Anonops #9: Get Los(t) Zetas

Its Over 9000!!! [Original Video and Audio]

LOLPRAH: OVER 9000 PENISES!

Tom Cruise Scientology Video - ( Original UNCUT )

Message to Scientology

Operation Payback - Anonymous Message About ACTA Laws, Internet Censorship and Copyright

Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church Website During Live Confrontation

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http://www.thinq.co.uk/20(...)persecute-anonymous/
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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From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world

(Reuters) - It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.

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Op vrijdag 10 december 2010 14:39 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Die drammerige pubers zijn met een revolutie bezig. Je kan net zo goed tegen kapitalisme zijn, dat helpt ook niet.

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Op vrijdag 10 december 2010 14:43 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:

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Ik ben nog enigszins sceptisch over de houdbaarheid/ omvang van deze 'revolutie'.

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Op zaterdag 5 november 2011 15:01 schreef picodealion het volgende:
Stond er voor vandaag nou wat groots gepland?

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A number of news sources, including the New York Times, have reported that the “online feud” between Anonymous and Los Zetas has ended. But as of the writing of this post, in a public chat hosted at Tinychat.com, Barrett Brown has said that while “ the Zeta names were called off,” he is “still going forward against targets of opportunity elsewhere.” One of those targets appears to be Ashville, North Carolina District Attorney, Ron Moore.

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Israeli military, intelligence sites down after ‘Anonymous’ threat


Maan News Agency | Nov 6, 2011

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli army and intelligence agencies’ websites were offline on Sunday, two days after hacker group Anonymous warned it would “strike back” for Israel’s capture of Gaza-bound ships on Friday.

Anonymous, a network of online activists who have attacked government and financial websites around the world, released a statement Friday warning that the group would take action against the navy’s seizure of two ships aiming to break Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip.

“Your actions are illegal, against democracy, human rights, international, and maritime laws,” the statement addressed to the government of Israel and posted on Youtube and Anonymous-affiliated sites said.

“Justifying war, murder, illegal interception, and pirate-like activities under an illegal cover of defense will not go unnoticed by us or the people of the world.”

Websites for Israel’s army, internal Shin Bet security service, and Mossad spy agency could not be accessed on Sunday. It could not be confirmed that Anonymous was responsible.

An Israeli army spokesman said it was a “strange coincidence” but he could not confirm that hacking was responsible.

“Initial investigations conducted by the internet company indicate problem with the internet servers,” a military spokeswoman added. She said they did not know whether it came as a result of a hack.

In its statement Anonymous slammed Israel’s deadly raid on a flotilla heading to Gaza last year, which killed nine Turkish nationals.

“If you continue blocking humanitarian vessels to Gaza or repeat the dreadful actions of May 31st, 2010 against any Gaza Freedom Flotillas then you will leave us no choice but to strike back. Again and again, until you stop,” the statement said.

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what a good day huh? by -The Infinitives-

Alright so.. guess the operations from today are finished..? dang.. we all tried our best and i thank every one who participated in the operations XD
ya know.. every guy Fawkes day companies go hire the best white hat hackers to protect them against attackers like us lol.. so dont beat your self's up if nothen was defaced or taken down by ddos.. we still doxed a bunch of people lol! congratulate your self's! Anonymous dident fail we succeeded and we will never fail..

BUT GUESS WHAT! www.capitalone.com was takend down by DDOS!!!!

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Op maandag 7 november 2011 00:10 schreef Im.Kant. het volgende:

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Anonymous-kneusjes hebben nooit leren spellen? Wat een stupide bericht. Kunnen dat soort kinderen niet gewoon ouderwets belletje trekken als ze ondeugend willen doen?

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Michael Bloomberg
NYC's info-billionaire mayor

Mayor Mike has become America's 8th-richest citizen after a transaction put a solid valuation on Bloomberg LP: he borrowed to buy a 20% stake in his company from Merrill Lynch in July for $4.5 billion. Today he owns 88% of the financial data and news outfit he founded in 1982. Boston-born son of accountant got engineering degree from Johns Hopkins, M.B.A. from Harvard. Became a trader at Salomon Brothers 1970s, quit with $10 million in stock after merger. Created financial information services firm Innovative Market Systems to sell financial data, analytic tools to Wall Street. Renamed Bloomberg LP 1987; added news service, magazine, cable network, radio station. Spent $74 million to become mayor of New York City in 2001 and $85 million on reelection in 2005. Enjoying 71% approval rating, appears to be looking for ways to do away with term limits as November 2009 election looms. Since last June former Republican no longer affiliated with any political party. Has given away nearly $800 million to charity in the past 5 years; with Bill Gates, planning to invest hundreds of millions to combat smoking worldwide.

Birthplace Boston, MA

Date of Birth1942

Family
http://virtualglobetrotti(...)ound/view/?service=1
Emma Bloomberg Daughter of Mike Bloomberg; Philanthropist
daughter
Diana Taylor Director at Citigroup; Longtime partner of Michael Bloomberg
Girlfriend
Charlotte R Bloomberg Late mother of Michael Bloomberg
mother
Marjorie B Tiven
sister

House:
741 Titicus Rd
North Salem, NY 10560

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Friends & Colleagues

Steven Rattner Banker, Ex-'Car Czar', Democratic Fundraiser
close friend *
Professional Associates
Judith Czelusniak Former Chief Communications Officer, Bloomberg L.P.
Professional
Government Positions
Office of the Mayor of New York City
Mayor (Jan 1 '02)

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The Harmonie Club Private social club founded in 1852 by German Jewish immigrants
Member (?'01)
Wildlife Conservation Society USA organization managing national and international conservation projects, research and education programs.
ex officio trustee
Jazz at Lincoln Center
ex-officio board member
Brooklyn Museum
ex-officio trustee
Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM
ex officio trustee
MoMA PS1
ex officio trustee
Hudson River Park Trust
Board Member
Alfalfa Club An exclusive Washington, D.C. club for the rich and powerful, founded in 1913.
Member ('07)
Alliance for Downtown New York lower Manhattan economic development advocacy org
Board Member
Carnegie Hall
ex officio board member

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Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Arts / Science
Harvard University Elite private university located in Cambridge, MA
Master of Business Administration

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Museum for African Art
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Mayors Against Illegal Guns Action Fund
9 contributions $574815 ('08)
RNC Republican National State Elections Committee
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Dccce Non-Federal Account 5
2 contributions $100000 ('96)
Independence Party of Minnesota
3 contributions $75000 ('08)
Republican National Committee
3 contributions $75000 ('03)
Dscc Non-Federal Individuals
1 contribution $50000 ('95)
DNC Non-Federal Unincorporated Association Account
1 contribution $50000 ('96)
Joe Lieberman US Senator from Connecticut
3 contributions $36300 ('06)
DNC-Non-Federal Individual
3 contributions $35000 ('92'98)
John E Sweeney US Representative from New York
18 contributions $24600 ('04'06)
National Leadership PAC
4 contributions $20000 ('99'00)
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
2 contributions $19000 ('92'96)
John McCain US Senator from Arizona
12 contributions $18000 ('98'03)
Solutions America PAC
3 contributions $15000 ('05)
Susan Collins US Senator from Maine
6 contributions $13800 ('07)
Mary L Landrieu US Senator from Louisiana
3 contributions $13800 ('08)
Richard C Wager
6 contributions $13800 ('07)
Richard C Shelby US Representative and Senator from Alabama
6 contributions $12000 ('03)
Harold Dallas Rogers US Representative from Kentucky
6 contributions $12000 ('04)
Naral Pro-Choice America PAC
2 contributions $10000 ('00)
Building America's Conscience & Kids Back PAC
2 contributions $10000 ('99)
New York Republican Federal Campaign Committee
2 contributions $10000 ('97)
Al Gore Former Vice President of the United States
6 contributions $9000 ('98'99)
New Jersey Republican State Committee
2 contributions $8000 ('97)
New York Republican County Committee
5 contributions $7000 ('96'00)
Joe Sestak US Representative from Pennsylvania
3 contributions $6900 ('08)
Mark Steven Kirk US Representative from Illinois
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Carolyn McCarthy US Representative from New York
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Vito John Fossella US Representative from New York
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Chris Dodd US Senator from Connecticut
6 contributions $6000 ('92'00)
George W Bush 43rd US president, ex-governor of Texas, son of George H W Bush
3 contributions $6000 ('03)
Barbara Ann Mikulski US Representative and Senator from Maryland
10 contributions $5000 ('90'97)
Edward John Markey US Representative from Massachusetts
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Lynette Boggs McDonald
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Help America's Leaders Political Action Committee (Halpac)
3 contributions $3000 ('04)
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky US Representative from Pennsylvania
3 contributions $2500 ('94'99)
Charles Millard
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John F Tierney US Representative from Massachusetts
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Iowa Democratic Party
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Nita M Lowey US Representative from New York
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James P McGovern US Representative from Massachusetts
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Dedicated Americans for the Senate and House PAC
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Mark Udall US Representative from Colorado
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Jon Stevens Corzine Former Governor of New Jersey
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Mark R Warner Senator from Virginia; Former Governor of Virginia
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Peter T King US Representative from New York
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John Joseph Lafalce Former US Representative from New York
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Anthony D Weiner US Representative from New York
2 contributions $2000 ('99)
Bill Clinton 42nd US president
2 contributions $2000 ('92'95)
Maurice Dunlea Hinchey US Representative from New York
2 contributions $2000 ('98)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan US Senator from New York
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Bill Bradley US Senator from New Jersey
2 contributions $2000 ('99)
Michael Garver Oxley US Representative from Ohio
2 contributions $2000 ('00)
Matthew K Fong Former California State Treasurer
2 contributions $2000 ('97)
Robert Abrams Former attorney general of New York State
2 contributions $2000 ('92)
Ernest Frederick Hollings US Senator from South Carolina
2 contributions $2000 ('98)
Ben Cardin US Senator from Maryland
2 contributions $2000 ('98)
Christopher H Shays US Representative from Connecticut
2 contributions

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Forbes 400 Richest Americans (2008) [#8]
New York Magazine - The Power Dozen
NEWSMEAT Power Rankings [#82]
Philanthropy 50 - Americans who gave the most in 2009 [#4]
Vanity Fair 100, 2010 [#7]
Institutional Investor - Forty people who have had the most influence on finance
Forbes 400 Richest Americans (2010) [#10]
The Philanthropy 50 (2010) [#2]
The World's Billionaires - Forbes (2011) [#30]

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'We moeten vechten voor democratisering van Cyberspace'

De regels die gelden in cyberspace moeten niet bepaald worden door bedrijven en autoriteiten alleen. Ook burgers en maatschappelijke groepen moeten zich mengen in de vormgeving en regulering van 'het nieuwe Wilde Westen'. Daarvoor pleit docent Albert Meijer.

Cyberspace wordt steeds meer voorgesteld als een gevaarlijke ruimte: 'het nieuwe Wilde Westen' waar bendes van hackers een wedstrijd doen wie de meest gerenommeerde site kan platleggen en steeds meer computers worden gegijzeld door illegale netwerken. Het beeld dat uit deze berichten naar voren komt is dat cyberspace een wereld van anarchie is en dat het noodzakelijk is dat via technische en juridische maatregelen en acties van de politie de veiligheid van deze virtuele ruimte wordt vergroot. Meer veiligheid, dat wil iedereen. Maar hoe wordt de veiligheid van dit nieuwe Wilde Westen bepaald? Wie stelt de regels in cyberspace vast? En hebben burgers hier invloed op?

De democratisering van cyberspace is een onderwerp dat te weinig aandacht krijgt. Dat zal ik laten zien aan de hand van een voorbeeld dat ver afligt van de hackers en criminele netwerken. Ook gaat dit voorbeeld niet om de harde strijd om copyright zoals deze wordt uitgevochten tussen de muziek- en filmindustrie en peer-to-peer netwerken zoals Bittorrent en Gnutella. En ook ligt het accent niet op het gebruik van gegevens van burgers door inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten. Juist aan de hand van dit schijnbaar onschuldige voorbeeld wil ik laten zien hoe sociale regels in Cyberspace worden bepaald.

Kleine dwerg
Jonge mensen brengen steeds meer tijd door in virtuele werelden zoals World of Warcraft. Daar worden nieuwe identiteiten ontwikkeld. Een kennis van mijn vrouw, een vrouw van in de 20, voelt zich eigenlijk meer een kleine dwerg met een grote knots. En het grootste deel van de dag is ze ook een dwerg met een grote knots. Waar traditionele spellen zoals Ganzenbord en Monopoly een helder doel hadden, zijn de virtuele werelden eerder leefomgevingen waar mensen een nieuwe identiteit ontwikkelen en een groot deel van hun tijd doorbrengen.

In de werelden van World of Warcraft gelden regels. Deze regels zijn door Blizzard Entertainment, de ontwikkelaar van World of Warcraft, vastgelegd in officieel beleid. Spelers kunnen bijvoorbeeld worden uitgesloten als ze bepaalde illegale software op hun computer hebben staan. Daarnaast gelden er ook regels voor het gedrag in deze virtuele ruimte. Sommige regels komen redelijk over. Spelers mogen anderen bijvoorbeeld niet beledigen of lastig vallen. Geen racistische taal. Andere regels zijn wel erg strikt. Spelers mogen geen dialoog starten die niet past binnen het spel. Expliciet staat er dat een speler een waarschuwing kan krijgen wanneer hij vraagt of iemand een bepaalde nieuwe film heeft gezien of verteld dat hij een nieuwe auto heeft gekocht.

Spelers die zich hier niet aan houden kunnen een waarschuwing krijgen en uiteindelijk zelfs toegang tot het spel ontzegd worden. Binnen World of Warcraft bestaat er een eigen politie: de Game Masters. Als je daar niet naar luistert worden er sancties opgelegd. Op Internet staan talloze verhalen van gebruikers die om onduidelijke redenen uit World of Warcraft zijn verbannen.

Belangen
Dit voorbeeld laat zien dat voor virtuele interacties regels gelden en dat deze zijn geformuleerd door bedrijven. Dat wil niet zeggen dat deze regels immoreel zijn. In virtuele omgevingen kan bijvoorbeeld moord of verkrachting onmogelijk worden gemaakt. De grote vraag hier is echter wát geldt als ongewenst gedrag. Wanneer worden sociale normen overtreden? Homoseksuele seks en abortus kunnen in cyberspace onmogelijk worden gemaakt. Bij het vaststellen van regels moeten keuzen worden gemaakt tussen wenselijk en onwenselijk gedrag. Deze keuzen worden in cyberspace veelal niet gemaakt op basis van democratische besluitvorming maar op grond van commerciële belangen.

Nu zou u kunnen zeggen dat wij als consumenten toch kunnen stemmen met onze voeten. Bewust consumeren is een strategie die toch veel meer past bij deze tijd dan ouderwets activisme? We hoeven geen World of Warcraft te spelen. Dat is correct maar dit argument miskent het infrastructurele en totale karakter van deze omgevingen. Welke jongere kan het zich veroorloven om niet deel te nemen aan de spellen die al zijn vrienden doen? Wij raken steeds afhankelijker van de virtuele omgevingen die door bedrijven worden gebouwd. Stemmen met de voeten is steeds minder een optie.

Om deze commerciële orde te democratiseren pleit ik voor meer betrokkenheid van civil society - diverse maatschappelijke groepen en ook individuele burgers - bij de vormgeving en regulering van cyberspace. De open source beweging op internet kan hierbij als inspiratie gelden. Principes van copyright, patentrecht en bedrijfsgeheim kunnen worden vervangen door copyleft en open source. Via open debat ontstaat overeenstemming over regels en komen er checks & balances voor de toepassing ervan. Er mogen best regels gelden voor World of Warcraft maar deze regels mogen niet eenzijdig worden opgelegd. We moeten vechten voor een strong democracy in cyberspace.

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#Anonymous Targets Capital One, Wal-Mart, Viral Video Judge William Adams, and More

“It was a busy weekend for the shadowy collective of Internet hackers and activists that calls itself Anonymous, with claims by the group to have launched attacks that took down the Web pages of both government- and private sector Web sites as well as public- and Internet personalities, including Judge William Adams, the subject of a viral video that shows him reportedly beating his daughter with a belt. Factions of the group claimed responsibility for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that took down the Capital One website and a number of El Salvadorian government websites. The group also claimed responsibility for a hack of the website of Finland’s far-right Kansallinen Vastarinta (the National Resistance) party that spilled data on the group’s membership. The latest attacks come after a weekend that also saw Israeli military and intelligence Web sites take off line after threats from Anonymous as Threatpost reported.

As evidence of their deeds, the hacker-collective published a couple of announcements on the file-sharing site, Pastebin. The first boasts the DDoS attack that eventually brought down the Capital One site, and includes links to personal information (or “dox”) on a number of prominent business and government officials, including Warren Buffett, David Koch, former SEC Commissioner William Donaldson, and the now infamous Judge William Adams, who became an online sensation after a video of him beating his daughter was published on YouTube.

The post also includes links to allegedly damning material about Wal-Mart, Oakland Police, and other organizations. The second announcement, from Anonymous Finland, contains links to what they claim is a publication of Kansallinene Vastarinta’s membership application database. The group’s perception is that right-wing extremism is proliferating in Europe and they are evidently upset about it – at least such was the reason given for the attack. You can find that Pastebin release here.

The attacks, as indicated in one of the Pastebin releases, may have been in celebration of Anonymous’ favorite holiday, Guy Fawkes Day, which remembers the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 - an attempt to assassinate King James I. Fawkes likeness can now be seen on masks worn by Anonymous members.”~Threatpost

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Data leak – Anonymous hackers disown claim of responsibility made in their name

Police server unexpectedly crashes as tens of thousands check to see if their data was leaked

A message from the “Anonymous” hacker movement has disowned a previous claim of responsibility made on behalf of Anonymous Finland that it was behind the recent leak of personal data of 16,000 people in Finland.
“We have no opinions about Finnish politicians. We have not broken into any Finnish websites”, says a writer using the name “zeekill” in the most recent message.

Anonymous is a loosely-knit group of internet anarchists, and as the contradictory messages suggest, anybody can act on behalf of the group, which claims thousands of adherents around the world.
The group has no leaders, no formal organisation, and no specific ideology. The group is organised around online discussion channels, and those involved know each other only by their pseudonyms.

A message that came out earlier on Monday in the name of Anonymous Finland claimed responsibility for giving “outside support” to the hacking of Finnish databases, and posting the personal information of 16,000 people on line.
Earlier there had been a claim on behalf of the group that it had “successfully and easily” hacked into the website of the far-right Finnish Resistance Movement in late October, and published information about the group’s membership application database. The action caused a stir because one of the names on the list was that of a parliamentary aide of an MP of the opposition True Finns party.
The writers of the message voiced the view that officials and companies should secure the information that they have access to more effectively than they do now. They also declared opposition to groups based on ethnic, sexual, or religious discrimination.

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is investigating the matter.
The website of the Finnish police crashed on Monday when 60,000 internet users visited the police website at the same time to read more about the data leak.
Police have published a list of first names and birthdates of people on the list and distributed it to media websites in order to allow the public to check if their names are on it (see link below).

Those whose names are on the list are advised to keep close scrutiny of their mail, e-mail, bank accounts, bills, and other transactions. If any irregularities are seen, a complaint to local police is recommended.
Police also warn against possible phishing scams in which internet users might be offered a chance to check if their name is on the list. Users should be especially wary about requests for passwords or bank account numbers, as such requests are most likely attempts at fraud.

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Cyber weaknesses should deter US from waging war

Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — America's critical computer networks are so vulnerable to attack that it should deter U.S. leaders from going to war with other nations, a former top U.S. cybersecurity official said Monday.

Richard Clarke, a top adviser to three presidents, joined a number of U.S. military and civilian experts in offering a dire assessment of America's cybersecurity at a conference, saying the country simply can't protect its critical networks.

Clarke said if he was advising the president he would warn against attacking other countries because so many of them — including China, North Korea, Iran and Russia — could retaliate by launching devastating cyberattacks that could destroy power grids, banking networks or transportation systems.

The U.S. military, he said, is entirely dependent on computer systems and could end up in a future conflict in which troops trot out onto a battlefield "and nothing works."

Clarke said a good national security adviser would tell the president that the U.S. might be able to blow up a nuclear plant somewhere, or a terrorist training center somewhere, but a number of countries could strike back with a cyberattack and "the entire us economic system could be crashed in retaliation ... because we can't defend it today."

"I really don't know to what extent the weapon systems that have been developed over the last 10 years have been penetrated, to what extent the chips are compromised, to what extent the code is compromised," Clarke said. "I can't assure you that as you go to war with a cybersecurity-conscious, cybersecurity-capable enemy that any of our stuff is going to work."

Clarke, along with Gen. Keith Alexander, who heads both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, told the conference crowd that the U.S. needs to do a better job at eliminating network vulnerabilities and more aggressively seek out malware or viruses in American corporate, military and government systems.

But Clarke was more strident about pushing for broader government regulations to enforce such improvements, despite political reluctance. The problems, he said, will not be fixed unless the government gets more involved.

He added that the U.S. also needs to make it clear to countries such as China that efforts to use computer-based attacks to steal high-tech American data will be punished.

In a forceful and detailed public report last week. U.S. intelligence officials accused China and Russia of systematically stealing sensitive U.S. economic information and technologies for their own national economic gain.

The report called on the U.S. to confront China and Russia in a broad diplomatic push to combat cyberattacks that are on the rise and which represent a "persistent threat to U.S. economic security."

On Monday, Clarke said that until there are real consequences for the massive espionage, countries like China will still keep stealing.

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AnonymousPress twitterde op dinsdag 08-11-2011 om 17:42:30 This is what the #Syria phishing attempt looks like acc. to @TelecomixSyria http://t.co/3vuhurVq reageer retweet

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Website Test behind the Great Firewall of China

Test any website in real-time to check if it is accessible from China. The Golden Shield Project (a.k.a. Great Firewall of China) is owned by the Government of China (MPS) and was started in 1998. The firewall system blocks website content by preventing IP addresses from being routed through and consists of standard firewall and proxy servers at the Internet gateways of China's ISPs. The banning of websites is mostly uncoordinated and ad-hoc, with some web sites being blocked from one city and the same web sites being allowed from other cities and vice versa. (You can find more details here.)
Check your website from the following cities in China: Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

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Tested From: Shanghai, China
Tested At: 2011-11-08
13:55:08 (GMT -05:00)
URL Tested: http://www.fok.nl
Resolved As: 87.233.27.8
Status: OK
Response Time: 4.999 sec
DNS: 0.390 sec
Connect: 0.392 sec
Redirect: 1.445 sec
First Byte: 0.449 sec
Last Byte: 2.324 sec
Size: 147397 bytes

Tested From: Seattle, WA
Tested At: 2011-11-08
13:55:08 (GMT -05:00)
URL Tested: http://www.fok.nl
Resolved As: 87.233.27.8
Status: OK
Response Time: 3.457 sec
DNS: 0.156 sec
Connect: 0.154 sec
Redirect: 1.796 sec
First Byte: 0.268 sec
Last Byte: 1.082 sec
Size: 147397 bytes

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AnonymousCenter twitterde op woensdag 09-11-2011 om 00:10:29 If you want the best cyber news than follow @Cyber_War_News He does an awesome job! reageer retweet

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Occupy Privacy: UmeNow Launches Anti-Tracking Campaign

New York, NY, November 08, 2011 (PR.com) UmeNow.com is on the offensive. It has launched a new campaign Occupy Privacy, spearheaded by the release of a video that depicts life under surveillance.

