Anonops #11: Stop ACTA

Anon: Wordt gebruikt als aanduiding van zowel de totale internet-community als voor 4chan pubers
Anonymous: Hacktivist-organisatie.
Anonops: Een netwerk/infrastructuur dat door Anonymous gebruikt word om actie te voeren.
Peoples Liberation Front: Cyber millitia. Volgens CommanderX gevormd in 1985 met behulp van LSD. Werkt samen met Anonops als dat zo uitkomt.
http://www.itworld.com/in(...)mmander-x?page=0%2C0
Lulzsec: Leakers. Ze "testen" met veel plezier beveiligingen op internet.
Whatis-theplan.org Discussie-forum. Verander de wereld in 3 stappen. Ligt onder vuur door oldfag-trollen.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
4chan is een Engelstalig internetforum. 4chan werd op 1 oktober 2003 opgericht door de toen 15-jarige "moot". Gebruikers kunnen volledig anoniem afbeeldingen en reacties plaatsen over alle denkbare onderwerpen. De site is gebaseerd op het Japanse internetforum Futaba Channel en is onderverdeeld in verschillende subfora, 'boards' genaamd. Het meest populaire (en beruchte) is het Random board, genaamd /b/. 4chan gebruikers zijn verantwoordelijk voor het bedenken of populariseren van vele zogeheten internetmemes.
Een bekende meme komt van een Japanse manga.
Als je denkt dat je geweldig bent of iets fantastisch hebt gedaan zeg je “I’m over 9000”
Oprah Winfrey weet het , na een berichtje van 4chan, nu ook:

Iedereen kan via 4chan, maar ook via de ouderwetse IRC-channels, volledig anoniem met elkaar “communiceren”. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

4chan gaat over borsten, cracken/hacken van software en websites, down- en uploaden. De veelal jonge gebruikers van 4chan verveelden zich niet alleen met elkaar, maar hun kattenkwaad bereikte ook de echte wereld. Buren en leraren kregen ongevraagd pizza-bezorgers aan de deur of werden over de telefoon lastig gevallen nadat persoonlijke gegevens via 4chan werden verspreidt. Ook werden websites bestookt met commentaar of extreem veel bezoek. Bezoek dat na verloop van tijd werd geautomatiseerd met behulp van een test-tool voor websites, omgebouwd en omgedoopt tot Low Orbit Ion Cannon.


Binnen de Anon-community ontstond op een dag het hacktivisme. En het heette Anonymous. Anonymous belichaamde een belangrijk Anon-ideaal: Vrij, open, ongecensureerd internet, onbeperkte vrijheid van (het delen van) informatie. En Anonymous vond een vijand. Januari 2008.
Deze interne propaganda-video lekte uit en kwam uit via Gawker. Scientology staat er om bekend om auteurswetgeving te misbruiken om hun methoden uit de openbaarheid te houden. Scientology vroeg Gawker de video te verwijderen. De video bleef opduiken en nadat advocaten van Scientology wereldwijd websites terroriseerden kwam Anonymous met hun oorlogsverklaring.
Anonymous gebruikte het volledige 4chan arsenaal. DDOSsen van scientology-websites, e-mail/fax-bommen, prank-calls. Maar de acties breidden zich uit naar de echte wereld. Main-stream media pikten het op en demonstraties over de hele wereld vonden plaats.


Na maanden werd het wat rustiger tussen Anonymous en Scientology, maar Oparation Chanalogy loopt nog steeds. De strijd voor een vrij en open internet bleef en richtte zich vooral op platenmaatschappijen in Operation Payback. Die Operatie kreeg een ander karakter nadat Anonymous zich solidair verklaarde met WikiLeaks toen Joe Liebermann financiële mogelijkheden van WikiLeaks probeerde af te sluiten.

Kort daarna kwam de video voor Operation Payback uit.

3 januari opende Anonymous de aanval op websites van Tunesië, en Anonymous bemoeit zich tot op de dag van vandaag met de revoluties in het Midden Oosten. Niet alleen met DDOS-aanvallen, maar ook met informatie (naar demonstranten en naar het internationale publiek) praktische tips (EHBO, maak zelf een gasmasker) alternatieve communicatiemiddelen.

