ImageShack, one of the web’s biggest image hosts, was hacked by a group called the “Anti-sec” movement this Friday evening. Their attack caused random images hosted by ImageShack to be replaced with the Anti-sec manifesto.
The group says they want to give everyone an “image of what we’re all about.” Anti-sec hacked ImageShack to deliver a message: eradication of full disclosure.
The Anti-sec movement claims that disclosure of security exploits by the security industry is self-serving. Instead of helping users, full disclosure acts merely as a scare tactic to convince people to buy their firewalls, anti-virus software, and auditing services.
In addition, it encourages other hackers to compile the exploits and use them to attack other websites. Anti-Sec says it creates an endless cycle between security fixes and hacker exploits, which only makes the security industry richer.
The group ends with a warning that supporters of full-disclosure and the security industry will not be spared.
It is implied that no images were lost in the process of hacking ImageShack.

