St. Louis Mayor’s Website Allegedly Hacked by Anonymous Over Occupy Opposition
- Posted on November 9, 2011 at 8:56am by
Liz Klimas
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Occupy St. Louis protesters said they have felt threatened by St. Louis’s local government and apparently Anonymous took notice, hacking into Mayor Francis Slay’s website and released a list of his political supporters and contacts, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.
But it seems that some of protesters don’t think this hack was really worth their cause.
According to the Occupy St. Louis forum, which posted that Anonymous had infiltrated the website, Anonymous writes:
YOU DID NOT TAKE HEED TO OUR WARNING… WE WILL NOW LEAK INFORMATION…
YOU CAN REMOVE US FROM KEINER PLAZA, BUT NOT FROM YOUR SYSTEMS!
[...]
EXPECT US!!!!
THE BEGINNING IS NEAR!!!!
The same Occupy St. Louis forum records mixed feelings regarding the attack from protesters. One commenter under the alias “Sallas” wrote “I don’t think this helped our cause one bit.“ Another with the username ”FuzzyButtons” wrote:
The sql dump really does hurt your cause. And for what, the equivalent of an e-mail list and a couple of blog posts? Scary.
And I don’t mean the information you posted is scary. I mean the fact that you think meaningless vandalism is more likely to bring change than reasoned argument or debate – that’s the thing that scares me.
Yesterday, Slay’s Chief of Staff, Jeff Rainford, meet with Occupy St. Louis protesters in an effort to compromise on removing them completely from Kiener Plaza. It was decided that a curfew would be put in place. According to the Fox2Now report, Rainford stated that the local authorities had turned a blind eye to many laws the protesters had been violating:
“I believe you got a different reception in the city of St. Louis than you would have gotten in Ballwin, Chesterfield, or St. Charles,” he told the forty or so protestors present. “And yet some of you think we’re bad guys. Well maybe you ought to test it out and see what reaction you would get in Ballwin, Chesterfield or St. Charles.”
About 40 Occupy St. Louis protesters showed up to the meeting to discuss the logistics of their protesting, but many refused to speak. (Photo: CBS Local)
During the meeting one protester accused Rainford of threatening the group, according to the local CBS channel, to which Rainford responded:
“I don’t know where you read in the newspaper, or what newspaper or tv station said that I was threatening violence. I wasn’t. It’s very easy. I condemn the violence in Oakland. I condemn violence here. I condemn violence everywhere.”
But Rainford made it clear that the curfew at Kiener Plaza will be enforced “sooner than later” with those living there in tents getting “24 hours advance
notice.”
If you’re interested in watching the local Fox News coverage of the meeting, watch the video report here.
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SandyfromChesterfield
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:30pmI do not appreciate Mayor Slay trying to solve his problem by sending this communist movement to the city of Chesterfield!
Report Post »CrazyDanMan
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:51pmThis is what democracy looks like? I’m going to start living like Kosinski (SP?) – without the bombing stuff. Oh yeah I’ll need a fast internet connection to watch GB TV too. and I can’t forget my microwave…or my MAC…or my IPHONE. Got to have my refrigerator. …
How in the world the city administrator didn’t die laughing at the “costumes” they were waring is beyond me. Like talking to a bunch of clowns. I know we should not underestimate these folks but come on. Taping money over you mouth? That‘s something my 9 year wouldn’t even do.
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 6:49pmget your ammo, guns and your bible.
Report Post »Get your Pepper spray FOGGER not the stream.
have fun.
hidden_lion
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:57pmjust wait until it gets really cold, then soak them and their tents with water….
Report Post »alpha2omega47
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:35pmThese people in this picture look like fools and idiots. We need to reinstate the draft and have every male and female serve two years in America or get out of the country and go to some third-world country where they might be content. These people have no self-respect, no self-discipline, no idea of what life is about. They are too smart for their britches; as they used to say.
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:10pmA coward always hides
Report Post »LOTO
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:44pmI’m liking the tape on the mouth thing.
Report Post »stage9
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:38pmliberalism = criminalism
liberalism poses a clear and present danger to the security of the United States of America.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:24pmLol @ Anonymous. More useful idiots.
