YouTube video by "Anonymous" hacker group threatens to attack Singapore

[DeanNim]

video : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=656364671075370

A YouTube video put up by someone claiming to be part of the international hacker group Anonymous is threatening to bring down key infrastructure in Singapore in a show of protest against the Government's new licensing rules imposed on websites here.

The video, posted on Oct 29, also urged Singaporeans to join the protest by dressing in black and red on November 5 and to black out their Facebook profile pictures for a day.

The message was delivered on video using an image of Guy Fawkes with his trademark anonymity mask, saying: "We demand you reconsider the regulations of your framework or we will be forced to go to war with you."

It ended with the message: "Remember, remember. The fifth of November", a famous line from Fawkes who threatened to blow the parliament building in England on November 5, 1605.

All I can say is LOL. Im not with or against them, but i dont support the new licensing scheme that the government recently came up with either.... I just hope anon dont back out of this.

[Razmos]

Jesus, they are very melodramatic aren't they.

[DeanNim]

Jesus, they are very melodramatic aren't they.

idc tbh i just wanna see how pomegranate is going to go down because protests against the scheme already happened to no avail.

[Hanabira.Kage]

...I don't see what all the fuss is about, really.

It's not like they're extending it to blogs or anything.

[hadriel]

If this happens, any Singaporean Anonymous member will get hauled via the ISA, and then Anonymous will no longer be forced to do so.

"Forced" is a very curious word to use. No one is holding a gun to their head and making them impose their beliefs on another.

Hadriel

[DeanNim]

...I don't see what all the fuss is about, really.

It's not like they're extending it to blogs or anything.

They are already suing bloggers left and right, this is only giving them more power... This law basically allows them to make news sites take down any article that may not be favourable to the men in white... I can already foresee them abusing this power(its not like they couldnt already have done it without the law anyway). Just look at the state of our print/traditional medias, none of our newspapers actually write anything negative about the government /* (remember that one period of time where ST kept supporting the population white paper, writing articles about it almost everyday vehemently, despite the negative public opinion??) */ ... and I for one, do not want this to extend into new media as well. Even friends of mine who are studying MassComm are openly criticising it because it affects their future career choices.


First its this, in the future, who knows what. Dont trust these men in white, really.

[Hanabira.Kage]

They are already suing bloggers left and right, this is only giving them more power... This law basically allows them to make news sites take down any article that may not be favourable to the men in white... I can already foresee them abusing this power(its not like they couldnt already have done it without the law anyway). Just look at the state of our print/traditional medias, none of our newspapers actually write anything negative about the government /* (remember that one period of time where ST kept supporting the population white paper, writing articles about it almost everyday vehemently, despite the negative public opinion??) */ ... and I for one, do not want this to extend into new media as well. Even friends of mine who are studying MassComm are openly criticising it because it affects their future career choices.


First its this, in the future, who knows what. Dont trust these men in white, really.

Every government with the ability to do so will attempt to keep the media from publishing articles that will tarnish their reputation; it's nothing new.

It's also old news that the Singaporean government is one of the strictest ones when it comes to this stuff. Well, outside of dictatorships and "communist states", anyway.

[Celan]

http://rt.com/news/canada-boy-hacker...ous-games-821/

12 year old Canadian Boy hacks govt sites, passing some of the hacked data to the Anonymous group in exchange for video games.

Why do I belive this has to be related somehow.

[DeanNim]

Every government with the ability to do so will attempt to keep the media from publishing articles that will tarnish their reputation; it's nothing new.

It's also old news that the Singaporean government is one of the strictest ones when it comes to this stuff. Well, outside of dictatorships and "communist states", anyway.

Yeah but times have changed, I want absolutely no internet censorship(regarding local news anyway, porn.. whatever)... i dont care if they are strict or not, the voting demographic is changing and so should they.

[Satellite]

Not knowing anything about this particular case, I'll leave this here:

I support many of the things Anon does but really the group is full of ideological contradictions. Probably simply because anyone with any ideology can join "anonymous" and claim w/e they're against is what anon is against. And that whole "anyone can join us" thing maybe really is what makes the group hard to take seriously, and the flamboyant "We are a legion." thing is childish if anything. It's like 'Anonymous' is really just a dumb trademark for hackers to use.

Heck, even their symbol makes no sense. Anonymous has repeatedly done attacks against the corruption in Catholic church but Guy Fawkes himself was a Roman Catholic terrorist trying to assasinate the Protestant king of England. One could mistake Anon as a radical Catholic terrorist group. Oh the irony...

[Hanabira.Kage]

And that whole "anyone can join us" thing maybe really is what makes the group hard to take seriously, and the flamboyant "We are a legion." thing is childish if anything. It's like 'Anonymous' is really just a dumb trademark for hackers to use.

Wasn't it "We are legion"?

I do agree that that's a major problem; anyone could just make Anonymous a scapegoat. "I know! I'll go bring down Microsoft's systems for pomegranates and giggles! I'll blame it on Anonymous and no one would be the wiser!"

[案山子]

Yeah, it's pretty childish considering they're essentially a group of kids that saw V for Vendetta and decided to start a "club". It's the same type of pomegranate as when you're a kid and watch a movie or cartoon then you and your buddies pretend to be like them. It's the dumbest pomegranate ever and they should never be taken seriously regardless of what they can or cannot do.

[DeanNim]

Gotta admit their latest hackings was pretty freaking hilarious. This was what happened to our istana's website. Istana is basically a malay version of a castle so its essentially our white house.



Jiak Liao Bee apparently means Useless, in reference to our president who has no political power other than the country's reserves.

Note: this was just an injection so no one really hacked into their servers.

[Hanabira.Kage]

Seems to be some bored Singaporean kid trying to spread mass panic by claiming to be part of the Anonymous collective.

Anonymous doesn't do THAT. I've only ever seen them use images of a Guy Fawkes mask.

[Abstract]

I'm 100% sure the forum that I hail from is a safe haven for these Anonymous members hiding around. Knowing the kinds of people that I've met on that certain forum, I wouldn't play this off as nonsense just yet and assume it's just some script kiddies having some fun.

[hadriel]

Either my internet has gone bonkers, or my ISP has fully blocked Southperry.net, because the URL says something like failed URL and redirects me to some root ISP search page. I suspect it is because of this... discussion... I'm indirectly accessing this page btw.

edit: SP working now. Must have been [idk what] on the ISP side.

Hadriel