'Terrorist organization'? Turkish hackers face quarter-century prison terms

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://rt.com/news/redhack-turkey-terrorism-trial-056/

RT.com
10 October 2012

Members of the RedHack group are facing up to 24 years in prison after 
prosecutors qualified their activity as aiding “an armed terrorist 
organization.” The defense claims the allegations are part of state 
policy of targeting the opposition.

Turkish hacker group RedHack is being held responsible for taking down 
the central Turkish police website in February, while simultaneously 
attacking 350 additional police websites across the country. The hackers 
are also suspected of various other illegal online activities including 
attacks on government agencies and leaking sensitive information from 
the interior and justice ministries.

In July, the group leaked the identities of some foreign diplomatic 
personnel working in Turkey. Following the incident, the prosecutor 
requested that the group be listed as a terrorist organization.

The group has denied the allegations via social networking websites, 
saying 10 people, including three university students currently being 
tried, have no ties with the group and that the allegations of terrorism 
are simply part of Ankara's policy against all of its opponents in the 
country.

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