Anonops #13: Stop CISPA

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

LOLPRAH: OVER 9000 PENISES!

Tom Cruise Scientology Video - ( Original UNCUT )

Message to Scientology

Operation Payback #Anonymous Message RE: ACTA, SOPA, PIPA, Internet Censorship & Copyright

Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church Website During Live Confrontation

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

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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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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}

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Anonymous 'hactivist' goes public on cyber protests

Peter Fein is a self-described "hacktivist" and member of the international hacker group Anonymous.

This loose collection of hackers has gained notoriety by aiming DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on government and corporate websites since 2010. The targets have ranged from the US Department of Justice to Sony and Visa.

As befits the name Anonymous, most members have chosen to keep their identities secret - especially after dozens of alleged hackers were arrested in a series of government crackdowns in the US and Europe.

Mr Fein, however, has decided to go public about his involvement. He insists he is not involved in anything illegal, claiming that he simply helps bring together activists who want to battle government surveillance and attempts to police the internet.

The activist from Chicago is also involved with another hacker group called Telecomix - an international network of people providing internet access to pro-democracy protesters in countries such as Egypt, Libya and Syria.

Mr Fein says he is not a spokesman for either group and that Telecomix's achievements are the result of countless hours of work from hundreds of members.

In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Matt Danzico he explains what he believes Anonymous is trying to achieve - and why he decided to go public.

Anonymous: Project Mayhem 2012 Call to Hackzion! Code TYLER!

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Firefox security bug Tor Browser Bundle

A user has discovered a severe security bug in Firefox related to websockets bypassing the SOCKS proxy DNS configuration. This means when connecting to a websocket service, your Firefox will query your local DNS resolver, rather than only communicating through its proxy (Tor) as it is configured to do. This bug is present in current Tor Browser Bundles (2.2.35-9 on Windows; 2.2.35-10 on MacOS and Linux).
To fix this dns leak/security hole, follow these steps:

Type “about:config” (without the quotes) into the Firefox URL bar. Press Enter.
Type “websocket” (again, without the quotes) into the search bar that appears below "about:config".

Double-click on “network.websocket.enabled”. That line should now show “false” in the ‘Value’ column.

See Tor bug 5741 for more details. We are currently working on new bundles with a better fix.

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Neelie Kroes: ACTA gaat het niet halen

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"We hebben recent gezien dat duizenden mensen bereid zijn te protesteren tegen regels waarvan ze denken dat die de openheid en innovatie van het internet beperken. Dit is een sterkte nieuwe politieke stem. En die strijd voor openheid verwelkom ik, zelfs al ben ik het niet eens met alles wat er over dit onderwerp gezegd wordt. () Waarschijnlijk zal de wereld het nu zonder SOPA en ACTA doen. Nu moeten we oplossingen vinden om het internet tot een plek van vrijheid, openheid en innovatie te maken voor alle burgers, niet alleen voor de techno avant-garde."

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Review: Hot Docs — We Are Legion looks at Internet's first army Anonymous

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You've heard of those hacktivists wearing Guy Fawkes masks and taking down Scientology websites and going to cyber-war with PayPal. But with the documentary We Are Legion, you finally learn about the motives and missions at the heart of Anonymous.

In a compelling and insightful documentary, a profile of the powerful Anonymous hacking collective shows a different side of the global force known for battling the Church of Scientology and opponents of WikiLeaks. Some may see Anonymous members as skilled but criminal hackers living in their parents' basements, but We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists peels back the curtain to reveal a more human story: these are angry and passionate coders taking to their virtual street corner to protest for free speech and Internet freedom.

Brian Knappenberger's 90-minute film, debuting at Toronto's Hot Docs Film Festival, traces the history of hacktivism and online forums, telling us in great detail how pulling pranks online has long been a steadfast tradition that eventually evolved into a more serious form of dissidence. Born out of the 4chan community, Anonymous members first started trying to silence Neo-Nazi radio hosts and Church of Scientology groups. The latter fight gave Anonymous worldwide attention, partially thanks to their real-life protests at almost every Scientology building across the world. This was the hacker getting into the sunlight to finally meet colleagues they've known online for years.

