Anonops #15: Last or not to Last

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

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BarrettBrownLOL twitterde op maandag 03-09-2012 om 02:16:10 And all this because man put in motion systems that returned to enslave him #ProjectPM reageer retweet

Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church Website LIVE

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http://www.thinq.co.uk/20(...)persecute-anonymous/
NATO leaders have been warned that WikiLeaks-loving 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security, following recent attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce and defence contractor HBGary - and promise to 'persecute' its members.

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From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world

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

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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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Coding Fredom [PDF]

The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking

^{Gabriella Coleman 2013}

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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 posts over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials

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Following attacks on U.S. government websites last weekend, Anonymous seems to have made a new "Operation Last Resort" .gov website strike Sunday night.

Anonymous appears to have published login and private information from over 4,000 American bank executive accounts in the name of its new Operation Last Resort campaign, demanding U.S. computer crime law reform.

A spreadsheet has been published on a .gov website allegedly containing login information and credentials, IP addresses, and contact information of American bank executives.

If true, it could be that Anonymous has released banker information that could be connected to Federal Reserve computers, including contact information and cell phone numbers for U.S. bank Presidents, Vice Presidents, COO's Branch Managers, VP's and more.

The website used in this attack belongs to the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC). The page extension URL is titled, "oops-we-did-it-again."

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OpLastResort twitterde op maandag 04-02-2013 om 04:16:07 Now we have your attention America: Anonymous's Superbowl Commercial 4k banker d0x via the FED http://t.co/ABcGMj44 #opLastResort #Anonymous reageer retweet

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NBC NEWS Drone Scoop COURTESY Anonymous Hackers?

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NBC News revealed an explosive Gov. white paper on the president’s drone deployment policy, seemingly scooped from a confidential government filing cabinet or in this case, a computer… What NBC news did not detail was exactly how they came across these documents, here’s one very plausible theory… Anonymous… And this is just the beginning folks…

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EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans

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A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be senior operational leaders of al-Qaida or an associated force -- even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.

The 16-page memo, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News, provides new details about the legal reasoning behind one of the Obama administrations most secretive and controversial polices: its dramatically increased use of drone strikes against al-Qaida suspects abroad, including those aimed at American citizens, such as the September 2011 strike in Yemen that killed alleged al-Qaida operatives Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. Both were U.S. citizens who had never been indicted by the U.S. government nor charged with any crimes.

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Federal Reserve hacked

US central bank confirms intrusion after hacktivist group Anonymous was claimed to have stolen 4,000 bankers' details

The US Federal Reserve bank has confirmed one of its internal websites was broken into by hackers after the hacktivist group Anonymous was claimed to have stolen details of more than 4,000 bank executives.

"The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," a spokeswoman for the US central bank said.

"Exposure was fixed shortly after discovery and is no longer an issue. This incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve system," the spokeswoman said, adding that all individuals affected by the breach had been contacted.

The admission follows a claim that hackers linked to Anonymous struck the bank on Sunday. The technology news site ZDNet separately reported that Anonymous appeared to have published information said to containing the login information, credentials, internet protocol addresses and contact information of more than 4,000 US bankers.

The claim was made via Twitter using an account registered to OpLastResort, which is linked to Anonymous, which has claimed responsibility for attacks on other government and corporate sites.

OpLastResort is a campaign some hackers linked to Anonymous have started to protest against government prosecution of the computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who killed himself on 11 January.

The bank declined to identify which website had been hacked. But information it provided to bankers indicated that the site, which was not public, was a contact database for banks to use during a natural disaster.

A copy of the message sent by the bank to members of its Emergency Communication System (ECS) and obtained by Reuters warned that mailing address, business phone, mobile phone, business email and fax numbers had been published. "Some registrants also included optional information consisting of home phone and personal email. Despite claims to the contrary, passwords were not compromised," the bank said.

The website's purpose is to allow bank executives to update the Fed if their operations have been flooded or otherwise damaged in a storm or other disaster. That helps the bank assess the overall impact of the event on the banking system.

Hackers identifying themselves as Anonymous infiltrated the US sentencing commission website in late January to protest against the government's treatment of Swartz.

Swartz was charged with using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer networks to steal more than 4m articles from Jstor, an online archive and journal distribution service. He faced a maximum sentence of 31 years if convicted.

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Westboro Baptist church key member Megan Phelps-Roper leaves

'We've done things that hurt people' says 27-year-old, who is leaving anti-gay organisation with her sister Grace

One of the most prominent members of the Westboro Baptist church has left it after spending her life as part of the fervently anti-gay movement.

Megan Phelps-Roper, who looked after social media for the church best known for its slogan "God hates fags", announced her departure in a post on the blogging platform Medium in which she also revealed her younger sister Grace, 19, was also leaving.

In the post, called Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise, the 27-year-old explained how she had become disillusioned with the teaching of Westboro, which is widely considered one of the most detested church groups in America for its "God hates fags" campaign.

Phelps-Roper writes: "We know that we've done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn't the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren't so, and regret that hurt.

"We know that we dearly love our family. They now consider us betrayers, and we are cut off from their lives, but we know they are well-intentioned. We will never not love them.

"We know that we can't undo our whole lives. We can't even say we'd want to if we could; we are who we are because of all the experiences that brought us to this point. What we can do is try to find a better way to live from here on. That's our focus."

The Westboro Baptist church gained notoriety for demonstrating at military funerals across the US, claiming the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are God's punishment on America for tolerating homosexuality.

The church has a small congregation, largely made up of the extended family of the Reverend Fred Phelps, the grandfather of Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper. Their mother, Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper, is one of its most outspoken representatives. In 2007 the BBC broadcast a documentary on the church by Louis Theroux, which was billed as The Most Hated Family in America.

As well as picketing military funerals, the church also pickets sporting events, concerts and other occasions in the apparent hope of publicity. As well as being anti-gay, it is also anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-Chinese.

In an accompanying Medium piece, Damsel, Arise: A Westboro Scion Leaves Her Church, Jeff Chu describes what led Megan, who was named by the Kansas City Star as "the future leader" of the church, to leave in November.

Chu writes that her ephiphany over Westborough's hateful dogma began with a Twitter discussion with Jewish blog Jewlicious's David Abitbol. She came to realise the problems with condemning people to death, arbitrarily fixating on the "sin" of homosexuality and believing that the church had all the answers.

The church told the Topeka Capital Journal that it did not know the whereabouts of the two women.

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Anon_Central twitterde op donderdag 07-02-2013 om 21:26:16 Tango Down: http://lapdonline.org | because fuck #LAPD! reageer retweet

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Anonymous Plans To Hack Goldman Sachs, Days After Federal Reserve Hack

The hacking group Anonymous says it will attack Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) on Feb. 14.

According to Anonymous’ Twitter account, the hacktivist group wants to shut down Goldman Sachs’ Facebook and Twitter pages on Valentine's Day to express its disdain for the financial behemoth. The group tweeted out a request to its 869,000-plus Twitter followers on Thursday to join in the cyberattack.

Anonymous released several e-flyers in several languages from its various Twitter accounts. All the e-flyers say the attack will involve three steps: First, Anonymous is encouraging supporters to report the Goldman Sachs Facebook and Twitter accounts as spam. Then, the flyer provides a URL where users can fill out an abuse form on Twitter (you can do the same on Facebook), reporting Goldman Sachs for Twitter malfeasance. In the final step, Anonymous followers are asked to make "friendly" phone calls to Goldman Sachs' offices in London, Paris or Dublin, depending on which flyer they saw.

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YourAnonNews twitterde op donderdag 07-02-2013 om 18:38:48 Please help us to destroy twitter and facebook account of Goldman Sachs february 14 #OpGm | http://t.co/V4hJYYdJ reageer retweet

“Operation Goldman Sachs" is being run through an official Tumblr page. "#OpGm" isn't the first time that Anonymous targeted Goldman Sachs. In 2011, Anonymous published the private personal information of a number of Goldman employees, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein. CNN wrote at the time that a Twitter user named CabinCr3w tweeted out that he had “doxxed,” or released, personal info of Goldman’s CEO, including Blankenfein’s age, education, recent addresses and legal cases he had been involved in. At the time, Goldman Sachs declined to comment on the leak.

Reports also surfaced recently that Anonymous had hacked into the U.S. Federal Reserve. In an interview with ABC News, ex-Anonymous member Greg Housh said the hack was a result of the lack of prosecution of “big bankers that caused a lot of the problems we’ve had over the last few years.” Housh also said to expect more Anonymous attacks on governments in the future.

The hack into the Federal Reserve resulted in the leaking of personal information of more than 4,000 bankers. ABC News says the Federal Reserve hack may have been a part of "Operation Last Resort," which was started earlier this year after Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz commited suicide over charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer. Swartz, a hero and now a martyr to activists, faced as much as 35 years in prison if found guilty.

According to Insider Media Group, the planned "operation" is a reaction to a recent interview given by Huw Pill, a chief economist at Goldman. While talking to the Huffington Post, Pill suggested that France lower wages by approximately one-third in an effort to increase competition in the labor force. The Operation Goldman Sachs Tumblr page is written in French, and might be an indicator that French hackers linked to Anonymous got the idea for the attack on Goldman from those comments.

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Anonymous salutes Christopher Dorner, ex-cop wanted for killing spree

Is Anonymous about to get a new face?

Christopher Jordan Dorner, the former LAPD officer now on the run after allegedly shooting three people, is an unlikely inspiration. But then so was Guy Fawkes, Catholic revolutionary and would-be mass-murderer. What they have in common is a frustration unto fury with the Powers That Be, a desperation, and a belief that, as Dorner put it in his manifesto, "The only thing that changes policy and garners attention is death."

So far, all he has is our attention.

Dorner's manifesto claims that he was railroaded out of the force after reporting that a fellow officer kicked a mentally ill man in the face, and documents his numerous grievances with the LAPD, beginning with racism and name-calling and ending with the fact that they have, in him, produced the perfect weapon of their own destruction and rendered it inevitable. He gives the impression of a man of firm principles pushed to extremes, rogue cop, an archetypal American character usually played by Bruce Willis, up against the Alan Rickmans of the world. In the lengthy document he gives shout-outs to the Clintons, George H.W. Bush, Michelle Obama (he approves of the bangs), Charlie Sheen, The Chive, and … Anonymous.

"#Dorner is the #99%," tweeted OccupyTheMob.

YourAnonNews, the pre-eminent Anonymous news account, tweeted, "The FBI will try to use #Anonymous images on Dorner's FB and words in his manifeto [sic] to discredit us. We didn't create him. The LAPD did."

The LAPD has also shot two innocent people, including one woman in her seventies, in the hunt for Dorner.

Despite his apparent murders of three people, Dorner was adopted by many Anons as an avatar of the man of conscience pushed to the point of desperate action. As is typical in a hive as diverse and populous as Anonymous, there have been a spectrum of reactions, with the more prominent accounts carefully making the distinction between supporting Dorner's stated principles and outright murder.

As part of the actions against the police YAN announced an email bomb of the LAPD (which is simply a lot of emails, nothing explosive), although the list of email addresses targeted appears to have been simply scraped from all public emails on the LAPD site and includes such ephemera as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Missing Children's email, and the email address of the public relations representative for the L.A. Dodgers.

YAN also tweeted the traditional "TANGO DOWN," claiming that Anonymous had taken the LAPD website offline, although I was unable to confirm any downtime and the site works fine at the time of posting. It generally takes longer than a few hours to organize an effective DDoS unless you have a botnet handy. As well, the account is tweeting updates on the pursuit of Dorner. Altogether, these are not actions which could in any way slow down the police pursuit or investigation, but once again, they are excellent optics for Anonymous.

Anonymous has an ongoing #FTP operation, a carry-over from FuckFBIFridays, and the current actions fit neatly under that umbrella and have been tweeted with that hashtag, as well as #OpLastResort. This was the action, formerly OpAngel, inspired by the suicide of Aaron Swartz, and is aimed at reforming the justice system. The OpAngel twitter account has enthusiastically taken up the cause, tweeting, "When people of conscience speak out, this happens: [link] Now you understand why we must exist & do what we do. #opLastResort"

Dorner's manifesto's subject line was: "Last Resort."

"The LAPD is doing illegal things to catch an ex-cop doing illegal things who was kicked off the force for exposing cops doing illegal things," said YAN, speaking the exact, literal truth.

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Pirate Bay co-founder: “I can sit here and jerk off for 5 years. And I will.”

New film examines infamous BitTorrent site's people, evolution, and trial.

Say what you will about The Pirate Bay: if nothing else, its founders are resilient, defiant, and clever. Two out of its three co-founders have yet to be brought to justice, having been convicted of aiding copyright infringement—none of them have paid a single cent of the multi-million dollar fine ordered by a Swedish court in 2009, and all seem quite resolute on maintaining that position. (Still, each of the three claim to no longer have any involvement in the site.)

There’s not much new information about the founders in Simon Klose’s new film TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, which debuted Friday at the Berlinale Film Festival in the German capital and is available freely online under a Creative Commons license. The non-narrated, largely Swedish-language film profiles the three co-founders during their prosecution by the Swedish government and doesn’t address—other than through filmed court testimony—the fourth co-defendant, businessman Carl Lundström. (Lundström did serve four months in Sweden under house arrest, but has since returned to living in Switzerland. He also declined to be profiled for the film.)

In February 2012, the Swedish Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the case against the co-founders, leaving the three with few, if any, legal options left at their disposal. After being deported late last year on a Cambodian visa violation, Gottfrid “anakata” Svartholm Warg remains in Swedish custody. Meanwhile, Fredrik “tiamo” Neij is still living in Laos with his wife and son.

In the closing minutes of the film (shot in November 26, 2010, on the day the first appeals decision was to be announced), Neij looks straight in the camera while taking a leisurely family lunch aboard a boat in Laos with co-founder Peter Sunde at his side. Neij flatly says: “I can serve a prison sentence. But why do it if I don’t have to?”

Later that day, just moments after the two of them find out that they’ve lost their appeal, Neij adds: “The statute of limitations is five years. They can’t issue an international warrant of arrest. I can sit here and jerk off for five years. And I will.”

The film also reminds us that Neij is wanted by Interpol, although his name does not turn up in Interpol’s online database. Meanwhile, Sunde remains a digital nomad, traveling seemingly freely about Europe and the rest of the world. He’s even answering a Reddit AMA on Saturday.

In other words, these guys seem very comfortable with ignoring Swedish justice.

