Server Rental: Turkish ‘Anonymous’ Hackers Arrested

The hacker group Anonymous is at a crossroads, when 32 of their members have just been arrested by Turkish Police after an attack on the government website. For anyone contemplating computer or server rental, be careful of the dangerous groups out there and what these groups aim to do.

The anonymous hackers tried to attack the government websites to protest the new Internet censorship laws that the government was imposing. The attacks targeted the new government "Watchdog Sites" that were going to introduce recently developed Internet filters. The Turkish Police then found the 32 members of anonymous found in 12 different cities, including Ankara and Istanbul.

The hacker group had released a message to the Turkish Government on their website and conveyed the idea that their group was not run by anyone, which proves as a problem to the government that hopes to find and catch the leaders.

On their website the group posted, "You have not detained three participants of Anonymous. We have no members and we are not a group of any kind. You have, however, detained three civilians expressing themselves."

This group has proved troublesome not only to the Turkish and Spanish governments in the past, but to the American Government as well. Using DDoS hacking attacks against whichever website they disagree with like Sony and Paypal, this group has literally shut down websites in the past and has disrupted a lot of international Internet security.

So how will the world catch them? It seems like hacking groups these days are all anonymous and are puffing out their chests to show how unbreakable they are, but they’re swimming in dangerous waters. It seems like each time there’s an attack, they seem to disappear into the background not making any head-way, but not getting caught either. It’s a stalemate of Internet cavemen-like attitude to see who the alpha-techie is.

So will this anonymous group fall back into the villainous shadows of the Internet to say "I’ll get you next time, gadget!" (A catchy phrase from the mid-90’s cartoon Inspector Gadget) Or will our server rental and national Internet security information soon stop being at risk to these groups?