Anonymous On a Warpath With Zetas Drug Cartel After Kidnapping Of Group Member

[lefty]

After successfully taking out a child porn ring, Anonymous is threatening war on November 5th with Mexico's Zetas drug cartel, after the kidnapping of an Anonymous member from Veracruz.

The video states that if the Mexican drug cartel doesn't free the kidnapped Anonymous member unharmed, the hacking group will release the names, addresses and photos of taxi drivers, journalists and police officers on the payroll of the criminal gang. The video ends with an ultimatum that simply states that they "will always remember this coming November 5th".



:hat


Video of the message: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/31/world/americas/mexico-anonymous-threat/?hpt=wo_c2

[Monostradamus]

this is pretty badass imho

[Drachen]

yeah, I read about this yesterday. SUPER NERDS UNITE!

[Monostradamus]

:lol apparently the Anonymous members in Mexico want nothing to do with this. I guess having your intestines pulled out through your asshole isn't something they're interested in.

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/10/31/mexico-fear-uncertainty-and-doubt-over-anonymous-opcartel/

It would be fucking awesome if they did shit on a huge powerful cartel tho.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I think a machete is mightier than the keyboard.

[Halberto]

they've been making some big claims lately... Fox News, Facebook and now this. I'll believe it when I see it.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

:lol these nerds are biting off more than they can chew

[4>0rings]

:lol these nerds are biting off more than they can chew
2 thing you don't do in life. Don't mess with drug cartel members, don't mess with hacker nerds.

This is going to be a calculated shitbomb of epic proportion. Let's see if Anony. has the balls.

[ALVAREZ6]

oh shit son....I hope something crazy ensues. I cannot wait. This is awesome.

[Fabbs]

bottom line it is legit or not?

Go Anonymous!!!

[BlackSwordsMan]

Motherfucker is dead already

[Fabbs]

False retaliation from the drug cowards is a potential problem.

Example. Lets say Anon does publish all the cartel supporters on Nov 5th. From then on will a witch hunt by the Zetas ensue? Of course it will. Ie "I saw Pedro at his computer 3 days in a row. He must be an Anonymous member" Bullet holes for Pedro.

[NASpurs]

I guess having your intestines pulled out through your asshole isn't something they're interested in.

:lol

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/02/anonymous-zetas-hacking-climbdown?newsfeed=true

Anonymous retreats from Mexico drug cartel confrontation



Plans by the hacker collective Anonymous (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/anonymous) to expose collaborators with Mexico (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/mexico)'s bloody Zetas drug cartel – a project it dubbed "#OpCartel" – have fallen into disarray, with some retreating from the idea of confronting the killers while others say that the kidnap of an Anonymous hacker, the incident meant to have spawned the scheme, never happened.


The apparent climbdown by the group came as one security company, Stratfor, claimed that the cartel was hiring its own security experts to track the hackers down (http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20111101-dispatch-implications-online-tactics-against-mexican-cartels) – which could have resulted in "abduction, injury and death" for anyone it traced.

[Sisk]

Is this the same group that is shutting down Facebook?

[CubanSucks]

lmao soooo hardcore

so what have these web badasses ever accomplished?

[LnGrrrR]

The apparent climbdown by the group came as one security company, Stratfor, claimed that the cartel was hiring its own security experts to track the hackers down (http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20111101-dispatch-implications-online-tactics-against-mexican-cartels) – which could have resulted in "abduction, injury and death" for anyone it traced.


Fucking crazy.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I think a machete is mightier than the keyboard.

[lefty]

:lol Anonymous unmasked ? ????? :wow

http://media.talkingpointsmemo.com/slideshow/anonymous-mugshots-unmasked/1-213609

[boutons_deux]

Legalize marijuana

[pawe]

LOL that guy is shitting bricks right now.

[lefty]

Holy crap, more Anonymous members

http://www.it-networks.org/2011/09/09/anonymous-unmasked-mugshot-edition/


Anonymous Unmasked – Mugshot Edition

Published by Alex (http://www.it-networks.org/author/Alex/) on September 9, 2011 | 4 Comments (http://www.it-networks.org/2011/09/09/anonymous-unmasked-mugshot-edition/#comments)
Federal authorities in July arrested 16 alleged ‘hackivists’ they said were involved with the group Anonymous. Most of the defendants were accused of launching an attack on PayPal for disabling Wikileaks’ account. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, we are able to get there pictures.

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Here’s Keith Wilson Downey, 26.


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Mercedes Renee Haefer, 20, is a Sony cashier who listens to My Chemical Romance and majors in social sciences.

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Donald Husband, 29, aka “Ananon.”

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Tracy Ann Valenzuela, 42.


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Christopher Quang Vo, 22


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Scott Matthew Arciszewski, 21, is a Sears sales associate who took his website offline because his “parents don’t need the harassment.” He “allegedly accessed without authorization the Tampa Bay InfraGard website and uploaded three files.”

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Daniel Sullivan, 22.

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Jeffrey Puglisi, 28, aka “Jeffer,” “Jefferp” and “Ji.”


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Vincent Charles Kershaw, 27, aka “Trivette,” “Triv” and “Reaper,” is a landscaper.


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Drew Alan Phillips, 26, aka “Drew010,” is an avid online gamer and frequent coding message board commenter.