Ene Aaron Barr van HBGary Federal maakte in een interview bekend dat hij de leiders van Anonymous had geïdentificeerd. Een groep hackers hackte de computers van HBGary, zette een boodschap op hun website, wiste een berg data en openbaarde 70.000 e-mails. Uit de e-mails bleek dat het Amerikaanse bedrijfsleven en de overheid alle legale en illegale middelen gebruikt om tegenstanders (mensenrechten organisaties, vakbonden en WikiLeaks) kapot te maken.
http://arstechnica.com/te(...)rr-met-anonymous.ars

IRL-Troll familie Westboro Baptist Church dacht ook mee te kunnen liften en daagde Anonymous uit.
Waarna Th3 J3st3r de WBC-websites maandenlang plat legde.

NATO maakt zich zorgen:

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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.

Anonymous en Occupy Wall Str.:

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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.

Anonymous daagt Mexicaans drugskartel uit.

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Gabriella Coleman Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella (Biella) Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism. Between 2001-2003 she conducted ethnographic research on computer hackers primarily in San Francisco, the Netherlands, as well as those hackers who work on the largest free software project, Debian. Her first book, "Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking" is forthcoming with Princeton University Press and she is currently working on a new book on Anonymous and digital activism. She is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, including ones from the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Anonymous: From the Lulz to Collective Action

^{Gabriella Coleman, April 6 2011}

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Our Weirdness Is Free

The logic of Anonymous—online army, agent of chaos, and seeker of justice.

_{by Gabriella Coleman, [01.13.2012]}

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Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have become a force in global affairs.

^{The Huffington Post, Saki Knafo. Posted: 1/30/12 12:20 PM ET | Updated: 2/1/12 07:36 PM ET}

TIMELINE: The Evolution Of The 'Anonymous' Internet Hacktivist Group

Vorige delen:
Anonops : Take down mastercard
Anonops : Take down Politie.nl
Anonops #3: Soldiers are enlisting.
Anonops #4: The war goes on
Anonops #5: Anonymous en de MO-revoluties
Anonops #6: Anonymous en de MO-revoluties
Anonops #7: Meer is beter
Anonops #8: Occupy Wall Str.
Anonops #9: Get Los(t) Zetas
Anonops #10: Stop SOPA

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The Huffington Post:

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Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have become a force in global affairs.

TIMELINE: The Evolution Of The 'Anonymous' Internet Hacktivist Group

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Op maandag 30 januari 2012 20:28 schreef picodealion het volgende:
Nog maar eens een bedankje voor dit topic, ik volg het al een tijd met plezier .

Graag gedaan.

Ik heb fans!

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Op maandag 30 januari 2012 20:26 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
The Huffington Post:

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TIMELINE: The Evolution Of The 'Anonymous' Internet Hacktivist Group

Oeh!

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Sometimes the jokes went to harsh extremes, and that hasn't changed. In 2010, an 11-year-old girl nicknamed Jessi Slaughter issued a YouTube threat against "haters" who had started an Internet rumor about her. She said she'd "pop a Glock in your mouth and make a brain slushy." As a Gawker account put it, "Ha ha."

Unfortunately, as Gawker went on to note, the response went beyond "ha ha." People found her real name, address and phone number. They passed the information around. A bomb squad showed up to her school after a suspicious package arrived in the mail. Encyclopaedia Dramatica, a website that chronicles the lore and pranks of the Internet in the fuck-you-it's-funny style of the Internet itself, published an item on how to troll her. "Tell her dad that we are going to beat her up." "Tell her to kill herself."

Jessi responded with another video. In this one, she was seen crying and whimpering while her father crouched in the background, screaming at the camera and shaking his fist. His awkward threats would become memes. A year later, he was arrested for punching Jessi in the mouth, and six months after that, she posted a video saying she'd been institutionalized and was living in foster care. Last summer, her mother wrote on Facebook that the father had died of a massive heart attack. Someone posted a screenshot of the message on FunnyJunk.com.

The Internet Hate Machine, indeed.

