Anonymous threaten to expose (Mexican drug) cartel's secrets

[Lone_Star_Dem]

It appears the Zetas have pissed off Anonymous by kidnapping one of their own and they're prepared to fight to get them back.

An international group of online hackers is warning a Mexican drug cartel to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the syndicate's associates, from corrupt police to taxi drivers, as well as reveal the syndicates' businesses.

The vow is a bizarre cyber twist to Mexico's ongoing drug war, as a group that has no guns is squaring off against the Zetas, a cartel blamed for thousands of deaths as well as introducing beheadings and other frightening brutality.

"You made a huge mistake by taking one of us. Release him," says a masked man in a video posted online on behalf of the group, Anonymous.

"We cannot defend ourselves with a weapon … but we can do this with their cars, homes, bars, brothels and everything else in their possession," says the man, who is wearing a suit and tie.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Online-hackers-threaten-to-expose-cartel-s-secrets-2242068.php

[Desertrose]

1. This could be interesting.....

....don't know if I'd want to mess with the cartels, but more power to Anonymous. If anyone can do it, they are probably the ones.

[great white snark]

3. Just slowing them down some would save countless lives.

The Zetas are brutal. A new tactic for them is to dress up murdered rival cartel members as police officers then dump them on the street. When the supposed officer is surrounded by real police officers and rescue personnel a nearby car bomb is detonated. It is truly like a war zone in Mexico.

[Skidmore]

2. They should do this anyway.

If they are interested in helping people, bring down those entities of oppression, legal and illegal.

[Initech]

5. Actually the way to threaten is to release the source of the cartel's funding.

I'm sure an American corporation or two has their dirty mits in this.

[a simple pattern]

7. maybe even some american government

[valerief]

13. +1 gazillion

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. Follow the money trail and you'll no doubt find ties to more than one country

and their governments.

[Initech]

17. Exactly - that's how we win "class warfare". Follow the money.

[newspeak]

24. I've always wondered about the increase in drug violence

and trafficking after the very questionable election of their conservative president. Remember the protests after the elections? Does the violence from the bad men against the populace allow for more draconian policies against the people?

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Ohhhh, this might get bloody.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

15. No doubt you mean more bloody?

If so, then I totally agree. Not that I have any reservations toward outing anything which could hurt the enablers of these bloodthirsty tyrants.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Whoops. Wrong place.

[lunatica]

8. We've truly moved into the electronic age

I'm actually typing with and on a modern warfare weapon. Amazing.

[SoDesuKa]

9. They Better Stay Anonymous

The cartels don't fuck around.

[undergroundpanther]

11. if no one took a risk

evil people like the cartels would own this world.Sometimes looking out for self interest and not standing up against it ,is worse than suicide too.

[valerief]

14. THEY DO!

[undergroundpanther]

10. GO ANONYMOUS!!!

May Sekhmet's fire inspire your hearts,Her heka strike as lightning through your keyboards and may fear consume the ones who harm, may your eyes be as her eyes and see through the thickest of thickets of code and her razor claws be the truth that tear apart the cold sociopaths that hurt others and may no opportunity escape you..as you reduce them to ashes.
Ta'MaatSekhmet.


Some words of support from a hermetic admirer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. This could be very interesting

Secrets might include a few in the federal government. No, I ain't kidding.

[hootinholler]

19. Only a few?

It would certainly include a few will never be confirmed as belonging to the Fed.

Oh, wait, which federal government did you mean US or Mexico? I bet there will be both.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Mexico

But it could include both.

[Ohio Joe]

18. A very dangerous game

The cartels will in fact kill them. I don't think they are very concerned with a DDOS attack, nor with exposure (as they are mostly known anyway). They also have their own very capable computer geeks that will allow them to find the script kiddies. An amazingly stupid move on the part on anonymous.

[Uncle Joe]

20. That's why they call it the "Information Age,"

Information is power.

Thanks for the thread, Lone_Star_Dem.

[bluesmail]

22. k&r

[DreamSmoker]

23. K&R

Here is another link..

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/31/anonymous-threatens-to-identify-mexicans-involved-with-drug-cartels/