Late last year, Håkan Roswall, the chief prosecutor in the Pirate Bay trial, told Ars that he has “no doubt whatsoever that every one of those four will serve their sentence.”

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Anonymous reveals ample Fed access, FBI opens criminal investigation

Anonymous' 'Operation Last Resort' has published a new document revealing that the hacking collective has had an astonishing amount of access to The Fed's internal files and servers.

The new attack is Anonymous' response to the information security community's anger at the Federal Reserve ("The Fed") for its dismissive attitude and lack of transparency around Sunday's emergency contact system hack.

Anonymous has compromised the Grand Banks Yachts Web site to host this new file—Grand Banks Yachts, Ltd.—which manufactures and sells luxury yachts worldwide.

The URL filename ominously reads, "dorner-is-a-symptom-not-the-syndrome."

The Anonymous 'Operation Last Resort' action last Sunday exposed over 4,600 bank executive credentials for The Fed's expanding nationwide program, the Emergency Communications System.

The FBI has now begin to respond—at least to the bank hack—by opening a fresh criminal investigation into Anonymous 'Operation Last Resort.'

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OpLastResort twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2013 om 15:44:55 People are concerned by the Fed's lack of transparency regarding recent compromise. We thought we'd help: http://www.grandbanks.com(...)not-the-syndrome.txt #opLastResort reageer retweet

The new document essentially shows that Anonymous had access to several of The Fed's servers and internal documents.

Like everything we've seen so far in Anonymous' 'Operation Last Resort' actions, the details of the hack appear to be symbolic.

The new attack's filename refers to Christopher Dorner, an ex-LAPD police officer that killed three people, "declared war on the LAPD" and is currently the target of a California state-wide manhunt.

Dorner published a lengthy manifesto to Facebook stating that his murderous mission—to avenge corruption within the LAPD that ruined his life—was his only remaining path to justice.

Despite Dorner's public status as a fugitive and an alleged murderer, Dorner has been characterized by some Anons as "an avatar of the man of conscience pushed to the point of desperate action."

On Twitter, Anonymous' 'Operation Last Resort' directed the latest drop to Veracode chief technology officer and L0pht alum Chris Wysopal, in an apparently friendly acknowledgment of the Veracode CTO's analysis and comments about the technical details surrounding the recent Federal Reserve bank hack.

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The 'Operation Last Resort' video, posted Friday on the U.S. Sentencing Commission Web site, now has more than 1.38 million views at the time of writing. Still, two weeks after Anonymous took down the Web site, it remains "under construction."

We will update you with new developments as they become available.

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Brace Yourselves, CISPA is Back!

February 8, 2013 - Yesterday, U.S. congressmen Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) announced before the House that they are planning to revive the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA) and work closely with the White House to ensure its passage sometime later this year. The unpopular legislative attempt at ramping up cybersecurity regulations was tabled indefinitely last year in August after it was shot down in a Senate vote, but some had raised the possibility that it could've been delayed by the lawmakers to avoid having to make a decision right before the elections.

Unlike SOPA, this bill does not focus on the online pirating of music or videos found on torrent websites, but it instead offers corporate protection against foreign hackers stealing codes, formulas and patented information.

The concept of CISPA revolves around a sense of developing a security community among large technology companies like Facebook and Google. Essentially, the bill promotes companies to share information on cyberattacks with each other and the government. With companies like Facebook and sites that have endless amounts of personal information, the fear is that this would be a new step toward a legalized government invasion of privacy.

If you’re still confused about what CISPA is, or what it could mean for you, this is what we wrote last year when the bill was proposed:

Here’s how it’s dangerous: The language in the bill (read it here) is maddeningly imprecise. It limits the shared data to “cyber threats” or “national security” items only, but lacks any specific definitions or examples. “The ambiguities of these terms render these limits completely meaningless,” says Digital Trends, which notes that email or Facebook messages would be up for grabs. “And nothing in the bill requires companies to strip shared information of personally identifiable details.”

It’s unclear when this will come up for a vote in the House. But keep your eye on the acronym, and pay attention to who’s supporting it.

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Egypte doet YouTube in de ban

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Egypte heeft videowebsite YouTube voor een maand in de ban gedaan omdat daar een voor moslims beledigende film te zien was. Dat hebben staatsmedia zaterdag gemeld.

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Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm

Exclusive: Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups

A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.

A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an "extreme-scale analytics" system created by Raytheon, the world's fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

Raytheon says it has not sold the software – named Riot, or Rapid Information Overlay Technology – to any clients.

But the Massachusetts-based company has acknowledged the technology was shared with US government and industry as part of a joint research and development effort, in 2010, to help build a national security system capable of analysing "trillions of entities" from cyberspace.

The power of Riot to harness popular websites for surveillance offers a rare insight into controversial techniques that have attracted interest from intelligence and national security agencies, at the same time prompting civil liberties and online privacy concerns.

The sophisticated technology demonstrates how the same social networks that helped propel the Arab Spring revolutions can be transformed into a "Google for spies" and tapped as a means of monitoring and control.

Using Riot it is possible to gain an entire snapshot of a person's life – their friends, the places they visit charted on a map – in little more than a few clicks of a button.

In the video obtained by the Guardian, it is explained by Raytheon's "principal investigator" Brian Urch that photographs users post on social networks sometimes contain latitude and longitude details – automatically embedded by smartphones within so-called "exif header data."

Riot pulls out this information, showing not only the photographs posted onto social networks by individuals, but also the location at which the photographs were taken.

"We're going to track one of our own employees," Urch says in the video, before bringing up pictures of "Nick," a Raytheon staff member used as an example target. With information gathered from social networks, Riot quickly reveals Nick frequently visits Washington Nationals Park, where on one occasion he snapped a photograph of himself posing with a blonde haired woman.

"We know where Nick's going, we know what Nick looks like," Urch explains, "now we want to try to predict where he may be in the future."

Riot can display on a spider diagram the associations and relationships between individuals online by looking at who they have communicated with over Twitter. It can also mine data from Facebook and sift GPS location information from Foursquare, a mobile phone app used by more than 25 million people to alert friends of their whereabouts. The Foursquare data can be used to display, in graph form, the top 10 places visited by tracked individuals and the times at which they visited them.

The video shows that Nick, who posts his location regularly on Foursquare, visits a gym frequently at 6am early each week. Urch quips: "So if you ever did want to try to get hold of Nick, or maybe get hold of his laptop, you might want to visit the gym at 6am on a Monday."

Mining from public websites for law enforcement is considered legal in most countries. In February last year, for instance, the FBI requested help to develop a social-media mining application for monitoring "bad actors or groups".

However, Ginger McCall, an attorney at the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Centre, said the Raytheon technology raised concerns about how troves of user data could be covertly collected without oversight or regulation.

"Social networking sites are often not transparent about what information is shared and how it is shared," McCall said. "Users may be posting information that they believe will be viewed only by their friends, but instead, it is being viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like the Riot search."

Raytheon, which made sales worth an estimated $25bn (£16bn) in 2012, did not want its Riot demonstration video to be revealed on the grounds that it says it shows a "proof of concept" product that has not been sold to any clients.

Jared Adams, a spokesman for Raytheon's intelligence and information systems department, said in an email: "Riot is a big data analytics system design we are working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data into useable information to help meet our nation's rapidly changing security needs.

"Its innovative privacy features are the most robust that we're aware of, enabling the sharing and analysis of data without personally identifiable information [such as social security numbers, bank or other financial account information] being disclosed."

In December, Riot was featured in a newly published patent Raytheon is pursuing for a system designed to gather data on people from social networks, blogs and other sources to identify whether they should be judged a security risk.

In April, Riot was scheduled to be showcased at a US government and industry national security conference for secretive, classified innovations, where it was listed under the category "big data – analytics, algorithms."

According to records published by the US government's trade controls department, the technology has been designated an "EAR99" item under export regulations, which means it "can be shipped without a licence to most destinations under most circumstances".

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Anonymous Targets LAPD Website, Hackers Unhappy About Chistopher Dorner Case

Anonymous hackers claim to have disrupted a website of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPDonline.org) in response to the way authorities are handling the case of Chistopher Dorner, the alleged cop killer who’s currently on the run.

The hacktivists have announced attacking the site after the LA Times published reports about how police opened fire against innocent individuals whose vehicles matched the description of the one used by Dorner.

The individual behind the YourAnonNews Twitter account has posted some ironic messages in response to the incident:

“If #LAPD are monitoring this feed, I’d like them to know I am driving a grey 4-door sedan today & will not be Christopher #Dorner. KTHX.”

“Be careful if you're in LA, especially if you're Asian, white, female, male, or drive a truck of any make & color.”

In addition, Anonymous asks Dorner to contact them if he wants any information leaked.

“Dormer needs to be placed in custody without being killed. He also may have information he wants leaked; we will leak it if he desires,” the hackers wrote.

Currently, the LAPD website appears to be working properly.

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Geeks are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties

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Recent events have highlighted the fact that hackers, coders, and geeks are behind a vibrant political culture.

^{By Gabriella Coleman on February 4, 2013}

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A decade-plus of anthropological fieldwork among hackers and like-minded geeks has led me to the firm conviction that these people are building one of the most vibrant civil liberties movements we’ve ever seen. It is a culture committed to freeing information, insisting on privacy, and fighting censorship, which in turn propels wide-ranging political activity. In the last year alone, hackers have been behind some of the most powerful political currents out there.

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Op maandag 11 februari 2013 16:12 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Chris Dorner finds an ally in Anonymous; the group explains why

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Hello, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, we are anonymous.

As national headlines regarding the vigilante acts of former LAPD officer Christopher Jordan Dorner continue to intensify, we have decided amongst ourselves to pursue an appropriate recourse.

And so we watched with dread and utter hilarity as the LAPD began to pursue this man.

However the department has proven once more that it is incapable of serving the public, look no further than to the women who became LAPD’s most recent victims. The two were shot without warning and were not even given the chance to surrender simply because LAPD thinks they are above the law.

No one is above the law.

In coordination with federal authorities, the LAPD is now conducting a massive manhunt for The Dark Knight Christopher Dorner, so that they may effectively silence him forever without due process.

And now since the authorization of drones have been approved for the first time ever to pursue and execute an American citizen on United States Soil, the US Government will stage this event to set a new precedent from which it can assassinate American citizens for little to no reason at all.

But do not misinterpret us for we do not condone the vicious acts that Dorner has allegedly partaken in. Instead we sympathize and resonate with his struggle. Dorner was not born a killer he was a law abiding citizen that was tainted by the corrupt and inhumane practices of the Los Angeles Police Department who serve only themselves.

We however do not accept this fate, and call upon our brothers to raise arms against the LAPD, for justice and for the lulz we will rise to disrupt, dismantle and dissect all aspects of the manhunt whilst revealing the LAPD’s unwarranted hypocrisy.

We are hated, vilified, and like Dorner, considered to be enemies to the state. But there are those who whisper that we are culture and a necessity that bring truth to a cloaked world. In this spirit we will forge ahead and allow #OperationDorner to commence!

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YourAnonNews twitterde op maandag 11-02-2013 om 10:36:35 Update: Population of Kashmir denied internet access for 3 days. #KashmirBlackout reageer retweet

Al Jazera Reports: Kashmir Intifada 2013 #KashmirNow #FreeKashmir

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Goldman Sachs targeted by hacker group

The "hacktivist" group Anonymous has declared war on Goldman Sachs, a potent symbol of capitalism to be sure. Specifically, the group says it will launch an online on February 14.

As noted by the International Business Times, "Anonymous released several e-flyers in several languages from its various Twitter accounts. All the e-flyers say the attack will involve three steps: First, Anonymous is encouraging supporters to report the Goldman Sachs Facebook and Twitter accounts as spam. Then, the flyer provides a URL where users can fill out an abuse form on Twitter (you can do the same on Facebook), reporting Goldman Sachs for Twitter malfeasance. In the final step, Anonymous followers are asked to make 'friendly' phone calls to Goldman Sachs' offices in London, Paris or Dublin, depending on which flyer they saw."

These sorts of threats are always a bit nebulous. There have been times when similar declarations against financial companies were publicized and then ostensibly retracted. But it's also fair to say that this isn't the first time that a hacker group has tangled with Goldman Sachs. In 2011, the group published personal information about CEO Lloyd Blankfein on the Internet as a protest.

Anonymous seems to be stepping up its activity. Not too long ago, the Fed was targeted in an attack that exposed information about various bankers. If its social media operations were impaired, it would not be the end of the world. Still, Goldman Sachs is no doubt taking this threat seriously.

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A Message From Anonymous to the President of the United States

Article II, Sector 3 of the US Constitution, says the President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

At 9PM Eastern Standard Time, February 13, 2013 President Obama has planned to address a joint session of Congress to deliver the State of the Union Address.
The following day, President Obama will be introducing an executive order, purportedly aimed at bolstering U.S. cyber-security, after repeated failed attempts to pass legislation through Congress.

Anonymous has reached a verdict of NO CONFIDENCE in this executive order and the plans to reintroduce the CISPA bill to Congress on the same day. As such, President Obama and the State of the Union Address will be BANISHED from the Internet for the duration of live delivery.

So as not to infringe upon the Presidents free speech, subsequent broadcasts will be allowed to pass unhindered.
This action is being taken to underline a fact that appears to be sorely unrecognized by the Obama Administration that the Internet is a sovereign territory, and does not fall under the jurisdiction of any nation state.

We are the natives of this space, and its guardians, and we will fight until death to protect it as a neutral grounds for the unhindered interaction of all members of the human race, so long as they themselves act in harmony with this inviolable principle.

Our determination is that President Obama is acting in direct contravention of this principle, and his brief exclusion is an educational, rather than a punitive measure.
We hope that its lesson will be learned.
Punitive measures have not been ruled out.

-Anonymous

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Anonymous Tries, but Fails to Interrupt Obama’s State of the Union Address – Video

On Tuesday, Anonymous hackers revealed their intentions to make sure that there would be no State of the Union address on the web. They planned on blocking all the webcasts of US President Barack Obama’s speech.

“Tonight, the President of the United States will appear before a joint session of Congress to deliver the State of the Union Address and tomorrow he plans to sign an executive order for cybersecurity as the House Intelligence committee reintroduces the defeated CISPA act which turns private companies into government informants,” they said in a video statement.

“We reject the State of the Union. We reject the authority of the President to sign arbitrary orders and bring irresponsible and damaging controls to the Internet. The President of the United States of America, and the Joint Session of Congress will face an Army tonight.”

