Who is Anonymous Philippines
Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known. It strongly opposes Internet censorship and surveillance, and has hacked various government websites. It has also targeted major security corporations. Its members can be distinguished in public by the wearing of Guy Fawkes masks.
In its early form, the concept has been adopted by a decentralized online community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner, usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal, and primarily focused on entertainment. Beginning with 2008, the Anonymous collective has become increasingly associated with collaborative, international hacktivism. They undertook protests and other actions in retaliation against anti-digital piracy campaigns by motion picture and recording industry trade associations. Actions credited to "Anonymous" are undertaken by unidentified individuals who apply the Anonymous label to themselves as attribution. Some analysts have praised Anonymous as the freedom fighters of the internet, and a digital Robin Hood, although others have condemned them as "anarchic cyber-guerrillas".
Although not necessarily tied to a single online entity, many websites are strongly associated with Anonymous. This includes notableimageboards such as 4chan, their associated wikis, Encyclopædia Dramatica, and a number of forums. After a series of controversial, widely publicized protests, distributed denial of service (DDoS) and website defacement attacks by Anonymous in 2008, incidents linked to its cadre members have increased. In consideration of its capabilities, Anonymous has been posited by CNN to be one of the three major successors to WikiLeaks. In 2012, American magazine Time named Anonymous as one of the most influential groups of people in the world.
Anonymous Philippines' on a hacking spree
Their targets are:
- http://www.senate.gov.ph/
- http://congress.gov.ph/
- http://www.gov.ph/
- http://president.gov.ph/
- http://www.bir.gov.ph/
- http://customs.gov.ph/
- http://www.pnp.gov.ph
- http://www.nbi.gov.ph
- http://www.ntc.gov.ph/
- http://www.doh.gov.ph
- http://www.bsp.gov.ph/
- http://www.marina.gov.ph/
- http://www.dilg.gov.ph/
- http://pia.gov.ph/
- http://www.papt.org.ph
- http://www.smokefree.doh.gov.ph/
- http://www.mmda.gov.ph
- http://www.meralco.com.ph/
- http://www.doj.gov.ph/
- http://titosotto.com/
Anonymous also released a video clip on YouTube to air their statement against the anti-cyber crime law that criminalizes libel online.
The new law authored by Senator Edgardo Angara and signed by President Benigno Aquino also allows warrant less monitoring of Internet and telecom users, as well as authorizes the Department of Justice to block any website without court review.
"The Philippine Government has just passed a bill that effectively ends the freedom of expression in the Philippines," Anonymous said in its statement.
"The Cyber-crime Prevention Act of 2012 is the most notorious act ever witnessed in the cyber-history of the Philippines,and the language of the bill is cunningly designed to make you think it only applies to individuals who are deep in cyber-technology and doesn't apply to everyone, but some part of the bill basically says it can imprison anyone who commits libel either by written messages, comments, blogs, or posts in sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or any other comment-spaces of other social media in the Internet," it added.
"New technologies give us new opportunities to connect with a lot of people not only in this country but all over the world. They can also provide us with a medium through which our political, public and even private views can have an immediate and direct impact on individuals, communities and even countries. It is just so disappointing that our government, in adopting our 80-year-old antiquated libel laws to the Cyber-crime Law, again seems to have retarded our march with the rest of the world with respect to giving full force to the people's freedom of expression," the hacktivist group said.
"We ask for a revision of the said bill for the betterment of the Filipino denizens," it added.
"New technologies give us new opportunities to connect with a lot of people not only in this country but all over the world. They can also provide us with a medium through which our political, public and even private views can have an immediate and direct impact on individuals, communities and even countries. It is just so disappointing that our government, in adopting our 80-year-old antiquated libel laws to the Cyber-crime Law, again seems to have retarded our march with the rest of the world with respect to giving full force to the people's freedom of expression," the hacktivist group said.
"We ask for a revision of the said bill for the betterment of the Filipino denizens," it added.
Government websites were also hacked in previous days by protesters opposing the anti-cyber crime law.
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