too much good activity can bring it down for a bit. None of this is new. Due diligence is boring but very effective.
Kitsune

These are people who are in it for a revolution, so they can say they were the ones who shaped history, that it was “their” era. They couldn’t really care about either political ideology. They get off on ruining lives, and figure as long as they start with “acceptable targets” (like Scientology), they’ll have more support when they go for sewing real chaos.
Atticus Draco

lane said:
thx Atticus, Y2K was a lot of work, but the issue was know years in advance, the code was reviewed and fixed.
It’s just like this, Hackers attack sites all the time, and even too much good activity can bring it down for a bit. None of this is new. Due diligence is boring but very effective.

i was just joking with ya about the Y2K thing,,
weak joke i guess,,
I was impressed about how calm, cool and collected you were in discussing the matter of “Anonymous”
The way you presented yourself is out of the NORM as of late, compared to what else is being said about it
mully

@lane

Talking massively out your arse there mate.
Pablo

mully said:
@lane

Talking massively out your arse there mate.

How’s that, mate?
ititiiti

Atticus Draco said:
The funny thing is, these idiots are too stupid and childish to realize how much companies experience these attacks, and any affects will be temporary and quickly resolved. Hacking isn’t new, and systems are created to handle all sorts of issues like hacking, natural disasters, etc.

Correct, systems are created to handle all sorts of issues like hacking – but only to a point. They still haven’t created a system that will protect the individual who’s personal information is made available to scammers.
iris

lane said:
I’m not watching the video, just like I don’t watch the ones from Al Quada. But, I will say that Assange and his groups should be properly labeled anarchists. The rest of us are too busy working hard and raising families and contributing to society to care. For those companies affected, it’s a good test of their systems. We build in many redundancies and other security plans, and you’ll see the companies will simply get a good test of their systems. We build in all sorts of redundancies not just for outages but also natural disasters. The funny thing is, these idiots are too stupid and childish to realize how much companies experience these attacks, and any affects will be temporary and quickly resolved. Hacking isn’t new, and systems are created to handle all sorts of issues like hacking, natural disasters, etc.

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mully said:
@lane

Talking massively out your arse there mate.

No, I’m not and if you knew anything about info security, you wouldn’t have asked. Nothing I said was above basics really, . My point was simply that nothing wikileaks is doing is all that exciting, they’re just doing a lot of it at one time so in the short-term it’ll appear effective.

But, if it makes you feel better to attack people who do know what they’re talking about, feel free. No one cares. There’s posters who want to engage and share thoughts and others who prefer to attack. Everyone gets to choose their own path..
iris

lane these are your words…
The funny thing is, these idiots are too stupid and childish to realize how much companies experience these attacks, and any affects will be temporary and quickly resolved. Hacking isn’t new, and systems are created to handle all sorts of issues like hacking, natural disasters, etc.

idiots, stupid , childish? and you have the nerve to accuse others of attacking?

PULEEZE!!
Bilmez

LET ME ASK A QUESTION HERE!

What is wrong with the work done by Wikileaks and Assange?
Why is it wrong to strike back at those that suppress freedom of expression, freedom of thought, knowledge and trying to blend us all into an amorphous mass of brainless, ask nothing, get nothing persons for easier control?

If there are wrongdoings by anyone, be it a government, a group or an individual and there is knowledge about it somewhere, that has to be made public and available to all.

Otherwise we’re in a Big Brother Society, a state of Orvelian miasma of sub-humanity.

I do not support acts of terrorism, but what Assange was doing was just letting everyone know how rotten our systems are.
What Anonymous are doing is serving (to those that support oppression) the same cold meals as are being served to the general public by the wrongdoers.

Free Julian Assange. Let the truth be known!
ChiliPeppersFan

i wonder if lisbeth salander is behind all this.
Pablo

Bilmez said:
If there are wrongdoings by anyone, be it a government, a group or an individual and there is knowledge about it somewhere, that has to be made public and available to all.

Ok. So what are the grand lies exposed by Wikileaks?

I do not support acts of terrorism, but what Assange was doing was just letting everyone know how rotten our systems are.

How so? What do we know now that we didn’t know before he started dumping these cables? That Arab leaders are duplicitous? That Berlusconi likes the ladies? And Ghadafi does too? Seriously, where’s the beef here?
Pablo

What Anonymous are doing is serving (to those that support oppression) the same cold meals as are being served to the general public by the wrongdoers.

