Anonymous Dumps Australian Telco Data Online 87
lukehopewell1 writes "After the threats, admissions and delays, hacktivists protesting a data retention scheme proposed by the Australian Government's National Security Inquiry have begun dumping data gleaned from an Australian telco — presumably AAPT. Anonymous is in the process of dumping government and business customer data onto Pastebin for the world to see under the guise of Operation Australia. This episode is far from over, however. We're likely to see more data trickle out over the coming days, considering that the group has promised 40GB worth of leaks."
Re:"Hacktivists" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:40GB? (Score:4, Funny)
I have a 25GB monthly quota, you insensitive clods!
Don't worry. If it was a raw database extract totally 40GB I bet a lot of it is metadata and the content itself is probably highly compressible. I bet someone can put it in a more useful form and compress it and you'll be able to slide under your quota.
Failing that, I'm sure the slashdot editors could release a summary. They are excellent at making summaries of things - most of the time they don't even need the original data to do so!
Re:"Hacktivists" (Score:5, Funny)
You must not have been made to read Thoreau's Civil Disobedience in high school
...or he chose to disobey the teacher