Amid Ferguson protests, hacker collective Anonymous wages cyberwar *The picture of the cop standing over Mike Brown is allegedly the person that murdered him* St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar became the target. In the dark hours leading into Tuesday morning, someone posted a photo of Belmar’s house on Twitter. Then his home address and telephone number. By afternoon, eerie photos started to circulate on social media. A picture reportedly of Belmar and his wife with the caption: “Nice photo, Jon. Your wife actually looks good for her age. Have you had enough?” A picture allegedly inside his home of someone sleeping on the couch that read, “He sees you when you sleep, he knows when you’re awake.” And then one apparently of his wife and daughter. Days after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. — and hours after rioting and looting erupted in response — an invisible insurgency associated with the hacking collective Anonymous threatened to wage a war of its own, telling police, “we are watching you very closely.” Anonymous, a loosely organized global network of activists and hackers, has a history of targeting large corporations and governments in the wake of what it deems injustice. Its targets have included everyone from companies such as VISA, MasterCard and PayPal after they prohibited donations to WikiLeaks to the Israeli government in retaliation for its military intervention in Gaza. Amid this week’s mayhem in Ferguson, a group claiming to be associated with Anonymous set up a Web site to organize cyberprotests as well as a Twitter account. It released a video and put out a press release, in part addressing police: If you abuse, harass — or harm in any way the protesters in Ferguson we will take every Web-based asset of your departments and governments off line. That is not a threat, it is a promise. If you attack the protesters, we will attack every server and computer you have. We will dox and release the personal information on every single member of the Ferguson Police Department, as well as any other jurisdiction that participates in the abuse. We will seize all your databases and E-Mail spools and dump them on the Internet. This is your only warning. ~Thuro~
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:11:44 +0000
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