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Sunday, October 25, 2009

The Antisec Movement

The Anti Security Movement (also written as "antisec" and "anti-sec") is a popular movement against the computer security industry to stop the publication of information relating to but not limited to: software vulnerabilities, exploits, exploitation techniques, hacking tools, and any public outlets and distribution points of that information. Movement followers have cited websites such as SecurityFocus[1], Securiteam [2], PacketStormSecurity [3], and milw0rm to be targets of their cause, as well as mailing lists like "full-disclosure", "vuln-dev", "vendor-sec" and bugtraq, as well as public forums and IRC channels.

As recently as 2009, attacks against security communities such as Astalavista[1] and the popular image-host ImageShack[2][3] have given the movement worldwide media attention.

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