Anonops #13: Stop CISPA

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EXCLUSIVE: Hacker Adrian Lamo Who Betrayed Wikileaks' Manning Turns Fire on Anonymous

Adrian Lamo, dubbed the "world's most hated hacker" after he exposed the alleged Wikileaks source Bradley Manning to the US authorities, has poured scorn on the myth of Anonymous's power and influence, in an exclusive interview with the IBTimes UK.
The Boston-born Lamo, 31, who is now an outcast from the hacker underground, condemned Anonymous as "an illogical continuation of hacker activity" that needs to be de-escalated by the media.

The ex-hacker, who was once feted for his attacks on the servers at The New York Times, WorldCom and Microsoft, warns of media misrepresentations that make Anonymous appear almost unbeatable. According to the Colombian-American, Anonymous enjoys a rather big "PR success" among media organisations, and it is not being effectively questioned by journalists.

"There's a societal trend to make Anonymous appear rather larger than life, cheerleaded by Anonymous themselves, various security and threat analysis firms who benefit from the added stress on the market, and by the media itself which well knows the public is head-over-heels for a vaguely human villain," he told the IBTimes UK.

Taking for instance the latest attack on the US Department of Justice, in which Anonymous claimed to have stolen and posted 1.7 gigabytes of data, Lamo stresses that the collective hacked only "a sub-office in charge of compiling crime statistic".
"Nothing seriously classified, no major data breach, no 'DOJ [Department Of Justice] hack' as implied and no far-reaching consequences," he said.

"Yet, all too many outlets see 'DOJ' and 'hacked' in the same breath and go hog-wild."
"I don't want to minimise a significant hack, just to state the real value of the attack," he said.


Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/(...)ks.htm#ixzz1vnATbwU7

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Manning was 22 when arrested, the same age as Lamo when he was detained for computer intrusion after The New York Times hack. But Lamo is convinced he that he did the right thing.

"I never did harm, or demanded money, and offered to help my victims, free."
"Before I became a threat analyst for my current client, and before my myriad cooperation with the military to mitigate the less warm and fuzzy Wikileaks threat that most people don't see [...] I was a less morally evolved, prolific intruder," he told the IBTimes UK.


Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/(...)ks.htm#ixzz1vnBWr3xR

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The Piracy Crusade

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This site hosts the peer-to-peer review of the in-progress manuscript The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry’s War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties by Aram Sinnreich. The project is currently under contract with University of Massachusetts Press, which has allowed me to post the pieces here for pre-publication and open-review. The draft manuscript with comments will continue to live online here, even after the book has been published. This entire text is available to access freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

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Reliance Internet Hacked By Anonymous India

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This news might come as a shock to many reliance users. Anonymous India Compromised intranet of Reliance Broadband. It seems that they hacked into the admin panel for the filtering server.

Below is their message when users tried to open any site.

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The Internet Defense League

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The Internet Defense League takes the tactic that killed SOPA & PIPA and turns it into a permanent force for defending the internet, and making it better. Think of it like the internet's Emergency Broadcast System, or its bat signal!

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Pirate Bay Ready For Perpetual IP-Address Whac-A-Mole

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Last week The Pirate Bay added a new IP-address which allows users to circumvent the many court-ordered blockades against the site. While this proved to be quite effective, the Hollywood backed anti-piracy group BREIN has already been to court to demand a block against this new address. But that won’t deter The Pirate Bay, who say they are fully prepared for an extended game of whac-a-mole using the hundreds of IP addresses they have available.

The Pirate Bay is arguably the most censored website on the Internet.

Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and the end is still not in sight.

Within a few days, a new deadline for five UK and five Dutch Internet providers passes. This means that millions more will be unable to access The Pirate Bay, at least, that is the plan.

Last week The Pirate Bay team responded to the blockades by adding a new IP-address. The new location was setup to make it easier for people to start their own dedicated proxy sites, but it also allows blocked Pirate Bay visitors to gain access to the site.

Instead of the normal address they simply go to 194.71.107.80, bypassing the court order – for the time being at least.

