Hackers unite! We have nothing to lose but our taxes!

Esther (From Xico) caught (and translated) the article in Proceso about an apparently well-organized guerrilla hacking campaign, set off, perhaps, by the proposal to tax the internet, but raising a number of issues needing attention:

Under the banner ¡Viva México Cabrones!:

“Ciber Protesta Mexicana (CPM)” modified 33 home pages of some state governments, local newspapers and businesses.

This protest, of a kind not seen before, adds itself to the outbreaks of civil disobedience against the policies of the government of Felipe Calderón and the political parties in the Legislature.

The group of hacktivistas make a call to the political class with the following message:

In a country in which our governors, deputies and senators think that we ae blind, that we ae dirty, that we are mute, that we will wait patiently with fear, without will nor protest, we Mexicans undertake this peaceful internet protest…

The modified sites called to visitors to leave citizen proposals….

By 7:00 pm, there were more than three hundred comments against the increase in the IVA (sales  tax) and in general opposition to “corruption, nepotism, abuse of power, ineptitude, influence peddling, embezzlement of funds, shamelessness, lives, thievery, illicit enrichment, favoritism, hypocrisy, and useless political parties.”