Some of the hacktivists were unhappy with the fact that the US president would not cover topics such as the NDAA, the killing of citizens by military drones, the Bradley Manning case, or secret interpretations of the law that allow for warrantless wiretapping and surveillance of US citizens.

Other Anonymous hackers gave a “verdict of no confidence” to the executive order aimed at protecting the country’s critical infrastructure. In addition, the protest was also aimed against the reintroduction of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).

However, the hacktivists’ plans have failed. The White House live streams worked without a glitch during the president’s speech.

On the other hand, they don’t seem to be too discouraged. They highlight the fact that they’ve won the first three rounds by taking down sites of MIT, USSC and the Federal Reserve, so they “give round 4 to the sneaky gov.”

They warn that they’re in this for the “full 12 rounds.”

Here is the video in which Anonymous threatened the State of the Union address:

Anonymous vs. State of the Union - BATTLE ROYALE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

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Anonymous: ramping up OpSOTU for 24 hours

The 'Operation Last Resort' Twitter account has posted updates with increasing fervor over the last 24 hours, focusing on today's State Of The Union Address, as well as Congress' rushed re-introduction of cybersecurity bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).

These posts have included yesterday's publishing and distribution of a file containing detailed information about every security and surveillance camera in the Chicago area. Chicago has the largest surveillance program of any city in the United States.

Less than a day ago, 'Operation Last Resort' made public documents ("doxd") revealing sensitive information about Richard A. McFeely, the FBI executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch.

We heard he was after us so here you can go after him >> DOX on FBI Agent "Rick" Richard A. McFeely

McFeely was quoted in the media following the massive hack and defacement of the U.S. Sentencing Commission Web site which launched 'Operation Last Resort,' saying the FBI was "concerned" and would launch a criminal investigation into the matter.

Anonymous' tweets regarding the McFeely "dox" linked to several blogs posts that contained contact information for McFeely and the names of his family—though it should be noted that the information was less than could be obtained through a "people search" service, and the post was signed by #AntiSec.

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IJsland werkt aan censuur porno op internet

IJsland werkt als eerste westerse democratie aan een verbod op pornografie op internet. IJsland wil daarvoor mogelijk hetzelfde soort filters gebruiken als China voor het weren van politiek onwelgevallige inhoud.

De wet is bedoeld om jongeren te beschermen en de waardigheid van vrouwen niet aan te tasten. Pornografie op papier is in IJsland al verboden, maar door de opkomst van internet is een leemte in die wet ontstaan, aldus de Britse krant Daily Telegraph donderdag.

De regering in Reykjavik werkt aan wetgeving waarbij onder meer bepaalde websites kunnen worden geblokkeerd. Ook wil de minister van Binnenlandse Zaken een verbod om IJslandse creditcards te gebruiken voor de betaling van pornografie. Volgens prof. Gail Dines, een pornografiedeskundige, heeft IJsland een 'zeer progressieve benadering die door geen enkel ander democratisch land is uitgeprobeerd'.

NASA hacked and data leaked

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‘Anonymous’ hacks 600,000 Israeli email accounts

In the latest action targeting Israel, the international computer hacking network known as ‘Anonymous’ has claimed credit for publishing the personal information, including encrypted passwords, of over 600,000 Israelis as part of its ‘Operation Israel (#OpIsrael) on Friday.

In November 2012, Anonymous published a video announcing the launch of a campaign called #opIsrael to hack Israeli websites and emails to try to bring an end to Israeli policies that it claimed were in violation of international law.

The campaign, according to Anonymous, is for the “children and families in Gaza that are suffering as a result of the policies of the Israeli government.” In addition to assaults on Israeli websites, the hacker group also provided Gazans with communications tools in the event their Intrnet connections were to be severed during the Israeli assault on Gaza in early December 2012.

As part of the campaign, hackers took down the Israeli military spokesperson’s website, and hacked into the Israeli Prime Minister’s site. The group managed to steal passwords, erase databases and deface websites of these and other Israeli government agencies as well as private groups.

The email provider that was hacked in Friday’s attack, Walla!, told Australia’s SC Magazine that they are working on “'hermetically' sealing off user details in Walla! Accounts”.

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Op maandag 18 februari 2013 17:03 schreef Probably_on_pcp het volgende:

[..]

Ik bedank je ook nog even een keer PV

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Burger King Twitter Account Hacked

Hackers took over Burger King's Twitter account on Monday.

The cyber tricksters changed the fast food company's avatar and name to "McDonalds" and sent a McFlurry of questionable and offensive tweets. The Twitter mishap isn't all bad news for Burger King though — the account added 5,000 new followers in the first 30 minutes since the hackers took over.

Mashable has reached out to the company and will update this post with any response.

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Anonymous hacks U.S. State Department and investment firm, leaks data

Anonymous continues with its Operation Last Resort, and its latest targets were the websites of the U.S. Department of State (state.gov) and of investment firm George K. Baum and Company (gkbaum.com).

From the former they exfiltrated - and published - databases containing a treasure trove of personal information about their employees (names, birth dates, phone numbers, email addresses, home and work addresses, and so on).

"Our reasons for this attack are very simple. You've imprisoned or either censored our people. […] Basically, you tried to put an end to us and you got owned, there's nothing more you can say or do. You took away Topiary, Avunit, Neuron, Pwnsauce, lolspoon, Aaron Swartz shall we go on?" they wrote in a not accompanying the leak, reiterating that Operation Last Resort has been launched in memory of recently tragically deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz.

George K. Baum and Company's website was defaced, and a link to a ZeroBin post containing details of their customers' accounts (names, email addresses, passwords and more) in clear text was published on it.

According to a post on the @OpLastResort Twitter account, the investment firm was hit because its Vice President Joshua Magden was a client of Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting Inc.), a US-based think-tank that Anonymous hacked in December 2011.

Operation Last Resort started with the DDoS attack on MIT's official website and the defacement of one of its subdomains, on which Anonymous called for a reform of "computer crime laws, and the overzealous prosecutors who use them", "reform of copyright and intellectual property law", "greater recognition of the oppression and injustices heaped daily by certain persons and institutions of authority upon anyone who dares to stand up and be counted for their beliefs, and for greater solidarity and mutual aid in response", and a "renewed and unwavering commitment to a free and unfettered internet, spared from censorship with equality of access and franchise for all."

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Op dinsdag 19 februari 2013 20:29 schreef sp3c het volgende:
is er nu eigenlijk wat gebeurt met al die prive informatie die ze online gegooit hebben?

lezen mensen het uberhaupt nog?

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Op dinsdag 19 februari 2013 20:39 schreef sp3c het volgende:
nee ik bedoel dit soort dingen

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ik krijg niet de indruk dat mensen er nog heel erg van onder de indruk raken

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Op dinsdag 19 februari 2013 20:55 schreef sp3c het volgende:

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tuurlijk en de schending van de privacy van die mensen ook

maar ja ... lekker belangrijk ofzo

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I'm not really sure. All that I can say is that according to Xero Flux, no one there knows who they are. I guess that doesn't mean I guess they aren't willing to dump the data for them though...

Other users on here have also questioned anonymousIRC's legitimacy as well. Idk.

All that can really be said about all this is that OpLastResort isn't making any sense. Why leak the personal information of innocent people that don't have anything to do with anything, and then turn around and demand cyber legislation reform? If they aren't the FEDs they are the most useful idiots I've ever seen.

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Aaron Swartz files reveal how FBI tracked internet activist

Firedoglake blogger Daniel Wright publishes once-classified FBI documents that show extent of agency's investigation into Swartz

A blogger has published once-classified FBI files that show how the agency tracked and collected information on internet activist Aaron Swartz.

Swartz, who killed himself in January aged 26, had previously requested his files and posted them on his blog, but some new documents and redactions are included in the files published by Firedoglake blogger Daniel Wright.

Wright was given 21 of 23 declassified documents, thanks to a rule that declassifies FBI files on the deceased. Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of Freedom of Inorfamtion subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."

The FBI's files concern Swartz's involvement in accessing the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (Pacer) documents. In pursuit of their investigation, the FBI had collected his personal information and was surveilling an Illinois address where he had his IP address registered.

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How Anonymous accidentally helped expose two Chinese hackers

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How did security firm Mandiant put names to two previously unknown Chinese hackers who, it says, steal American corporate secrets for the Chinese government? With a little inadvertent help from Anonymous.

Mandiant's 74-page report covers a particular hacking group referred to as "APT1" and contends that the group works for or under the direction of the Chinese government as part of the military's secretive "Unit 61398." The report ties a huge string of hacks over the last few years to Unit 61398 and goes on to show the building where the hacks might be hatched. The report is stuffed with detail uncommon in these types of stories; it even includes a translated Chinese document showing a local telecom company agreeing to Unit 61398's request for additional fiber optic connections in the name of state security.

The Mandiant researchers then tried to go one step further, putting at least a few real names to the coders involved. (BusinessWeek recently did something similar, with fascinating results.) Mandiant began with a malware coder who goes by the name "UglyGorilla"—a name which is left repeatedly in code tied to the APT1 group.

Back in 2007, for instance, Mandiant says that UglyGorilla "authored the first known sample of the MANITSME family of malware and, like a good artist, left his clearly identifiable signature in the code: 'v1.0 No Doubt to Hack You, Writed by UglyGorilla, 06/29/2007'[sic]." But despite all the uses of the name "UglyGorilla" buried in code samples, leads to the person's actual identity were hard to come by—until Anonymous hacked security firm HBGary Federal in early 2011.

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Pirate Party Threatened With Lawsuit for Hosting The Pirate Bay

For several years the Swedish Pirate Party has provided hosting services to The Pirate Bay. One of the main reasons for the BitTorrent site to team up with the political party was because it wouldn’t easily cave in to pressure from the entertainment industry. This promise will now be put to the test as the Swedish copyright watchdog “Rights Alliance” threatens to sue the Pirate Party next week if they refuse to pull the plug on TPB.


To serve its millions of daily visitors, The Pirate Bay uses a variety of hosting providers.

While the locations and providers of most cloud servers are unknown to the public, it is no secret that some of TPB’s traffic is routed through the Swedish Pirate Party.

TPB turned to the Pirate Party in 2010 after several major Hollywood movie studios obtained injunctions against its former hosting providers. The Pirate Party wanted to make a stand against the “bullying” tactics of the entertainment industry, and after three years this promise will now be put to its most serious test yet.

Today the Pirates announced that they have received a letter from the Swedish “Rights Alliance,” who are threatening legal action against the party and its representatives if they don’t stop servicing TPB within a week.

In the letter, which also targets bandwidth provider Serious Tubes, the group cites last year’s Supreme Court rejection of The Pirate Bay case as a precedent that hosting providers can be held liable for providing Internet services to file-sharing sites.

“With that decision, it was finally determined that not only those who operate illegal file sharing services, but also the Internet providers to such illegal services are committing a criminal act,” the Rights Alliance writes.

The Pirate Party clearly sees things differently and are convinced that they aren’t doing anything that’s against the law.

“The Pirate Party’s activity is legal and lawful activities should not be subjected to threats of this type. It is not illegal to provide the Pirate Bay with Internet access,” Pirate Party leader Anna Troberg says in a comment.

“There is no list of illegal sites which ISPs can not provide internet access to,” she adds.

The Pirate Party goes on to highlight that these type of “blackmail” campaigns are a way for the copyright holders to get what they want.

“Unfortunately, the kind of blackmail that the Pirate Party is now exposed to is not uncommon. Large and small Internet service providers are often subjected to similar pressure from the copyright industry lawyers,” Troberg notes.

“It is sad that they are allowed to continue this way, with both politicians and judicial blessing,” she adds.

While the Pirate Party doesn’t think they are breaking any laws, they are not sure whether the court will give them a fair hearing if the case goes to trial. Adding to that, the criminal conviction against the Pirate Bay founders and previous injunctions against TPB’s hosting providers will not be in their favor.

“Unfortunately, the fact that an activity is legal is not a guarantee that you will get a fair trial. This is precisely why the Pirate Party and is needed more than ever,” Troberg concludes.

The Pirate Party has until February 26 to decide how to respond to Rights Alliance’s threats.

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Jeremy Hammond on Aaron Swartz and the Criminalization of Digital Dissent.

_{A statement released today, Feb 20th, by Jeremy Hammonds lawyer. This is Jeremy Hammond in his own words. Written from solitary confinement.}

Jeremy Hammond on Aaron Swartz and the Criminalization of Digital Dissent

The tragic death of internet freedom fighter Aaron Swartz reveals the government’s flawed “cyber security strategy” as well as its systematic corruption involving computer crime investigations, intellectual property law, and government/corporate transparency. In a society supposedly based on principles of democracy and due process, Aaron’s efforts to liberate the internet, including free distribution of JSTOR academic essays, access to public court records on PACER, stopping the passage of SOPA/PIPA, and developing the Creative Commons, make him a hero, not a criminal. It is not the “crimes” Aaron may have committed that made him a target of federal prosecution, but his ideas – elaborated in his “Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto” – that the government has found so dangerous. The United States Attorney’s aggressive prosecution, riddled with abuse and misconduct, is what led to the death of this hero. This sad and angering chapter should serve as a wake up call for all of us to acknowledge the danger inherent in our criminal justice system.

Aaron’s case is part of the recent aggressive, politically-motivated expansion of computer crime law where hackers and activists are increasingly criminalized because of alleged “cyber-terrorist” threats. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, whose office is prosecuting me and my co-defendants in the Lulzsec indictment, has used alarmist rhetoric such as the threat of an imminent “Pearl Harbor like cyber attack” to justify these prosecutions. At the same time the government routinely trains and deploys their own hackers to launch sophisticated cyber attacks against the infrastructure of foreign countries, such as the Stuxnet and Flame viruses, without public knowledge, oversight, declarations of war, or consent from international authorities. DARPA, US Cyber Command, the NSA, and numerous federally-contracted private corporations openly recruit hackers to develop defensive and offensive capabilities and build Orwellian digital surveillance networks, designed not to enhance national security but to advance U.S. imperialism. They even attend and speak at hacker conferences, such as DEFCON, offer to bribe hackerspaces for their research, and created the insulting “National Civic Hacker Day” – efforts which should be boycotted or confronted every step of the way.

Aaron is a hero because he refused to play along with the government’s agenda, instead he used his brilliance and passion to create a more transparent society. Through the free software movement, open publishing and file sharing, and development of cryptography and anonymity technology, digital activists have revealed the poverty of neo-liberalism and intellectual property. Aaron opposed reducing everything to a commodity to be bought or sold for a profit.

