What will be discussed in today's material? Droider to Guy Fawkes Night prepared a digest of 7 loudest shares Anonymous.
"Anonymus" act strongly against censorship, harassment and surveillance on the Internet by the authorities. Members and supporters of the movement can often be identified by wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, which is a kind of symbol of the fight against the repressive government.
The first mention of Anonymous date from 2003, when the popular imageboard 4chan formed a community of users who have positioned themselves as a "anarchic world of digital intelligence." If desired, the historical roots of the movement can be traced back to the first haktivistskim groups - Cult of the Dead Cow, or Electronic Disturbance Theater.
Since 2008, the group begins to be associated with concepts such as joint and international hacktivism. "Anonymus" known loud protests and campaigns against the fight against piracy in the web. Most of these activities were carried out by unknown assailants who identified themselves as Anonymous.
In the analysis of development opportunities, Anonymous was positioned as one of the main heirs of WikiLeaks. In 2012, the American Time magazine included "anonymous" in the list of the hundred most influential people of the year.
The project "Chanologiya"
The project was launched in response to attempts by the Church of Scientology to remove from the advertising network interview with Tom Cruise in January 2008. January 21 was posted on YouTube video "Message to Scientology". There are actions of the Church were called Internet censorship, as well as it was intended "to expel the church from the Internet." This was followed by DDoS-attacks, fax sheets, painted black, mischievous calls to the religious institution. Efforts "Anonymous" were created sites that criticize Scientology and organized peaceful demonstrations near the offices of the Church in Britain and the United States. In addition, the activists demanded that the US Internal Revenue Service revised its decision to exempt the Church from paying taxes.
The Church of Scientology responded to the protests in different ways. First representative of the church said that the members of the group "got the wrong information" about Scientology. Another representative of the religious movement called them "pathetic group of computer geeks." Later, representatives of the Church became known as Anonymous "cyber-terrorists" who commit "crimes motivated by religious hatred."
Some critics of Scientology condemned the actions of participants in the project, saying that they give the church an opportunity to pretend to be a victim of religious discrimination. Other critics have questioned the validity of their methods. When the shares in the project took the peaceful nature, a number of critics' Chanologii "changed their position and supported the activists.
"The Pirate Bay"
The Pirate Bay was launched at the initiative of the Swedish organization Piratbyrån (Swede. "Pirate Bureau") in November 2003, but since October 2004 exists as a separate entity.
In February 2009, the trial of the founders of The Pirate Bay. April 17, 2009 it was won by plaintiffs - four founders of the project were sentenced to one year imprisonment and a fine of $ 3.6 million. In May 2010, the Hamburg District Court considered the claim of one of the companies belonging to the Association of filmmakers to Internet resources and hosting company CyberBunker. Having considered the case, the court prohibited the exercise hosting provider torrent tracker The Pirate Bay.
Starting from May 18, 2010 web hosting provided by the Swedish Pirate Party, which saved the life of the closure. The party issued a statement saying that the decision was made in an effort to protect the freedom of expression of users. February 21, 2010 it was announced that BitTorrent-tracker The Pirate Bay is now available in an anonymous network I2P.
SOPA
SOPA or Stop Online Piracy Act - a bill introduced in the House of Representatives in the United States October 26, 2011 Lamar Smith and a group of 12 co-sponsors. The bill extends the capabilities of US law enforcement and copyright holders in the fight against illegal content on the Internet, trading intellectual property, protected by copyright and counterfeiting.
November 16, 2011 Google, Tumblr, Mozilla, Techdirt, Center for Democracy and Technology and many other Internet companies took part in the American bottom of censorship as a protest against SOPA.
Owing to support SOPA domain registrar GoDaddy, Wikimedia Foundation decided to change service provider domains. The relevant decisions on twitter announced Fund Chairman Jimmy Ueylc. This decision was made as part of a large scale campaign which began on December 22 with a discussion of the social network Reddit. By December 25, the registrar has lost 72,191 domains due to the boycott of the opponents of the bill. December 26 Anonymous forces launched Google bomb, which aimed to reduce the position as GoDaddy domain registrar in the search results. December 23 top management GoDaddy announced refusal to support the bill, declaring that "no longer supports the bill SOPA», changing it soon apply for «GoDaddy against SOPA».
The bill met with massive opposition and protest, and January 20, 2012 the head of the legal committee of Congress US Smith announced that work on the bill be postponed indefinitely.
EX.UA
January 31, 2012 Ukrainian sharing EX.UA became inaccessible to users. The site was closed by law enforcement agencies in the investigation of the criminal case under Article 176 Part 2 of the Criminal Code (violation of copyright and related rights). A criminal case was initiated on the initiative of the official representatives of the world's leading software manufacturers - international corporations Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corporation, as well as Graphisoft Inc. According to the Interior Ministry, during searches in the office and data centers EX.UA seized a large amount of computer equipment and network equipment, including 123 servers with a total content of more than 6,000 terabytes.
February 1, 2012 the People's Deputy of Ukraine, Vladimir Danilenko appealed to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine to verify the legitimacy of the criminal case against Internet resource. February 2, after numerous protests and DDoS-attacks carried out on government websites Anonymous (affected site of the President, the Cabinet of Ministers, Ministry of Interior, Security Service of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada), the police agreed to return a blocked domain name service. The site became available on February 3. The criminal case against the administration of the site has not been closed, but the site reappeared on the network. However, the vast majority of the data was not available for download. June 15, 2012 share EX.UA return all confiscated 123 servers. Representatives of the resource claimed that all inaccessible information will be restored within a week.
Unified State Exam
June 15, 2012 "Anonymous" hacked and blocked for several hours the official support site exam in St. Petersburg. When you try to go to the page of the resource users to see a picture of a black mask of Guy Fawkes and the inscription, which became winged: "After passing the exam I did not have enough points for admission to the Faculty of computer security. Have to provide work for those who did. "
"The operation payback"
After the arrest of Julian Assange in December 2010, PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, and a number of other payment systems to block the account WikiLeaks. In response, the anonymous hackers disrupted financial services for a few hours.
Sites payment systems, which refused to co WikiLeaks hit by massive DDoS-attacks. The so-called "Operation Payback" blocked for some time, access to the largest payment system in the world. The value DDoS'a at peak times reached 17.5 million of connections to the server per second.
"Dark Network"
In October 2011, "Anonymus" exposed a network for the exchange and dissemination of child pornography. Hackers have deleted pictures and video, and then make public the names of 1,600 Internet users.
Hacker attacks were part of "Operation Dark Network", in which the persecuted groups, share pictures of child porn through the anonymous network Tor. Experts condemned the hacktivists, saying that they could disrupt the pending investigation and lead to the loss of evidence.