Hacker group “Anonymous” has brought down the websites of the Indian Supreme Court and the Congress party. The so called “Operation India” is in response to Internet censorship in India.
The hacktivists have taken down http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in and http://aicc.org.in and intends to take down the website of Department of Telecommunication (http://dot.gov.in) and of the Chennai-based Copyright Labs (http://www.copyrightlabs.in) which had issued the John Doe order to various ISPs to block Vimeo, DailyMotion and all major torrent sites in the country to prevent the piracy of their tamil films Dammu and 3.
Here is the message by Anonymous hackers which was posted on the hacked websites:
Hello, Citizens of India and the world.We are anonymous.The Department Of Telecom has ordered all Internet Service providers in India to block access to all file sharing websites, legal or illegal.We cannot let any censorship happen.
This is just like what the high court in the UK have done, ordering to block all access to ThePirateBay.We will not let this go.We are anonymous.
We are legion.
United as one.
Divided by zero.
Ideas are bulletproof.
Expect revolution, Expect us!Operation India, Engaged.IRC: webchat.anonops.com
CHANNEL: #opIndia