Occupy Privacy is about people taking back what belongs to them, says Evelyn Castillo-Bach, the outspoken privacy advocate, entrepreneur and founder UmeNow.com. We see a dangerous trend where companies track people without their consent. Its creepy. People reject governments that abuse surveillance powers to control citizens. The Occupy Privacy campaign is about people letting corporations know that they need to stop tracking without consent. Its unethical and undemocratic.

The Occupy Privacy campaign supports the position of Canadas Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart: The true importance of privacy protection is that it underpins our democratic freedoms. It allows us to exercise these freedoms openly, without fear, mistrust or censorship. This is why caution is so critical, to avoid the possible erosion of our free, open society.

Occupy Privacy supports the efforts by the German Data Protection Authority to expose practices where social networks unlawfully track users. The campaign also support the efforts by the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland to investigate companies accused of creating shadow profiles on people.

Occupy Privacy supports the public-interest groups in the United States that are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate if users of social networks are being tracked after they are logged off.

Occupy Privacy supports the efforts by individuals throughout the world who expose unauthorized tracking by companies.

People interested in supporting the Occupy Privacy campaign can write to: op@umenow.com.

About UmeNow
https://umenow.com [UmeNow __title__ UmeNow]describes itself as an ethical company that provides a safe haven for people who want true privacy and secure communication. It has banned third party apps, games, and even ads because they provide a back door to tracking people and extracting private information. As an independent social network, it is supported by member subscriptions.

The company is based in South Florida. UmeNow.com was launched in July 2011. The founder and managing partner is Evelyn Castillo-Bach. She earned her M.S. in 1993 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and has traveled extensively in Ethiopia and in the Balkans, accompanying her Danish husband who is a lawyer. She is currently in New York City promoting the campaign Occupy Privacy.

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America's self-defeating 'war on drugs'

Distressingly, the Obama White House seems determined to paint itself into a corner of prohibitionist law enforcement

The murky doings of the hacker group Anonymous took a remarkable turn in recent days. A Mexican drug cartel allegedly kidnapped an Anonymous member, and then, after the loosely organised hackers said they would reveal names of cartel personnel, released him with threats to kill the hacker's family if the names were revealed.

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benbfranklin twitterde op dinsdag 08-11-2011 om 07:38:22 #RT so brothers, @ThomasRHart gave teh signal to start #OpDemocracy2.0 http://t.co/YVl9zlKb and who else can push it like Anon? reageer retweet

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THE CALL FOR DEMOCRACY 2.0

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In the past, information, decisions and opinions could not be transmitted within seconds accross a country, much less the entire world. As a consequence, citizens elected regional representatives to serve as the voice of the people in parliament.

Such a representative system, reflecting the economies and the societal structures of a world long gone, is still in place today, but no longer serving the fundamental idea and ideal of democracy as a system for the people and by the people.

Instead, the elected representatives have become compromised by lobby interest, corrupted by corporations, have lost touch with those they are supposed to represent, serving only those who want people to serve them, be it as employees, voters or soldiers sent off to wars to kill or die for profit.

We have reached a time of change as too much power is concentrated in the hands of the few, becoming a "representation" in name only.

Such is the corruption that these representatives have now repeatedly turned against those they are supposed to represent, that they are fearing the tools, the technology that would allow a more direct participation of those that they are supposed to govern: the internet.

The internet allows us all to work together in a new form of democracy, a true 21st century version it that is still true to its ideas and ideals, giving everyone a chance to have their voices heard, to participate in the shaping of ideas and laws on regional, national or even global levels.

There is no excuse for denying this chance to us, the people.

There is no excuse for not allowing us, the citizens, to be educated, to formulate informed opinions, to vote on those issues that directly affect us, not only in our daily lives but also decide the future of our children and of the very world itself.

Decisions like these can no longer allowed to be made by those who don't listen to us, who only listen to those who promise them money or power or both, who offer them consulting contracts, places on corporate boards, who have sold the voices of the people to Big Oil, to Big Pharma, to anyone "Big" enough to pay them enough to make them believe that corporations are people, and people are consumers.

These few, they fear us, the citizens. Those few, they fear our thoughts, our thoughts and opinions, as the example of the proposed referendum in Greece on the Euro has shown, aborted under pressure of not only an unelected body like the EU but also bowing to the pressure of the so-called markets, behaving more irrationally than any informed citizenship would ever be able to do

There is no reason to fear us. We are your brothers, we are your sisters, we are your fathers and mothers, your daughters and sons. We are your neighbors. And we are all in this together. That is what is at the heart of democracy. Us.

And for the first time in the history of mankind, technology has given us the tools, the chance and opportunity to live up to those ideals that were formulated ages ago, by men and women smart enough and kind enough and trusting enough to see that we are the same, by men and women who believed that this is what it's all about.

The opportunity to not only have your voice heard, but listened to.

The opportunity to educate and in turn be educated.

From the first book printed, those in power have fought the flow of free information, out of of fear, scared of no longer being able to control those they governed. In every age, the people who have fought for this freedom have been called terrorists, have been called criminals, have been oppressed.

Do not fear us.

Do not fear information.

Do not fear the necessary change.

This is our time. This is your time. This is your future.

It is the time that democracy can finally live up to the promise given to mankind all those centuries ago. A free exchange of ideas. An educated citizenship.

To those who fear the redesign of democracy. Have the past months not proven that today's system is at the point of collapse? That parliaments like those of the United States and even Germany have abandoned even the illusion of representation by appointing secret committees, deciding on budgets, budget cuts, on your life, without even being held responsible to those who are supposed to hold this power by the virtues of our constitutions?

Has it not proven that the laws that were written, the laws that were repealed, that were neutered, blocked and scrapped not only served the interested of big corporations beholden to no ideal, but were in fact written by them and voted upon by Members of Parliament who not only didn't know what they were voting on, but also didn't seem to care about the obvious incompetence?

In the United States, only 8% trust Congress anymore to represent them. In Germany, it is 9%. Similar numbers are to be found in every country that is supposedly a democracy. We have been sold out, have been silenced, have been pushed aside.

We didn't stop believing in the system.

The system stopped believing in us.

We believe there are more competent people out there. We believe that they have not been given a voice, have been silenced by a system where money talks and ideas are silenced.

These people are not only out there.

These people are you and me.

And it us who can change this world. Bit by bit.

Discussion by disccusion. Debate by debate. Decision by decision.

We know you are disillusioned. We know you are afraid. We know you are angry.

But most of all, we know this... We know you care.

We think we not only can, we need to change the way democracy works, not only for a better today, but a better tomorrow. A man, a politician, once said to us to "hope" and "change", and we hoped that he would be the change.

But he wasn't. We are this hope. We are this change.

The "Occupy" Movements around the world, they are the first voice. It is loud. It is unshaped. But it is a beginning. It voices your anger. It voices your disillusion. And it has been critized for not offering a plan, a Powerpoint presentation, a memo... by the very people who have had years and decades to come up with solutions and failed time and again.

We cannot wait on those who stand against us anymore.

We cannot wait for them to represent us anymore.

We believe in democracy. They do not.

We believe in the intelligence of our citizens. They do not.

We believe in the ideals of our constitutions. They do not.

And to change this world, to fight for a better tommorrow, we must take back our democracies from them. Technology has given us not only the tools, but also the ideas on how to tap unused potentials. Ideas that can start as a single thought and transported to millions of people at the touch of a button through technologies like BitTorrent, thoughts that can spread through 140 characters or less on Twitter, plans that can be worked on in open and fair exchanges on Public Pads.

The ideas are out there. The ideals are out there.

Because you are out there. And waiting to be listened to.

We are calling on all of you.

The dreamers. The realists. The experts. The people.

Because that is how democracy starts

With just a single sentence. A single thought.

"We, the people..."

It was important enough to begin every call for democracy since the American Revolution.

We are all in this together.

Let's start the debate.

Let us create a democracy that is transparent, that is again for the people and this time by the people, representing the best of us and no longer represented by the worst of us.

Let us build a democracy that deserves this name. That evolves. That is ours to shape and guided by the principles that our leaders have forgotten but that we still carry in our hearts.

Let us build Democracy 2.0.

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Anonymous Declare 'War Against Corruption in the Mexico Government'

Online activist movement Anonymous has declared war against corruption in the Mexico government, calling on all the global hacker community to attack government agencies in the country.

The operation, dubbed #OpCorrupción, comes after #OpCartel, in which Anonymous planned to target the ruthless drug cartel Los Zetas but hds to call it off after the kidnapping of one of his member. Eventually, the hacker has been released but Anonymous declared a truce with the Zetas.

With #OpCorrupción, Anonymous is committed to release 25,000 emails out of a cache of 18,000 stolen during a hack on the Mexican government.

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"We appeal to all the world's Anons, the entire global hacker community, to set aside our differences, and to ruthlessly attack all government agencies in Mexico: their web presence, their email, their servers," reads a statement on Anonymous Iberoamerica website, the official blog for the Spanish-speaking faction of the hacker collective. "To bring to light all the hidden information that demonstrates that Mexico is corrupt. We officially declare war against corruption in Mexico."

However, this operation is likely to spark more criticism among sceptics of the "hacktivists". Operation Cartel, aimed at taking down the violent Mexican drug cartel, already raised serious concerns among Anoymous members in South America. Many argued in internet chat rooms that the risk of torture and death was too great to carry on. Several activists told the Mexican newspaper Milenio that the operation was cancelled out of safety concerns.

Last week, Adrien Chen on Gawker accused Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown of exploiting press attention on Operation Cartel to promote a book about his experience working with Anonymous, for which he received a six-figure offer from Amazon's publishing branch. "The whole Operation Cartel business was probably bullshit-a lot of sound and fury signifying people's lurid obsession with the boogeymen of Anonymous and the drug cartels," Chen wrote.

Many experts are unconvinced on Anonymous real commitment to release hacked emails. "The spat between Brown and Chen aside, we're still not convinced there will ever be a release," wrote Adam Clarke of The Atlantic Wire. "Anonymous tends to brag a lot about planned operations, then fall silent when they miss their deadline, as they recently did for their November 5 attack on Facebook."

OpCartel was one of the most controversial operation the online "hacktivist" group has ever carried on. Arrests have been made in connection with Anonymous denial-of-service attacks against PayPal late last year and alleged theft of data from Sony Pictures Entertainment earlier this year. And the group has targeted numerous law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere and even alleged child porn rings.

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Digital Activism From Anonymous to Occupy Wall Street: a Conversation With Gabriella Coleman

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Is this necessarily a post-mortem on Anonymous, though?

Well, I think its a recognition that currently things are not as active as they used to be, in part because the IRC server was down for two weeks [in the three weeks preceding September 16th]. I was told that [the server takedown] was an outside team effort. That people were working together to bring down Anonymous. They didnt say who. It wasnt a lone individualit was really formidable. And it was a real blow because IRC is a force of centralization, a focal point, a lively meeting place for Anonymous.

But one can argue that it is also imperative for Anonymous regeneration to have periods of dispersion, a fallow period, and that it makes sense for them to wax and wane. And that only if they wax and wane will they exist in a non-hierarchical form, because the tendency of political organizing over time is to create structure. They dont even like structure. In order to obey that, a waxing and waning could be part of that. OpBart was a perfect example of thatthere was a kind of waning prior to OpBart, and then a nice waxing.

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Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship

In recent weeks the governments of Britain, Israel, the US, Japan, India and China have reported alleged cyber attacks by foreign militaries, hackers, and malicious software like Duqu, a virus similar to the Stuxnet cyber weapon constructed by Israel and the US for use against Iran’s nuclear program. Although the nature and origin of the attacks or even whether they took place at all cannot be independently confirmed, the supposed threats are being used to propose punishing new legislation aimed at stifling internet freedoms and are igniting new rivalries in what many see as the battlefield of the 21st century: cyberspace.

Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship

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Fidel Castro's niece in Twitter row with Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez

Mariela Castro – daughter of president Raúl – calls dissidents 'despicable parasites' hours after joining Twitter

Within hours of signing up to Twitter, the daughter of the Cuban president, Raúl Castro, has got into the online equivalent of a shouting match with a prominent dissident blogger, Yoani Sánchez.

Mariela Castro called Sánchez and her supporters "despicable parasites" in a brief exchange that may have been the first direct confrontation, verbal or otherwise, between dissidents and a member of the Castro family after years of mutual animosity.

Sánchez, who regularly criticises the lack of freedoms in communist Cuba in her Generation Y blog, touched off the dispute by sending tweets that welcomed Mariela Castro to the "plurality of Twitter" where "no one can shut me up, deny me permission to travel or block entrance".

"When will we Cubans be able to come out of other closets?" she asked, alluding to Mariela Castro's championing of gay rights as head of Cuba's national centre for sex education.

"Tolerance is total or is it not?" Sánchez tweeted.

Castro, 49, replied coolly: "Your focus of tolerance reproduces the old mechanisms of power. To improve your 'services' you need to study."

But later, after apparently receiving a number of tweets from other dissidents, Castro lashed out.

"Despicable parasites: did you receive the order from your employers to respond to me in unison and with the same predetermined script? Be creative," she wrote, reflecting the contempt Cuban leaders have for dissidents.

This is fuelled by the belief that the protesters work for their longtime enemy, the United States.

Cuba's leaders can barely hide their rancour toward Sánchez in particular, but do not mention her or other dissidents by name.

Despite having an international following, Sánchez is little known in Cuba, where internet access is limited.

Mariela Castro, who is at the vanguard in Cuba in supporting gay rights, also appears to be the first in the Castro family to publicly and directly engage in tweeting.

Her father, who is 80, and her uncle, the former leader Fidel Castro, 85, have Twitter accounts but these are used only to post stories and columns from Cuba's state-run media.

After her exchange with Sánchez, she posted a link to an interview about her recent trip to the Netherlands, where she toured Amsterdam's red light district.

She raised eyebrows by saying there that she knew of Cubans who would prostitute themselves with labourers just so they could take a bath.

In a tweet, Mariela Castro said there had been "manipulations, like always" of her comments.

Anonymous #Operation ''Fawkes Virus'' Released on Facebook.

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We are all over the globe. We are Anonymous. We do not forget. We do not forgive. Don't expect us, we are already here!

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Valve's online game service Steam hit by hackers

The Steam video game service, used by 35 million people, has been compromised by hackers.

Its owner and operator, Valve, uncovered an intrusion into a user database while investigating a security breach of its discussion forums.

The attackers used login details from the forum hack to access a database that held ID and credit card data.

Valve said that, so far, it had no evidence that credit cards were being misused or Steam accounts abused.

Losing trust

The defacement took place on 6 November and the Steam forums were taken offline when Valve learned of the attack.

At first the firm said the discussion groups were offline for maintenance.

However, a message posted to the front page of the forums by Valve boss Gabe Newell on 10 November has revealed that the sites were shut down because of the defacement.

Valve's investigation of that incident revealed that the "the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums".

The initial investigation showed that the attackers gained access to a Steam database that held "user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information".

Valve has not said whether this was the full database of Steam's 35 million active accounts or a subset of that total.

Mr Newell said Valve had no evidence that the encrypted credit card information or personal information on gamers had been taken. However, he added, "we are still investigating".

He said it had only discovered that a few forum accounts had been compromised and used to carry out the defacement.

But Mr Newell added that all forum users will be required to change their passwords when the discussion site re-opens, which the firm is trying to achieve as quickly as possible.

He advised users to change passwords on other accounts if they are the same as the one used for the Steam forums.

"I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience," concluded Mr Newell.

Code changes

Steam is a gaming service that lets people buy, download, play and chat about a huge variety of games, only some of which are made by Valve itself.

About 1,500 titles are currently available on Steam including Skyrim, LA Noire and Modern Warfare 3 as well as many independent and free games.

Security expert Paul Ducklin, writing on the blog of security firm Sophos, handed down advice about what to do following the breach.

He said users should change passwords, monitor credit card statements, consider removing card numbers from Valve's servers and sign up for the Steam Guard security service.

He also urged users to insist businesses take steps to make it much harder for hackers to penetrate their systems and use stolen data.

"Community pressure has persuaded many businesses to improve their password-handling code," he said.

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Anonymous site(Anonyops.com) hacked by Pakistani Hacker Tha Disastar

Few days back, Anonymous hackers declared an operation against the The Muslim Brotherhood . They told that they are going to launch DDOS attack against them on Nov 11.

Today, A Pakistani Hacker named as "Tha Disastar" hacked into the official site of AnonyOPS.The DDoS specilist has also faced massive denial of service attack on the anonyops.com and the site is still off-line.

In the message hacker said that "Anonymous should stay in limits,and must not go out of there limits to others peoples religion"

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How the US Justice Department legally hacked my Twitter account

Few realise that foreign governments gain the right to our personal data when we sign up to social media. This must end

Before my Twitter case, in which the US Department of Justice has demanded that the social media site hands over personal information about my account which it deems necessary to its investigation of WikiLeaks, I didn't think much about what rights I would be signing off when accepting user agreement in my computer. The text is usually lengthy, in a legal language that most people don't understand. Very few people read the user agreements, and very few understand their legal implications if someone in the real world would try to use one against them.

Many of us who use the internet – be it to write emails, work or browse its growing landscape: mining for information, connecting with others or using it to organise ourselves in various groups of the like-minded – are not aware of that our behavior online is being monitored. Profiling has become a default with companies such as Google and Facebook. These companies have huge databases recording our every move within their environment, in order to groom advertising to our interests. For them, we are only consumers to push goods at, in order to sell ads through an increasingly sophisticated business model. For them, we are not regarded as citizens with civic rights.

This notion needs to change. No one really knew where we were heading a few years ago: neither we the users, nor the companies harvesting our personal information for profit. Very few of us imagined that governments that claim to be democratic would invade our online privacy with no regard to the fundamental rights we are supposed to have in the real world. We might look to China and other stereotypical totalitarian states and expect them to violate the free flow of information and our digital privacy, but not – surely? – our very own democratically elected governments.

What I have learned about my lack of rights in the last few months is of concern for everyone who uses the internet and calls for actions to raise people's awareness about their legal rights and ways to improve legal guidelines about digital media, be it locally or globally. The problem – and the dilemma we are facing – is that there are no proper standards, no basic laws in place that deal with the fundamental question: are we to be treated as consumers or citizens online? There is no international charter that says we should have the same civic rights as we have in the offline world.

Our legal systems are slow compared to the speed of online development. With the social media explosion, many people have put into databases very sensitive information about themselves and others without knowing that they have no rights to defend themselves against attempts by governments to obtain that personal data – whether their own local authorities or, as in my case, a foreign government acting internationally. According to the ruling of the US federal judge in my Twitter case, we have fortified those rights of government agencies when we agreed to the terms and conditions set by the company hosting our data. Even if that information is not held on servers in the US, the company would only need to have an office in the US for authorities to be able to demand its release to them.

So, we have to rely on, for example, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Twitter to look out for our interests. But it might not always be in their interests to look out for us.

The reason we make international treaties and declarations about human rights is because, somewhere along the line, we agreed that certain rights are sacred and universal. We need to make the same principles applicable to our human rights online, as they are offline. These two worlds have fused together, and there is no way to define them as separate anymore.

If is too easy for governments to access the information stored online, it is too easy for that access to be abused. If someone wanted to go through all my regular mail, they would have to obtain a search warrant in advance. No such thing happened in the Twitter case. I am, according to the US Justice Department, not under a criminal investigation, yet its officials demanded Twitter surrender my personal messages and IP numbers without my knowledge. It has never been so easy for Big Brother to pry on all our most sacred information without us ever even knowing.

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ISPs: Blocking The Pirate Bay Violates Freedom of Expression

Two of the largest Internet providers in the Netherlands clashed in court with the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN today. The ISPs argued that blocking The Pirate Bay would be useless, even dangerous, as it could take down the entire network. In addition they feel that this type of censorship violates basic human rights such as freedom of expression. BREIN disputed these concerns and said that the ISPs want to keep The Pirate Bay online because they profit from the site.

the pirate bayAfter the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN lost its preliminary case against the ISPs Ziggo and Xs4all, the group started a full trial to demand a blockade of The Pirate Bay.

Today the case was heard before Court of The Hague

BREIN wants the largest ISP in The Netherlands to implement a DNS and IP address block of The Pirate Bay, with any future domain names and IP addresses of the site blocked within 24 hours of notification by BREIN.

The anti-piracy group argues that the ISPs can easily block the site with simple technical measures, and that as a result millions of people would be prevented from sharing files via the notorious torrent site.

The ISPs on the other hand claim that these measures are not as simple as BREIN claims, and that their implementation could have disastrous results.

Rebooting network services after adding DNS and IP-filters “could shut down the entire network,” the defense noted.

In addition the defense argued that such measures would be useless because the public can easily circumvent them by using alternative DNS servers and proxy sites. BREIN didn’t refute this, but noted that the blocks are “dummy proof” and that the majority of people wouldn’t jump through hoops to access The Pirate Bay.

Aside from the technical objections the ISPs also said that this type of censorship would violate basic human rights such as freedom of expression. Xs4all lawyer Milica Antic said it would turn the providers into the “Internet police” and that copyright holders should turn to the people who host the site itself.

BREIN countered these arguments and said that freedom of expression is “not that relevant,” and pointed out the copyright holders also have the right to protect their property. The fact that The Pirate Bay also hosts links pointing to legal content doesn’t take away these rights, BREIN’s lawyer said.

BREIN went even further and claimed that the ISPs don’t want to block The Pirate Bay because they “profit” from it. Millions of people in The Netherlands use BitTorrent, and blocking the Pirate Bay would drive people to other providers.

The case between the ISPs and BREIN brings up many of the censorship issues that are also being discussed in the United States at the moment. The pending SOPA legislation would make DNS and IP-blocks standard procedure, something BREIN can only dream of at this point.

The verdict in the case is expected to be announced early next year.

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Who Should Be TIME's Person of the Year 2011?

From tsunamis to budget battles to revolutions, 2011 has been a tumultuous, news-packed year. Who influenced the news most, for better or for ill? Tradition dictates that TIME's editors choose the Person of the Year, but we want to know: if you were in charge, who would it be?

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Krijgsmacht richt zich op cyberoorlog

De Nederlandse krijgsmacht maakt zich gereed voor het leveren van veldslagen op internet. Onder aanvoering van cyberkolonel Hans Folmer, gaat op 1 januari het nieuwe krijgsmachtonderdeel 'digitale taskforce' de strijd op de digitale snelweg aan.

'Behalve door de lucht en over de grond, moeten we tegenstanders ook via internet kunnen aanpakken', zegt generaal-majoor Sander Schnitger van Defensieplanning.

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Via een toetsenbord kunnen oorlogen ingrijpend worden beïnvloed, aldus de generaal. Als een tegenstander kans ziet om in het computersysteem van het leger te komen, kan bijvoorbeeld de aanvraag van munitie worden beïnvloed. Omdat veel wapensystemen door computers worden gestuurd, zijn deze gevoelig voor aanvallen, aldus de generaal in De Telegraaf

Schnitger voorziet dat het leger er over enkele jaren totaal anders uit ziet. De mitrailleur wordt verruild voor toetsenbord en joystick.

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OpCartel Update and Adrian Chen
OpCartel Update 11/12/2011

1. I've arrived in Brooklyn thanks to individuals associated with Occupy DC, who paid for a last-minute flight I would otherwise not have been able to afford at this time. I am situated in a neighborhood whose residents are old friends and who tend to be well-armed, and at any rate I plan to be staying with assorted friends and colleagues in various other parts of NYC during my stay.