The rise in effectiveness of, and public support for, movements like Anonymous and Wikileaks has led to an expansion of computer crime investigations – most importantly enhancements to 18 U.S.C § 1030, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Over the years the CFAA has been amended five times and has gone through a number of important court rulings that have greatly expanded what the act covers concerning “accessing a protected computer without authorization.” It is now difficult to determine exactly what conduct would be considered legal. The definition of a “protected computer” has been incrementally expanded to include any government or corporate computer in or outside the U.S. “Authorization,” not explicitly defined by the CFAA, has also been expanded to be so ambiguous that any use of a website, network, or PC that is outside of the interest, agenda, or contractual obligations of a private or government entity could be criminalized. In Aaron’s case and others the government has defined violating a service’s Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), Terms of Service (TOS), or End-User License Agreement (EULA) as illegal. Every time you sign up for a service like Gmail, Hotmail, or Facebook and click the “I agree” button that follows a long contract that no one ever reads, you could be prosecuted under the CFAA if you violate any of the terms.

The sheer number of everyday computer users who could be considered criminals under these broad and ambiguous definitions enables the politically motivated prosecution of anyone who voices dissent. The CFAA should be found unconstitutional under the void-for-vagueness doctrine of the due process clause. Instead, Congress proposed bills last year which would double the statutory maximum sentences and introduce mandatory minimum sentences, similar to the excessive sentences imposed in drug cases which have been widely opposed by many federal and state judges.

The “Operation Payback” case in San Jose, California is another miscarriage of justice where 16 suspected Anonymous members (including a 16 year old boy) allegedly participated in a denial-of-service action against PayPal in protest of it’s financial blockade of Wikileaks. Denial-of-service does not “exceed authorized access,” as it is virtually indistinguishable from standard web requests. It is more akin to an electronic sit-in protest, overloading the website’s servers making it incapable of serving legitimate traffic, than a criminal act involving stolen private information or destruction of servers. PayPal’s website was only slow or unavailable for a matter of hours, yet these digital activists face prison time of more that 10 years, $250,000 in fines, and felony convictions because the government wants to criminalize this form of internet protest and send a warning to would be Wikileaks supporters.

Another recent case is that of Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, who last November was convicted under the CFAA. Andrew discovered that AT&T was publishing customer names and email addresses on it’s public-facing website, without password protection, encryption, or firewalls. Instead of acknowledging their own mistake in violating customer privacy, AT&T sought prison time for Andrew. Andrew has defended his actions saying, “We have not only a right as Americans to analyze things that corporations publish and make publicly accessible but perhaps a moral obligation to tell people about it.”
I am currently facing multiple computer hacking conspiracy charges due to my alleged involvement with Anonymous, LulzSec, andAntiSec, groups which have targeted and exposed corruption in government institutions and corporations such as Stratfor, The Arizona Department of Public Safety, and HB Gary Federal. My potential sentence is dramatically increased because the Patriot Act expanded the CFAA’s definition of “loss.” This allowed Stratfor to claim over 5 million dollars in damages, including the exorbitant cost of hiring outside credit protection agencies and “infosec” corporations, purchasing new servers, 1.6 million dollars in “lost potential revenue” for the time their website was down, and even the cost of a 1.3 million dollar settlement for a class action lawsuit filed against them. Coupled with use of “sophisticated means” and “affecting critical infrastructure” sentence enhancements, if convicted at trial I am facing a sentence of 30-years-to-life.

Dirty trial tactics and lengthy sentences are not anomalies but are part of a fundamentally flawed and corrupt two-tiered system of “justice” which seeks to reap profits from the mass incarceration of millions, especially people of color and the impoverished. The use of informants who cooperate in exchange for lighter sentences is not just utilized in the repressive prosecutions of protest movements and manufactured “terrorist” Islamophobic witch-hunts, but also in most drug cases, where defendants face some of the harshest sentences in the world.

For Aaron Swartz, himself facing 13 felony CFAA charges, it is likely that it was this intense pressure from relentless and uncompromising prosecutors, who, while being aware of Aaron’s psychological fragility, continued to demand prison time, that led to his untimely death.

Due to widespread public outrage, there is talk of congressional investigations into the CFAA. But since the same Congress had proposed increased penalties not even one year ago, any efforts at reform are unlikely to be more than symbolic. What is needed is not reform but total transformation; not amendments but abolition. Aaron is a hero to me because he did not wait for those in power to realize his vision and change their game, he sought to change the game himself, and he did so without fear of being labeled a criminal and imprisoned by a backwards system of justice.

We the people demand free and equal access to information and technology. We demand transparency and accountability from governments and big corporations, and privacy for the masses from invasive surveillance networks.

The government will never be forgiven. Aaron Swartz will never be forgotten.

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White House warns of dangers posed by WikiLeaks, LulzSec, other 'hacktivists'

New Obama administration strategy says organizations such as WikiLeaks and hacking group LulzSec may conduct "economic espionage against U.S. companies."

The White House warned today of the threat posed by WikiLeaks, LulzSec, and other "hacktivist" groups that have the ability to target U.S. companies and expropriate confidential data.

A new administration-wide strategy (PDF) disclosed at a high-profile event in Washington that included Attorney General Eric Holder says the theft of trade secrets is on the rise and predicts such theft will undermine U.S. national security unless halted.

It's a "steadily increasing threat to America's economy and national security interests," Holder said at the event, which also featured officials from the State Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

"Disgruntled insiders [may leak] information about corporate trade secrets or critical U.S. technology to 'hacktivist' groups like WikiLeaks," the White House warns. Such groups could "develop customized malware or remote-access exploits to steal sensitive U.S. economic or technology information."

It's an unanticipated inclusion in a strategy that was expected to be focused on state-sponsored intrusions -- especially in the wake of disclosures this week about the Chinese military's involvement in penetrating the networks of U.S.-headquartered companies -- and signals that the government's interest in WikiLeaks has not abated. Vice President Joe Biden has called WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange a "high-tech terrorist," and a grand jury has been empaneled in Alexandria, Va., as part of a criminal investigation of the group.

While WikiLeaks is probably best known for disclosing sensitive U.S. government files, it has also released internal bank documents (and once promised to release more) and has been the subject of a controversial funds blockade by Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal. For its part, LulzSec successfully targeted News Corp., HBGary, and Sony in 2011, but has been far less active since, especially after it was infiltrated by the FBI.

The White House strategy views both organizations as part of a broader problem of nongovernment groups taking aim at U.S. companies' networks, and predicts:

. Some intelligence services with less developed cyberprograms already use relationships with nominally independent hackers to augment their capabilities to target political and military information or to carry out operations against regime enemies. For example, the Iranian Cyber Army, a hacker group with links to the Iranian Government, has used social engineering techniques to obtain control over Internet domains and disrupt the political opposition...

. Political or social activists also may use the tools of economic espionage against U.S. companies, agencies, or other entities. The self-styled whistle-blowing group WikiLeaks has already published computer files provided by corporate insiders indicating allegedly illegal or unethical behavior at a Swiss bank, a Netherlands-based commodities company, and an international pharmaceutical trade association. LulzSec -- another hacktivist group -- has exfiltrated data from several businesses that it posted for public viewing on its Web site.

In response to these threats, as well as to state-sponsored groups such as the ones Mandiant disclosed this week, the administration says it will increase "international law enforcement cooperation" and that the FBI and Justice Department will "prioritize these investigations and prosecutions."

WikiLeaks' Assange said in November in an appearance from Ecuador's London embassy that prosecutors want alleged source Bradley Manning, who's currently facing criminal charges inside the military justice system, to identify him as a party to the extraction and delivery of secret U.S. government files.

The Army wants, Assange said from his embassy room where he has sought refuge to avoid an extradition attempt, "to break him, to force him to testify against WikiLeaks and me" -- an apparent reference to the Justice Department's grand jury probe. If prosecutors allege conspiracy to commit computer crimes, they could avoid some of the free speech problems they'd face in an Espionage Act prosecution.

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YourAnonNews twitterde op zaterdag 23-02-2013 om 19:42:58 Project PM has disappeared from the internet. If anyone has a copy of the site, contact us we will mirror with new TLD. PLF@riseup.net reageer retweet

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AnonymousIRC twitterde op maandag 25-02-2013 om 14:01:20 Bank Of America spy team working lurking on #Anonymous networks. [teaser #1] http://t.co/2EE6yOYhWW #Anonymous #OWS #Wikileaks reageer retweet

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AnonymousIRC twitterde op maandag 25-02-2013 om 19:07:50 the pastebins for the teasers all down? Why u so mad, Bank of America? #Anonymous #OWS #Wikileaks reageer retweet

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http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/teaser.txt

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Bank of America went totally nuts and fucking mad cow
and censored all the previous releases, as we love so
much fingering prolapses after buttraeping. here we go
again.

so....

MEGA TEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRR
ALSO COCKS
\:D/

Summary of Information: By the way, if you asked Santa for a present
this #LulzXmas BE PATIENT. Santa has another week people. Questions?
Twitter @ DesructiveSec - Anontastic - Comment: This new information
suggests that we may not be seeing any �Big� releases from #LulzXmas
just yet, however it is advised that we not let our guards down as this
could be what they are hoping for. Ends.



Respectfully,



Jay Haak

Threat Analyst - 24/7 Early Warning Team

TEKsystems Contractor for Bank Of America

Cell: (281) 840-1822

Email: jay.haak@bankofamerica.com

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Subject: EWT - TACTO - Tracking Occupiers
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Source: RawStory.com / Twitter



Date / Time: Tweeted � 28 APR 12 @ 21:07EST / Story Posted � 28 APR 12 @
19:19EDT



Summary of Information: The following tweet was observed: �Banks
cooperating with police to track #Occupy protestors: goo.gl/tpvko #OWS #MAY1st
#MAYDAY @M1GS� � AnonInfoWarfare. The link is to a story that was written
by Andrew Jones of RawStory claiming that American banks and those overseas are
working with law enforcement officials in order to detect and deter the Occupy
Protestors attacks. Currently there are 20 comments from readers, 193
Recommendations to Facebook Users, and 27 Tweets About this Story have been
observed.



http://www.rawstory.com/r(...)-police-to-track-occ
upy-protesters/



Comment: Some comments that have been observed have been individuals claiming
their not surprised while others are outraged. By this story being spread
through the normal social media venues and #MAYDAY quickly approaching we could
see some changes in the way Occupy decides to get the word out to their fellow
protestors. EWT will continue to monitor for any developments regarding this
story, or any suggestions of alternate means of communication regarding protest
activities. Ends.



Respectfully,



Jay Haak

Threat Analyst - 24/7 Early Warning Team

TEKsystems Contractor for Bank Of America

Cell: (281) 840-1822

Email: jay.haak@bankofamerica.com

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Bank of America (and their lackeys)

We have anchored at U.S. shores again to accept a consignment of a data package that probably belongs to our dear friends at Bank of America, though lots of contractors and subsidiaries (aka lackeys) are involved as usual.

It is a known fact that Bank of America is paying contractors to discredit journalist and sabotage their work as well as spying on the Occupy Movement and Anonymous ever since. It was to be expected that these efforts continue and it was also expected that their security remains - at best - lousy.

To start with, we present you about 320mb of internal reports and and emails assembled for Bank of America by a sub-contractor named TEKSystems (who in turn are a subsidiary of the Allegio Group whose founder also owns the Baltimore Ravens). These reports and emails assembled "intelligence" from sources like public channels on Anonymous and other IRC networks like Anonops, Voxanon and Cryto, as well as other social media.

We were geniously amused by the fact that there are actually paid analysts sitting somewhere, reading the vast amount garbage that scrolls by in large public channels like #anonops and #voxanon. Even more amusing is the keyword list that was found, containing trigger words like "Jihad" or "Homosexual".

Additionally about 6 Gigabyte of source code was looted, which is currently under assessment. We can tell so far that this software belongs to ClearForest, a company specializing on text and social network analysis. It is reasonable to assume that this code is the base system for what was used to categorize and store the acquired information. We will add the complete source code once we have finshied the initial assessment.

In the meantime, amuse yourself with the incredibly sensitive and important intelligence that BofA has gathered on Anonops and Voxanon (*smirk*). Please also note that the source has provided an accompanying release statement with the data.

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Pirate Bay abandons Sweden for Norway and Spain after legal threats

The Swedish Pirate Party has handed over hosting of the Pirate Bay to sister parties in Norway and Spain after the country’s copyright lobby sent a letter threatening criminal charges for hosting the controversial file-sharing website.

The Swedish Rights Alliance gave the party until Tuesday to cut all ties with the Pirate Bay following threats of serious legal consequences. In a letter sent directly to the party's board members, the Swedish Pirate Party was accused of violating copyright law by acting as an Internet service provider for the popular bittorrent site.

The alliance also charged that the Supreme Court of Sweden had “legally settled that not only those who operate an illegal file-sharing service, but also those who provide internet access to such an illegal service are committing a criminal act.”

The Rights Alliance said that such violations of copyright law could entail stiff fines for noncompliance, payment of damages and even potential prison terms. “These rules apply to legal entities, including non-profit organizations such as The Pirate Party and Serious Tubes, their board members, and other representatives of the organizations,” the letter continued.

The Pirate Bay’s decision to move its web-hosting services to Norway and Spain likely stems from legal precedents indicating more favorable climates for file-sharing sites.

In 2010, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and several movie studios were unable to force a Norwegian ISP to block the Pirate Bay. Spanish courts have so far failed to react to dozens of site closure requests from rightsholders, and threats from the United States that Spain will be put on a trade blacklist.

Swedish Pirate Party Leader Anna Troberg hailed the shift as a positive sign that despite legal pressure at home, the movement is continuing to become an international platform for reforming copyright laws and patents.

“Today, there are more than sixty different Pirate Parties all around the world. Every cut connection to The Pirate Bay will generate two new connections,” Torrent Freak quoted her as saying.

She further said that to take the Rights Alliance on at this time would not be prudent, despite the tenuous legal claims leveled at the Pirate Party.

“It would be crazy to enter a game where the rules are decided by the other team,” she said. “The Pirate Party’s mission is not to produce martyrs for the copyright industry. Our mission is to create longterm political change that ensures that the copyright industry in the future will not be allowed to threaten companies, organizations and individuals into silence with our common judicial system as a weapon.”

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Anti-protest: Bahrain bans import of plastic Guy Fawkes masks

The Kingdom of Bahrain’s Industry and Commerce Minister, Hassan Fakhro, issued an unusual decree this week: he banned the importation of a plastic face mask. Anyone caught importing the V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask now faces arrest, as anti-government protesters in the country have been using them to stay anonymous.

