Anonymous extends partnership invitation to Wikileaks, there goes the neighbourhood
News that has multimillion corporations, governments and generally anyone who has anything to ‘keep safe’ or hide on the internet, running scared is the fact that a well known (read ‘notorious’) group of hackers is looking to team up with Wikileaks.
While it may seem like the perfect match, the implications in the real world could be huge.
Many who have followed the recent internet news lately will be instantly familiar with the name, Anonymous. The group of hackers, who recently launched their own social networking website, has been spreading chaos around the corporate internet world.
Teaming up with the now disbanded LulzSec, Anonymous have gone on a rampage, starting off by hacking into various video game related companies, including Sony (though those reports are still unconfirmed), SEGA, Nintendo and others the group have now received
the attention of various law enforcement agencies.
Having hacked into the FBI, NATO and various police department’s servers (including Bolivia’s Secret Police) among a host of others, the group is on the wanted list.
Sony announced that the attack on their servers cost them over $171-million, and Anonymous and LulzSec are the lead suspects, though the former have denied their involvement.
Known for sharing their ‘stolen’ documents on the net with anyone and everyone who is willing to download it, including a classified NATO document which showed that NATO was up to some questionable activities in recent times, the group now seems to want
to pass on the information to Wikileaks.
The latter has also suffered the wrath of various governments as it also displays sensitive information which it receives.
According to a tweet by AnonymousIRC which read, “Want to ally, @wikileaks. Yet, we will not hesitate to disclose everything we have. Can’t afford battle tho.”
The tweet ended with a link to a YouTube video, another one of the group’s trademarks.
Whether or not Wikileaks responds is still up in the air, though just the thought will have governments and corporations running scared.
Authorities have made a number of arrests all over Europe as they look to round up the group, though it seems Anonymous have no one head to cut off and are growing popular among the masses who see them as heroes, while an equal amount of people see them
as criminals, but they are probably the PlayStation fans who had their network shut down for over two weeks.
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