‘Anonymous’ takes down Texan RFID-tracking school
Hacktivists toying with school district’s site
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Activist group Anonymous, or persons using its insignia and name, claim to have taken down the website of the US schools that have made it compulsory for students to wear RFID tags.
Andrea Hernandez, a sophomore student at the John Jay High School's Science and Engineering Academy in San Antonio, last week refused to wear the tags, arguing her rights to privacy and freedom of expression, along with her religious beliefs, meant she did not want to wear the tracking devices.
The Northside Independent School District in the Texan city of San Antonio, which operates John Jay’s High School, has since found its website at www.nsid.net won’t work.
A Twitter account named “@RemainSilentz” https://twitter.com/RemainSilentz, (Profile: “Governments breach ALL privacy laws, put a stop to it, and act fast. Owner of Remain.”) has issued a Tweet stating “DOWN AND OUT - Boom, track my ass like you track children you pervs” and later confirmed what he or she was really saying is that the School District’s site is down.
The site appears to have been restored to working order, but @RemainSilentz then claimed to have taken it down, then let it operate again.
At the time of writing, the site is inaccessible from Vulture South.
RemainSilentz is also claiming a role in the downing of Pakistani domain registrar pknic.net.pk, one of several recent attacks on websites in that country. ®
COMMENTS
There's a very distinct difference between any school environment and a workplace, equating the two because you have to wear a RFID badge is puzzling. An adult not being able to determine the difference between a student/teacher/staff relationship and an employee/employer relationship even more so.
Re: Yawn
If they claim to be 'Anonymous', then basically they've got as good a right as anyone to be called by that name.
That's how 'Anonymous' works, by design. It's not a group, it's more like a flag that anyone can pick up and drop at will, whenever they feel like it.
Granted, taking down a school's website is hardly streets-red-with-the-blood-of-oppressors revolution, but it's the sort of thing that would, at least briefly, attract the attention of the school's authorities (if not anyone else), so there's an outside chance it might actually have a worthwhile effect. I, for one, applaud the effort.
Re: Smash the schools. Like the Taliban is doing.
"We don't need no thought control"
No but you're damn well going to get it anyway.
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