The stylised visage of Guy Fawkes became popular among protesters after the 2005 Hollywood film depicted thousands marching on Parliament wearing them.

Yet, while it has became an icon for protesters from members of the Occupy Wall Street movement to London demonstrators taking on the Church of Scientology, it has also been a key part of protests in the Arab Spring and Middle Eastern protests that have continued since the heady days of 2011.

Sadly, though, it is but a mask. And the thing about a masks is, you can print them, paint them or draw them yourself. Unless the minister plans to ban all such activity it seems an action as futile as the real Guy Fawkes’s.

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Leaked Info Allegedly Shows The Absurd Lengths BofA Goes To Spy On Hackers

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"[T]he data was not acquired by a hack but because it was stored on a misconfigured server and basically open for grabs. Even more alarming, the data was retrieved from an Israeli server in Tel Aviv."

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Anonymous Hacked Bank of America

And Seemingly Revealed That They Are Spying on Hacktivists

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Having a team on staff to protect a corporation from potential cyber-threats is nothing new. This isn’t what caught the attention of Anonymous to begin with; it was the methods being employed by Bank of America to gather data. Each of the 500+ e-mails pilfered reads like a surveillance report, most of them reporting on the activities of online activists from Anonymous to Occupy Wall St.

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The stolen data was spread through various Anonymous accounts, but one group in particular took responsibility for its release. They’re called “Par:AnoIA,” and I had the opportunity to interview one of their members.

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ANONYMOUS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING:

AN AMERICAN ANON IN EXILE

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A while back I decided to interview @AnonyOps. We chat regularly. As a result, we quickly generated a huge stack of material.

We worked together in a consultative process to trim back the content. The result is true to the nature of the conversation we’ve held over a number of months.

This interview is the first time anyone has interviewed @AnonyOps about his decision to become Anonymous, his fear of persecution, the talent brain-drain and his decision to leave the U.S.

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The Saga of Barrett Brown: Inside Anonymous and the War on Secrecy

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Alleged “hacktivist” Barrett Brown, the 31-year old mislabeled “spokesman” for the shadowy hacker collective known as Anonymous, faces federal charges that could put him away for over a hundred years. Did he engage in a spree of murders? Run a child-sex ring? Not quite. His crime: making leaked e-mails accessible to the public—documents that shine a light on the shadowy world of intelligence contracting in the post-9/11 era.

A critically acclaimed author and provocative journalist, Brown cannot be too easily dismissed as some unruly malcontent typing away in the back of a gritty espresso lounge. He is eccentric. And he was clearly high on something, if only his own hubris, when he made a threatening video that put him in the feds’ crosshairs. But that’s not the real reason for the government’s overreaction. Evidence indicates it has a lot more to do with sending a message to the community he comes from, which the government sees—correctly—as a threat.

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FREE THE NETWORK: Take Back The Web, Internet, WIFI...

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Anonymous 'spokesperson' to spend year in jail without trial

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The federal trial against alleged computer criminal Barrett Brown has been delayed by six months. Now the activist once called the “spokesperson” of the Anonymous hacker movement will wait in prison for one full year before being tried.

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Social media editor charged in hacking conspiracy

Associated Press= SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A deputy social media editor for Reuters vowed that Friday would be "business as usual" despite charges of conspiring with the notorious hacking group Anonymous to deface an online story of the Los Angeles Times.

Federal authorities allege that in December 2010, Matthew Keys, 26, provided hackers with login information to access the computer system of the Tribune Co., the parent company of the Times that also owns a Sacramento television station Keys was fired from months before.

Investigators allege that Keys gave a hacker named "Sharpie" the information in an Internet chat room frequented by hackers and urged the hacker to do some damage to the Tribune Co.

According to the indictment, Sharpie altered a Times news story posted Dec. 14 and 15, 2010, to read "Pressure builds in House to elect CHIPPY 1337," a reference to another hacking group. "Chippy 1337" claimed responsibility for defacing the website of video game publisher Eidos in 2011.

Keys' Facebook page says he worked as an online news producer for the Sacramento FOX affiliate KTXL from June 2008 to April 2010.

The news agency Reuters hired Keys in 2012 as a deputy editor for social media and he was at work Thursday. He didn't return a phone call or respond to email messages seeking comment. Reuters spokesman David Girardin said the company was "aware" of the indictment when Keys was hired last year, but he declined further comment.

"I am fine," Keys tweeted Thursday, hours after his federal indictment was announced. "I found out the same way most of you did: From Twitter. Tonight I'm going to take a break. Tomorrow, business as usual."

The indictment alleges that a second attempt to hack the Times was unsuccessful.

Federal prosecutors allege in court papers that a legendary hacker and Anonymous leader named "Sabu" offered advice on how to infiltrate Tribune's systems. The FBI unmasked Sabu when it arrested Hector Xavier Monsegur on June 7, 2011. Monsegur secretly worked as an FBI informant until federal officials announced that he helped them arrest five other alleged hackers on March 6, 2012.

Federal officials declined to comment on whether Sabu assisted in the investigation of Keys.

The day after it was announced that Sabu was an FBI informant, Keys wrote a story for Reuters about "infiltrating" the hackers' chat room.

Keys is charged with one count each of conspiracy to transmit information to damage a protected computer, as well as transmitting and attempting to transmit that information. If convicted, the New Jersey native faces a combined 25 years prison and a $500,000 fine if sentenced to the maximum for each count.

He is scheduled for arraignment April 12 in Sacramento.

The indictment comes after recent hacks into the computer systems of two other U.S. media companies that own The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Both newspapers reported in February that their computer systems had been infiltrated by China-based hackers, likely to monitor media coverage the Chinese government deems important.

Anonymous and its offshoot, Lulz Security, have been linked to a number of high-profile computer attacks and crimes, including many that were meant to embarrass governments, federal agencies and corporate giants. They have been connected to attacks that took data from FBI partner organization InfraGard, and they've jammed websites of the CIA and the Public Broadcasting Service.

A computer security specialist said the LA Times attack would be an unusual hack if the government's charges are accurate.

"This is first case where I've heard of someone leaking stuff to Anonymous to have a site defaced, instead of defacing it himself," said Clifford Neuman, director of University of Southern California Center for Computer Systems Security. "He found some way to achieve his ends of defacing the website without having to do it himself."

A spokesman for the Chicago-based Tribune Co. declined to comment.

While Keys did not directly address the federal charges Thursday through his voluminous Twitter feed, commentary from his more than 23,500 followers and even a story about the news indictment were retweeted from his account.

He did not address the issue on his Facebook page, where his last posting Thursday was about the best way to make a grilled cheese sandwich.

According to Keys' Facebook profile, he is single, lives in New York City and works at Thomson Reuters Corp.'s New York office, where "I get paid to use Twitter and Facebook at work."

London-based Reuters has been expanding its business in the United States. This year, six of the Tribune's seven newspapers dropped The Associated Press for Reuters, citing cost savings. The Los Angeles Times stayed with AP.

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Matthew Keys, the Reuters deputy social media editor charged with helping Anonymous attack the website of his former employer, acted as an “undercover" journalist when he communicated with members of the hacker group, his attorneys told The Huffington Post Friday.

“This is sort of an undercover-type, investigative journalism thing, and I know undercover -- I’m using that term loosely,” attorney Jay Leiderman said. “This is a guy who went where he needed to go to get the story. He went into the sort of dark corners of the Internet. He’s being prosecuted for that, for going to get the story.”

Keys's other attorney, Tor Ekeland, said Keys was "surprised" by the indictment Thursday and called the government’s case against him “a classic example of DOJ overreach."

"It looks like the government is essentially indicting a reporter under the [Computer Fraud and Abuse Act] for writing about Anonymous," Ekeland said.

Federal prosecutors, however, say Keys went beyond the basic tenets of journalism. They portray him as a disgruntled ex-employee who wanted hackers to deface the website of his former employer, a local Fox station in Sacramento.

Keys's attorneys dispute that he turned over login information for the company's content management system and argue the charges against him set a "really scary" precedent for journalists.

“It is telling journalists that you can’t do what you need to do to bring the Anonymous story to the forefront," Leiderman said. "This is a nasty shot across the bow for all journalists that would seek to cover Anonymous."

Leiderman, based in California, and Ekeland, of Brooklyn, are representing Keys pro bono. Keys was previously represented by a federal public defender who was working on the case pre-indictment, according to Leiderman.

Ekeland has also represented alleged members of Anonymous and Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker known as “Weev” who was convicted in November of conspiracy and identity theft after collecting thousands of email addresses from an AT&T server and disclosing them to the website Gawker. Auernheimer will be sentenced next week and faces up to 10 years in prison.

On Thursday, Keys’s current employer, Thomson Reuters, suspended him with pay, a spokesman said. Keys did not return phone calls or an email seeking comment.

Prosecutors appeared to anticipate his attorneys' argument that Keys was acting as a journalist. U.S. Attorney Ben Wagner, who is prosecuting the case, told Reuters that officials at Justice Department headquarters signed off on the indictment several times "out of an abundance of caution” because Keys is a journalist. A Justice Department spokeswoman told HuffPost there was “natural” consultation between the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Justice Department’s Criminal Division in D.C.

The federal investigation into Keys began on Dec. 1, 2010, when his former employer, Fox 40, noticed the station’s email contact list had been compromised and a producer received unsolicited emails from an unknown person who claimed to have the list, according to an FBI affidavit obtained by The Huffington Post.

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Westboro Baptist Church Founder Fred Phelps May Be Gay, Suggests Former Member Lauren Drain

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I never understood why, when [the media asked him], “Why are you so against the homosexuals? Did you have a homosexual experience? Do you have homosexual tendencies?” And he would get so mad, he would shut down. And he’d be like, “I can’t talk to this person anymore, they’re stupid.” His reaction to that was stronger than any other question you can ask him. So I always wondered that — why does he get so mad? If I’m not gay, I’ll just say I’m not gay. And I’m not going to freak out, like, “Why are you calling me gay?” I always thought that was super strange. … I don’t know what happened there, so [speculation] is all that I can leave it at. But something happened, and something made him change his mind about the military, and in turn have kind of a crusade against sexual immorality and homosexuals.

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US teen football players found guilty of rape

Ohio high school hearing marred with claims of police favouritism and questions over role of social media.

Two high school football players in the US state of Ohio have been found guilty of rape.

The judge announced the verdict on Sunday following four days of testimony in Jefferson County juvenile court in eastern Ohio.

The two star players were charged with raping a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fuelled party last summer.

Prosecutors said the drunken girl was taken advantage of. Defence attorneys, however, said the girl has a history of heavy drinking and lying.

Attorneys for 16-year-old MaLik Richmond and 17-year-old Trent Mays have contested the charges and have sought the dismissal of the case because of an inability to subpoena certain witnesses.

The two teenagers were seen crying inside the courtroom after learning the verdict.

The suspects were arrested after a phone-camera picture of the victim on the night she was allegedly sexually assaulted was emailed to many people in the community.

The two defendants could be jailed in juvenile court until they turn 21.

Social media attention and allegations of selective prosecution have given the case an international profile.

Al Jazeera's John Terrett, reporting from Washington D.C., said the case has divided the community between those who claimed the two teenagers were unfairly charged, and those who wanted to end the culture of protecting young players.

"I'm afraid there's a lot of cases of date-rape and things here, but you don't often get to see evidence like this posted online," Terrett said. "For that reason this case has attracted an awful lot of tension".

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The persecution of Barrett Brown - and how to fight it

The journalist and Anonymous activist is targeted as part of a broad effort to deter and punish internet freedom activism

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Just this week alone, a US federal judge sentenced hactivist Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer to 3 1/2 years in prison for exploiting a flaw in AT&T's security system that allowed him entrance without any hacking, an act about which Slate's Justin Peters wrote: "it's not clear that Auernheimer committed any actual crime", while Jeff Blagdon at the Verge added: "he cracked no codes, stole no passwords, or in any way 'broke into' AT&T's customer database - something company representatives confirmed during testimony." But he had a long record of disruptive and sometimes even quite ugly (though legal) online antagonism, so he had to be severely punished with years in prison. Also this week, the DOJ indicted the deputy social media editor at Reuters, Matthew Keys, on three felony counts which carry a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison for allegedly providing some user names and passwords that allowed Anonymous unauthorized access into the computer system of the Los Angeles Times, where they altered a few stories and caused very minimal damage. As Peters wrote about that case, "the charges under the CFAA seem outrageously severe" and, about Keys' federal prosecutors, observed: "apparently, they didn't take away any lessons from the Aaron Swartz case."

But the pending federal prosecution of 31-year-old Barrett Brown poses all new troubling risks. That's because Brown - who has been imprisoned since September on a 17-count indictment that could result in many years in prison - is a serious journalist who has spent the last several years doggedly investigating the shadowy and highly secretive underworld of private intelligence and defense contractors, who work hand-in-hand with the agencies of the Surveillance and National Security State in all sorts of ways that remain completely unknown to the public. It is virtually impossible to conclude that the obscenely excessive prosecution he now faces is unrelated to that journalism and his related activism.

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The issues Brown was investigating are complex and serious, and I won't detail all of that here. In addition to Gallagher's article, two superb and detailed accounts of Brown's journalism in these areas have been published by Christian Stork of WhoWhatWhy and Vice's Patrick McGuire; read those to see how threatening Brown's work had become to lots of well-connected people. Suffice to say, Brown, using the documents obtained by Anonymous, was digging around - with increasing efficacy - in places which National Security and Surveillance State agencies devote considerable energy to concealing.

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Anonymous releases thousands of alleged records of Israeli officials

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Anonymous has struck again in its ongoing campaign against Israeli forces, this time by releasing thousands of names, ID numbers, email addresses and geographic data allegedly corresponding to Israeli politicians, IDF officers and even Mossad agents.

It appears that Anonymous has struck again in its ongoing cyber-war against the state of Israel, this time with the release of a batch of thousands of names, ID numbers, email addresses and geographic information which allegedly correspond to Israeli politicians, IDF officers, and even Mossad agents.

RT has viewed the spreadsheets but has not yet been able to verify the legitimacy of the data, which has quickly garnered thousands of views as the documents spread via social media.

Dubbed “#OpIsrael” on Twitter, various collectives of the amorphous Anonymous community are targeting official Israeli web domains, evidently causing intermittent disruption to the official website of spy agency Mossad via a self-described “sophisticated DDoS” attack.

