The campaign of Anonymous to free Japan from the bondage of unduly harsh copyright law has got off to a less than auspicious start after the group bumblingly hacked the wrong site, thinking it was humiliating the central government by defacing their site only to find it had instead ruined the site of a river works office in Ibaraki.
Along with various political and official websites loosely connected to the law (for some reason Japan’s recording industry mafia group JASRAC has been spared), Anonymous defaced the site of the Kasumigaura river management office, a governmental body primarily concerned with flood control and water management in eastern Kanto.
It is believed that they actually thought they were targeting Kasumigaseki, a region in central Tokyo full of government offices and also a euphemism for these government departments:
<ho> my friend has a question that is anon was mistaken about Kasumi-gaura http://www.kasumi.ktr.mlit.go.jp/ and Kasumi-gaseki
<&Juzzy> What do you mean Anon was mistaken?
<c0ug4r> tell me about kasumi
The site itself has been restored along with a terse message from the department affected saying how regrettable it is and how they will try not to let it happen again.
This has not done the reputation of the super-hackers much good in Japan:
“Sad!”
“How lame!!!!!!”
“That’s just cute.”
“Anonymous is so cute.”
“What a mistake…”
“Dojikko Anon.”
“Dojikko moe!”
“Get some members who actually know something about Japan.”
“The poor people of Ibaraki prefecture…”
“They targeted a river management authority?”
“They don’t even know any Japanese, what a useless bunch of incompetents.”
“And they had such a good image…”
“My prefecture’s lakes!”
“Oh, and this time they didn’t just knock it offline, they replaced it?”
“They could just replace Kasumigaura’s site with that of Kasumigaseki, problem solved!”
With that broken english, it was clearly not someone speaking it.
Of course, they couldn’t be japanese either for such a noob mistake. I’m guessing china is out as well.
Clearly, these must have been russians(b’cuz africa doesn’t count and arabs don’t care. What India? What do you mean, stereotypes and cold-war era bs instead of seeing people as individuals?).
Alternate interpretation: They were actually calling themselves “Anonymous”, they just used broken english to make others think it wasn’t them.
Alternate interpretation: The japanese did this to themselves, but the actual complex was considered too important to deface. It is part of a campaign to discredit pirates. Or maybe one govt official agreed with the ideals, but didn’t understand the english.
My faith in Anonymous is shot.
It’s a fake.
And the Anons around here are different.
Anonymous are a bunch of idiots anyway. So, what else is new?
Moe moe Anon.
maybe they just cant read Japanese font…
Ahahaha~~~
can you add some reference materials, such as link of the sate they shud be hacking and site which was hacked …. And if this has made any inpact in western media?
Awesome! Let’s do it thoroughly MORE MORE MORE!
just in case anyone actually wants to know what’s going on:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18608731 (article on the “cyber attacks” done supposedly by Anonymous)
and also this twitter #tag: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23OpJapan
Here’s to a brighter future 🙂
#OpJapan
Those filthy Americans sure love to fail in life.
newfags can’t triforce.
Those filthy Americans are just plain retarded.
Those stupid Japanese just assume everyone is American. Typical Japanese sheep mentality.
Those filthy foreigners sure like to bitch.
clarification: foreigners talking about americans that is.
Anonymous aren’t just American.
Those filthy Americans are just plain retarded..
LAWL. Impotent and dickless repost.
Round 2 Fight
This is what the government wants you guys to think – that Anonymous failed. The actual government site is based in Ibaraki, since it is out of the way, while the one in Kasumigaseki is a decoy.
needs rule 34
Can someone tell me if anyone involved in anime fansubs is in on this? I’d like to -avoid- them.
Jeez, you’d think with their crazed obsession with bleeding-edge anime (and their nerve to pretend they already know every detail about anything over 5 years old) these folks would have enough Japanese knowledge to know one organization from another. Even I’d be able to spot a glaring flaw like this and I’m -not- one who’d claim to be fluent in Japanese in the least.
my anonymous can’t be this cute
Anon suffered from low power level, they need reinforcements. At least someone with JLPT. This was beyond pathetic and an epic fail.