The new IP-address represents a new thorn in the side of Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, who quickly asked ISPs to censor that too. Unfortunately for them the providers refused to do so, so the group had to go to court once again last week to get the added IP-address blocked as well.

Right before the weekend BREIN succeeded with the court ordering an ex-parte injunction for the new address. However, according to comments coming out of The Pirate Bay, this could just be the start of an extended game of whac-a-mole.

“Let me get the next IP-address lined up,” a Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak. “We have hundreds, so let’s see many times they will respond,” he added.

We were told that if the new IP-address is blocked again, they will simply add a new one. This means that BREIN would have to file for another ex-parte injunction, a process that may repeat itself hundreds of times.

The Pirate Bay insider did emphasize that the new IP wasn’t meant for people to bypass the blocks directly, but to make it easier and more safe to create proxy sites. In this regard, it is irrelevant whether the IP-address is blocked or not.

However, it’s well known that The Pirate Bay isn’t averse to a little dueling with anti-piracy outfits, so they’re going to play along.

“Now that I know it’s annoying to BREIN, of course we’ll add more IPs. Every time they get an order, we’ll add a new one, for the next year or so,” TorrentFreak was told.

The result is an almost endless IP-address whac-a-mole.

The Pirate Bay blockades are a good example of how hard it is to completely get a website offline. Even if all Pirate Bay domains and IP-addresses are blocked there are plenty of other ways to access the torrent site, including hundreds of proxy sites.

At the same time, the blockades make The Pirate Bay front page news. As we’ve seen before, this can result in a healthy traffic boost for the deviant torrent site. That begs the question of whether these censorship attempts aren’t doing more ‘harm’ than ‘good’ for copyright holders.

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Answers.usa.gov Cross Site Scripting

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Answers.usa.gov suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.

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AnonHackNews twitterde op maandag 28-05-2012 om 20:14:53 http://t.co/JjhtKOQ0 Pwned : http://t.co/zjHeDaYt #LOL #FailSecurity #Anonymous #AntiSec #FuckGOV reageer retweet

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Kim Dotcom Wins Access to FBI Arrest Files

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A New Zealand court granted Megaupload.com founder Kim Dotcom, accused of orchestrating the biggest copyright infringement conspiracy in U.S. history, access to FBI files that led to his arrest.

Judge David Harvey ruled yesterday that withholding the information could threaten Dotcom’s right to a fair trial, according to a copy of the ruling e-mailed to Bloomberg News. The U.S. government opposed the disclosure.

Dotcom, 38, was indicted in what U.S. prosecutors dubbed a “Mega Conspiracy,” accusing his file-sharing website of generating more than $175 million in criminal proceeds from the exchange of pirated film, music, book and software files. He faces as long as 20 years in prison for each of the racketeering and money-laundering charges in the indictment.

“A denial of the provision of information that could enable a proper adversarial hearing in my view would amount to a denial of the opportunity to contest,” Harvey said in the ruling. “That would effectively mean that the process is one- sided.”

Dotcom wasn’t given the right to all information that had been gathered on him, according to the ruling. Documents to be disclosed include those relating to allegations of copyright breaches, money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud.

In a separate court ruling yesterday, German-born Dotcom was also allowed to return to his leased luxury mansion in an Auckland suburb after his bail terms were relaxed. He was no longer deemed to be a flight risk, according to a report on the stuff.co.nz website.

Dotcom was arrested at his residence in late January and spent four weeks in jail before being released to await an extradition hearing, currently scheduled for Aug. 20.

To contact the reporter on this story: Chris Bourke in Wellington at cbourke4@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Douglas Wong at dwong19@bloomberg.net

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CDA wil bevoegdheden MIVD uitbreiden door aanpassing wet

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De militaire inlichtingendienst MIVD overtreedt soms de wet bij het verzamelen van informatie met behulp van internettaps. Dat erkende demissionair-minister Hillen (Defensie, CDA) vanmiddag in een Kamerdebat. Hij wil de wet aanpassen om de bevoegdheden van de dienst uit te breiden.