The data was released by a hacker team going by the name of “The Red Hack,” a Turkish group, while the direct denial-of-service attack targeted at Mossad was attributed to another group operating under the moniker “Sektor 404.”

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News from Anonymous

Popular online aggregator @YourAnonNews prepares to host and fund its own site.

A branch of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, @YourAnonNews (YAN), announced on Wednesday that it plans to start its own publicly funded news site. The move will allow the account to operate without the restrictions of companies like Twitter and Tumblr, where it is currently hosted. YAN plans to fund the project entirely through crowd-sourcing and donated services. Days after the announcement, designers and programmers came forward to contribute.

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For Better or Worse, Anonymous Is Getting Involved in Another Rape Case

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The hacker collective which turned the national spotlight onto a then little-known football town called Steubenville has now shifted its eyes onto Torrington, Connecticut and the a rape case involving two 18-year-old football players, two 13-year-old girls, and the student body of Torrington who bullied the alleged victims. The announcement came through the creation of the #OpRaider hashtag last night:

Anonymous - #Operation Rohingya

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How Anonymous gamed Twitter to shed light on a hidden massacre

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OpRohingya aims to bring attention to the slaughter and forced dislocation of tens of thousands of Rohingya people from their traditional lands. The Rohingya people are Muslim in a predominantly Buddhist nation, and many observers are putting this conflict down to clashes between religions. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Dot, Global Square founder Heather Marsh debunks that claim, and indicates that the actual motivation for these sectarian clashes is no different than that which motivated either of the Gulf Wars.

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OpRohingya on Sunday was extremely successful: not only did they trend No. 1 in the U.S., but they were also #3 in the U.K. and hit top 10 worldwide. For those who might dismiss this as slacktivism, we'd draw your attention to the fact that this morning a report on the Rohingya slaughters is on the front page of the Guardian, which has not previously covered the issue. Al Jazeera, the Qatari network, has covered the Rohingya issue a number of times, but it has yet to truly penetrate Western media, which is riding a wave of optimism since Aung San Suu Kyi was freed from her decades-long house arrest. Coverage on radical sites has been growing, but until the Twitter storm, there was virtually no coverage in what could be considered the Mainstream Media.

Tweets in the tweetstorm included the fax number to the CNN assignment desk (no joy there so far) as well as a live protest, livestreamed, in front of the CNN offices. The protesters were reportedly told by a CNN staffer that they "don't care" about the issue. The protest was, as all protests currently are, livestreamed. In a hearkening back to Tiananmen Square days, black faxes were sent to Burmese embassies, and numerous government sites including the office of the president were either DDoS'd or defaced. Instructions for the Twitterstorm, distributed on Pastebin, were unusually detailed, which certainly had an impact on their effectiveness. By laying out so many specific options, Anonymous maximized the chance that someone would feel connected enough to any specific one to tweet it, and by suggesting copy/paste tweets rather than retweets, Anonymous successfully gamed the Twitter system, gaining the top ranking.

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Don’t believe hack claims against Mossad’s website, expert says

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In an unsettling announcement, the hacker group known as Anonymous and affiliates proclaimed over the weekend that they had broken into the Mossad’s servers and stolen the names and personal details of top IDF officials, politicians and, especially, Mossad agents. But those claims are inflated, to say the least, according to Middle East Internet expert Dr. Tal Pavel.

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NATO-Commissioned Report Says Killing Hackers Is Basically OK

Cyber-warfare is all well and civilized when it's confined to a tit-for-tat hacking of banks, but it's got the potential to spiral out of control real fast. To try and prevent that, and save the world from a hacked-WoW-account-induced apocalypse, NATO's comissioned a set of international laws to try and make cyber-warfare more…civilized.

Despite how it might seem, war's actually relatively civilized. Agreements like the Geneva Conventions and Ottowa Treaty lay down laws as to how warfare should be conducted - be nice to your prisoners and no blowing people up with landmines, for example - and the UN charter explains when war might be justified, say for self-defence. But none of those were written with cyber-warfare in mind, which is difficult when the Americans are going round hacking the Iranians, the Koreans are hacking each other and China's just hacking everyone.

In an attempt to make some sense of the mess, NATO (basically the Western powers-that-be) commissioned a report from a bunch of legal experts at the ‘NATO Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence' to suggest some rules for cyber-warfare. Well, the report's in, and the suggestions are kinda surprising.

Basically, cyber attacks which cause "physical damage, injury or death" constitute a ‘use of force', and thus can be retaliated to with real physical weapons. Equally surprising is the classification of civilian hacktivists as legitimate targets during war.

For those of us who aren't looking forward to WWIII, though, there is some good news. As with conventional warfare, there's a list of targets that's off-limits for cyber-warfare, including things like hospitals and nuclear power plants (oops, USA/Israel). Additionally, an attack originating in a country doesn't constitute proof for retaliation - there has to be proper evidence that the attack is the actual work of a government.

It's worth noting that these proposals aren't law - yet. At the moment, it's just a set of suggestions, but given the work that's gone into it, and the lack of sensible alternatives, something tells me that these ‘suggestions' might get the global thumbs-up real soon. [CCDCOE via Guardian]

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VICE Speaks to Barrett Brown from Prison

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Anonymous plans to flood Facebook with "uncensored material" April 6

Hacktivist collective Anonymous has taken on the Church of Scientology, the CIA, kitten-abusing teens, and the security think tank Stratfor with great success. The one target it has never been able to reach, despite numerous attempts, is Facebook.

So instead of trying to take the world's largest social network offline or hack its servers, Anonymous plans on flooding Facebook with "uncensored material" as part of a campaign called #OpTruthForce.

"In past years we have seen a growing force around the world," Anonymous wrote on AnonNews.org. "Governments and corporations are working strategically to stop free speech by the people. In more recent months we have witnessed an increased number of account blocking and deletion by Facebook, of users who dare to ridicule, mock, satirize, or speak out against political leaders or corporations heavily involved with politics."

The bombardment is planned for April 6, the same day Mahatma Gandhi disobeyed British law through civil disobedience.

"All anons WORLDWIDE hit facebook with uncensored material. We shall continue this bombardment of material as long as we can—hopefully 24 hours," an Anonymous rep added. "We will flood their system—their admins won't be able to keep up. THEY CAN'T BAN US ALL AT ONCE!"

They may have a tough time of it. Threats of attack against Facebook in the fall of 2011 and 2012 never quite panned out. But this may be a good time to exploit the site's lax security: In the last week, two child pornography videos went viral on the social network, accumulating thousands of likes before being removed.

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Wisconsin man indicted in Anonymous attack of Koch Industries

A Wisconsin man could face years in federal prison if he is convicted of helping hacker collective Anonymous take down Koch Industries' website during protests in the state's capital in 2011, according to an indictment revealed this week.

The charges were announced Tuesday by the U.S. attorney's office in Wichita, Kan. -- the home of Koch Industries, a $115-billion-a-year oil and manufacturing conglomerate owned by libertarian iconoclasts Charles and David Koch.

Officials said Eric J. Rosol, 37, of Black Creek, Wis., participated in an Anonymous-organized shutdown of Koch websites www.kochind.com and www.quiltednorthern.com on Feb. 27 and 28 in 2011.

Rosol is the first and only defendant charged in the attack, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office told the Los Angeles Times.

The Koch site shutdown came during the height of pro-union protests in Wisconsin's state capital that winter, when the Koch brothers came under criticism for backing the state's union cutbacks. Under the hashtag #OpWisconsin, Anonymous members issued a statement accusing the Kochs of "political manipulation" and said, "We are actively seeking vulnerabilities."

In the world of computer crime, the attack was more of a mobbing than a robbery.

Using Internet-relay chats to organize, according to the indictment, Anonymous conducted what's known as a distributed denial-of-service attack, or a DDOS, where users repeatedly access a website until it's too overwhelmed to function. (The physical equivalent would be a group of people standing in front of a door so closely that no one else can enter.)

"If successful, the attack causes the target computer to be unable to respond or to respond so slowly as to be effectively unavailable to users," prosecutors said in a news release.

[For the Record, 7:15 a.m., PST March 28: An earlier version of this post stated that an indictment charges that Anonymous conducted what is known as a dedicated denial-of-service attack. The indictment actually charges that the group conducted a distributed denial-of-service attack, in which a website is overloaded, not hacked.]

A confidential FBI affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun in July 2011 showed FBI agents peering in on the chat channels where Anonymous members were organizing to use a DDOS tool called the "Low Orbit Ion Cannon" to overcrowd the Kochs' websites during the attack.

"Keep it up, boys and kids! LAZERS TO 146.209.131.43," one user chatted on Feb. 28, 2011, apparently referring to the site's IP address, according to the affidavit. "kochind.com is down and sinking further! Keep it up!"

"hmmm... kochind looks down to me," one user on the #OPWISCONSIN chat channel said.

"after it's down, do you have to keep firing?" one chatted.

"YES ALWAYS KEEP FIRING," a user replied, according to the affidavit.

The site quickly returned to service, according to news reports after the attack.

Rosol is charged with one count of conspiracy to damage a protected computer and one count of damaging a protected computer. Each charge carries a maximum prison sentence of five years and a $250,000 fine. Rosol did not respond to a phone message left Wednesday.

An archived version of his blog showed that he posted a link to a Greenpeace report on Koch Industries the day of the website attack; the post has since been removed.

Rosol posted a link to a story about his indictment on Facebook on Wednesday.

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Hacker collective Anonymous declares cyberwar on North Korea

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The loose, sprawling collective of hackers, hacktivists, and hangers-on, Anonymous, is now targeting North Korea. The group claims to have infiltrated North Korean web servers as well as Uriminzokkiri.com, a China-based North Korean propaganda site. In a statement directed against DPRK head honcho and Dennis Rodman BFF Kim Jong-un, Anonymous warned, "First we gonna wipe your data, then we gonna wipe your badass dictatorship 'government'".

Anonymous's statement claims that hackers have penetrated the North Korean intranet service Kwangmoyng, as well as local mail and web servers. They have also allegedly stolen records from over 15,000 user accounts on Uriminzokkiri.com, a DPRK propaganda and news-gathering site located in China.

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Hello, citizens of the world.

We are Anonymous

North Korean government is increasingly becoming a threat to peace and freedom.
Don't misunderstand us: As well we disagree with the USA government too - these guys are crooks,
USA is a threat to world peace too, and direct democracy (or any kind of democracy) doesn't exist
there. The American government is a target and enemy of Anonymous as well!
This is not about country vs country - This is about we, the people, the 99% (of USA and of North
Korea) vs oppressing and violent regimes (like USA gov. and N.K. gov)!
We, the people, are gathering together because we are stronger now and we won't fight your wars
anymore, we won't eat your shit anymore!!!

We demand:
- N.K. government to stop making nukes and nuke-threats
- Kim Jong-un to resign
- it's time to install a free direct democracy in North Korea
- uncensored internet access for all the citizens!

To Kim Jong-un:
So you feel the need to create large nukes and threaten half the world with them?
So you're into demonstrations of power?, here is ours:
- We are inside your local intranets (Kwangmyong and others)
- We are inside your mailservers
- We are inside your webservers
Enjoy these few records as a proof of our access to your systems (random innocent citizens, collateral
damage, because they were stupid enough to choose idiot passwords), we got all over 15k membership
records of www.uriminzokkiri.com and many more. First we gonna wipe your data, then we gonna wipe your
badass dictatorship "government".

To the citizens of North Korea we suggest to rise up and bring these motherfuckers of a oppressive
government down!
We are holding your back and your hand, while you take the journey to freedom, democracy and peace.
You are not alone.
Don't fear us, we are not terrorist, we are the good guys from the internet. AnonKorea and all the
other Anons are here to set you free.

We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us!

Partial leak (example records) of www.uriminzokkiri.com
jzhh123456 127.0.0.1 M 공인 김강희 jzhh@126.com 245847 1965614 0 2012-06-29 00:00:00 중국 0 P 1340895600 25d55ad283aa400af464c76d713c07ad (12345678) Y 0 Y S
kdn 127.0.0.1 M 교원 김동남 kdn@kdn.com 1234567890 197011 0 2012-07-14 00:00:00 대동강 0 P 1342191600 25d55ad283aa400af464c76d713c07ad (12345678) Y 0 Y S
naolbu 127.0.0.1 M 무직업 naolbu 393932863@qq.com 15550457379 190061 0 2012-08-26 00:00:00 북경 0 P 1345906800 62c8ad0a15d9d1ca38d5dee762a16e01 (1234qwer) Y 0 Y S
mini88888 M 2 lihaozhe mini_888888@163.com 0 19830905 0 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0 P 1244628730 74d738020dca22a731e30058ac7242ee (loveme) Y 0 Y S
trretr M 0 fgd liuzhexi123@hotmail.com 0 19851212 2 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0 P 1244630676 e10adc3949ba59abbe56e057f20f883e (123456) Y 0 Y S
skyma009 M 8 Chalie syibyeey@yahoo.com.cn 0 19780909 2 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0 P 1244352432 e10adc3949ba59abbe56e057f20f883e (123456) Y 0 Y S

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Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites

North Korea’s official Twitter and Flickr accounts have been hacked and two of its main websites defaced, in hacker group Anonymous’s latest efforts to disrupt the communist county’s online presence.

Last week, hackers that purported to be part of the ‘hacktivist’ collective claimed to have swiped 15,000 passwords from North Korea’s Uriminzokkiri.com news and information site in response to the North Korean regime and its nuclear weapons program. While that feat remains unclear since the hackers posted details of just six of the accounts that they claimed to have gotten, there is no doubt about the latest efforts.

Here’s a screenshot of the hacked tweets from @uriminzok, which has around 15,000 followers. The first of which was sent at 22:45 PDT on Wednesday.



Similarly, a distinctly Anonymous image has been uploaded to the country’s Flickr account, while books and music store Ryomyong.com and Aindf.com (the website for a North Korea-linked political regime in South Korea) have both been defaced to show images lampooning North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.



The hackers claim Uriminzokkiri.com has been hacked too and, while the site has gone offline, that could be down to a DDoS attack rather than a hack.

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A Pastebin note from hackers claims that the group has members inside of North Korea who are helping with the efforts against authorities in the country:

. We have a few guys on the ground who managed to bring the real internet into the country using a chain of long distance WiFi repeaters with proprietary frequencies, so theyre not jammed (yet). We also have access to some N.K. phone landlines which are connected to Kwangmyong through dial-ups. Last missing peace of puzzle was to interconnect the two networks, which those guys finally managed to do.

