Anonymous Targets Australian Gov. Over Censorship In Operation Titstorm

Anonymous has targeted the Australian Government today in a co-ordinated protest raid against Australia’s ban on small breasts and proposed introduction of Internet censorship.
The raid started at 8am AEDT (1pm US PST) and involves denial of service attacks against key government sites, spam, black faxes and prank phone calls.
According to The Age, several sites were taken offline this morning as part of the attacks, including aph.gov.au and the website of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
At the time of writing (noon AEDT), Operation Titstorm remains ongoing, with Anonymous members continuing to target aph.gov.au, although aph.gov.au remains online. According to their live IRC chat, the attack may have started to wane due to a lack of numbers.
While I can never condone illegal activities like this, I remain sympathetic to their overall goal of highlighting the proposed introduction of totalitarian censorship in Australia.
Update at 12:07pm AEDT: aph.gov.au still up, but very slow in loading, at least from Melbourne over an ADSL 2+ connection.
Editors Note to News Corp: the last time I wrote about a raid like this, you published defamatory stories suggesting this site was behind it; so just to be clear here: this is called reporting with some basic fact checking, something your organization is incapable of at the best of times.










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Feb 9, 2010
Good day Mr. Rudd and Mr. Conroy. This message is from your dearest friend: Anonymous.
You see, back in September of the year Two Thousand and Nine AD we launched a “malicious attack” aimed at getting your attention. We did, but it doesn’t seem like the message we wished to convey reached your ears. Regardless, we will repeat it: we do not approve of your internet censorship.
Who is this “we” you may ask and why should you listen to them? Well, we are your friends and family. Your neighbors, your workers, your coworkers. We are every person who you’ve seen on the street and on television. We are everyone, a collective conscious who can see much further than your nearsighted laws based on the ideals of the bureaucrats. And what do we see from your current nearsighted decision? We see a world in a Orwellian nightmare, with the people ignorant of the truth because it is “restricted” from them. Yes, you may feel your country is doing the “right thing” or is too “isolated” for this apocalyptic view to come to pass, but you must realize that every action of every country; person; being on this planet has an effect on the other, and if your laws “work” and are seen as a “good idea” for other countries, they may adopt it; expand upon it; until we may all simply be wishing to live in the “oppression – free society” that will be China.
“But why disrespect us and act like spoiled children when trying to convey such a message?” The answer to that is simple. You didn’t listen to us the first time. And now, you are a threat to us; and a threat to us is a threat to the people of this world, and we cannot allow that. Your laws have been passed, and here begins the protest against the very beginning of what we fear could be the end. You have a chance to make the world a better place; take that chance now. Repeal your Internet Censorship Laws.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out.
Martin Niemöller
Your Dearest Friend,
Anonymous
Feb 9, 2010
And you shall call me Anonymous for I have no name
Feb 9, 2010
eBaums did it
Feb 9, 2010
Senator Xenophon must be celebrating. “Anonymous,” the hate-group behind these attacks is known as his “personal army” on the internet sites where these weirdos hang out. Way to go Xenophon! With your personal PR support, maybe next they can hack into ASIO.
Feb 10, 2010
“Anonymous” publicly threatened the Australian Government not to mess with their access to ILLEGAL content. THEY are the threat to freedom of speech with their insistence that they have a “right” to child pornography. Sorry, I would rather fight for the rights of the children you drool over. Two “Anonymous” hackers, Brian Mettenbrink and Dmitry Guzner have already been sentenced to a year in federal prison in the US for exactly the same type of computer attack the group just launched against the Australian government. What do you say Senator Xenophon? Elizabeth is right — in the past you have endorsed this criminal group.
Feb 14, 2010
I would like to make a bet that this attack was not done by Anonymous but by Scientologists special operations group, trying to deflect the heat from a possible Government enquiry into some very serious laws broken by the church. The only way they could survive this would be to hit Anonymous real hard. I believe they did!