And they are trying to taint the rest of us:
"Hacker group Anonymous targets Children’s Hospital" by Michael B. Farrell and Patricia Wen | Globe Staff April 24, 2014
The infamous computer hacker network known as Anonymous threatened to attack Boston Children’s Hospital over the child custody case involving Justina Pelletier last month, just a few weeks before the medical center’s website was subjected to numerous cyberassaults.
Although there is no direct evidence linking Anonymous to the attacks this week against Children’s, cybersecurity specialists said the incident bore the hallmarks of the mysterious network of Internet agitators who cripple a target’s Internet operations with a barrage of traffic.
Based on who the mouthpiece media repre$ents and the vagueness of the report, one can only conclude that Anonymous is a government operation.
Anonymous has made its interest in the case clear. Several weeks ago, the group claimed responsibility for an attack on the website of Wayside Youth and Family Support Network, the Framingham residential facility where 15-year old Justina has been living since January under state custody.
Before that she had been locked in a psychiatric ward for a year (eyes turn to tears when I think of the poor kid, alone, in a strange and unknown place, no loved ones near, afraid....).
After the more recent attack on Children’s, some patients and medical personnel could not use their online accounts to check appointments, test results, and other case information after the hospital shut down those Web pages.
The threats from Anonymous are the latest to emerge against Children’s Hospital and Wayside in the emotional child custody case that began more than a year ago in Massachusetts and has since become a national controversy involving conservative Christian activists and civil libertarians.
Thanks, but no thanks for the helpful association, Anonymous.
They also have a video on YouTube and a separate manifesto.
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Massachusetts State Police are also investigating threats made toward staff members at the state Department of Children and Families who were involved in Justina’s case.
I'm sorry, folks, but I only see agent provocateurs. Who benefits? Whose reputations and thus views are besmirched?
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Anonymous is best known for taking on big corporations such as Mastercard and Visa and pursuing politically motivated attacks by successfully striking against the FBI or CIA. It often intervenes in high-publicity cases when it feels an individual is being persecuted by an institution.
That's who they Target, huh?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was attacked by a group claiming to be Anonymous that was protesting the case of Aaron Swartz, the online activist who committed suicide while being prosecuted on charges he allegedly downloaded millions of archived documents illegally.
Related: Speaking Up For Swartz
Also see: The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz
Looks like the official cover story to me, and it was slated as a Sunday Globe Special. We'll see if I want to keep the clipping into next month and post it at all. I'm getting kind of tired of the self-centered supremacism, reinforced narratives, and shallow psyop manipulation I'm exposed to on a daily basis, and am in the midst of planning my $obriety as I type.
Though flooding sites with traffic is a relatively simple task for skilled technicians, Anonymous conducts its attacks with theatrical flourish. The video launching the campaign for Justina, for example, features scenes from a street protest with an unidentified man who wears the Guy Fawkes mask made famous by the 2005 movie “V for Vendetta.”
I guess I will have to take that off my list of favorites seeing as it has now been cooped and its female star is a Zionist.
Gabriella Coleman, a McGill University professor who has studied Anonymous, describes it as a “protest ensemble” that uses the Guy Fawkes mask as a symbol of its members’ anti-authority or populist tenets.
No thanks for the help because all you guys do is give the government an excuse for additional crackdowns on the web with $ecurity mea$ures and $uch, the same for companies and individuals (hmmmm).
As I somewhat noted with the Sterling bit, I think all opinion and information should be out there. You are only for free speech if you are for speech you oppose. I would love to see the Zionist propaganda machine go away and the Boston Globe replaced by something better; however, it is the job of the listener to discern the truth as they see it.
The mask also symbolizes the group’s shadowy identity.
How can that be with the NSA collecting every scrap of electronic communication over the entire planet? How can they really remain anonymous (blogger, and thus the government know the name)? Why do they never disable porn sites?
Individual members rarely speak to the news media or discuss the group’s actions or targets. Over the past few years, however, the group has been hit by the arrest of about 100 members around the world, Coleman said. As a result, she said, Anonymous has become quieter about its activities.
I think it is quieter because much like Wikileaks and Snowden, the whole operation has been outed. The largest employer of hackers on the face of the planet is not the Chinese; it's the USraeli empire.
While Anonymous has not taken responsibility for the Children’s cyberattack, Coleman said it does appear to be their handiwork....
They sound like Al-CIA-Duh.
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Related: Anonymous attack on Children’s Hospital continues