A parade of experts and insiders layer the doc with insight into what motivates Anonymous hackers to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Mastercard or the Australian government: they want to combat Net censorship. Getting Anonymous members to discuss why they do what they do was a real coup for the filmmakers, because these hackers don't often speak so freely to media.

We learn a lot about their core beliefs: They believe in the right to spread information freely (WikiLeaks) and they help other groups spread the word about their own protests (Occupy Wall Street). They oppose governments such as Egypt who bar citizens from accessing the Web. But their hacking work comes with a price, We Are Legion tells us: 14 Anonymous members have been arrested for their alleged crimes, which include lobbing massive DDoS attacks against websites for Scientology, PayPal, MasterCard and more.

The film leaves us with an important question: As more protests are being organized and carried out online, should governments grant these netizens the right to conduct virtual sit-ins? If Occupy protesters can legally block a city intersection, why can't Anonymous members do the same online, shutting down the traffic of their targeted sites?

Whatever you think about hackers fighting for their voices to heard, We Are Legion is a newsworthy film documenting the Internet's first army, who will continue to be relevant in our wired world.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/324105#ixzz1tv3o5RFE

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FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now


CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory.


The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.

In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic shift in communication from the telephone system to the Internet has made it far more difficult for agents to wiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities, CNET has learned.

The FBI general counsel's office has drafted a proposed law that the bureau claims is the best solution: requiring that social-networking Web sites and providers of VoIP, instant messaging, and Web e-mail alter their code to ensure their products are wiretap-friendly.

"If you create a service, product, or app that allows a user to communicate, you get the privilege of adding that extra coding," an industry representative who has reviewed the FBI's draft legislation told CNET. The requirements apply only if a threshold of a certain number of users is exceeded, according to a second industry representative briefed on it.

The FBI's proposal would amend a 1994 law, called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, that currently applies only to telecommunications providers, not Web companies. The Federal Communications Commission extended CALEA in 2004 to apply to broadband networks.

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Hackers have breached top secret MoD systems, cyber-security chief admits

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Major General Jonathan Shaw says 'it was a surprise to people quite how vulnerable we are'

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Computer hackers have managed to breach some of the top secret systems within the Ministry of Defence, the military's head of cyber-security has revealed.

Major General Jonathan Shaw told the Guardian the number of successful attacks was hard to quantify but they had added urgency to efforts to beef up protection around the MoD's networks.

"The number of serious incidents is quite small, but it is there," he said. "And those are the ones we know about. The likelihood is there are problems in there we don't know about."

Government computer systems come under daily attack, but though Shaw would not say how or by whom, this is the first admission that the MoD's own systems have been breached.

The Serious Organised Crime Agency, took its website offline on Wednesday night after becoming the target of a cyber-attack. A spokesman said the attack did not pose a security risk to the organisation.

Shaw, a veteran of the Falklands and Iraq wars, also said the MoD had to be prepared to embrace unconventional and "wacky" ideas if the military wanted to catch up with, and then stay ahead of, rivals in the cybersphere. Getting "kids on the street" to help the military was vital, he said.

"My generation … we are far too old for this; it is not what we have grown up with. Our natural recourse is to reach for a pen and paper. And although we can set up structures, we really need to be on listening mode for this one."

He added: "If we want to work the response, if we want to know really what is happening, we really have to listen to the young kids out in the street. They are telling us what is happening out there.

"That will pose a real challenge to us. This thing is moving too fast. The only people who spot what is happening are people at the coal face and that is the young kids. We have to listen to them and they have to talk to us."

A former director of UK special forces, Shaw, 54, said he thought the military could learn a trick or two from firms such as Facebook.

