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NATO leaders have been warned that WikiLeaks-loving 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security, following recent attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce and defence contractor HBGary - and promise to 'persecute' its members.

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LulzSec and Anonymous police and FBI investigation sees two more arrested

Two men arrested in South Yorkshire and Wiltshire as part of investigation into international online hacking gangs

Two men have been arrested in connection with online attacks by hacking gangs Anonymous and LulzSec, Scotland Yard said.

The men, aged 24 and 20, were arrested on Thursday in Mexborough, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and Warminster, Wiltshire, for conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.

Scotland Yard said the arrests were part of a continuing investigation in collaboration with the FBI, South Yorkshire Police and other law enforcement bodies, into activities of Anonymous and LulzSec, especially in connection with suspected offences under the cover of online identity "Kayla".

A spokesman said the men were arrested separately. He said the Doncaster address was searched by police and computer equipment was removed for forensic examination.

Detective Inspector Mark Raymond from the Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), said: "The arrests relate to our inquiries into a series of serious computer intrusions and online denial-of-service attacks recently suffered by a number of multi-national companies, public institutions and gPressovernment and law enforcement agencies in Great Britain and the US.

"We are working to detect and bring before the courts those responsible for these offences, to disrupt such groups, and to deter others thinking of participating in this type of criminal activity."

In a separate investigation two men were charged on Thursday over online attacks by Anonymous, Scotland Yard said.

Christopher Weatherhead, 20, from Northampton, and Ashley Rhodes, 26, from Kennington, south London, have been charged with conspiracy to carry out an unauthorised act in relation to a computer.

Police had already charged a youth from Chester aged 17 and student Peter David Gibson, 22, from Hartlepool, in relation to the same offences.

All four will appear on bail at City of Westminster Magistrates Court on September 7.

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The ethics of digital direct action

Denial-of-service attacks and similar tactics are becoming more widely used as protest tools.
^{By Gabriella Coleman}

The political movement known as Anonymous has managed to capture the attention of the media, the hearts of many supporters, and the ire of many spectators after an eight-month spree of political interventions, stretching from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaigns, to human rights technical assistance in Tunisia, to a more recent spate of hacks under the guise of Operation Antisec.

The state has now fully entered the fray with its own flurry of activity. In the past month, twenty-two alleged participants in the United States and the United Kingdom have been arrested, the bulk of them (14) in connection with a single operation: the spectacular wave of DDoS attacks aimed directly at protesting actions taken by Mastercard and Paypal in December 2010. These were launched after these companies refused to accept donations for Wikileaks front man Julian Assange, soon after the activist organisation released a trove of diplomatic cables. Hackers and activists supporting the DDoS campaign (and certainly not all do support the campaign) regard this act as legitimate protest activity, akin to a blockade or "digital sit-in". Yet, if convicted, the participants of Anonymous could be charged with felonies and land in prison with excessive punishments.

On July 20, 2011, a day after the US-based arrests, FBI officials offered a rare glimpse into its justification for the crackdown, citing a need to nip "chaos" in the bud: "We want to send a message that chaos on the internet is unacceptable," said Steven Chabinsky, deputy assistant FBI director.

Although most of the arrests were for the DDoS campaign, the FBI official never differentiated between hacking and DDoSing. The former is defined by computer break-ins or trespassing, while the latter refers to gumming up a server by bombarding it with too many requests. Curiously, this official also never went so far as to label the alleged participants criminals, terrorists, or vigilantes.

By complaining about Anonymous’ (hereafter Anons) tactics in the absence of any stated criminal offense, the FBI appears to acknowledge, if in a somewhat oblique fashion, that the hunt for some Anons is politically motivated. The FBI also appears to acknowledge that, in contrast to terrorists and criminals, whom the state is justified in prosecuting since they have violated the contract that ostensibly undergirds social norms in modern civil society, Anons are in fact exercising their rights as citizens to demonstrate on behalf of "causes" they believe in: "[Even if] hackers can be believed to have social causes, it's entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts. There has not been a large-scale trend toward using hacking to actually destroy websites, [but] that could be appealing to both criminals or terrorists. That's where the 'hacktivism,' even if currently viewed by some as a nuisance, shows the potential to be destabilising," insisted Chabinsky, in language that mirrors critiques of 1960s-era social movements.

Of course these brief statements should not be taken as the state's sole, much less its final, words on Anonymous. They are interesting insofar as they gesture toward a social fact concerning Anonymous’ increasingly prominent role in social protest movements: Many of their actions are politically motivated and conscientious, and the December 2010 DDoS campaign, Operation Avenge Assange, was no exception.

DDoS campaigns can be legitimate tactics

Whether or not one agrees with all of Anonymous’ many tactics - some of them being illegal and disruptive, others falling in the province of peaceful and legal human rights assistance, and still others in a gray moral and legal zone - under certain circumstances, the DDoS can be considered as non-violent protest in line with well-recognised protocols for public assembly, the difference being the medium. Of course, as with any form of public assembly, some Anons are merely along for the ride. Others might in fact exhibit reckless behaviour.

But this is an inevitable feature of Anonymous' platform, open to seasoned activists and newcomers alike: Some novice participants cut their teeth on politics for the first time with their Anonymous brethren, forming, no doubt, an individual political consciousness, which has fed into a more robust sense of democracy in action, especially after Anons held campaigns in support of the uprisings in the Middle East and Africa that have helped to displace authoritarian regimes that had managed to exploit their constituencies for decades on end.

Even if the FBI is ambivalent about explicitly denouncing Anonymous as a criminal threat, its tactics of arrest and intimidation and their criminalisation of all tactics used by Anons, such as DDoS, constitute an approach to security and surveillance that deserves critical attention, especially if any of these arrests move to trials.

There are many ways to think of the DDoS campaign against PayPal and Mastercard, but one way we might think of it is as digital direct action. Emerging organically, this movement did not wait for a judge, politician, nor a journalist to declare a legal or moral judgment. Citizens took matters into their own hands. In less than 24 hours, a large assembly of citizens took not to the streets where protest activity traditionally unfolds, but to the digital agora to act on their own accord, to loudly assert their opinion on a matter, and to act directly against those actors they felt were acting unjustly. If they happened to break laws, these laws were viewed, with good reason, to be unjust.

Like all traditions, direct action is diverse in its make-up, tactics, history, and purpose. At times, activists seek to block access in order to protect a resource, as with tree sit-ins in the Pacific Northwest or blocking Japanese whaling ships in the Southern Ocean as carried out by Sea Shepherd. In the long tradition of Plowshares actions, the intent is to get arrested in order to publicise an issue. Anonymous rendered Mastercard and Paypal's webpages defunct for a number of days by flooding their servers with too many requests and did so to garner media attention, to make their platform visible, and to demand that Assange be given due process. In this sense, they were successful, no matter what the outcome of the case made against them.

What made the events of December 2010 unusual - and extraordinary - as a moment of direct action poses a challenge for prevailing theories of civil disobedience. Many of the most notable acts of civil disobedience, even virtual sit-ins, have been organised by small affinity groups in which participants are public and typically well aware of the legal consequences of their actions.Some participants in these actions even have their lawyer's phone number written on their arm in permanent marker.

Anonymous, which prides itself on not having a readily identifiable, corporate form, was powerless to defend itself using these methods. Thus, as the December events unfolded, I was glued to the computer watching how Anons would or even could minimise the risk and chaos that to some degree characterised these interactions. Remarkably, "the hive mind", as they refer to themselves, never spun out of control. They stayed on target and conjoined their disruptions with manifestos and videos explaining their rationales.

But at the time, one thing was clear and has been repeated by sympathetic and unsympathetic observers alike: Many participants were likely unaware of the legal risk they were taking, and did not have lawyers to contact in the face of a future arrest. The spectacular events of December, combined with the recent arrests, have of course changed all of this; many of us have now been educated as to the risks at hand. The legal risks and the philosophical subtleties of DDoS as a disruptive direct action tactic no longer reside within the sole province of a smaller circle of activists who have practiced and theorised this tradition for over a decade. A much larger swath of citizens have subsequently entered the fray.

In light of these arrests, whether or not DDoS campaigns are always an effective political sword to wield (and they are strong arguments to be made on both sides) is not the primary question that should concern us. The key issue is the evidence used to decide who is involved and to determine what they ought to be charged with doing. If a DDoS action is deemed as always and under every circumstance unacceptable - always a tactic of chaos - this will in the short term result in excessive penalties; in the long term, an excessive clamp down, such as felony charges for those that stand accused, could stifle these tactics altogether on the internet.

This is damaging to the overall political culture of the internet, which must allow for a diversity of tactics, including mass action, direct action, and peaceful of protests, if it is going to be a medium for democratic action and life.

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Are Anonymous hackers really on trial, or is FBI payback misdirected?

It’s a scene reminiscent of a thousand police dramas: the FBI arrived at the door of 20-year-old journalism student Mercedes Haefer, guns drawn, at 6am one morning last July.

She was still in her pyjamas, getting ready for work.

Haefer is one of 14 individuals who last week pleaded not-guilty in San Jose for waging cyber attacks against e-commerce giant PayPal.

The warrant for Haefer stated federal officers were looking for anything associated with hacking, infiltrating or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

Oh, and they were looking for a Guy Fawkes mask – evidence that would link Mercedes with the hacker group Anonymous (who have claimed such masks as their own) and, specifically, Operation Payback.

Payback

Operation Payback saw DDoS attacks on a number of companies, in particular Paypal. Anonymous claimed the attacks were retribution for decisions by executives at these companies to withdraw payment facilities from Wikileaks.

The FBI knew Haefer was associated with Anonymous because of her involvement on the group’s IRC channels, where she was known as “NO”.

But she denied having taken part directly in any of the DDoS attacks on PayPal.

Haefer was indicted along with 13 others on two charges of causing damage against PayPal’s computers. They carry a maximum penalty of 15 years in jail and a fine of $500,000. Two other people were charged separately.

Haefer is enrolled in a journalism and media pre-major course at the University of Nevada and Las Vegas.

Commenting on the charges against Haefer, the director of the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media, Professor Daniel Stout said, “We don’t condone unethical behavior that results in the harm of the audience."

He also said that if Haefer had continued her studies she would have taken courses that ultimately produce journalists with a strong sense of ethics (Haefer is still enrolled at UNLV and Professor Stout has since moderated his comments).

Despite a superficial understanding of what a DDoS attack comprises (and despite the fact Haefer had not been tried when he made his statement), he was ready to brand both the act and Haefer as criminal and unethical.

In an examination of the ethics of DDoS attacks Gabriella Coleman, a socio-cultural anthropologist at New York University, makes a distinction between criminal acts such as hacking and non-violent political acts such as sit-ins.

In doing so, she raises the possibility of regarding DDoS as the digital equivalent of an occupation.

That said, in the case of a sit-in, the aim may include being arrested to draw more attention to a cause – and it’s not clear that any of the alleged members of Anonymous were anticipating being arrested.

The indictment used for the so-called Anonymous 16 includes the charge of intentional damage to a computer.

DDoS

A DDoS works by sending repeated requests to a website very quickly, exhausting resources and blocking access to regular users.

In the grand scheme of hacks, DDoS is a nuisance but not a major threat to a company, unlike, say, losing the details of user accounts and passwords.

This was a view shared by Deputy Assistant FBI Director Steven Chabinski.

“There has not been a large-scale trend toward using hacking to actually destroy websites, [but] that could be appealing to both criminals or terrorists,” Chabinsky told radio station NPR in July.

“That’s where the ‘hacktivism,’ even if currently viewed by some as a nuisance, shows the potential to be destabilizing.”

Ethics

Leaving aside considerations as to whether DDoS attacks are themselves ethical, the charge that the Anons lack a sense of ethics, as suggested by Professor Stout and others, seems even less certain.

If anything, it’s the Anons' sense of righting the wrongs of corporations and governments that underpins most of their activities.

Haefer said she became interested in the activities of Anonymous in part because of a sense of injustice at the inappropriate punishment for a woman accused of distributing 24 songs.

She was referring to the US$2 million fine imposed on Jammie Thomas-Rasset for sharing music, a fine which was later reduced to a US$54,000.

Haefer’s case can be contrasted by that of a 16-year-old woman from France who claimed the hack of San Fransisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transport Police Officers Association last month.

The young hacker had released the personal details of 100 officers. Going by the handle “Lamaline_5mg”, she claimed this was her first hack, and that she had little experience and had picked up enough information to hack the site in less than four hours.

Whereas Haefer claimed no previous technical knowledge, Lamaline was technically savvy enough to use techniques to cover her tracks, making her protestations of technical naivety slightly suspect.

Interestingly, Lamaline had not associated herself with Anonymous – in fact, some people on an Anonymous chat room condemned the attack as irresponsible.
Kicking an open door

One confounding factor in the actions of Anons is the relatively low barrier to entry for participation.

A simple search online will provide links to downloadable software to enable the participation in a DDoS.

Software such as the LOIC is simple to use and requires no technical expertise. There are readily accessible videos that demonstrate their use.

Anyone can go on to the Anonymous IRC channel and listen in. You can follow the activities of Anonymous and others on Twitter.

Accompanying this ease of access is the separation of actions and consequence – a separation encapsulated by using DDoS software.

Unsophisticated users would potentially struggle to understand how traceable their actions are.

The fact the FBI had little trouble in rounding up the 14 suspects being tried together in the DDoS attacks is more a testament to the ease of tracing individuals than a reflection of the technical abilities of the FBI.

Their single unifying feature of those arrested in connection with Operation Payback is their young age, given most of those charged are in their twenties.

The reaction against Anonymous from the general public, lawmakers and security specialists comes across almost as a generational conflict.