2. All of those media outlets and journalists who wanted the information I obtained on Asheville, NC District Attorney Ron Moore and whom I've deemed capable of pursuing the story have now received the entirety of that info. One local journalist, before having seen any of it, asked me whether a certain individual was among those named therein as having illicit connections to Moore. I confirmed that this was indeed the case; the reporter explained that this particular person, who is close to the city's criminal justice system, also has a criminal history. Note that this info, which was provided to me by an Asheville resident whose connection to the situation is significant and verifiable, also cites two other men as being involved with Moore; both are career criminals with ties to the Houstones gang. The info and many of the details involved will continue to remain non-public for the time being so that I and the half-dozen reporters looking into it may do so without tipping off the other subjects; meanwhile, the info in its raw form would expose the identity of the informant and a family member. However, the bulk of the account will be released when viable, perhaps by the end of the month.

3. Some Mexican Anons and other individuals working out of #Iberoamerica continue to scour some 25,000 e-mails for specific incidents of corruption within the Mexican government and other of the country's major institutions. Their new effort, #OpCorrupcion, has the potential to be wildly successful if it receives the attention and support that it deserves. Note that I am not involved in this operation and cannot provide any particular details on it, as I've told several journalists already.

4. I am continuing work on the creation of a private team of individuals who will be charged with pursuing an ongoing campaign against Mexican cartels. So far, participants include journalists, academics who study cartels and related topics, and hackers, although other skill sets may also be needed. Those who wish to apply should send a brief description of their skills and relevant backgrounds to transistor@hushmail.com. Once this team is assembled, I will serve only in an advisory role as requested (if even that), as I hope to return to work on Project PM and our ongoing investigation into the intelligence contracting industry in the near future.

Note on Adrian Chen

On the whole, reporters have done a reasonably good job in covering a story that is fast-moving and often confusing. This is important for operations such as these, which are pursued largely within the realm of information and which thus depend on accurate and fair reportage to be successful; likewise, journalists who take the time to research the background and/or quote participants at length also help to ensure that those of us who are engaged in this work are not required to spend much time correcting false or misleading assertions. One ongoing incident, however, has damaged the viability of both OpCartel and OpCorrupcion, misinformed some unknown number of people, and unfairly hurt the credibility of myself and the Mexican Anons who are risking their very lives to assist the Mexican people as a whole. Adrian Chen of the online publication Gawker wrote an article several days ago entitled "It Pays to be the Face of Anonymous." (http://gawker.com/5856604/it-pays-to-be-the-face-of-anonymous)

a) Chen claims that the book on Anonymous that Gregg Housh and I are writing was "just sold" when it was in fact sold in September, as is public record, and incorrectly claims that reports of our meetings with publishers in NYC appeared "last month" when they actually appeared in the New York Observer just a few days before the sale of the book - again, in September, which Chen should know since he himself reported on it at the time. Setting aside the factual error regarding which months come when, referring to one event in late September as having occurred "last month" and another one that occurred a few days later as having "just" happened is either inexplicable or easily explained by Chen's intent to portray the book as being my motive for participation in OpCartel.

b) Chen seems to imply that I lied about the advance Housh and I received for the book by asserting that "Everything Brown says should be taken with a grain of salt." Chen promises to explain why later in the piece.

c) Chen refers to "Anonymous' bullshit anti-drug operation" before writing, "All week Brown has been spouting off to CNN, the Guardian and more about Operation Cartel, which was supposedly launched as payback for the Zetas kidnapping an Anonymous member. Even as proof that there had ever been a kidnapping continued to not exist, Brown upped the stakes, claiming that Anonymous had 25,000 stolen government emails they were going to use to expose at least 75 collaborators." I will note that I referred Chen to Bloomberg regarding evidence of the e-mails, as may be heard in the recording of that phone interview linked below. Rather than contact Bloomberg, Chen proceeded to write his article without even mentioning that I tried to provide him with evidence. Since then, Bloomberg reporter Michael Riley confirmed to The Atlantic - an actual news publication - that he'd received samples of the e-mails, which indeed involve corruption and payoffs, just as was claimed. But even when writing a follow-up piece about me yesterday (http://gawker.com/5858405(...)on-bloggers-heats-up), Chen refrained from mentioning any of this. When I noted Chen's failure to admit error on Twitter, he replied, "I'll believe it when I see them." Presumably, Chen is now resorting to the implication that a veteran Bloomberg reporter has either been duped or is publicly lying.

d) At the top of the article are three screenshots taken from a video I made months ago and which appear to have been selected to make me look crazy and/or stupid, something easily accomplished by taking single shots from a video of most any person talking. The follow-up article uses another, even more ridiculous screenshot from the same video. Such things are not done by accident; they are done to make a person look bad without resorting to facts.

As it is, I am having to contend with several projects even in addition to the attempts that have been made to provide my location to the Zeta cartel and other parties. I have no choice but to ignore the majority of negative things that are said about me. But in this case, Chen and his editor have concocted a storyline that has since been picked up by The Daily Mail and other outlets of similar quality-to-reach ratios, thereby doing some unknown degree of damage to an effort for which I and others have risked our lives. And they have done so not just with irresponsible inattention to those facts, such as the confirmation of the e-mails, that would prove their stated position false; they have gone so far as to actively and shamelessly disregard that particular fact even as it confirmed by a respected journalist for a respected publication. This tells me that I am up against yet another party for whom truth and fair play are secondary to mediocre, "biting" rhetoric and the victory that presumably comes from poorly-composed libel.

This is the audio conversation I had with Adrian Chen before the first article in question. Although I record most of the interviews I do with journalists - and have had occasion to speak to plenty of them over the last year in particular - this is the first time that I can recall having felt the need to post the recording.

AdrianAgain.wmv for #OpCartel via @BarrettBrownLOL

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Op zondag 13 november 2011 19:24 schreef Die_Hofstadtgruppe het volgende:
http://idealab.talkingpoi(...)operation-cartel.php

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Tja dat krijg je als internetpubers denken dat een site hacken iets te maken heeft met de echte wereld

Goh dat had ik nou niet verwacht

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Op zondag 13 november 2011 19:49 schreef Die_Hofstadtgruppe het volgende:

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Waar uit zich dat in dan?

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En waarom is facebook nog online?

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Op zondag 13 november 2011 19:31 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Anonymous heeft geen centrale organisatie en geen leiders.

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For a few minutes right in the electoral process was impossible to enter the Internet page of Michoacán Electoral Institute (EMI). The organization attributed Hispanic Anonymous hacking on that page.

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Cop under investigation for online photos of apparent suicide victim and video of suspects handcuffed to chairs

A female police officer is under investigation for allegedly posting graphic photos of suicide victims onto an notorious hacking website.

Maribel Soriano is said to have uploaded the images onto 4chan along with pictures of suspects handcuffed to chairs.

Other photos showed her in uniform sitting at a table with paperwork on it.

The apparent breach of the regulations has stunned her colleagues at the 23rd Precinct of the NYPD.

But they also all but mean that Soriano’s career with the force is over, even if she is cleared.

She was investigated after the photos were seen on 4chan but were quickly deleted.

In addition to the pictures there were also video clips including one where a suspect could be seen attempting to put her boots on.

4chan has been one of the main websites blamed for Internet ‘trolling’, where users abuse each other on-line.

Those who post on the website’s message boards are known for their dark ideas and for egging each other on to break the law but win the respect of their fellow hackers.

According to the Washington Post 4chan users have also ‘managed to pull off some of the highest-profile collective actions in the history of the Internet’.

Their notable actions include causing Apple’s shares to tumble in Octobe 2008 with a fake reporter that its founder Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack.

Sarah Palins Yahoo email account was hacked by a 4chan user and YouTube came under attack for supposedly deleting music from public access.

The investigation comes at a difficult time for the NYPD which has faced criticism recently for its handling of the Occupy Wall St protest.

Dozens of serving and former officers were recently arrested for allegedly helping friends and family to get off tickets or avoid more serious crimes.

A Photobucket account in Sorianos name does exist but she has denied it is hers.

She also told the New York Post that she did not upload the images.

She said: I wouldnt put work photos on the internet. I think someone is hijacking my personal photos.

Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne has said that the case is already under investigation by the Internal Affairs Bureau.

A law-enforcement source added: Her career is over.

Anonymous - A Message To Occupy Toronto

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Greetings Canada. We are Anonymous.

We have promised not to get involved in the Occupation of Canada. Unless we have seen any unlawful acts, or any sort of interruption. Well it seems next week authorities want to put an end to Occupy movement in Toronto. We, Anonymous are taking that as an interruption, and we will not let that happen. We all have freedom of speech, and opinions to express, and they are doing it peacefully. There is no need for you to put an end, to the occupation in Toronto. The brave citizens of Toronto are peaceful and well mannered occupiers, and we will not let the city, or the mayor that uses vulgar language in public get involved. You have said that by next week the occupiers shall be removed. And we say by next week if you do not change your mind, you shall be removed from the internet. We have already planned for this, so if we see any interruptions, we will launch the operation that we have planned for a while.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Toronto, Expect us!

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Anon_Central twitterde op zondag 13-11-2011 om 11:34:08 We've just received a huge dump of CreditCard numbers. We will not publish them but it's a wake up call to you, your money isn't safe. reageer retweet

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Anon_Central twitterde op maandag 14-11-2011 om 16:21:26 #d0x of Mark #Zuckerberg by @mum8l3z He has every #Facebook users info why shouldn't we all have some of his!! http://t.co/qjciGZr5 #lulz reageer retweet

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Anonymous’ Guy Fawkes virus is found

A SECURITY OUTFIT has identified what it thinks is the Guy Fawkes virus that hacker group Anonymous is working on.

Bitdefender claims that it has identified a piece of malware that looks and acts like the virus that the group was talking about last week when it said that the powerful malware could be used to wreak havoc at Facebook.

Razvan Livintz, an e-threats analyst at Bitdefender blogged that the firm had found a piece of malware that for now it is calling backdoor-Bifrose-AAJX.

Like the Guy Fawkes code, this software was first spotted early in July, which tallies with the statement from Anonymous.

"The same day, it appeared on Facebook under the guise of a scam purporting to offer a "New Facebook Video Chat with Voice Features", according to its description (which, by the way, is in Arabic), if the unwary user follows a link and downloads an archive named scan_facebook.zip," said Livintz.

"Once it compromises a system, Backdoor-Bifrose-AAJX does pretty much what the hacktivists say, which is: injects itself in IE process, provides a remote attacker unhindered access to the compromised system, records keystrokes and kills several processes of known anti malware solutions, if installed on the computer."

This malware does not have self replication features, like the one Anonymous was talking about, and it connects to a remote server in Egypt, which was not mentioned in the Anonymous video.

"So far, although this threat resembles pretty well what Anonymous purports to be their ultimate weapon in the battle against other groups or individuals undermining their interests, it maintains quite a low profile," added the Bitdefender blogger.

"Is Anonymous trying to hoodwink us? Does such malware actually exist? If it does, did Anonymous actually release it or are they just trying to evaluate users' reaction to such a threat?"

Last week Anonymous said that it was working on getting the virus under control, adding that once it did it would use it against its opponents. µ

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Fourth blogger killed by Mexican cartel, #OpCartel spokesman on the run

The Houston Chronicle reported last week that the Mexican drug cartel Zetas killed and beheaded a blogger in Nuevo Laredo, a city “all but” controlled by the violent gang. The blogger “posted news of shootouts and other activities of the Zetas” on the blog El Vivo. He was found with a note ”This happened to me for not understanding that I shouldn’t report on the social networks.”

Techland reports that this is the fourth reported murder of a blogger since September by The Zetas, and may have led, according to Discovery, to the flight of Anonymous member Barrett Brown from his Dallas home. Brown has been a vocal proponent of using technical means to combat the violent gang, and has founded the Anonymous splinter group #OpCartel to release information detrimental to The Zetas. He recently Tweeted “I’ve got ex-military people releasing info on me and family. Have to leave Texas.” Over the weekend he Tweeted thanks for financial assistance helping him travel to New York City.

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“Anonymous” and a Poet Strike Back in Mexico

The president of Mexico’s Felipe Calderon’s sister Luisa Maria Calderon is seeking the gubernatorial seat in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. “Anonymous” has claimed responsibility for hacking her campaign’s political party website, according to an AP report today.

On The New Alliance Party's website is a video of a person wearing a Guy Fawkes mask urging Mexicans to hack into official websites and email accounts to look for evidence of corruption and make it public.

“Anonymous” is an international hacker movement to expose collaborators of Mexico's notorious Zetas drugs cartel has came to an abrupt end a week ago. They backed away from publishing the names after an alleged counter-threat of mass retaliatory killings.

Showing that restraint is many time the better part of valor, an Anonymous participant relinquished. "This moves the operation from being a risk to knowing that I would be murdering people," Anonymous participant Barrett Brown told the Guardian in an article on November 4th.

Twitter users claiming to belong to "Anonymous" posted messages of the hack Sunday coinciding with the Michoacan state elections. They also say hacked the Michoacan Electoral Institute's website, which has been down for hours.

Presidential sister Luisa Maria Calderon is seeking the governor's seat in Michoacan's vote.

President Calderon has been criticized for not taking the steps needed to stop the violence in his country. Last September he was accused by victims' groups for minimizing the impact of violence on innocents. One of those groups is headed by the poet Javier Sicilia, who lost his son to an attack by drug gangs.

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Anonymous and the Spanish General Elections 2011: Op20N

The so called ‘PIGS’ countries have gradually fallen to the demands of international markets and capital. Papandreu stepped down in Greece, Berlusconi resigned recently in Italy and Ireland and Portugal have received bailouts from the EU and the IMF. But the Spanish political class, however, seems to have been left unscathed from the current crisis; despite intense pressures from the newborn 15M movement and increasing social pressures.

Within this context, it comes as no surprise to see once again the cyber activists taking a stance in Spanish General Elections. They already did so with OpVdeVotaciones, when they called earlier this year in regional elections to avoid voting for the bipartisan system and instead chose an alternative from the usuals PP, PSOE and CiU[1]. Under the hashtag of #nolesvotes(#donotvotethem) it became quite popular in twitter and media began paying attention. Anonymous called for a demonstration under the name of OpGoya[2] to protest directly during the gala of Spanish cinema awards. And it was quite a success bearing in mind this mobilization was merely moved by Anonymous and ‘Anonymous-friendly’ collectives in the net.

This campaign is but one of the pillars of the famous 15M movement in Spain, that is Anonymous and movements against censorship of the net amongst others. The rest, including more information and sources have now been provided by Anonymous Spain this time, by creating an international press release to backup the upcoming Op20N[3] and also allowing international Anonymous ‘hives’ know what is the stance of Anonymous in Spain in relation to the recent revolutions and uprising worldwide.

The press release first of all puts current Spanish politics in context, expanding the information already provided on the campaign #nolesvotes, analyzing recent reforms of both the Spanish Constitution and the electoral law; and finally it makes a brief summary calling for international civil disobedience in the face of economic and political pressures. On the other hand it calls for Spanish citizens to follow the example of the previous campaign #nolesvotes, encouraging the vote for minority parties, but they also call to consider null-voting ( source: http://op20n.tumblr.com/international ).

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Greetings citizens of the world, we are Anonymous, and we would like you to pay some attention to events unfolding in Spain, which are in turn closely related to the situation in many other countries.

We have all witnessed the so-called Arab Spring, which slowly but surely has spread onto Southern Europe, most notably Spain and Greece. The Spanish Transition from Franco’s dictatorship to the current partitocracy is portrayed as an example to follow. Allow us to disagree…

The demonstrations and protest camps all across Spain that we are witnessing in this last four months is what a transition really looks like. Unlike politicians and leaders, many with ties to the previous regime, writing up a Constitution and then feeding it to a population with no democratic experience in the previous 40 years.

It is within this historical context, that we may now talk of a transition thanks to the now famous Spanish Revolution, the 15M movement and the indignados. We call this a genuine transition since it stems directly from civil society, and one of the pillars for such movement was a campaign under the name ‘nolesvotes’ (do not vote them).

The diplomatic cables showed the world that the USA was aiming to tackle piracy in Spain, and to do so they decided to lobby Spain’s national government to legislate in favour of these interests. The United States ‘blackmailed’ with introducing Spain in the WatchList of the Special 301 Report in 2008[4]. By February 2011, US interests had prevailed and legislation had finally been approved by introducing it as an annex to the ‘Ley de Economía Sostenible’ – a much larger piece of legislation which was largely irrelevant to intellectual property. It was approved and promoted by the three major parties: PP, PSOE and CiU.

Through the internet and social networks, people began expressing their outrage at such manipulation and disinformation, and called upon citizens not to vote them (PP, PSOE and CiU). Since the 15th of May, the demonstration that kicked off the Spanish Revolution has been clear in their slogans: “They do not represent us”. Also, one of the key demands is the reform of the electoral system which clearly over-represents the two major parties in detriment of state-wide minority parties. It effectively sustains a bipartisan system with the help of nationalist parties that will provide PP or PSOE political consent in exchange of major autonomy for their regions.

Not happy enough with such over-representation, a reform of the electoral system indeed took place in early 2011 by the leading parties; however it sought to reinforce even further the dominant position of the major parties by hindering minority options. They have done so by introducing a new electoral barrier for third-option parties. For the elections on 20th November 2011, those parties that did not gain a seat in the Congress or the Senate will need to gather a specific amount of signatures from the electorate in order to be able contest in the upcoming election[5]. The Spanish Constitution states that “[all citizens] have the right to contest for public office under equal conditions, under the requisites that the Law determines”[6]. Therefore the reform of the electoral law exposes two contradictions. Firstly, the constitutional right to stand for public office is being hindered by the need of minority to parties to collect signatures from the electorate simply because in previous elections they did not gain a seat in Congress or the Senate. Secondly, and most importantly, it evidences that the Spanish Constitution lacks any enforcement procedures. Since the right to stand in equal conditions to public office is then left to be further expanded by legislation… and as we have seen this does not seem to be sufficient safeguard for civic and political rights when powers rest solely on a corrupt bipartisan system.

Talking about the incongruence of the Spanish Constitution, there has been a dubious constitutional amendment, again by the leading partitocracy of PP and PSOE. But yet again they have ignored their citizens. They have introduced a constitutional cap on structural deficit (0.35% of GNP) which will be made explicit in a law to be drafted in 2012, that will come into effect from 2016 onwards[7].

Admittedly, this reform has come from the ECB in conjunction with pressures from Merkel & Sarkozy[8], and they wish to extend such legislation to other EU countries! In just a few weeks, the amendment has been approved by both Chambers without any serious public debate. Whilst people are increasingly demanding a reform of the electoral system, the partitocracy has clearly ignored it and decided to legislate to the orders of the European capital.

Civil disobedience and unrest is spreading from the Arab countries into Europe and the United States[9]. People, in increasing numbers – according to official statistics over 70% of the population have a positive view on the 15-M movement[10][11]– are demanding a substantial change. Are we supposed to still believe in politics when financial markets are dictating the every-day lives of countries such as Greece and Spain? Is there any accountability whatsoever to politicians that blatantly lie in their electoral manifestos and then come into power to amend a 30 year old constitution that was previously said to be almost sacred and untouchable?

Our answer is no, and so is that of outraged citizens across the globe. From Egypt, to Madrid, from Barcelona to Paris, from Chile to NYC, people have taken their demands to the streets and squares in a novel strategy of protesting. A global crisis requires a global response, and the rise in street protests across the world are not simply coincidence or spontaneous. It is against the neo-liberal agenda that is being implemented on a global scale despite leading us into a major financial and economic crisis, and that is increasingly unable to distribute wealth across societies and amongst them. Indeed the Arab Spring has one of its sources in political reforms and civil liberties, but also their artificially impoverished economy, the exploitation of natural resources by foreign corporations and the public support western leaders have granted to the same regimes that are now being overthrown by citizen revolutions is obvious by now. But corporate and mass media has attempted to isolate this surge of protests worldwide… it is clear by now that we are all in this together, and we will be silent no more.

Networks are being built on the basis of solidarity, the free sharing of information and extensive use of new technologies to collectively build the change people are demanding. If you wonder what protest camps or demonstrations are fighting for, or demanding from our leaders; do not rely on mainstream media, go out on the streets and find out for yourself. Having said this we would like to call Spanish citizens to critically engage in the upcoming elections and citizens worldwide to engage critically with mainstream media, politicians and the surge in political protests worldwide.

To preserve freedom of speech, it is of paramount importance for Spanish citizens to support minority parties to allow them to stand in this election[12] and in the meantime expose, disobey and inform your fellow citizens of this new reform. Secondly, the bipartisan system has clearly shown to be at the mercy of financial markets and US lobby interests, thus strengthening third-parties is the most immediate, legal and peaceful way that citizens may have to alter the current state of affairs. Therefore, by having a close look at the current electoral system and your electoral district we also encourage voting on the 20th of November to those minority parties that may have a chance of entering local and national parliaments, with the hope of slowly break the hegemonic position of the two faces of the same coin: PP & PSOE. We hope this will lead to more sustainable and engaging debates in political chambers that are already taking place in the streets by ordinary citizens.

Change has begun; it is up to you to be part of it, for it will take place sooner rather than later. Inform yourself, be critical, share information freely and build networks in your local area based on alternative principles to those of the current system. And most importantly, don’t forget to have some lulz in the meantime. Take the streets under the principles of non-violence, and add a pinch of trolling attitude. Remember that changing our lifestyle is a responsibility we should all endorse, but doing so with humor is already part of it in this depressing shitty world.

Yours truly…

We are Anonymous,

We are Legion

We do not forgive

We do not forget,

Expect Us.

Author and Source: Follow on twitter @anonreports
http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/?p=2846

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Op maandag 14 november 2011 22:14 schreef Die_Hofstadtgruppe het volgende:
Zo en is Los Zetas al een slag toegebracht?
Nee weer niet he?

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Mexican marines arrest Zetas cartel boss, 4 others

Rigoberto Zamarripa Arispe, "presumably the No. 2 boss in the command of the Los Zetas criminal organization" in the area, was arrested as a result of an anonymous tip, the secretariat said.

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Anti-Hacking Law Criminalizes Most Computer Users, Former Prosecutor Says

The nation’s premier anti-hacking law poses a threat to the civil liberties of millions of Americans who use computers and the internet and could lead to the arrest and prosecution of many users who violate the law on a regular basis, says a former federal prosecutor who wants the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act revised.

“In the Justice Department’s view, the CFAA criminalizes conduct as innocuous as using a fake name on Facebook or lying about your weight in an online dating profile. That situation is intolerable,” says Orin Kerr, George Washington University law professor and a former federal prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section in the Criminal Division.

Currently, the law punishes anyone who intentionally exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains information from any protected computer.

Kerr is testifying on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committees Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, and is asking Congress to amend the law to narrow how prosecutors can interpret what it means to exceed authorized access on a computer.

When the legislation was first enacted in the 1980s, it specifically targeted computer hacking and other computer misuse, Kerr argues in a written version of the testimony (.pdf) he plans to give. But since then, Congress has broadened the statute significantly four times, expanding the laws reach and rendering it unconstitutionally vague.

The law as it currently stands allows prosecutors to criminally prosecute users for violating an internet service providers terms of service agreement, something that would normally be a breach of contract issue handled in civil court rather than through criminal prosecution.

In 2008, federal prosecutors used this exact interpretation of the CFAA when they charged Missouri resident Lori Drew under the law in order to punish her for her role in a cyberbullying incident that led a teenage girl to commit suicide.

Prosecutors argued that Drew was guilty under the CFAA for violating MySpaces terms-of-service agreement in setting up a fraudulent account that was used to bully the teenage girl. The government argued that violating MySpaces terms of service was the legal equivalent of computer hacking.

Drew was convicted on misdemeanor charges, but a judge subsequently threw out the verdict on grounds that the CFAA was constitutionally vague and that upholding the verdict would set a precedent for anyone who breaches similar contracts to be criminally prosecuted.