Uh-Oooh, someone is asking for attention.

twitter:

ArturasCEO twitterde op maandag 30-01-2012 om 22:38:30 #Anonymous - Fucking Dumbasses - Get A Life - Get A Job - Show Success http://t.co/3xNeu1Ku reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 31 januari 2012 00:07 schreef viagraap het volgende:

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Waarom hoorde ik meteen Ewan McGregor in mijn hoofd?

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Dan moet ie auteursrechten betalen.

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Is Anonymous our future?

The enigmatic Internet-driven collective Anonymous, thank goodness, has an anthropologist in its midst. For a few years now, Gabriella Coleman has been arduously participant-observing in IRC chat rooms, watching Anonymous turn from a prankster moniker to a herd of vigilantes for global justice. In an extraordinary new essay at Triple Canopy, “Our Weirdness Is Free,” she summarizes what Anonymous is all about this way:

. Beyond a foundational commitment to anonymity and the free flow of information, Anonymous has no consistent philosophy or political program. Though Anonymous has increasingly devoted its energies to (and become known for) digital dissent and direct action around various “ops,” it has no definite trajectory. Sometimes coy and playful, sometimes macabre and sinister, often all at once, Anonymous is still animated by a collective will toward mischief—toward “lulz,” a plural bastardization of the portmanteau LOL (laugh out loud). Lulz represent an ethos as much as an objective.

The more I learn about Anonymous, especially in light of the offline, on-the-ground praxis of the Occupy movement, the more I’ve been wondering whether we’re seeing a glimpse of the future for all of us.

Here’s why.

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FDA hacked into private Gmail accounts of its own whistleblower scientist using covert spy technology

The criminal tendencies of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were on full display today when it was revealed the agency installed spy software and illegally hacked into the private Gmail accounts of at least half a dozen of its own top scientists. Those scientists, it turns out, were the very same whistleblowers who warned Congress about the FDA’s approval of dangerous medical devices that threatened the lives of patients. In response to them taking action to protect the lives of the innocent — something the FDA is supposed to do but has long since abandoned — they were instead subjected to illegal hacking and having their employment contracts with the FDA terminated.

Those six scientists and doctors have now filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court which claims that they were subjected to FDA internal harassment and unjustified job termination. The lawsuit also describes how the FDA hacked into the private email accounts of these scientists, then intercepted their “whistleblower complaints” intended to be seen only by members of Congress.

“The complaint details how the FDA targeted its employees with a covert spying campaign that lasted for two years,” reports Whistleblowers.org (http://www.whistleblowers(...)nt&task=view&&hellip. “The [FDA] installed (or activated) spyware on their workplace computers and used other technology that to monitor their password-protected Gmail-to-Gmail communications. Managers used the collected information to learn the identities of confidential whistleblowers and to obtain the details of the public health and safety concerns the whistleblowers intended to disclose to the Office of Special Counsel, Congress and the Agency’s own Inspector General.”

More importantly, documents reveal that the FDA’s own lawyers engaged in a criminal cover-up of evidence in order to obstruct justice and retaliate against the FDA scientists:

. “The managers who spearheaded the surveillance efforts were the same managers involved with the wrongdoing and corruption that the whistleblowers were seeking to report. Lawyers at the FDA and HHS Offices of General Counsel, who should have understood that the program breached the employees’ confidentiality, helped FDA managers with their obstruction and retaliation.”

Het artikel gaat verder.

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Can Reddit Write Legislation, Too? Proposes The 'Free Internet Act'

I have to admit that one of the more fun aspects of watching what has happened over the past few months with the SOPA/PIPA debate is watching the Reddit community jump on this issue... and evolve with it. The thing with the Reddit community isn't just it's sheer power as a large group of people who are more than willing to stand up for what they believe in, but their willingness to take on big challenges that most people would back away from. Not all of them work out, but as a community, they like to really jump into things and aim high. Such is the situation with the proposed plan to write a piece of legislation, The Free Internet Act, on Reddit. As an observer of these things, a reasonable first reaction is to chuckle a bit at what seems like a combination of both hubris and naivete that an online community (mostly of political novices) can create a reasonable piece of legislation. But... then you think of what else Reddit has done, and you begin to realize that if it can somehow pull this off -- or at least influence the debate in a positive way, this could be amazing (even if it's a long shot).