This is epitomised by Haefer having to leave her father’s home because he supposedly viewed his daughter (in Haefer’s words) as “a terrorist”.

And Haefer? She still believes in the positive things Anonymous is doing and is looking forward to making that known, without a mask, at her day in court.

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One on One: Cole Stryker, Author of ‘Epic Win for Anonymous’

Cole Stryker, a freelance writer and media consultant living in New York, spent years digging into Internet culture and communities, both as a participant and as a blogger covering viral phenomena. He’s the author of a new book called “Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan’s Army Conquered the Web.” He discussed with me what it’s like exploring the seedy underbelly of the Internet, the rise of Anonymous, and why it and 4chan, widely considered one of the darkest and most subversive corners of the Internet, may be one of the most important and influential creations to emerge from the modern Web.

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Anonymous and LulzSec case: four accused males appear in court

Peter David Gibson, Ashley Rhodes, Christopher Weatherhead and a 17-year-old student released on bail

Four British males have been banned from using online nicknames after they appeared in court charged with attacks connected to Anonymous and LulzSec.

The four men – Peter David Gibson, 22, Ashley Rhodes, 26, Christopher Weatherhead, 20, and a 17-year-old student – were released on bail after the hearing at Westminster magistrates court on Wednesday morning.

The group's bail conditions mean they are prohibited from using specific online nicknames on sites including Facebook and Twitter.

Gibson, from Hartlepool, is banned from using the name "Peter" on the internet. Weatherhead, from Northampton, is prohibited from using "Nerdo"; Rhodes, from Kennington, south London, cannot use "NikonElite", and the 17-year-old, from Chester, is also banned from using his online nickname.

The four men are also banned using so-called "internet relay chat", the online forums where Anonymous members are alleged to have coordinated many of the attacks.

The four men are separately charged with conspiracy to carry out an unauthorised act in relation to a computer. They were arrested earlier this year by police investigating online attacks by the notorious hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec.

Rhodes, the oldest of the group who was arrested in September, appeared in court dressed in a grey waistcoat over a black shirt, with short dark hair.

Weatherhead, who was also arrested in September, wore a blue shirt under a short black jacket. Gibson has been on police bail since his arrest in April. He wore a smart grey suit, with a white open-necked shirt.

They will appear at Southwark crown court on 18 November for a plea and case management hearing.

Two other men, aged 24 and 20, have been released on bail following their arrest last week as part of the Metropolitan police investigation into Anonymous and LulzSec.

The unnamed men were arrested in Mexborough, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and Warminster, Wiltshire for conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 using the online identity "Kayla".

The pair are due to return to a London police station in November.

HELLO ANONYMOUS WE ARE ANONYMOUS

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Greetings Anonymous,

We are Anonymous. We direct this message at ourselves to clarify that Anonymous, is not a group or a political organisation. Anonymous is an idea. An idea that is the spark that ignites the fires of change.

We must also clarify that as humans, we are not always going to agree on everything and as it has become apparent recently, there seems to be certain individuals attacking others because they do not agree with their views or vice versa.

The solution is simple, if you agree with an Anonymous operation then support it one hundred percent and help to make it happen. Why waste energy fighting against an operation that may or may not happen. Let the hivemind decide.

There are also certain individuals that seem to have forgotten simple mathematics, that seem to think that one equals more than one. So let us remind these leader fags that one equals one, No more no less.

We are all equal, Everyones contribution is equal, We are all one. We have no leaders or official representatives. Those claiming to officially work for or represent Anonymous do not.

There are no recruitment officers as you cannot recruit an idea. Those that assume that they are more than the one and try to be leader fags will be devoured by the whole. Let us work together as a whole for the better of the whole.

Anyone dictating to the whole as to who can be Anonymous or suppressing anothers right to free speech is doing what Anonymous stands against and therefore becomes a target for the Internet hate machine.

Be a part of the whole, do not attack each other can you not see that this is what they want?
Unite as one and let us be the spark that ignites the fires of change.

United as One.
Divided by 0.
We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do forget.
Expects Us.

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Anonymous U.R.G.E Release

To the people of the interwebz,

We recently have become tired of seeing trending topics on twitter that were redundant and “pop culture” like. We have also grown tired of Twitter not trending hash tags that actually serve a cause and mean something to free thinkers of the world. We have taken note of why Twitter would not do so, they only trend topics which would “appeal” to people and can get people to tweet more. This was pathetic in our eyes, and we could not stand by and take it anymore. We have developed a program called “U.R.G.E. Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter (twitter edition)” which hijacks trending topics of our choice and and lets us tweet messages within them. This will help raise awareness of problems going on in this world and show people that real problems exist outside of “Jersey Shore” and “Sex”. We will distribute this program amongst Anonymous and anyone else who cares to use this for awareness and bashing corrupt politicians. This is not a hacking tool nor is it an exploit tool, it was created to make it easier for us to tweet faster without copying and pasting constantly.

You will need .net framework four to run this program:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa569263

U.R.G.E Users Manual:
http://pastebin.com/DGsgHFLQ


We Are Anonymous
We Are Legion
We Do Not Forgive
We Do Not Forget
EXPECT US!

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BREIN Wants PayPal To Cut Payments To File-Sharing Sites

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN says that it wants to form partnerships with payment processors such as PayPal in order to strangle the finances of file-sharing sites.

“We are in talks with the Dutch payment providers and are working towards partnerships,” BREIN chief Tim Kuik told Tweakers.net.

“These providers offer payment services to Web sites and since those sites are unlawful, then you should not deliver those services.”

Controversially, Kuik also says he is hoping that services such as PayPal, who take steps to identify their customers, can help where traditional methods of discovering the names of file-sharing site operators have failed.

“We are often faced with services that operate anonymously and have given their hosting provider false information,” Kuik said.

“We suspect that the payment providers have a good track, because the money they send has to go somewhere.”

While BREIN is mainly interested in shutting down sites offering unauthorized movies, according to a July announcement by IFPI, PayPal has already agreed to cut off funds destined for sites offering unauthorized music.

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Federal authorities take on Anonymous hackers

SAN FRANCISCO — Anonymous is not so anonymous anymore.

The computer hackers, chat-room denizens and young people who make up the loosely affiliated Internet collective have drawn the attention of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal investigators.

What was once a small group of pranksters has become a potential national security threat, federal officials say.

The FBI has carried out more than 75 raids and arrested 16 people this year in connection with illegal hacking claimed by Anonymous.

Since June, Homeland Security has issued three “bulletins” warning cybersecurity professionals of hacking successes and future threats by Anonymous and related groups — including a call in Manhattan to physically occupy Wall Street on Sept. 17 to protest various U.S. government policies.

San Francisco police arrested more than 40 protesters last month during a rowdy demonstration organized by Anonymous that disrupted the evening commute. The group called for the demonstration after the Bay Area Rapid Transit system blocked cellphone service in San Francisco stations to quell a planned protest over a police shooting on a subway platform.

“Anonymous’ activities increased throughout 2011 with a number of high-profile attacks targeting both public- and private-sector entities,” one of the bulletins issued last month said.

Some members of the group have called for shutting down Facebook in November over privacy issues, though other Anonymous followers are disavowing such an attack, underscoring just how loosely organized the group is and how problematic it is to police.

“Anonymous insist they have no centralized operational leadership, which has been a significant hurdle for government and law enforcement entities attempting to curb their actions,” an Aug. 1 Homeland Security bulletin noted. “With that being said, we assess with high confidence that Anonymous and associated groups will continue to exploit vulnerable publicly available Web servers, Web sites, computer networks and other digital information mediums for the foreseeable future.”

Followers posting to Twitter and conversing on Internet Relay Chat insist there are no defined leaders of Anonymous and that it’s more of a philosophy than a formal club, though a small group of members do the most organizing online.

“Anonymous is not a group, it does not have leaders, people can do ANYTHING under the flag of their country,” wrote one of the more vocal members who asked not to be identified.

“Anything can be a threat to National Security, really,” the member said in an e-mail interview. “Any hacker group can be.”

Some members ‘dangerous’

The member said that the group as a whole is not a national security threat but conceded that some individuals acting under Anonynous’s banner may be considered dangerous.

DHS’s latest bulletin, issued Sept. 3, warned that the group has been using social-media networks to urge followers working in the financial industry to sabotage their employers’ computer systems.

The DHS warning comes on the heels of several Anonymous-led protests of the San Francisco Bay area’s transit agency that led to FBI raids of 35 homes and dozens of arrests, as well as to the indictment of 14 followers in July on felony computer hacking charges in connection with a coordinated “denial-of-service attack” against PayPal’s Web site last year.

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BART Doesn’t Want Media Detained…

San Francisco, CA – In previous articles, we’ve discussed the various arrests at a protest organized by “No Justice No BART” Thursday. Including, the arrests of journalism students, journalists, and protesters. Another protest is planned for today.

Today’s protest, is a part of ongoing weekly protests by “Anonymous”, an online collective, that has no membership or group structure. They call their protests “Operation Bart” or “#OpBart”, and have been protesting at the BART Civic Center station for the last 4 weeks, and are now on #OpBart-5.

According to statements from people related to Anonymous, today’s protest will be outside of the BART Civic Center station, and may include a march towards other stations as they have done during previous protests.

In a phone interview with BART spokesperson Jim Allison, he told us that there was “internet activity” about a possible protest today, however he was not sure whether or not there would be a protest. When asked about the arrests of journalists during the last protest, Thursday, he said that if, during protests to come — the stations are closed, he would have a zone set up behind a police line, where journalists were a safe distance away, but could still cover the story.

The OpBart tumblr page, which has been particularly active in promoting/creating this operation, has made a statement of “demands”, that they want, to end the protesting at BART. Earlier this week, they revised those demands. When asked about whether or not he had read the demands, and what BART’s response to them was, he told us that “our focus is on making sure the customers are safe and that the trains are on time”. BART has been particularly quiet about these demands, and seem to be assuming that it will “blow over”.

You can find the revised list of demands of #OpBart here.

Follow us on Twitter for continuing updates on today’s protests.

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European Governments in Massive Sell-Out to Recording Industry

In a move heavily lobbied for by the music industry, the EU Council has voted, without debate, to extend copyright monopolies on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years. Despite opposition from many countries, and the European Parliament, governments across the EU have once again shown how out of touch they are with the public mood.

Despite a lack of any credible evidence that it will help content creators, the EU has sanctioned a huge grab of public property, which steals music from the public domain and hands it to record companies. The extension flies directly in the face of the recent Hargreaves Review which observed:

In the case of ... copyright policy..., there is no doubt that the persuasive powers of celebrities and important UK creative companies have distorted policy outcomes.

Yet the British government has chosen to ignore the advice they claim to support, and instead back "Cliff Richard's Law".

Swedish Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström commented:

The purpose of the European Union is to keep the various lobbyists for big business happy, in this case the big record companies that own the rights to 80 percent of all music that has been recorded in history.

Andrew Robinson, Culture, Media and Sport Spokesperson for the Pirate Party UK said

There can be no justification for this change, other than sheer greed on behalf of record companies. Copyright law is normally justified by saying that artists need to be compensated for their work, or they wouldn't make music, but virtually the whole of modern pop music was produced under the 50 year term.

Extending the rights of Elvis, Hendrix, and Amy Winehouse won't get them to produce more work. All this copyright extension will do is channel more money into the pockets of record company executives, at the cost of depriving the public access to work for which the record companies have already been paid.

This change will simply mean the music industry will rely more on their back-catalogue, rather than investing in new artists.

While EU politicians may do what the IFPI wants, the public they are supposed to represent grow increasingly sceptical of perpetually extended copyright. Lobbyists may be able to buy the laws they want, but growth of the Pirate Party movement shows that the public will not put up with corruption forever."

The Pirate Party UK calls on the Government to reject this cynical copyright extension, and implement a copyright policy based on evidence, not lobbying.

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'Leaked' FBI document calls Anonymous a national security threat

Psych profiles show LulzSec, Anons older, more politically focused than they let on, FBI concludes

September 12, 2011, 1:52 PM — According to a PDF containing what purports to be a leaked psychological assessment of the leaders of LulzSec and Anonymous by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (which also profiles serial killers), Anonymous is not only not a collection of individuals, it's a coherent group that poses a threat to national security.

Neither the FBI nor Dept. of Homeland Security have commented on the "leak," which may be a fake according to the TechHerald, but seems to reflect accurately the thinking behind a series of DHS warning bulletins and crackdowns that have resulted in 75 raids and 16 arrests of Anonymous members just this year.

Anons themselves refer to the group as a rough, almost coincidental collective of individuals that occasionally cooperate on projects to protest specific things.

There are approximately eight vortices of special interest within the collective, according to interviews, postings and counter-arguments posted by various Anonymi in response to invective by those it attacked.

Attacks are the work of small groups of interested individuals who, on their own initiative and using public argument as their weapon, gather like-minded Anonymi to protest governmental outrages or attack injustice in whatever form they find it, according to de facto leaders in the non-existent but vocal #OPpublicrelations.

In March, for example, members of Anonymous and 4Chan debated, in the finest traditions of American Democracy and citizen activism, whether to attack and defeat the Internet scourge that is Rebecca Black – the annoying but harmless pop "singer" whose made herself famous with a mom-and-dad-funded music video on YouTube that repeated the same lyrics so often it became apparent those might be the only words she knows.

(Other, less world-shaking Anonymous projects resulted in significant attacks against the embattled governments of Egypt and Syria, the exposure of government atrocities in Bolivia, civil protest against censorship on the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, attacks on Visa, Mastercard and Paypal in support of whistleblower site WikiLeaks and a long-simmering, high-profile protest against unrestricted greed, corrosive dishonesty of Wall Street and the and economic destruction from which the rest of the country suffers while financiers continues to prosper.)