Kerr was part of Drews defense team as pro-bono co-counsel.

Prosecutors also used the CFAA last year to charge a ring of online ticketbrokers who wrote a script to circumvent CAPTCHA challenges used by TicketMaster and other ticket vendors to detect and slow down computers attempting to purchase large numbers of tickets.

Prosecutors asserted that bypassing CAPTCHA constituted unauthorized access of ticket-seller servers. U.S. District Judge Katharine S. Hayden allowed the case to proceed, saying, The Court is satisfied that the indictment sufficiently alleges the elements of unauthorized access and exceeding authorized access under the CFAA, and sufficiently alleges conduct demonstrating defendants knowledge and intent to gain unauthorized access.

The defendants ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and hacking.

In arguing that the statute needs to be revised, Kerr is calling on Congress to follow the Senates lead. The Senate Judiciary Committee recently approved an amendment to a pending bill that would limit the interpretation of exceeding authorized access under the CFAA. Per the amendment, it would not include access in violation of a contractual obligation or agreement, such as an acceptable use policy or terms of service agreement, with an Internet service provider, Internet website, or non-government employer, if such violation constitutes the sole basis for determining that access to a protected computer is unauthorized.

Kerr says this would still allow prosecutors to pursue cases against government employees for misusing sensitive government databases, but would not sweep in an entire class of other people for merely violating a contractual agreement with a web site or their ISP.

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Op maandag 14 november 2011 23:09 schreef Die_Hofstadtgruppe het volgende:

[..]

Ja is dat een anonieme tip of een tip van anonymous?

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LOS ANONOPS MUERTO

Over the course of the following months, it has become very clear to us that
AnonOps no longer stands for the values of open speech, freedom of opinion and
has instead transformed itself into a network rampent with trolls, abusive
channel operators, and a generally unwelcoming place for those whom wish to
communicate and gather to fight the powers of corruption, and those whom wish
to censor our open internet. Various attempts have been made in the past to
course correct AnonOps, but the totalitarian IRC operator regime has remained
intact.
The AnonOps network prides itself in being "secure", however, such is not
the case. Rather, they employ incompetent and highly unprofessional channel and
IRC operators, allowing their personal grudges to interfere with the operation
of a secure network for Anonymous. Newcomers to the network are welcomed by a
spirit of condescention and arrogance, as any legitimate question or concern is
slowly drowned out by the laughter of the senior members of the chatroom.
Channel operators rather than discourage such behavior, applaud it, joining in,
and using their powers to kick, ban, or SAJOIN newcomers to #kill. Any attempt
to speak out against the way the network is ran is met with kick, ban, or zline.
A decentralized organization such as Anonymous cannot thrive on a network ran by
such people as Power2All, Wolfy, Owen and Shitstorm. Anonymous transcends beyond
one IRC network, or one social medium. Spread. Be aware. Educate. Anonymous is
an idea; ideas are bulletproof.
Anonymous cannot be owned or controlled by a small group of faggot
totaltarian operators. Thus we have decided to lombotomize the cancer that is
AnonOps from the internet. AnonOps no longer stands with Anonymous, but rather
against us as an agent of censorship, unlulzy pseudo-activism and immense
faggotry, and thus must be eliminated.
AnonOps has proven itself insecure and fault prone in the past. We are here
to illustrate these points again. AnonOps is NOT Anonymous, and throughtheir
actions, they have proven themselves against our ideals. Welcome to thecourt of
the internet, AnonOps. You shall be persecuted for your crimes against the
freedom of chats, your utter and repeated failure as an IRC network, your aid to
the spread of namefagging, and your gross negligence in securing the identities
of those whom chat and remain Anonymous on your network.
AnonOps has shown time and time again it is too large of a target, and very
well capable of corrupting the ideals which fuels the fight in every Anon.
As long as AnonOps stay online, they will continue to adulterate our cause,
bastardizing ideals of Anonymous, and running a network where the only lulz to
be had are that of the failures whom chat there and run the network. Such
activity cannot continue.

Let's drop the formalities now, and get down to business!

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Anonymous attacks at least 33 Mexican government and political sites as part of #OpCorrupción

“Anonymous” launched an offensive against government sites, and political parties in Mexico in “Operation corruption” (# OpCorrupción) obtaining temporary disqualification or hack of at least 33 web pages which included the Ministry of Economy and the federal government Preliminary results page of the Electoral Institute of Michoacán.

From Nov. 11 at 11 pm with 11 minutes, members of the group began attacking Congress and local governments in order to expose personal data of members and local officials or even to block institutional emails.

This way, sites of state legislatures fell in Baja California, Guerrero, Sinaloa, Nayarit and Sonora, as well as the website of the Government of Queretaro went out of service from Saturday until Monday.

In a second stage, the political parties were also attacked by the group. A hack was made against the website of the Nueva Alianza Party, where a video was posted. It warned the drug cartels and mentioned they didn’t scared to group “Anonymous” in an attempt to curb what they considered “gratuitous violence” against the Mexican people.

ALSO PRI, PAN and PRD SUFFERED

The three major parties were not safe: the slogan was that corruption permeates equally to those political institutions. Cybersecurity was violated in the PRD parliamentary groups in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, also for the local PAN deputies in the Federal District and the leaders of the PRI in the states of Queretaro and Tamaulipas.

In their attacks on these pages, hackers not only presented data from politicians, but also posted media who receives information from the three political parties, and people who do get reports of possible acts of corruption that occur in the delegations of Federal District.

“Anonymous” also hacked into web pages of different levels of municipal government in Saltillo, Coahuila, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Toluca, Mexico State and Ocotlan, Jalisco, where it appeared the same video that was posted on page of the New Alliance Party.

Other official sites that didn’t resist the onslaught of the group were: the State Development Coordination of the Government of Colima, the Ministry of Education, Government of Tabasco, the Autonomous University of Yucatan, the Comptroller of the Government of Quintana Roo and the Digital Requests site of the National Institute of Anthropology and History.

Transparency Portals, targeted

What’s more, the hackers also visited the sites of the Transparency Institute of the Government of Quintana Roo, electoral courts for Tamaulipas and Hidalgo, Jaliscience Institute of Forensic Sciences, the site of the Youth Parliament of the Government of Mexico, the Audit Superior Control of Morelos, the Sonoran Institute of Culture, a Juárez page that tries to counter the poor image of the border city by violence.

Finally, the # OpCorrupción was closed on Sunday afternoon, once the group members felt it had been a success.

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Mexican bloggers' 'Twitter Manifesto' calls for protection from drug cartel violence

But the Mexican bloggers' demands in the manifesto – many beyond the power of the Mexican government to enforce – highlight the vulnerability of social media users to drug cartel violence.

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http://www.insightcrime.o(...)-media-in-mexico.pdf

Twitter User Manifesto Against the Violence to Users of Social Media in Mexico

To the international community, users of social media, bloggers of the world,
communications media, and global multilateral organizations

We the twitterers and hashtag users of Northeastern Mexico (#reynosafollow,
#nuevolaredo, #matamoros, #tamaulipas, #mier, and others) release this manifesto in
response to the murder of our companion, a social media user attacked by a group of drug
traffickers, that occurred early this morning in the city of Nuevo Laredo, in the state of
Tamaulipas. We repudiate and condemn this criminal act that has provoked a state of
terror, and we demand justice in the face of the national silence it is meant to impose, and
the stage of amnesia and impunity it portends.

This murder is the fourth against twitterers and bloggers that has occurred in less than
two months. The first two occurred on September 13th and involved a couple whose
bodies were hung from a pedestrian overpass, and who were accused of posting
denunciations against organized crime on social media. The third murder occurred on
September 25th, when a female journalist was decapitated and left in a public area with a
message threatening social media users for denouncing Mexican traffickers of death.

The absence of information that derives from the silence of local newspapers and media
and municipal authorities at all levels, as well as the constant abuses and violations of
human rights by police forces, has led many citizens to inform themselves and take
precautions thru the use of social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.), chats and citizen’s
blogs. These new forms of communication differ greatly from the diversity and freedom
of expression enjoyed in other countries. In Northeastern Mexico this new social media
has evolved into a form of self defense, conducted by citizens to broadcast and denounce
violent acts resulting from the conflict between diverse groups of criminals and diverse
national institutions in charge of our security.

In this context we want to make evident that:

1. The climate of violence, censorship and abuses by the authorities continue in the
northeast border zone of our country, in locations such as Reynosa, Laredo,
Matamoros and Mier, and there exists a high risk of life for every resident citizen
in these parts of the Mexican nation.

2. That this so called “war against drug trafficking” or “fight against the narcos”,
launched in 2006, is a military and police offensive that has been unable to stop
the wave of violence that is shattering our nation and has cost the lives of more
than fifty thousand persons, many with no links to drug trafficking activity.

3. That the deployment of the military in these zones is evidence that the various
police forces in Mexico have been unable to control these “zones of conflict”.

4. That it is clear there is no intelligence mechanism, strategy or political support to
wage this fight. At least, not through the direct use of the military for providing
security and combating drug trafficking activity.

5. That the communications media (local, state and national) have been silenced in
the face of diverse interests or threats from criminal groups

6. That a justice system does not exist that can offer the ability to respond to
citizen’s complaints in a clear and appropriate manner, to generate the necessary
investigations, to expose the crimes that are committed and to bring the
perpetrators to justice in a court of law and reach a just sentence, and bring
compensation to the victims.

7. That, ultimately, we feel unprotected in the face such atrocities and we are fearful,
because this war has now cost the lives of victims in cyperspace, which is our
element.

The fight for territorial control of the border zone is also waged in a new battleground:
the internet and its social media. The criminal groups attempt to restrain our voice that
speaks out through the invasion of our accounts and servers, to kidnap us and carry out
criminal atrocities or to make direct threats against our companions. This constitutes a
flagrant threat against the only freedom left to us, now that the local, state and federal
governments are indifferent to our demands, and without even bothering to verify they
ignore the facts that we report on our social networks. In summary, we have been
abandoned to our fate in this unequal fight of free citizens against the drug traffickers.

We need guarantees and security for ourselves, our families and honest working society
in general. Therefore, we ask from each of you:

1. Your full solidarity with the Mexican people that at this moment is immersed in
chaos, violence without limits and violations of the most elemental human rights,
as pointed out by Human Rights Watch in its special report presented on this same
day.

2. That you demand from the Mexican Government investigations to solve the
contemptible murders of our brother and sister twitterers and social media users,
as this violates freedom of expression and the free use of social media

3. That the Mexican press demand from the national government guarantees of
freedom of information, expression and the press, especially now that crime,
violence and corruption are putting an end to not only journalism, but also our
journalists and critical thought.

4. That cyber security be guaranteed so that our citizens can freely express
themselves on social networks and online communication media.

5. That a commission composed of the media (news agencies, journalists) and non
governmental institutions be formed that can function as international observers to
guarantee access to the internet and the security of users.

6. Do not abandon us. We need you, now more than ever. We have opened a special
e-mail account so that you can communicate with us.
Twittermanifesto@gmail.com

In the face of the killers and groups that threaten us from the shadows of impunity we
answer that we will not allow our voices to be silenced or censured by the crimes against
our fellow twitterers and bloggers. Neither are we prepared to live under the rules
established by the violence, corruption and impunity.

With heads held high, our computers and our native pride we declare to those murderous
and unpunished groups that the internet and social networks are ours: those are our
spaces, these spaces are us. That is why you cannot silence or restrain us. We will honor
our dead, we will obtain international help for our denunciations and we will work
everyday of our lives for a better Mexico.

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Op dinsdag 15 november 2011 14:23 schreef Die_Hofstadtgruppe het volgende:
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How Occupy Wall Street Is Building Its Own Internet [VIDEO]

Protesters at Zuccotti Park have enough resources to satisfy a small village: hot food, live entertainment, even a library.

But perhaps their most effective resource comes from a nine-foot-high pole known as the “Freedom Tower”, usually stationed at the southwest corner of the park and currently being redesigned to run on batteries charged by a biodiesel generator.

It’s free WiFi, but not as you know it.

Anonymous:Free Anons #OpFreeAnons

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Anonymous email slams rogue group over in-fighting

An alleged Anonymous member has spoken out about internal power struggles, accusing some inside the 'hacktivist' collective of perverting its aims and pursuing personal grudges.

The allegations have been made in an email sent by 'Shitstorm' an individual claiming to be a member of Anonymous, to IT news website The Inquirer.

The message follows a post on website Pastebin criticising an Anonymous admin group, AnonOps, for being too closed and no longer standing for free speech. Naturally, AnonOps felt the need to respond, with spokesperson 'Shitstorm' taking it upon him/herself to put the word out.

"AnonOps started a year ago as something great. A place where all kinds could come to try and make a difference, or just chat."

"However, even after the network first started there was a few kids who had a personal grudge... Regardless of what they claim, or say, this is what caused all this drama, a grudge carried from over a year ago that has since spiralled out of control... The kids on the network formerly known as skidsr.us love drama and attention, therefore they stir up all this to keep themselves in the limelight."

One of the accusations aimed at Shitstorm was that AnonOps was a closed off collective of power-hungry moderators, banning new users and keeping a compliant circle of IRC users around them. Of course, Mr Storm responded:

"Yes we have trolls, yes some stupid OPs banned noobs, sure there is some arrogant users. Skidsr.us say we don't allow free speech when we ban the trolls, but when we don't you say we have too many trolls."

"This entire opening statement in the pastebin is a farce, if anyone goes to their IRC you will see that they are the most arrogant, judgmental, condescending pr**ks you will ever meet. Do not be fooled by their claims. They simply want to have control for themselves, as demonstrated time and time again. When you're only 17 like some of them are, you will lie to get your way."

Internal strife isn't new among the ranks of Anons. Earlier this year, Anonymous's operations were hit when former moderator 'Ryan' - Essex teenager Ryan Cleary, who has since been arrested by UK police on suspicion of involvement in various hacking attacks - seized control of AnonOps' main domain, AnonOps.net, sparking a feud between rival factions.

This renewed outbreak of in-fighting comes at a difficult time for Anonymous, with the collective's original spawning ground 4Chan being hit with a massive DDoS that kept the site down for several days, and Occupy Wall Street movement, of which Anonymous is a vocal supporter, being ousted from New York's Zuccotti park at the same time as the imageboard hack.

Anonymous - System Failure

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Citizens of the world.
We are Anonymous.

We have been monitoring the events currently taking place. The decision made by the New York Police Department and the city of New York displeases us. A city cannot have the power to destroy the people's right to free speech and assembly.

We've been called by various supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement for our help. We will not disappoint them. We shall continue to target New York Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman until he repeals his decision and allows the protesters to return to camp in Zuccotti Park.

In addition, we have decided to take drastic measures in ensuring that this happens. We have released Justice Michael Stallman's private information as well as others supporting his decision.

Citizens of the world, hear us now. The time has come to rise up. It is time to rise up against the system. The system has now met its match, and the people shall prevail. We will participate in this war. There will be no stopping us. If the government presents a threat to us, they will expect no mercy. We shall terminate this system, indefinitely.

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

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Op woensdag 16 november 2011 14:32 schreef Die_Hofstadtgruppe het volgende:
Gaat er ook nog iets anders gebeuren in dit topic

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Op woensdag 16 november 2011 14:52 schreef Die_Hofstadtgruppe het volgende:

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Een discussie erover ipv een continue stroom linkdumpjes misschien?

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Hackers announce cyber attack on HDZ

Two groups of hackers have announced a "cyber attack" against Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) because of their "lies and betrayal of national interest," they say on their website.

Anonymous and TeslaSecurity (@TeslaSec) groups said they would start the "operation" on 19 November at 12pm.

"Anonymous will attack the Croatian Democratic Union for corruption, lies, selling off state assets and the betrayal of Croatian citizens and their national interests," the groups say on their website.

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#OccupySocialMedia: GO Launches A Mobile App For Anonymous Photo & Video Sharing

GO is new mobile application for the iPhone that allows users to broadcast and share photos, videos and commentary with others and post them to a live streaming portal. The app offers real-time access to geo-located, tagged media presented in both a stream and map view. But does the world need another mobile/social/photo-sharing experience? Well, maybe it does.

You see, there’s something different about GO that separates it from the rest: it supports complete anonymity. To be clear, it doesn’t just offer the option to use some clever Web handle instead of an authenticated user account – it actually offers the option to post as “anonymous.” #OccupySocialMedia? Oh yes.

In terms of the app’s design, you’re either going to love it or hate it. The app is damn pretty, maybe even a little too pretty, with its overly stylized look-and-feel that can sometimes get in the way of what could be a simpler user experience. I happen to think GO looks hot, but you may think otherwise. To each their own.

As for the functionality itself, it’s nothing earth-shattering: post, tag, share. However, when you tap the big pink sharing button, GO offers you the option to “snap” (post a photo), “shoot” (video) or “speak” (audio). It’s a trio of options for media input that your favorite take a picture/apply a filter photo-sharing app may not have.

What’s really interesting is GO’s anonymity option, though, which is a key part of the new mobile app’s experience. When the majority of today’s apps are bending over backwards to offer you sign-in options that let you speed up the authentication process via Facebook or Twitter, with GO, self-identification is an option, not a requirement. And while that may lead to users who are probably not “MarkZuckerberg” (yep, he joined), it doesn’t really matter. GO isn’t about boosting your ego via likes and shares, “connecting with friends,” or sharing pictures with your family – it’s about instant mobile broadcasting. It’s about documenting the world without having to disclose that you did so.

Despite it’s relatively soft launch (GO went live 11-11-11 without much fanfare), there are already some interesting videos surfacing from the OccupyWallSt movement for whom GO seems custom-built. Of course, GO isn’t the first tool to serve the needs of the this crowd. Apps like the Twitter-esque Vibe have also served the Occupy protesters well in the past. But Vibe is ugly and is mainly used for text. GO does more.

Despite its differentiating features, GO will still suffer from the same disadvantage that any newcomer to the photo/video-sharing space does at first: critical mass. However, assuming the need for tools to anonymously document the world don’t die with today’s OccupyWallSt shut-downs, there may be a future for GO yet.

GO is the first product from Hollr (not to be confused with Holler), which was founded by Michael Bachman and Justin Dionisio. The two were previously the directors at KURO, a boutique interactive agency based in Long Beach. Hollr has some seed stage investment from Imprint Venture Lab, but won’t disclose the amount.

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Facebook Knows Porn/Gore Hacker

Facebook has identified the hacker responsible for the flood pornographic and “extreme” violent images over the last week, reports ZDNet. And they say the attacker is not a member of the hacktivist organization Anonymous, originally suspected by several news agencies.

Those unfortunate enough to have been exposed to the hack would have seen “hardcore porn images, Photoshopped photos of celebrities such as Justin Bieber in sexual situations, pictures of extreme violence, and even a photograph of an abused dog,” according to Internet security firm Sophos.

A statement given by Facebook to ZDNet on Monday suggested the attacks were due to a self-XSS [cross-site scripting] browser vulnerability. Hackers have been known to insert malicious code into browser actions, bypassing security and giving them direct access to page data. But this is all done with the unwitting assistance of the victim, who must be tricked to copy the code into their own browser's URL bar.

Sophos warns that a common technique to trick users into pasting the code is to ask them a question implicating them in some way, such as “Why are you tagged in this video?”

If you are the victim of a Facebook hack, check out ZDNet’s Emil Portalinski’s guide for cleaning up an account.

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http://anoncentral.tumblr(...)net-citizens-of-free

Dear citizens of the internet,
Citizens of free speech,
Citizens of the United States,

We are Anonymous.

Over the past month we have been examining the actions taken by the United States Chamber.

We have paid close attention to one new bill in particular, the Protect IP act.

This bill would allow the United States Government to force ISP’s and search engines to censor websites they do not like under the guise of “copyright protection”. Instead of reducing piracy, this bill endangers the free flow of information. Through Domain seizures, ISP blockades, search engine censorship, and the restriction of funding to accused websites, this bill takes internet censorship to a new level.

The internet is a place where anyone and everyone can come together freely to share information and opinions. The freedom the internet provides has served us well, and driven our intellectual progress, sparked revolutions and changed the lives of many, all of which has been accomplished without the interference of corporations, governments, or any other global institutions until now.

We must unite and stand up to those who wish to censor the internet.
We must protect what is rightfully ours.
We must attack in defense of our homeland.

You are Anonymous
You are Legion
You can not forgive
You can not forget
United States chamber,
Expect E-Revolution

Please sign this petition,
https://wwws.whitehouse.g(...)arasite-act/SWBYXX55

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Andy Baio: Think You Can Hide, Anonymous Blogger? Two Words: Google Analytics

Last month, an anonymous blogger popped up on WordPress and Twitter, aiming a giant flamethrower at Mac-friendly writers like John Gruber, Marco Arment and MG Siegler. As he unleashed wave after wave of spittle-flecked rage at “Apple puppets” and “Cupertino douchebags,” I was reminded again of John Gabriel’s theory about the effects of online anonymity.

Out of curiosity, I tried to see who the mystery blogger was.

He was using all the ordinary precautions for hiding his identity — hiding personal info in the domain record, using a different IP address from his other sites, and scrubbing any shared resources from his WordPress install.

Nonetheless, I found his other blog in under a minute — a thoughtful site about technology and local politics, detailing his full name, employer, photo, and family information. He worked for the local government, and if exposed, his anonymous blog could have cost him his job.

I didn’t identify him publicly, but let him quietly know that he wasn’t as anonymous as he thought he was. He stopped blogging that evening, and deleted the blog a week later.

So, how did I do it? The unlucky blogger slipped up and was ratted out by an unlikely source: Google Analytics.

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Hiding messages in VoIP packets

A group of researchers from the Institute of Telecommunications of the Warsaw University of Technology have devised a relatively simple way of hiding information within VoIP packets exchanged during a phone conversation.

They called the method TranSteg, and they have proved its effectiveness by creating a proof-of-concept implementation that allowed them to send 2.2MB (in each direction) during a 9-minute call.

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Google is watching you

Wie goed oplette, zag eergisteren een advertentie van internetzoekmachine Google op nrc.nl voorbijkomen. Eén van het type waar bedrijven nooit zo happig op zijn, namelijk het aanbieden van een opt-out om ergens van verschoond te blijven. Ofwel: u kunt hier uw gegevens uit onze bestanden laten verwijderen.

Dit is met een dwangsom van een miljoen euro afgedwongen door het College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens (CBP). Google biedt deze opt-out nu wereldwijd aan. Het CBP te Den Haag dwingt de multinational uit Californië dus tot een andere koers.

Ook dat is globalisering – een toezichthouder in een klein land kan ver reiken. De kwestie loog er niet om. De camera-auto’s van Google, die tussen 2008 en 2010 Nederlandse straten en huizen fotografeerden voor de dienst Streetview, bleken ook maar even alle wifi-routers te hebben afgeluisterd. Zo werden 3,6 miljoen Nederlandse draadloze internetzenders geïdentificeerd, met de adresgegevens van de aangesloten computers, plus de locatie ervan op de kaart.

Daarmee maakte Google zich schuldig aan het verzamelen van persoonsgegevens zonder toestemming van de betrokkenen. Dat is een wetsovertreding. In Duitsland was dat eerder al ontdekt. Mogelijk wacht Google daar strafrechtelijke vervolging.

Frankrijk legde al eens een ton boete op. Het CBP mag in Nederland nog steeds niet verder gaan dan een voorwaardelijke dwangsom, waar Google zich in 2009 tegen verzette. Het CBP verwierp de bezwaren en legde een dwangsom op. Met succes. Pas toen verontschuldigde Google zich, erkende de fout en kiest nu voor een drastische aanpassing van het privacybeleid. Iedere gebruiker kan nu door het toevoegen van ‘no map’ aan de naam van zijn internetrouter uit de database van Google blijven.