By hacking Amazon, Visa and Sarah Palin? Huh? WTF?
Bids

Bilmez said:
LET ME ASK A QUESTION HERE! What is wrong with the work done by Wikileaks and Assange?Why is it wrong to strike back at those that suppress freedom of expression, freedom of thought, knowledge and trying to blend us all into an amorphous mass of brainless, ask nothing, get nothing persons for easier control? If there are wrongdoings by anyone, be it a government, a group or an individual and there is knowledge about it somewhere, that has to be made public and available to all. Otherwise we’re in a Big Brother Society, a state of Orvelian miasma of sub-humanity. I do not support acts of terrorism, but what Assange was doing was just letting everyone know how rotten our systems are.What Anonymous are doing is serving (to those that support oppression) the same cold meals as are being served to the general public by the wrongdoers. Free Julian Assange. Let the truth be known!

What wrongdoings were done? Who supressed freedom of expression or thought? What cold meals are being served to the general public. What benefit were the leaks. How is our system rotten? Are you just an America hater? You don’t see anything wrong with what Assange did? How old are you? 14?
Helix

lane said:
I’m not watching the video, just like I don’t watch the ones from Al Quada. But, I will say that Assange and his groups should be properly labeled anarchists. The rest of us are too busy working hard and raising families and contributing to society to care.

For those companies affected, it’s a good test of their systems. We build in many redundancies and other security plans, and you’ll see the companies will simply get a good test of their systems. We build in all sorts of redundancies not just for outages but also natural disasters.

The funny thing is, these idiots are too stupid and childish to realize how much companies experience these attacks, and any affects will be temporary and quickly resolved. Hacking isn’t new, and systems are created to handle all sorts of issues like hacking, natural disasters, etc.

Couple of issues with that, the wikileaks hackers are not the same as screwing with Anon, two different things. You fail to realize anon has professional level coders, some of the most devious on the planet. They are more than capable of taking on the average company. It is true that hacking isn’t new. It’s also true that an organized raid by anon takes it to a whole new level that the average info security guy can’t deal with easily and still keep the website usable. The danger is if they decide to do a sustained attack, because you just pissed them off. The bricks and mortar side of the business will keep the business running, true, until some one gets a way to sabotage the accounts receivable and the accounts payable or the PO system. Yes, anon could do that. Those “redundancy systems” will definitely get a workout then…
The best you can hope for is a push, keeping your system more or less intact but unusable to the public. Every real target they have attacked so far has gone offline. Whether they will stay down or not is the question.
cheesus

@ Pablo – so you’re not concerned about unreported civilian deaths in Afghanistan? Not concerned about journalists getting killed for seemingly no reason (by an apache gunship) – then covered up? Not concerned about senior American officials asking for credit card numbers and DNA of political members of the United Nations? Not concerned about a government of questionable morality (deceiving the public about reasons for war). I could go on. Before you jump to condemn Assange, it might be worth while, you know, reading something – anything in the coverage of these issues.

The key to success of any good democracy is the strength of it’s media. Governments naturally want to be secretive – they do not like having mistakes exposed. The media’s job is to EXPOSE stupidity and negligence and corruption. Publishing the cables (with personally identifiable information redacted) is exactly what any decent news organisation would do.

Condemning Wikileaks at the command of your government without any critical thinking exposes you as one of the sheep that do nothing for societies benefit.
Bilmez

What Assange did was to reveal to everyone that not all is as presented by governments safe behing plush chairs wearing pink glasses.
How is OK to supress civilian deaths that occur by no reason?
Or on one hand claiming that Russia is a NATO ally and at the same time calling it mafia state and preparing defense/attack plans?
Or that killing (by accident?) reporters should be covered up?
Or that bombing Serbia was not for the sake of Kosovo but to get a foothold in the Balkans?
Or….

There are many things in this world being told to us as truth, half truths or just distorted and not for our benefit but just to cover up the crap behind it or the mistakes made during.

And Pablito, please read some of the things posted by Assange, than talk.

Btw, attacks done against Visa, Amazon and Mastercard are just a revolt against big corporate businesses that were milking the proverbial cow while it was going for them and abandoning it at the very moment of inconvenience.
Yes, it is not OK to do that, but some times one has to do it for the greater good.

If someone can not get it through their heads…well!
TPB

You people who are just skimming the surface and reading things *without doing YOUR OWN RESEARCH* are being completely moronic about the issues of America, & the way our world, our Earth, is headed. The ones fighting for knowledge & information about THINGS THAT AFFECT OUR EVERYDAY LIVES are the real patriots. How could you acknowledge your ignorance, (the whole brain-washed bunch of you), and then continue being ignorant? Don’t you see that is the way the American government, (the entire New World Order), is hoping you’ll react? To stay dumbed down? Wake up. For your children’s, grandchildren’s, and their grandchildren’s sake. You get your news from the McDonald’s of news/media corporations. Do you understand that? Who owns these corporations? Do your research, people; instead of living up to everyone/country that despise’s America & thinks of us as LAZY. Get off your ass & do something about it instead of just accepting their over bearing control little by little. Where are you from? AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE.
Bilmez

Wikileaks is not against USA!
It is against duplicity being served as truth!
nidz

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