The FBI has analyzed various instant messages, forum postings, emails, Twitter posts and other documentation and decided Anonymous behaves more like a coherent organization led by a small number of powerful and focused activists, not a politically involved group of individuals using the Anonymous banner as gathering point.

"The Anonymous ‘collective’ has risen from an amorphous group of individuals on the Internet to the current state of a potential threat to national security. Due to the nature of Anonymous, they believe that they are a leaderless collective. However, it has been shown that there is a defined leadership group," the document reads.

"A thorough assessment of each UNSUB’s online activities, speech patterns, and general writings was collected by the FBI. Each UNSUB was individually assessed by members of the SBU (sic) and a psychological profile created from these datasets."

Most of the members of Anonymous are under 30, but the bulk of its leadership are not teenage hacker/script-kids as many portray themselves, according to the FBI.

"It is likely" that Sabu, one of the more vocal spokestrolls for the LulzSec mini-collective of Anonymous, "works in the information security sector and has been doing so since the early days of the internet and hacking activities. His use of net speak is interspersed with proper American English diction and grammar that implies he is an American citizen and has been educated,” the FBI notes said.

BS, quoth the Anon:

"Anonymous is not a group, it does not have leaders, people can do ANYTHING under the flag of their country," according to one member in an email interview with the AP. "Anything can be a threat to National Security, really," the member said in an email interview. "Any hacker group can be."

If the document is real, it ends on a disturbingly dangerous and presumptive conclusion: that attacks and protests by Anonymous will eventually lead to the death of members of Anonymous, law enforcement or the public that will drive many supporters away from Anonymous.

Until then, Anonymous, whether collectively or individually, may be unstoppable in practical terms.

The overall assessment for the movement however is the following:

1. The movement is out of control and there seems to be no real coherent motivation


2. The leaders have begun to hide themselves a bit more due to arrests that have been made


3. Their reliance on technology will eventually be their downfall


4. Their interpersonal relationships are weak points, as such they should be leveraged


5. Their increasing attacks on infrastructure will eventually lead to serious results that could in fact lead to deaths

It is after the first real attributable deaths that there may be a tapering off of their ranks as the members realize that by outing individuals, actual physical actions can occur that cause great damage. Until such time though, the movement will continue with the masses used as fodder and the command structure urging them on to carry out their commands. – Psychological Profiles of Anonymous Leadership, FBI BSU Quantico, Aug., 2011

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Did Anonymous Hack WikiLeaks or Were They Being Framed?

On August 31st, 2011, as WikiLeaks scrambled to secure their cables ahead of a massive leak, their website was attacked. AnonCMD claimed responsibility.

It is being called Cablegate. The entire, unredacted collection of WikiLeaks documents have been leaked into the public domain, on August 31st, 2011, in an apparent clash of egos and information negligence. The whistleblowing, anti-secrecy site knew that this situation was about to become common knowledge. In a last ditch attempt to secure their data, an encrypted file was made available for download amongst their supporters. The password, they were informed, would be released at a later date. It was understood. This was insurance.

Within fifteen minutes of the announcement, as thousands rushed to grab the file, the WikiLeaks site was attacked by hackers for the second time in two days. However, there was a claim and it came from a surprising source. Anonymous have traditionally supported WikiLeaks, but now one of their purported members, AnonCMD, was repeatedly Tweeting responsibility for it.

Why Would Anonymous Hack WikiLeaks?

Over the course of the next few hours, AnonCMD described their motivation variously as being a test for their Denial of Service (DOS) program RefRef; a personal vendetta between themselves and Julian Assange over money; and an action in-keeping with the spirit of AntiSec and the Hackers' Ethic, which deems that all information should be free. Every couple of hours, AnonCMD would delete his historical Tweets, refusing to answer questions as to why.

RefRef is believed to be a program that is being developed to help hacktivists disable websites. It is due for release on September 17th, 2011. AnonCMD claimed that it is based on Javascript and they were testing it. Some responded with speculation that these tests were actually part of a publicity machine, designed to let everyone know about RefRef.

During the course of the day, their Tweets also stated that Pastebin (a site popular with Anonymous members for posting code and press releases) and 4Chan (a forum from which the original Anonymous meme was derived) had been temporarily overwhelmed with RefRef DOS packets.

What was the Reaction from Other Members of Anonymous?

Anonymous and their supporters were amongst those condemning the actions of AnonCMD. On Twitter especially the comments have been coming thick and fast. For example, AnonSikko Tweeted, 'any #anonymous supporter who supports @anoncmd needs to take a good long look at what hes done'. Earlier, he had raged, '@AnonCMD i dont give a **** who you are there are #anons who are having trials this week 4 supporting #wikileaks and yet you attack them.' WisdomsGrave added, '@AnonCMD Learn to put your ego aside and do what is right regardless of your 'personal disagreements'. Rationality over emotions plz.'

They were just two amongst the stream of other largely antagonistic reactions. Some bordered upon the paranoid or the astute, accusing AnonCMD of being a fake account set up to sully the name of Anonymous. AnonPhlex was amongst them, saying, '@AnonCMD O HAI there CIA gai trying to stir up dissent within Anonymous!'

A recent interview noted that Anonymous is more of an idea, made physical as disparate cells of Hacktivists and protestors, than a single, top down entity. AnonCMD may claim responsibility as their branch of the meme, and have sympathisers elsewhere, but the response on Twitter indicated that the majority of Anonymous members seemed unsupportive of the repeated attacks upon WikiLeaks.

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Defending 'Anonymous': Lawyers For Alleged 'Hacktivists' Speak Out

The cases are still in their early stages. But bit by bit, the lives and personalities of the suspects arrested and charged in July as members of the 'hackivist' collective 'Anonymous' are coming to light.

The prosecutions, stemming from cyber attacks on PayPal, AT&T, and a law enforcement website, represent the government's first major salvo against a group whose operations it considers an increasing criminal threat, at the same time as its basic construction has remained largely opaque.

But while the charges are clear cut, the potential motives of the accused are less so. Indeed that's the key question. Who are Anonymous, and what do they want, if anything? Is Anonymous even a real organization, or is it an ethos? And does that distinction really matter, when there are real crimes being committed under the Anonymous banner?

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7th Annual Palantir Government e-mail announcement:

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GovCon 7 will feature presentations and live demos highlighting deployment successes, recent and on-going product advancements, along with a selection of breakout sessions and trainings for analysts and developers.

Guest speakers will include former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Assistant Executive VP Linda Krieg and Executive Director Michael Geraghty. Palantir engineering talks will showcase our latest advances in addressing the data, operational and analytical challenges of large enterprises, including:

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Come learn about how, as budgets are shrinking, you can do a lot more with much less, very quickly.

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Doodgemartelde lichamen waarschuwing voor Mexicaanse bloggers


Gisteren zijn de doodgemartelde lichamen van twee Mexicanen aan een voetgangersbrug in de stad Nuevo Laredo opgehangen. Op deze gruwelijke manier worden inwoners gewaarschuwd niet informatie over de drugsmisdaden in het land te bloggen.

In de buurt van de brug hingen affiches waarop bloggers over drugsgerelateerd geweld aangemaand worden daarmee te stoppen indien ze niet hetzelfde lot willen ondergaan.

'Dit zal gebeuren met alle internetters. We houden jullie in de gaten', gesigneerd Z. De Z staat voor 'Zetas', het drugskartel dat hiermee de martelingen opeist.

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AnonMedicDS twitterde op donderdag 15-09-2011 om 07:50:37 @FightTheCartels all who stand for the faceless is #anonymous, welcome. #opMexico reageer retweet

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http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

This channel will feature live streams from global non violent revolution spreading across the globe, with the first broadcasts from Wall Street Occupation in NYC that will start on Saturday, September 17, 2011. The channel will also feature live stream from solidarity protests and events in Spain, Greece, France, Belgium, Iceland and other places around the gblobe

Live Video Reports and Content about the Global Revolution which started with the North African Spring, and is extending to every country around the World.

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RudePacMan twitterde op zaterdag 17-09-2011 om 16:46:37 “@OccupyWallSt Gil-Scot Heron was right. The #revolution will not be televised #OccupyWallStreet” reageer retweet

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Pirate party snatches seats in Berlin state election

Irreverent campaign that initially focused on filesharing, data protection and censorship draws 8.5% of vote, exit polls indicate

An upstart band of internet freedom activists are to enter Berlin's state parliament, ousting the Free Democrats, Angela Merkel's junior partner in the unpopular national government. It marks a remarkable success for the small Pirate party, which attracted 8.5% of the vote, winning its first ever seats in a state parliament, according to the first exit polls on Sunday.

Their irreverent campaign captured the imagination of young voters as the party expanded its platform from an original focus on filesharing, censorship and data protection, to include social issues and citizens' rights. The party, which was founded in 2006, was "in tune with the Berlin vibe with their relaxed campaign", Holger Liljeberg of the Info polling institute, told Reuters. "They focus a lot on liberalism, freedom and self-determination."

Once opinion pollsters began to predict that they might overcome the crucial 5% hurdle to get into parliament, the momentum behind the Pirates began to grow, with supporters no longer worrying that a vote for them would be wasted.

The result is not the first European success for the Pirates. The original Swedish version of the party won a seat in the European parliament in 2009 after capturing just over 7% of the vote. Support for the party had soared after the jailing of the four founders of the Pirate Bay filesharing site.

While the Pirates were the surprise success story of the Berlin elections, the centre-left Social Democrats are also celebrating after topping the polls with 29.5% of the vote. Popular mayor Klaus Wowereit, who has run Berlin for 10 years, will form a new coalition with one of the smaller parties.

For the FDP, meanwhile, the Berlin vote was the latest in a series of humiliating defeats, marking the fifth ejection from a state parliament this year. Despite a last-ditch attempt to tap into public resentment at the bailouts for other eurozone countries, it only managed to attract 2% of the vote, down from 7.6% in 2006.

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2012revolution twitterde op dinsdag 20-09-2011 om 19:13:49 #OccupyWallStreet Yahoo Censorship in action #Anonymous http://t.co/kfSr0Bej reageer retweet

#OccupyWallStreet Yahoo Censorship in action

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Pizza Orders from Around the World: A Sign #OccupyWallStreet Could Last Awhile?

For two days now, hundreds of protesters have occupied Zuccotti Park, a private park in and around Wall Street, as part of Occupy Wall Street. (See last night’s live blog here.) The protesters intended to legally assemble and demonstrate on the public sidewalks on Wall Street, but the New York Police Department (NYPD) put up blockades before the planned occupation began preventing any protests from happening.

That more than a hundred have been allowed to sleep in the park for two nights now is quite an accomplishment. Every night they sleep in the park (which has been dubbed Liberty Plaza) and prolong this occupation the protesters are increasing the possibility for seriously calling attention to the corruption perpetrated by Wall Street. Having a site to call home base actually makes it possible to call the action an occupation.

Moreover, the organizers appear to be benefiting from past occupations elsewherre this year. Individuals from all over the world placed orders for pizza last night at a place called Liberato’s Pizza. The orders totaled $2,800 and the place ran out of dough and ingredients, which meant the protesters had to shift to wings orders. The website where orders were being placed crashed and the owner asked people to stop placing orders. As one protester tweeted, a real-life DDoS attack just took place on a pizza place.

The owner reportedly told protesters the place would name a pizza after the Occupy Wall Street action. Protesters are to vote on the toppings that they think should be on such a pizza. The pizza place is excited to be feeding the occupation, as it tweeted, “We’re restocked and ready for orders!” and “Firing up the Ovens, today is gonna be an awesome day!”

The organizers should find it refreshing that what they are doing convinced a number of people around the world to donate pizza. They should be even more energized if they can convince a number of people to donate food for the next days or weeks.

In Madison, Wisconsin, Ian’s Pizza became the pizza place of choice for the occupation at the Wisconsin Capitol, which was challenging Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union bill to eliminate collective bargaining for most public sector unions in the state. The place received orders from Morocco, France, Antarctica, Czech Republic, South Korea, Finland, New Zealand, Denmark, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, England, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Poland, Mexico, Singapore, Costa Rica, Croatia, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Armenia, Israel, Hong Kong, Haiti, Iceland, Egypt, Belgium, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, India, Qatar, Taiwan, Lithuania, Afghanistan, Slovenia, Uganda, Nigeria, Ireland, UAE, Kenya, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Hungary, Senegal, Peru, Sweden, Philippines, Greece and Pakistan.

Ian’s Pizza delivered more than 300 pizzas during the first days of the Wisconsin occupation (which many know on Twitter as #wiunion). They, too, received more orders than they could handle. The Wisconsin occupation lasted from February to March.

If all these countries had people donate to an occupation in Wisconsin, surely the world can expect thousands of orders to come from around the world in support of an occupation on Wall Street? Anyone who saw the Academy Award-winning documentary Inside Job knows the reality: the kind of casino capitalism Wall Street engages in has profound impacts upon global economy. (In fact, one might expect most of the pizza orders to come from Iceland.)

There’s some truth to the joke circulating on Twitter that the organizers called for 20,000 to swarm on Wall Street and they did—on Twitter. Right now, the organizers are working on reaching out to unions and universities to increase the number of people engaged in the occupation.

People all over the world are tuning in hoping to see America have a kind of “Tahrir moment” with this action on Wall Street. The amount of world support and the interest that exists in the idea of a long-term occupation of Wall Street may mean the protesters do not have to prove themselves by getting 10,000 to 20,000 people down there to protest. The snark and cynicism on Twitter coming from the Tea Party and some liberal supporters of President Barack Obama may be meaningless in the short-term. Just holding a camp with a few hundred for days if not weeks may be enough to send a message and remind everyone of the excesses of corporate elites, too-big-to-fail banks and how their influence pollutes politics.