They need to learn how to read…
Lol facepalm
Haaaaaaaaaaaa….. Tools!
Haaaaaaaa….. Tools!
The people of Japan don’t need anyone else’s help. Leave them to their own devices. Anon has the Euroworld to deal with. Leave Asian problems to the Asians.
Japanese are too dickless to stand up for their selves. Therefore if gaijin won’t, no one will.
LOL
Japan can’t deal with its own shit so that’s why the hairy barbarians have to clean up your mess. Again. And again.
Why don’t you folks grow up and learn to stand up for your own rights?
Obviously they cannot deal with this shit so their laws actually got passed instead of at least put on the shelf like sopa did.
After being pointed to their mistake:
Anon: No… err.. I was meant to do that. Yeah! I totally planed to hack this site first as a warning to the government.
Tsundere anon, khe khe
Holy Crap Houselife!
After reading your post I feel like I just survived another GITS Stand Alone Complex episode.
Hello, just for today I’m not logging in.
This way I get to be ………………..”Anonymous”!
That’s right. The infamous Anonymous.
Hello to my Non-Anonymous brethren. But I’d like to formally request that we go to war. You know, with guns and smoke and the such. Because somehow your property is THAT important that we feel the need to viciously STEAL everything you ever owned forcing your hard work to become waste and your wife and children to starve very painful nights.
This all for the very reason that we hate you.
That’s right. We must hate you for some reason…. Maybe it’s because the countries we live in don’t offer the great opportunities to watch that stuff…. but somehow that’s all YOUR FAULT Japan, yes. It couldn’t be ours for not purchasing it in our own markets when it became available.
Oh no. Never.
We’ll infiltrate your servers to play your “Japan Only” games. We’ll download ALL the most recent series for free (not paying you ONE IOTA of a penny)
and then on top of that we’ll have the audacity to complain when you prevent us from seeing what’s behind the curtain *so to speak. Especially in cases that could be considered “Child Pornography” labeling me a “Pedophile” in my country. Hm… I probably should have someone look at me… this could be a problem………
Anyways. No. I’m not paying you a single cent. Well, maybe once Funimation, Sentai Filmworks and the like go out of business… maybe I’ll consider it then…. But that’s only as a last resort since their disappearance might mean a lot less of these series will be made. Disregarding the fact that every dollar given to these firms will aid in the production of the next series…. ALSO, the paying customer is more likely to have a voice over the one who gets it for free illegally.
(—– Do note the sarcasm in this whole thing —–)
-GeneonUSA/Pioneer – ADVision – BANDAI – FUNimation-
– MediaBlasters – … the one in Iowa… um… RightStuf… that’s it… VIZ Media ….. … … …
All these companies were once proud studios for bringing Anime and other Media Merchandise to the English Speaking Community -Offering BOTH English and Japanese Language on their DVDs/Blu-Ray Discs.
In many ways they have bent over backwards to bring Japanese Materials to the public in many ways keeping the graphic (hentai-like) content just as is.
Some reason this wasn’t good enough. Even as series are introduced and then repackaged later for Cheaper sales (come on $20.00 isn’t cheap enough for 26 Episodes? Get real.) Many an episode costs a Studio thousands of dollars and that’s even with some of these Low-Budget Animations. Productions like the original Last Exile (first season) was quoted to be a Million Dollars an Episode. Very expensive production costs… (Which might explain GONZO’s huge hit in…. 2009/2010? well, pretty much cost them their studios.
Perhaps people aren’t satisfied with what Japan asks for their Products, maybe it’s time to get to work and create YOUR OWN productions. You’ll be amazed how hard creating just ONE 20 minute episode actually is. And in the quality they create their series in, you’ll be vastly overwhelmed.
Of course these are bold words coming from someone who has resorted to Downloading from sites like AnimeTake and others that make Anime Downloading VERY EASY. ISOhunt and PirateBay being a man/woman’s best friend.
