Syrian Hackers Deface Anonymous' Social Network

CWmike writes "After the hacking gang Anonymous took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defense website, a Syrian group retaliated on Monday by posting gruesome photos on Anonymous' embryonic social network. The defacement of AnonPlus — the site Anonymous set up last month when it was booted off Google+ — did not include the name of the group responsible. The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, however, credited the AnonPlus defacement to the 'Syrian Electronic Army' in a message posted to Twitter. 'In response to your hacking to the website of the Syrian Ministry of Defence, the Syrian people have decided to purify the internet of [y]our pathetic website,' the defacement read."

Thats Gruesome?

[ThatsMyNick]

Has the author never been goatsed?

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[SharpFang]

I doubt there's content gruesome enough in the entire Internet to shake the seasoned Anonymous.

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[O('_')O_Bush]

Western pussies? Westerners are some of the most violent people on earth. They are fortunate enough to have outlets through hunting and the military or otherwise large prisons to contain the culture of hostility. Sure, there are more dangerous places, but there's no place I'd rather not see an anarchy than countries with more guns than people.

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[Grumbleduke]

Please don't confuse "Westerners" with "citizens of the United States". Some "Western" countries don't have all that many guns, and significantly lower proportions of the population in prison (which tends to be significantly more civilised) than the US. Of course, one non-US western country is currently suffering from small-scale rioting and looting, so maybe today isn't a good time to argue this point.

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[Canazza]

Not to mention England, who just let their violent elements run about London Suburbs

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[Grumbleduke]

Which was what I was referring to in the final sentence... Although, interestingly, with about 600 arrests so far, and apparently all jail cells in London full, Greater London has about the same incarceration rate as the entire US.

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[X0563511]

Please don't confuse the hugely disproportionate population of nonviolent "offenders" in our prisons with the relatively small population that is actually violent. (yay for the "War" on Drugs! Wheee!)

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[O('_')O_Bush]

I'm not, some of the remarks apply to most, some apply to few. The West is a broad term and generalizations about it will always have exceptions. That being said, the U.S. *is* leader of team West, and those remarks are benchmarked to be at least true for them.

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[bhcompy]

And he wipes his ass with his own record contract! I love this guy!

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[lgw]

/b/ had an expression for people who would try to deface /b/: "pissing in an ocean of piss". There was a comical graphic too, of course. I'm sure the same applies here.

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[shutdown -p now]

I can think of some things even then. E.g. Showing people their own entrails would likely elicit very strong reaction, even among veteran anons. And these "hackers" likely being Syrian secret police, I wouldn't completely discount such a possibility.

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[rtb61]

More likely they are paid off organised crime. The Syrian secret police are more likely to be involved in direct physical brutality, for personal pleasure and profit, the intellectual needs of that kind of pursuits are not very high and do not include computer skills.

In those states organised crime and secret police often include the same people at the higher levels and are tied back to the monarchical government. That monarchical government of course pretends to be what ever style of governments it want

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[tehcyder]

I can think of some things even then. E.g. Showing people their own entrails would likely elicit very strong reaction, even among veteran anons. And these "hackers" likely being Syrian secret police, I wouldn't completely discount such a possibility.

As a rule, by the time you're looking at your own entrails it's a bit late for much reaction. I think showing the entrails of other people that you love is what would be truly shocking, and pretty much the Syrian secret police's modus operandi.

Not even Syrian slaughter

[jDeepbeep]

Not even photos of the thousands of slaughtered Syrian citizens by their benevolent government would faze anon.

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[P01d4]

but still nowhere near as gruesome as some of the things that get shared on /b/.

Re:Thats Gruesome?

[ethan0]

attempting to deface anything of Anonymous is like pissing into an ocean. of piss.

(not to take credit for this, I do not know its origin, but it is what immediately sprang to my mind reading this)

For the second time.

[rbpOne]

Anonplus was defaced by some group claiming to be from syria a week or so ago.