Should protesters manage to keep this going for a long period, it could dovetail nicely with a planned October 6 occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC. Organizers could move from the crooks on Wall Street to the political class that enables them but continue all that they started with their Occupy Wall Street action.

The organizers have been inspired by the work of thousands in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Greece, Spain and Wisconsin. They have gained insight into tactics and strategy from watching those occupations play out. They want Americans who supported those uprisings to come down and be a part of a US uprising. And, they know every time someone from around the world orders a pizza, the occupation is extended and the possibility of this action actually having a significant impact increases.

*To support the occupation by sending pizza, here is the information: dial (212) 344-3464 or use the website to place an order. Also, if you would like to spread business around (which may be helpful to the occupation), here is a list of places that could deliver food to the protesters.

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Op dinsdag 20 september 2011 20:50 schreef Blobje het volgende:
Volgens de twitter accounts die hierover berichtten worden er aardig wat mensen opgepakt en wordt het plein schoongeveegd. Heeft iemand beelden of nieuwsbronnen?

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Michael Moore: The media ignores Wall Street occupation

Filmmaker Michael Moore appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Monday evening to discuss the media’s coverage towards the tea party being notably larger than coverage given to protests from the left.

“A thousand people were arrested a couple weeks ago on the Tar Sands environmental issue,” Moore said to Maddow. “Hardly any coverage of this.”

“Can you imagine if a thousand tea partiers had been arrested in front of the White House? It would be the top of every news story. People are down on Wall Street right now holding a sit in and a camp in down there, virtually no news about this protest. This goes on with liberals and the left all the time, and it gets ignored. Fortunately, there are shows like yours and others who aren’t ignoring it, but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening and it will continue to happen.”

WATCH: Video from MSNBC, which appeared on September 19, 2011.

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ANONYMOUS PRESS RELEASE FOR OCCUPY WALL STREET ACTION

Greetings Wall Street,

We are Anonymous.

The fetid empire of corruption and consumption that you have created is stifling the lives of hard working Americans. You have crystallized this country into a monolithic tyranny, yet in doing so made the ties that bind its people brittle.

Some four years ago you shattered this country, liquidating it piecemeal for your own selfish interests. We are here, gathered at the steps of your butcher block four years later, frenzied and furious. We are Democrats and Republicans, young and old. Your horrendous actions have crossed party lines. Your crimes have united this great melting pot into a white hot alloy of rage.

The world is stirring and with it, revolution is brewing. Perhaps you see yourselves at the eye of the storm, luxuriating in peace and tranquility while all around is ripped apart and made anew.

Anonymous is here to offer a gentle reminder:

You are not at the eye of the storm;

You are at the center of the crosshairs!

The seige of Wall Street will continue until such a time that the decision to consider corporations persons under the law for the purposes of first amendment free speech is revoked through legislative or judicial decision.

Entities that oppress the people while corrupting the public domain and due process are not persons. Corporations must cease to be considered persons under the law. Their sociopathic actions towards the public, the environment and each other have shown them time and time again to be unworthy of being awarded the distinction of personhood.

The people have grown weary of their corporate shackles, the greed of Wall Street having left them with nothing to lose, but their chains. From Cairo to Iran, London to Tunisia and Syria to Greece, this is our day of rage.

We are Anonymous.

We are legion

We do not forgive

We do not forget

Wall Street,

Expect us.

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Press Release – Anonymous Launches #OpOrwellRewind to Support #OccupyWallStreet

Greetings and salutations,

Our respects to the wealthy who have the talent and the resources to make a community thrive. An honorable mention to those in power who have the talent and the opportunities to inspire others. At this time we Anons are supporting and wishing you do well. However, we have a stern message for those who are addicted to risk. They have resources and they have opportunities but they have not an ounce of talent nor do they appreciate hard work.
As we have engaged in #OccupyWallStreet, we have seen more evidence of a disturbing condition. Those who are trusted with the safety of the people are committing violent crimes against citizens in the name of safety. How can this be? It is tempting to blame the nearest perpetrator and be seduced by limp 60s and 90s activism memes. You saw him hit that person. He’s the guilty one. Perhaps, you can write a letter to your public official. Maybe you can display your anger where the offender cannot avoid it. You might even start a protest. But as we have seen with Operation Orlando, Operation Fullerton, Operation BART, and others this is a common problem. Public officials cover their mistakes with fake supporters. Police officers continue to abuse the public with impunity. Civil Rights violations continue to be “validated” by the blanket of concern for “public safety”. There is a problem with a simple analysis. It does not explain how this behavior has become so common.
Naturally, Anons have been looking at the news of the last 10 years and the history of our communities and countries for the last few decades and a pattern emerges. A superstructure seems to be imposed upon us. And it seems to feed on the pain of the oppressor as well as the oppressed. This is an interesting situation. The fact that these problems persist may be partly explained by the hypothesis that we are in fact not hitting the root. Without spending too much time on theories let us get to the point.
We are living in a Security State. This is a far more dangerous climate than the Police States of the past because the curtain can be pulled back when its services are needed or drawn in front of the true machinery when its work is over. Witness how peaceful protests were allowed to proceed even to the point when people played frisbie. Then suddenly on the morning of September 20, 2011, police rush protestors. They take protective tarps for the people to get out of the rain. They confiscate energy and cameras. How is it possible that a police force can go so quickly from a peaceful protective agency to a violent oppressor? Is there a switch of some kind? To be able to change so drastically either implies deception, lack of character and honor, or complete indifference to the orders given. Perhaps a little of all three.
We have identified a superstructure comprised of banks and subservient corporations which have conditioned our police to go against human instincts of compassion and respect and caused them to be extended fingers of brutality against us from a distance. We resist, we blog, we scream out, and we wonder why we are not heard. Well we shall be heard as we now know both the nature and the identity of our oppressors.
We are announcing Operation Orwell Rewind. This is both a support operation to assist and encourage protesters involved with #OccupyWallStreet and also an offensive against those we see as the true villains. We will associate every incident of brutality and infringement of rights not with the police officers but the bankers and military contractors who radicalized police against the people. One of these clubs is the financiers’ club and the other hitman. Imagine if you will how much easier it is to poison those who are trusted with safety by training them with brutal techniques against the people than to carry out individual attacks against communities. We are on to the real threat to freedom… and they know it.
It is not the wealthy. They build. It is not the powerful. They plan. It is the paranoid, restless, reckless, and arrogant who are addicted to risk for they have no substance to stand on. They are parasites. The parasites steal and murder to gain far more. They conspire to destroy indiscriminately for, as the saying goes, “just another hit.” They are mad ideologues who promote racism and other divisive ideas to keep their potential competition and critics unable to gather strength. They are the enemy, not because they oppose the people, but because their lack of substance causes them to see anyone with more vitality, humanity, and ability as a threat to their existence. All the creative work of society is laid waste in the blink of an eye to buy themselves a thin moment’s rest.
We will publish the names of banks, corporations, and institutions that have sucked on the blood of the people. We will provide aid to creators and protesters. We will expose corruption. We will educate the people as to the use of emergency law powers which bypass checks and balances. On our way to dismantling this destructive cult with our creative disruption, we will make demands in support of #OccupyWallStreet as a courtesy, but we are prepared to render these parasites irrelevant by providing alternatives to their abuse. We give fair warning.

We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us.

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Why 'Occupy Wall Street' makes sense

Banks are sitting on cash hoards and corporate profits are riding high – yet ordinary US taxpayers face joblessness and cuts

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. Yet 2,000 people did occupy Wall Street last Saturday. They weren't carrying the banner of the Tea Party, the Gadsden flag with its coiled snake and the threat "Don't Tread on Me". Yet their message was clear: "We are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%." They were there, mostly young, protesting the virtually unregulated speculation of Wall Street that caused the global financial meltdown.

One of New York's better-known billionaires, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, commented on the protests: "You have a lot of kids graduating college, can't find jobs. That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here."

Riots? Is that really what the Arab Spring and the European protests are about?

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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers

The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix, FoxNews.com has learned.

Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana, an FBI official told FoxNews.com.

One individual was described as part of the LulzSec group, the other part of the group that calls itself Anonymous, the official said.

Cody Kretsinger, a 23-year-old from Phoenix, Ariz., was charged with conspiracy and the unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, according to the federal indictment unsealed Thursday morning.

Kretsinger, who goes by the online name "recursion," is believed to be a current or former member of LulzSec and is accused of being involved in the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Kretsinger and other coconspirators are accused of using a hacking technique called a SQL injection to obtain confidential information from Sony's computer systems.

According to the indictment, he and coconspirators distributed stolen information by posting it on LulzSec's website before announcing the attack on Twitter.

In order to evade law-enforcement detection, Kretsinger erased the hard drives used to carry out the Sony attack, the indictment said.

He is expected to appear in a Phoenix federal court Thursday afternoon.

Members of the Los Angeles FBI field office also arrested an alleged member of Anonymous in San Francisco. The suspected hacker is homeless and alleged to have been involved in cyberattacks on Santa Cruz County government websites, an FBI official said.

LulzSec is a splinter group from the “hacktivist” collective Anonymous, a loose collection of cybersavvy activists inspired by WikiLeaks and its head Julian Assange to fight for Internet freedoms — along the way defacing websites, shutting down servers, and scrawling messages across screens web-wide. While Anonymous is largely a politically motivated organization, LulzSec’s attacks were largely done “for the lulz” — Internet slang meaning “for the fun of it.”

Both groups have been targeted by the FBI and international law enforcement agencies in recent months.

In July, FoxNews.com broke the news that 16 alleged Anonymous members had been arrested in the U.S. and the U.K. Several high profile leaders of the group have been arrested since, including two individuals believed to be among the founders of LulzSec — and who shared the online name "Kayla."

The metropolitan police in London arrested the first alleged member of the LulzSec group on June 20, a 19-year-old teen named Ryan Cleary. Subsequent sweeps through Italy and Switzerland in early July led to the arrests of 15 more people, all between the ages of 15 and 28.

The two groups are responsible for a broad spate of digital break-ins targeting governments and large corporations, including Japanese technology giant Sony, the U.S. Senate, telecommunications giant AT&T, Fox.com, and other government and private entities.

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'Internet gebruiken in strijd tegen extremisme'

Europese landen moeten veel meer het internet gebruiken om zich te wapenen tegen gewelddadig extremisme. Dat stelt de Europese politieorganisatie Europol vandaag.

In aanbevelingen aan de Europese Raad van ministers van Justitie en Binnenlandse Zaken stelt de organisatie dat er een virtuele taskforce voor moet komen.

Europol bracht de raad gisteren verslag uit over onderzoek naar de dubbele aanslag in Noorwegen in juli, waarbij 77 mensen omkwamen. Europol doet geen mededelingen over de resultaten van het onderzoek.

De politieorganisatie zette onmiddellijk na de aanslagen 50 antiterrorisme experts uit heel Europa op de zaak. Ook liet Europol weten met politiebazen van zeven Europese landen samen te werken in een speciaal netwerk om internationale dreigingen van rechts-extremisme in kaart te brengen.

Daaruit volgt nu de aanbeveling dat er in Europees verband een taskforce en een platform moeten komen voor het monitoren en uitwisselen van informatie over de dreiging van individuen en groepen die in verband worden gebracht met gewelddadig extremisme.

Europol stelt de aanbevelingen binnenkort te bespreken met de EU-lidstaten.

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Organized Labor is joining the movement. The President of the Professional Staff Congress, a union of 20,000 employees from the City University of New York just arrived and pledged solidarity to the movement.

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Op zaterdag 24 september 2011 01:04 schreef rakotto het volgende:

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Dat gaat wat worden. De vakbonden zijn meestal de drijvende veer achter protesten.

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ScottMcKeeJR twitterde op woensdag 21-09-2011 om 04:36:12 @Evanguilbault Don't give up!! The movement is growing fast now. 4 states. #OccupyFDSF #occupyLA #occupychicago #OccupyMN #occuppywallst reageer retweet

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What follows is a living document that will be revised
through democratic process of General Assembly

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FBI arrests LulzSec member "recursion" for Sony Pictures hack

The FBI has announced that it has arrested LulzSec member Cody Kretsinger, 23, of Phoenix, Arizona, known as "recursion," charging him with conspiracy and the unauthorized impairment of a protected computer.

Kretsinger is accused of using SQL injection attacks to obtain confidential information from the systems of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Kretsinger and his co-conspirators are then claimed to have disseminated the stolen information via the LulzSec Web site, and publicized it on Twitter. The FBI also asserts that Kretsinger wiped his hard disk in order to avoid detection by law enforcement.

To hide his identity when performing the attack, the FBI claims that Kretsinger used VPN service HideMyAss.com. In spite of this, activity was traced to an address in Arizona.

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Important notice about security

An "HideMyAss" VPN service user identity has been compromised and as a consequence personal freedom of the customer is now at stake. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09...ny-pictures-hack.ars

As a consequence, apparently to defend their activity by saying that they did nothing more than any other provider would have done, HideMyAss released a series of statements which are not correct.

For example, they claimed that "all VPN providers keep logs. When there was a court order issued to them, they WILL release it". On top of that, they released on their website a communiqué which, in our opinion, is harmful to the professional reputation and to the the status of mere conduit of a service provider.

For the aforementioned reasons, we would like to re-assure our users and our customers that nothing like that may happen with AirVPN, for a series of legislative (we are based in the EU, not in the USA, and we don't recognize USA jurisdiction, obviously) and above all technical reasons.

