32 ‘Anonymous’ hackers detained by Turkish police

By on Jun 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Legal June 13, 2011

More than 30 individuals allegedly associated with the hacker group “Anonymous” have been detained by Turkish police according to a report from the Turkish state media on Monday. Police executed raids in 12 separate Turkish cities as part of the operation that resulted in 32 arrests across Turkey. The news follows reports that three men allegedly tied to the group were detained in Spain last week, a move that sparked a statement from an Anonymous spokesperson. “You have not detained three participants of Anonymous. We have no members and we are not a group of any kind. You have, however, detained three civilians expressing themselves,” the group wrote on Saturday in a statement directed at the Spanish government. “You are providing us with the fuel, but now you must expect the fire.” Anonymous, which refers to itself as an “international Internet hactivist collective,” has carried out cyberattacks on numerous high-profile targets including Visa, Amazon and Sony. Anonymous’ full statement can be read below.

Greetings Spanish Government:

We know you have heard of us; We are Anonymous. It has come to our attention that you deemed it necessary to arrest three of our fellow anons, … which you claim to be the leaders of Anonymous and for their participation in DDoS attacks against various websites…

First and foremost, DDoSing is an act of peaceful protest on the Internet. The activity is no different than sitting peacefully in front of a shop denying entry. Just as is the case with traditional forms of protest…

Regardless of how many times you are told, you refuse to understand. There are no leaders of Anonymous. Anonymous is not based on personal distinction…

Arresting somebody for taking part in a DDoS attack is exactly like arresting somebody for attending a peaceful demonstration in their hometown. Anonymous believes this right to peacefully protest is one of the fundamental pillars of any democracy…

You have not detained three participants of Anonymous. We have no members and we are not a group of any kind. You have, however, detained three civilians expressing themselves…

You are providing us with the fuel, but now you must expect the fire.

Awaiting your action,

Anonymous,

We are Legion.
We do not forgive your attacks on freedom.
We do not forget your ignorance.
Expect Revolution.
Expect us.

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  • Anonymous

    For every 1 that’s caught, another 100 go free. 

  • http://twitter.com/homescrub homescrub

    So because you hack sites, its not a crime?  i don’t get their stance.

    • KCRic

      I don’t understand your stupidity. a DDoS attack is not a hack by any definition. If you take a million computers and have them access a server at the same time repeatedly – the server goes down and no more access is granted. That’s the basic definition. Nothing is uploaded or ‘hacked’ you are literally just causing the server to max out it’s processors, use all available disk access time, and use up all the bandwidth on the network. 

      • Anonymous

        They equate it to a peaceful protest, but it could also be compared to a riot.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FN66KDBJIJ4I6ZJVQHLQBUPY3Y Kyd

        While it might not be a hack it is still a form of internet terrorism. Seriously do you defend dictators that kill thousands because they have a different view also? 

        The only difference is that people do not get physically hurt from internet terrorism ….. Wait that is not true. The people who really are civilians in this are the ones who get hurt because the banks cannot get credit out so people cannot get paid by their employers or the servers are all crashed and medical information cannot be passed and now someone dies because they did not get the medicine they needed or their insurance was not approved because of asshats like these guys. 

        Frankly it is better morally and legally if we dealt with people who just shot them in line ups because then we know who to blame. I am just glad there are people out their who hate hackers more then being one so they do what they can to track the garbage down and then they get shipped off where the only massive attacks they are in charge of are those related to them being sold for a pack of smokes. 

      • Daniel Poirier

        the website is not hacked, however in a large amount of the cases multiple computers are used to execute the DDoS attack, and those computers are hijacked.

    • http://www.facebook.com/tortillaman Nicholas Guyadeen

      Not only did they Hack they affected everyone on a Global Scale i hope those ass holes go to Jail for a long time 

  • Anonymous

    At some point I feel like they’re going to turn more harmful. They’re only pissing Anonymous off. 

