Hackers have hacked and defaced more than 19,000 websites since the Charlie Hebdo attack, according to France’s cyber defence chief.
All this started with “Freedom of Speech”, Charlie Hebdo attack was highly condemned by a higher part of the global population while there were many who supported the attack or at least were against what the Charlie Hebdo published in form of the cartoons.
Hackers have their own way to express themselves
This is 21st century where a cyber war over the cyber space has almost the same importance as that of the war on land.
#OpFrance
https://twitter.com/uicforce/status/554631439501631489
https://twitter.com/attacker_ma/status/556041171223732224
The world call them pro-muslim hackers, named FallaGa Team, AnonGhost, CyberCaliphate or the United Islamic Cyber Force. These so called cyberjehadis has been running a war over the French cyber space from last few days under the banner of #OpFrance
The #OpFrance seems to be very successful for what it was planned for, 19,000+ websites amounts for a major portion of the French cyber space while most of these websites were defaced with Anti Charlie Hebdo messages, few were brought down using DdoS attack.
Oxalide, the web hosting company for Liberation, L’Express, 20 Minutes, France Inter, Mediapart and Marianne Tweeted there was “an attack taking place against our infrastructure” and that it was “affecting the heart of our infrastructure”.
L’incident est toujours en cours… Il touche le coeur de réseau. Les équipes sont en cours d’investigation.
— oxalide (@oxalide) January 16, 2015
Era of CyberWar
This is the era of Cyberwar, where every action on the web gets a opposite reaction and exact response, its not Newtons third law which I am speaking about but it does apply to a larger extent on the human expressions and what we call “war”.
https://twitter.com/OpCharlieHebdo/status/553998219911634944/
#OpCharlieHebdo, The Operation which Anonymous started in response to Charlie Hebdo attack was quick to gain attention but failed to get targets, “what to attack”, very less options and answers for that. Though Anonymous was able to find few major targets including few pro jihadist websites and social media accounts supporting ISIS.
While these were only a few simple reasons which did not let the #OpCharlieHebdo to mark it footprints in the land of success. But a major reason which is hindering #OpCharlieHebdo is Anonymous itself.
Anonymous is a highly decentralized body with very less control over each other. Which means that all Anonymous community members may not be the same page on every issue. Its not necessarily certain that what Anonymous community from United states or France is supporting will have the same value or support in the eyes of Anonymous communities in Saudi Arabia or Palestine.
Does not looks that bad, right, let me make it more clear. Anonymous as a collective, is fighting also against each other. while a larger part supports #OpCharlieHebdo, there also exists a smaller portion from the Anonymous fraternity which supports #OpFrance. Then there exists a third category of Anonymous too, which went neutral over the Charlie Hebdo issue.
A pro Anonymous member said that there are lots of issues to look into this world rather to use Charlie Hebdo attack to use to gain popularity playing with the sympathy card. If we are fighting for “Right to expression”, let them express what they want to.
