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ZDNet: The Anonymous hacktivist group now has a Chinese branch, and those Chinese hackers have launched a major assault on their government’s websites. The group attacked 485 such sites, defacing some and leaking login credentials and other data related to others. The group posted a message explaining the reason for the attacks to Pastebin. In English, it reads as follows:
Hello, we are Anonymous.
All these years the Chinese Government has subjected their people to unfair laws and unhealthy processes.
People, each of you suffers from tyranny of that regime.Fight for justice, fight for freedom, fight for democracy!
In the defaces and leaks in this day, we demonstrate our revolt to the Chinese system. It has to stop! We aren’t asking you for nothing, just saying to protest, to revolt yourself, to be the free person you always want to be! So, we are writing this message to tell you that you should protest, you should revolt yourself protesting and who has the skills for hacking and programming and design and other “computer things” come to our IRC: http://2.webchat.anonops.com/ channel: #GlobalRevolution .
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.
