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On Sunday, hackers launched an attack against Bay Area Rapid Transit's (BART) website. The hacktivist group, "Anonymous", took control of mybart.org for approximately six hours, defacing their website and publishing the real names, emails, phone numbers, account names and passwords of 2,400 users. Interestingly, bart.gov itself was left untouched, however a few other municipal websites such as californiaavoid.org were not so lucky.
Sunday's "Operation: BART" cyber attack was prompted by BART's controversial decision to black-out cellular service along their transit lines, an act intended to prevent an anticipated protest from materializing last Thursday. The protest itself was a response against a recent BART police shooting. The public transit organization did not jam the towers but actually had them disabled, technically remaining compliant with FCC regulations, however the move left Anonymous members outraged, comparing the scenario to recent Midd
Anonymous also critized the organization's security. Hackers found user account information unencrypted, stored as unhashed plain text with little between the database and the web.
Since the original protest plans were foiled due to the cellular black-out, the group is helping to organize a new one. Anonymous is appealing to the public, including individuals who had their accounts publicly revealed, to join them on Monday around 5:00pm at the Civic Center station in San Francisco.
They kindly note to "bring your mask" to the event. Somewhat ominously, Anonymous also tweeted, "Have a feeling that at tomorrows protest the police radios may get the #BART treatment: #Jammed #rfjam #JS #OpBART".
As if that were not enough, Anonymous has also asked the public to participate in what is billed as a "Black fax and E-Mail Bomb". Supporters are to fax and email BART employees until they "explode their inboxes". The hacktivist group has also conveniently provided the email addresses of every staff member, including the janitor.
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janitor = smells like teen spirit , word...
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Spamming the Janitor makes it less likely that any serious messages from people within the building will be read and responded to, thus delaying any necessary maintenance and creating a more difficult workplace for the other employees.
Meanwhile the Janitor will probably just stick to his normal rounds.
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People, why all the hate towards Anon? Did any of you even bother looking up what the original protest was about? I hope so. If not, take 5 seconds and google it. Right now. What that BART officer did was unbelievably atrocious; of course people were going to protest! Protesters wanted to organize to express their outrage at the murder that was committed by a BART officer, in broad daylight, even caught on film! Oh, did you forget that there was a point to this protest? Did you forget that an innocent man was shot in the back while lying unarmed on the ground? Anon didn't forget. The reason for the hacking attack wasn't to just attack other innocent people like the janitor that everyone here keeps crying about. Hacking their website wasn't about getting innocent people's information, it was about getting the message out that the people at BART support the bastard that killed an innocent man, and that they are not okay with it. When BART made the decision to black out the cell phone towers to prevent a rightful protest, Anon stepped up and fought technology with technology. Because of these guys, more people are going to demand justice for the wrongful killing of Oscar Grant. Anyone who thinks Anon is just a bunch of childish computer geeks can go phuck themselves.
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Anon is a bunch of non-hacking retards. They target low hanging fruit and for some reason keep getting attention. Once enough of the b tards go to jail they will stop. History keeps repeating itself with these wanna be hacker groups.
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I really don't see the hubbub. I mean, I guess it kind of sucks to be that janitor, but posting his thing was just some kind of show of how deep they got it. It's like "All that and the kitchen sink." And other than a few annoying emails, the Janitor and similar completely innocent bystanders will probably make it out okay.
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My question is, are these people so inept that they are unable to protest without a cell phone?
Wow. I bet they'll shrivel up and die before they make it to the 'big house', probably within hours of having their psp's/iphones/whatever electronics confiscated. Poor Jethro and Bubba ain't gonna get to pack no fudge!
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