Linux Beach: Is Libya Next? Anonymous Debates New Operation

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Is Libya Next? Anonymous Debates New Operation

From a message board important to the hacker group Anonymous last night:

Libya seems to be a cloudy subject full of uncertainty. So here's a thread to discuss and gather information. I know many anons have been calling for an Operation Libya in the hopes that the protests there could escalate to the revolution status Tunisia's did, but we don't have enough information to see if that's possible... yet. If we want an Operation Libya, step 1 is to GATHER INFORMATION. Here's what anon has so far:
http://piratenpad.de/T5LLW8zwfI

The post comes with this Leakspin informational video from YouTube:

anonvish17 continues:

Essentially: the people are sick of their governments shit. They saw what happened in Tunisia, and some people seem to be encouraged. Libya has responded by completely blocking YouTube which is why there's been such a slow out-pour of information. No mainstream media outlet has really covered what's going on in Libya right now. Videos are hard to find, and the ones found are disappearing off YouTube, fast. I'm not gonna summerize the point again, just read the shit our watch the Leakspinner video. I've been mirroring videos from protests in Libya and I will post them along with download links here. I encourage you all to download and mirror. Lets spread this shit and make sure it doesn't disappear off the interwebs.

Actually it does look like an IRC channel has already been setup for opLibya but as of last night, it merely advised:

[Operation Libya | #OpTunisia is still running! |

here are the chat links if you want to follow the blow by blow:
http://irc.lc/AnonOps/opTunisia
http://irc.lc/AnonOps/opLibya

Also last night this was posted:

Some other useful links from the group's postings:
Wikileaks cables from Libya: http://wikileaks.ch/origin/20_0.html
Wikileaks cables tagged Libya: http://wikileaks.ch/tag/LY_0.html

Other considerations in their tactical decisions might be gleamed by this information on Libya from the forum:

Political Pressure Groups and Leaders:
other: anti-QADHAFI Libyan exile movement; Islamic elements

Unemployment Rate: 30% (2004, est.)
Pop. below poverty line: 7,4 % (2005, est.)

TLD: .ly
Internetuser: 353,900 (2009)
inernet users (% of population) 5.5 (for comparision Tunisia has about 35%!!!)
Telephones: 1.101 million (2009)
International Calling Code: +218
Cellphones: 5.004 million (2009)

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Since cell phones are much more important, SMS may be an important distributor of info: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/06/designing-sms-apps-for-mobile-africa.html

Libya's one and only ISP is likely to be a target. The forum already links to an I hate Libya Telecom and Technology (LTT) Facebook page.

They have posted a number of recent YouTube videos from Libyan, but noted
"They can be taken down. Lets make a stronger archive of Libyan protest videos HERE."