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GSN » News » Cyber hackers attack websites of Africa anti-gay countries Cyber hackers attack websites of Africa anti- gay countries Never miss a story! Get your free daily newsletter Hacktivist groups TheEliteSociety and Anonymous launch a joint operation to hack any African country that imprisons or kills LGBT people Go

16 AUGUST 2012 | BY DAN LITTAUER Matel have created a 'drag The Anonymous and queen Barbie' but has she TheEliteSociety hacking always been a drag queen? groups have launched a joint all-out attack against countries in Africa that kill Yes or imprison LGBT people in an operation dubbed 67% #OpFuckAfrica. No

So far websites in 13% Botswana, Somalia, Sudan, Undecided and Uganda have been taken down or their databases have been 20% leaked.

The groups promise more Most popular stories websites will be hacked in African states that oppress LGBT rights.

Footballer denies sending anti- Anonymous is a loosely associated group of 'hacktivists' which originated in 2003, which strongly gay Tom Daley HIV tweet opposes any form of oppression and censorship, and has been recently started to target governments which have anti-LGBT polices. Some of its members sometimes appear in public wearing Guy Fawkes masks. First Uganda gay pride a success In this operation Anonymous hacktivists are targeting governmental and national websites. despite police raid

TheEliteSociety founded by hacktivist known as @Dramasett3r is a gray hat hacktivist group, which may technically commit crimes during the course of their technological exploits but without malicious intent or for personal gain. The group also opposes any form of oppression and Gay clubbers firebombed in Salt censorship. Lake City

In a statement @Dramasett3r said: ‘Message to the governments and communications of Africa:

Harry and Niall's One Direction ‘Allow myself and #EliteSociety, [to] welcome you to Operation FUCK AFRICA(#OpFuckAfrica). ‘gay kiss’ that was really a ‘You want to put people to death, and support the beliefs of the killings of the LGBT people only whisper because they have different likings than you do, how fucking disgusting. Lebanon TV channel outs men ‘Let me take you back to the 1800s, when the Americans would infiltrate Africa and take people to arrested for public gay sex work as slaves only because they were black. Your stereotypes are pathetic, and so are you and your security.

‘This will continue, until you change your ways and beliefs [against] LGBT. There is no need to put people to death for this, and we will not tolerate it.

‘Put this to a stop now, or else it all [website databases] will be leaked worldwide.

‘We are #EliteSociety.

‘#JusticeWillPrevail.’ [sic] You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser Uganda was particularly singled out for hacks. Those which have been taken down or had their cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize websites databases leaked include: correctly. http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/cyber-hackers-attack-websites-africa-anti-gay-countries160812 Page 1 / 3 Parliament of Uganda (taken down for a short while) Uganda Stock Exchange was hacked along with part of its database Uganda Law Society Uganda National TV Redpeper, a daily newspaper which ran homophobic articles in 2009 The website of the American anti-gay evangelist Scott Lively who is linked to Uganda’s anti-gay bill was also taken down

Hacktivist @Dramasett3r stated that myuganda.co.ug and Uganda’s Ministry Of Internal Affairs are next to be target in the country.

Recently the groups hacked the websites of the Prime Minister of Uganda and Uganda Justice Law and Order sector.

In a message to the Ugandan government @Dramasett3r stated: ‘So, what now? We’ve defaced your Prime Minister's site, leaked all of your National TV networks DB [databases].

‘So let me ask you this, what can you afford to lose next?’

Yesterday hacktivists hacked the website of Botswana's Export Development and Investment Authority, and leaked its database.

Somalia’s TV Network and Gurmad company websites were also hacked.

Anonymous also recently hacked the Sudanese stock exchange in Khartoom, Sudan – leaking its database.

The groups also promise to bring down key websites in all African countries that imprison or kill gay people. Humantarian and human rights related websites will not be trarged.

Some LGBT rights advocates have expressed concern over the hacktivists operation.

Melanie Nathan a South African activist now based in the US stated on her blog: ‘While I support all protests against the anti-gay Ugandan government, I fear this may cause a backlash to the LGBTI community of activists who so bravely showed their faces at Pride.

‘I fear that they have failed to consider the particular sensitive issues involved to the Ugandan LGBT gay community.’

In response Anonymous hacktivists told GSN: ‘Anonymous doesn't speak for Ugandans and never claimed to.’

Gay Star News contacted key activists from Sexual Minorities Uganda and others on 14 August but so far they have chosen not to comment.

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While I am not an African LGBT human rights activist and cannot speak for them, it seems obvious to me that there is a serious danger that this type of action by unknown (and probably non-LGBT) supporters of LGBT human rights activists may backfire against LGBTs in Africa. In the USA, recent spontaneous statements by a few non-gay politicians that they oppose Chick-fil-A's donations to anti-LGBT groups were exploited by anti-LGBTs to massively increase support for Chick-fil- A. In Africa, the consequences could be much worse than merely increasing the wealth and power of anti- LGBT corporations and NGOs, as happened in the USA. In Africa, LGBT people (and those mistaken as LGBT) and their allies could be arrested, beaten, tortured, killed. They could see their groups banned and their workshops shut down (as has already happened). Mass arrests and mob violence are possible. LGBTs are already demonized in Africa. The statement attributed to Anglican Bishop Kalu of Mombasa in July 2012 that gays were worse than terrorists (which he recently denied making) was outrageous at the time, but now these actions give support to such extreme views. He has since met with LGBT human rights activists and appears to be open to dialogue. This came as a result of an invitation offered by LGBT activists, not through threats of computer vandalism. I don't see how this type of hacking of government websites could lead to improving the human rights of LGBTs. I expect that the expertise of these hackers could be put to much better use through actions such as defending the computers of LGBT human rights activists and enabling them to use encryption and anonymous browsing and donations.

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