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FN66KDBJIJ4I6ZJVQHLQBUPY3Y Kyd

      Please they piss the wrong people and companies off and soon all the money in the world will be turned into finding them and getting rid of them

  • Prof. Peabody

    - Why does “Anonymous” always speak like a cheap villain from a bad Spiderman comic?  
    - Are they really all 12 years old or do they just enjoy talking like they are? 

    The fact that they might be from Turkey makes sense because they come across like a bunch of kids who grew up watching too many bad sci-fi movies from the west.

    • Anonymous

      I’d really be careful if I was you. Anonymous doesn’t like having their creed marginalized as a bunch of 12 year old’s messing around on the net for shits and giggles, they’re obviously pissed off for a reason. Maybe it’s best you stopped and thought about why they’re pissed off to begin with.

      • Anonymous

        you and anon can suck a dick

      • Anonymous

        That little honor is reserved for you and your dad

  • Anon1

    This is so dumb.

    Anonymous isn’t any “group”. It’s an idea. People think just because you catch “the hackers” that are apart of anonymous, you’ve won. WRONG.

    That’s like saying, just because the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden that terrorism is over and that their won’t be anymore threats around the world… whatever makes people sleep at night, right?

    Neither Anonymous or terrorism will ever be stopped, you can kill/remove the head of the any/all organizations, but the ideas/ideals will always continue.

    • Dudeguy

      you’re right. we should do nothing & allow people to ruin other people’s lives & property under the guise of “revolution”.

      the only thing here that’s dumb is the idiotic statement that DDoSing is peaceful. So destroying someone’s business by making them unable to sell their product is peaceful? Ok.

      Btw I can still go into a building to buy a product even if someone is sitting out front. If you try to physically stop me from going where I want, that is hardly peaceful.

      • reelfakes

        Amazon, Visa, Sony, and the targets of the DDoSing are nowhere near being destroyed by these actions…trust me, they’re just fine and their bottom line isn’t going anywhere it shouldn’t.  Now Sony’s stock is another issue, but it’s their own fault for not protecting their customer’s data.  It was a proper response to bad business. Because of the white hats you’re safer, at least until this becomes common practice around the world, then you might want to worry.  Not about retaliation, about your security.

        No one’s lives are being ruined but the innocents being black bagged…anyone heard names or ages anywhere?  Anon isn’t attacking you, small business, or your fucking “freedom,” they’re poking the machine and it’s scared a punch is around the corner.  They just ensured their fate.

    • Anon Ymous

      Who took to protesting those scientology sites a couple of years ago, then?

      Wasn’t it some kind of “Organization” in the most literal sense? What’s truly dumb is that on the one hand you scoff at the idea of Anonymous being viewed as a collective while…they are acting like one. A group. An association. A pow-wow or “cult” or whatever.

      And while Anonymous will never be stopped, that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to do anything. Anonymous couldn’t even beat an almost universally reviled and mocked cult scam, which is the poster boy example of pseudo-religious scams. So instead they decide to settle for playing the political David to the Goliath’s of the world?
      Don’t make me laugh. Anonymous is a bunch of kiddies playing at being relevant. There are far too many whitehats to oppose them in cyberspace in order for them to obtain the kind of free reign they’d need to really be a force to be reckoned with.

      At the moment, all Anonymous is is a nameless bunch of ITG’s. I’m reserving my judgement (what little it’s worth) until theyre able to accomplish something.

  • serpentor

    Mark my words… The consequences will never be the same!

    • hio1

      The companies (Sony, Visa, etc) — well, they don goofed.

      They’re about to get back traced by Anon and hopefully LulzSec

  • BackInAction

    “…necessary to arrest three of our fellow anons” vs “You have not detained three participants of Anonymous”

    Which one is it?

    • Anach Sci

       every single person on the internet who posts anonymously anywhere on the internet is an “anon,” whereas, “Anonymous” is not an organization, therefore you can not be a participant in, nor member of, “Anonymous.” “Anonymous” is just random people around the world who are not happy with the conduct of these companies and happen to have begun using the same tag. There are no members, and there are no leaders, but the name “Anonymous” has now become a big deal, and so angry people on the internet will most likely continue using it to try and cause whatever change they decide is necessary. whether it does any good or not, time will tell.

