So you may or may not have heard of the Anti-Sec movement. Most people will be familar due to their hack on ImageShack recently.
Their Manifesto from the image is as follows:
Anti-sec. We’re a movement dedicated to the eradication of
full-disclosure. We wanted to give everyone an image of what we’re
all about.Full-disclosure is the disclosure of exploits publicly – anywhere.
The security industry uses full-disclosure to profit and develop
scare-tactics to convince people into buying their firewalls,
anti-virus software, and auditing services.Meanwhile, script kiddies copy and paste these exploits and compile
them, ready to strike any and all vulnerable servers they can get
a hold of. If whitehats were truly about security this stuff would not be
published, not even exploits with silly edits to make them slightly
unusable.As an added bonus, if publication wasn’t enough, these exploits are
mirrored and distributed widely across the Internet with a nice
little advertisement embedded in them for the crew or website which first exposed the vulnerability to the public.It’s about money. While the world is difficult to change, and
money will certainly continue to be a very important in the eyes of many, our battle is that of the removal of full-disclosure for the purpose of making it harder for the security industry to exploit its
consequences.It is our goal that, through mayhem and the destruction of all
exploitive and detrimental communities, companies, and individuals,
full-disclosure will be abandoned and the security industry will be
forced to reform.How do we plan to achieve this? Through the full and unrelenting,
unmerciful elimination of all supporters of full-disclosure and the security industry in its present form. If you own a security blog, an exploit publication website or you distribute any exploits…“you are a target and you will be rm’d. Only a matter of time.”
This isn’t like before. This time everyone and everything is
getting owned.Signed: The Anti-sec Movement
“No images were harmed in the making of this… image.”
Now I am all for people being able to speak their mind, and thats fine. The thing that I find a contradiction is that they are hacking sites to spread the word. Isnt this the pot calling the kettle black?
Sure this movement will be interesting to follow.
