Anonops #9: Get Los(t) Zetas

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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:

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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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