Hackers to Escalate Action Against China

Anonymous hackers say they will strike China's government again, drawing worldwide attention to the regime's Internet restrictions.

An Anon called "fl0ws3r" said the collective is "planning more attacks" as part of its new campaign against Chinese government sites.

"We want to alert the Chinese government that we aren't afraid, and we are going to show the truth and fight for justice," fl0ws3r said.

Fl0ws3r gave no details about the coming attacks, only mentioning the targets will be bigger than those recently affected. The threat comes on the heels of last week's strike, crippling nearly 500 Chinese governmental and corporate sites, defacing some with anti-government rhetoric and posting officials' personal information on others.

Warnings of future attacks littered the stricken sites, threatening no less than the end of the Chinese communist regime.

"Dear Chinese government," one site proclaimed, "you are not infallible, today websites are hacked, tomorrow it will be your vile regime that will fall."

These latest incidents generate more publicity and further raise worldwide awareness of China's Internet restrictions.

The collective particularly takes issue with the "Great Firewall of China," which blocks nearly 20,000 sites including Facebook and Google+ as well as webpages referring to controversial events like the massacre at Tiananmen Square.

China can also track citizens' mobile phones using programs like the "Beijing Residents Real-time Travel Information Platform," which ostensibly exists for traffic regulation but may serve to locate dissidents as well.

China, whose Internet police reportedly consists of 30,000 members, is notorious for imprisoning the "largest recorded number of imprisoned journalists and cyber-dissidents in the world," according to Amnesty International.

Google last June stopped short of blaming the Chinese government for authorizing spear phishing attacks against activists and journalists, who were tricked into revealing their Gmail passwords. If China's officials sanctioned the hacks, some victims likely face fines or prison time for their anti-communist beliefs.

China is also moving forward with its Golden Shield project, a countrywide platform to further censor anti-government websites by filtering out all unwanted Internet, radio and TV content.

Anonymous hacktivists are sure to continue their attacks as these developments progress, but they may face increasing difficulty in doing so as China continues to clamp down on Internet freedoms.

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