The New York Times noemt het nieuwe beleid van Google een royale concessie aan Den Haag. Google moet worden geprezen om de correcte uitvoering van het CBP-oordeel, zelfs wereldwijd. Dat privacy-toezichthouders elders zich ook hebben geroerd, speelt uiteraard mee.

Hoe makkelijk internetgebruikers er soms ook zelf mee omspringen, privacy blijft een kernwaarde. Het recht om onbespied te kunnen leven is een waarborg tegen de macht van overheden en bedrijven. Wie leeft zonder privacy stelt zich ook open voor permanent toezicht, is altijd vindbaar en commercieel beschikbaar. Wie dat wil moet daarvoor kiezen, of er van weg kunnen blijven.

Inmiddels vindt een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer dat Google nu tevoren toestemming moet vragen: van opt-out naar opt-in dus. Dat zou nog mooier zijn. Maar de kans dat Google dat invoert lijkt niet zo groot.

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Victory for Net Neutrality

Your phone calls, emails and persistence have paid off: Today the Senate voted down the resolution that would have shuttered the open Internet.

This outrageous measure would have stripped us of our right to communicate freely online and handed control of the Internet to companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon.

But the public outcry stopped this resolution in its tracks. And thanks to your efforts, not only did we win the vote, but Net Neutrality’s champions in Congress spoke out passionately and persuasively about the importance of the free and open Internet.

Now that we’ve thwarted this partisan stunt, we can get back to the real priority: strengthening the Federal Communications Commission’s rules to protect all Internet users, whether they access the Web via a home connection or a mobile device.

The FCC’s new rules go into effect on Nov. 20. But these rules fail to protect mobile Internet users from corporate abuse. As more and more of us use phones and tablets to get online, we need to make sure that all Internet users are protected.

In the months to come, the Free Press Action Fund will push the FCC to make its Open Internet rules much stronger — even if that means going to court, where we are suing the agency for failing to protect all Internet users.

Today’s Senate vote is a major victory for the public and sends a resounding message: The American people don’t want companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon blocking websites or interfering with our ability to access whatever we want, whenever we want it, from wherever we are.

The fight for the free and open Internet is far from over. I hope you’ll stay with us.

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Fight Club (novel)

As fight club attains a nationwide presence, Tyler uses it to spread his anti-consumerist ideas, recruiting fight club's members to participate in increasingly elaborate pranks on corporate America. He eventually gathers the most devoted fight club members and forms "Project Mayhem," a cult-like organization that trains itself as an army to bring down modern civilization. This organization, like fight club, is controlled by a set of rules:

Anonymous Project Mayhem 2012: Dangerous Idea #1

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Imagine we are Anonymous.
Imagine you are Anonymous.

Imagine we plant trees.
Imagine we become Seed trees.
Imagine we sow the world with seeds.

Imagine we finally find the COURAGE needed.
to BECOME THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE in the World.

Imagine we are no longer afraid of Fear.
Imagine we re invent and reverse Reality.

Imagine the corrupt start to Fear Us.
Imagine corrupt Banksters start to Fear Us.
Imagine corrupt Governments start to Fear Us.
Imagine corrupt Corporations start to Fear Us.

Imagine we conquer Freedom by beginning to be Free.
Imagine we conquer Justice by beginning to do Fair.
Imagine we conquer Truth by beginning to do and be True to ourselves.

Imagine Information equals Power.
Imagine we start a Fight Club.
Imagine the System is built upon lies.

Imagine we purchase a USB drive.
Imagine we take it to our workplaces.
Imagine we pretend we have to work late hours.
Imagine we accumulate all sort of evidences about illegal deeds.
Imagine Conscientious insiders worldwide begin to expose all lies.
Imagine we code an extremely simple interface so that anyone can do it.

imagine we all synchronize our clocks to act at the same Time, on the Winter solstice, The 21st of December 2012 at eleven minutes past eleven local time.

On the 5th of November 2012 TYLER will be out of beta testing.

TYLER is a massively distributed and decentralized Wiki pedia style Pee two Pee cipher-space structure impregnable to censorship

TYLER will gather an unprecedented number of the best hackers and coders ever to develop its structure from scratch, from the lessons learned from the Freenet, TOR, G N U net, e-Mule, Bit Torrent I2P, Tribler and related projects

From the 12th of December 2012, to the 21st of December 2012, people all over the world upload the evidence of illegality corruption and fraud They have gathered To TYLER

Imagine we Leak it all

Imagine...

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

#AntiSec Fuck FBI Friday V - Cybercrime Investigator Communications

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Greetings Pirates, and welcome to another exciting #FuckFBIFriday release.

As part of our ongoing effort to expose and humiliate our white hat enemies, we targeted a Special Agent Supervisor of the CA Department of Justice in charge of computer crime investigations. We are leaking over 38,000 private emails which contain detailed computer forensics techniques, investigation protocols as well as highly embarrassing personal information. We are confident these gifts will bring smiles to the faces of our black hat brothers and sisters (especially those who have been targeted by these scurvy dogs) while also making a mockery of "security professionals" who whore their "skills" to law enforcement to protect tyrannical corporativism and the status quo we aim to destroy.

We hijacked two gmail accounts belonging to Fred Baclagan, who has been a cop for 20 years, dumping his private email correspondence as well as several dozen voicemails and SMS text message logs. While just yesterday Fred was having a private BBQ with his CATCHTEAM high computer crime task force friends, we were reviewing their detailed internal operation plans and procedure documents. We also couldn't overlook the boatloads of embarrassing personal information about our cop friend Fred. We lulzed as we listened to angry voicemails from his estranged wives and ex-girlfriends while also reading his conversations with girls who responded to his "man seeking woman" craigslist ads. We turned on his google web history and watched him look up linux command line basics, golfing tutorials, and terrible youtube music videos. We also abused his google voice account, making sure Fred's friends and family knew how hard he was owned. Possibly the most interesting content in his emails are the IACIS.com internal email list archives (2005-2011) which detail the methods and tactics cybercrime
units use to gather electronic evidence, conduct investigations and make
arrests. The information in these emails will prove essential to those who want to protect themselves from the techniques and procedures cyber crime
investigators use to build cases. If you have ever been busted for computer
crimes, you should check to see if your case is being discussed here. There are discussions about using EnCase forensic software, attempts to crack TrueCrypt encrypted drives, sniffing wireless traffic in mobile surveillance vehicles, how to best prepare search warrants and subpoenas, and a whole lot of clueless people asking questions on how to use basic software like FTP.

These cybercrime investigators are supposed to be the cream of the crop, but we reveal the totality of their ignorance of all matters related to computer
security. For months, we have owned several dozen white hat and law enforcement targets-- getting in and out of whichever high profile government and corporate system we please and despite all the active FBI investigations and several billion dollars of funding, they have not been able to stop us or get anywhere near us. Even worse, they bust a few dozen people who are allegedly part of an "anonymous computer hacking conspiracy" but who have only used kindergarten-level DDOS tools-- this isn't even hacking, but a form of electronic civil disobedience.

We often hear these "professionals" preach about "full-disclosure," but we are
sure these people are angrily sending out DMCA takedown notices and serving subpoenas as we speak. They call us criminals, script kiddies, and terrorists, but their entire livelihood depends on us, trying desperately to study our techniques and failing miserably at preventing future attacks. See we're cut from an entirely different kind of cloth. Corporate security professionals like
Thomas Ryan and Aaron Barr think they're doing something noble by "leaking" the public email discussion lists of Occupy Wall Street and profiling the "leaders" of Anonymous. Wannabe player haters drop shitty dox and leak partial chat logs about other hackers, doing free work for law enforcement. Then you got people like Peiter "Mudge" Zatko who back in the day used to be old school l0pht/cDc only now to sell out to DARPA going around to hacker conventions encouraging others to work for the feds. Let this be a warning to aspiring white hat "hacker" sellouts and police collaborators: stay out the game or get owned and exposed. You want to keep mass arresting and brutalizing the 99%? We'll have to keep owning your boxes and torrenting your mail spools, plastering your personal information all over teh internets.

Hackers, join us and rise up against our common oppressors - the white hats, the 1%'s 'private' police, the corrupt banks and corporations and make 2011 the year of leaks and revolutions!

We are Anti-Security,
We are the 99%
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect Us!

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Op vrijdag 18 november 2011 23:22 schreef Nemephis het volgende:
FuckFBIFriday release: http://thepiratebay.org/user/AntiSecurity

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The IACP thought they could hold their 2011 annual conference in Chicago
unfettered by the clutches of insurrection. They must not have known their
conference starts on the Day of Action Against Police Brutality. They must not
have known that all over the world people are in the streets demonstrating
discontent with capitalism and the state. They also had no idea that for the
past few months black hat hackers have been owning their websites and databases.
They should have expected us.

In solidarity with the Occupation Movement and the International Day of Action
Against Police Brutality, allied #anonymous and #antisec vessels took aim at the
corrupt bootboys of the 1%: the police. We hacked, defaced, and destroyed
several law enforcement targets, leaking over 600MB of private information
including internal documents, membership rosters, addresses, passwords, social
security numbers, and other confidential data. According to the IACP\\\'s
development documents, their systems cost several hundred thousand dollars. We
are pleased to destroy it all for free, leaking their private info and defacing
their websites in one swift blow.

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Anonymous Leaks Another Computer Expert’s Personal Emails

In a typically nasty personal-political combo, Anonymous has leaked thousands of private emails belonging to a retired California cybercrime investigator named Fred Bacalagan, in what they say is payback for the recent Occupy Wall Street crackdown.

Anonymous hackers broke into two of Bacalagan's gmail accounts, his text message logs and his Google Voice voicemails, then dumped the whole thing on to a website and The Pirate Bay. Baclagan was a special agent supervisor at the Department of Justice specializing in cybercrime, and his emails contain thousands of correspondences from the private listserv of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists, spanning 2005 to 2011. So, any black hat hackers looking for tips on how to avoid being busted might want to scour the archive, which provides essentially an encyclopedia of computer forensics tips and tricks.

Message to Anonymous by Anonymous

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Anonymous Hacks Back at Cybercrime Investigators

The Antisec wing of Anonymous has come out with another document release in its ongoing assault on law enforcement.

Antisec anons, who specialize in hacks that show the net’s vulnerabilities, gained access to the Gmail/Google account of one “Fred Baclagan.” Baclagan appears to be San Diego-based Alfredo Baclagan, a retired supervisor of the multi-agency Computer and Technology Crime Hightech Response Team. “CATCH” specializes in cybercrime investigation in the San Diego, Imperial Valley, and Riverside counties of southern California. They released a purported 38,000 emails from two accounts of Baclagan’s as a 581 MB torrent.

The video announcement opens with the computer voice intoning 
”Greetings Pirates, and welcome to another exciting Fuck FBI Friday release.” Though not directly an attack on the FBI, this release may be the most consequential for computer crime investigators since the hack of HBGary, and particularly their CEO Aaron Barr, who had raised Anonymous’ ire by claiming to the Financial Times he’d uncovered the leadership of Anonymous.

While Anonymous had fun with Baclagan’s personal information, and even claimed to purchased camera equipment for him using his Google wallet, the most important consequences of this release may be the archives of the International Association of Computer Investigation Specialists mailing list archive. That mailing list includes conversation threads from forensic experts around the world discussing investigations, techniques, and how to counter different legal defense tactics.

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35 min 50 sec ago - Egypt

Hackers calling themselves the "Eg-R1z TeAm" have apparently defaced the website of Egyptian state television. State media, personified in the name of its headquarters building "Maspero," has become one of the most hated institutions of the regime for broadcasting what activists say is slanted, biased and inflammatory information.

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SOPA Causes Anonymous To Declare Operation Blackout

(Lindsay ONeal) Last month, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced to the House of Representatives aiming to censor key aspects of the Internet in order protect the rights of the entertainment industry. The PROTECT IP Act, the Senate counterpart to SOPA, already passed earlier this year, but enforcement has been shelved for the time being due to rising concerns that it has the power to impede freedom of speech. While both bills state they are trying to help the entertainment industry sell more movies and music downloads, the effects of the bill are far-reaching and potentially devastating to Internet freedom as well as to the Internet itself.

SOPA caught the attention of Anonymous and on Wednesday they released this video which warned:
“We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. To the American Congress. Expect us.”

Well, one hour ago, Anonymous released yet another video… SPOILER ALERT:
“We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive censorship. We do not forget the denial of our free rights as human beings. To the United States government, you should’ve expected us.“

Anonymous - A Message to Congress on SOPA

Anonymous - Operation Blackout

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http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=246238

About 50 Israeli women posed for a nude photo on Saturday, in a show of solidarity with 20-year-old Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy. The women posed with a banner reading "Love without borders" in English, Hebrew and Arabic, at Beit Ha'am on Rothschild Boulevard.

Elmahdy was the target of sharp criticism from liberals and conservatives alike in Egypt for posting nude photos of herself on her blog in protest of the conservative Muslim country's restricted freedom of expression.

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Op zaterdag 19 november 2011 22:09 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Het artikel gaat verder.

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SOPA provokes Anonymous: Hacktivists threaten U.S. Congress

Anonymous fights Internet censorship by opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Those claiming to represent the international Internet hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has issued a threat to the U.S. Congress if they pass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently being considered in the U.S. House of Representatives.

SOPA , also known as the Internet censorship bill, would radically restrict Internet freedom in an attempt to protect intellectual property rights. Critics claim the bill, if passed, would cripple the Internet as we know it.

Indeed, growing concern with the Stop Online Piracy Act has generated a great deal of buzz with the online community. Some of the biggest websites and brands in the world are actively encouraging their users to protest the bill, including: AOL Inc., eBay Inc., Facebook Inc., Google Inc., LinkedIn Corporation, Mozilla Corp., Twitter, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc.

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Op zondag 20 november 2011 13:47 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
Is dit niet iets voor Anonymiss?

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Israëlische vrouwen steunen naaktactie Egyptische blogger Aliaa el-Mahdy

Zo’n veertig Israëlische vrouwen gingen gisteren uit de kleren uit solidariteit met de Egyptische blogger Aliaa el-Mahdy. Die laatste plaatste een naaktfoto van zichzelf op haar blog waarna een officiële klacht tegen haar werd ingediend omdat zij de morele regels in Egypte zou hebben overtreden en haar lezers aangezet zou hebben tot onfatsoenlijkheid.

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Anonymous hacks cops coordinating Occupy evictions - PERF goes down

Sunday, Anonymous hacktivists assaulted PERF because of their alleged involvement in coordinating police crackdowns on Occupy protests across the country.
Anonymous hacktivists assaulted PERF, the Police Executive Research Forum, by taking down their website and releasing the private information of Sherwin B. "Chuck" Wexler - Executive Director at PERF.

PERF is a private but extremely influential national, non-governmental organization with close ties to law enforcement agencies across the country, as well as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The group allegedly orchestrated and coordinated the sometimes brutal police crack down on Occupy Wall Street, and other Occupy movements across the country.

After several news organizations identified PERF as being responsible for advising and coordinating the police crackdowns resulting in Occupy evictions and other brutalities, the hivemind of the nebulous and notorious international Internet collective known as Anonymous began to swarm, and sting.

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The #Antisec LE dump, PERF and your police state

I've been sifting through the emails that were dumped by #Antisec on Friday and it would appear that "internet security" is an oxymoron akin to "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp". The incompetence would be comical if these people did not wield so much power over the average citizen. Let's take a closer look below the fold...

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It is not surprising this breach in security is not being covered by any MSM outlets at the time I am writing this. It's a substantial breach and provides a pretty in depth look into cyber security and the so-called experts that are providing it and it's quite frankly embarrassing to them. Somehow we can't afford Health Care for the masses but we can afford to pay buffoons to not stop internet security breaches at the most basic level. It's a clown show, and we're paying for it while being told austerity is the answer to all our woes. While our kids are being pepper sprayed for exercising their right to assemble these guys are being rewarded with lucrative contracts. Here's a snippet from the release..

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How America could impose Internet censorship on the EU

As Victoria A. Espinel, the White House co-ordinator on copyright enforcement prepares to speak in the European Parliament next week, we learn of new powers being sought by the US government to impose IPR rules on other countries, including the EU. The Stop Online Piracy Act (also sometimes referred to as E-parasite) in the US congress seeks to impose the most draconian measures against Internet users and websites. But from an EU perspective, it contains a poison pill. American academics and NGOs who have studied are warning that it contains dangerous provisions which would empower US Embassies to force other countries to adopt the same anti-Internet measures.

The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA - also sometimes referred to as E-parasite) is a twin to the Protect-IP Act in the US Senate. American academics are saying that SOPA will create a firewall of Internet censorship.

SOPA contains measures against search engines and linking sites, and indeed it would appear, against any site which is deemed to be “dedicated to infringing activities.”

Sites could be ordered to disappear from the Internet, without an entitlement to a defence, under measures which would includes orders addressed to ISPs and domain registrars.

SOPA also contains provisions whereby the US government can check out websites for possible infringing content, and if the website tries to stop them, it may be sanctioned.

Section 205 of Stop Online Piracy Act is called: Defending Intellectual Property Rights Abroad. Section 205 would build on the existing Special 301 process but will take it much further. It provides for “aggressive support for enforcement action against violations of the intellectual property rights of United States persons”. And it specifically mandates US embassies to ‘enable’ foreign governments to comply with international obligations regarding IP rights. A new role of IP attache will be created in order to facilitate this. This role will be to work with United States holders of intellectual property rights and industry to address intellectual property rights violations in the countries where the attachés are assigned.

US Embassies currently put pressure on other governments using the Special 301 powers. Exactly how they do so has been revealed in various leaked diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks.

The EU should take this threat very seriously. SOPA could mean that US Embassiess will try to forces changes in EU and Member State law which would contravene to the acquis and indeed are contrary to the balance of rights which we have established in Europe.

Victoria A. Espinel is speaking at the IP Forum, co-ordinated by the French pro-copyright MEP Marielle Gallo, next week.European Parliament hardline event on ACTA and enforcement

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"Possibly the most interesting content in his emails are the IACIS.com internal email list archives (2005-2011) which detail the methods and tactics cybercrime units use to gather electronic evidence, conduct investigations and make arrests," said the group, and invited anyone who has ever been arrested for computer crimes to check the archives for discussions about their case.

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“Pirate Blogger” Law Student Raided By Police For File-Sharing Articles

Anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen say they have been busy recently tracking down piracy ‘masterminds’. After busting who they claim is the leader of a huge movie piracy group, last week they had the police detain a less likely target – a 19-year-old law student who runs a file-sharing blog. RettighedsAlliancen say that guides on his site showed readers how to break the law, an act serious enough to involve the police.

On November 2nd, lawyers from RettighedsAlliancen, officials from the bailiff’s court and computer experts called at the home of an individual claimed to be a leading movie pirate.

The man, known online as Kefissos, stands accused of being connected to the ‘After Dark’ release group and responsible for the illegal uploading of hundreds of movies. Although it’s not certain they belong to the man, accounts in the name of Kefissos can be found on several leading torrent sites including The Pirate Bay, and many of the movies indexed have Danish connections.

But RettighedsAlliancen’s work this month had only just begun.

On Tuesday last week, as usual 19-year-old law student Halfdan Timm was studying at the University of Aarhus. Half a mile away the occupants of an unmarked Ford Mondeo car were unsuccessfully trying to track Halfdan down at his apartment. A little later during a break in his lectures Halfdan was confronted by police officers.

“I was given two options,” Halfdan explains. “Either I could go quietly with the two policemen, or I could be arrested and ‘do it the hard way’.”

Halfdan told TorrentFreak that he was under suspicion of “piratkopiering” (piracy-copying), and that the police had a search warrant for his apartment.

Not wanting to make life difficult, Halfdan chose the easy way and took the police to his home. Once there the police asked him if he had anything to show them in advance of their search. Halfdan pointed to his desktop computer containing downloaded songs and informed them that he had a collection of 50 downloaded movies burned on DVD.

“One policeman in rubber gloves then began a very careful examination. Sofa pillows, broom closet, refrigerator, my dirty underwear, the rest of my wardrobe, my entire bedroom, under my bed, toilet and even my roommate’s room – even though he has nothing to do with the case,” Halfdan adds.

Then the discussion moved on to the 40,000-member NextGen site, a private BitTorrent tracker founded in February 2010. NextGen is also home to Sublime, a group supplying local subtitles for all the latest Hollywood movies.

Nxtgen

“At first, they tried to figure out whether I was leading the tracker, searching for hidden equipment in the apartment, but when they realized that wasn’t the case, they tried to get as much information as possible about the actual owners.”

Halfdan doesn’t deny being a member of the site and admits he has downloaded movies and music, but according to comments made to Politiken by RettighedsAlliancen chief Maria Fredenslund, Halfdan is a file-sharing “mastermind”.

“By mastermind we mean one who stands behind file-sharing services,” she said. “We came across him in connection with our investigations and have notified the police.”

Halfdan puts the “mastermind” label down to simple stupidity but believes he may have been targeted for another reason – running a file-sharing related blog.

GratisFilm.info was founded by Halfdan in February 2011 and contains posts covering issues such as staying anonymous online (Halfdan notes the irony) and using seedboxes.

“It’s quite an idealistic cause for me, as I believe being anonymous online is (should be) a human right,” Halfdan told TorrentFreak.

“On the site, I guide on how to stay anonymous, gain access to The Pirate Bay even though it’s blocked in Denmark, but also about more ‘common’ subjects like new South Park episodes, the forthcoming Google Music, who Anonymous (the group) is and so on. Pretty much everything I find interesting. I believe using the police is [RettighedsAlliancen's] way of shutting me down.”

GratisFilm also carries reviews on a handful of BitTorrent sites, including NextGen. In early October, Halfdan interviewed the site’s owner, a fact he discussed with the police. This, he believes, has led some to believe he has a personal relationship with the site’s owner.

Halfdan’s assertion, that he was targeted because of his negativity towards anti-piracy companies, is rejected by RettighedsAlliancen, but they are clearly unimpressed with some of his articles.

“I was not aware that he criticized RettighedsAlliancen,” said Maria Fredenslund.

“But we can see that he teaches others to break the law and conceal themselves on the net. He is one of those who deliberately break the law. We believe that this was something that was so serious that it should be handled by the police.”

So are the police taking the matter seriously?

“The officers told me even they thought this was a waste of time, and that they could use their day better than driving around the whole day to pick up 50 movies and a computer,” Halfdan told us.

“I’m very surprised that the police went in on the case at all, but it does say quite a bit that they waited 3 months [after the initial complaint] to move, and that it’ll take at least 6 months before they start investigating my computer. This has a very, very low priority for them.”

Troels Møller, Piratgruppen spokesman and co-founder of internet think-tank Bitbureauet, is clearly outraged at this latest entertainment industry response to the file-sharing issue, describing it as completely disproportionate.

“Just as I thought Antipiratgruppen was becoming a bit more reasonable lately, they show their evil face from the old days again – the days of threat letters and blackmail,” he told TorrentFreak. “They were ransacking his apartment and searching through his dirty clothes! All this for copying some stuff on the internet? Where are the proportions? Is this really how the entertainment industry wants to treat its fans and customers?”

“What strikes me most about this case though, is that Maria Fredenslund apparently thinks that people should be arrested for teaching others how to use the internet anonymously. I would like to point out that this is not illegal! They don’t care about privacy or freedom of expression. In fact, they appear to be outright enemies of these fundamental rights.”