  • http://twitter.com/Ether813_IX Ian Ximinies

    I thought Legion was apart of the Geth and helping Commander Sheppard…

    • Anonymous

      Definitely don’t mess with them then.

  • Anonymous

    I’d let them go.

    No good will come from going after these people. 

    • Anonymous

      pussy

  • Anonymous

    being that you are writing to the Spanish government you probably should have written your letter in I don’t know… Spanish.  

    • http://twitter.com/PaliHustlaOD Odai Jaber

      That just made me lol.

    • http://profiles.google.com/yoshitron Josh N.

      Hmmm, seems to me you read this on an english website… shouldn’t it have been in…. oh wait it is in english.

      • Anonymous

        very astute of you however, the message was not addressed to me, I was not the addressee of the message so it makes no difference if I could read it or not.  Further it is not indicated that this was a translation of the original, which leads me to assume that the original was in English however mean for a Spanish speaking audience, “Greetings Spanish Government” which would suggest that the language of choice was improper as this would be if since I and responding to you on an English speaking site with fro m an English post:

        muy astuto de ustedes sin embargo, el mensaje no iba dirigido a mí, yo no era eldestinatario del mensaje por lo que no hace ninguna diferencia si yo pudiera leerlo ono. Además no se indica que se trataba de una traducción de la original, que me lleva a suponer que el original estaba en Inglés significa, sin embargo para unpúblico de habla española, ”Saludos Gobierno español”, que sugieren que el idioma de su elección fue incorrecta, ya que sería si desde I y responder a usted en un sitio de habla Inglés lado a otro con m un puesto Inglés…

        See how that works out?  

    • Anonymous

      It could have been translated… or oh hey maybe the rest of the people in the world speak multiple languages instead of limiting themselves to only one and would therefore would understand it.

      • Anonymous

        again see below why this argument fails.  As I pointed out before the article does not say it was translated and second, you see how you replied to my message which was in English in English?  Why?  Because your addressee clearly was an English speaker.  So if I were to have done this:

        novamente veja abaixo por que o seu argumento falha. Você vêcomo você respondeu a minha mensagem que estava em Inglês, em Inglês? Por quê? Porque o seu destinatário era claramente umalto-falante Inglês. Então, se eu tivesse feito isso:

        it wouldn’t make sense. If I just decided to write in Portuguese it wouldn’t make sense.  Since they were writing to the Spanish government, it is safe to assume your message would be best received in ummm Spanish.  Its ironic to suggest people who speak English are expanding their horizons and being open minded by speaking English to people who speak Spanish.  Maybe they should have sent the message in Chinese that would have made just as much sense.   

      • Anonymous

        English is a universal language. Portuguese isn’t.

        Have a good day.

      • Anonymous

        @CesarMartinez:disqus  no you are wrong again.  By total number of speakers native or otherwise English is still third   Maybe I should write this like this to the most amount of people can read it… 

        不，你又错了。通过本机或其他发言者总数英语仍是第三，也许我应该这样写这的人可以阅读量最多…

        or this 

        no te equivocas de nuevo. Por número total de hablantes nativos o de otra maneraInglés sigue tercero Tal vez debería escribir esto como éste para la mayor cantidadde gente puede leerlo …

        since Ironically Spanish is actually spoken by more people worldwide than English.   

      • Anonymous

        You are assuming that this article gives you 100% of the information, which is why I said it COULD have been translated. Also, you are reading about this on site that is in English. It would also appear from your post that you ONLY reference this article and not any other articles or even the original source. At this point, as far as I am concerned, it is speculation as to whether or not it was in English or Spanish originally. Either way, English is a common language. Not the most common of course, but considering that England and Spain are quite close on the map and have interacted with each other for a very long time, I think it would be safe to assume that the Spanish government is capable of translating a document from English to Spanish without much difficulty.