The company has a "white hat" programme in which hackers are paid rewards for informing them when they have found a security vulnerability.

Nine people in the UK have been paid a total of $11,000 (£6,785) for working with Facebook. Shaw said this was the kind of "waacky idea we need to bring in".

Shaw has spent the last year reviewing the MoD's approach to cyber-security, and the kind of cyber-capability the military will need in the future.

He says next year's MoD budget is expected to include new money for cyber-defence – an acknowledgment that even during a time of redundancies and squeezed budgets, this is now a priority.

The general said the MoD wasn't "doing badly … but we could do a hell of a lot better. We will get there, but we will have to do it fast. I think it was a surprise to people this year quite how vulnerable we are, which is why the measures have survived so long in the [budget] because people have become aware of the vulnerabilities and are taking them seriously."

China and Russia have been accused of being behind most of the sophisticated cyber-attacks, with state-sponsored hackers targeting military secrets from western governments, or intellectual property from British and American defence firms.

Shaw refused to point the finger at any nation, but admitted the UK was "trying to engage the Chinese on rules of the road in cyberspace", pressing the argument that new international treaties are not necessary to stop this kind of theft and espionage.

Shaw said the number of attacks was "still on an upward curve … and the pace of change is unrelenting".

In his last interview before retiring, Shaw said the UK had to develop an array of its own cyber-weapons because it was impossible to create entirely secure computer systems.

"It is quite right to say that pure defence, building firewalls, will not keep the enemy out. They might be inside already … there is no such thing as total security. You have to learn to live with certain insecurities.

"One needs to engage in internal defence and be quite aggressive about it. And if you are going to manoeuvre in cyberspace, that is something that obviously involves action across the spectrum."

Shaw said he intended to "mainstream" cyber-capabilities across the MoD by 2015. This included ensuring military commanders had a range of cyber-options to use from a "golf bag" of weapons systems.

But he thought cyber-weapons would complement rather than replace more conventional weapons.

"As new capabilities come on the block, you reassess whether you need the old ones, whether they are complimentary or duplicatory.

"People have asked me whether cyber-weapons will make conventional weapons redundant. Absolutely not. A hard bomb is actually quite a good cyber-weapon because it can take out a broadcasting station, take out a server."

The military top brass, he said, had been the "hardest to convince" about the cyber-threat, because high-ranking officers tend to be set in their ways. "We are the wrong guys to deal with this."

Shaw said it still surprised him that the MoD's headquarters in Whitehall "is the only building, main defence security establishment, where you don't leave your mobile phones and Ipad in a box outside your office … people's personal behaviours are not good enough. When we look at cyber-security in the MoD, we are looking at preserving intellectual property and our networks and stopping people spying on us.

"The real challenge is how we secure our supply chains. We are dependent on industry for our technological edge … and preserving that intellectual property is absolutely vital."

He added: "Cyber implies something technical. To the average person in the street, cyber means it is someone else's problem. But it is everyone's problem. We can't just leave it to the techies."

An MoD spokesman said: "The MoD takes all possible precautions to defend our system from attack from both unsolicited, for example 'spam' email, and targeted sources. It would be both misleading and naïve to assume that any system is 100% secure against all possible threats which is why we take additional steps to detect suspicious activity within our own systems.

"We also ensure that our most sensitive networks are not connected to the internet and have additional physical and technical measures in place to defend them."

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Anonymous Hackers Target Activision CEO After 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2' Trailer Insult

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Members of the online hacktivist collective known as "Anonymous," are targeting Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg after the trailer for upcoming videogame "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2" implied that Anonymous hackers would be the game's enemy. Members of Anonymous have already found Hirshberg's personal information and published it online on text-sharing website AnonPaste.

The message begins by accusing Activision of opening itself up to attack from Anonymous: "So Activision Why you done goofed? We are not the enemy but, well you want it you got it. Eric Hirshberg DOX. #OpPirateAllActivision."