When we built our infrastructure we had in mind access from people who live in freedom of expression extremely hostile areas, where identity disclosure can lead to critical threats to physical safety and to personal freedom. Therefore we have planned solutions designed to give higher security and stronger anonymity layers which can be used by anyone.

These solutions have been designed so that you don't need to have "faith" in what we say (for example, when we say "we don't keep logs", how can you trust us if you're outside activists circles?), but to be inherently secure, regardless of what you think of us and regardless of which pressures we might receive from enforcement or criminal entities.

The key is that we must NOT know who you are (on the other hand, EU law prohibits us to investigate privately about your personal data and real identity, or to monitor your communications).

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http://latakia-city.gov.sy/

Latakia, once a beautiful and serene port city, is now a hornets nest of military offensives, demonstrations, and everyday brutalities. Mass arrests are frequent. In early August, security forces arrested and detained thousands of people, forcing them into a football stadium and taking away their identification cards and cell phones. More than 5000 Palestinian refugees were forced from their homes and displaced. The Syrian navy continuously shelled the port city for days. Detained protestors are reprimanded and humiliated in school classrooms that have been converted into temporary prisons. Two year old O'laa Jablawi was shot in the eye and killed as she and her parents attempted to flee the besieged city.

And yet, despite the rising violence and suffering seen in Latakia, Assad continue to promise nothing and do nothing. The rampant corruption and brutality that are the trademarks of the Assad regime continue to flourish in Latakia and surrounding cities. One thing is clear, Assad fears the Syrian people. he fears what they will achieve if they collectively mobilize and demand freedom. And so he continues to use his toy army to strike down the peaceful demonstrators. But as each day brings them closer to the end of Assad’s tyranny and the taste of freedom, we applaud the Syrian people’s courage.

Latakia - CNN Arwa Damon Exposes Syria Army Murder of 2yr old child

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Arrestaties bij betoging Manhattan die al week duurt

De Amerikaanse politie heeft gisteren ongeveer 80 betogers gearresteerd in het financiële district in Manhattan, in New York. Daar wordt sinds 17 september betoogd tegen het financiële systeem, waarin volgens de betogers rijken profiteren ten koste van de rest van de wereldbevolking. Dat meldden Amerikaanse media.

De arrestaties wegens kleine overtredingen vonden plaats toen de menigte van enkele honderden mensen tijdens een protestmars in noordelijke richting liep.

Het initiatief voor het protestkamp kwam van online activistengroep Adbusters, dat mikte op tienduizenden deelnemers, maar de piek lag tot dusver op circa 1500.

Pizza
Een deel van de betogers slaapt sinds 17 september in parken bij het financiële district in the Big Apple en leeft op pizza's die als donaties uit de hele wereld via een pizzeria in de buurt worden bezorgd.

Bekendheden als filmmaker Michael Moore en actrice Roseanne Barr steunen het protest publiekelijk.

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Op zondag 25 september 2011 10:22 schreef Chokeme het volgende:
Fijne OP

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Police crack down on 'Occupy Wall Street' protests

New York police accused of heavy-handed tactics as 80 anti-capitalist protesters on 'Occupy Wall Street' march are arrested

The anti-capitalist protests that have become something of a fixture in Lower Manhattan over the past week or so have taken on a distinctly ugly turn.

Police have been accused of heavy-handed tactics after making 80 arrests on Saturday when protesters marched uptown from their makeshift camp in a private park in the financial district.

Footage has emerged on YouTube showing stocky police officers coralling a group of young female protesters and then spraying them with mace, despite being surrounded and apparently posing threats of only the verbal kind.

NYPD officers strung orange netting across the streets to trap groups of protesters, a tactic described by some of them as "kettling" – a term more commonly used by critics of a similar tactic deployed by police in London to contain potentially violent demonstrations there.

The media here in New York has been accused of being slow off the mark to cover the demonstrations, which have been going on for more than a week.

Here are some links to our coverage over the past week.

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The Face of Occupy Wall Street: Inside the Protests (Video Documentary)

Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution ( Occupy Wall Street )

Youtube Description: “We want to share insights into the formation of a new social movement as it is still taking shape in real time.

Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution ( Occupy Wall Street )

The video was shot during the 5th and 6th day of the occupation. This idea to occupy the financial district in New York City was inspired by recent uprisings in Spain, Greece, Egypt, and Tunisia which most of us were following online. Despite of the corporate media’s effort to silence the protests, and Yahoo’s attempt to to censor it in e-mail communication, the occupation is growing in numbers and spreading to other cities in the US and abroad. Please forward our video to likeminded people via email, facebook, twitter – and make the voices of dissent circulate.”

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Op maandag 26 september 2011 11:08 schreef rakotto het volgende:
De grootste nachtmerrie van de Kapitalisten/Amerikanen... Het communisme/socialisme in hun eigen land.

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Anonymous leaks personal details of alleged Wall Street pepper spray cop

Online hacktivist collective Anonymous has posted the personal details of a New York Police Department inspector caught on camera apparently pepper spraying female protestors at an anti-establishment march in Wall Street at the weekend.

The footage, which has been widely circulated, depicted a white shirted police officer who casually walked up to a group of protestors, many of whom were women and penned in behind orange netting, and sprayed them in the face before walking away.

The protests were part of the mainly peaceful Occupy Wall Street campaign supported by Anonymous, which is protesting against the greed of the financial market and the way it has dominated American political discourse over several decades.

In apparent retribution for the attack, Anonymous has now posted details to Pastebin of the officer, which it identified as deputy inspector Anthony Bologna of NYPD's First Precinct.

The details at the time of writing include the names of family members, and possible phone numbers.

"As we watched your officers kettle innocent women, we observed you barbarically pepper spray wildly into the group of kettled women. We were shocked and disgusted by your behaviour," read a note alongside the information.

"You know who the innocent women were, now they will have the chance to know who you are. Before you commit atrocities against innocent people, think twice. WE ARE WATCHING!!! Expect Us!"

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Attention #OccupyWallStreet : BadCop d0x | TARGET: Officer Anthony Bologna #NYPD

As we watched your officers kettle innocent women, we observed you barberically pepper spray wildly into the group of kettled women. We were shocked and disgusted by your behavior. You know who the innocent women were, now they will have the chance to know who you are. Before you commit atrocities against innocent people, think twice. WE ARE WATCHING!!! Expect Us!

———————————TARGET

Anthony Bologna D0x
NYPD Deputy Inspector
Patrol Boro Manhattan South - 212-477-6181


-WAS Commanding Officer of the First Precinct for the past 5 years
———————————Personal

-Possible phone number: (518) 989-9051

———————————Reason for D0x’ing

http://davidscameracraft.(...)-march-violence.html


———————————Relatives

Anthony Linda Bologna
Anthony V Bologna
Anthony Jennings Bologna
Linda S Bologna (family)
Dana M Bologna (family)
Jenna Angelina Bologna (family)
J Bologna (family)
Angelina Bologna (family)
Joanne A Bologna (family)
Anthony C Bologna (family)

———————————Schools

St. Paul’s High School (1970-1974)

———————————Last Known Addresses

5 Sawyer Ave, Unit A, Staten Island, NY, US
119 Slater Blvd, Staten Island, NY, US
5 Sawyer Ave, Staten Island, NY, US
1309 Lake Ave, Metairie, LA, US
Jennings Hill Rd, West Kill, NY, US
Catskill, NY, US
Lexington, NY, US
New York, NY, US
5314 8th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, US
236 E Gibson St, Covington, LA, US
134 N Carrollton Ave, New Orleans, LA, US
22072 8th St, Abita Springs, LA, US
6 Saint Jean De Luz, Mandeville, LA, US
1000 53rd St, Brooklyn, NY, US
1224 Lake Ave, Apt 205, Metairie, LA, US
10122 Lakewood St, New Orleans, LA, US
24 Claudia Dr, Covington, LA, US
6906 13th Ave, Unit 2f, Brooklyn, NY, US

—————————————-Legal Trouble

Plaintiff: Posr A. Posr
Defendants: Tulio Camejo, Anthony Bologna, Michael R. Bloomberg, Raymond W. Kelly, Joseph J. Esposito, The City of New York and Connie Fishman

Case Number: 1:2007cv07583
Filed: August 27, 2007

Court: New York Southern District Court
Office: Foley Square Office
County: NewYork
Presiding Judge: Judge P. Kevin Castel

Nature of Suit: Civil Rights - Other Civil Rights
Cause: 42:1983 Civil Rights Act
Jurisdiction: Federal Question
Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff

———————————————-Until Next Time Folks…

sauce: http://pastebin.com/nC4f5uca

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Op maandag 26 september 2011 20:18 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Hehehe, overheden terroriseren normaal volk --> Normaal volk terroriseert overheden

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Don’t dismiss the Wall Street occupation

It would seem that a populist uprising against corporate greed would find a widely approving audience, yet the current occupation of Wall Street has mostly been received with a mix of muted support and mockery. The now week old protest, which has been reported to have attracted several hundred activists this past weekend, is struggling to be understood.

There is no leader, by design, and the demands are still being formed by General Assemblies, a loose group of protesters who gather to discuss their grievances with what they see as a system that takes from the middle class and poor and protects the rich. They represent what they call “the 99%,” the population outside of top 1% of income earners.

Protesters complained early on that they were not receiving attention from mainstream media, so they took to social media, using the hashtag #occupywallst (and apparently spreading to #occupyboston #occupyLA #occupydenver #occupytexas #occupynola #occupychi #occupyphoenix as well,) sharing minute by minute accounts on Twitter, posting photos and video, and live streaming nearly the entire time.

The claims that there is a lack of mainstream coverage doesn’t seem to hold water, and could simply be a ploy to encourage even more coverage. The protests have been covered by Reuters, The New York Times, and major networks. Anonymous and Ad Busters are major promoters and loose organizers of the protests but the movement doesn’t appear to be born directly from the groups.

Are they a mob of over-privileged, unemployed trustafarians? Many of them likely are. Does it matter? Dismiss them if you will, they’re motivated and mobilized. An apathetic population asked to foot the bill for the fallout from credit default swaps is exactly what the 1% ordered. The last few years the country has been told to fear an economic collapse if the masses fail to fork over what amounts to corporate welfare, and more recently, that more jobs will be lost if we close tax loopholes. Many claim that these protesters are anti-capitalist, but most are simply disillusioned by a form of capitalism they suggest is so far out of whack that the opportunity for bootstrap pulling is nearly non-existent. They propose that the current environment unapologetically favors the richest of the rich.

There is concern, by people like Ginia Bellafonte the New York Times, that these protesters are simply flakes. These are a “noble but fractured and airy movement of rightly frustrated young people.” She refers to the gathering as a “carnival” and uses quotes of ridiculous demands, to “get rid of the combustion engine” and their muddled unfocused kaleidoscope of “liberal” causes: “concerns about the death penalty, the drug war, the environment.”

Bellafonte paints the picture so it can be easy for the comfortable Times readers to dismiss these seemingly misguided youth. Where have I heard this before? If you’re someone of my age, a thirty-something, ask your parents. Chances are they were once young and “misguided” and maybe even motivated by the likes of merry pranksters like Abbie Hoffman. Many of them likely would easily have identified with these so-called court jesters. Every movements starts somewhere and often it begins with very lofty ideas and few well-defined tactics. A week in, their goal was simply to do exactly what their namesake describes: occupy and control the public space in or near Wall Street, to have their presence felt and voices heard, even while they haven’t yet found the words.

To give Bellafonte the benefit of the doubt, even a supporter, in the form of successful tech entrepreneur Tim O’Reilly, was disheartened by the attire and approach of the protesters, if not the cause. If only the protesters dressed more formally, acted like grownups and came with a power-point presentation outlining their demands, maybe they’d be taken more seriously.

This weekend, the police, who up until then had been relatively docile, began to flex their muscles. Photos and videos documented alleged incidents of police brutality:

(links via Pantless Progressive)

Police pen up and mace female protesters [Raw Story]

Young man arrested simply for walking down the street [laurasthinkingwithportals]

Protester thrown over barricade by police [Video shot by Daniel Fitzsimmons, link via evanfleischer]

Protester shouts, “Is this what you’re about?”, gets cuffed [@LibertyPlazaRev]

Officer pushes sitting protester, man stands up, cops arrest him [@LilKing420s]

Cops Tackle, Mace Wall St. Protesters for No Obvious Reason [Gawker]

The movement has been steadfast in imploring members to remain non-violent, in response to apparent police violence.

For every Ginia Bellafonte, they have a Chris Hedges, a Noam Chomksy and an Amy Goodman. While Bellafonte found the silliest in the crowd to quote, Goodman found David Graeber who teaches at the University of London.

“For the last 30 years, we’ve seen a political battle being waged by the super-rich against everyone else, and this is the latest move in the shadow dance, which is completely dysfunctional economically and politically. It’s the reason why young people have just abandoned any thought of appealing to politicians. We all know what’s going to happen. The tax proposals are a sort of mock populist gesture, which everyone knows will be shot down. What will actually probably happen would be more cuts to social services.”

Perhaps that kind of quote doesn’t fit into the neat narrative of misguided, yet noble, cast of characters wasting their wealthy parents money at a sleepover in the park that Bellafonte was looking to portray. I’m not naive enough to think Graeber is representative of the crowd as a whole, but I also haven’t had the last ounce of idealism beaten out of me to think the inmates are completely running the asylum. The answer, I think, lies somewhere in between and if successful and given time to evolve, could inspire others in America to find the will and motivation to finally stop allowing themselves to be taken advantage of.