“Denmark is quickly becoming a frightening and shameful example to the rest of the world on how not to handle the filesharing ‘problem’,” Troels concludes.

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‘Anonymous’ targets pepper-spraying policeman

The online “hacktivist” group Anonymous published the personal contact details on Monday of a California university policeman who used pepper spray on protesters, and it urged supporters to flood him with phone calls and emails.

YouTube videos of Friday’s incident on the campus of theUniversity of California, Davis have gone viral and led to the suspension of the college police chief, two police officers and calls for the chancellor to step down.

In the YouTube videos, one of which has received 1.44 million views, two university police officers in riot gear are seen spraying an orange mist on protesters sitting peacefully on the ground.

Following the spraying, the crowd begins chanting “Shame on you!”

A YouTube video on Monday purportedly from Anonymous published the home address, the home telephone number, the cellphone number and the email address of one of the policeman who allegedly used the pepper spray on protestors.

In the video, an artificially altered voice tells the “police forces of the world” that “brutalization of our citizens is both unjust and uncalled for.”

Specifically addressing the officer involved in the Davis incident, it said: “You are a coward, and a bully.”

“Flood his phones, email and mailbox to voice your anger,” it said.

A call to the cellphone number listed identified it as that of the police officer involved and said his voicemail box was full.

Anonymous has been involved in scores of hacking exploits including the recent defacing of a website of Syria’s Ministry of Defense to protest a bloody crackdown on anti-government protestors.

Last year, the shadowy group launched retaliatory attacks on companies perceived to be enemies of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

Anonymous #OpT4Traitor

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#OpT4Traitor

Anonymous Press Release

Arturas T. Rosenbacher has been up to his games again. It wasn’t enough that he scammed Anonymous supporters out of money under the guise of AnonCMD, and it wasn’t enough that he was posting false information on OccupyChicago’s Facebook profile, and lying to the organizers about his false claims in helping start Wiki leaks, he had to do something to solidify is narcissistic insanity. On Sunday, November 6th Arturas decided it would be a great idea to release a famous rap star’s cell phone number to the world on twitter. The rap star, known as Lupe Fiasco donated tents, food and water to Occupy Chicago, and is an outspoken supporter of the Anonymous collective. Arturas did this under the flag and banner of Anonymous, using Anon Dev Pro as his twitter name, and telling those who listened that he knows high profile anons. The only reason Arturas knows high profile Anons, is because of his past track record with us, which is entrenched with scamming innocent people out of money.
Arturas wants attention, he wants to be famous. Let us make him famous. Let us all contact each and every Occupy movement and make sure the people know about the traitor T. No Occupy is safe with a traitor in the midst; T must be cataloged and identified by each and every individual within all Occupy movements. He must be shamed upon site for the damage he has done to Occupy Chicago, Lupe Fiasco, and the collective of Anonymous.
Arturas;
We told you we would come for you T, we warned you, and you did not listen. How did you think we would forget? How did you think we would forgive? Your actions will no longer con the masses into believing you are of any worth. Now everyone will know exactly who and what you are, which is nothing more than a small time con man with psychological problems seeking attention.

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

Any Info on T?
Contact @Anon2World on Twitter or Youtube

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South African lawmakers approve 'secrecy bill' to protect state
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ANC majority vote pushes controversial bill, which could outlaw whistleblowers and dilute public interest rights, to upper house

A controversial law to protect state secrets has been approved by South Africa's parliament, despite objections from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, rights organisations, and a group representing Nelson Mandela.

The African National Congress majority ensured that 229 MPs voted in favour of the protection of state information bill, with 107 votes against and two abstentions.

The ANC claimed it was updating legislation drawn up 30 years ago by the apartheid government.

Llewellyn Landers, an ANC MP, said the bill would not have a public-interest defence clause because "it would do irrevocable harm to the state and the people of South Africa if a court should find that a whistleblower was found to have given information not out of public interest but out of maliciousness".

But rival MPs united against the "secrecy bill", legislation that critics argue is the first piece of law-making since the end of apartheid to dismantle a part of South African democracy.

The law would make it a crime to leak, possess or publish information judged as classified by the government. Whistleblowers and journalists could face up to 25 years in jail if found guilty of such action.

In a rousing speech from the floor on Tuesday, Lindiwe Mazibuko, parliamentary leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, warned: "This bill will unstitch the very fabric of our constitution. It will criminalise the freedom so many of our people fought for.

"What will you, the members on that side of the house, tell your grandchildren one day? I know you will tell them that you fought for freedom. But will you also tell them you helped to destroy it?

"Because they will pay the price for your actions today. Let this weigh heavy on your conscience as you cast your vote."

More than 1,000 protesters gathered outside the parliament building in Cape Town. Many wore black on what was dubbed Black Tuesday, a reference to Black Wednesday on 19 October 1977 when the apartheid government banned two newspapers and 19 black consciousness movements.

In a rare political intervention, the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory issued an "expression of concern" about the bill and proposed four amendments. Mandela, 93, has always remained loyal to the ANC, and has almost never intervened since stepping down as the country's president.

Tutu said: "It is insulting to all South Africans to be asked to stomach legislation that could be used to outlaw whistleblowing and investigative journalism … and that makes the state answerable only to the state..

"Please hear the warnings of the academics, civil society leaders, labour representatives, media corps, and legal and constitutional experts. This law will do our people and our country a disservice."

In the past few months, the ANC did accept more than 120 amendments to its original draft but not, crucially, a public-interest defence clause.

When the bill was passed, editors in the parliamentary public gallery walked out in protest.

There was swift condemnation within South Africa and abroad.

Human Rights Watch, in New York, described the move as "a blow to freedom of expression and democratic accountability'. The group said: "Parliament should have heeded the calls of South African civil society, representatives of the media and political opposition, and refrained from holding the vote."

Daniel Bekele, the group's Africa director, added: "The manner in which the government pushed this bill through parliament instead of proceeding with consultations as promised, as well as the secrecy embedded in this legislation, send very worrying signs about the government's commitment to transparency."

The Helen Suzman Foundationexpressed outrage at the vote. "This marks a low point in South Africa's transition to democracy. It represents a significant step backwards in the long walk to freedom to which so many South Africans have devoted their lives."

The group Media Monitoring Africa said it had noted the decision with deep regret and warned that it would be bad for South Africa and its international reputation.

The Times of South Africa on Tuesday carried a black front page with the headline "Not in our name," and a statement signed by 15 national newspaper editors. It began: "Mark this day. Depending on the actions of the 400 MPs in the national assembly at 2pm, it will end as a day of triumph or of shame for our adolescent democracy.

"The spreading culture of self-enrichment, either corrupt, or merely inappropriate, makes scrutiny fuelled by whistleblowers who have the public interest at heart more essential than ever since 1994."

The bill will now move to parliament's upper house before going to the president, Jacob Zuma, to be signed into law. It could face a challenge in the constitutional court.

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BABYDIABOLICAL twitterde op dinsdag 22-11-2011 om 18:57:24 RT @anonops: They continue censoring the video and we continue uploading it #Anonymous Message - Op Pepper Police http://t.co/n8WZo31U reageer retweet

Anonymous Message to Occupy Police

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MPAA Costs Hollywood More Than US BitTorrent Piracy

During the last year Netflix managed to outgrow BitTorrent in terms of the amount of US Internet traffic it generates. A promising finding for Hollywood as it shows that there’s an overwhelming interest for the legal movie streaming service. At TorrentFreak we wondered what might happen if all US BitTorrent users made the switch to Netflix, and the results of this exploration are quite intriguing.

The movie industry claims that piracy is costing them billions of dollars a year.

Luckily for Hollywood, many Americans choose to consume their online media through legal services such as Netflix. In fact, there are now so many that the total Internet traffic generated by Netflix has outgrown that of BitTorrent.

This made us wonder – what would happen if all movie-downloading BitTorrent users made the switch to Netflix? What if movie piracy via BitTorrent disappeared?

Before we crunch some numbers we have to say that the model we use relies on a lot of assumptions. However, we try to keep these in favor of the movie industry to maximize their potential ‘profits’. We obviously chose Netflix as a BitTorrent replacement because it comes closest to what ‘pirates’ want.

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Anon_Central twitterde op vrijdag 25-11-2011 om 09:59:56 #DirectAction call to all #Occupy Movements on Twitter || Lets trend #OccupyBlackFriday! ty @OWS_Live Full support from #Anonymous! reageer retweet

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Hacker ontdekt lek bij publieke omroep: ’2,3 miljoen gegevens op straat’

De hacker ‘Bitbuster’ heeft een lek in een beheersysteem van publieke omroepen en radiostations ontdekt waardoor 2,3 miljoen persoonsgegevens op straat zijn komen te liggen. Dat meldt Webwereld.

Een woordvoerder van Angry Bites, de webdeveloper verantwoordelijk voor het beheersysteem van de websites, zegt in een reactie tegen De Pers dat de hacker via een verouderde versie van de site bij de gegevens kon. Eén gelekt wachtwoord zou toegang hebben gegeven tot 160 websites van NPO en daarbuiten. Onder andere Slam FM, KRO, Omroep.nl, BNN, diverse publieke radiozenders en RTV Noord-Holland zouden getroffen zijn. Vooral 3FM, QMusic en de website van Klokhuis zijn het zwaarst getroffen.

Erik Kroeze, woordvoerder van NPO, wil tegenover nrc.nl graag benadrukken dat NPO slachtoffer is geworden van een beveiligingsprobleem bij de webdeveloper:

“Ik kan op dit moment niet zeggen welke gegevens precies zijn gelekt. Het lijkt er nu in de berichtgeving op dat NPO de gegevens heeft gelekt, terwijl dat niet zo is. Er zijn namelijk ook problemen met websites buiten de NPO. We hebben contact gehad met Angry Bites en de garantie gekregen dat het probleem zo snel mogelijk verholpen wordt. Wanneer weet ik nog niet. Alles dat dichtgezet kon worden, is dichtgezet.”

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Failure is not an option.

Enemies of Anonymous are permanent.

Enemies are to be eliminated swiftly and without incident.

Anonymous must work as one. No single Anonymous knows everything.

Anonymous does not tolerate action against Anonymous.

Any action against Anonymous will be dealt with swiftly and thoroughly.

Nothing can harm Anonymous.

Anonymous is the will to power.

Anonymous is always in control.

Anonymous has no identity.

Anonymous worships nothing.

Anonymous has no leader, and is led by no-one.

Human weakness is the virus; Anonymous is the cure.

Anonymous is anonymous.

Anonymous stays together through common ideas.

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Expect us.

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ANONYMOUS attacks www.pricoahuila.com asking where the $3 billion dollars stolen from Coahuila are located



REPORTING FROM MEXICO: At 3:00 p.m. Mexican central standard time, twitter trend #OpTranzas skyrocked. At first I did not understand what exactly that trend was but it did not take me much time to understand that it was another ANONYMOUS operation. Their target was www.pricoahuila.com the official website of the Coahuila state ruling party: Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI in Spanish.

It was incredible to read the outright hacking of the site live on twitter. The objective was to send a message to the PRI Party for the outright embezzlement of $3 billion dollars or $32 billion pesos. The fingers point at the past governor but only members of his cabinet were arrested.

$3 billion dollars for any state government to be embezzled is simply outrageous and ANONYMOUS simply will not let go of this line of investigation.

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Criminals and cyber bullies to be banned from the web

Criminals who commit offences online and cyber bullies will be banned from the internet as part of the Government’s new cyber security strategy, announced today.

It calls for police and courts to make more use of existing “cyber sanctions” to restrict access to the social networks and instant messaging services in cases of hacking, fraud and online bullying. Sex offenders and those convicted of harrassment or anti-social behaviour also face more internet restrictions under the new strategy.

Similar orders have been imposed on those charged with involvement in a series of cyber attacks by the Anonymous and LulzSec groups earlier this year, while they await trial.

Cyber sanctions were also used following the riots this summer. Two teenagers in Dundee were banned from the web for inciting riots via Facebook.

Officials are now looking into whether "cyber tag" technology could be used to monitor offenders and report to authorities if break their bail or sentence conditions by using the internet.

"The Ministry of Justice and the Home Office will consider and scope the development of a new way of enforcing these orders, using ‘cyber-tags’ which are triggered by the offender breaching the conditions that have been put on their internet use, and which will automatically inform the police or probation service," cyber security strategy said.

It added that if the regime is a success restrictions on internet use could be imposed on "a wider group of offenders".

Police forces across the country will also follow the example of the Met’s Police Central e-Crime Unit by recruiting “cyber specials”; internet experts will be encouraged to volunteer as special constables to help investigate online crime.

The four-year strategy is also designed to address cyber espionage and attacks from states such as China and Russia and "patriotic" hackers.

GCHQ, Britain’s eavesdropping agency, is to receive around £385m of the total £650m budget to develop its ability to detect, defend and fight back online. The problem of discovering the true source of a cyber attack will be among the top priorities for the Cheltenham-based agency's experts, as well as developing "tactics and techniques” for online conflict in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence's new cyber unit.

GCHQ will also declassify and commercialise some of its cyber technology to help the private sector improve its security online, as part of a broader effort to increase cooperation between government and industry. Other measures with include a new "hub" for information sharing to allow the security services to share information on cyber threats with major infrastructure firms such as BT, Barclays and utilities companies.

“This strategy not only deals with the threat from terrorists to our national security, but also with the criminals who threaten our prosperity as well as blight the lives of many ordinary people through cyber crime,” said David Cameron.

Terrorists are not believed to yet have the ability to launch damaging cyber attacks against critical infrastructure such as water and power stations, but they are thought to have discussed such operations.

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Surveillance Company Says It Sent Fake iTunes, Flash Updates

Gamma International UK Ltd. touts its ability to send a “fake iTunes update” that can infect computers with surveillance software, according to one of the company’s marketing videos.

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Hacker zet tekenfilmpjes op website RTV Utrecht

De website van RTV Utrecht was vanmorgen gehackt. Wie een bepaald nieuwsbericht aanklikte, kreeg 'Badger badger badger', een tekenfilmpje met dansende dassen, te zien.

Het probleem is inmiddels verholpen, aldus een woordvoerster van de regionale zender.

'We zitten er bovenop. Voor zover we kunnen nagaan zijn geen andere bestanden gehackt. De schade valt mee. Maar we vinden het ontzettend vervelend en proberen de bron te achterhalen', aldus de woordvoerster.

De laatste tijd zijn websites van omroepen vaker doelwit van hackers.

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European high court rejects Internet traffic filtering as violation of fundamental rights

While Thanksgiving is an American holiday, internet service providers and users in Europe had reason to give thanks yesterday. The highest court in the European Union overturned a ruling that would have forced a Belgian ISP to preemptively filter Internet traffic to prevent the unauthorized sharing of music files.

The European Court of Justice overturned a ruling by a Belgian court in a suit brought by the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers (SABAM). SABAM filed it against Scarlet Extended over alleged illegal peer-to-peer filesharing by Scarlet's customers. That 2007 ruling required Scarlet to filter traffic on its network, so that it could identify and block illegal peer to peer filesharing traffic. It was based on an interpretation of Belgian copyright laws that put the burden of enforcement on ISPs.

Scarlet had appealed, focusing on European data privacy laws, saying that the ruling would in effect force the company to monitor all Internet traffic passing through its network—which would, aside from being technically unfeasible, violate the privacy of its customers. The case has been closely watched by Internet companies in Europe, which were concerned that they could be faced with similar requirements.

In its ruling, The Court of Justice upheld the right of copyright holders to file injunctions against intermediaries over illegal file sharing. But it struck down the provisions of the Belgian court ruling that required filtering, finding that the filtering provisions violated European Union e-commerce laws, and infringed on the rights of Scarlet and its customers. The broad monitoring required to filter file-sharing would "infringe the fundamental rights of [Scarlet's] customers, namely their right to protection of their personal data and their right to receive or impart information, which are rights safeguarded by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU," the court panel wrote.

Anonymous Party Hard

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The spies behind your screen

It’s both possible and legal to take control of a computer without its owner ever knowing. And it could prove deadlier than any missile.

David Vincenzetti isn’t your typical arms dealer. He’s never sold a machine gun, a grenade or a surface-to-air missile. But, make no mistake, he has access to a weapon so powerful it could bring a country to its knees. It’s called RCS – Remote Control System – and it’s a piece of computer software. Developed by Vincenzetti and a team of former computer hackers, RCS is able to “invade” a digital device undetected, bypass the most sophisticated electronic defences so far devised and, if the user so desired, disrupt the running of anything from a railway signalling system to a nuclear power station.

RCS can be installed on smartphones and computers without their owners' knowledge, and gives its user almost complete access to the "infected" device. The user can listen in on phone calls, read encrypted communications and even send apparently genuine email or text messages, all without the owner suspecting a thing. It can take screenshots of the computer, and photographs of the user. It can even activate the phone microphone, effectively turning a Blackberry left on the table during a meeting into a powerful bugging device. The software operates in the background, undetected by anti-spyware, anti-malware or anti-virus software, hiding its transmissions inside the user's usual email or internet traffic. It makes hacking into mobile phone voicemail look like the ham-fisted bungling of amateurs.

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It sounds amazing, but if you take a look at their shoddy marketing video and their literature, it soon becomes clear that behind all the technobabble and amazing claims is nothing more than a glorified keylogger which still has to be actually installed on a target system, whether by trickery or more directly. It doesn't install itself by some form of incomprehensible cybermagic as the article above seems to imply.

This is the sort of cunning marketing-driven technobabble (or should that be "cybertechnobabble"?) that makes otherwise intelligent people in the military and elsewhere who aren't au fait with the world of information technology believe that a "hacking" attack can actually be carried out on command.

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Basic error puts anonymous bloggers at risk

In a recent experiment writer Andy Baio was able to uncover the identities of seven anonymous bloggers from a random sample of 50 in under 30 minutes; all thanks to a simple mistake they'd made in setting up their websites.

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jeanassy twitterde op dinsdag 29-11-2011 om 09:13:58 If you know someone working for the UN, you can surprise him by giving him his email's password http://t.co/hbKczogV #Anonymous #AntiSec reageer retweet

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Facebook reaches deal with FTC over 'unfair and deceptive' privacy claims

Facebook forced to obtain consent before making privacy changes as Mark Zuckerberg admits 'high-profile mistakes'

Facebook "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public," US regulators said as they announced a settlement over privacy issues with the social networking giant.

Facebook has been repeatedly criticised for changing its policies in ways that disclose more of its 800 million users' personal information without giving them adequate notice. Last year, critics organised a Quit Facebook Day in response to the firm's alleged privacy breaches.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Facebook had made claims about its privacy policies that were "unfair and deceptive, and violated federal law."

The FTC said it had reached a proposed settlement with Facebook that would force it to obtain consent before making changes to privacy settings. The firm will also have to undergo an independent audit of its consumer privacy policy every two years for the next 20 years, to make sure it complies with the FTC ruling.

"Facebook is obligated to keep the promises about privacy that it makes to its hundreds of millions of users," said Jon Leibowitz, the FTC chairman. "Facebook's innovation does not have to come at the expense of consumer privacy. The FTC action will ensure it will not."

In a blogpost, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the company made a "small number of high-profile mistakes."

"I founded Facebook on the idea that people want to share and connect with people in their lives, but to do this everyone needs complete control over who they share with at all times," said Zuckerberg.

"Overall, I think we have a good history of providing transparency and control over who can see your information," he wrote. "I also understand that many people are just naturally sceptical of what it means for hundreds of millions of people to share so much personal information online, especially using any one service," he said.

Zuckerberg said the deal was part of a broader push by the government to ensure consumer privacy regulations from other companies, including Google and Twitter. "For Facebook, this means we're making a clear and formal long-term commitment to do the things we've always tried to do and planned to keep doing – giving you tools to control who can see your information and then making sure only those people you intend can see it," he said.

Facebook is currently lining up a $100bn floatation that could come as early as next April. The initial public offering (IPO) values Zuckerberg's stake in the firm at $24bn.

The FTC said Facebook made eight specific promises that it did not keep.

In December 2009, Facebook changed its website so certain information that users may have designated as private – such as their friends list – was made public. They did so without warning or approval in advance.

Facebook said that company's apps would have access only to the information that they needed to operate. In fact, the apps could access nearly all of users' personal data – data the apps didn't need, said the FTC.

Facebook told users they could restrict sharing of data to limited audiences – for example with Friends Only. In fact, selecting Friends Only did not prevent their information from being shared with third-party applications their friends used.

Facebook had a Verified Apps programme, and claimed it certified the security of participating apps. It didn't.

Facebook promised users that it would not share their personal information with advertisers. It did.

Facebook claimed that when users deactivated or deleted their accounts, their photos and videos would be inaccessible. But Facebook allowed access to the content, even after users had deactivated or deleted their accounts.

Facebook claimed that it complied with the US–EU Safe Harbour Framework that governs data transfer between the US and the European Union. It didn't.

In future, the firm will be required to obtain consent from its users ahead of making changes that change their privacy settings, and it will be required to prevent anyone from accessing a Facebook user's account 30 days after they have deleted it.

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Op dinsdag 29 november 2011 09:21 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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jeanassy twitterde op dinsdag 29-11-2011 om 09:13:58 If you know someone working for the UN, you can surprise him by giving him his email's password http://t.co/hbKczogV #Anonymous #AntiSec reageer retweet

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Hackers post UN staffer user names, passwords

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A hackers group calling itself "Team Poison" has posted what it says are the user names and passwords of more than 100 United Nations staffers' email accounts it pulled from a U.N. computer server.

Many of the accounts posted on pastebin.com website appear to belong to U.N. Development Program staffers.

A telephone call seeking comment from a UNDP spokeswoman in New York was not immediately returned Wednesday evening.

Team Poison is among several politically motivated cyber activists or activist groups whose stunts are prompting increased police attention.

Generally known as "hacktivists," they've targeted a series of government, military and intelligence-related websites across the globe.

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Mobiele provider kan elke toetsaanslag zien

Mobiele providers weten meer van je dan je denkt. Dat zou blijken uit een nieuw privacy-lek dat smartphonegebruikers treft. CarrierIQ, een verborgen programma dat standaard op veel telefoons geïnstalleerd staat om netwerkactiviteiten te monitoren, stuurt ongevraagd persoonlijke gegevens naar Amerikaanse providers door. Waaronder de inhoud van sms’jes en webverkeer dat eigenlijk beveiligd zou moeten zijn. Nederlandse bellers lijken echter buiten schot te blijven.

Carrier IQ Part #2

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Operation Robin Hood Message

Operation Robin Hood! The MIDGET RAGES! TeaM p0isAnon!

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Anonymous launches new operation targeting big banks

Hacktivist collective Anonymous and hacking group Teamp0ison have announced that they will be joining their forces once again and starting another operation against banks.

They call it OpRobinHood, and apparently it will consist of stealing credit card details from big banks in order to use it to make donations to charities and others.

"In regards to the recent demonstrations and protests across the globe, we are going to turn the tables on the banks," they state. "Operation Robin Hood is going to return the money to those who have been cheated by our system and most importantly to those hurt by our banks. Operation Robin Hood will take credit cards and donate to the 99% as well as various charities around the globe. The banks will be forced to reimburse the people there money back."

The operation is meant to damage the banks' financial standing as well as their reputation, and as such it should continue the work initiated by the Operation Cash Back, with which bank users were urged to close their accounts and transfer the money to accounts opened with credit unions.

"Operation Robin Hood urges YOU, to now move your accounts into secure credit unions, before it’s too late while we hit them from the inside," they say, but don't reveal whether the stolen information will be used by them or made public for the "99%" to use.

Allegedly, Chase, Bank of America, and CitiBank have already been hit with big breaches, and credit cards issued by them have been used to make donations.