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A number of Anonymous members worried that the trailer and the upcoming game may be part of a larger smear campaign launched by the US government to portray Anonymous as a nefarious organization and a threat to the American people.

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Anonymous Hackers Target CIA, UK Supreme Court Over ‘Pirate Bay’ Censorship

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Hacktivist members of the online collective called "Anonymous" targeted the websites of the United Kingdom Supreme Court and the CIA on Friday, responding to efforts by both governments to stifle internet freedom. Anonymous has named its new campaign to fight online censorship "Operation The Pirate Bay" (TPR) and "Operation Trial At Home."

On Friday afternoon both websites were knocked offline and inaccessible to the public, most likely with a DDoS attack. The cyber-attack comes just days after the British high court ruled that Internet service providers must block all access to The Pirate Bay, a popular file sharing website. Since the ban, traffic to the Pirate Bay has in fact increased by 12 million, while the website has defied the UK ban and offered users tips on how to get around the block.

In a video released by Anonymous promoting Operation TPR, an electronically voiced narrator equates the UK government's attempts to block The Pirate Bay to the US government's attack on Megaupload.com and the file-sharing website's founder Kim Dotcom.

The minute-long video ends with a play on Anonymous' typical send-off: "We do not forgive censorship. We do not forget the corrupted ways of our government."

This online skirmish between Anonymous and the US and UK governments comes in the midst of a much larger battle over the fate of internet privacy, While the controversial CICSPA bill, which would allow the government to monitor everyone's internet, is making its way through congress.

Meanwhile, according to Al Jazeera, an equally controversial plan promoted by British Prime Minister David Cameron, would allow his government to monitor every single text message and phone call made in the country. Internet providers would also be forced to install software allowing law enforcement to access every internet user's IP address, email address books, when and to whom every email is sent in real time. The bill would also force social media sites and other online services to comply with any and all date requests.

Anonymous members coordinated their attacks on Friday through Twitter, using specific hastags to organize their posts.

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World War 3.0

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When the Internet was created, decades ago, one thing was inevitable: the war today over how (or whether) to control it, and who should have that power. Battle lines have been drawn between repressive regimes and Western democracies, corporations and customers, hackers and law enforcement. Looking toward a year-end negotiation in Dubai, where 193 nations will gather to revise a U.N. treaty concerning the Internet, Michael Joseph Gross lays out the stakes in a conflict that could split the virtual world as we know it.

ANONYMOUS - STOP CISPA

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Inside Anontune - The Hacktivists' Answer To Spotify

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At long last, the great online music war – between record labels and copyright-holders on one side, and proponents of ‘free’ on the other – might just be hurtling towards some kind of endgame. This week, the High Court ordered internet service providers to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. Grooveshark’s days of cheerful copyright infringement appear to be numbered. In America, the legal case against Megaupload gathers pace.

Can legislation ever stamp out music piracy completely? Of course not. But dont be fooled by open web evangelists like this guy who claim its pointless to even try to tackle file-sharing. Forget the ISPs. If it wanted to, Google could cut the flow of traffic to the most high-profile offenders in a shot. They do it with editorial sites all the time, tweaking the pagerank levers, dispensing punishment or reward. Such a measure wouldnt eliminate piracy. But it would reduce it dramatically.

Google spent $5m lobbying the US government in 2011. Its in their commercial interest to bang the drum for free, because they can sell ads next to all those millions of searches for pirated MP3s. Just dont expect them to channel any of those profits back into content creation. Ditto Apple. Ditto Spotify, whose CEO is now supposedly worth £190m. In the tech world, money flows into the pockets of investors and shareholders, not musicians.

Indeed its one of the great puzzles of the digital age that gigantic technology companies have generally been portrayed as the good guys, on the side of the consumer, while record companies are regarded as greedy and rapacious. Labels invest huge amounts in A&R, taking gambles on new acts, often at ruinous expense. iTunes drove almost £1bn in revenue last year. Will Apple ever sign a new artist? Dont hold your breath.