The site got a new title: "Hacket by The Pro & SaQeR SyRia" and carried a huge picture of syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

ooo sweet

[JustNiz]

I doubt either side want to loose their street cred, so I guess a highly public hacking tit-for-tat match is about to kick-off.

teaching them a lesson?

[kribby]

coming from /b/...I don't think there's a picture out there that they won't fap to

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[onefineline]

lol, that would be so awesome. "OMG PONEEZ!"

orly?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anon hacks anon pretending to be from Syria -- Uzique

Proof that public hacking is like pro basketball.

[conspirator23]

Everybody wants to dunk on the other team's basket, but nobody wants to play defense.

They sure showed them

[atari2600a]

They managed to temporarily deface a website of an ad-hoc networked organization, good for them.

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[Xest]

Well, let's pretend we're very impressed by them.

That way they can continue spending even more resources attacking non-sites which means less resources available for blowing up and shooting innocent civilians in their own towns and cities.

Oh no they DI-ENT!

[Rifter13]

Sorry, had to say it.

This is shaping up to be a pretty interesting hacking game. I wonder if we could get some sort of network involved to make it into a true spectator sport, and not just the barbs fired off after each round?

Re:Ahem

[tpstigers]

Seconded. I know you Anonymous kids think you're pretty hot stuff, but you're not dealing with Microsoft here. These really aren't the kind of people you want to enter into a pissing contest with.

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[MarkvW]

Seconded. I know you Anonymous kids think you're pretty hot stuff, but you're not dealing with Microsoft here. These really aren't the kind of people you want to enter into a pissing contest with.

Why? Because they have more urine?

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[mywhitewolf]

why should anon fear another 14 year old basement dweller?

So?

[ArchieBunker]

What are the secret police going to come over here and get him?

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[layer3switch]

http://www.fidh.org/List-of-people-killed-in-Syria-since-March-18 [fidh.org]

Kill Count
Anon: 0
Assad: lost count

This is why.

Earth

[Nefarious Wheel]

The world is beginning to look more like the hacker economy of David Brin's "Earth" every day.

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[mwvdlee]

I'm impressed by AnonPlus's ability to have been active for four years even though they only registered the domain on 16th July 2011 and have shown no indication of life before that date.
You probably meant the group "Anonymous" but... hey... it's a really difficult word and only mentioned three times in TFS; how could you have known?

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[bannable]

AnonPlus is a direct spin-off of AnonTalk. Sorry, what was that you were saying?

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[mwvdlee]

AnonPlus is a social networking site, AnonTalk was a forum. I assume you understand the difference. AnonPlus started life on (or around) 16th July 2011. Whatever thing AnonPlus tried to copy obviously existed prior to AnonPlus, but was also NOT AnonPlus. Given AnonPlus's raison d'être, AnonPlus is much more a clone of Facebook than anything else. And even if it was a spin-off from AnonTalk, a spin-off does not automagically become equal it's ancestor. AnonPlus != AnonTalk.

Who set up this website anyway?

[paziek]

Who set up this website anyway? Was it some anonymous? If so, then what nationality? Maybe he defaced it by himself? I mean... who would really register on AnonPlus? You loose your anonymity when you do, it was bullshit site to begin with, just with some simple HTML.

I am anonymous.

[hellop2]

I take responsibility for this and all other hacks.

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[hellop2]

Also, I take responsibility for 911 since no one else has.

Why, you ask? Well... that is obvious. Because there are no Krispy Kremes in Kandahar! Selfish American pig-dogs. How much longer did you think you could withhold your sugary deliciousness?

So

[Dunbal]

The War of the Script Kiddies has begun.

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[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

The War of the Script Kiddies has begun.

I think you meant "Begun, the Script Kiddie Wars have."

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[Dunbal]

I actually thought about writing it this way and then decided against it - I mean what does a bunch of losers from 4chan have in common with Yoda? There's probably some more appropriate anime quote, but I'm not much into anime...

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