      • Anonymous

        Very true that was the assumption.  I am sure perhaps if one were to do a forensic analysis of the situation more facts would come out.  However the original comment/ JOKE as are most comments is predicated on the believe and assumption what was written is true.  The replies however tried to make things something were not. The ” people can speak more than one language” made no sense considering the person was writing in the language they were comfortable with rather than a second language the addressee would be familiar with.  The most people speak English argument is flat wrong because more people actually speak Spanish.  Hence my replies.  

        But as was originally made clear to most I believe it was a JOKE and hence no detailed analysis was made into who the author was and what their original email was and was it grammatically correct or whatever else.  I meant nothing by it and do not mean to stir up any controversy.  Don’t hack me bro.    

  • moot

    A few things, DDoS is not hacking. Second, the group Anonops is calling themselves Anonymous. They’re not.

    In fact, they’re nothing but malicious script kiddies trying to tug on the coattails of Anonymous.

  • Canttouchamazon

    They didnt do shit to Amazon, they tried then gave up hahah

  • http://www.facebook.com/tortillaman Nicholas Guyadeen

    That Picture isn’t weird 

  • Golem_99

    You guys are all missing the point.  Anonymous is not a group.  It has no membership lists, it has barely any direction.  It has, at best, a face and a decent advertising group. 

    Anonymous is a mentality, a philosophy.  Anyone who finds that this philosophy resonates with them is technically a fellow anon.  They believe that information should be free, and that both buisnesses and governments restrict the freedom of the people for their own profit.  They find this morally and socially repulsive, and take action to stop it. 

    Is this the right way of going about spreading their word?  Not at all.  However, in many ways it is working.  Even governments cant just laugh off their claims and ignore the growing outrage of their populations.  The point of Anonymous is not that they can hack people and hide on the internet.  The point is that there are so many tech-savy people out there pissed off about the way they are being treated that it doesnt matter if a few people are arrested.  There are thousands more just like them. 

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FN66KDBJIJ4I6ZJVQHLQBUPY3Y Kyd

      Who cares who has what information? Why do these tech savvy people need to know it? Hell what is this information? So far all they have done is stop legitimate businesses from operating and guess who suffers? The consumers and the employee’s not the business. They just pass the costs down the line. 

      Seriously these 12 year olds need to grow up and realize as this happens more and more that businesses are going to do what they have always done. Go to the government and provide them with billions and guess what happens then? Escalation to the extreme. Your simple DDoS attack now became a federal crime and they start treating you like the terrorist you are. 

      Seriously I cannot wait I will be the first to cheer when some punk gets shot sitting behind his keyboard after they find him because what he reached for looked like a weapon when in fact it was his star wars toys. Maybe once these anonymous people are no longer anonymous we can see what type of resolve they have is any. 

  • Ekoukal

    I love hearing about Anonymous, i love it so much!!!  There is so much that is wrong with this world, my hope is that they become a serious threat and something changes for the good of the people.  GO ANONYMOUS!!!!!

  • Herpderp

    To the people saying DDoSing hurts companies:

    I must be going insane. Are you all seriously that retarded? If you knew anything about servers and websites you would know that those companies, that were made examples of by Anonymous, would in all likeliness host their website on a COMPLETELY SEPARATE SERVER from any other operation they might use computers for. Have you ever heard of a WEB SERVER?? Herr derr you hurt their business practices because you took down their website herp derp!

    So yes…denying people access to a website is very similar to a peaceful protest. No one is being “hurt” besides the consumers trying to access it. The company itself isn’t stopped from conducting business from within. For example, a bank’s web server going down isn’t going to not allow them to update customer database information or pass along money because all that information and data is transmitted on other systems and other servers.

  • Daniel Poirier

    The letter is correct that ddos attack is similar to protest, however most of the participants in this protest are not there by will. Its like slipping sleep drug to 1000 people and laying them infront of a building and calling it a protest.

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