Anonymous Philippines and Blood Security International, two secretive groups of computer programmers, admitted that they were responsible for hacking and defacing the website of radio station DZMM last Monday.
Typing and clicking on the DZMM web address will not bring the user to the station site but instead to a page that proclaims the names of the two groups. They left a message that reads “Our minds are constantly being invaded by legions of half-truths, prejudices and false facts. One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda.”
The hackers also warned that “We do not forgive. We do not forget.”
When news of this hacking incident spread, not a few were heard to have blurted “They had it coming.” DZMM has been accused several times before of championing certain causes, issues and personalities. It wasn’t exactly the paragon of subtlety in lambasting its enemies. It also wasn’t too meek in pushing for certain government officials or candidates.
DZMM and mother company ABS-CBN have been hit by critics for their unrelenting news coverage critical of the Iglesia ni Cristo, for example.
Even the smallest incidents involving the church and its enemies and detractors have been highlighted and deemed “newsworthy” by these news outlets.
The two news groups have also been labeled “too yellow,” referring of course to the color of the current administration. MM and ABS have become particularly enamored of late with Leni “Daang Matuwid” Robredo, propping her up any chance they get.
Anonymous and Blood Sec, for their part, do not appear to carry a political agenda. They don’t extort or ask anything in return for what they do, and just seem to want to call attention to the bias and blatant partisanship that’s prevalent in media and in government, which are both supposed to serve the “public interest.”