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Operational proposal for #occupywallstreet

On Saturday, I was arrested near Union Square in the immediate chaos of the kettling. I will not share who I exactly am to protect those mentioned below. It may be controversial to say, but getting 80 people arrested is probably the best thing that could have happened to our movement. Prior to this, the blue NYPD did not know what we were about. They were in fact only being told that feds were coming and to prepare for a state of emergency. They were left with their minds to run wild wondering what we are about and fearing the worst. Told indirectly that we are terrorists and violent extremists, they of course did not feel safe talking to us in Liberty Plaza.

With us in cuffs however, they got a chance to watch us, to observe us. To see that we're not screaming out Allah's name or anything. They got to watch me and my fellow detainees debate and discuss, sing and smile and laugh. After a while, they seemed to get curious. Individuals approached us, always blue uniformed cops and seemed legitimately curious. Invariably, when we explained our position they were in full support. As a direct result, our treatment seemed to DRAMATICALLY increase and nearly instantly. A captain who for his own protection will not be named had our cuffs cut off and replaced looser, our hands in FRONT of us instead of behind us, and allowed us to use the water fountain after hours with no water and physical abuse and torture.

Suddenly, we weren't being treated like Guantanamo terrorists anymore. Our paperwork was done expediently and efficiently. One officer shared contact information with me and has been giving me a VERY valuable look inside the NYPD. The explanations 60 people have a hundred officers who sat down and listened are circling inside the NYPD. They individually are slowly realizing that we are the 99%, and so are they. If you are arrested, do not speak about your arrest and demand a lawyer of course, but also realize this gives you a VALUABLE opportunity to sit down with a cop and have a peaceful discussion where they do not feel threatened. The move we spread our message INSIDE the NYPD, the more hesitant the large groups of them will be to accept orders to violate the laws and our rights. The more individual superiors doubt their orders will be carried out, the more consious superiors will be of our rights and the law.

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Report: 100 New York Police Officers Boycott In Solidarity with Wall Street Protesters
Are New York Police Boycotting to Protest Violence?

After New York’s finest brutalized peaceful Wall Street protesters, rumor has it that police officers are boycotting.

Occupy Wall Street notes:

Today we received unconfirmed reports that over one hundred blue collar police refused to come into work in solidarity with our movement. These numbers will grow. We are the 99 percent. You will not silence us.

But the 1% will certainly try to silence the 99%.

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Syriërs voeren ook online een hevige strijd

Terwijl op de grond Syrische demonstranten harde confrontaties aangaan met de ordetroepen van president Bashar Assad speelt zich ook online een hevige strijd af. Voor- en tegenstanders van het regime wenden zich steeds meer tot het internet om websites te hacken in een poging de pr-oorlog te winnen.

Activistische groepen hebben de afgelopen dagen zeker twaalf websites van de Syrische overheid gehackt en de inhoud vervangen door onder andere interactieve kaarten met dodentallen en berichten over de gruweldaden van Syrische ordetroepen tegen de betogers. Hun acties zijn een reactie op de tactiek van het regime, aldus de groeperingen.

Internet als wapen
De activisten proberen Assad tot aftreden te dwingen door internet als wapen te gebruiken. Ze plaatsen video's waarin de aanvallen op antiregeringsbetogers te zien zijn en mobiliseren aanhangers met behulp van sociale-netwerksites.

Al vanaf het begin van de Syrische opstand heeft echter ook groep aanhangers van de regering, bekend als het Syrische Elektronische Leger (SEL), het internet ingezet om oppositieactivisten en hun medestanders aan te vallen, onder meer door Facebookpagina's en andere sociale-netwerksites te overspoelen met proregeringsberichten als 'Ik houd van Bashar' en andere, vaak bedreigende, teksten.

Aanval sites Oprah en Pitt
Het SEL valt ook geregeld webpagina's buiten Syrië aan. Zo werden onlangs onder meer de sites van de Amerikaanse universiteit Harvard, Oprah Winfrey en acteur Brad Pitt aangevallen. De vrouw van Pitt, Angelina Jolie bezocht in juni als goodwill-ambassadrice van de Verenigde Naties duizenden Syrische vluchtelingen in Turkije.

Het SEL zegt geen banden te hebben met het regime van Assad, maar oppositieactivisten twijfelen er niet aan dat de Syrische geheime dienst de beweging in het leven heeft geroepen. In juni prees Assad de inzet van de jongeren nog en noemde hij de groep een 'echt leger in een virtuele realiteit'.

Buitenlandse journalisten mogen Syrië niet in en er is weinig betrouwbare informatie over de gebeurtenissen in het land. Het regime van Assad controleert alle televisie- en radiozenders en de kranten. Die media beschuldigen buitenlandse krachten en islamitische extremisten van de onrust. Online video's geplaatst door activisten tonen de mensen in het land en daarbuiten echter beelden van wat er werkelijk gebeurt.

Elektronische oorlog
In eerste instantie richtten de cyberaanvallen van het SEL veel schade aan, zei Omar Idilbi van de Lokale Coördinatiecomités, een activistische antiregeringsbeweging. Op dit moment is de impact echter beperkt omdat er tegenaanvallen worden uitgevoerd door hackersbeweging Anonymous en twee groepen die vooral uit Syrische hackers bestaan.

'Het is een elektronische oorlog. Het is legitiem. Zo lang niemand gewond raakt zijn we bereid hem tot het einde te voeren', aldus Idilbi.

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Op woensdag 28 september 2011 19:17 schreef Jan_Lul het volgende:
goh, iets over anonymous,

twitter:

OccupyKSt twitterde op woensdag 28-09-2011 om 19:54:56 RT @Ghostpickles Just got word that #occupyTampa has reached 1100 protesters as of 1pm EST - Go Tampa!! Much love & support from #occupydc reageer retweet

Anonymous: Occupy The Planet #99Percent

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-Mirrored- !!!OCCUPY YOUR CITY!!! Find Your City: http://occupytogether.org/ OCCUPY TOGETHER: a hub for all of the events springing up across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall St. As we have followed the news on facebook, twitter, and the various live feeds across the internet, we felt compelled to build a site that would help spread the word as more protests organize across the country. We hope to provide people with information about events that are organizing, ongoing, and building across the U.S. as we, the 99%, take action against the greed and corruption of the 1%.

We will try our best to provide you with the most accurate information possible. However, we are just a few volunteers and errors are bound to occur. Please be patient as we get this site off the ground and populated and please contact us if you have any info on new events, corrections, or suggestions for this site. You can contact us at info[at]occupytogether[dot]org.

We will only grow stronger in our solidarity and we will be heard, not just in New York, but in echoes across this nation.

Important note: Occupy Together will never ask for any monetary donations. We suggest that, if you want to donate monetarily, that you visit this site to help those who currently Occupy Wall St.

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Jailed for covering the Wall Street protests

On Sept. 24, while working on a story about citizen journalism for my employer, I found myself arrested, along with many other people. My arrest gave me a unique vantage point on the risks and rewards of citizen journalists, those non-professionals who capture stories (usually without pay) using videos and images via portable technology like a cell phone camera. Anyone, even a passerby or a police officer can be a citizen journalist. That's its power.

Here's what happened.

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Op donderdag 29 september 2011 00:04 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Schijndemocratie en zogenaamde vrije media. En dan tegelijkertijd andere landen die hun reet niet wijd hebben getrokken voor hun zwart maken dat ze dictators en onderdrukkers zijn.

GLOBAL REVOLUTION DAY OCTOBER 15TH - EXPECT US

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"Red Coat" - NYPD detective at Occupy Wall Street Protests

Over the past 13 days of #OccupyWallStreet, several officers have been singled out for their treatment of protesters, amongst them, one was to become known as "red coat".

Detective Kenneth O'Donnell has officially been identified as this abusive officer, an example of his actions that have led us to classify him as such can be viewed here:

NYPD officers give peaceful protester a concussion during OCCUPY WALL STREET

Name: Detective Kenneth O'Donnell
Badge # : 7432
Employment: Legal Bureau, NYPD (likely 1st precinct)
Picture: http://bit.ly/rn34f2

Pictures from the #occupywallstreet protests:
http://bit.ly/pLql9V
http://bit.ly/p3rJfF
http://bit.ly/oUyNzF
http://bit.ly/r0Q2s6

Facebook: http://on.fb.me/nX3cw2
- Previous profile picture (it was nice, why delete it?): http://bit.ly/pB8vNh

Member of the NYPD ACES
- http://bit.ly/o5wUyb
- http://bit.ly/q3TEuF

Further miscellaneous photos from the protest:
http://bit.ly/n2t8Jh
http://bit.ly/rhpw7m
http://bit.ly/nCIFvL
http://bit.ly/nt2oEP
http://bit.ly/op9Xa8
http://bit.ly/n99urY


Any further information discovered could not be confirmed, and in the interests of other who share his name, we have refrained from posting a list of possible addresses, phone numbers and relations.

To any doubters, feel free to call 6466105529 and ask for information on his badge number.

To O'Donnell, best of luck with your application to become a Naval Reserve Officer, don't let the NYPD hold you back.

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Op vrijdag 30 september 2011 13:25 schreef Smoofie het volgende:
@ papier.

Zit jij niet met IRC ofzo te chatten met wat mensen van anony? Kun je niet iets doen tegen BREIN

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Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by government mandate.

The latest example is You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group’s Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.

Peake was ruling on a case involving Roger Hayes, former member of UKIP, who has refused to pay council tax, both as a protest against the government’s treasonous activities in sacrificing Britain to globalist interests and as a result of Hayes clearly proving that council tax is illegal.

Hayes has embarked on an effort to legally prove that the enforced collection of council tax by government is unlawful because no contract has been agreed between the individual and the state. His argument is based on the sound legal principle that just like the council, Hayes can represent himself as a third party in court and that “Roger Hayes” is a corporation and must be treated as one in the eyes of the law.

The British government doesn’t want this kind of information going viral in the public domain because it is scared stiff of a repeat of the infamous poll tax riots of 1990, a massive tax revolt in the UK that forced the Thatcher government to scrap the poll tax altogether because of mass civil disobedience and refusal to pay.

When viewers in the UK attempt to watch videos of the protest, they are met with the message, “This content is not available in your country due to a government removal request.”

We then click through to learn that, “YouTube occasionally receives requests from governments around the world to remove content from our site, and as a result, YouTube may block specific content in order to comply with local laws in certain countries.”

You can also search by country to discover that Google, the owner of You Tube, has complied with the majority of requests from governments, particularly in the United States and the UK, not only to remove You Tube videos, but also specific web search terms and thousands of “data requests,” meaning demands for information that would reveal the true identity of a You Tube user. Google claims that the information sent to governments is “needed for legitimate criminal investigations,” but whether these “data requests” have been backed up by warrants is not divulged by the company.

“Between July 1 and Dec. 31 (2009), Google received 3,580 requests for user data from U.S. government agencies........

Continue at:
http://theintelhub.com/20(...)nsor-protest-videos/

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Wall Street warned about possible hacking attack by ‘Anonymous’

THE US Department of Homeland Security has warned financial companies to be vigilant against a looming cyber security threat from Anonymous.

Wanted for shutting down websites as high-profile as that of the CIA, a recently released Department of Homeland Security bulletin said the group “will continue to exploit vulnerable publicly available web servers, computer networks and other digital information mediums for the foreseeable future”.

Lees verder:
http://www.theaustralian.(...)frgakx-1226156781390

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https://pastee.org/jb3tr

The March of Indignant

Welcome Indignant, we are Anonymous.

We support you to manifest in the street of Brussels. This is the plan :

"The March in Indignant" in the street of European Capital is very important for you, and all other indignant who can't move to Brussels, or feel that all is well.

Print this image on big pannel: http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6564/anonsmarchindignant.jpg (copy/paste deze link)

For manifestation in the street, we have a music symbol, a captivating music wich we want to manifest : diffuse this music : EuroDancer of DJ Mangoo

Join us in IRC.anonops.li SSL 6697 #indignation for more information.

We are Anonymous,
We are Legion,
We do not forgive,
We do not forget,
Expect Us.

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Frans ministerie klaagt website Copwatch aan wegens smaad en laster

Het Franse ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken heeft een aanklacht ingediend tegen de website Copwatch Nord-Ile de France.

Op deze site zijn tientallen beelden te zien van Franse politieagenten uit het departement Nord en uit de regio Parijs, vaak met namen en andere privégegevens.

De anonieme initiatiefnemers presenteren zich als een onafhankelijke groep die toezicht wil houden op de politie, omdat die te vaak excessief geweld zou gebruiken bij controles en arrestaties.

Sinds het ministerie een klacht heeft ingediend is de site veel moeilijker bereikbaar, maar nog wel online via een beveiligde verbinding. Een verbod is niet eenvoudig, omdat de servers van de site in de Verenigde Staten staan, waar het ‘Copwatch’-idee ook vandaan komt.

Het waren de Franse politiebonden die alarm sloegen toen ze vorige week de site ontdekten. Daar zijn niet alleen foto’s van agenten te vinden, soms niet in uniform, maar ook gedetailleerde cv’s van de agenten in kwestie.

Het ministerie diende daarop twee klachten in tegen de site wegens laster en smaad aan de politie. Volgens het ministerie brengt de site de veiligheid van de agenten én hun familieleden in gevaar.

De belangrijkste politievakbond zegt open te staan voor een goede, open controle van de politie, maar wil zich hard verzetten tegen dit soort ‘illegale spionagepraktijken’. De vakbonden vragen de agenten zelf om zorgvuldig om te springen met hun gegevens op sociale netwerksites zoals Facebook.

Het Franse ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken heeft een aanklacht ingediend tegen de website Copwatch Nord-Ile de France.

Op deze site zijn tientallen beelden te zien van Franse politieagenten uit het departement Nord en uit de regio Parijs, vaak met namen en andere privégegevens.

