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Hacktivists Africa has Shonas working with Ndebeles
17 Jun 2016 at 15:22hrs | Views
THE Anonymous Africa group, which claims links to the global network of Anonymous hacktivists, said all its members are all African born, even though some of them may live outside of the continent.
"Both, inside and outside, but all of us are Africans by birth. We have Shona working with Ndebele, English with Afrikaans," the group said.
The group further stressed that its purpose is primarily that of protest.
"We want to clarify, we are hacktivists, not hackers," the group told Fin24.
"We are not intruding onto other people's systems, we are forming mass protests to bring a lot of attention, we do know of other Anon groups going deeper, but our role is that of peaceful, non-destructive protest.
"If in the all the noise we are creating, others are able to slip in and expose sensitive data, well, it is not our job to stop them," the group added.
Anonymous Africa said it has also launched attacks on a website belonging to Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party.
Anonymous Africa claimed responsibility for the SABC websites' downtime with the hacktivist group saying it carried out the attack because of creeping censorship at the broadcaster.
On Tuesday, Anonymous Africa further claimed responsibility for downing the website of political party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). Anonymous Africa said it targeted the EFF for the party's alleged 'racism'.
"While teaching racist EFF trolls a lesson we have also decided to knock on their Godfathers door as well. http://www.zanupf.org.zw/ is down," Anonymous Africa tweeted.
Both sites were offline for a few hours.
"Both, inside and outside, but all of us are Africans by birth. We have Shona working with Ndebele, English with Afrikaans," the group said.
The group further stressed that its purpose is primarily that of protest.
"We want to clarify, we are hacktivists, not hackers," the group told Fin24.
"We are not intruding onto other people's systems, we are forming mass protests to bring a lot of attention, we do know of other Anon groups going deeper, but our role is that of peaceful, non-destructive protest.
"If in the all the noise we are creating, others are able to slip in and expose sensitive data, well, it is not our job to stop them," the group added.
Anonymous Africa said it has also launched attacks on a website belonging to Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party.
Anonymous Africa claimed responsibility for the SABC websites' downtime with the hacktivist group saying it carried out the attack because of creeping censorship at the broadcaster.
On Tuesday, Anonymous Africa further claimed responsibility for downing the website of political party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). Anonymous Africa said it targeted the EFF for the party's alleged 'racism'.
"While teaching racist EFF trolls a lesson we have also decided to knock on their Godfathers door as well. http://www.zanupf.org.zw/ is down," Anonymous Africa tweeted.
Both sites were offline for a few hours.
Source - online
