Plans by the hacker collective Anonymous to expose collaborators with Mexico's bloody Zetas drug cartel â?? a project it dubbed "#OpCartel" â?? have fallen into disarray, with some retreating from the idea of confronting the killers while others say that the kidnap of an Anonymous hacker, the incident meant to have spawned the scheme, never happened.
Looks like Anonymous isn't interested in taking on the Zetas after all:
'Plans by the hacker collective Anonymous to expose collaborators with Mexico's bloody Zetas drug cartel â?? a project it dubbed "#OpCartel" â?? have fallen into disarray, with some retreating from the idea of confronting the killers while others say that the kidnap of an Anonymous hacker, the incident meant to have spawned the scheme, never happened.
The apparent climbdown by the group came as one security company, Stratfor, claimed that the cartel was hiring its own security experts to track the hackers down â?? which could have resulted in "abduction, injury and death" for anyone it traced.
Two hacker members of "Operation Cartel", which said earlier this week that it would expose members of the murderous cartel, have now indicated that they are stopping their scheme to identify collaborators and members because they don't want anyone to be killed as a result.
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