About the hack of the Sindicat de Mossos d'Esquadra, and on leaking police info: With the Mossos hack I wanted to get evidence showing that they're spying on activists and social movements. Within 5 minutes of googling "Mossos" I'd found the SME page and the sql injection in it. I thought the site didn't have anything of value to leak, so I just backdoored the login pages to get passwords which would hopefully get me access to something more interesting, and was planning to use the @sme-mossos.cat email to spearphish mossos and get access to the important stuff. But, I also didn't want to spent too much time on it, since I'm working on some more interesting things at the moment. A catalan told me the database of police names and badge numbers would be really useful to journalists trying to identify police responsible for abuses, and I didn't really want to spend the time to more fully hack the mossos, so I decided to just deface their twitter (by having the police union announce they're tired of being the footsoldiers of capitalism and are going on strike lol), leak the database, and be done with it. After the paste with the data got taken down, I just put the data back up in one big torrent, without another paste where people could see all the data in one click. And I didn't draw attention to the fact that in the torrent there's also a database of 4200 students of the SME's online police academy (like half are affiliates of the union so their data is already in that list, but half are different). I wanted the info out there for anyone seriously trying to investigate the police, but not so widespread that random people would be prank calling them or ordering pizza to their house or whatever (let's be honest here, that's the only real "danger" they face from the leak). (I'm not @FkPoliceAnonOps) But I'm certainly not against leaking personal info of police, they deserve whatever they get. If a database of firefighters got leaked, it would be the most boring thing ever. The only thing they'd be worried about if their addresses were published would be getting overwhelmed with fan mail. The reason it's suddenly a "scandal" and "putting people in danger" when police info is leaked is because they know police commit abuses with complete impunity and are worried that people that haven't found justice from the justice system will look for it anyway. Of course, they leave that unsaid, since that kind of ruins their argument that police are innocent "public servants" that don't deserve to be exposed. And that's not to mention the "private" info people seem most concerned about like addresses is already public... https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/733226852513284096 For all the hacktivists condemning this kind of action, two books that changed a lot how I view militant and illegal resistence were "How Nonviolence Protects the State" [1] and "Smash Pacifism: A Critical Analysis of Gandhi and King" [2]. Those who feel the need to divide their movement into "good" and "bad" parts and condemn and isolate those engaging in more combative and illegal action, thinking it'll win themselves favor with their oppressors and save themselves from repression, are wrong, harmful, and ignoring history. [1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state [2] https://warriorpublications.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/smash-pacifism-zine.pdf