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The U.S. Government Is Suing Barrett Brown's Intelligence Research Site

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Last week, as I noted in my interview with Barrett from prison, Barrett’s mother plead guilty to her charge of obstructing evidence: she hid his computers from the FBI. Late last night, the news broke through the “Free Barett Brown” Twitter account that Brown’s Wiki, ProjectPM, which is described on the project’s Twitter page as being, “Dedicated to research of government corruption, sitting in bubble baths drinking wine,” was being subpoenaed by the Department of Justice.

ProjectPM is an online compendium where Barrett and his fellow researchers share information they've been gathering about the intelligence industry in the United States. The Department of Justice is suing the company’s hosting provider, CloudFlare. While ProjectPM appeared to have gone down on Wednesday, it seems the site is back up. This kind of spotty connection has been very common for the site over the past few months. Even Googling ProjectPM does not yield any results that point to the site.

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Anonymous wil Israël van het internet verwijderen

Hackersgroep Anonymous lanceert naar eigen zeggen op zondag, de gedenkdag voor de Holocaust, een grote digitale aanval op Israël. De beweging wil Israël 'van het internet laten verwijderen'.

Anonymous komt met #OpIsrael, zoals de aanval wordt genoemd, in actie tegen 'Israëls voortdurende schendingen van de mensenrechten, het verbreken van de wapenstilstand met de Palestijnen en de continue bouw van illegale nederzettingen', stelde de beweging in een persbericht.

Tijdens de operatie worden websites van de Israëlische overheid, veiligheidsdiensten, banken, media en bedrijven doelwit. Leden van Anonymous maken in de aanloop naar en tijdens de aanval op berichtendienst Twitter melding van de websites die zij hebben gehackt en persoonlijke gegevens van Israëlische ambtenaren en soldaten die zij hebben gestolen.

Symbolische dag
'Wij vallen aan op de internationale gedenkdag voor de Holocaust, omdat dit een belangrijke, symbolische dag is', verklaarde een hacker tegenover het ANP. 'Wij willen dat de wereld op deze dag stilstaat bij de misdaden van het zionisme tegen de Palestijnen.'

De cyberaanval zondag is een vervolg op de grote digitale aanval van Anonymous op Israëlische websites tijdens de strijd tussen Israël en de Palestijnse Hamas in de Gazastrook in november vorig jaar. Toen werden Israëlische websites dagelijks miljoenen keren aangevallen en werden de persoonlijke gegevens van 5000 Israëlische overheidsfunctionarissen op internet gepubliceerd.

Scepsis
Hoewel Anonymous #OpIsrael aankondigt als 'de grootste internetoorlog in de geschiedenis van de mensheid', bestaat er scepsis over de aanval.

'Websites van de Israëlische overheid en veiligheidsdiensten zijn zeer goed beschermd, omdat deze continu worden aangevallen,' aldus dr. Gabi Siboni, een Israëlische expert in digitale oorlogsvoering aan de universiteit van Tel Aviv.

'Anonymous gebruikt vooral DDoS-aanvallen, waarbij sites worden bestookt met dataverkeer, zodat de servers overbelast raken en de sites tijdelijk slecht bereikbaar worden. Daar kunnen privépersonen en bedrijven weinig tegen doen, maar de schade blijft meestal beperkt.'

Beveiliging opgeschroefd
Toch meldde de Israëlische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Yuval Steinitz deze week dat de beveiliging van belangrijke digitale infrastructuur is opgeschroefd. Daarnaast opent de Israëlische Internet Associatie op de dag van de aanval een telefonische hulplijn voor burgers en bedrijven die denken slachtoffer van #OpIsrael te zijn.

Die voorbereidingen zijn terecht, vindt Siboni. 'Websites over bijvoorbeeld Joodse cultuur of nieuwssites die dagelijks veel bezoekers trekken, hebben grote symbolische betekenis in onze samenleving. Helaas is het te kostbaar en te ingewikkeld om al deze websites afdoende te beveiligen.'

In november publiceerde Anonymous op Youtube onderstaande aankondiging van cyberaanvallen op Israël.

Anonymous #OpIsrael

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Anonymous Press Release: Iceland Member Of Parliament & Former WikiLeaks Spokesperson To Meet With "PayPal 14" Defendant

Thursday - April 4, 2013 10:00 AM ET USA Iceland Member of Parliament and former WikiLeaks Spokesperson Birgitta Jonsdottir, who arrived yesterday in the USA for a 5 day visit to show support for imprisoned whistle-blower Bradley Manning - will meet with "PayPal 14" defendant Mercedes Haefer on the evening of April 7, 2013.

The "PayPal 14" are the individuals alleged by the government to be part of Anonymous and to have participated in the online protests in which many thousands of people showed their support of WikiLeaks by doing DdoS, or cyber sit-ins on the web sites of PayPal, MaserCard, Visa, Amazon - and even the Swedish Prosecutors Office in December of 2010. During that time, Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir was a Spokesperson for WikiLeaks, and had helped in the production of the now famous "Collateral Murder" video - which showed the wanton slaughter of innocent civilians and journalists by US forces in Iraq.

The meeting between these two courageous activists is historic. Since her indictment, Mercedes Haefer has continued to stand strong and speak out publicly on behalf of the rights of online activists to not be monitored by their government because of their views and to be able to engage in civil protest on the Internet. She has become a symbol of defiance against the draconian laws and prosecutions of human rights and information activists in the USA. MP Birgitta Jonsdottir has since left the WikiLeaks organization - but has continued to use her position in the Icelandic government to push for civil reforms in that country and has recently founded the Pirate Party of Iceland.

A small portion of this historic meeting will be opened to the media. MP Birgitta Jonsdottir and Mercedes Haefer, accompanied by attorney Stanley Cohen - will be briefly available to the media on the evening of April 7, 2013 at approximately 7:30 PM ET USA in New York City. Photography and filming will be allowed. There may be brief statements made by Haefer, Jonsdottir or Cohen - and there will be a VERY brief Question & Answer session as well. Due to the tight timing, as well as the size of the venue being provided to the media - RSVP is absolutely required. If you are a journalist and want to attend this event, please send an E-Mail to AnonymousGlobal@riseup.net no later than the morning of April 7th and we will confirm your attendance and send you the details you will need.

SIGNED -- Anonymous
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MP Birgitta Jonsdottir Public Appearances NYC - http://bit.ly/15F7Qis

Anonymous - www.AnonymousGlobal.tk

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#OpIsrael #Anonymous
#BREAKING: Israeli forces are raiding hackers in the West Bank. #Anonymous arrests are happening right now in Al Khalil, Tulkaram, and Nablus. Stay safe and change your location if you are in West Bank and working on Hacking Israeli sites!

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Anonymous hacks Israeli sites

JERUSALEM, April 7 (UPI) -- A number of Israeli websites were taken over Sunday by anti-Israel hackers, officials said. In retaliation, Israeli hackers broke into anti-Israel websites.

A wide scale of Israeli sites were allegedly hacked early Sunday, including those for the Israel Police, Prime Minister's Office, the Israel Securities Authority, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry and the Central Bureau of Statistics, Haaretz reported. Most were running again by Sunday morning.

Some government agencies denied being hacked.

The hackers, who were affiliated with the group Anonymous, said they were against Israeli policies in Gaza and the West Bank and planned to wipe Israel "off the map of the Internet."

"You have not stopped your endless human rights violations," the hackers said in an online post addressed to Israel's government. "You have not stopped illegal settlements. You have not respected the cease-fire [ending Operation Pillar of Defense in November]. You have shown that you do not respect international law."

Meanwhile, Israeli hackers broke into the Anonymous website, OpIsrael.com, on which the Anonymous hackers coordinated the attack on Israeli sites, The Jerusalem Post reported.

An Israeli hacker, under in user-name EhIsR, posted under a heading titled "A few forgotten facts" that "Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, 2,000 years before the rise of Islam."

Roni Becher, the head of the cyberattack division of the Avnet information security company, said: "At this stage, we are mainly seeing a buildup of tension and power struggles between Israeli hackers and hackers from various groups who have joined Anonymous. Anonymous hackers are updating lists of websites they intend to attack."

"In general, it is apparent that many organizations are making efforts to stop the attack, or at least to minimize damages," he added.

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The Pirate Bay duikt op in Groenland

Fans van The Pirate Bay kunnen hun favoriete site, voorlopig, weer bezoeken zonder allerlei omwegen. De torrentsite heeft een Groenlandse domeinnaam in gebruik genomen en die blijkt niet op de zwarte lijst te staan bij providers als Ziggo. Via thepiratebay.gl is direct op de site te komen.

Volgens Bright is het twijfelachtig of het .gl-domein lang vrij te bezoeken blijft voor Nederlanders. Stichting Brein heeft al laten weten actie te ondernemen tegen het nieuwe domein. De kans is groot dat het .gl-adres binnen een paar dagen of weken aan de zwarte lijst wordt toegevoegd.

Overigens bleek eerder al dat de blokkade van The Pirate Bay niet heel veel effect heeft. Downloaders zoeken hun heil op andere sites en bovendien is het Zweedse piratenbolwerk redelijk eenvoudig te vinden via zogeheten proxysites.

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Lulzsec members admit cyber attacks on CIA and Serious Organised Crime Agency

Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam also pleaded guilty to blocking access to Sony, News International and the Westboro Baptist Church

Three members of the high profile internet “hacktivist” group LulzSec have admitted to their parts in a series of cyber attacks against targets which included the CIA, the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency and News International, a court heard today.

Jake Davis, 20, and 18-year-old Mustafa Al-Bassam, who can be named for the first time today, have both pleaded guilty to attacks on websites belonging to the two agencies, as well as Sony, News International and the NHS.

And they, along with accomplices Ryan Ackroyd, 26, also admitted hacking into the systems of Sony, Twentieth Century Fox and a US police force in bids to steal data and redirect visitors to spoof sites. Fellow defendant Ryan Cleary, 21, had already pleaded guilty on the same charges, as well as four other related ones and all four men now await sentencing.

As Ackroyd issued a last-minute change of plea to guilty at Southwark Crown Court today, prosecutor Sandip Patel told the court: “He was the hacker, so to speak, they turned to him for his expertise as a hacker”, and said Ackroyd admitted using the persona of a 16-year-old girl Kayla online.

The group, an offshoot of the “Anonymous” hacktivists, caused an international stir as they coordinated high profile attacks against some of the world’s biggest companies and intelligence agencies in 2011, often from their bedrooms. It was later revealed that their de facto leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka “Sabu”, had been turned by the US authorities following his own arrest.

Apart from hacking into sites, the group carried out non-hacking attacks - called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) - in a bid to block access to the websites they targeted. DDoS, one of the most common attacks used by online activism groups, work by bombarding websites with traffic until they cannot deal with the weight and cease to load.

The group used a system which allows them to infect and, thereby, take control of other people’s computers - called a botnet – to carry out the attacks. The tactic, one of the most commonly used by similar groups, allows them to use the computers in their power to blast target sites with amplified volumes of traffic.

The full extent of LulzSec’s campaign was revealed as members of the group admitted to their parts in DDoS attacks on the CIA, SOCA, News International and the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. They also attacked gaming sites Bethesda and Eve Online.

And their hacking campaign took in the NHS, Sony and Twentieth Century Fox. They also targeted HBGary, which was allegedly looking to infiltrate hacktivist groups, US Public Broadcasting Service Inc, FBI contractor Infragard, Nintendo and the Arizona State Police. And they carried out another attack on News International.

The attacks were carried out with other, unknown members of the groups LulzSec, Anonymous and Internet Feds.

Davis, Al-Bassam and Cleary all admitted to the same count of launching DDoS attacks, which prosecutors agreed could lie on file in respect of Ackroyd. All four admitted another count of computer hacking, while Cleary alone admitted a further four hacktivism-related counts, with two more lying on file.

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Outrage Erupts Online Over 17-Year-Old Girl's Suicide After Her Rape Goes Viral

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Multiple Anonymous-affiliated OP accounts are already trying to find and publish the identities of the four men involved with Rehtaeh's rape.

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Columnist Enlists Anonymous to Take Down Rapists

A Canadian political heavyweight has called upon Anonymous to "name and shame" four teenagers accused of raping a girl who committed suicide last week.

17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons of Halifax, Nova Scotia, committed suicide last week, 18 months after she was allegedly gang-raped by four boys and then subjected to a vicious bullying campaign spurred by a photo of the attack that was spread around her school by one of her attackers. "This day changed the lives of our family forever," her mother wrote in a tribute message on Facebook. "Rehtaeh was suddenly shunned by almost everyone she knew, the harassment was so bad she had to move out of her own community to try to start anew in Halifax."

The RCMP investigated the attack but the boys involved were never charged, and while Nova Scotia Justice Minister Ross Landry requested a review of the case after the story made national headlines, it seems unlikely that the situation will change. That's led to a growing call for the involvement of online activist group Anonymous, including from high-profile Canadian political strategist, commentator, author and Liberal party heavyweight Warren Kinsella, who wrote an open letter calling on the group to "find out who the little bastards are."

In fact, Kinsella seems quite happy to take Anonymous off the leash altogether. "The RCMP, who allegedly investigated, are led in Nova Scotia by Alphonse MacNeil. He calls himself a 'consensus builder. and has two daughters. I'm sure you could find his email address if you needed to," Kinsella wrote. "The Nova Scotia government, which agreed with - and energetically defended - the RCMP's decision to do nothing about the rape or the child pornography, is led by NDP leader Darrell Dexter. Interestingly, he represents Cole Harbour in the provincial legislature. His email isn't readily available, either, but I know you'll find that, too."

"The names of the little bastards who did this, and who are still alive and walk free in Cole Harbour, are unknown to most of us. But, as in the Steubenville, Ohio case, I am certain anyone who is sufficiently motivated can find out who the little bastards are, and name and shame them," he continued. "I'm unclear how to appeal to you, Anonymous. But if there was ever a case that cried out for your attention - and if there were ever men like MacNeil, Dexter and Landry who deserved to be fired, or worse, for their pathetic responses - I don't know what it is. What happened to Rehtaeh and her family is so horrible, so evil, I am ashamed that it happened in my country."

Kinsella's involvement is noteworthy because he's not just some guy on the internet: He was a high-ranked adviser on the successful reelection campaign of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and until 2010 headed the "war room" of the federal Liberal party. His influence is such that he is known in some political circles as the "Prince of Darkness."