I would LIKE to purchase every anime series out there LEGALLY. Really, I would. My problem is not enough people are DOING it, making the studios that DO make it possible to dwindle practically nothing. I know there are more countries that speak English than just U.S. Which makes it hard for me to believe that these studios are failing on their own accord. (I never liked Bandai though, so I’m happy they’re deceased.)
Anyways I’m done talking.
There it is. A word from “Anonymous”. I wish I could be anonymous on a lot more sites like this… Yahoo, FaceBook, etc….
So a hacks “MADE IN CHINA” ?.?
So, now the anon members are clumsy girls? that’s kinda impressive.
I said it in the other news’ comments as well… when will these idiots grow up and start focusing on graduating high school?
I so called this. I knew this was going to happen.
Now we can be sure that, there isn’t any Japanese in the Anonymous.
Anonymous has been called a Racist Hate Group for attacking.Arab world supports them for there actions.
Oh Anonymous, you’re all fucking hacks!
They are Anonymous
They are not Japanese
They do not know Japanese
They only watched Anime coming up with this idea
Expect reality to hit them in the face.
That is really embarrassing..
Well, don’t give up and strike the right one, Anonymous.
Oh, my sides!
I especially loved “my prefecture’s lakes!”
hey no one’s perfect, not even Anonymous.
Years back there was this cool newspaper comic called “Bloom County” that IMO was about the last major political voice that wasn’t a sock puppet. Case in point, it got Mary Kay cosmetics to pioneer the mainstreaming of “Cruelty Free” products.
So they had the “Hacker” kid breaking into the KGB’s computers… (except they were still non-computer at the time, but we didn’t know it, though it was obvious)
“This will strike a blow for peace! I will change the headlines to say that Gorbachev is calling for massive disarmament and to disband the Warsaw pact…”
Milo, glancing at his notes and the Russian/English dictionary… “Are you sure you are getting this right?”
“Hey! I’m smart enough to hack into a foreign country’s computer system, I can translate a few lines of outdated human speech code…!”
Next day Pravda prints out;
“Gorbachev sings tractors! Turnip! Buttocks!”
And the American news reports it along with a thanks for them figuring out it’s a mischievous kid who needs a spanking, not a WW3 level act of war…
Correction: I meant “Pravda Newspapers”… The KGB did have computers, of course, but again mostly relied on people. But Pravda was traditional pre-computer for quite a while longer.
One big difference, and this goes into this…
A lot of early “hacker” fantasies were impossible. Notably you break into the “Computers” of a company and change the product…
For instance, I’d imagine do an ice cream company and insert an image “Oscar the Grouch’s Chunky Fish Ice Cream” an actual early Sesame Street thing… And the fantasy would be to see those in the grocery store, even if it’s plain vanilla. Then there’d be a cool news story about a lawsuit abuser suing the company for “False advertising” and then to avoid contempt he’d have to EAT custom made “Chunky Fish Ice Cream” but the judge would still drop the charges;-)
Or, mess up toy manufacturing to make kooky/scary toys.
However, even if someone cracked the most state of the art computers (to be even able to control the stuff) back then and inserted their designs, you couldn’t do that. Know why? They made things in the same city/country.
First “Chunky Fish” ice cream rolls off the line… First “Baby Satan’s Bride” radical modification of “Baby wets a lot”… Whatever… The first employee watching the assembly line would pull the “Emergency” lever and when the manager/boss ran out to see why, he’d go “Are we really making this, sir?” and he’d go “NO… Let’s see… I think there might be a promotion for you, considering I’m going to rip the heads off a dozen people who should have stopped this before it got this far…”
But NOW… “Slave made goods FLom Amiable VeneLable Cathay!”
I’m sure if anyone intercepted designs on the way to China, and overall it was about the same level of difficulty/material to make it, they’d just make it and it’d be shipped back and dead inside employees would put it on the shelves. And it’d gather dust till the media needed something to scream about.
I’d like it if they turned “Play Klay Farm” into “Play Klay Death Camp; A final solution for your Kinder’s needs!” and modified the molds to be Nazis and prisoners and stuff;-)
In short, I wonder if they might step up from just simple web site ‘vandalism’? A flood of the garbage from Cathay turned into another level of Garbage that does nothing but force recalls and sparks outrage when politics is too choked to absolutely guarantee subsidies might actually damage the Corporations enough they lose investors.
