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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-09-11 11:59 PM
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Anonymous hits Monsanto PR Firm...
seems that Monsanto may be having a rough week. Not only was the company hit by a press release declaring them the worst company of 2011, but a group of Anonymous hackers claim to have actually completely disrupted the operations of a PR firm which manages Monsanto’s own PR. The hackers infiltrated the PR firm, known as The Biving Group, due to “15+years of running marketing campaigns and helping some of the most corrupt corporations on the planet, as well as several governmental agencies, cover up their dirt.”

The hackers claimed to have succeeded in bringing down The Bivings Group on December 5th . Going by information released by Anonymous, Bivings Group shut down all of their servers and liquidated their assets after the infiltration, while former employees moved on to start ‘The Brick Factory’, a new PR firm. The hackers actions are obviously driven by the PR firm’s decision to help run marketing campaigns and for corrupt corporations like Monsanto.

One week after the hackers infiltrated their system, The Bivings Group reportedly stated:

“Our Cyber Infrastructure has recently been put under attack. We are evaluating the extent of the intrusion, and apologise for any downtime and issues this may cause you. It is not yet determined what the motives behind the attack are, or what, if any data has been compromised. We will continue to keep you up to date, and sicerely apologise for any inconvenience.”

Are the hackers in the right to take down a firm which helps corrupt corporations, even t

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Modern_Matthew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-11 12:04 AM
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1. Anonymous is the Dept. of Justice we've never had. nt
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-11 12:44 AM
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5. +1 nt
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pauldg0 Donating Member (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-11 12:53 AM
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6. Zorro and Robin Hood...
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-11 12:06 AM
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2. K&R.
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-11 12:20 AM
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3. You betcha they're right
there are no more rules.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-11 12:44 AM
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4. And I thought I couldn't love Anonymous anymore than I already do --
Monsanto is, to my mind, one of the most EVIL of all entities. Go get em, Anon! Show no mercy!

:headbang:
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Kalidurga Donating Member (627 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-11 01:03 AM
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7. Now if they could...
take down Monsanto that would definitely be a public service.
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starroute Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-11 01:58 AM
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8. Entire staff list of Monsanto, all their emails, home-addresses, and phone numbers.
According to the Anonymous Facebook page, that's what can be found at https://pastee.org/nf6c5

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arikara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-19-11 11:48 PM
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10. Interesting, but I don't think its their staff list
Some sort of a contact list, there are people from the Canadian Gov't, seed people, tech people.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-11 10:22 AM
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9. I declare the class war OPEN
and it's more than a civil war, more than TPTB ever bargained for.
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