The article I chose was Criticism Mounts against Anti-Nazi Website. This website is led by a right wing group known as anonymous which has been siring up not just problems in Germany but also in the United States. Anonymous is a group of hackers who will hack into a website and then post private information from the hacked site onto their leak website. This group was originally just in Germany but it has gained support and other groups have formed worldwide. While this group has caused problems for Germany recently when the United States based company PayPal refused to transport donations to this group they had crashed the server and made them unable to operate for a few hours. This is just one incident of how this problem is affecting both the United States and Germany. This just shows how far people will go to get rid of a great negative that affected the German past and culture.
I chose this article for many reason one reason I chose this article is because I was interested about what it was about. With the title Criticism mounts against anti-Nazi website I didn’t know what to expect. But after I read the article I realized that the title was not as appropriate as perhaps the Risk of the Hacker Group Anonymous. This article was more so about the hacker group known as Anonymous then the anti-nazi website. I did find this article interesting to read and informative due to the fact that this small extremist group had managed to crash huge businesses such as PayPal with little effort and render it off line for a few hours. Or how the group managed to hack into Visa the credit card company getting peoples account numbers which is a crime. I personally feel that authorities should hunt this group down and put an end to them because this is dangerous to have a group that can get any information from any agency or business. What is to stop these people from getting military secrets and selling them endangering many lives? Until they are stopped no one is safe from this radical group.
Source:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,808022,00.html
Do you think hackers are always wrong? Or can they be justified at times? In this instance, the group is seeking to publicize who is giving money to the Neo-Nazis or the Scientologists (viewed as a cult in Germany with the status of "church"). Cyber crimes and misuse of data is a problem we share with Germany for sure.
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