And I think that a new JPN meme/character made from this mistake
The number of people assuming this is anonymous when the freaking motto of anonymous isn’t even without errors is pretty amazing. I’m definitely going to rob every one here and just spray a local gang tag somewhere in the house since apparently you’d automatically attribute it to them even against all other evidence.
Yeah, this is most likely forged to make Anonymous look bad. And the way it is done in such an obvious, almost ludicrous fashion, you can tell it was the Japanese’s sad attempt at counter-hacking. Good enough to fool children and idiots, but not good enough to fool those who are fed up with losing their rights.
That’s funny, because “Anonymous” is actually full of quite a few members who haven’t even hit puberty!
Anonymous doesn’t need to be made look bad. Like he said, they are just teenagers with hormones out of control and can’t fap because their balls didn’t descend yet. They feel the need to join an organization so that they find some self worth.
If it fails, it’s because someone else did it to make anonymous look bad? Stop kidding yourself. They are losers and you know it.
Wow, they goofed up with this huh. Sucks to be them right now.
It’s fake. Read and learn.
anonymous is anonymous… how can someone claim to be anonymous not be anonymous.
anonymous is anyone and everyone that want to be anonymous.
A true Anon would have the picture of the green face with a suit and ‘no picture available’ in that location, least then their answer would be funny, and that was the point of anonymous from the beginning.
“I can *prove* I’m a true member of Anonymous… Look, I’ve got my picture ID card right here!”
The Japanese reaction are quite lame as well. It’s not like those idiots are actually doing anything to help themselves. What a sad country.
Because they have a problem in the first place ? Only foreigners have problems with this new law, so they are the idiots.
No dude, the Japanese are the ones with the problem. They are going to be thrown in the slaughterhouse because they are too stupid to do something against it. Where is the public reaction? Had this happened in the US, you’d see people clogging up the streets.
13:12
Shitload of ‘Warez’ sites disagree with your assertion. Check your facts before mouthing off.
Of course you’d see people in the U.S. going batshit-insane about this if it happened to them… Considering how much they love to steal (Pirate).
Not saying anything or doing anything even remotely concrete because they don’t have the balls to act even from behind the monitor does not indicate that japanese don’t have any problems with this, only that they lack a pair to do anything instead of taking it up the ass like a bitch.
I think what’s even more sad is how you idiots put your support in Anonymous, yet they’re full of little pricks in high school. That’s pretty fucking sad, man.
Two problems here that make me think that this isn’t the legitimate Anonymous.
1 – Anonymous does not “fight” for anyone.
2 – The line is “we are legion” not “we are a legion”
This wreaks of some hacktivist dipshits using the Anonymous name to deflect the eventual responsibility for their actions to someone else, or even just diffuse possible repercussions by saying, “It was Anonymous! They could be anyone!”
we are legion is a biblical reference, we are a legion is wrong
This is just embarrassing…
This is pathetic, both the mistake and the poor excuse for a message they left behind.
“might of”
“you may as why?”
“scentence”
One may question whether this was really an attack by Anonymous, considering all their previous messages were of much higher quality.
No question. It’s fake.
Now wait for the Japanese to draw a dojikko Anonymous
I’ll be waiting patiently for that.
Anon-ko. The doujinshi is bound to be delicious.
It will probably be copyrighted
Wait,wait,wait just because you download 24 mp3 music you will fined 1,1$ million!
That`s crazy! I know pirate is kinda like a stealing money but this is too much.
In fact how`s downloading a music is a crime now? You should put the website down who give the download not the person who download it
It’s like giving a shop lifter the same sentence as a rapist or bank robber.
if you’re caught stealing, best deterrent… cut off the hands.
if you’re caught killing, best deterrent… public humilation, before death.
if you’re caught raping, best deterrent… cut off the penis and make them eat it. cutting off their hands and gouging their eyeballs are optional.
What if the rapist is a woman?
No feminist bullshit of “women can’t rape”, please.
HEY!
