There was film, V for Vendetta, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom, where V, a mysterious radical anarchist wearing a Guy Fawkes mask works to bring down an oppressive fascist government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. It was a very famous movie and might be the concept idea for the Anonymous Hackers. It’s a series of verbs when a girl asked for masked man’s identity by saying, “Who are you?”.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate.' This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose
The idea for this series of verbs was to describe who he is and not what his name is; a philosophical answer for the obvious question which proclaims the motive of a person’s existence.
Anonymous, a notorious community of hackers which works united and under one sheer rule “As Mesiah”and surprisingly it does not like to be called a ‘group’! Internationally, this group reached to common man when Sony Play station Hack got popular. Many didn’t like the idea of the invading in their privacy. In recent past Indian hackers most of them are right now in South and north has formed a group of hackers and started attacking Indian websites in the name of #OpIndia. Earlier they attacked NIA and CBI websites and now recently started hacking government and companies’ websites worldwide if they believe that those impinge on Internet privacy or the freedom of speech, they launched an attack on India to protest against Internet Freedom.An Anonymous hacker, who used the handle <~BitMentor> to moderate an online conference, made the announcement and pasted a link containing a list of sites allegedly blocked by Reliance Communications Ltd without a court order.
As per their announcement, Reliance is not going to be the only one, anyone who tries to kill free speech and Internet freedom will have the same effect. Anyways BitMentor (an Indian young techie and hacker)made things quite reachable to media. Anonymous is mysterious hacker’s virtual group. Their members are largely unknown to each other but after the arrest of Sabu and Sony Play station attacks they never remained anonymous. Their greed for reaching media and remaining in news caught them under scanner. Hackers might be any brilliant but some foolish mistake leads them to legal clutches, as you all know there was a twitter handle @opindia_revenge, useris recently suspended. Many know his name and whereabouts. One thread is enough to reach another. If a Govt. organization like NTRO is really keen in catching the culprit then nothing is impossible as many of ace hackers are controlled by them.
To fight any move it deems is against free speech on the Internet, these guys really needs to understand that they are supporting piracy? People spend a lot of money developing things and they have the right to gain back for what they’ve spent. Copyright infringement is a disease that plagues the society. More over what anonymous India, #OpIndia group, is doing is nowhere in the interest of common man. Created overhype by media may backfire one day. Whosoever they are in the end, they are hackers, who crack software and steal other details by hacking into servers. Why are torrent sites blocked? Various educational institutions use torrent to share huge files with students. Linux distros are shared via torrents. There are so many positives and negatives to this issue. The whole transfer protocol is blocked just because it’s used for piracy as well. Even if torrent sites are the supposed hotspots for piracy, and not even that the Govt. has even blocked dailymotion, vimeo, pastebin, etc. shows how computer illiterate the people who advocate and file these laws are!
There is no point in blaming RCom, Airtel, Hathway, they are just following court orders. Hopefully these hacks may convey message to law makers and Government but if caught will be eye opener for hacker too. One commendable thing about these hackers is that they're pretty international in their outlook and operations. They don't seem to have a vendetta against any particular person or government. But that does not mean Free speech and internet rights are their sole and primary concern. To add advantage to this nonsense our Govt. didn't know how to manage cyber assets.
India’s government has in recent months attempted to prevent the creation or circulation of online content that may be deemed objectionable, drawing online protests. And earlier this month, the Madras high court directed Reliance Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, a Reliance Group company, to block specific video-sharing websites in response to a petition by the producers of the Tamil movie 3, popular for its Kolaveri song. Anonymous, the hacktivist collective, in retaliation targeted Big Cinemas, the multiplex chain of the Anil Ambani promoted Reliance Group, hacking its website earlier this week and accessing information on its customers in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. But how these hacks are going to create pressure on judiciary and law? The hackers are direction less, they are not focused. They are randomly attacking the companies which are forced to follow the directions of court.
Big Cinemas confirmed that their servers were attacked a few days ago by the hacktivists, following which it shut the website and redirected customers to book movie tickets through bookmyshow.com, an aggregator of movie and theatre tickets.“Big Cinemas’ server was attacked but there was no loss of a single penny. They very well coped up with the issue and that itself is big slap to the revolutionaries. I am sure Avinash Jhangiani, head of information technology at Big Cinemas will definitely take a call. The company has moved consumer data to an unknown server is enhancing its IT infrastructure and will revamp its website in two-three months. Big deal, isn’t it? These hackers claimed that they had gained access to information on credit and debit cards of Big Cinemas customers, as well as details on the movies booked and the ticket prices. However, these claims are really not justified.
The online protests stemmed from the wholesale blocking of sites. Internet service providers (ISPs) are blundering by blocking the entire website instead of just the objectionable content. This has led to people feeling that their right to access legitimate content is being curbed. Such users/affected persons can sue the ISPs under the IT Act for up to Rs.5 crore damages by way of compensation. In addition, the leading management of the ISPs can face criminal charges and be punished with imprisonment for 3 years.
The only way forward for ISPs is to go through a proper due diligence of blocking not the entire website but only content that is in question. Anonymous attacks are not new to the country or the world. On 17 May, even as the government declined to support a move to annual the country’s IT (intermediaries guidelines) Rules 2011, Anonymous hactivists hacked the websites of the Supreme Court and the ruling Congress party to register their protest against the government’s bid to curb online access after several video-sharing websites were banned. In the US, on 22nd May, Anonymous released a massive cache of data which they claimed that hacktivists obtained when they hacked a website belonging to the US Department of Justice. They claimed the file contained emails as well as “the entire database dump” from the department’s website. Hacking ISP (internet service provider) Reliance Communications in the latest edition of its web attacks, Anonymous OpIndia set an ultimatum to the government to unblock all file-sharing websites as well as any other website that might have been restricted by ISPs and the government. The group has set up a Facebook page titled 'Occupy India #protest for internet freedom (File Sharing Websites Blocked)', which calls for a physical protest next month.
Unfortunately these hackers are not aware of the fact that, the government is not involved in the blocking of websites. It was an order issued by the courts and the government has no part in it. The government of India forced their online Twitter account @Opindia_revenge to be suspended.
We should raise our voice against piracy. Freedom of speech and internet freedom doesn't mean you can freely indulge in piracy. Piracy is a crime and should not be encouraged. Companies are taking heavy loss due to this. Facebook is the most unsafe site and I would be very careful not to give any info other than basics. Even your email address is not safe. I also mistrust Twitter and I hope someone heeds my advice, in this cat & mouse game Reliance should show more maturity and only carry out bare minimum banning of only objectionable materials. Unlike film censors, ISP's job is not censoring web sites. Anonymous claims to have flourished to secure “human rights of freedom”. However, this is a complex labyrinth to walk on, the never ending maze.
