An Open Letter From ANONYMOUS HACKERS to the UK Government
Dear United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland government,
We are Anonymous. It has come upward to our attending that you lot deemed it necessary
to arrest 5 of our beau anons for their participation inward the DDoS
attacks against PayPal, Mastercard, together with others, that receive got been carried out
inward our lift inward retaliation for those organisations’ actions against WikiLeaks.
We sympathise you lot are planning to accuse these beau anons amongst offences
nether the 1990 Computer Misuse Act, which prohibits impairing the operation
of a reckoner or the readability of data. Anonymous believes, however, that
pursuing this direction is a miserable fault on your behalf. Not exclusively does it
disclose the fact that you lot practise non appear to sympathise the present-day political
together with technological reality, nosotros also receive got this every bit a serious proclamation of war
from yourself, the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland government, to us, Anonymous, the people.
First together with foremost, it is of import to realize what a DDoS fix on precisely is
together with what it way inward the contemporary political context. As traditional means
of protestation (peaceful demonstrations, sit-ins, the blocking of a crossroads
or the picketing of a manufactory fence) receive got slow turned into zippo but an
empty, ritualised gesture of discontent over the course of instruction of the final century,
people receive got been anxiously searching for novel ways to pressure level politicians
together with plow over phonation to populace demands inward a fashion that mightiness truly survive able
to alter things for the better. Anonymous has, for now, flora this new
way of voicing civil protestation inward the cast of the DDoS, or Distributed Denial of
Service, attack. Just every bit is the example amongst traditional forms of protest, nosotros block
access to our opponents infrastructure to larn our message across. Whether
or non this infrastructure is located inward the existent globe or inward cyberspace, seems
completely irrelevant to us.
Moreover, nosotros would similar to receive got this chance to fix the tape straight
on the divergence betwixt a DDoS fix on together with hacking, every bit these concepts
frequently appear to survive confounded when media together with policy-makers beak about
Anonymous. Hacking every bit such is defined yesteryear the police every bit ‘unauthorised access
to a reckoner or network’, whereas a DDoS fix on is just a example of
thousands of people making legitimate connections to a publicly accessible
webserver at the same time, using upward the entire bandwidth or processing
powerfulness of the given server at in 1 lawsuit together with thereby causing a huge ‘traffic jam’.
ANONYMOUS PRESS RELEASE
January 27, 2011
It is clear then, that arresting somebody for taking usage inward a DDoS attack
is precisely similar arresting somebody for attending a peaceful demonstration
inward their hometown. Anonymous believes this correct to peacefully protest
is 1 of the key pillars of whatever republic together with should non be
restricted inward whatever way. Moreover, nosotros receive got noted that similar attacks have
also been carried out against Wikileaks itself, yet so far, nobody has been
arrested inward connectedness amongst these attacks, nor are at that spot fifty-fifty whatever signs
of an investigation into this number at all. Yet, nosotros know precisely who was
responsible for that attack. Anonymous believes it is unfair together with hypocritical
to attempt to position these 5 arrested anons to trial without fifty-fifty attempting to
detect those who DDoS’ed a website which you lot oppose. We tin therefore
exclusively assume that these arrests are politically motivated, together with were being
carried out nether pressure level from the U.S. government. Anonymous tin not,
together with volition not, stand upward idle spell this injustice is beingness done.
Furthermore, the maximum judgement these 5 anons could survive given under
the Computer Misuse Act is 10 years imprisonment together with a fine of upward to
£5000. We desire you lot to realize just how ridiculous these sentences are,
specially given the exact nature of a DDoS fix on together with its lack of permanent
harm to the target website. To manus out these kinds of harsh sentences
(even to minors!) would effectively ruin their life, taking away their chance
at higher didactics or fifty-fifty whatever form of proper future, just because they
participated inward a peaceful cyber-protest together with stood upward for their rights. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fine
every bit high every bit £5000 would also position an incredible strain on the minors’ families.
We promise that you lot consider changing the legal framework for what is, at
worst, a tiddler offense.
And final but non least: The fact that thousands of people from all over the
globe felt the remove to participate inward these attacks on organisations targeting
Wikileaks together with treating it every bit a populace threat, rather than a mutual good,
should survive something that sets you lot thinking. You tin easily arrest individuals,
but you lot cannot arrest an ideology. We are united yesteryear a mutual objective
together with nosotros tin together with WILL cross whatever borders to accomplish that. So our advice to
you, the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland government, is to receive got this contention every bit a serious alarm from
the citizens of the world. We volition non residual until our beau anon protesters
receive got been released.
Awaiting your action,
Anonymous
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