WE ARE NOT PERFECT!
WE ARE HUMANS AFTER ALL!
Damned script kiddies.
You expected better from a bunch of 15 year old faggots?
Just wait this is a distraction just so everyone thinks they fail. In a few days they might actualy take down an important site XD
And all the while 名無しさん keeps himself busy with stalking and driving people into suicide.
Fucking hypocrites! How about you target your stupid politicians instead?
They don’t have the balls for it.
Anonymous sucha dojikko.
Anon-chan, shippaishichatta! Tee hee <3
No.
This is fake and you were punk’d.
Shame on you. Tee hee <3
Those people have way too much free time lol. Its fucking retarded to care, to want to “change the world”. Do what I do work, eat, shit, jack it and sleep.
while you are there… could you please add a message for them not to censor their H anime? The mosaic is pointless since the people can get uncensored porn online!
try to be useful anon
Unfortunately, Japan still has those stupid censorship laws influenced by the Victorian era of 19th century Great Britain. Until they refuse to accept that to censorship genitalia in erotic and pornographic media is completely stupid, there’s not much one can do about it.
let them protest to get the law changed. That would make them useful for a change
The law is clearly outdated, I’m surprised that no one have tried to update the law yet!
Oops, that didn’t come up as I intended. I meant that until they refuse to acknowledge that censoring the genitalia is stupid, there’s not much to do about the issue.
“Anonymous is so cute.”
hahah
“Anonymous” is probably just a meme for noob hackers now…
Inb4 : One of them get caught and they un-revendicate all the other “Anonymous” hacks.
They can’t into reading!?
So they screwed up. They are still screwing up less than the government screws up most of our lives, and we complain about and act on that half as much as we should.
Could be their plan all along, the element of suprise.
They’re anonymous yes.
Do they speak japanese ? No.
Several of them actually do..
And they also know how to spell and construct sentences correctly and what their actual motto is.
This isn’t the ‘real’ anonymous.
There is no ‘real’ anonymous. It’s a bunch of loosely related groups who call themselves with a common name.
Anonymous “hacks wrong site”
Oh man, I’m laughing so hard that my sides are hurting XD
The Sony hack was Sony’s fault, it was due to any kind of genius by Anonymous/Lulzsec. Sony should’ve kept everything updated: http://www.logicallysecure.com/files/8713/0428/2118/PSN_Hack.pdf
Anonymous isn’t exactly intelligent enough to pick and choose their targets, in fact most “hacker” groups who do it for publicity usually obtain their zero day exploits from actual security specialists. Take Lulzsec for example, after everything was said and done, Sabu was the only one with any modicum of skill.
it wasn’t*
Fools vs. Morons: FIGHT!!!
Popcorn anyone?
They could at least hack into Tokyo Government instead of a wrong site. Which website did they hacked?
Read the article, you’ll find your answer there.
Never mind, just re-read the article.
As expected of Anonymous. The only script kiddies there are the ones left after The Jester took down the half-competent ones.
Shhhh! They’re supposed to think they’re still competent and SuP3r 1337 H4X0rZ.
Big things have small beginnings.
It was only a stepback!
I like how japanese confuse anonymous with real hackers.
I like how people talk as if Anonymous is the same group of people.
Also, real hackers don’t break into websites, noob.
They’re all 15 year old faggots, so yes Anonymous is the same group of script kiddie faggots.
self deprecation?
LOL.. just LOL…
the japanese don’t know any better than anonymous itself.
they don’t fuckin’ care about Anonymous.. n00b hacker ?
Dojikko anon. how cute.
I agree. It’s most amusing to see something like that.
Collateral.
Keep going, anon.
Hack the Planet, Hack the world!
You can’t hack into a rock, no matter how “1337” you are.
May be it’s just a distraction. While people rofl they will strike.
Moe Anon
This is like those scenes where a player displays incredible agility to make a spectacular touchdown.
In the wrong endzone.
lol it truly is
Way to go, Anonymous. You actually hit the right country!
