Anonymous hackers to attack from 9 June
livemint.com Mumbai: Anonymous, an activist collective (it does not like to be called a group) known to hack the websites of governments and companies worldwide if it believes they impinge on Internet privacy or the freedom of speech, has planned attacks on Indian portals from 9 June to protest censorship of content in the country. An Anonymous hacker, who used the pseudonym <~BitMentor> to moderate an online conference of the collective on Friday, made the announcement and pasted a link containing a list of sites allegedly blocked by Reliance Communications Ltd without a court order. “Reliance is not going to be the only one, any and all who try to kill free speech and Internet freedom will have the same effect,” BitMentor said in the Web chat. Anonymous is a secretive Internet meme that originated in 2003, its members largely unknown to each other, to fight any move it deems is against free speech on the Internet. India’s government has in recent months attempted to