A specific sub-Reddit has been set up, where different people are discussing different thoughts on what such a bill might include and other issues related to the bill's central concept: guaranteeing a free internet.

Again, there's a big hill to climb here to make this into any sort of reality, but there's something really amazing and compelling about this self-forming group taking the initiative to try to not just drive the debate, but to actually craft legislation that would protect internet freedom. As much as I've been impressed by the process of the Wyden/Issa proposed OPEN bill, in which they put it up on a platform that allowed the public to crowdsource thoughts on a bill, they still started with a bill suggested in Congress. What happens when a bill is crowdsourced from scratch? Possibly nothing at all, but as an experiment, it will be fascinating to watch...

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New York prosecutors ask Twitter to reveal Occupy Wall Street man's tweets

Twitter agrees not to comply with subpoena from district attorney's office while protester's lawyer prepares rebuttal

Prosecutors have subpoenaed the Twitter records of an Occupy Wall Street protester who was arrested in October during a mass protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The 26 January subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney's office seeks "user information, including email address," along with three months' worth of tweets from @destructuremal, the Twitter handle for Malcolm Harris.

Harris, 23, a freelance writer and editor who lives in Brooklyn, said on Tuesday that Twitter sent a copy of the subpoena to him on Monday. He posted it on Twitter.

"When you get an email from Twitter Legal, you assume it's a phishing scam, trying to get your password," he said. "It turned out that it is a phishing scam, but it's from the prosecutors."

It is not clear what specific evidence prosecutors are after. But the subpoena is an example of posts on social media sites posing potential legal problems for authors.

Harris said his lawyer, Martin Stolar, would file a motion to quash the subpoena. Twitter has agreed not to comply with the subpoena while Stolar prepares the motion, Harris said.

A spokeswoman for the district attorney's office declined to comment.

The subpoena seeks Harris's tweets from 15 September – two days before the Occupy Wall Street movement began – to 15 December.

Harris is not sure what tweets could be fodder for prosecutors; Twitter's interface does not allow him to review all of his old tweets. Stolar was not available for comment.

A Twitter spokesman declined to comment on the case but confirmed that the San Francisco-based company's policy is "to notify users about law enforcement and governmental requests for their information, unless we are prevented by law from doing so", in order to protect users' rights.

Harris is one of hundreds of Occupy-related defendants whose cases are still winding their way through American courts.

A special courtroom has been set up to handle more than 1,800 cases in New York, the vast majority involving misdemeanour charges.

He was charged with disorderly conduct and is due back in court on 29 February.

Like a number of Occupy protesters, he has vowed to take the case to trial rather than accept a deal from prosecutors.

The National Lawyers Guild is representing many of the arrested protesters.

Union of Arab Banks hacked by #TeamAnarchy #Anonymous #AntiSec

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Union of Arab Banks hacked by #TeamAnarchyhttp://www.pastebay.org/306750 #Anonymous #AntiSec

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YOUR PERSONAL AND LOGIN INFORMATION IS CLEARLY NOT SECURE….
MAKES ME WONDER HOW SECURE YOUR BANKS ARE….

Met filmpje op de site.

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'Anonymous' hacker speaks about SLC PD website takedown

SALT LAKE CITY—
A hacker believed to be part of the online collective known as "Anonymous" said in comments to FOX 13 that it has obtained more information than what Salt Lake City police previously said was accessed during a hack attack on their website.

"Contact info for job applications, details into drug operations with names addresses license plate numbers, supplier names, locations times," the hacker known as @ItsKahuna said in an interview with FOX 13's Ben Winslow over Twitter.

"We entered their admin control panel which linked to a lot of revealing confidential information, this was a poorly designed site," @ItsKahuna wrote.

Police had previously said e-mail addresses for press releases were accessed. Then they said tips from the public for potential crimes had been taken. Late Wednesday, the police department urged members of the public who submitted information over slcpd.com should change their passwords for their personal e-mails, etc.