De anonieme initiatiefnemers presenteren zich als een onafhankelijke groep die toezicht wil houden op de politie, omdat die te vaak excessief geweld zou gebruiken bij controles en arrestaties.

Sinds het ministerie een klacht heeft ingediend is de site veel moeilijker bereikbaar, maar nog wel online via een beveiligde verbinding. Een verbod is niet eenvoudig, omdat de servers van de site in de Verenigde Staten staan, waar het ‘Copwatch’-idee ook vandaan komt.

Het waren de Franse politiebonden die alarm sloegen toen ze vorige week de site ontdekten. Daar zijn niet alleen foto’s van agenten te vinden, soms niet in uniform, maar ook gedetailleerde cv’s van de agenten in kwestie.

Het ministerie diende daarop twee klachten in tegen de site wegens laster en smaad aan de politie. Volgens het ministerie brengt de site de veiligheid van de agenten én hun familieleden in gevaar.

De belangrijkste politievakbond zegt open te staan voor een goede, open controle van de politie, maar wil zich hard verzetten tegen dit soort ‘illegale spionagepraktijken’. De vakbonden vragen de agenten zelf om zorgvuldig om te springen met hun gegevens op sociale netwerksites zoals Facebook.

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Transport Union Refuses To Bus Protesters Arrested By New York Police

In Solidarity With Occupy Wall Street, Transport Union Refuses To Bus Protesters Arrested By New York Police | The Transport Workers Union is going to court today in hopes of blocking New York City from forcing bus drivers to transport any Occupy Wall Street protesters after the New York police department commandeered at least three buses to take many of the 700 protesters off the Brooklyn Bridge this weekend. Last week, the TWU voted to support the Occupy Wall Street movement and called the order to bus prisoners “a blatant act of political retaliation.” “TWU Local 100 supports the protesters on Wall Street and takes great offense that the mayor and NYPD have ordered operators to transport citizens who were exercising their constitutional right to protest — and shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place,” TWU President John Samuelsen said. Samuelson said that by instructing the drivers to follow the police directive, the Metropolitan Transit Authority violated its contract with the Local 100.

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Breng die digitale kanonnen eens in stelling

Qua digitale veiligheid maken westerse overheden een enorme denkfout. Na iedere aanval verstevigen we ons fort, maar we laten het na om kanonnen in stelling te brengen. Die strategie bracht de geallieerden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog ook op achterstand. Eerst moesten er bommen op Londen vallen, voordat de luchtmacht koers zette richting Duitsland.

Dat betoogt Stewart Baker, een voormalig staflid van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Binnenlandse Veiligheid en inlichtingendienst NSA. In het tijdschrift Foreign Policy hekelt hij het gejuridiseer rondom het hacken. Om de ene vijandelijke overheid aan te vallen moet mogelijk eerst ingebroken worden in systemen van bondgenoten. Laat je daar het oorlogsrecht op los, dan moet de hele operatie afgeblazen worden. Ondertussen worden er wetten gemaakt die het Pentagon verbieden zelf overheden te hacken.

Techniek dicteert oorlogsvoering

Baker brengt in herinnering dat Rusland onlangs overheidsnetwerken van Estland en Georgië saboteerde. Ook wijst hij op het Stuxnet-virus: wie daar precies achter zat is onbekend, maar het legde met succes een Iraanse kernreactor lam. En Chinese hackers wisten de certificaten van het Amerikaanse beveiligingsbedrijf RSA te kraken. Iets soortgelijks overkwam Nederland vorige maand: belangrijke overheidssites bleken opeens onveilig.

Cyber War on Georgia

Hier blijft het niet bij, waarschuwt Baker. De Noord-Amerikaanse energiecentrale NERC waarschuwde vorig jaar dat een aanval op het netwerk de stroom van miljoenen mensen kan afsluiten. Dusdanig, zo stelt Baker, dat de situatie te vergelijken is met New Orleans na de orkaan Katrina. Niets zo ontregelend en gevaarlijk als een stad in het donker.

Stuxnet - Cyber Warfare

Niet het oorlogsrecht, maar de technologische innovatie dicteert volgens Baker hoe we elkaar op het slagveld bejegenen. Hij kan zich daarom goed vinden in wat James Cartwright, een gepensioneerde marinegeneraal, onlangs zei: “Als het oké is om mij aan te vallen en ik kan niet anders reageren dan mij steeds weer beter te beveiligen, dan is het erg moeilijk om tot een afschrikwekkende strategie te komen.”

Operation Invade Wall Street - A Message to the Media

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Greetings, institutions of the media.

We are Anonymous.

The events transpiring within Wall Street have caught our eye.

It seems that the government and federal agencies enjoy enforcing the law a little bit too much. They instate unjust laws as mindless automatons, blindly following orders with soulless precision.

We witness the government enforcing the laws that punish the 99 percent while allowing the 1 percent to escape justice, unharmed, for their crimes against the people.

We have observed this same government failing to enforce even the minimal legal restraints of Wall Street’s abuses. This government who has willingly ignored the greed at Wall Street has even bailed out the perpetrators that have caused our crisis.

We will not stand by and watch the system take over our way of life.

We the people shall stand against the government’s inaction.

We the people will not be witnesses to your corruption and ill-gotten profits.

We will not labor for your leisure.

We will not assist you in any way.

This is why we choose to declare our war against the New York Stock Exchange. We can no longer stay silent as the population is being exploited and forced to make sacrifices in the name of profit.

We will show the world that we are true to our word. On Oct. 10, NYSE shall be erased from the Internet. On Oct. 10, expect a day that will never, ever be forgotten.

Vox Populi, Vox Anon.

The Voice of The People is The Voice of Anonymous.

We are Legion. We are the 99 percent.

We do not forgive. We do not forget.

Wall Street: Expect us

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Op dinsdag 4 oktober 2011 22:09 schreef eefje801 het volgende:
Fijn topic,

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http://ampedstatus.org/network/members/fss34/activity/43710/
PRESSTORM.com betrayed us. so our THETA cannon blew their planet to shit. Please remove all ties to presstorm.com & ty.

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At its Core, Occupy Wall Street Will Always Remain a Product of its Time and Place

Criticisms about the various occupy movements now spreading throughout the United States were expected from the outset.

Generally speaking, and for various reasons, there will be underlying elements that will seek to undermine popular movements. Often this is accomplished by questioning the purpose, usefulness, motives, tactics, or by constructing moral judgments to rally around, and even by slandering individuals within the movement or the movement as a whole.

Yesterday, the undermining critique came from a most unfortunate source. Presstorm published the following piece calling attention to the political underpinning of the General Assembly of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City. An obvious feature to point out about this latest Presstorm piece is that it is not linked to the Presstorm site. That is because shortly after this article was published, the site appeared to have been hit by a DDoS.

This rather ironic twist of fate might be the “just deserts” Presstorm had coming as a result of this latest piece. I myself couldn’t help chuckling at this most paradoxical of situations. As a Presstorm journalist, however, you may be wondering, what on earth would make me crack a smile?

It is not enough to defend freedom of speech and to express the critical need for publications to simultaneously articulate multiple viewpoints in order to bring truth to the fore, especially in the field of journalism. I firmly believe that these freedoms come with a certain level of responsibility. These responsibilities were breached by Presstorm’s latest publication entitled “Investigative Analysis: Occupy Wall Street General Assembly – Direct Attack on the American Constitution”. While I may not agree with the perspectives of the author, the perspectives alone are not what make me uncomfortable.

The article in question used “Presstorm” as a banner to make blanket analyses that inevitably brought all those affiliated with Presstorm underneath. This was a serious oversight by the article’s author.

Presstorm is not a unified monolithic think bloc. I frequently disagree with my colleagues on various matters: political and social. To have this article, which now appears on Philip Brennan’s website, angled in a manner that implies my accord with it, is entirely negligent and irresponsible.

Furthermore, the repeated discussions of Alexa O’Brien of the US Day of Rage (USDOR), by Presstorm, has developed into a deplorable and offensive slander and, at this rate, is tantamount to bullying.

Our contemporary political and social milieu condones the act of criminalising people purely on the basis of their political, social, economic, and in many instances, religious thinking – this is something as a Pakistani Muslim who has lived both in the United States and the United Kingdom, I am all too familiar with. It is most unfortunate to see this type of conduct carried out in this setting. At the end of the day, unfortunate or not, we are all products of our contemporary environments.

Most, if not all, social movements are comprised by bodies of political thought and historical interpretation – ranging from the “moderate” to the “radical”. Nevertheless, these various elements comprise the larger collective body that moves together, and it is these variations, whether they be the socialist lites, the communists, the anarchists, even the seemingly “radical ideologues” like Alexa O’Brien, that critically shape movements and lie at the core of social movements making them wholly and entirely democratic.

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Op dinsdag 4 oktober 2011 23:54 schreef rakotto het volgende:

[..]

Als dit waar is. Respect.

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ANONYMOUS Message concerning Invade Wall Street

Citizens of the world

We are Anonymous! Recently something very disturbing has come to our attention. You must take all notices and information claiming to be 'Anonymous' with a grain of salt. Consider EVERYTHING.

Operation Invade Wall Street is bullshit! It is a fake planted operation by law enforcement and cyber crime agencies in order to get you to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement. It proposes you use depreciated tools that have known flaws such as LOIC.

Anonymous would never tell you to use LOIC - Not after the arrests and failures of Operation Payback.

Anonymous wouldn't attack NYSE on a HOLIDAY - It is debatable if Anonymous would ever even attack NYSE.

Be wary friends!

We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not Forgive
We do not Forget
Expect Us
Be wary of imitations!

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Telecomix : Syria

Tonight, Telecomix is releasing all log files in their possession (or at least the ones that the writer is presently aware of) taken from Syrian BlueCoat devices. These are Web filtering proxy devices that have been used by the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment for months in order to filter and monitor all HTTP connections in the country, helping authorities to track, arrest, torture and kill potential opponents. The log files cover the period from 22nd of July to 5th of August, 2011. They concern seven out of the fifteen BlueCoat SG-9000 devices that we found on the STE backbone network. Log files provide dozens of millions of HTTP requests emitted by dozens of thousands of Internet subscribers of all major ISPs in Syria, and represent 54GB of data. They notably include all requested URLs and how the proxy reacted to these requests. We release them to allow any one who wishes to analyze them to provide a deeper insight on Syrian censorship and create more knowledge to circumvent further attacks on freedom of expression. Statistical analyses can reveal interesting information such as forbidden keywords. Two of them that are already identified are "israel" and "proxy". Some experiments that we made to confirm the devices behavior are described here: reflets.info . Subscribers' personal IP addresses have been stripped off the for obvious privacy reasons, but it is indeed possible that some personal data are still present in the requested URLs. Syrian backbone network contains for sure other BlueCoat proxy devices, notably inside Syrian Computer Society IP ranges. More recent logs are not available, maybe because Syrian authorities have eventually secured the logging process and/or because they have upgraded their filtering strategy, now using devices from a German brand called Fortinet. Some BlueCoat devices IPs are the following: 82.137.200.42-56 (STE) and 213.178.244.16 (SCS). Have good fun with these, and feel free to mirror them! streisand.trollab.org sec.tl ftp://bluecoat:bluecoat@telecomix.ceops.eu Tue, 4 Oct 2011 23:43:52 +0200

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Op donderdag 6 oktober 2011 09:08 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:
Wel grappig dat veel van de bedrijven op de vlag die de demonstrant bij zich draagt ook verantwoordelijk zijn voor een groot deel van de arbeidsplaatsen, voor een groot deel van de naamsbekendheid van Amerika en voor een groot deel voor de huidige rijkdom...

Zonder die bedrijven zou Amerika nu niet zijn wat het is.

Voor wat het waard is natuurlijk.

twitter:

th3j35t3r twitterde op donderdag 06-10-2011 om 15:49:33 www.godhatesfags.com - TANGO DOWN - because > http://t.co/iiqOimPc ... on the 8th day god created hackers who could defeat ur NGINX #iSad reageer retweet

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‘God Hates Fags’ Church Uses iPhone to Announce Steve Jobs Funeral Picket

God Hates Steve Jobs about as much as God Hates Fags, but God loves Apple productstherefore, it's totally not hypocritical at all that Westboro Baptist Church member @MargieJPhelps used an iPhone to declare her congregation's next publicity stunt demonstration on God's behalf. Even God has an iPhone.

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‘Websites 50 gemeenten hebben enorm beveiligingslek’

De websites van 50 gemeenten en gemeentelijke diensten zijn zo slecht beveiligd dat hackers gemakkelijk gevoelige informatie kunnen ophalen, maar deze gegevens ook kunnen aanpassen of wissen. Dat melden GeenStijl en Webwereld.

De sites draaien op een oude Windows-versie met een groot beveiligingslek, waardoor ‘alle denkbare handelingen’ mogelijk zijn. Zo kunnen bijvoorbeeld privacy gevoelige informatie van politiemensen worden bekeken of gewijzigd, kunnen DigiD-sessies ‘gekloond’ worden en zijn verschillende bestanden vrij toegankelijk.

Het lek werd onder de aandacht van GeenStijl gebracht na een tip van een bron. Samen met Webwereld zijn de lekken aangemeld bij de verantwoordelijke instanties. De Vereniging Nederlandse Gemeenten hebben daarna via het noodnet een bericht aan de burgemeesters gestuurd. Ook Govcert, Logius en het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken zijn op de problematiek gedoken.

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http://www.krapuul.nl/shr(...)ag-occupyeverything/

Wat drie weken geleden begon met een bezetting op Wall Street, is razendsnel aan het uitgroeien tot een nieuwe, zelfbewuste protestbeweging in de VS. In navolging van Egypte en Spanje verspreiden pleinprotesten zich razendsnel door Noord-Amerika en de rest van Europa, tegen de hebzucht en corruptie van de allermachtigsten en voor echte democratie. Volgende week zaterdag 15 oktober volgen ook Amsterdam en Den Haag.