So the battle rages on. The latest entrant into the melee is Anontune, a new and mysterious music site, basically the anti-Spotify, in that it draws music from a number of different sources on the web. It is nominally associated with the Anonymous movement. Anonymous is a loose affiliation of hacktivists, best known for initiating Operation Payback, a string of cyber-attacks on organisations that have publicly condemned music piracy, from Universal Music to RIAA.

Billing itself as a new and open social music platform, at first glance Anontune would appear to be the ultimate expression of freetard logic. Its mission statement is full of Up yours, The Man!-type bluster, intoned in a spooky-wooky, bad-guy-from-Saw voice: It has come to our attention that the state of online music has been sabotaged by the fat hands of corporate involvement.

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Inside Anontune - The Hacktivists' Answer To Spotify
By Luke Lewis
Posted on 04/05/12 at 07:00:55 pm


At long last, the great online music war between record labels and copyright-holders on one side, and proponents of free on the other might just be hurtling towards some kind of endgame. This week, the High Court ordered internet service providers to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. Groovesharks days of cheerful copyright infringement appear to be numbered. In America, the legal case against Megaupload gathers pace.


Can legislation ever stamp out music piracy completely? Of course not. But dont be fooled by open web evangelists like this guy who claim its pointless to even try to tackle file-sharing. Forget the ISPs. If it wanted to, Google could cut the flow of traffic to the most high-profile offenders in a shot. They do it with editorial sites all the time, tweaking the pagerank levers, dispensing punishment or reward. Such a measure wouldnt eliminate piracy. But it would reduce it dramatically.

Google spent $5m lobbying the US government in 2011. Its in their commercial interest to bang the drum for free, because they can sell ads next to all those millions of searches for pirated MP3s. Just dont expect them to channel any of those profits back into content creation. Ditto Apple. Ditto Spotify, whose CEO is now supposedly worth £190m. In the tech world, money flows into the pockets of investors and shareholders, not musicians.

Indeed its one of the great puzzles of the digital age that gigantic technology companies have generally been portrayed as the good guys, on the side of the consumer, while record companies are regarded as greedy and rapacious. Labels invest huge amounts in A&R, taking gambles on new acts, often at ruinous expense. iTunes drove almost £1bn in revenue last year. Will Apple ever sign a new artist? Dont hold your breath.

So the battle rages on. The latest entrant into the melee is Anontune, a new and mysterious music site, basically the anti-Spotify, in that it draws music from a number of different sources on the web. It is nominally associated with the Anonymous movement. Anonymous is a loose affiliation of hacktivists, best known for initiating Operation Payback, a string of cyber-attacks on organisations that have publicly condemned music piracy, from Universal Music to RIAA.

Billing itself as a new and open social music platform, at first glance Anontune would appear to be the ultimate expression of freetard logic. Its mission statement is full of Up yours, The Man!-type bluster, intoned in a spooky-wooky, bad-guy-from-Saw voice: It has come to our attention that the state of online music has been sabotaged by the fat hands of corporate involvement.

That kind of thing. I wanted to talk to the shadowy folk behind Anontune, to find out if they really thought the artistic world would be a better place without any copyright laws in place to ensure creative people get paid for their work. However, the answers I got surprised me. In this debate, reducing things to an emotionally charged dichotomy freetards in one corner, major label fatcats in the other helps nobody. And Anontunes aims are more reasoned and nuanced than you might think.

1st Kopimism church wedding @ Share Conference

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'Til Delete Do Us Part: First Couple Married Under Swedish File-Sharing Religion

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There were vows, a kiss, and a crowd full of supportive friends. But there was very little else normal about the first couple married as part of Sweden's information and file-sharing religion.

Believers of Kopimism, which became an officially-recognized religion in Sweden earlier this year, think information sharing is a vital part of human existence—regardless of law. With more than 6,000 followers and branches in 18 countries, including the United States, perhaps a Kopimist wedding was inevitable.

