Author: Kilgoar

Hackers have long held a place of fear in the minds of computer users everywhere. Movies have portrayed hackers as everything from sexually twisted introvert voyeurs to godlike masters of virtual reality. The rise of groups attempting to emulate the success of LulzSec has been intense and rapid, and it is a direct reaction to this distorted image.

To look at hackers like these and call them terrorists is beyond absurd. Accusations have been made that stolen information may put lives at risk. Bomb threats have been made under the alias of AntiSec. Critics complain that hackers are only quickening the pace of the inevitable internet clampdown that corporations have been lobbying for. It is these complaints that fuel the performance art of hacking.

Very serious and powerful people believe that cablegate has actually put lives at risk, despite the lack of a single shred of evidence. News companies have broadcast this contrived message to every home in America and it has become the effective truth. LulzSec forced these arguments to the most absurd level possible. The “chilling” hack on PBS proclaimed Tupac was still alive in New Zealand, propelling their Twitter account’s ascent. Terrorism? More like performance art.

In the aftermath of LulzSec, hackers have used the Fox News Twitter account to declare the death of Obama. SwagSec has defaced police web sites, leaving rap videos by Public Enemy and the kind of tongue-in-cheek death threats gangsta rappers love to make. Both the security of the internet and the general public fear for hackers are being mocked. The hackers are standing up to those who believe the internet is serious business. It’s more than just that, though. They’re standing up to everyone who would label civil disobedience as terrorism.

Today it was revealed to 4chan users that their identities have been mapped and tracked by Google’s reCAPTCHA service since the beginning of time. Every user who posts gore or child porn is instantly put on a list that is then forwarded to the NSA. When raids are carried out spontaneously by 4chan, those who participate have their IP address forwarded to the FBI as persons of interest and potential terrorists.

We must warn all users of 4chan that anonymity on any web site using reCAPTCHA is only illusory and subject to Google’s ridiculous privacy policy.

 We log information related to reCAPTCHA, such as the Internet Protocol address of the end-user, an identifier for the implementing site, the URL of the site accessed, the CAPTCHA solution, the result of the CAPTCHA grading, the date and time of requests, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify the end-user browser.   ~Google

Complicit attacks on anonymity by Google and the US government are nothing new. AnonNews has been the subject of reCAPTCHA rape, and not even Tor can save your asses. The Navy runs the vast majority of Tor nodes, and efficiently sifts through 99.99% of all Tor traffic for illegal activities which are then categorized in a database for future prosecution.

The 168 year old publication News of the World has been accused of hacking the telephone and e-mails of recently deceased persons of public interest. Rupert Murdoch’s son, James Murdoch, personally pulled the plug on his ring of hacker-journalists. The final edition of News of the World contained the following poetic sign-off:

We are Anonymous

We do not forgive

We do not forget

Expect us

James Murdoch keeps a life size model of Darth Vader outside his office overlooking London. Occasionally he removes the helmet and replays his favorite scene from Return of the Jedi, knowing full well that his father will never turn away from the dark side.

Hackers have failed to d0x those behind the News of the World hacking scandal. The internal e-mail records have been wiped clean at the behest of the Murdoch family, in a poor attempt to cover up their involvement in the creation of Anonymous.

The media continues their secret hacking endeavors in the ever quickening battle to report the next big story before everyone else gets the scoop. However, the corporate media continually feeds the public fear of hackers with illegally hacked information.

We can only hope that someone out there d0xes the Murdoch family before they create a global media empire.

Editor’s note: Our staff hackers have hacked James Murdoch’s voicemail and found incontrovertible proof that he is responsible for the continued DDoS of AnonNews!