On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:18 PM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Satabdi Das <[email protected]> wrote: >> This book (at least in the beginning) seems to be like a manifesto of >> Anonymous - the hacker group which is declared illegal in India. Lets not >> circulate such materials which might be deemed to be illegal. And we as a >> group definitely do no support any activity which is deemed to be illegal by >> the laws of the land in this group. > > > Anonymous is not a well defined entity.
Time Magazine's The World's 100 Most Influential People: 2012 includes Anonymous. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2112122,00.html They are portrayed as hacktivist. which IMNSHO, is a sheer perversion of the word "hacker". They are cracktivists (crackers). "The group became known for a series of well-publicized hacks and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government, religious, and corporate websites. [...] Later targets of Anonymous hacktivism included government agencies of the US, Israel, Tunisia, Uganda, and others; child pornography sites; copyright protection agencies; the Westboro Baptist Church; and corporations such as PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, and Sony. [...] Dozens of people have been arrested for involvement in Anonymous cyberattacks, in countries including the US, UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey." - Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29 -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org _______________________________________________ WFS-India mailing list [email protected] Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your account settings. -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org
