"Congress approves Anti Cybercrime Bill HB 5808" - are we safer or worst for it?

[safeorigin]

He brought it to himself so HTFU.

[Retz]

SC didn't grant the TRO for Cybercrime law.

[ghosthunter]

[ghosthunter]

Palace websites down again, hackers post target list online
October 3, 2012 8:18pm
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At least two websites administered by Malacañang were inaccessible again Wednesday night, even as hackers who claimed responsibility for the attacks posted a list of their targets online.

The Official Gazette (www.gov.ph) and Office of the President (www.president.gov.ph) sites were inaccessible as of 7:50 p.m., with visitors getting an error message.

Both sites, which had been occasionally inaccessible earlier in the day, indicated they were "temporarily available or too busy."

Hackers had attacked several government sites early Wednesday, the first day the controversial Anti-Cybercrime Act took effect.

Many groups had questioned the new law, particularly its provisions on online libel, which they said can threaten the right to freedom of speech.

'Occupy Philippines'

As this developed, one of the hacker groups that claimed responsibility for the attacks posted on Pastebin.com a list of government and private sector sites to attack as part of their "Occupy Philippines" plan.

The group calling itself xL3gi0n Hackers even outlined the method of attack on the targeted sites, including distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) and botnets :

- DILG | Department of the Interior and Local Government - Kagawaran ng Interyor at Pamahalaang Lokal
- PIA | Philippine Information Agency | The development communication arm of the Philippine government
- Pilipinas Anti Piracy Team
- Department of Health: Smoke-Free Philippines
- The Official Website of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
- www.meralco.com.ph
- Welcome to the Department of Justice - Republic of the Philippines :: Tel: (+632) 523 8481, (+632) 523 6826
- Senator Vicente C. Sotto III
- Bureau of Internal Revenue Website
- Department of Finance: Bureau of Customs
- PNP.GOV.PH: Philippine National Police
- Welcome to National Bureau of Investigation
- www.ntc.gov.ph
- Department of Health, Philippines
- Welcome to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Website!
- U.S. Senate
- www.gov.ph

The site Senator Vicente C. Sotto III is the official site of Senate majority leader Vicente Sotto III, who had been criticized for supposedly inserting a provision including libel as an offense covered by the law.

Sotto, however, denied suggesting a 12-year jail term as punishment, even as he lamented he was being made a favorite whipping boy by critics of the law. — TJD, GMA News

Palace websites down again, hackers post target list online | SciTech | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere

[safeorigin]

This isn't surprising at all.

They wanted to "protect" the internet yet they can't even protect themselves.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.

-Machiavelli

[CVT]

Ang takot ko lang ay baka may sumisingit ng ibang elemento sa mga atake na iyan...

Taking advantage of the situation, ika nga...

16.9K:spam:

[Ry_Tower]

Ang takot ko lang ay baka may sumisingit ng ibang elemento sa mga atake na iyan...

Taking advantage of the situation, ika nga...

16.9K:spam:

And kunyari revenge ek ek pero actually, thieves din pala. Okay lang sana kung yung mga bopols na sinators at tongressman lang titirahin.

[ghosthunter]

Sotto nephew threatens critic on Facebook
By AILEEN ESTOQUIA, GMA NEWS October 4, 2012 1:00am

After Senator Tito Sotto cried foul over being bullied on the Internet, his nephew may have ended up himself bullying someone on Facebook in an attempt to defend his uncle’s good name.

Stephen Micharl Bacosa, Sotto's nephew though his wife Helen Gamboa, sent a private message to a certain Adrian Arcega, saying: "Pare dahan dahan lang sa pambabastos mo sa uncle ko ha? kilala kita. ka batch ka ng utol ko!! kung cyber bully ka, ako BULLY sa real world at alam nyo yan."

Arcega replied: "How 'exactly' ako nambastos? Don't forget, I (and the rest of the people) am your uncle's boss. Whether I'm right or wrong, it comes with the territory."

The screencap of these messages is currently making the rounds on Facebook.

Arcega, a musican and TV show director, believes that his posts last Sunday, most of which were reposts, were probably what provoked Basco into making these threats. One of the posts was a Facebook note about the Cybercrime Law.

Arcega and Bacosa are not "friends" on Facebook but Arcega is a "friend" of one of Bacosa’s family members. Arcega declined to name the family member out of respect for his friend who has remained silent and respectful about the issue. This indirect connection allowed Basco to see Arcega’s posts about Senator Sotto and the Cybercrime law.

Arcega told GMA News Online that he hopes calm and sobriety will set in as the Cybercrime Law is debated.

