The group known as "Anonymous" has now threatened the fearsome Los Zetas with public exposure of its members' identities and businesses if it doesn't release one of its members who was kidnapped during a street protest. The Anonymous video is linked below.
"The vow is a bizarre cyber twist to Mexico's ongoing drug war, as a group that has no guns is squaring off against the Zetas, a cartel blamed for thousands of deaths as well as introducing beheadings and other frightening brutality.
'You made a huge mistake by taking one of us. Release him,' says a masked man in a video posted online on behalf of the group, Anonymous. 'We cannot defend ourselves with a weapon … but we can do this with their cars, homes, bars, brothels and everything else in their possession," says the man, who is wearing a suit and tie.'"
Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets - Houston Chronicle
The retired head of international ops for the DEA says that the Zetas should take the Anonymous threat seriously. I'm not a fan of Anonymous, but after I read this article, it occurred to me that if they expose this vicious cartel, leaving it vulnerable to its rivals, they might succeed where law enforcement has failed.
What do you think?
Quite an interesting twist, I hadn't thought of a drug cartel as being vulnerable to cyber-based attack.
I have to wonder if the cartels really care if someone exposes their secrets.These people cut off heads of police officials and drop them off at police stations to intimidate the cops. They might torture the **** out their captive and kill him and his family just to make a point. I also have to wonder if these guys have computer nerds of their own.
I think their threat is to expose their secrets to the rival cartels.
Letting them know where Zeta's kids and grandmas live, etc.
As well as officials in their pockets.
The cartels are multi million dollar transnational corporations for all intents and purposes. They couldn't do it without computers, making them vulnerable.
The hacker activist group “Anonymous” said this weekend that it may begin revealing the names and addresses of individuals who work for the Zetas drug cartel, in hopes that the Mexican government would step in and arrest them.
Shortly after the release, announced in a video published in Spanish and English, some members of the group were claiming that “OpCartel” had been canceled because it was simply too dangerous. Others insisted the operation would continue, calling it a “war.”
In the video, a masked actor explains that “Anonymous” embarked on the operation after one of their members was allegedly kidnapped by the Zetas.
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