Anonymous, an Internet Gathering, who have stood up for Wikileaks, have issued a Press Release in which they have made clarifications, shared the reasons that made them do what they are doing and much more. If Paypal, Amazon and other affected sites are reading this, then I would recommend them to go through the entire Press Release.

Operation Payback

The one thing that stands out in the PR is the media’s misinterpretation of Anonymous as a group of hackers which has been clarified:

Anonymous  is  not  a  group  of  hackers.  We  are  average  Internet  Citizens  ourselves  and  our motivation is a collective sense of being fed up with all the minor and major injustices we witness every day.

Paypal, Visa and MasterCard owners will be happy to know that the group doesn’t intend to steal your all important credit numbers or personal information for that matter:

We do not want to steal your personal information or credit card numbers. We also do not seek to
attack critical infrastructure of companies such as Mastercard, Visa, PayPal or Amazon. Our current
goal is to raise awareness about WikiLeaks and the underhanded methods employed by the above
companies to impair WikiLeaks’ ability to function.

After reading the PR, one thing is for sure, they know what they are doing, know what their limits are and most important of all are mindful of not hurting the general audience. Add this to their recent disclosure of having no plans of attacking media sites such as Wikileaks and the Internet Gathering doesn’t look that bad does it?

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