Anonymous takes filter protest to the streets

Renai LeMay
Monday, 15 February 2010 20:21

IT Policy - Regulation

The loose coalition of individuals who attacked Federal Government technology infrastructure last week under the banner of 'Anonymous' has unveiled plans to take its protest against the internet filtering initiative to the streets.
The group last week knocked the website of the Australian Parliament offline in a distributed denial of service attack that also targeted the website of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.

Government workers were also sent a flood of email with porn enclosed, prank phone calls and dodgy faxes, in an initiative dubbed 'Operation Titstorm'.

But on the website Encyclopedia Dramatica, the group appears to have outlined plans to protest in real life in capital cities around Australia. The link to the site was forwarded to Delimiter by a representative of Anonymous.

'Operation Titstorm's initial phase of hacktivism (denial of service virtual 'sit-ins') was aimed at disrupting Australian Government websites related to Conroy's little project in order to get the media and general public's attention,' the site stated.

'This has been very effective tactic for Anonymous in the past and has once again paid off big-time for the mission, garnering hundreds of additional troops for Phase Two and generating an abundance of news stories in national and international media along with mostly unanimous support from citizen journalists in the blogosphere.'