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James C. Murphy, 36, was arrested in Washington, D.C.

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Ethan Miles, 33.


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Christopher Wayne Cooper, 23, aka “Anthrophobic.”


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Joshua John Covelli, 26, aka “Absolem” and “Toxic.”

[pawe]

Well, at least we know who works for the drug cartels now.

[CubanSucks]

:lmao would've been a cool story for a movie, but this ain't the movies


they remind me of the Jomfru brothers from Metalocalypse

http://images.wikia.com/metalocalypse/images/6/6b/Frubrothers-thumb.jpg

[Sisk]

They look exactly how you'd imagine them.

[TimDunkem]

The kidnapped member was freed, but the Zetas have said they will kill one of his family members for each associate exposed.


Members of the hackers group 'Anonymous' have called off a cyber attack against a Mexican drug cartel after one of their kidnapped members was reportedly freed.

The group released a statement released on their Twitter Account @IberoAnon on Thursday night.

Earlier this week, members of Anonymous alleged the Zetas drug cartel had kidnapped one of their members in Veracruz.

The hackers group vowed to unmask allies of the Zetas on Saturday, November 5th unless their kidnapped member had been freed by that time.

In the statement released on Thursday, the group reported that kidnapped Anonymous member had indeed been freed.

Freed, But Threatened

Although their member had been freed, the group reported that their member had been asked to deliver a message.

The liberated member of the group was told that one member of his/her family would be killed for each and every Zetas ally that the group unmasks.

The Ibero-wing of Anonymous had set up a channel of communication on the #OpCartel hashtag on Twitter.

The group defended its decision to call off the attack in a series of messages posted to Twitter early Friday morning.

"For those who call us cowards, they're acting brave because it's not their family who's been threatened," the group wrote in Spanish. "I hope they never have to make a decision like that."

Defending Criticism

The group said continuing "Operation Cartel" would have condemned innocent people to death.

"If this doesn't hurt you, then you're the same as the Zetas," the group wrote in Spanish.

The group had had received criticism on Twitter but insisted the decision was made for the right reasons.

"Those that insist on #OpCartel aren't doing so out of a desire for change, they're doing it for simply being morbid," the group said in Spanish. "We're asking for respect for our freed member."

The group's last statement was issued around 1:18 a.m. Friday.

"Those who call us accomplices of the Zetas and cowards show their lack of interest for the lives of others their sick egoism," the group wrote in Spanish.

Cartel Threat

Anonymous reported that the Zetas had posted a message to the Twitter account @pinkie1995 to threaten members of the hackers group earlier in the day on Thursday.

A message on the account, which used the name of supreme Zetas leader Heriberto Lazcano, vowed to track down members of the group using their IP address.

Anonymous responded by replying on their Twitter account that their cybersecurity was too sophisticated for the Zetas.

According to a message on the @pinkie1995 Twitter account, the cartel responded, "For us, nothing is impossible." :wow

http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=682578

[belindaB]

Mexico's drug war has been recognized by kidnappings and slayings on both sides of the U.S. border. Los Zetas drug cartel has done a lot more than its share, but now they have stepped on a cyber-landmine, reports the Houston Chronicle. Zetas kidnapped an associate of Anonymous, a notorious hacktivist group. Now Anonymous is preparing to fire back with a salvo of information Zetas' opponents can use against them. Anonymous threatens cyber-attack against Zetas drug cartel (http://www.newsytype.com/13248-anonymous-threatens-los-zetas/). In this viral world, it shows how much damage can be done with one statement on the Web. I think, the fear of violent reprisal is needed. I'm sure they also have enough money to do the same thing back to them, online war and stop this.

[Fabbs]

This is getting very interesting....
excerpt:

Anonymous wins victory in drug cartel fight

"As many have heard, the individual who was kidnapped was indeed identified by Zetas, which changes things. More later," he tweeted. "I will not be releasing Zeta names from those e-mails, but will be going after other cartels with help from informants," adding in another tweet that the emails "are going to [the German newsmagazine] Der Spiegel."

"Meanwhile, those who have been in possession of the emails have promised to provide them to me alone, which is to say that everything that proceeds from now on is my own work, and not that of Anonymous," Brown, an American citizen residing in Dallas, said. "Any reprisals against anyone other than myself, then, will have no effect."

"I will be proceeding carefully and with the assistance of several parties who are equipped to assess the contents of these e-mails and particularly those portions dealing with Zeta collaborators. I'll announce the next step in a few days," Brown said.

The effort to unmask the Zetas, one of the most feared and ruthless of Mexico's drug cartels, had split the Anonymous movement in the Americas, with many members arguing in Internet chat rooms that the risk of horrible death was too great to proceed. A budding domestic effort among Mexican Internet users to expose the cartels was crushed this summer when the mutilated bodies of two bloggers were found hanging from a highway overpass, and a third was found decapitated in a park.

On Pastebin, Brown acknowledged the risk to his own life, but argued he had no choice.

"The idea that I should refrain from assisting in the naming of probable criminals operating in a foreign country without a working judicial system lest I be murdered is a cowardly sentiment," he said. "No individual living in the free world should refrain from working to fight injustice simply because there is a possibility of retaliation."

[hater]

"Que trais puñeta"

http://shotgunkorea.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/seagal.jpg