While is true that in most cases the bank is required to refund the money taken through fraudulent transactions if the credit card owner can prove it happened, I can't imagine the recipients of that money - even if they are charities - being allowed to keep it. So, I'm very interested in seeing how successful this operation proves to be, and how the groups intend to pull it off.

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De Kamer is tegen, maar Teeven wil tóch een downloadverbod

Ondanks grote weerstand bij de Tweede Kamerfracties wil staatssecretaris Fred Teeven (VVD) nog niet van de kabinetsplannen voor invoering van het downloadverbod afzien. 'Ik kan niet stil blijven staan, want er is druk vanuit de Europese Commissie. Maar ik kan wel knopen tellen, en ik zie dat ik een probleem heb', zei hij vandaag tijdens het debat over de hervorming van auteursrechten. 'Maar ik hoop u nog wel van het een en ander te kunnen overtuigen.'

Tijdens het debat bleek vanmorgen dat alle partijen, met uitzondering van Teevens eigen VVD, tegen diens voorstel zijn om de thuiskopieheffing te vervangen door het downloadverbod. Bij de nu geldende thuiskopieheffing betaalt de consument een extra heffing op lege cd's en dvd's. Maar volgens Teeven is dat te ouderwets, en werkt een downloadverbod veel beter.

Teeven belooft de Kamer met 'heel grote waarborgen' te komen om de privacy van de consument en de vrijheid van het internet goed in het oog te houden. Van mensen die slechts beperkt downloaden zullen naam en adres niet bekend worden, en alleen sites die heel actief illegaal materiaal aanbieden, zullen met het downloadverbod te maken krijgen. Met die toezeggingen hoopt hij de Kamer alsnog over de streep te kunnen trekken.

Het is volgens Teeven nog niet duidelijk of de Europese Commissie het Nederlandse kabinetsbeleid rond de thuiskopieheffing omarmt. 'We ontvangen daarover tegenstrijdige berichten. Maar we moeten wel haast maken, want veel tijd wordt ons niet gegund.'

Nova Zembla
Volgens Teeven is het belangrijk dat er goede regelgeving komt die het illegaal downloaden tegen gaat. 'Het is mijn taak te voorkomen dat films als Nova Zembla vijf dagen na het verschijnen in de bioscoop al massaal gedownload worden. Dat het downloaden van zo'n film dan geen zuivere koffie is, kan iedereen begrijpen.'

Volgens Teeven is inmiddels bewezen dat het vergroten van het legale aanbod aan muziek, films en games niet werkt. 'Waarom zou je betalen voor legaal aanbod als het ook gratis illegaal kan?' De staatssecretaris benadrukt dat het hem niet te doen is om 'mensen die af en toe een liedje downloaden', maar wel om 'fanatici die illegaal materiaal het net op slingeren.'

D66
Vanmorgen lieten de verschillende partijen weten hoe zij staan tegenover het voorstel van Teeven. Volgens D66 moet het probleem van illegaal downloaden worden aangepakt door het aanbod uit te breiden, bijvoorbeeld met meer diensten als Spotify. Ook is er extra toezicht nodig op de naleving van de Europese regels op dit gebied. De thuiskopieregeling moet worden uitgebreid, vinden de democraten. De partij pleit ook voor een nieuw licentiemodel dat vergelijkbaar is met dat van de horeca en de radio.

Over één kam
De PVV vind het standpunt van D66 onbegrijpelijk. 'Dus D66 is tégen het gratis downloaden, maar steunt een downloadverbod toch niet', aldus Kamerlid Louis Bontes. De PVV vindt de uitspraken van Verhoeven bovendien 'stevig'. 'Je moet niet alle internetters over één kam scheren.' De PVV is tegen het downloadverbod, én tegen de thuiskopieheffing. 'Internet is een grondrecht, daar blijf je vanaf.'

Ook de PvdA keert zich tegen het downloadverbod. 'Het is niet altijd duidelijk wat illegaal is. Soms moet je namelijk ook voor illegaal verspreid materiaal betalen', aldus Kamerlid Pauline Smeets. 'De PvdA is voor een vrij en open internet. Dat staat ook in het coalitieakkoord. We moeten de consument niet allerlei rechtszaken boven het hoofd laten hangen. Laten we de uren van de ambtenaar anders besteden.'

VVD
Alleen de VVD zelf schaart zich achter de staatssecretaris. 'Het auteursrecht valt onder het privaatrecht. Een downloadverbod kan dus gewoon worden ingevoerd,' aldus VVD-Kamerlid Joost Taverne. Bang voor vervolging van consumenten is hij niet. 'Dat hoort bij het privaatrecht.' Wel is de privacy voor de VVD-fractie een punt van zorg.

Maar voor de andere partijen is een downloadverbod geen optie. Volgens Sharon Gesthuizen van de SP is dat niet te handhaven. Haar partij ziet meer heil in een modernisering van de thuiskopieheffing. Dat moet de kosten voor artiesten en producenten kunnen compenseren.

Kwetsbaar
Ook het CDA is het niet met Taverne eens. Een downloadverbod maakt de consument wel degelijk kwetsbaar, meent de partij. Maar als een downloadverbod via het strafrecht geregeld kan worden, valt er voor de christendemocraten wel over te praten. Volgens Teeven kan dat grote problemen geven, omdat dat kan leiden tot grote rechtszaken.

Ondanks alle kritiek is Teeven dus niet bereid om het idee van een downloadverbod te laten varen. Met aanpassingen aan zijn voorstel hoopt hij toch nog voldoende partijen over de streep te kunnen trekken.

Een definitief besluit laat voorlopig nog op zich wachten. Half mei wil de Kamer opnieuw 'stevig' debatteren over deze kwestie. Een meerderheid van de Kamerfracties wil echter op kortere termijn nog eens met Teeven om tafel. Volgens hen is een tweede termijn wenselijk, omdat de discussie nog niet is afgerond.

Wordt vervolgd, dus.

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WikiLeaks: The Spy Files

Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries

It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry. Working with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well as media organizations form six countries – ARD in Germany, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK, The Hindu in India, L’Espresso in Italy, OWNI in France and the Washington Post in the U.S. Wikileaks is shining a light on this secret industry that has boomed since September 11, 2001 and is worth billions of dollars per year. WikiLeaks has released 287 documents today, but the Spy Files project is ongoing and further information will be released this week and into next year.

International surveillance companies are based in the more technologically sophisticated countries, and they sell their technology on to every country of the world. This industry is, in practice, unregulated. Intelligence agencies, military forces and police authorities are able to silently, and on mass, and secretly intercept calls and take over computers without the help or knowledge of the telecommunication providers. Users’ physical location can be tracked if they are carrying a mobile phone, even if it is only on stand by.

But the WikiLeaks Spy Files are more than just about ’good Western countries’ exporting to ’bad developing world countries’. Western companies are also selling a vast range of mass surveillance equipment to Western intelligence agencies. In traditional spy stories, intelligence agencies like MI5 bug the phone of one or two people of interest. In the last ten years systems for indiscriminate, mass surveillance have become the norm. Intelligence companies such as VASTech secretly sell equipment to permanently record the phone calls of entire nations. Others record the location of every mobile phone in a city, down to 50 meters. Systems to infect every Facebook user, or smart-phone owner of an entire population group are on the intelligence market.

Selling Surveillance to Dictators

When citizens overthrew the dictatorships in Egypt and Libya this year, they uncovered listening rooms where devices from Gamma corporation of the UK, Amesys of France, VASTech of South Africa and ZTE Corp of China monitored their every move online and on the phone.

Surveillance companies like SS8 in the U.S., Hacking Team in Italy and Vupen in France manufacture viruses (Trojans) that hijack individual computers and phones (including iPhones, Blackberries and Androids), take over the device, record its every use, movement, and even the sights and sounds of the room it is in. Other companies like Phoenexia in the Czech Republic collaborate with the military to create speech analysis tools. They identify individuals by gender, age and stress levels and track them based on ‘voiceprints’. Blue Coat in the U.S. and Ipoque in Germany sell tools to governments in countries like China and Iran to prevent dissidents from organizing online.

Trovicor, a subsidiary of Nokia Siemens Networks, supplied the Bahraini government with interception technologies that tracked human rights activist Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar. He was shown details of personal mobile phone conversations from before he was interrogated and beaten in the winter of 2010-2011.

How Mass Surveillance Contractors Share Your Data with the State

In January 2011, the National Security Agency broke ground on a $1.5 billion facility in the Utah desert that is designed to store terabytes of domestic and foreign intelligence data forever and process it for years to come.

Telecommunication companies are forthcoming when it comes to disclosing client information to the authorities - no matter the country. Headlines during August’s unrest in the UK exposed how Research in Motion (RIM), makers of the Blackberry, offered to help the government identify their clients. RIM has been in similar negotiations to share BlackBerry Messenger data with the governments of India, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Weaponizing Data Kills Innocent People

There are commercial firms that now sell special software that analyze this data and turn it into powerful tools that can be used by military and intelligence agencies.

For example, in military bases across the U.S., Air Force pilots use a video link and joystick to fly Predator drones to conduct surveillance over the Middle East and Central Asia. This data is available to Central Intelligence Agency officials who use it to fire Hellfire missiles on targets.

The CIA officials have bought software that allows them to match phone signals and voice prints instantly and pinpoint the specific identity and location of individuals. Intelligence Integration Systems, Inc., based in Massachusetts - sells a “location-based analytics” software called Geospatial Toolkit for this purpose. Another Massachusetts company named Netezza, which bought a copy of the software, allegedly reverse engineered the code and sold a hacked version to the Central Intelligence Agency for use in remotely piloted drone aircraft.

IISI, which says that the software could be wrong by a distance of up to 40 feet, sued Netezza to prevent the use of this software. Company founder Rich Zimmerman stated in court that his “reaction was one of stun, amazement that they (CIA) want to kill people with my software that doesn’t work.”

Orwell’s World

Across the world, mass surveillance contractors are helping intelligence agencies spy on individuals and ‘communities of interest’ on an industrial scale.

The Wikileaks Spy Files reveal the details of which companies are making billions selling sophisticated tracking tools to government buyers, flouting export rules, and turning a blind eye to dictatorial regimes that abuse human rights.

How to use the Spy Files

To search inside those files, click one of the link on the left pane of this page, to get the list of documents by type, company date or tag.

To search all these companies on a world map use the following tool from Owni

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Hacker group threatens action over bus passenger kidnappings

The hacker group ‘Anonymous’ is planning to take justice into its own hands again.

The group declared war on the drug cartels over the reported murder of social media users in Nuevo Laredo earlier this year.

But Anonymous is now turning its attention to bus companies and Mexico’s federal government.

In an exclusive interview with Action 4 News on Twitter, the group claims little is being done to halt the kidnapping of bus passengers on Mexico’s highways.

There are no official numbers or reports but the group claims thousands have been kidnapped, killed or forced to work against their will in an all-too common scenario.

#Op Carreteras seguras (English Version)

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‘The Pirate Bay Dancing’ Add-On Killls DNS and IP Blockades

Efforts to censor the Internet are increasing in the Western world. In the US lawmakers are currently discussing legislation (SOPA/PIPA) that could take out The Pirate Bay, or disable access to it. In several other countries such as Italy, Finland and Belgium, courts have already ordered Internet Providers to block their users’ access to the site. Demonstrating the futility of these efforts, a small group of developers today releases a browser add-on called “The Pirate Bay Dancing.”

When Homeland Security’s ICE unit started seizing domain names last year, a group called “MAFIAAFire” decided to code a browser add-on to redirect the affected websites to their new domains.

The release went viral and by now more than 200,000 people have installed the add-on. ICE wasn’t happy with this and asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site. However, Mozilla denied the request, arguing that this type of censorship may threaten the open Internet.

Today MAFIAAFire delivers a new release that aims to thwart the increasing censorship efforts in countries worldwide. Named “The Pirate Bay Dancing,” the Firefox add-on undoes local DNS and IP blocks by routing users through a series of randomly picked proxies.

The MAFIAAFire team told TorrentFreak that the development of the plugin was partly motivated by SOPA and PIPA, the pending anti-piracy bills in the US.

“DNS and IP blocking is probably the most dangerous part of SOPA/PIPA in terms of ‘breaking the Internet,’ so we tackled that first. We will be going after the other parts of SOPA in later releases but probably not in ‘our usual plugin form’ – the other parts require different solutions that we have already started work on,” we were told.

Although the add-on carries The Pirate Bay in its name it also works with other sites such as Newsbin2 and BTJunkie which are blocked in the UK and Italy respectively. In a broader sense it can also be used to bypass national “firewalls” such as in China, and soon perhaps the US.

Putting the add-on to work only requires two clicks and is completely free.

After the add-on is installed users can specify the websites for which they want it to work, and these sites then trigger a response from the plugin. If someone from Italy for example chooses to unblock The Pirate Bay, the add-on will save this preference and load the site through a proxy on the next visit.

MAFIAAFire is using thousands of proxies which will be rotated constantly, hence the (dirty) dancing. The current version is fully working but TorrentFreak was told that the functionality will be expanded in future releases.

The MAFIAAFire team told TorrentFreak that they were eager to help The Pirate Bay out, as the site’s operators have been an inspiration to them. The Pirate Bay team on their turn will soon feature the add-on on their homepage.

“Saving TPB was a big deal to us, we love the site and how it has stood the test of time while dozens of others fell, bent over or were run over. The MAFIAA have been trying to take down TPB’s sails for years, country by country, this extends its life a little more to give it smooth sailing,” TorrentFreak was told.

“In the bigger picture, other than the US’ SOPA we also have each country experimenting with its own mini-firewall. This makes all those blocks in all those countries, and all the millions the MAFIAA have spent to get to there, useless,” the MAFIAAFire team added.

While the latest MAFIAAFire add-on shows how easy it is to bypass these censorship attempts, supporters of the measures would argue that it will nonetheless stop the vast majority of casual pirates.

The creators of “The Pirate Bay Dancing” are not ignorant of this, but aside from delivering a working product, one of their main goals is to send a signal that censorship is never the right path to take. Judging from the recognition they’ve received so far, they sure have succeeded on that front.

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Worker didn't realize logging on from Russia was problem

CHICAGO — Mystery solved. A reported cyberattack on a water district in central Illinois turned out to be a false alarm set off when an American contractor logged onto the system remotely while vacationing in Russia.

Jim Mimlitz of suburban St. Louis says he hopes he'll be able to laugh about it someday. For now, the contractor is puzzled. Why didn't terrorism investigators pick up the phone and call him? He says he could have straightened out the matter quickly.

Instead, investigators assumed someone had stolen Mimlitz' password and hacked into the system from Russia, causing a water pump to shut down five months later. A blogger spread word of the possible hack, touching off a minor panic.

The truth is, Mimlitz was on vacation with his family in Russia in June. Someone from the Curran Gardner Public Water District near Springfield called his cell phone and asked him to check data on the system. He did, but he didn't mention he was doing so from Russia.

Months later, after the water pump failed, a repairman examining the logs saw a Russian IP address linking to the system with Mimlitz' sign-on. The water district reported that to a state agency and the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center got involved.

The center released reports about a potential cyber compromise at the water district. The reports were meant to be initial raw reporting and not conclusive. A security consultant and blogger wrote about the reports and released the documents to reporters. The incident was reported as possibly the first successful cyberattack on the U.S. infrastructure.

"A quick and simple phone call to me right away would have defused the whole thing immediately," Mimlitz said. "All I did was I logged on. I tried to help. I looked at some data and gave them my advice."

The story of Mimlitz' vacation was first reported by Wired magazine's Threat Level blog. Mimlitz spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday.

There was no immediate response to requests for comment from the Illinois State Police, which took part in the investigation. A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security referred to the department's previous statements saying there was "no evidence to support claims made" in the initial Illinois report "which was based on raw, unconfirmed data and subsequently leaked to the media ..."

Mimlitz has only kind words for the FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigators he met with last week for nearly four hours.

"I was as open as I could be," he said. "I wasn't trying to hide anything. I was just trying to help them find the problem. Even if the end result was not going to be good for me, that wasn't my concern. It was a very productive meeting and they were extremely sharp people."

Mimlitz's company — Navionics Research in Eureka, Mo. — helped set up the system that remotely manages computers controlling machinery in the water district. Security experts have pointed out such Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems are vulnerable to hacking.

"I think our system's very secure," Mimlitz said. "It doesn't mean we're not going to keep working on it."

INTERNET RISING - Film

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Just released on 11.29.11, INTERNET RISING is a digi-documentary investigating the evolving relationships between the Internet and collective consciousness of humanity. It provokes many questions about ancient and modern paradoxes of life, its pleasures and pains... and the gray area contrasts in between - but most of all it is meant to be an inspiring conversation starter.

INTERNET RISING is a labor of love comprising a rapid fire mashup stream of live interviews all conducted within the web sphere. The film's participants include many profound personalities and key internet influencers ranging from professors, corporate academics, futurists, researchers, writers, bloggers, media creators, activists, gamers, educators, scientists, artists, innovators - real humans, all of whom provide amazing insights into how our state of the world is changing and transforming via various forces of economic, social, geographic, political, philosophical development... all centered around technology's transformative and generative power.

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As SOPA/PIPA Still Loom, Techies Already Creating Workarounds

While there's still a fight over whether or not SOPA and PIPA will pass, it seems that people are already working up basic hacks to make the laws obsolete, should they pass. The folks behind MAFIAAFire, the browser plugin designed to route around ICE seizures has created a new offering, dreadfully named "The Pirate Bay Dancing," which will route around any DNS or IP blocking by using a rotating list of proxy servers. If you thought that ICE was upset about MAFIAAFire, you'd have to imagine they won't be at all pleased about this bit of code. Of course, SOPA does have an anti-circumvention clause in there, which would effectively make this plugin illegal. Of course, I can't see how they could possibly enforce something like that. Using a proxy in general is legal. How will they know if you're using a proxy to get around these particular blocks? Either way, it's yet another example of why the MPAA's insistence that DNS blocking remain in the bill shows (yet again) how technically clueless they are. DNS blocking is a total waste of time. It makes the internet less secure. It fragments key pieces of the internet. Breaks the basic agreement of how the internet is supposed to work... And all for what? To create a system that won't actually block much at all?

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The Rise of the Geek Lobby

Can Google, Facebook, tech wonks, and Web activists kill the Stop Online Piracy Act?

In a time of legislative gridlock, the Stop Online Piracy Act looked like a rare bipartisan breakthrough. The bill, known as SOPA, promised a brave new Internet—one cleansed of “rogue websites” that hawk pirated songs and movies as well as counterfeit goods. For Congress, the legislation’s goals amounted to a can’t-lose trifecta: uphold justice, protect legitimate businesses (and jobs!), and make the Web safer for law-abiding consumers. Who could be against that?

A lonely few, at first. When the legislation was introduced in the House last month by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), a smattering of civil libertarians and techno-wonks quickly raised objections. They were drowned out, though, by a cadre of influential backers: movie studios, record labels, pharmaceutical companies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and even the national police and firefighters unions. After the bill hit the House on Oct. 26, members of both parties broke out their co-sponsorship pens. By the time it reached committee, two dozen representatives had signed on, from dyed-in-blue Democrats like Florida’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz to security-hawk Republicans like Peter King of New York. A similar (though less sweeping) bill, the PROTECT IP Act, racked up some 40 co-sponsors in the Senate, prompting the record industry to boast that it was among the most popular bipartisan bills of the year.

But something happened on the way to easy passage and the flourish of the president’s signature: The Internet fought back. The groundswell started with open-Internet stalwarts like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Democracy & Technology. As they have before, the non-profits picked apart the bill’s perceived oversights and omissions. This time, though, their message—that the law would fundamentally damage the Internet’s culture of openness—resonated loudly outside the world of tech wonkdom.
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In theory, SOPA enlists Internet service providers and advertising networks to filter out the “worst of the worst” sites, most of them based offshore. EFF and its cohorts argue, however, that there is little protection for legitimate sites that might get swept up along with the rogues. Worse, the law appears to disregard some of the “safe harbor” provisions established in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which has protected sites such as YouTube as long as they take down copyrighted content upon request. SOPA targets any sites that “enable or facilitate” copyright infringement, a sweeping category that could be interpreted to include YouTube, Flickr, WikiLeaks, or even Google. Opponents have said the bill would result in a government-curated “Internet blacklist” or “great firewall of America.” Various provisions have also provoked concern over domain name security and privacy. Critics are predicting lawsuits galore.

As these critiques began to mount, the open-Internet groups were joined by a growing coalition of SOPA haters. Popular websites with an open-source orientation, like Mozilla and Wikimedia, helped launch an “American Censorship Day” campaign to encourage Internet folk to get involved, and liberty-loving media outlets like BoingBoing symbolically censored their own homepages to draw attention to the bill. Most significantly, the big Silicon Valley tech firms waded in. Google, Facebook, AOL, eBay and others took out a full-page New York Times ad arguing that the bill would stifle innovation. At the same time, anti-SOPA fury took hold on social media, spread in part by the Twitter hashtag #DontBreakTheInternet. Social media platforms such as Tumblr prompted users to call their representatives in Washington. In one day, 87,000 people did.

Suddenly the bill had opponents in Congress. As of October, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, both Democrats, were among the only ones on record opposing it. But by Thanksgiving, representatives from libertarian-leaning Ron Paul to Tea Party Republican (and Obama scourge) Darrell Issa to House minority leader Nancy Pelosi had adopted anti-SOPA stands. “Need to find a better solution than SOPA,” Pelosi tweeted, adding the #DontBreakTheInternet hashtag.

Campaigns to save the Internet from nefarious legislation aren’t anything new. In the 1990s, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Communications Decency Act, an anti-Internet porn bill, both sparked opposition. But the tools of dissent were more limited back then—websites could post blue ribbons advocating “free speech online,” but their users couldn’t mobilize and spread the word on Twitter or Facebook. More recently, a push for the FCC to adopt net neutrality laws inspired some online activism but didn’t arouse nearly as much passion. Perhaps that’s because it didn’t run afoul of the “cute cat” maxim—the idea that people will rebel against any regulation that might prevent them from sharing cat pictures. SOPA, some fear, could do just that.

What should we call this ad hoc association of Silicon Valley businesses, venture capitalists, law professors, civil libertarians, and avid Internet users? Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute told me he’d brand it a “populist technocratic coalition,” which is somehow both oxymoronic and apt. Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy & Technology, says it calls to mind the old buzzword Netizens. My preferred term: the geek lobby.

Just because the geek lobby has awoken doesn’t mean it will win. Rep. Smith, undeterred by the backlash, has scheduled his bill for markup by the House Judiciary Committee on Dec. 15, and he still has plenty of support. The anti-SOPA coalition may have found its voice on the web, but at the last hearing, on Nov. 16, Smith called five witnesses in favor of the bill while allowing just one opponent to speak. The opponent was a representative of Google, which has significantly boosted its spending on lobbying of late.

While Silicon Valley is just learning to play the lobbying game, its foes in Hollywood are old pros. Southern California’s favorite industry outspends Northern California’s by a ratio of 10 to 1. That’s because the entertainment industry has always depended on Washington’s enforcement of copyright laws. The Internet companies are just beginning to realize the extent to which they, too, are at lawmakers’ mercy.

Rep. Lofgren, who represents part of Silicon Valley, told me that her constituents have already made a couple of rookie mistakes in their anti-SOPA campaigning. The flood of calls to Congress came as many members were looking ahead to the Thanksgiving recess, and many went to district offices rather than offices in the Capitol. For all the fury on Facebook and Twitter, Lofgren says, the backlash against SOPA has registered as “a blip” in Congress so far. “Eighty-seven thousand (phone calls), that’s a start,” she says. “But remember when President Bush was pushing for immigration reform in the Senate? The anti-immigration people melted the system with the number of calls. That killed immigration reform” for years afterward, she explained. That could still happen with SOPA, she says, but it hasn’t yet.