[Learn More About the Tenets of Kopimism]

The couple—a Romanian woman and an Italian man—were married late last month at Belgrade's SHARE conference, a three day festival celebrating new Internet and media developments.

The presiding priest, or Kopimistic "Op" wore a Guy Fawkes mask as a computer read vows and some of Kopimism's central beliefs aloud.

"We are here to announce a new pair of noble peers. Copying of information is simply right. Dissemination of information is ethically right. Copying and remixing information communicated by another person is seen as an act of respect," it said. "Do you want to share your love, your knowledge, and your feelings with [the bride] as long as that information exists?"

The couple kissed and it became official under the Kopimist religion. In a statement on its official website, Isak Gerson, the 20-year-old founder of Kopimism, wrote that a Kopimist wedding was "unavoidable."

"Hopefully, they will copy and remix some DNA-cells and create a new human being," he wrote. "That is the spirit of Kopimism. Feel the love and share that information. Copy all of its holiness."

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Eerste Kamer neemt Telecomwet aan: netneutraliteit gewaarborgd

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De Eerste Kamer heeft vandaag de nieuwe Telecomwet aangenomen. Daarin is ondermeer netneutraliteit geregeld: providers mogen websites of diensten niet meer blokkeren of belemmeren. Daarnaast steunt de Kamer een wet die betere bescherming tegen cookies biedt.

Dat bleek vanavond na een lang debat over de Telecomwet. Een meerderheid van VVD, PvdA, CDA en D66 stemde voor de wet. Vorig jaar stemde de Tweede Kamer al in meerderheid voor de wet, maar de Eerste Kamer moest zich er nog over buigen.

Netneutraliteit
De discussie over netneutraliteit draait om de vraag of providers specifieke vormen van internetverkeer met voorrang mogen behandelen, en andere mogen wegfilteren. De christelijke partijen vinden dat filtering op ideologische gronden bij uitzondering mogelijk zou moeten zijn. Minister Maxime Verhagen zegde toe een nieuw wetsvoorstel in te dienen waarin een dergelijke mogelijkheid is opgenomen.

Na Chili is Nederland nu het tweede land ter wereld dat netneutraliteit wettelijk heeft vastgelegd. In Nederland laaide de discussie over netneutraliteit vorig jaar op, nadat provider KPN had laten weten geld te willen gaan vragen voor het gebruik van WhatsApp, een internetdienst waarmee gebruikers gratis kunnen sms'en. Met de nieuwe Telecomwet kan KPN dat niet meer doen.

Cookies
In de nieuwe Telecomwet is ook vastgelegd dat de privacy van internetters beter beschermd moet worden als het gaat om cookies. Dat zijn bundeltjes van gegevens over de gebruiker - zoals bijvoorbeeld het surfgedrag - die zonder dat de gebruiker het merkt worden verstuurd. Ze kunnen worden gebruikt om bijvoorbeeld wachtwoorden te onthouden, maar ook om de gebruikers gerichte advertenties voor te schotelen.

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Op dinsdag 8 mei 2012 01:36 schreef PKRChamp het volgende:
Even een veer in Papierversnipperaar zijn kont steken, goed bezig pik!

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Pirate Bay Scolds Anonymous Hackers For Cyberattacks On Its Behalf

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Some hackers aim to free the flow of information, while others aim to stifle it. The Pirate Bay has taken a moment to remind the hacker group Anonymous of the difference.

Anonymous has been launching a series of distributed denial of service attacks that took down the website of Virgin Media Wednesday following a court order that British internet service providers like Virgin must block access to the PirateBay.org, one of the world’s most popular source of pirated downloads.

The Pirate Bay, unexpectedly, spoke out Wednesday afternoon against the Anonymous attacks on its behalf. “We’d like to be clear about our view on this: We do NOT encourage these actions,” the Pirate Bay’s administrators wrote on its Facebook page. “We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us. So don’t fight them using their ugly methods. DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship.”