@ItsKahuna, who alongside @CabinCr3w have claimed responsibility for the hacking, provided FOX 13 with a sample report of a drug crime that included a redacted e-mail address. The Salt Lake City Police Department confirmed its legitimacy and other things that the hacker had claimed were accessed.

The hacker told FOX 13 it would not be releasing any other information that had been accessed. A massive e-mail list and the redacted drug report were posted on a website.

Anonymous has expressed displeasure at a bill currently in the Utah State Legislature that would make possessing graffiti tools, such as spray paint cans, a potential crime. The bill is being sponsored by Sen. Karen Mayne, D-West Valley City. Mayne's bill died on the Senate floor Thursday morning after an 11-17 vote. Mayne said she will bring the bill back in the 2013 legislative session.

"Has your Senator Karen Mayne watched 'Minority Report' too many times?" Anonymous said in a posting. "A law prohibiting ownership and use of purchased products based on suspected intent? Is she kidding? The purpose of the law is not to prevent crime, but to manage it. The public gets the benefit of the doubt. A little too zealous wethinks."

Why the Salt Lake City Police Department's website?

"The police are the foot soldiers of this government controlled police state, this op will target them and spread that we will not stand and let this oppression continue," @ItsKahuna wrote to FOX 13's Ben Winslow.

The hacker said that no other website, including the Utah State Legislature's, had been attempted as part of the ongoing "#OpPiggyBank."

The FBI confirmed to FOX 13 it has begun investigating the attack on slcpd.com, which was still down as of Thursday afternoon.

Asked if Anonymous wished to say something to Sen. Mayne, @ItsKahuna replied: "Tell her that this won't be the last she hears from us if this legislation passes. We don't support crime based on "assumption" and our Voices will be heard, she can expect us."

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AnonymousIRC twitterde op vrijdag 03-02-2012 om 09:22:32 #Anonymous #AntiSec intercepts #FBI comms. Conference call [mp3] http://t.co/FcXNYb5Y #LulzSec #OWS #FFF reageer retweet

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China cut off internet in area of Tibetan unrest

Internet connections and mobile phone signals were cut for 30 miles around scene of clashes in Sichuan, state media reports

Chinese officials cut off mobile phone and internet connections to areas where Tibetans were shot dead amid unrest last month, state media has reported.

Officials say security forces fired in self-defence after mobs of rioters attacked police and official buildings in the south-western province of Sichuan, resulting in two deaths.

Tibetan exiles and campaign groups say police fired at peaceful protesters and killed at least three people.

It has been impossible to verify accounts of the unrest. Foreign reporters attempting to visit the region have been turned back, with officials blaming bad weather and the state of the roads.

Friday's English-language edition of the Global Times newspaper published a report from the region titled Monks Run Amok. The police chief of Luhuo in Ganzi – a county known to Tibetans as Drango – said police first tried to disperse rioters with high-power water guns and rubber bullets, but failed.

"Rioters continued to attack and tried to grab the guns from the police," he told the paper. "[Officers] first shot in the air as a warning, but it was completely ignored, so we had no other choice but to open fire."

The newspaper said the incident began with a protest that became violent. It said other Tibetan-populated counties had quickly tightened security, allowing police to quickly control the next day's unrest in Seda, known to Tibetans as Serthar, where another Tibetan was shot dead.

"After the riots, internet connections and mobile phone signals were cut off for over 50km [30 miles] around the riot areas. Police believe external forces played a part in the riots," the newspaper said.

In 2009, China cut off internet and text messaging services across the north-western region of Xinjiang after ethnic riots in the capital, Urumqi, left almost 200 dead.

Officials blamed "trained separatists" for instigating the events in Ganzi. They have also sought to blame outsiders for a string of self-immolations by Tibetan clergy and laypeople over the last year, mostly in Sichuan.

China appears to have stepped up security across other Tibetan areas, with the top party official in Lhasa urging security forces to increase surveillance of monasteries and main roads in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Qi Zhala ordered all people entering Tibet to carry identification cards from March, the state news agency Xinhua reported. He urged officials to strive for "no big incidents, no medium incidents and not even a small incident".