The Anonymous Collective, better known as The Messiah, has hacked into
the ST Online site early yesterday morning. They gave the reason for the
hacking as a reaction to a reporter by the name of Irene Tham for
putting up a misleading article on them. This is what the Anonymous
Collective said.
'Greetings Irene Tham & Straitstimes.com,
I am The Messiah from the Anonymous Collective. We are a decentralized
non-violent resistance movement, which seeks to restore the rule of law
and fight back against the organized criminal class. We oppose any form
of internet censorship among other things.
Allow me to explain our intrusion.
Earlier today upon discovering the existence of a Youtube video of ours
(click here), a straitstimes correspondent by the name of Irene Tham
chose to publicize an article distorting our words and intentions (click
here). She chose to conveniently modify the sentence “war against the
Singapore Government” into “war against Singapore”.
That in our opinion can be very misleading and unfortunately we suspect
that must have been her intentions. Look what she made us do!
Irene Tham, since you had the ignorant nerve of invading our world (the
internet) to speak blasphemous lies, then we took it upon ourselves to
invade your tiny little space to voice our issues over a few matter. We
sincerely hope you wont mind….
'
We can see the switch in the objective from opposing internet censorship
to this reporter. The point here is that the ST reporter is being
accused to misleading the public by changing the words and thus the
content and intent of Anonymous Collective. The AC said that their
actions were targeted at the Singapore govt while the reporter changed
it attacking Singapore. The difference is quite significant.
Did the reporter misinterpret what the AC wrote or was the change
intentional? Did the paper double check to make sure what the reported
was factually correct? I leave this to the readers to make their own
judgment. What follows is that the AC is demanding an apology from the
reporter to the citizens of Singapore within 48 hours, failing which
she has to resign from ST ‘…for trying to mislead them with her hate.’
The AC added, ‘in the event our demands are not met in the next 48
hours, we will place you in our “to do” list and next time you wont be
let off this easy.’
I am not sure what is this ‘to do’ list but it sounds like a KIV until a
next time something like this happens again. What is interesting to
note is that you have a virtual body making threats and warnings of
actions against an institution like the ST and of course the govt of
Singapore. This is the first of its kind to happen. The audacity is
stunning. It is a case of I can hit you but you can’t do anything to me.
Sound familiar?
It is interesting to see how ST reacts to this warning and challenge.
Would ST simply ignore it as something from the wilderness? Or would it
take this threat seriously and Irene Tham would make an apology or be
dismissed? How would this go? Would a virtual body from virtual space
have the clout to do this to an established big organization like the
ST? This is a big change in the nature of things, the natural order of
things.
"It is a case of I can hit you but you can’t do anything to me. Sound familiar? "
ReplyDeleteYou mean like;
I can send you to National Service but you can't do anything to me?
WOW! In a way I'm glad the hackers CLARIFIED their objective.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I don't encourage website destruction, the ST deserved the slap lah for sloppy reporting.
I still can't agree with this act of hacktivism. This is a group of obviously highly motivated, though perhaps slightly disturbed individuals.
I am no fan of Sun Ho, Kong Hee or the CHC. I think religion is made up of the most bat-shit insane ideas ever to emanate from the mind of humankind, but I do not think that gives anyone the right to violate the rights and property of those crazy people who embrace crazy ideas.
No lah. This "Messiah" is no messiah. They are not doing a "social good". They are only making a not-perfect-but-tolerable situation WORSE.
ReplyDeleteShould ST just reject and ignore this threat totally with a bottle of champagne?
"...a virtual body making threats and warnings of actions against an institution like the ST and of course the govt of Singapore."
ReplyDeleteRB
What's the use, Messiah, virtual body, ghost or whatever?
Only a political party which can contest 100% seats in a General Election is a real threat and warning of action to the govt, I mean the PAP govt. Because 60% will respect and vote for it.
If I were PM Lee, I not even scared of ghosts, let alone Messiah.
ReplyDeleteI only really scared when WP Low Thia Khiang announce his party is ready to be govt.
The Battle has begun.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Pee Am Lee is already to senile or stupid to be scared?
ReplyDeleteMaybe he thinks we are all going to "stand up" for Singapore in exchange for peanuts.
Messiah versus the Emperor ? Anyone bet who win ? LOL
ReplyDeletehow the hell one of the world's richest country in the world that spend so much money on security and yet can get hacked ?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 2.06 pm .......
you asked "Messiah versus the Emperor ? Anyone bet who win ?"......
you already provided the answer ......
you said the emperor is very rich but yet kena hacked....
at this stage the score is:
MESSIAH 1 : 0 emperor
cheers.........
Defiance only invites action.
ReplyDeleteResistance is futile.
"at this stage the score is:
ReplyDeleteMESSIAH 1 : 0 emperor"
ou think the emperor can be outsmarted ? Before the hack the emperor already score 1 , why ? because the security cost are borne by taxpayer's money, pay so much and yet and security is still so bad. but emperor still happy because not using his money anyway. Why do you think ST is goverment's mouthpiece ? So now it is drawn.
This 'messiah' got guts. I hope this person or group of persons is operating outside spore.
ReplyDeletebtw, are all the ministers on holidays again? how come no comments from them?
ReplyDeleteMinisters do not response to "noise" and "cowboy country".
ReplyDeleteWaiting for Mr Know All Kee Chiu to say something to show how stupid he is. Or Tan Chuan Jin, the cry baby.
The Annonymous Collective is fighting with the PAP gahmen.
ReplyDeleteThey are not fighting with Singaporeans.
PAP gahmen die is their business.
I die is my business.
If we don't want Annonymous Collective to attack our government websites.
Then we must vote in an Opposition government.
Annonymous Collective is not against our Opposition parties tio bo?
Anonymous is gonna start some fireworks on 5th November, Guy Fawkes Day. PAP can watch from Parliament and enjoy. Hehe.
ReplyDeleteA spokesman for SPH said that it “stands by its reports and reporters” and added “we have filed a police report on the incident, and the police are investigating the matter”.
ReplyDeleteIs this an issue of standing by your reporter or an issue of misreporting? If there is misreporting, is it so wrong or so right not to admit and correct the error, instead refused to apologise?
If there is a wrong committed, still want to protect the wrong?