Report Post »Primekid
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:47pmLOL. I know. Really. What a bunch of nerdlingers!
Report Post »PAUL GULLO
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:19pmif they would just run out in front of a speeding semi they can win , obama said so
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:42amTo lazy to work, to stupid to learn.
Report Post »htnkd5
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:14amIts time for businesses and the people to take their town back– if the authorities won’t follow the rules on the book, than the people should– shout discrimination, get on the news, jam the phone lines at the offices- but get these people out– they have stated their purpose- nobody else is allowed to remain that long, start filing charges of loitering, harassement, vandalism, call 911 for every incident that you experience, force the town to get rid of them- they can protest in peace but they have been given the time to do that– this was a warning by the extreme left about an October Surprise- also by Van Jones– Its time for us to start screaming and challenging them
Report Post »SmallGovBigGuns
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:36amMy little sister likes to change my facebook status to silly things too. I’m surprised they had time to do that, I figured with the weather getting colder dungeons and dragons would be real popular for their kind now. la la la losers
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:45amNo… most of them are rather anti-social and D&D is a social game. Most of them time it would be World of Warcraft or the new Star Wars Old Republic game that they play on line so they can be complete jack@$$3$$ on line and no one will know who they really are.
Report Post »Pouncing Porcupine
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:04amYou don’t just “hack” into these system. There are obviously people involved from the inside.
The powers that be are desperate and know they will be voted into oblivion next year (if there is an election), so they engineered this “movement” knowing that it would snowball. These tools are being used to subvert our electoral process.
Occupy + (Impending Man-Caused Disaster?) = Martial Law/Suspended 2012 Election/Totalitarianism.
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Quagmir
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:29am@Pouncing Porcupine Hi you must be new to the internet and not know the systems Anonymous has hacked. Hacking a STL Mayors site was a half hour job for them.
Report Post »Pouncing Porcupine
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:41am@Quag,
Yes, I’m new to the internet in the last 15 years.
Who are the “them” you speak of hacking into a secure site? Wait! I’ll answer that for you: You have no clue who they are, and you probably have no clue how to hack into a secure site. I’ll say again, and with a high degree of confidence, that this was an inside job, or at least assisted by some disgruntled City employee who doesn’t like his boss.
Report Post »CrazyDanMan
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:42pm@pouncing-porcupine. Not saying this is or is not an inside job but hacking Apache 2.2 is not a difficult task. Do a quick search and you’ll find more than 25 well know exploits just for that one app. Information Security is an expensive proposition. Small IT departments like the one for the City of STL just can’t keep up with securing all their web pages.
You probably know this and are just being a little *****…:-)
Report Post »momrules
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:35amHow long before Obama takes over the internet to “ prevent ” things like this from happening? Any excuse is good enough for that man..
Report Post »Pouncing Porcupine
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:54amCorrection:
Man-child.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:30amThat’s what anarchy is kiddies. Everyone does what he wants, happy?
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:27amIn the long run this movement will cannibalize itself.
Make no mistake: I’m not dismissing these people. They‘ve very dangerous and I do believe they’ll get violent.
That said, I can‘t see this movement going very far if they’re turning on themselves while they’re still talking about violence and not actually committing it yet.
Personally, I think this is one Useful Idiot waking up to what (s)he’s gotten in bed with. I think there will be more but the majority will end up so deep in it that they won’t be able to get out without (as Glenn so eliquently puts it) with a BULLET IN THE HEAD!
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:25amThey want their FREEBIES AND THEY WANT THEM NOW
Report Post »stlouisdan
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:24amOur Mayor and his COS are an embarrassment to this city. Remove these idiots and enforce the laws on the books. The curfew is not new. It has always been in place. Why give these wastes of DNA an audience. The Tea Party had to jump through hoops, for us to gather in Keiner Plaza.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:23amWasn’t me. I chose the name before they did :-)
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:35pmActually you chose it without knowing about them. They have “officially” been around since the mid 2000′s.
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:02amI say round them up and give them a one way ticket to the Socialist Country of their choice if they hate America so much.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:22am“The begining is near”?….
Good!….because I’m looking forward to being justified in eradicating them like the Godless vermon they are…..
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