Hackers protest torrent ban, take down SC, Congress sites

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MUMBAI: Online hacker group Anonymous targeted websites of the Supreme Court of India and the All India Congress Committee on Thursday to protest Internet censorship.
Anonymous launched Operation India with a tweet that said, "Namaste #India, your time has come to trash the current government and install a new one. Good luck."
A YouTube video uploaded on May 15 by user Sen0nymous, titled 'Operation India Engaged', issued a call to action for fellow hackers. The video stated, "It has been known that the Government of India and its ministers are committing aristocracy. The idea of democracy remains an idea only."
"We were and are watching closely all activities of the Government and its ministers. Many ministers were and are charged with severe cases of corruption. They do not care. They do not care for the injustice happening. They do not care for the freedom being snatched."
"The Government has been covering up its activities and hiding the facts from its citizens. It has imposed the IT Act which allows it to censor the internet as it seems fit. None other than the Department of Telecommunications needs to be blamed. One cannot block on purview of security concerns."
On Thursday afternoon, the websites of the Supreme Court (supremecourtofindia.nic.in) and the All India Congress Committee (aicc.org.in) were attacked and taken down. The Supreme Court's portal was back after a few hours, but the hackers said AICC will remain down the whole day.
The Twitter account for Operation India, @opindia_revenge, claimed it had also targeted the website of the Department of Telecommunications (dot.gov.in), but it was quickly back.
Similarly, Sen0nymous reported that the Delhi government's portal (delhi.gov.in) had been targeted , but it was back soon after.
The attacks come after the government asked Internet Service Providers to block websites such as The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing site, as well as video-sharing service Vimeo among others.
Anonymous is a disbanded group of unknown hackers spread across the globe. The international 'hacktivist' group has previously attacked the US Department of Justice, US Copyrights Office, Sony Playstation Network, FBI and Egyptian government websites, among others.
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On a day the government said in the Rajya Sabha it would build consensus on rules for controlling internet content, an international hacking group reportedly breached the websites of the ruling Congress and the Supreme Court of India.

The Delhi Bar Council also claimed that its website was defaced by unidentified hackers. Hacker group Anonymous is believed to have attacked the websites in response to the Centre blocking torrent portal Pirate Bay and video-sharing Vimeo. The group is said to have launched “MT Operation India” to protest the government's censorship plan. While both the Congress and SC admitted their sites (supremecourtofindia.nic.in and aicc.org.in) were down for sometime, they denied the sites were hacked.

“The site is not hacked at all. It was not opening for sometime because the load on the particular server was too heavy due to huge number of hits after the news of website hacking spread. It went slow at that time due to over-traffic,” Congress party's computer department chief Vishwajeet Prithvijeet Singh said.

Anonymous Central had earlier tweeted, "Namaste #India, your time has come to trash the current government and install a new one. Good luck."

The latest attack is one among many in recent times. Hackers had broken into Congress websites last December and defaced party chief Sonia Gandhi's profile page with objectionable material. The cyber attack coincided with Gandhi's 65th birthday.
That attack came just days after telecom minister Kapil Sibal asked social media networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to remove offensive material from their websites.
In June 2010, classified data from an army major’s computer was found to have been transferred to a Pakistani ISI operative. Two senior Indian diplomats found their email accounts were hacked in Beijing last year.
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I think the JD order was procured in Chennai, in advance of some movie release starring Dhanush. Our judiciary, seriously does not know what they sign on, quite obvious how the convincing is done. High time they understood the net, and what it stands for.
 
Include the ministers in the Net Illiteracy bandwagon as well. Just cuz they have free laptops doesnt means they got the sense regarding how the internet works.
We srsly need educated and mentally active people in positions like these.
 
Its about time they realise that banning such sites is not the answer. If you want to stop piracy ensure that there is no one recording at the theatre. Also make the DVD and blue ray discs cheap and get them out within a month or two.
Tbh, I dunno who watches cam rips. Except maybe those who want to know whether the movie is worth the amt
 
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