Online whipping boy

Sotto first received flak on the Internet over allegations that he plagiarized the speech he delivered on the Senate floor during deliberations on the Reproductive Health Bill. He was alleged to have copied portions of his speech from a US-based blogger.

He was also accused of plagiarizing a speech of former US Senator Robert Kennedy, which he delivered in Filpino. He denied all accusations.

With the passing of the controversial Cybercrime Bill, Sotto received more criticisms from netizens after it was alleged that it was he who made the last-minute insertions on online libel. He said the online defamation that has been posted on sites like YouTube prompted him to propose the inclusion of libel as an offense covered by the law.

He challenged his critics to question the law before the court and not to use the Internet to destroy other people's reputations. — DVM, GMA News

source: Sotto nephew threatens critic on Facebook | SciTech | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere

[170kphlang]

anybody here still using kumpareng katph or kumpareng isohants? :D

[Syuryuken]

Ang gulo niya.

Yung mga bobo at tangang botante ang magulo, kung hindi ibinoto e di wala siya sa senado

[shadow]

Si pia cayetano pala bumoto din sa cybercrime, eh she was using social medias to the hilt to gain support for her RH bill and now this?


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[chua_riwap]

Yung mga bobo at tangang botante ang magulo, kung hindi ibinoto e di wala siya sa senado

Kelan ba ulit tatakbo yan? 2016?
Sana matalo na.....

[Syuryuken]

repeal

MANILA, Philippine – Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Thursday admitted that voting for the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 was a mistake as he vowed to push for an amendment of the law to decriminalize it.

Escudero, one of the authors of the measure, admitted his shortcomings when he voted for the passage of the measure, without noticing the contested provision, which allows criminal liability for those who would violate it.

The measure was met with a wall of opposition after President Benigno Aquino III signed it into law.
“Kasalukuyan naming pinag-aaralan ang paghain maski na ganito kaaga ng amendatory law para alisin at i-repeal ang probisyon na yun para maging consistent sa nauna kong bill na finile kaugnay ng repeal ng libel law para civil na lang ang ang liability at walang criminal liability(We are now studying filing an amendatory law even this early to repeal that provision just to be consistent with my bill that I filed in connection with libel law to impose civil, instead of criminal liability),” Escudero said

He was referring to the bill he filed to repeal the criminal liability in the libel law.

“I’ll take out the criminal liability but the civil liability provision will be intact, meaning no jail penalty,” said the senator.
Escudero admitted there was an oversight on his part when he approved and signed the committee report of the measure.
“Ayokong magbigay ng anumang dahilan o motibo. Aaminin ko na lang siguro ang amin pagkukulang, personally hindi ako makapagsalita sa ibang senador (I don’t want to give any reason or motive. I will just admit our shortcomings, personally because I can’t speak for other senators),’ he said.

In the meantime , Escudero said, the law may still be implemented unless Congress adopts a joint resolution to postpone it.

Anti-cybercrime law a mistake

Susme matagal ng civil case ang libel para namang hindi nag-aral ng law.

[CoDer]

Todo deny naman kampo ni Sotto ngayon regarding his nephew.

Tado talaga tong taong to.

[Syuryuken]

Kelan ba ulit tatakbo yan? 2016?
Sana matalo na.....

hanggat marami ang bobo at tanga mananalo yan

[vinj]

Si pia cayetano pala bumoto din sa cybercrime, eh she was using social medias to the hilt to gain support for her RH bill and now this?


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Sabi niya ata na di niya nakita yung provision ng mabuti... anak ng.

Are they not supposed to read and weigh every provision before signing anything?

[Ry_Tower]

Sabi niya ata na di niya nakita yung provision ng mabuti... anak ng.

Are they not supposed to read and weigh every provision before signing anything?

hanggat marami ang bobo at tanga mananalo yan

Todo deny naman kampo ni Sotto ngayon regarding his nephew.

Tado talaga tong taong to.

Susme matagal ng civil case ang libel para namang hindi nag-aral ng law.

Sobra na, tama na!!!

[CoDer]

Sobra na, tama na!!!

Kulang tatlong face palm mo paps. Tingnan mo naman yung lineup o.

[Ry_Tower]

^ Footpalm na dapat pala ng isang herd ng toro!

BTT: Aquino moves to allay cyber fears | Inquirer Technology

Mabuti naman at pag-aaralan nila uli at magkakaroon ng consultations.

[170kphlang]

so bawal na nga talaga at mahuhuli na gumagamit ng mga torr...?