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Opnieuw grote klap voor ACTA: eurocommissies wijzen anti-piraterijverdrag af

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De kans dat ACTA niet doorgaat, is vandaag een stuk groter geworden. Drie invloedrijke commissies binnen het Europees Parlement hebben vandaag tegen het omstreden anti-piraterijverdrag gestemd. Een vierde commissie zal over drie weken een oordeel vellen.

Bij de commissie Industrie, onderzoek en energie (ITRE) stemden 31 leden vóór en 12 leden tegen een voorstel dat het europarlement oproept om ACTA te verwerpen. Een lid onthield zich van stemming. Bij JURI, de juridische commissie van het europarlement, stemden tien leden vóór en 12 tegen. Twee leden onthielden zich van stemming, waardoor de tegenstanders van het verdrag alsnog aan het langste eind trokken. Bij de commissie voor Burgerrechten LIBE stemden 31 leden vóór, één lid tegen, en waren er 21 onthoudingen.

Handelscomité
Daarmee is het omstreden verdrag echter nog niet van de baan. Een vierde commissie zal op 21 juni haar oordeel over het verdrag geven. En laat dat nu net de meest invloedrijke club op dit gebied zijn: het internationale handelscomité INTA. De voorzitter van dat comité, die tevens ACTA-rapporteur voor het Europees Parlement is, heeft echter al afstand van het verdrag genomen.

Maar ook als INTA tegenstemt, is het finale oordeel van het Europees Parlement nog niet geveld. Dat moet gebeuren tijdens een plenaire bijeenkomst die begin juli wordt gehouden. Het europarlement is dan klaar, maar het allerlaatste woord is tenslotte aan de Raad van Ministers van de Europese Unie. Ondertussen heeft de Europese Commissie het verdrag ook nog voorgelegd aan het Europese Hof van Justitie, die moet toetsen of het verdrag zich aan de Europese burgerrechten houdt. Het oordeel kan wel jaren op zich laten wachten.

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Maar dat het er somber uit ziet voor de voorstanders van ACTA, wordt wel steeds duidelijker. In veel Europese landen is hevig geprotesteerd tegen het verdrag.

In Nederland heeft de Tweede Kamer dinsdag een motie van D66 en de VVD aangenomen, die erop aandringt dat Nederland niet akkoord gaat met ACTA. Ook een PVV-motie hierover werd aangenomen. Het kabinet is echter van mening dat het ACTA-verdrag niet in strijd is met de Europese of Nederlandse grondrechten, en wil het oordeel van het Europees Hof van Justitie daarover eerst afwachten.

De Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is bedoeld om de internationale standaarden voor de bescherming van de rechten van producenten van muziek, films, farmaceutica, mode en tal van andere producten te harmoniseren. Het bestrijden van piraterij is een veelbesproken onderdeel van het verdrag. Tegenstanders noemen het ook wel de 'censuurwet', omdat het de internetvrijheid drastisch zou beperken.

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_TigAnon_ twitterde op donderdag 31-05-2012 om 21:01:11 #OpAap Targets: http://t.co/FaFnQtG4 http://t.co/TpTsqfgj http://t.co/djyWblOm FIRE #anonymous reageer retweet

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The Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation, which happens to be the sole telecommunication service provider in Ethiopia, has deployed or begun testing Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) of all Internet traffic. We have previously analyzed the same kind of censorship in China, Iran, and Kazakhstan.

Reports show that Tor stopped working a week ago -- even with bridges configured. Websites such as https://gmail.com/, https://facebook.com/, https://twitter.com/, and even https://torproject.org/ continue to work. The graphs below show the effects of this deployment of censorship based on Deep Packet Inspection:

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Op donderdag 31 mei 2012 21:21 schreef YazooW het volgende:

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Beetje jammer weer, een democratisch land bedriegen omdat ze een nieuwe wet doorvoeren. Hadden ze ook acties bij landen waar de F1 werd gehouden die het niet zo nauw nemen met de mensenrechten?