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Threats from the Invisible Industry

In February, a team of Anonymous hackers revealed a massive conspiracy on the part of Bank of America, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Hunton & Williams law firm, and three intelligence contracting companies to harass, monitor, and discredit left-wing groups, the journalist Glenn Greenwald, Wikileaks, and other targets. Beyond the plot itself, these revelations signaled a growing and dangerous dynamic whereby powerful institutions have sought to develop and implement the most comprehensive disinformation apparatus in history - one that, as in the past, will be pointed directly at those who seek a change in the status quo.

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This familiar tendency on the part of the US government to spend money it doesn't have on things it doesn't get is now directed at developing procedures it shouldn't use. The intelligence contracting industry, which includes firms that provide security applications to the entire US government and military, has been encouraged lately to direct more of its collective time and capabilities to the task of monitoring, misinforming and sometimes outright attacking American citizens and others abroad and benefit from the protection of the state and the incompetence of the media in order to make such attacks with impunity.

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Hackers kraken spionagesoftware Duitse regering

BERLIJN – De software die de Duitse regering inzet om computers af te luisteren blijkt slecht te zijn ontworpen en gaat verder dan de wet toestaat.

Dat stellen hackers van de Duitse hackersvereniging CCC, die de software in handen wisten te krijgen.

De programmatuur wordt door de Duitse regering op de computers van verdachten geladen en houden het volledige gedrag van de systemen in de gaten.

Zo wordt niet alleen de verbinding getapt, maar ook iedere handeling op de computer in de gaten gehouden. Ook in Nederland bestaat de juridische mogelijkheid dit type software in te zetten.

Gaten

De hackers analyseerden de software tot in detail en troffen veel fouten aan. Zo hoort informatie versleuteld naar een centraal punt te worden gestuurd. Ook kan de overheid opdrachten naar computers sturen. Nu blijkt de versleuteling wel te zijn geprogrammeerd, maar deze werkt niet. Alle informatie wordt dan ook leesbaar via internet verstuurd.

Een gevolg is dat andere mensen zonder autorisatie opdrachten naar de computers van geobserveerde personen kunnen sturen. Een ander gevolg is dat het mogelijk zou zijn voor CCC opdrachten te geven om de afluisterapparatuur te ontregelen. De hackers zeggen dat niet te hebben gedaan.

Wel is inmiddels een programma geschreven om de afgeluisterde computers te kunnen beheren als onderdeel van het onderzoek. Ook de software zelf hebben de hackers beschikbaar gemaakt.

Monitoren

Een ander probleem is dat de software meer blijkt te doen dan toegestaan. Zo is door het Duitse Federale Constitutionele Hof bepaald dat de software alleen telefoongesprekken via internet en andere communicatie mag monitoren.

In de praktijk blijkt nu veel meer te worden gemonitord. Ook bestanden kunnen bijvoorbeeld worden gelezen.

De software blijkt ook in staat te zijn veranderingen op computers door te voeren, bestanden te wijzigen of te verwijderen. Op afstand kan ook de camera, het toetsenbord en de microfoon worden aangesproken.

De hackers roepen de politiek nu op om in te grijpen. Zij willen dat deze vorm van spionage en afluisteren stopt.

A Message To Wall Street

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http://pastebin.com/dqZJJxQg

Greetings.

We are Anonymous.
We are acting on our own volition, in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, to decry the injustice committed by the few, and against the many.

As such, we will be targeting the New York Stock Exchange on the 10 October 3:30pm EST to illustrate our rejection of this corrupted American institution.

We will have a digital sit-in. Participants can join in whatever capacity they decide is right for them. We do not endorse any specific method. Despite your method, however, we do endorse that you take security precautions that protect your IP address from being targeted.

NYSE, we are not fighting to damage you financially. We are fighting to show that we will stand up to you and the damage being inflicted upon the people of the world.

Be safe, be Anonymous. Any action you take against this beast could have serious repercussions.

A reminder: Slavery was once legal.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Expect us.

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Op maandag 10 oktober 2011 17:11 schreef Louis22 het volgende:
Ik snap dat uneducated-bezwaar van geen kant.

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Anonymous 'hacktivists' briefly take down NYSE.com

Anonymous' call for a massive attack on the New York Stock Exchange's website was met Monday -- but very, very briefly.

A group calling itself Anonymous, a name used by disparate groups of online "hactivists," threatened to take down NYSE.com at 3:30 p.m. ET today as an extension of the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations that have continued into a fourth week.

The website was slow and then unavailable from about 3:35 p.m. to around 3:37 p.m, after which it returned to normal. Keynote, a mobile and Internet monitoring company, confirmed that NYSE.com slowed down during that time. It also measured widespread disruptions to the site between 5:30 p.m. and 5:55 p.m.

Another tracking site, AlertSite, measured "a definite increase in response times from 3:45 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET." After that, the site returned to normal. Monitoring site downforeveryoneorjustme.com also registered a series of brief outages.

But Rich Adamonis, a spokesman from the NYSE, rebutted the monitoring sites' findings.

"We detected no service outage on our corporate website at that time," he said.

In a message that went out in early October through a video on YouTube, the group called for a "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attack, which directs a flood of traffic to a website and temporarily crashes it by overwhelming its servers. It doesn't actually involve any hacking or security breaches, and would have no effect on NYSE's stock-trading systems.

Adamonis confirmed that trading was not impacted.

DDoS is a tool that Anonymous has employed successfully before, taking down MasterCard.com and Visa.com for several hours on Dec. 8, 2010.

The YouTube video posted earlier calling for the NYSE.com attack proclaimed: "A new civil rights movement has begun. You now have an opportunity to make a difference. Join the protests. Organize your own. Watch online. Be a part of the movement."

Anonymous' attacks haven't always worked: It failed in an attempt to take down Amazon.com, which has extensive safeguards against sudden traffic spikes. The DDoS attacks have also led to the arrests of several participants.

At least a few people claiming to be part of Anonymous didn't think the attack on NYSE.com was a risk worth taking. One site used to coordinate Anonymous operations, AnonNews.org, posted a statement saying that it was "sincerely worried" about the plan, due to the bad press it could give to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

A back-and-forth debate raged across Twitter Monday afternoon, with various factions of Anonymous alternately cheering and decrying the planned attack.

But in the end, the chatter drew more attention than the actual effects of the cyberprotest. NYSE.com barely blipped, and the markets finished the day with a rally: The Dow Jones industrial average finished Monday up nearly 3 percent.

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Anonymous says Nyse take-down threat was 'media scare tactic'

A threat purportedly made by Anonymous to 'erase' the New York Stock Exchange from the Internet yesterday in support of the Occupy Wall Street protests failed to materialise, with the hacker collective claiming it had been running a media scare tactic.

Last week a video appeared on YouTube in which a computer-generated voice tells viewers that "on October 10, Nyse shall be erased from the Internet" in an operation dubbed 'Invade Wall Street'.

The film exhorts supporters to use the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) botnet to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack against the Nyse's Web site in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

However, the legitimacy of the message was quickly called into question, with a statement appearing online claiming to be from the 'real' Anonymous, saying: "Operation Invade Wall Street is bullshit! It is a fake planted operation by law enforcement and cyber crime agencies in order to get you to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement."

Yesterday, the day of the planned attack, Nyse said that its Web site saw no disruptions, although monitoring firm Keynote Systems claims there were two brief outages during the afternoon.

Now, in the latest twist, the Youtube account used to post the original message, TheAnonMessage, has added a new video claiming the whole thing was a "high-scale media scare tactic".

The group says that despite warnings that the planned attack on Nyse was fake, it was still widely reported. The video claims that Anonymous will now wait for the media and governments to become complacent that threats are not real and then "strike mercilessly".

Anonymous Statement Regarding #InvadeWallStreet

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Lulzsec hacker: 'we still have Sun emails, stored in China'

Sabu, the erstwhile leader of the hacking crew, says he is effectively on the run as he gives interview to Reddit readers about LulzSec's achievements, Facebook, sentencing and more

The hacker who styles himself "Sabu", erstwhile leader of the LulzSec hacking crew, claims to have a cache of emails copied from the Sun which are being stored on a Chinese server, along with data from a number of other hacks.

But he claimed this weekend that they will not be released yet: "there are a lot of interesting dumps we're sitting on due to timing," he wrote on his Twitter feed. He claims that hackers have broken into banks including HSBC and "a few others" but that they have found "no smoking guns yet" in the data there.

Sabu – who says his online handle is a tribute to the American professional wrestler – says that after the arrests in the UK and US of a number of people alleged to have been involved with the crew, he is effectively on the run. But his writing also suggests he is staying put where he lives.

"I'm past the point of no return. Not trying to sound like a bad ass, however, it's the truth," he wrote. Later he added: "The ironic twist will be that my own friends will take me down, and not these idiots who hide behind the patriot veil." He also says that "technically, I'm on the run, so there you go."

LulzSec was an offshoot of the Anonymous hacking collective which during a hacking spree in May and July 2011 broke into a number of sites, including Sony Pictures Europe, Fox.com, PBS and finally the News International site.

At the latter it altered the Sun's web page so that it redirected viewers first to a faked story about Rupert Murdoch's death, and then to their Twitter feed. The group also attacked the US Congress's web site, an FBI affiliate and brought down the web site for the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency by using a "distributed denial of service" attack.

Sabu effectively acted as the leader of the group, maintaining discipline over what they did, as leaked chatroom logs published in June by the Guardian show.

At that time he told members of the crew not to give interviews – but says his willingness to do so now is because "that was during the height of LulzSec. We all agreed to do no interviews till the end if there was ever one."

LulzSec's achievements, he says, were that it "exposed the sad state of security across the media, social, government online environments".

After the Sun hack, Sabu claimed on his Twitter feed that he was looking at 4GB of emails from the company. The claim was never confirmed, although remote access to News International's systems had been compromised.

Sabu's revelations came in a long and sometimes detailed "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) thread on Reddit. Sabu responds to a number of questions and appears to reveal a number of details about himself, such as that he is married, studied social sciences and English, that his technical hacking skills are self-taught, and that he teaches "sometimes". He claims to speak three languages – English, Spanish and German – fluently, and to have "decent" Portuguese and Italian. He says he turned towards computer hacking in 2000, when the US government "ignored the peoples' please to stop bombing Vieques" – a part of Puerto Rico used by the US navy as a bombing range until 2003. He says he likes working on cars, playing music and spending time with his family: "I'm loving life a lot this year. I barely have time for ops [hacker operations] like I used to."

That confirms other details that have been collected by rival hackers about Sabu which suggest that he is of Puerto Rican extraction, aged about 30 and based in New York.

He insists that he had no knowledge of the identities of any of the other members of LulzSec. "I simply don't know anyone's identity at Anonymous." He says that when one alleged member was arrested in the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland, he had to go and look up its location: "I was a bit impressed, even." He vehemently denies the suggestions by some that he "snitched" on other LulzSec members to the authorities.

The breakup of LulzSec meant he has "lost too many friends. [I] will probably never talk to them ever again." But he thinks that it "has already achieved what it set out to achieve".

He suggests that one of the LulzSec members, called Avunit, who quit the group when it took aim at the FBI, "is relaxing somewhere on a boat".

Asked whether he is "safe", he replies: "no one can prove it's me anyway. The beauty of Anonymous." The closest that the authorities have come to him is when in September they arrested a hacker alleged to have gone by the online handle "Recursion", who was tracked down via logs held by the British company HideMyAss, which unwittingly provided a virtual private network (VPN) connection for the attack on Sony Pictures Europe.

That arrest was "probably the closest they ever got", Sabu says. He also makes a veiled threat against HideMyAss: he alleges it "turns out to be owned by some … people who are going around buying smaller VPN providers ... We should have a nice exposé for HMA and its mother computer/investors soon. Point is: research your VPN provider thoroughly."

He says he takes a number of precautions to evade law enforcement, using prepaid phones and BlackBerrys for calls and Twitter: "they're expendable. I don't ignore you, I simply don't know you." He trusts Twitter – to some extent: "believe it or not, Twitter has not been sleeping in bed with LEAs [law enforcement agencies]. In fact it's a process [for LEAs] to get account info."

He rails at the sentencing guidelines in place for computer activity: "The penalties for any cybercrime (with the exception of child pornography) is severely archaic. And enforced by non-computer users. A DDOS (distributed denial of service) should not [attract a sentence of] 10 years at all especially when rapists and murderers do LESS than time." (The Guardian's James Ball made a similar point earlier this year.)

He thinks a hacking attack against Facebook "is pointless unless some very courages [sic] individual go and burn down its datacenter containing DBs [databases]". But he calls Facebook "a serious global cancer … they have half a billion people's psychology and family down in a database".

LulzSec does not have a Google Plus account, he says: "We do NOT have a g+ account. So whoever is running it is more than likely posing and has no affiliation to us." (Other Reddit users said that files distributed from that account contain malware.) Google Plus was launched well after LulzSec apparently broke up.

His advice to would-be emulators: "Stick to yourselves. If you are in a crew – keep your opsec up 24/7. Friends will try to take you down if they have to."

Anonymous, he says, is "no leaders, no hierarchy, no cointelpro [counter-intelligence program] drama. And we are a living, moving mass of like-minded individuals." He says it is "pure democracy", though that can be anarchic. But he thinks it will spawn "many organisations and political parties". But he says that "you don't need to be 'anonymous' or need to hack to be Anonymous. It's an idea, not a job."

He says he hopes to give a talk at the next HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference in New York, expected to run in July 2012.

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