If you want to make sure everyone turns up at an event, outlaw it.
Now, the government has done it – they have declared Bersih an unlawful organisation and the rally an illegal one. By doing that, they have ensured that the crazies are all going to turn up. Forbidden fruit always tastes sweeter and all that.
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet.” — Tom Robbins.
Our government needs new advisors. Hisham is committing career suicide by doing this. It will come back and bite him in the ass in the future. The government should join in the “love”.
As our Malaysian government begins to renege on the MSC Bill of Guarantees and starts to censor block access to more websites, it is important to understand that there are ways to work around this for now.
The MCMC will illegally typically request that an ISP block access to a website and the ISP will normally comply by blocking the website on their own DNS cache. For example, TMNET has blocked TPB and any DNS request to them will return an error.
The DNS system is a way to convert a human legible address e.g. “thepiratebay.org” to a machine address e.g. 194.71.107.15.
The simplest way to work around this is to tell your PC to use a different DNS provider, such as Google’s Public DNS service. The instructions on how to do this is provided by Google.
This will work until our ISP blocks all external DNS access, which they can technically do. However, that would have very strong repercussions on the whole issue of censorship. That said, it is still possible to work around that even if they do block DNS services.
An article in TheStar today reported that, “The July 9 rally organisers will be held responsible if the rally causes chaos in the country, warned Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Sunday.”
I think that it is unfair to do so. It is the job of the police to ensure that things remain peaceful. If there is any party that should be blamed for any chaos, it’s the police.
Our local police should learn from some of their foreign partners on how to facilitate rallies so that they do not disrupt traffic and business too much.
Furthermore, if there is any party that is going to cause chaos in the country, it is likely to be the PERKASA group, whom have been very vocal with their intentions.
Like the adage goes, if you cannot beat them, join them. It would have been an unexpected move if our local police grow up from being bogeymen and became facilitators instead.
The article goes on further to quote our PM as saying that, “We do not want to win elections based on manipulation. We want to win because the rakyat supports and trusts us.”
That’s rich, coming from the person who engineered the defection of several state assemblymen and grabbed power in a state, expressedly against the results of the elections.
Now, this is an interesting development. The guys at LulzSec has declared war on any government or agency that crosses their path. From the ‘press release’, “If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood.”
What makes it more interesting is that, “we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships.”
That makes things much more interesting. LulzSec has been recently targeting and attacking a bunch of sites, breaking in and getting a lot of private information – including a ton of passwords to porn sites.
They have declared that, “Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments.”
This puts a whole new twist to the Jul 4th 1337 hour attack of OpMalaysia. I do not know how the second wave of attacks would pan out but I have the feeling that it should be more interesting than the first volley. I wish all those people working on the defensive lines – bonne chance, mes amis!
(I wonder if I know anyone behind the defensive lines…)
I just read an article in FMT that mentioned a second thread from Anonymous to take down the PMO website on July 4th at 1337 hours. It’s not 1.37pm, it is 1337 hours, dear reporters.
I watched through the video above a noticed a small Freudian slip. I was fairly impressed by the well written monologue, which is the reason why the slip caught my attention immediately – it stuck out like a sore thumb – “And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?”
Notice it? If not, watch the video a few more times.
For the moment, I don’t think that this particular bunch of Anonymous hackers have been doing much harm. Taking down a government website is probably a fun exercise for both sides. It is not something that requires much sophistication, which is the reason why I am not quite sure that it is Anonymous doing it.
The other Anonymous attacks seem to exhibit far more sophistication. That said, since they are so loosely organised, they probably have very different sets of volunteers involved in it. While I do not advocate armed response, I can appreciate these things enough to be excited to see the results of what they can do.
I am still trying to discern the motive behind these attacks. While I have correctly identified the reason for it, I have yet to divine their true motives. Personally, I think that these hackers are going after the wrong target.
Anyway, the guys who are running the PMO website have a sense of humour – they advertise their server as an Atari/2600!
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