(Image: Anonymous)
Marking today’s anniversary of the Bahrain anti-government uprising, the hacker group Anonymous shut down the Bahrain government’s website, along with the websites of several U.S. manufacturers of “less than lethal” weapons.
From a statement posted by the group today:
So you war profiteering all crazy, selling mad chemical weapons to militaries and cop shops around the world, thinking you will get away unscathed by the rising tides of insurrection?
Combined Systems website, shut down by Anonymous.
The international hacking collaborative also targeted tear gas producer Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), citing the death and injury caused by the company’s tear gas canisters, and its use by police forces in the occupied Palestinian territories and against the Occupy Wall Street movement:
From the streets of Oakland to Tahrir Square, to Palestine, Greece, Bahrain and Syria, your sinister instruments of torture and brutality have been used by the vile swine enforcers of the rich ruling classes to repress our revolutionary movements. You shot and gassed protesters, running them off public parks in the US. Several dozen died because of your tear gas used in Egypt. You wave the Israeli flag outside of your offices, while just two months ago your tear gas cannisters fired by the IDF killed a man in the West Bank. Did you think we forgot? Why did you not expect us?
The actions are part of a larger campaign known as HackVDay, commemorating protest in Bahrain and drawing attention to the on-going military crackdowns. According to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, last year 14 were killed as a result of tear gas, and in the past month two protesters died of tear gas inhalation.
Additional weapons companies websites targeted by the hacker group include sur-tec.com, less-lethal.com, handcuffsusa.com, and pennarms.com. Anonymous also threatened tech workers for the weapons companies, stating:
[I]f you so much as lift a finger to support CSI in rebuilding their websites, we will post all your mail on you and all your clients.
At the time of writing this article, off the hacked websites, excluding the Bahrain government, were still non-operational.
This is awesome!!
non-violent protests at its finest
I see huge, huge potential for Anonymous and other hackers.
Everyone knows don’t they, that all missile defense systems are computer controlled.
Go get them boys.
No one is going a launch missiles and start a war if they don’t have a working missile Defense shield for themselves.
Ditto.
Non violent. But if they get caught their asses will get kicked raw.
Tonight on NPR’s All Things Considerd. Robert Siegel had Jeffrey Goldberg on to discuss Iran . You know how Siegel is always looking for diversity of opinion and all
Goldberg spun the story that Iran has refused to negotiate (which we know is untrue) and that they might actually be saying “we’re actually going to negotiate” Siegel and Goldberg team up again to promote more aggression towards Iran
Both Siegel and Goldberg went on an on about Netanyahu claiming that Iran tried to assassinate Israeli diplomats in India and is it Jordan. Then they also say that Iranians say that Israel is responsible for the killing of Iranian scientist. What Siegel and Goldberg fail to mention is that US OFFICIALS HAVE REPORTED TO RICHARD ENGEL THAT THEY KNOW ” Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by Iran’s leaders.”
http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/08/10354553-israel-teams-with-terror-group-to-kill-irans-nuclear-scientists-us-officials-tell-nbc-news
Nope nope nope sure not hearing anything about this on NPR’s All things considered. here is the link
“Bangkok Bombings fuel Israel Iran Tensions”
http://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/
anyone know if the recent Anonymous declaration to wage a campaign against israel is a hoax or real?