Nowadays, with the high profile hacks and exploits from groups like LulzSec, CabinCr3w, and TeaMp0isoN, we tend to overlook other groups more than we used to for not being as high profile. The People’s Liberation Front has been fighting for freedom from censorship, anti-piracy laws, privacy, and just downright shady, illegal, and immortal behavior by corporations and governments since the beginning. I admire them being, not low profile per-say, but more careful about not getting caught than other groups. Which is why we are now mourning the deaths of groups like LulzSec, CabinCr3w, and members of TeaMp0isoN, while still being able to report about brilliant things that the PLF are doing. The fight for freedom is not a one week or even year job, as the PLF long ago realized. Spectacular hacks make for good headlines, but mean little when the talented person who did it is sitting in a federal prison two weeks later.
While the PLF, and the freedom-fighting community in general, did lose Commander X last year to an arrest, he did manage to escape from the US and prosecution subsequently there after, and hopefully will be back in action at some point. That aside, the PLF continued on, undeterred. In response to the unethical and criminal actions of PasteBin, in reporting not only IP addresses but any information they could get their hands on about their users to the authorities and private security firms, the PLF has opened Anonpaste.tk. AnonPaste is a brilliant idea that allows Anonymous, PLF, and anyone else fighting for the cause, to post anonymously about anything on their site. When you post, the site encrypts the data on the browser level, and decrypts it when someone wants to read what was posted. This means there is nothing on the server except encrypted text, effectively shielding the site from authorities. The design is simple, yet elegant; and the security is top notch, while having zero censorship. PLF has also stated that there isn’t even a way for them to remove anything from the site, making what you put on the site, depending on how long you set the info to stay on the site, there for the ages. And the PLF did all of this inside of two weeks since the leaks of the pastebin emails by TeaMp0isoN, showing what pastebin was doing with the information it collects from the hackers who post there.
While i look forward to seeing new exploits from newer crews like MalSec, Ponycr3w, and others, i know that five, or ten years from now, when high profile attacks from newer crews inevitably end with members being arrested or going underground for fear of arrest, the PLF will still be there fighting the good fight in the name of all people around the world. And with the new AnonPaste site, in addition to TalkOpen, the PLF continue to show that they will come up with innovative solutions to censorship and moral corruption by corporations and governments. All that being said, cheers to the PLF.
(quick note: i hope groups like malsec and ponycr3w do not get v8’d, but if history has shown us anything with lulzsec, cabincr3w, ect.., its that high profile hacks and leaks that have a name attached unfortunately tend to end with the talented hackers being arrested. Not to discourage them from doing what they’re doing, because they are doing good work. I just hope they are more careful than LulzSec)
-Bree
@Anon_Bree
#LulzTeam
anonbree 
Thank you for your kind words about the Peoples Liberation Front. As the author takes pains to point out, we certainly do not wish any ill to befall our comrades in the other crews. However, one thing that 28 years of freedom fighting has taught us is that bragging is both dangerous, and dishonorable. For that reason, the many fine hackers and activists who consider themselves members of the PLF are specifically banned from ever taking personal credit for any action they take in the fight for global freedom and justice. That doesn’t mean they can’t publicize the action, only that they must credit the group as a whole. This has been our rule from the begining and it is strictly enforced.
In the past couple of years, since the relationship between the Peoples Liberation Front and Anonymous have grown so close – we have actually given credit for many of our actions to the Anonymous collective rather than claim them for the PLF. This is because of our firm belief in what Anonymous stands for, combined with a multi-decade culture of humbleness and honor in the Peoples Liberation Front.
In the end, it’s about why you do what you do that will determine how you behave afterwards. We in the PLF, as well as most of our friends and allies in Anonymous – do what we do because of a burning belief in freedom and justice. So long as that cause is advanced, and lives are saved and enhanced by our actions – then we have all the satisfaction we require.
We have no criticism of our fellow crews in Anonymous. We love you all, and we have your backs. But if we have any advice to offer from the lofty perch of a nearly 30 year history as a freedom fighting group it would be this: Do not try and claim your glory now. If your fight is true, and if you prevail – then history will bestow upon you all the glory you deserve. Be patient, be humble – give credit in the widest and most diffuse manner possible to your crew and the collective, and fortune will smile upon you everytime.
One final note on this wonderful piece by our comrade. I have indeed gone “back into action”, and you can damn well expect me.
SINCERELY YOURS — Commander X
Supreme Commander of the Peoples Liberation Front
Transnational Global Cyber Insurgency