14 DAY TRIAL // Anonymous hackers have announced the start of a campaign against the government of Singapore. Today, they’ve hacked the website of The Straits Times, a major Singapore newspaper.
There are two main reasons for which the hacktivists have set sights on Singapore. One of them is to show the government that it cannot ignore its citizens’ problems without attracting the attention of Anonymous.
The second reason actually represents the hackers’ main objective for this campaign.
“The primary objective of our invasion was to protest the implementation of the internet licensing framework by giving you a sneak peak of the state of your cyberspace if the ridiculous, communistic, oppressive and offensive framework gets implemented,” the hackers said.
“No one has the right to tell an individual what he can or cannot read or write. This is a basic fundamental of democracy and we will use everything in our resources to protect it at all cost,” they added.
“We demand you reconsider the regulations of your framework or we will be forced to go to war with you. For every single time you deprive a citizen his right to information, we will cost you financial loss by aggressive cyber intrusion. An intrusion your $130 million cyber security will not be able to stop.”
One of the main targets of this campaign appears to be the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, an organization under the Ministry of Communications and Technology that’s in charge of the development and growth of the country’s information and communications sector.
The hacktivists also urge their supporters to join their protests scheduled for November 5.
Local authorities are said to be investigating the threats.
As far as the attack on The Straits Times is concerned, the newspaper’s website has been defaced by an Anonymous hacker called Messiah. The site has been targeted because one of its editors ran a piece about the Anonymous operation.
The hacktivists were displeased with the fact that the article in question mentioned “war against Singapore” instead of “war against the Singapore government.”
Here is the video in which Anonymous announces the start of the operation:
