Group hacks into Chinese polar research website, uploads Taiwanese and historical ROC flags
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) β Decentralized international hacktivist group Anonymous has hacked into a Chinese government website to upload the words “Taiwan Numbah Wan” and Taiwan’s national flag and emblem, among other signs of defiance against the Chinese Communist Party (CPP) while also calling for a peaceful resolution to the crisis in Ukraine.
On Friday (Jan. 14), Anonymous hacked into www.polar.org.cn, a Chinese government website affiliated with the Polar Research Institute of China, a subsidiary of the country’s Ministry of Natural Resources, according to Anonymous representative “Allez-opi_omi.” The website has since been taken down.
Taiwan’s official emblem. (Anonymous image)
In anticipation of the administrator deleting the defacement of the website, the hacktivists saved an archived version on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
The hacktivists created a page under the “projects” section of the website titled “We are Anonymous!” Under “detailed description,” the Anonymous logo appeared, followed by the “Taiwan Numbah Wan!” meme. This was a reference to a famous quote uttered by video game streamer AngryPug in 2015 to antagonize Chinese streamer Em0 during a match in the game H1Z1 .
Below the slogan was Taiwan’s national flag followed by its national emblem. The next flag displayed was the black nine-pointed star and yellow discs first used during the Wuchang Uprising in modern-day Wuhan that the Republic of China Army used as its standard from 1911 to 1928.
The national flag of the Republic of China used from 1912 to 1928 appeared next. It consists of five horizontal stripes, with each color representing a different major ethnic group in China.
Like in its recent hack of a UN website, the group embedded the music video for “Fragile,” a Mandopop song sung by Malaysian rapper Namewee (ι»ζεΏ) and Taiwan-based Australian singer Kimberley Chen (ι³θ³θͺ). The video is full of satire directed at the Chinese Communist Party, from the extensive use of the color pink to symbolize the jingoistic Chinese nationals referred to as “little pinks” (ε°η²η΄
) to a giant, clumsy panda.
The rest of Anonymous’ hack was dedicated to solutions to the current standoff between Russia and Western allies over eastern Ukraine. The hackers called for the creation of a “neutral grouping” of countries “wedged between NATO and Russia” that would include Ukraine, Finland, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Moldova.
This “neutral security belt” could serve as an alliance similar to NATO or the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the group argues, claiming such a grouping would act as a cordon sanitaire to “assuage Russia’s fears without NATO losing its face.”
A paper by Quincy Institute senior fellow Anatol Lieven titled “Ending the Threat of War in Ukraine” was embedded at the bottom of the page. Like Lieven did in his paper, the hacktivists called for a referendum to be held in Ukraine’s Donbass region on its ultimate fate.
Unlike the paper, however, which advocates a referendum on a union with Russia, Anonymous called for a referendum on whether to “follow a peace protocol or hand over the territories of Donbass to a United Nations peacekeeper administration.”
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Red Patriot Lu Xuanxuan isn’t amused… She just applied to MIT to learn all about hacking and she plan to hack the hell out of the Anonymous Bastard!
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