Feb 10
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Australia is at War with Anonymous.
Early last year we blogged
about Anonymous and his speech posted on Youtube.
We described and quoted a US website as to what
constitutes an act of war.
DECLARATION OF WAR -
An act of the national legislature, in which a state of war is declared to
exist between a nation and some other nation. This power is vested in Congress
by the Constitution, There is no form or ceremony necessary, except the passage
of the act.The public proclamation of the government of a state, by which it
declares itself to be at war with a foreign power, and which forbids all and
every one to aid or assist the common enemy. A manifesto stating the causes
of the war is usually published, but war exists as soon as the act takes
effect.It was formerly usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration
communicated to the enemy, and to send a herald to demand satisfaction, but
that is not the practice of modern times.
Australia after receiving notification (five days ago) that it would be attacked (via the Internet)
was on the receiving end of a Cyber attack for the last two days from self
styled Cyber Freedom Fighters making their opinion about the Australian Filter
felt.
According to the SBS
World News website, the Australian http://www.aph.gov.au website was the target of almost continuous attack yesterday
rendering it unreachable for hours at a time.
(At the time of writing this article, I am unable to connect
to the site, indicating that either the attack is continuing or that the
Government have taken down the site temporarily.)
Anonymous likes to predicate from his/her ivory castle with
anonymous Youtube messages.
Here is today’s Sermon from the self styled pulpit.
Also on the SBS web site are the comments below the article
10 Feb 2010
15:51 AEST
Anonymous
From: Everywhere
Manifesto pt.1
This is our world now… the world of the electron and
the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing
without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering
gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals.
We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin
color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals.
Agree(27 people agree) Disagree(3
people disagree)
10 Feb 2010
15:52 AEST
Anonymous
From: Everywhere
Manifesto pt.2
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat,
and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the
criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My
crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,but you
can't stop us all… after all, we're all alike.
Agree(29 people agree) Disagree(3
people disagree)
Which of course one can ignore, but the message that worried
me was:
10 Feb 2010
15:50 AEST
Mike
From: Melbourne
Heh, that's funny
I have no doubts that the filter will last more than a
week after seeing this. And this is just people uptight about losing pr0n. Wait
til some really serious people start messing with the filter.
Agree(8 people agree) Disagree(0 people disagree)
Whilst the Australian Government may be misguided in it’s
attempt to censor the global internet rather than implement an education
campaign and increase its co-operation within international law enforcement agencies
to stamp out child pornography and instructions on how to commit terrorist acts;
I can say unequivocally on behalf of all Australians that an attack on
Australia is an attack on every Australian.
The reasons or style of the attack are not important. Any
such activity uses up valuable human and computer resources that are better
served doing other tasks.
The probable total cost including worried phone calls,
official interdiction attempts, routing engineers time and the myriad of press updates
probably added up to a couple of million dollars today.
Anonymous, please pull your horns in; we don’t think that your
actions will have any beneficial consequences for the people of Australia.
Rather they (the spam of Civil servant emails, the ping
flooding [or html request flooding] of Australian Government web servers), only
serve to convince the Government that the only solution is to create a walled
Garden with every garden participant identified with a unique ID.
Internet Drivers licenses with SSH only access is the
obvious next choice for a Government attacked in this manner.
It’s curious but the techies already know that no filter can
stop anyone with half a clue from getting whatever they desire.
So although I wrote my first blog piece over a year ago for
Perceptric on the filter, I have elected to ignore it since almost as a non-event.
When bad legislation is enforced on the people, it is ignored.
If it is ignored by the moral majority it becomes an
election policy issue and then the party that offers to overturn the bad
legislation gets their turn at running things for a while.
Anonymous, the filter issue will die a natural death. But
you are not helping and have failed to consider the collateral damage that your
attack is causing.
This collateral damage may well harm our rights and freedoms
far worse than the proposed Rabbit proof internet filter.
So thank-you for your kind thoughts and intentions, now
please, go away and stop scaring our security forces and wasting our money.