We are not Anonymous
We are legion
We are laughing at you
Expect us… to ROFLOL
they even got
`we are a legion` wrong, should be
`we are legion`
twits…
We are not Anonymous
We are legion
We are Gaijin…
We are very stupid Gaijins
Gai[b]koku[/b]jin. Gaijin is the intolerant term, for someone to call themselves that is like a black calling himself nigger.
Indeed.
Way to go to make bold proclamation and entrance with a bang…of own head against the doors.
Someone give them address to a Japanese porn website so they can attack that instead of the government it would piss off more Japanese that way.
But your an anonymous too
I’m anonymous. They’re Anonymous with a capital ‘A’. As names go, it doesn’t show much imagination, does it?
^
it say “Comment by Anonymous”… looks like a capital A to me.
strange that they completely violated sony-chan than….no one who got nuclear ass-fucked by that fiasco was laughing. But than anonymous is not a tight-nit group by any means.
I imagine this is a bunch of idiot teen-somethings and skiddies, not someone with even remote knowledge of coding and programming.
Well, there are some world-class hackers who claim themselves as part of it as an ideal, and then of course there are those on the forefront who know nothing but wish to do something.
The issue is most people aren’t intelligent enough to understand what Anonymous is. Anonymous is a connotative representation of an ideal, and an ideal cannot be hijacked by any one group. The new term “Anonymous” was born to describe a unilateral hive mind toward an ideal or thought process, which can lead to actions taken by the collective in one direction or another. Often trolling for lulz though.
A group name of “Anonymous” does not make them Anonymous the ideal. In fact by even attempting to focus the ideal of Anonymous, they are in fact violating it. Having a leadership making decisions for the hive mind makes them drones, not a sovereign entity of matching ideals that has no borders and no leaders. That which made Anonymous what it was was how it formed with no true leadership, but ideas that led to actions across the planet despite any logic or direction. A countless-headed hydra that is representative of the new state of planetary consciousness and its constant evolution.
I don’t disagree with the idea of trying to focus that energy through a point of ‘attack’ in order to better the planet. I do find it beautifully ironic that the Internet Hate Machine completely inadvertently began producing justice though…
brb, church.
Anonymous is whoever decides to call themselves anonymous at a given time. The only principle anon follows is that we have an unspecified identity.
Anyone claiming to represent the views of anonymous doesn’t really understand what it means.
-Anonymous
Anonymous is more of a big cluster fuck of wildly different ideological groups that at times will agree on something.
There is no hive mind involved.
Someone picks a target and the mass follows.
It is not a collective decision.
That is the reality not their self proclaimed bullshit.
Just had a GITS SAC flashback!
he’s saying shota should be allowed to let on computer
I think he means that the anonymous group is just summerf”s trying to use an ideology.
can someone translate this into american?
While I agree with you that they seem to have no programming knowledge, I highly doubt its a bunch of teens due to the fact that there not all “derp we hacked you were so cool” in their posts and seem to have sensible grammar. They are morons though no question there.
Herp derp. GG Anon, gg.
it happens, Im not surprised if they can’t read moonrunes.
They wrote ‘scentence’ lol.
And bungled several other parts of the message.
Was this even really done by Anonymous?
“We are a legion”. Really now?
“You may as why?”
It might be a Japanese Anonymous. Although if they’re versed enough in the global Anonymous their english should be well enough to know the motto.
they should just leak every information of japan and problem solved =D
Close Enough
it was a “japanense gov” site…
Question, is Anonymous is using google translate?
Yes, they are. It’s sad because some of them are European otakus, but the script is too difficult to learn, it’s not that simple case like for example with cyrillic. Hiragana and katakana are not that useful without kanji knowledge, although there are sites that add furigana with some success…
Waseihou
You can read Japanese with just kana knowledge just fine. And Firefox has browser extensions which let you insert furigana everywhere.
It takes more time to read than the kanji script, but it’s not impossible.
Answer, probably yes
Hey, It’s something… is really hard to hack a fucking japan site.
LOL lameeee !!
let the japan site cum then hack when cuddling
How exactly do you even mess something like this up?
Boy are their faces red.
They just hack the wrong site? To their defense, those names are pretty alike.