Anonymous Hacks Tunisian Islamist Sites 101
eldavojohn writes "The hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed another victim by taking down Islamist sites in Tunisia. Similar to an earlier attack on Turkish government sites, #optunisia has resulted in several government blogs and sites being replaced with 'Payback is a b****, isn't it?' The message lists censorship as the motivation behind this activity. The AFP is reporting that this is also in response to the reintroduction of Salafist laws and the caliphate. An additional Anonymous message read, 'We are not against religion, we are Muslims, but we are defending freedom in our country.' Censorship continues wholesale in Tunisia."
Re:First problem (Score:5, Insightful)
Freedom of religion is what leaves you free to have no religion.
Pretty random attacks these days (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Pretty random attacks these days (Score:5, Insightful)
Anonymous seems to just have its fingers in the wind these days, shifting its sites all over the placewith no real direction or purpose.
Who said they have any real direction or purpose? It's a big amorphous group of whoever wants to participate in whatever popular idea is floating around at the time, they don't have any long-term plan.
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Re:When you finally understand where all religions (Score:3, Insightful)
You DO know "agnostic" and "atheist" are orthogonal right? All religions, as well as atheism, are belief claims, while a claim of agnosticism simply means "I do not put the same kind of confidence in this belief as I would in something derived deductively from prior principles." For example, an agnostic atheist says "I have no particular God belief, but this does not mean there never is, was, or will be a God or Gods in any place, time, or meaning."
Re:First problem (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Safe target? (Score:2, Insightful)
How do you know it's even the same person/people doing this hack vs. any other anonymous hack? If they are "avoiding the big dogs", who are "they"? The leaders of anonymous who may or may not exist? If someone writes graffiti on a Bank of America building signed "anonymous" are you going to say it looks like they decided to go after the banks? It sounds like you're trying to make sense of what could be basically random actions by diverse non-connected groups of individuals. Maybe some are 4-channers, maybe some are bored college comp-sci students, maybe some are frustrated employees of various organizations. Anyone can be anonymous.