Since the order to block the Pirate Bay was announced, the site has been organizing a campaign of proxy servers it called “The Hydra Bay,” linking on its home page to instructions of how to create a proxy for the site that circumvents the British carriers’ block.

The Pirate Bay’s advice to Anonymous suggested they join that proxy effort or try something else more proactive, like supporting the artists who now advertise with the Pirate Bay under its “Promo Bay” project. ”If you want to help; start a tracker, arrange a manifestation, join or start a pirate party, teach your friends the art of bittorrent, set up a proxy, write your political representatives, develop a new p2p protocol, print some pro piracy posters and decorate your town with, support our promo bay artists or just be a nice person and give your mom a call to tell her you love her.”

One sub-group of Anonymous known as the People’s Liberation Front also attacked the branch of Anonymous attacking British ISPs, writing on that “We strongly condemn the attack on Virgin and UK ISPs as it violates the 2nd principle of Anonymous to NEVER attack infrastructure.”

A Twitter feed called Anonymous UK, which has been touting the attacks against Virgin and others, responded “Anonymous… Principles? What?”

“Virgin Media aren’t ideal targets, I agree,” the same feed wrote earlier in the day. “But I’m not the leader of Anonymous. Cry more.”

The Pirate Bay’s stance against Anonymous contrasts with that of WikiLeaks early last year, when Anonymous launched a series of website takedowns against Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Amazon and others for their payment embargo against WikiLeaks and other actions in opposition to the secret-spilling group. “We neither condemn nor applaud these attacks,” spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson wrote at the time. “We believe they are a reflection of public opinion on the actions of the targets.”

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Twitter Fighting Subpoena for Occupy Wall Street Tweets

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The battle over Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris's tweets is still going, but now he has Twitter on his side. Harris, who was arrested with hundreds of others on the Brooklyn Bridge last year, was told in April that he could not block a subpoena for his since-deleted messages, which prosecutors say show he was "well aware of the police instructions, and acted with the intent of obstructing traffic on the bridge," because they belong to the company. But Twitter is maintaining that Harris actually owns his content, so they should not be forced to turn it over. "Yesterday we filed a motion in NYC to defend a user's voice," Twitter's legal counsel tweeted yesterday. And so Big Brother must be trained to jump some hurdles, at least.

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Everything you know about Anonymous is wrong

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Whether viewed as heroes or villains, much of what is stated about Anonymous is exaggeration.

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_{Gabriella Coleman is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy in the Department of Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University.}

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While government officials and law enforcement are painting Anonymous as one of HL Mencken's "imaginary goblins" poised to menace the public, it's worth noting that national governments around the world have aspired to control the internet, and have been developing statutes that erode individual rights and privacies, long before this entity came to prominence. Anonymous is more a reaction to these trends than a cause. The brutal, depressing and dire fact of the matter is that an expansive surveillance state is not here to come but is already in our midst. The surveillance state is so well entrenched that if Anonymous were to vanish tomorrow, or never had happened in the first place, it is doubtful that the trajectory of the expansion of the surveillance state would be deterred. It seems misplaced, even disingenuous, at this juncture, to blame Anonymous' actions for increasing the rate at which governments and security companies seek to control the internet, private data, and online freedoms.

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Even if spectacle alone is insufficient to engender political change, it is hard to overstate its importance for publicising issues and clarifying political stakes. With Anonymous, it is not simply that their DDoS tactics dramatise specific issues, such as with their campaign in the winter of this year against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. It is that in their totality - as a masked entity bearing the name Anonymous - it relays an urgent message about anonymity to contemplate. Given the contemporary reality of a corporate and state controlled surveillance apparatus, Anonymous stands out, compels, and enchants for a very particular reason: it has provided a small but potent oasis of anonymity in the current expansive desert of surveillance, much like the one quite literally being built in the Utah desert right now by the NSA.