Daily 2012, Issue5

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Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media, Bangalore

November 30,2012

Hackers target Kapil Sibal

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Science event held at Jawaharlal Nehru Planetorium Hackers from Anonymous have been launching attacks against government website since early last year. By Rohan .P & Romana D’Souza

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Garbage burnt inside Majestic Health Center premises

A group of global internet activists hacked into and defaced the webpage of the Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal today. The hackers attacked Mr. Sibal’s personal website and stated: “He (Mr. Sibal) thought he could mess with the internet and let the elite of his party suppress the freedom of speech.” The group responsible, Anonymous, claims the hack was carried out in retaliation to the Minister’s efforts to limit internet freedom across India. In the "About Kapil Sibal" section of the minister’s website, activists wrote: “Kapil Sibal is the world’s biggest retard born with a below 60 IQ he thought he could mess with the Internet and let the elite of his party suppress freedom of speech.” They also mocked up a popular game show screen grab and ridiculed Sibal on his own site.

When the minister’s press secretary, Sunil Sharma, was asked about the hack, he said: “When did this happen? We don't know about this. Maybe you should call the IT department.” Anonymous said that it was retaliating against section 66A of the Indian IT Act, which was used to arrest two girls from Maharashtra, for posting comments against Bal Thaceray on Facebook recently. The group claims that the government’s recent action to modify the law enables it to censor dissidents. As part of OpIndia, Anonymous hackers also attacked the website of the government of Mizoram, in support of the Free Software Movement of India’s protest. The website now has a message spread across its page stating: “The time to sit silently is gone. Call your friends and get them to protest.”The hack coincided with protests which have been

planned at Bangalore in Karnataka, Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh and Chennai in Tamil Nadu, against Section 66A of the Indian Penal Code. A member of the group involved in the operation, said: “We are always in their servers. They are not able to get our shells out of their servers, and yet they are trying to govern the IT Laws of country.” Mr. Kapil Sibal’s website had been defaced for over 16 hours before being taken down by the authorities, while the website of the government of Mizoram, with Anonymous’ call to action still plastered across the homepage, is still online. According to Anonymous group members, they decided to take down the websites as the government was trying to use the laws against the citizens of the country, in order to silence them, and stifle dissent. The group launched attacks on several Israeli government websites in what it said was a response to Israeli aggression against Gaza.

@cmtripathi

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Yeddyurappa resigns from BJP; to launch new party Page 6

BESCOM officials’ apathy causes frequent power outages

By Sneha Banerjee B S Yeddyurappa filed his resignation at Vidhan Soudha putting to rest speculation that it was all just a publicity stunt. BR Patil, Congress MLA and former Deputy Chairman of Legislative Council, Jabbar Khan Hunalli, former Congress minister and M D Lakshminarayan, member of Janata Dal also submitted their

resignation and have decided to join the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP). Addressing a gathering at Freedom Park this morning, Yeddyurappa declared that his new party, the KJP will be a secular party. He said: “I am going to remove all discrepancies made on the basis of caste and community in the state as I have complete support from all the

minority communities.” Explaining the reasons for his early resignation, he said: “Someone’s play inside the party has forced me to resign. I was and always would remain an innocent leader.” He also brushed aside every allegation made against him and said that the opposition did not have to work so hard in proving him guilty and could have directly asked for his

seat.Yeddyurappa had immense faith in public support and was confident that he would have lakhs of people to support him. Yeddyurappa claimed that during his leadership Karnataka remained in the forefront in every sector. He claimed to be responsible for the development of the Value Added Industry in Karnataka.

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