How the fight in Congress plays out will reveal how far the geek lobby has come—and perhaps, how far it still has to go to establish itself as a defender of the values the Internet was built on. “This is a seminal moment,” says Leslie Harris. “I think when we look back in a couple of years we’ll see that this really cemented a way of defending the net on the policy side that’s transformative.” Meanwhile, some tech wonks, such as Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, say the bill as written is so extreme that it looks more like an opening bid in a negotiation than anything that could plausibly gain passage. But if the anti-SOPA campaign doesn’t keep up the pressure, it just might become the law of the land.

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South Korea boosts review of social media

Seoul (CNN) -- South Korea plans to intensify the review of its social networking sites and smart phone applications to combat a surge in "illegal and harmful" information, government officials said.

The Korea Communications Standards Commission said it will reshuffle departments to make way for a review team that will oversee new media content.

Review of Internet content has been in place since 2008, but the commission said the move will boost effectiveness and meet growing demands.

Social media users and civic groups decried the Thursday announcement, saying it clamps down on freedom of expression.

"This is an authoritarian and anachronistic abuse of power that strips people of their freedom of expression and political freedom by blocking their eyes and ears," one of South Korea's largest civic organizations, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, said in a news release.

Critics say the government is using the new measure to clamp down on opposition voices with the upcoming general and presidential elections next year.

"It's to block out any voices calling on people to participate in the presidential elections next year," Twitter user bbohea929 wrote.

Another user, csoaea, said "it feels like we've gone back 30 years."

The number of illegal and harmful postings on social networking sites has increased rapidly since 2008 and is expected to grow, according to the government's standards commission.

Cases deemed illegal for obscenity last year and this year were 41 and 45 respectively, while those violating national security jumped from 28 to 159, according to the commission.

The commission vowed to limit its scope to obscene content deemed inappropriate for minors and that which violates the law.

However, the legal boundaries are ambiguous and include defamation, national security and inciting fear, a major concern for critics.

The standards commission called the concerns "groundless" and said the new process will not influence the formation of public sentiment in the cyber world.

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ACNUR hacked. Obamas login exposed!

The team Sector 404 consisting of the hackers

PHANTOM, RAWR, IO93, V, ZD4P50N, SPECTRUS, ANONGUS, FIBO, HACKW32, ADREX,NEKA, JJ, & ESCUADRON SPY PEOPLE Y HACKERSMX219

managed a SQL-Injection in the official website by ACNUR, also known as UNHCR, the official UN agency for refugees. They published Obamas login name and password hash, as well as his personal cell phone number. Furthermore Wildt Dirks ans Schaffsteins logins were exposed. You can find the whole description and the log at http://pastebin.com/4kAf776r

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2011 The Year of the Hacktivist: When Anonymous Finally Grew-Up

Read through the International Business Times hind-sight look at hacktivism in the year 2011, as it runs through the key points that changed Anonymous from a "hacktivist" collective into a global political movement.

In a year plagued by cyber-crime, the name Anonymous has been at the forefront of nearly every debate, with what was originally taken as little more than a small group of tantruming teenagers, growing into, debatably, one of the most powerful political movements in the world.

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Bivings Corp- Ended By Anonymous

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#OpMonsanto
#Anonymous
#AntiSec
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Operation End Monsanto is still very much up and running. Pwnage will continue indefinitely.

First Victim: Bivings Corporation

Bivings Corp is(was) a PR firm of 15+years that worked with some very high profile clients, Monsanto used them heavily.

PEW PEW PEW
bai

admin@dev-monsantouk.bivings.com
PASSWORD: surekha1
dev-monsantouk.bivings.com/admin "Maintain Monsanto Documents"

http://devmonsantouk.bivings.com
Site Database hacked/dumped
hundreds of emails stolen viewable on i2p eepsite (opmonsanto satori wiki)
Database of Monsanto documents acquired by Anonymous
Servers rooted
Site defaced:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=20hoso2&s=7

TANGO DOWN: Permanently
http://devmonsantouk.bivings.com

1 week after we pwned them:

"Our Cyber Infrastructure has recently been put under attack. We are evaluating the extent of the intrusion, and apologise for any downtime and issues this may cause you. It is not yet determined what the motives behind the attack are, or what, if any data has been compromised. We will continue to keep you up to date, and sicerely apologise for any inconvenience."

A few days later:
"The Bivings Group Hands Over the Reins to The Brick Factory"

Bivings corp shuts down all servers, liquidates assets, and some former employees move on to start a new company, "The brick factory".

This is after 15+years of running marketing campaigns and helping some of the most corrupt corporations on the planet, as well as several governmental agencies, cover up their dirt.

We accidently the entire Bivings Group Corporation

That is how you do it, gentlemen.

Also
Random database of Monsanto employee's/associates, and others. Can be used for SE:
https://pastee.org/nf6c5

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Anti-Piracy Group Blackmails ISPs to Censor The Pirate Bay

After a court ordered two of the largest Belgian Internet service providers to prevent their users accessing The Pirate Bay, the local anti-piracy outfit is now urging other ISPs to do the same. Internet providers who refuse to give in to this request within 10 days will be taken to court, a threatening letter explains. The blackmailing tactic seems to have worked, as one of the smaller ISPs has already disabled access to The Pirate Bay.

Late September the Antwerp Court of Appeal ordered Belgian ISPs Belgacom and Telenet to initiate DNS blockades of 11 domains connected to The Pirate Bay.

The Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (BAF) applauded the verdict, which they see as a landmark decision opening the door to further censorship attempts. And indeed, without hesitation the group is putting the verdict to work in their favor.

NURPA, a Belgian advocacy group which promotes and protects the digital rights of citizens, has learned that BAF has sent a threatening letter to various Belgian ISPs. The group has managed to obtain a copy which they published on their site today.

In the letter, BAF mentions the recent verdict against the two Belgian Internet providers, which they say confirms The Pirate Bay is responsible for copyright infringement on a massive scale. To extend the ruling, the anti-piracy group is demanding that other ISPs also begin banning the site’s domains.

“To ensure an optimal effect, this measure should be implemented by all Internet service providers, not just by Belgacom and Telenet,” the anti-piracy group writes.

The ISPs have ten days to comply, BAF adds, or else the group will take them to court.

“Failing a satisfactory response from you within the time limit, the BAF will begin legal proceedings against you,” BAF threatens.

The letter from BAF was supposedly sent last week, and already appears to have had some effect. The Belgian ISP BASE – which ironically has a “freedom of speech” banner prominently listed on its site – has quietly started blocking subscriber access to The Pirate Bay.

BAF’s letter and BASE’s response are criticized by NURPA, who fear that BAF will continue to push for more censorship measures based on false claims.

“These practices of censorship, which are justified by imaginary losses and imposed by blackmail, show the urgent need for legislation on Net Neutrality in order to establish a legal framework for fair protection of fundamental rights on the Internet,” NURPA spokesman André Loconte told TorrentFreak.

Even if BAF manages to convince all Belgian ISPs to block the 11 Pirate Bay domains, it is doubtful that it will have much of an effect. Previously, a Pirate Bay spokesperson told TorrentFreak that these measures only yield the opposite results.

“This will just give us more traffic, as always. Thanks for the free advertising,” we were told.

And he appears to be right.

A few days after the verdict was announced The Pirate Bay registered depiraatbaai.be, a new domain not covered by the court order. Today, just a few weeks later, this domain is already the 124th most-visited in Belgium, on its way to enter the top 100.

Indeed, the years of legal procedures and subsequent blackmailing are easily circumvented by registering a $15 domain.

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* Suggesting that the company could manipulate Google results to "drown" out negative coverage of human rights violations and child labour;

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Zuckerberg’s Private Photos Revealed in Facebook Security Flap (Updated)

A security flaw in Facebook reveals your private photos, reports Launch. Like these formerly private photos of company founder, amateur butcher, and generally creepy human being Mark Zuckerbeg, showing off his dinner both alive and deep fried.

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Downloadverbod alleen bij grote schade

Internetters die films en muziek downloaden zonder daarmee grote schade aan te richten, hoeven niet bang te zijn dat producenten hen voor de rechter gaan slepen. Alleen fanatieke downloaders krijgen last van het downloadverbod dat staatssecretaris Fred Teeven (Veiligheid en Justitie) wil instellen.

Dat zei Teeven vandaag in de Tweede Kamer. De Kamer is tegen een downloadverbod omdat mensen die slechts mondjesmaat liedjes van internet halen, hier ook last van krijgen. Door een bedrag vast te stellen, wil Teeven een onderscheid maken tussen kleine en grote downloaders.

Overleg
Teeven wil de komende tijd met betrokken partijen gaan overleggen over waar de grens tussen kleine en grote schade gaat liggen. Hij wilde daar vandaag nog niets over zeggen.

De Kamer had ook geklaagd over de salarissen van bestuurders van auteursrechtenorganisaties als Buma/Stemra. Teeven kondigde aan te regelen dat ze niet meer mogen verdienen dan 130 procent van het salaris van de minister-president.

Bestuurslid
Het college van toezicht dat zich bezighoudt met deze organisaties buigt zich nu over de kwestie van het bestuurslid Jochem Gerrits van Buma/Stemra, die ontslag nam nadat hij in opspraak was gekomen. In een uitzending van PowNews was te horen hoe hij een componist voorstelde te helpen bij het innen van auteursrechten als Gerrits zelf een deel van de opbrengst kreeg.

De Tweede Kamer sprak er schande van, maar Teeven ziet voor zichzelf geen rol weggelegd in de kwestie. Wel zei hij niet volledig uit te sluiten dat er sprake is van strafbare feiten. Het Openbaar Ministerie zou dan nog in actie kunnen komen als het toezichtscollege klaar is met zijn werk.

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Privacy is een grondrecht. Het ongestoord kunnen doen en laten zonder dat anderen hier ongewenst kennis van kunnen nemen.

Dagelijks is in het nieuws te lezen dat er aan onze privacy getornd wordt, of dat er weer gevoelige gegevens op straat zijn beland door verlies van een document of usb-stick. Dat er wat mis is, is duidelijk. Dat er wat aan gedaan moet worden ook.

Improve Your Privacy is opgericht om je de middelen aan te reiken om jouw privacy beter te waarborgen en je te informeren over het laatste nieuws op privacygebied.

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Operation Payback - Avenge Assange

STATUS: FIRING!
UPDATED Web LOIC
http://pastebin.com/5SWGvyfk
Firing now! by 404
#OpVisa #OpPayback #Wikileaks

It's been one year since WikiLeaks Banking Blockade by Visa & Mastercard.

WikiLeaks Banking Blockade Commercial

A year ago, our Anonymous brothers & sisters showed support to Wikileaks in Operation Payback - Avenge Assange.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann: 12/8/10 - Operation Avenge Assange

So we decided to celebrate the anniversary - the Anonymous way.

Target: http://ww
Method: ddos
WebLoic: http://pastebin.com/hwwukmZV - some might still work
UPDATED Web LOICUPDATED Web LOIC
http://pastebin.com/5SWGvyfk
Time: 12/07/11 22.00 CET
Countdown timer: http://www.onlinehttps://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=34808&p=3-stophttps://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=34808&p=3watch.com/countdown-timer/

WARNING: JOIN ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT IS DDOS & HOW TO BE ANONYMOUS. PROTECT YOURSELF! http://gawker.com/5714715/dickileaks-condom-has-a-terrible-slogan

We are Anonymous.
We are lame ddosers.
We do not forget.
We do not forgive.
We are legion.
Expect us.

# Noi siamo Anonymous. # Noi non dimentichiamo. # Noi non perdoniamo. # Aspettateci, Sempre.

Somos Anonymous. Somos Legión. No perdonamos. No olvidamos. Espérennos.

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Op donderdag 8 december 2011 01:19 schreef Bakakame het volgende:

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Jammer dat er met bedragen gewerkt gaat worden.

Lastig vast te stellen hoeveel "schade" iemand daadwerkelijk aan een ander toebrengt door downloaden.
Daarnaast vind ik 't ook moeilijk in te schatten of ik zelf in de categorie kleine of grote downloaders val, dus ben benieuwd hoe ze dat oplossen. Eerste stap lijkt me immers zorgen dat burgers van zichzelf weten of ze strafbaar bezig zijn of niet en van daaruit kunnen besluiten te stoppen en "te beteren" of door te gaan met risico op een straf.

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Rupert Murdoch Lobbies Congress To Restrict Internet

WASHINGTON -- News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch threw his weight behind Congress' attempt to restrict the Internet, personally lobbying leaders on Capitol Hill Wednesday for two measures that purport to combat piracy.

Murdoch's media empire is among some 350 large corporations that have come out in favor of the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House, as well as the Protect IP Act in the Senate.

Both measures would require Internet operators to police activity online, and would mandate Internet giants like Google and AOL (the parent company of The Huffington Post and an opponent of the bills) and credit card companies to take down sites that have content deemed to be in violation of copyright rules.

The battle has pitted huge content generators like Disney and the motion picture industry against their online competitors, with each side reportedly spending some $90 million on lobbying efforts.

Supporters say the measures will help curb theft and preserve the integrity of the Internet. Opponents charge that the measures amount to censorship that will stifle innovation and impose higher costs on consumers.

News Corp. owns 20th Century Fox films and many television franchises such as "The Simpsons." The firm has long lobbied on the issue, donating to members on both sides of the aisle.

The personal intervention of Murdoch shows how high the stakes are. Sources confirmed to HuffPost that the media magnate was pushing for the two bills, and that he met with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Murdoch's presence comes as high-profile opponents, such as Google's Eric Schmidt, have been ramping up their public efforts to kill the bills.

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Canadian Songwriters Want to Legalize File-Sharing

While most of the major entertainment industry companies wage war against BitTorrent sites, the Songwriters Association of Canada prefers to embrace file-sharing. Speaking with TorrentFreak, vice president Jean-Robert Bisaillon says that the Internet has revived the music business. Sharing music is part of people’s nature and the songwriters want to legalize file-sharing, while compensating the artists whose works are shared.

With prominent members such Bryan Adams, Eddie Schwartz, Randy Bachman and Carole Pope among its ranks, the Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) is the voice of more than 1,500 Canadian artists.

In common with many of the groups tied to the music industry, SAC has a strong opinion about file-sharing. But unlike most of the others, they don’t want to shutter sites that allow people to share copyrighted music. Quite the opposite.

SAC believes that consumers should have access to all the music in the world, something that only file-sharing sites provide today. So instead of shutting these sites down the songwriters association wants to legalize file-sharing, while compensating the artists whose works are shared.

“People have always shared music and always will. The music we share defines who we are, and who our friends and peers are. The importance of music in the fabric of our own culture, as well as those around the world, is inextricably bound to the experience of sharing,” SAC writes in a detailed proposal.

According to the association, file-sharing should be framed as an opportunity rather than a threat to the music industry. To prove this point, SAC is trying to convince other stakeholders that it’s a good idea to monetize file-sharing through some sort of licensing system for consumers.

“Music file-sharing is a vibrant, open, global distribution system for music of all kinds, and presents a tremendous opportunity to both creators and rights-holders. Additionally, once a fair and reasonable monetization system is in place, all stakeholders including consumers and Internet service providers will benefit substantially.”

“By monetizing behavior rather than any specific technology, music creators and rights-holders will lay the foundations for a business model that can continue for decades rather than attempting the almost impossible task of trying to monetize the ever shortening cycle of changing technology,” SAC writes.

With the above, the Association indirectly criticizes the rigid stance of the major labels and the RIAA when it comes to technical innovation. Whether it’s the invention of radio, the cassette tape or file-sharing, they continuously view new technology as a threat instead of something that could help to expand the popularity of music.

To learn more about the ambitious proposal TorrentFreak got in touch with SAC vice president Jean-Robert Bisaillon, who told us that he hopes to make other key players in the music industry aware of the power and value of sharing.

“We think the practice [of file-sharing] is great and unstoppable. This is why we want to establish a regime that allows everyone to keep on doing it without stigmatizing the public and, instead, find a way for artists and rights holders to be fairly compensated for the music files that are being shared,” Bisaillon told us.

“Other positive aspects include being able to find music that is not available in the commercial realm offer, finding a higher quality of digital files, being able to afford music even if you are poor and being able to discover new artists or recommend them to friends.”

SAC’s vice president further notes that not everything the big labels do is in the best interest of musicians and artists. While Bisaillon recognizes that many artists still depend on these companies, he and other songwriters don’t necessarily agree with all their practices.

“The big labels will try to control the market as long as they can and as long as they think the market will generate revenue even if the revenue is the result of legal action. They will try to hook up with whichever commercial endeavor they think might help maintain their control in the marketplace even if this means unfair remuneration for content providers,” Bisaillon says.

“In parallel they will try to discourage any option that may diminish their control even if this means using threats or disinformation. They have the money and contacts to lobby governments in support for their vision. We see our role as developing and providing alternate means of access to music that are good for consumers and creators alike.”

According to Bisaillon the Internet is a blessing, perhaps not for the big music labels, but certainly for musicians and consumers.

“Music is much better off with the Web. The internet network allows for musical discovery despite distance and time of the day. It has sparked collaborations between musicians unimaginable before. It has helped artists to book international tours without expensive long-distances charges and postal delays we knew before,” he told us.

“The Internet has dramatically increased the private non-commercial sharing of music, which we support. All that is missing a means to compensate music creators for this massive use of their work.”

To make this final step SAC is actively talking to all the stakeholders involved, including consumer groups, rights holders and content providers to make their file-sharing license reality.

Although this final step may turn out to be a giant leap for most of the parties involved, it is essential that a prominent association of artists sees the upside to file-sharing. This is a welcome contrast to the repressive stance we are used to hearing from the RIAA and CRIA.

While the “monetize file-sharing” proposal is not necessarily ideal as it has many challenges of its own, SAC’s stance does touch the essence of the ‘problem’. Instead of adding restrictions, the music industry should find ways to give consumers unlimited access to all the music in the world for a fair price.

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Op donderdag 8 december 2011 11:23 schreef Bakakame het volgende:
http://tweakers.net/nieuw(...)e-privacyregels.html

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Dit is dan wel weer fijn nieuws

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India to ban 'offensive' Internet material

India on Tuesday vowed to ban offensive material from the Internet after Facebook, Google and other major firms told the government they were unable to screen content before it was posted.

Communications Minister Kapil Sibal said talks with the Internet giants had failed to come up with a solution following complaints that he had lodged three months ago over "unacceptable" images.

"My aim is that insulting material never gets uploaded," Sibal told reporters in New Delhi. "We will evolve guidelines and mechanisms to deal with the issue.

"They will have to give us the data, where these images are being uploaded and who is doing it."

Sibal said the government supported free speech and was against censorship but that some material on the Internet was so offensive that no one would find it acceptable.

He said he had shown some of the worst images to the Internet companies, who had said they could not control all distribution.

"Three months back we saw that Google, Yahoo!, Facebook had images which could be an insult to Indians, especially religious-minded people," Sibal said.

"We told them to find a way that such insulting images are not uploaded. We gave them some time... but there was no response."

Sibal said the firms had shown that their "intention was not to cooperate" and that they had explained they were only "platforms" on which people could display material.

"I feel that this in principle was not correct but it is very clear that we will not allow such insults to happen. We are thinking and will take the next step," he said. "We will not allow our cultural ethos to be hurt."

Facebook, which has 25 million users in India, released a statement saying it "recognised the government's interest in minimising the amount of abusive content" online and would continue to communicate over the issue.

Google confirmed Monday's meeting with Sibal but made no further comment, while Yahoo! and Microsoft were not immediately available.

Sibal showed some of the offending material to journalists, including fake images of naked politicians and religious figures.

He added that "sometimes when asked for data in respect to terrorists... there is hesitation (by Internet companies) to provide that data."

The Hindustan Times on Tuesday said the Internet companies had rejected Sibal's appeal for screening, saying a huge volume of information was uploaded on to the Internet and that they were not responsible for judging its content.

The paper added that Sibal had earlier complained about a site that targeted Sonia Gandhi, the influential president of the ruling Congress party.

Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the government was only acting "in respect of absolutely illegal, defamatory, pornographic or other similar kind of material".

BlackBerry maker RIM has been embroiled in a similar wrangle with India over access to encrypted email and instant message services that the government says could be used by extremists to plot attacks.

India has more than 110 million Internet users out of a population of 1.2 billion, according to latest research, with the figure likely to jump to 600 million in the next five years.

Sibal's call for Internet screening quickly attracted a storm of criticism on Twitter, with many users expressing anger over any attempt to restrict usage.

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Anonymous Hackers Hit Toronto Web Sites

More than 50 businesses' Web sites were redirected to the Occupy Toronto site.

Members of Anonymous recently redirected the Web sites of more than 50 Toronto businesses to the Occupy Toronto Web site.

"They also took down the Canadian version of the popular Craigslist website and obtained a number of 'valuable' emails they plan on using later if things don’t go their way," writes Softpedia's Eduard Kovacs.

"'The city of Toronto are fools to think that we would remove the city hall Web site off the Internet. We clearly indicated that we are removing Toronto from the Internet. We are offering to keep the peace as of now, but if you decide to declare war in any possible way, then you shall be prepared,' Anonymous said in a video statement," Kovacs writes.

Go to "Anonymous Takes Down More Than 50 Toronto Websites, Not 'Occupy Toronto'" to read the details.

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DHS abruptly abandons copyright seizure of hip-hop blog

A bizarre attempt by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to seize the domain name of a hip-hop blog accused of copyright infringement ended today with the government abruptly abandoning the lawsuit.

Government officials initially trumpeted the seizure of the music blog, DaJaz1.com, and 81 others as an example of the law prevailing over pirates. Attorney General Eric Holder warned at the time that "intellectual property crimes are not victimless," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement director John Morton proclaimed that "today, we turn the tables on these Internet thieves."

The only problem? It turns out that Holder's and Morton's claims appear to have been, well, exaggerated.

That started to become apparent when Dajaz1's editor, who's known as Splash, showed the New York Times e-mail messages from record label employees sending him unreleased songs. ICE had claimed that the music was "unauthorized."

Then ICE treated the case as practically top-secret, filing all the court documents under seal, says Andrew Bridges, a partner at the Fenwick and West law firm in San Francisco who's representing Dajaz1 pro bono.

"They kept getting extension after extension from the court under seal without showing me any papers whatsoever," Bridges told CNET today.

What's unusual here is that normally, U.S. law strongly discourages efforts to censor Web sites before a full trial can be held. That's called "prior restraint," and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Pentagon Papers case that even top-secret national defense information did not qualify for temporary, pre-trial censorship.

But in the DaJaz1 case, a series of allegations of dubious reliability offered in an ICE affidavit were enough to censor a popular music blog -- which had been featured on MTV News a few months earlier -- for over a year.

In fact, the four songs listed by newly-minted ICE agent Andrew Reynolds in the affidavit -- by Jamie Foxx, Chris Brown, Nelly, and Reek Da Villian -- all appear to have been sent to DaJaz1 for promotional purposes. (There's a parallel: Court documents in Viacom's lawsuit against Google showed that studio representatives surreptitiously uploaded copyright clips to the video sharing site for promotional purposes.)

Making the case even more unusual, Bridges said, is that routine procedural documents were all kept under seal. "Why did the government feel the need to keep secret the fact of its repeated extensions of time to file the forfeiture proceeding?" he says.

Homeland Security did not respond to CNET's request for comment.