Malaysia hacker group hacking Malaysia’s website
After the announcement of infamous hacker group, Anonymous, to launch an attack against Malaysian government’s websites, a Malaysia hacker group, known as Dragon Force Malaysia has somehow followed their footsteps and has successfully defaced one of the government’s websites – TourMalaysia. It is believed that both the hacker group, Anonymous and Dragon Force Malaysia did this to protest against the Malaysian government for their failure to protect the basic human rights (accessing the internet is now a basic human right, as announced by the United Nation) for blocking sites such as MegaUpload.com, FileServe.com and Wikileaks.
Screenshot below:
Update: It seems that more and more Malaysian websites are getting hacked. The official portal for Malaysia’s polytechnic graduate department has been defaced. The website has been put up with the same page as TourMalaysia, but this time, with some comments from Facebook by internet users of Malaysia on the page, helping them to amplify their voice, protesting against the government of Malaysia for blocking websites.
Operation Malaysia – hacker group “Anonymous” taking Malaysia government’s sites down (#OpMalaysia)
The infamous hacker group – Anonymous, has threatened to attack Malaysia government’s site, www.malaysia.gov.my. It is certain that they would be launching the attack to protest against the government’s strict rules on the internet. ISPs in the country has begun to take action against sites such as Megaupload.com and FileServe.com after getting a notice from the country’s internet regulation board – SKMM. They have announced the attack and they plan to launch it on 15th of June 2011 7pm GMT.
Greetings, Malaysia, We have seen the censorship taken by the Malaysian government, blocking sites like The Pirate Bay, and WikiLeaks. Malaysia is one of the world’s strictest governments, even blocking out movies, and television shows. These acts of censorship are inexcusable. You are taking away a basic human right. The internet is here for freedom, without fear of government interference. Do not think that no one else notices. Your structured government has done the talking, and we hear loud and clear. Let this be an announcement to all your people. This is a sign, a warning, and an opportunity to listen to ideas above your own. In a way you are being stubborn. But how will this help anyone or your country. We fear that if you make further decisions to take away human freedom. We are obligated to act fast and have no mercy. For rules were meant to be broken. And corruption was meant to be washed away and forgiven. Now we will wash your corruption away so be prepared. Take this as a favor.
by Anonymous.
Update: It seems that Anonymous has hacked into SabahTourism.com. They’ve posted database of the site on this page – http://pastehtml.com/view/ax3mejiup.html
#OpMalaysia is really happening.
News: Crazy fan-made Windows Phone 7 Ad
Wow. This is really a crazy fan-made Windows Phone 7 advertisement made by Brandon Foy. The whole video just looks like an official advertisement from Microsoft. Man, if they were to advertise using this video, I would say their sales would boost up, up and up! Check it out!
News: LG Optimus Pad, does it really set the standard for all others?
The LG Optimus Pad is coming soon. In YouTube, LG brags that it sets the standard for others. Is this really true? I don’t think so.
Although it comes with a dual core processor, a stereoscopic camera for 3D video recording and many other new technology in it, it boasts a price of €999 (price which is announced in Germany, which will be about $1340). This is really expensive compared to the iPad (of course this should be compared to the iPad 2 but it is not announced yet). With the new Android Honeycomb 3.0 inside, this little piece of gadget really writes a new page in the history of tablet. Yet, these features would be a little too much for ordinary consumers as the one who is believed by the consumers to be the one who really sets the standards for others – Apple has not released their iPad 2. An intense competition is on its way.
Will people buy it even though it’s so expensive? I doubt, but we will have to really look at the numbers before jumping to conclusions. Video below.
LG Optimus Pad’s specs:
- 8.9-inch display
- Tegra 2 dual core processor
- Two 5 megapixels cameras (able to capture 3D contents)
- LED flashlight
- Front-facing camera
- Android 3.0 Honeycomb
Note: 3D glasses are needed to view 3D contents, it’s not glasses-free, unfortunately.
News: Google launches Priority Inbox for Gmail
Google launches Priority Inbox for it’s Gmail service. Gmail finds the important messages and sorts them out for you. Mails that are essential and important are displayed first, followed by starred e-mails and lastly, everything else. It works by checking which e-mails you read, which you reply to, and gives the mails priority. And even if the service goes wrong, you can always mark a message to be more important or less important.
Check out their video!
News: Telekom Malaysia is throttling video download’s speed
Malaysia’s top ISP (Internet Service Provider), Telekom Malaysia (TM) has been throttling video download’s speed. This action of theirs is considered as an action to conserve their bandwidths for more future users subscriptions to maximize their profits. Video files with file formats of MKV or MP4 are throttled. After the throttle of P2P services, they’ve come to the act to throttle download speeds of video files. This action of them is considered selfish and is making the community very unsatisfied.
I am also a subscriber of their service and I have made an experiment on this matter. I’ve downloaded two files, one is a compressed file with the file format of RAR while the other is a video file with the file format of MKV. Both files are provided by the same media file hosting service company so it can be concluded that both files’ server’s location are the same. Thus, server location will not affect the speed of downloading of both files. The results:
The first picture is the MKV file while the second picture is the RAR file. Both files are downloaded from Mediafire. From the first picture, you can see that I can only get 26.160 Kilbytes per second while from the second picture, I can get 180.624 Kilbytes per second. This is a huge difference between these two file’s downloading speed. I have made countless experiments and all results are the same. TM is throttling video files’ download speed.
Now, the community is now in a rage and this topic is being discussed and many have lodged a complaint letter to TM and to MCMC (Malaysian Communications And Multimedia Comission). If you are not one of us, be sure to join us!