Anonymous takes on mexican drug cartel - Page 13

On November 06 2011 00:24 Geo.Rion wrote:
So anonymus announces 2 huge ass operations which stir a lot of attention, then back out? Ok, i guess i just wont read these kind of stuff anymore

On November 05 2011 22:24 Cascade wrote:

According to this article, the Zetas had a condition though: if anonymous ever publish that information, they will go after the guy and his family. So even though they got their guy out, I think Zetas won the game... now they have locked down the anonymous information, since they know the identity of one of them. Maybe it was a bad move from anonymous to tell zetas about one of their guys, because now zetas can blackmail them into anything essentially. What's next? "Anon, give us info about that other clan, or we will kill the sister of your guy!" Also, now anyone can kill (or at least put in very dangerous situation) this guy, and his family, by publishing information about zetas in the name of anonymous... Hmm, maybe anon went a bit outside their field of expertise... :/

Anonymous calls off outing of cartel after release of kidnapped member
By Sean Gallagher | Published about 22 hours ago
Anonymous IberoAmerica, the Latin American collective within the Anonymous hacktivist group, has called off its operation to expose members of the Zetas narcotics cartel after announcing that a kidnapped Anonymous member was released. The released hostage also reportedly delivered a message: that the Zetas would kill ten people for every name of a Zeta associate released by Anonymous.

Anonymous members launched an effort called OpCartel last week after claiming a member had been kidnapped during a "Operation Paperstorm" protest in Veracruz. The group threatened to "dox" members of the cartel, releasing names and addresses of taxi drivers, journalists, and members of law enforcement associated with the group. To collect information to aid in their effort, the group posted a "plug-in" Web application to allow would-be informants to protect their identities while providing names and other information.

Over the past few days, however, there has been growing dissention within the group about going forward with the effort; the Zetas had responded with online efforts of their own, sending death threats through Twitter and other channels, including a claim that they had tracked down the IP address of the user of one Anonymous Twitter account. According to Stratfor Global Intelligence analyst Ben West, the Zetas have their own computer security resources, and could conceivably have made efforts to identify Anonymous members as retribution.

"Since we have seen evidence of cartels employing their own computer scientists to engage in cybercrime," he said in a video report, "it is logical to conclude that the cartels likely have individuals working to track anti-cartel bloggers and hackers. Those individuals involved thus face the risk of abduction, injury and death—judging by how Los Zetas have dealt with threats in the past."

After briefly cancelling the effort on November 2, the Anonymous group apparently voted to move forward with the plan according to a video post by Barrett Brown, who has acted as the public face of Anonymous in the past. But just a day later, the operation was called off again, apparently because Anonymous had met its original goal.

"On this day, our anonymous friend retained by the Zetas cartel has been released," the group said in a statement on its website. "We can say that while bruised, he is alive and well. He has sent us a message that if Anonymous reveals a name related to the cartel, the family of the kidnapped anonymous will suffer, and for each cartel member revealed, ten people will be put to death. The Anonymous collective has decided by consensus not to disclose the information that we have for now, as we understand that we can not ignore threats involving innocent civilians that have nothing to do with our actions."

On November 06 2011 00:44 freewareplayer wrote:

why do you post if your not even interested enough to read about it before posting?

Los Zetas released the Anon Member, they didnt back out, Anonymus got what they wanted.

They just forced a Drug cartel that goverments have trouble with, to meet their demands, "this kind of stuff" is pretty interesting, defiently worth to keep reading that.

Edit:

How can you possibly think Los Zetas are in a good spot with this?
They got 25.000+ Emails stolen by Anonymus, and Anon knows multiple Undercover Zeta Identities. We dont know the number, but it could be anything from 10-100 exposed Zetas.


Zetas Kill the ONE anon dude, then
Email the List to Zetas Rivals, and loads of Zetas will die, far far more than the 1 anon dude

Luckily for Zeta Anon arent ruthless murderers and wouldnt trade 1 friends life for 100 enemys life, Zeta would be dumb as hell if they force the Release on the data by goin for the anon dude.

On November 06 2011 01:43 Geo.Rion wrote:

well they backed out from their operation of exposing Zetas and accomplices, which arguably would have been a move against crime etc, but as it turns out they wanted themselves safe. Ok, Zetas made further threats, so it's reasonable to back out, but still, it's 2 major operation which i was curious (this and facebook) about and neither of them was even started afaik. My point is, i just dont really care anymore about this stuff, will wait till things actually happen, then look into it.

On November 06 2011 01:43 Geo.Rion wrote:

well they backed out from their operation of exposing Zetas and accomplices, which arguably would have been a move against crime etc, but as it turns out they wanted themselves safe. Ok, Zetas made further threats, so it's reasonable to back out, but still, it's 2 major operation which i was curious (this and facebook) about and neither of them was even started afaik. My point is, i just dont really care anymore about this stuff, will wait till things actually happen, then look into it.

On November 06 2011 02:41 Paperplane wrote:


The facebook one was confirmed fake a long time ago.

On November 14 2011 14:38 Mjolnir wrote:

What I want to know is, how on Earth did Anonymous find this supposed info on the cartel's "undercover" agents? Do the big-wigs in the drug world have all kinds of info haphazardly stored on non-secure drives or something ridiculous?

I kinda figured that sort of info would be very low key, even for the people keeping track of it (and by low key I mean, not only heavily guarded, but not documented in any incriminating fashion).

On November 14 2011 15:03 TheBomb wrote:
Hold and behold nothing happened just as I told you.