The IT Nerd

For those of you outside of Canada, Quebec students have been protesting tuition hikes for the last 100 or so days with daily and nightly protests that have sometimes turned violent. As a result, the Quebec government passed Bill 78 to stop these protests. The problem is that this bill has attracted the ire of from a number of sources, including Amnesty International and most recently the United Nations, who say it infringes on such rights as freedom of association. Now it has drawn the ire or another group: Anonymous. They’ve done something that is guaranteed to get some degree of attention worldwide:

Anonymous carried through on a threat issued earlier this week that warned F1 fans to avoid buying their tickets to Montreal’s race online.

The group hacked into a website selling tickets to the June 10 race, dumping names, phone numbers, email addresses, the type of ticket and the amount spent online.

Anonymous had said it would go after the F1 race as part of its campaign against Bill 78, the emergency legislation Quebec passed on May 18 to deal with the protests.

Here’s what worse.According to the CBC, they also sent rather threatening e-nails to ticket holders:

“Do not fool yourself into thinking that you can avoid or contain us, or that the police will protect you from our makeshift weapons. There is nowhere to hide. We know every street, every alley, every park. We know where you will sleep, where you will shop and where you will drink. We have been planning to crash your party for some time now,” the email reads.

The F1 race is the biggest tourist event for Montreal. Any bad press will be one of the top stories in many places worldwide. Seeing the race is a week away as I type this, this could become a huge problem for the Quebec government. It will be what if anything the notorious hacker group does and how the Quebec government responds.

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