Anonymous, of course, is well known for its ability to dig up dirt and stir up trouble, and is being sought as an executor of justice in this case in large part because of its involvement in a similar case in Steubenville, Ohio, in which the rape of 16-year-old girl by members of the local high school football team in 2012 went largely ignored until evidence, including police documents and a video made on the night of the attack, was leaked onto the internet.

Twitter users are spreading the call to Anonymous with the hashtag #OpJustice4Rehtaeh, and despite warnings from the Nova Scotia RCMP, the group has responded with a statement saying it has already identified two of the four accused rapists and will soon have the other two as well, and that it will release their names to the public unless authorities take "immediate legal action."

"We do not approve of vigilante justice as the media claims. That would mean we approve of violent actions against these rapists at the hands of an unruly mob. What we want is justice. And that's your job. So do it," the statement says. "The names of the rapists will be kept until it is apparent you have no intention of providing justice to Retaeh's family. Please be aware that there are other groups of Anons also attempting to uncover this information and they may not to wish to wait at all. Better act fast."

"Be aware that we will be organizing large demonstrations outside of [RCMP] headquarters," it concludes. "The rapists will be held accountable for their actions. You will be held accountable for your failure to act."

A Change.org petition calling for an independent inquiry into the investigation has so far attracted roughly 14,000 signatures.
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#OpJustice4Rehtaeh Statement Anonymous

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Rehtaeh Parsons Update: "Anonymous" says its members have contacted alleged rapists in case of girl who committed suicide

(CBS) -- The internet activist group Anonymous told Crimesider in an e-mail that some people in the group have communicated with more than one of the alleged rapists in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Canada teen who hanged herself after being bullied and becoming depressed over an alleged rape by four teenage boys.

"Some of us have had contact with the boys in question. And yeah, they're still not denying anything," a spokesperson for the group said in an e-mail. "One of them post (sic) on Facebook a day ago that yes, she was drunk and throwing up when he had sex with her, but she wanted him to."

Seventeen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons was taken off life-support by her mother, Leah Parsons, on Sunday after she hanged herself last week. According to Leah Parsons, her daughter never recovered from an alleged rape by four teenage boys that left her deeply depressed and bullied in her community.

Rehtaeh's mother said one boy took a photo of the alleged rape in 2011 and her daughter was subjected to bullying after it went viral.

After a year-long investigation, police concluded there were no grounds to charge the four boys because of insufficient evidence.

But Anonymous says the group is far from satisfied with police involvement in the case.

"I wouldn't call it an investigation. That would involve fact-finding research, with interviews and interrogations," the spokesperson said. "The evidence of a crime was being transmitted from cell phone to cell phone by hundreds of students."

In a statement released by Anonymous on Thursday, the group vowed to bring "justice" to the case and asked the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia, where the alleged crime took place, to take "immediate legal action against the individuals in question."

"It's laughable to believe that the police or even Rehtaeh's so-called teachers were unable to find evidence of a crime," the spokesperson said in the e-mail to Crimesider.

"The boys were very open about what they had done which, other than having sex with an inebriated, vomiting 15-year-old girl, was to spread nude images of a minor to hundreds of people," the spokesperson said.

The internet activist group says it plans to release the names of the alleged rapists if law enforcement does not take action.

Complete coverage of Rehtaeh Parsons on Crimesider

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RCMP willing to work with Anonymous in Parsons case

But group needs to expose itself

CALGARY — The RCMP are open to working with the hacker group Anonymous on the case of a Nova Scotia teenager who committed suicide after her mother claims she was raped then bullied mercilessly, says its commissioner, but he has an important caveat.

“If they want to work with us, they’ve got to take their masks off, sadly,” RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson said in Calgary.

“But I don’t think they’re prepared to do that.

“We’re open to working with everybody in society.”

The hacker group Anonymous says it won’t disclose the names of four boys allegedly involved in the gang-rape of Rehtaeh Parsons — for now.

Parsons, 17, was taken off life-support Sunday after trying to hang herself in the bathroom of her home April 4.


Her parents said she was raped by four boys when she was 15, then bullied after photos of the attack circulated online.

Paulson, who was at an RCMP event in Calgary, said he thinks people like those involved in Anonymous, in some circumstances, present themselves as civic-minded.

“But in another case they don’t, and they don’t have the same stringent review of evidence and concern for truth that we have developed in our efforts.”

Paulson said the RCMP is “very concerned about vigilante response to the Parsons case.”

He pointed to a similar situation in Port Coquitlam, B.C., where innocent people were named publicly in relation to the bullying and abuse of Amanda Todd which led to her committing suicide.

“It’s not the way to get to the bottom of these things,” he said.

“These are deep rooted problems in our communities.

“We have to be very, very careful, so I would say for everybody to express their support and concern and sympathy and compassion for the family but let’s proceed carefully and allow justice to work its way.”

Paulson said the threat of vigilantism is mounting in momentum.

But he also said vigilantism is not a Canadian trait.

What happened to Parsons is very tragic and the Mounties hearts go out to the family, said Paulson.

“We’re working with the family and people in Nova Scotia to try and make this a better set of conditions.”

“It’s just a terrible, terrible sets of facts.”

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Q&A: Inside Anonymous' Operation to Out Rehtaeh Parsons' Alleged Rapists

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In the days following the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons -- the teenage girl from Halifax who committed suicide after being gang raped, photographed, and harassed -- the hacktivist group Anonymous is playing a game of chicken with the authorities in Nova Scotia. Anonymous says they have the names of four suspects, and are threatening to release that information if justice is not delivered. Those names have in fact been circulating in small online circles, but the information has been withheld from publication on Anonymous's largest social media channels. All of this has caused a storm of negative feedback from those who view Anonymous's actions as destructive "vigilantism" while Anonymous maintains they are only involved because "several crimes have been committed in Nova Scotia. A 17-year-old girl killed herself because the police failed to do their jobs."

I spoke with a member of Anonymous who is directly involved with the operation to bring Rehtaeh's rapists to justice, in order to get a better handle on their motivations.

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Anonymous claimt aanval op site Vlaamse kunstenaar Fabre

Anonymous : message to Jan Fabre | Anonymous : bericht aan Jan Fabre.

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How Anonymous have become digital culture's protest heroes

The hacktivist collective's justice campaign following Rehtaeh Parsons' suicide shows how they've made online protest mainstream

In 2007, the hacktivist collective Anonymous was dubbed the "internet hate machine" by Fox News for their trolling campaigns. Six years later, they are the white knights of the digital realm, seeking justice for the now deceased 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons, an alleged gang rape victim who killed herself after bullying by her Nova Scotian classmates. This is just one of the collective's high profile causes in the past week, but in terms of good PR and an agency for change, it compares to their actions on Steubenville.

They call it #OpJustice4Rehtaeh on Twitter, and all types of people – from journalists and teens to women who normally wouldn't associate with Anonymous – have been spreading Anonymous' related material in the name of Parsons since Tuesday, after news of her mother turning off her daughter's life support made global headlines.

The concerned non-Canadians and feminists in faraway places that joined in the online protest don't consider themselves "hacktivists", nor are they afraid of the FBI or their peers labeling them as terrorist sympathisers. The spooky criminal portrayal of Anonymous has melted from the public consciousness, to be replaced with an image of strangers in pale masks passionate about improving society, one cause at a time. Since Anonymous causes are varied and inspired by current events, jumping on this form of vigilante-motivated activism – or what some would call clicktivism – has never been more popular. Or as in Parsons' case, as effective.

The goal of #OpJustice4Rehtaeh was to seek justice primarily by getting the Canadian justice and police department to review her case. None of the four teen assailants were convicted despite capturing, and then spreading photographic evidence of their alleged crime at Parsons' school.

A Change.org petition by Parsons' mother was heavily circulated, and it hit 100,000 signatures within days. "For the love of God do something", wrote Parsons' father on Wednesday in a personal blogpost addressing the justice minister of Nova Scotia. His words validated #OpJustice4Rehtaeh, launched the day before.

Anonymous' successful leveraging of the press and social media helped them identify the four rapists in just a few hours, which they then threatened to disclose unless their demands were met. No hacking was involved as this time, Anonymous was apparently a friendly tip line.

They were able to get this information so quickly, wrote an Anon on Pastebin, because "dozens of emails were sent to us by kids and adults alike, most of whom had personal relationships with the alleged rapists. Many recalled public confessions made blatantly by these boys in public where they detailed the rape of an inebriated 15-year-old girl." Why this same information was not sent to the police at the time of the investigation over a year ago is not apparent, though Anonymous hinted it sent this information to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in a more recent release.

Despite a Canadian minister previously telling the media the case was closed and would not be reopened, by Thursday the tune had changed, proving the collective's efforts were not in vain. In addition to submitting new evidence to the RCMP and putting pressure on the Canadian Department of Justice, Anonymous organised a rally outside the Halifax police department on Sunday. Roughly 100 people attended, including Parsons' mother. Speaking on her behalf as her partner, Jason Barnes told Canada's Herald News in an interview, "Leah's been… very happy with the things that Anonymous has done for us and really stepped forward and made this a large enough issue to make people think, and see it." Out of all the operations recently carried out by Anonymous, #OpJustice4Rehtaeh has had an incredibly high "effect real change" rate of just a few days.

Before you scoff at Anonymous expertly using PR and social media to change the world, consider this: Obama's technical team for his re-election campaign in 2012 took measures to DDoS-proof their websites as well as avoid Anonymous' attention at all costs. Anonymous expert and author Gabriella Coleman shared with me a forthcoming report for the Centre for International Governance Innovation which states:

. "Anonymous was treated as (potentially) even more of a nuisance than, say, the foreign state hackers who infiltrated the McCain and Obama campaigns in 2008. Had Anonymous successfully accessed servers or DDoS the campaign website, it would likely have ignited colossal media attention and potentially battered the campaign's reputation. Although this alone would likely not put Obama's chances for re-election at risk (the team was confident there was no controversial information to leak), a visit from Anonymous was treated as a real possibility and liability."

Anonymous' core strength lies in its PR tactics, not its boots-on-the-ground protests or actual hacking skills. Besides #OpJustice4Rehtaeh, in the last week Anonymous attacked North Korean social media accounts, then Israeli websites in solidarity with the Palestinians. While both operations apparently caused no substantial impact (North Korea is still a dictatorship, and Israel hasn't changed its stance on Palestine), they were both highly publicised, which is enough of a win for the group now primarily concerned with mobilising activists through the spread of information. If fact, Anonymous has been making headlines on an almost weekly basis for over a year now.

Australian security expert Stilgherrian calls this adoption of multiple causes, going beyond Anonymous's initial defence of internet freedoms, as proof they have become the "Hello Kitty of activism," but Coleman likens Anonymous's current, accepting form to something more organic: a fungus. "They refuse to die and they seem to bud in new places and situations," she explains. "They spore and spread" around the globe because clicktivism is easy and fitting with our already established digital habits.

There isn't enough bleach on the internet to kill the spread, but it looks like we web citizens wouldn't want to even if we had enough chemicals. We've all been infected in one way or another now, and our participation, however small, has evolved the fungus into something more manageable. Regarding the Parsons case, Anonymous is now withholding the names of the minors involved "out of respect for Rehtaeh's mother." The internet's love machine is a more fitting nickname.

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Last push to show our strength in numbers against CISPA. This Bill is close to passing. They have finished closed door sessions, and is possible they could call the vote at anytime. This time,we are adding a FAXBOMB. Numbers for fax are located in info with twitter handles. Hashtag is (#ShutDownCISPA).

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Anonymous raises £35,000 to start a site for 'citizen journalists'

Anonymous has succeeded in raising $54,798 (£35,924) to fund the development of its crowdsourced news platform, Your Anon News.

Many of Anonymous' social media accounts, such as its Twitter and Tumblr accounts, use the Your Anon News title, but this latest project is meant as an outlet for reports that the campaign's video describe as hidden from many people, "separating it from the political and celebrity gossip than inundates the mainstream". Citizen reporters, independent of any existing organisation, will be able to livestream events as they happen.

The campaign page states: "We haven't had a space to to provide a proper forum for our many contributors and talented supporters. We love the livestreamers that provide Your Anon News with first-hand reporting and the independent journalists whose voices often unheard, but we aren't supporting them the way we should. We're here to change that."

That change will come with a new website that will allow Anonymous "to collect breaking reports and blog postings from the best independent reports online". It said: "We'll provide feeds for citizen journalists who livestream events as they are taking place, instead of the 10-second sound bites provided by the corporate media. Likewise, we know it would be beneficial to our followers to exist as a community beyond simple social media interactions. Many people have asked us to establish a site that accomplishes all of this and we've decided it's time we build it."

The money raised in the Indiegogo campaign will be used to pay for development and early hosting costs. The initial goal for the project was only $2,000 (£1,311), which was so low it was bound to be met. That's because, according to the campaign page, it's going to be an ongoing project that will still require funding beyond this initial phase.

It said: "We will rely heavily on the generosity of our supporters while developing this new site. Already, programmers and designers have come forward to donate their time. However, there are other aspects of running such a large project that require financial support. We would like to ask each of you to participate -- if and when you can -- and help us make this project a success."

Meanwhile, Anonymous continues to cause various groups, organisations and countries around the world a host of problems. Its high-profile takeover of many of the few official North Korean websites has been an ongoing sideshow to the increased tensions on the Korean peninsula. Yesterday, the birthday of North Korea's founder Kim Il-Sung, saw many of the sites displaying mocking cartoons of current leader Kim Jong-Un.

Tweets have indicated that the next stage of #OpFreeKorea will come on 19 April if the North's leader hasn't stepped down by then, with #OpKoreanWar due on 25 June. What form these attacks will take is unknown as of yet, but we can probably guess that typical tools like DDoS attacks will figure.

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Anonymous 'brandjacks' Westboro Baptist Church on Facebook

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The Internet was positively giddy with schadenfreude Wednesday as rumor spread that Anonymous, that loosely connected cabal of cyber-vigilantes, had seized control, or otherwise "hacked," the Facebook page belonging to Westboro Baptist Church. Only the church — infamous for picketing funerals of soldiers with its 'God Hates [fill-in-the-blank]' signs — didn't have a Facebook page. So whose page was Anonymous unleashing its anarchic mirth upon? Its own.

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NPA to urge Internet providers to block users of hijacking software

The National Police Agency (NPA) is poised to urge Internet service providers to voluntarily block communications if an anonymous software system called "Tor" -- short for "The onion router" -- is found abused online.

The move comes on the heels of a series of online threats via remotely hijacked computers using the Tor system, which allows users to mask their online identities and locations by routing connections through several servers.

An expert panel to the NPA, which was looking into measures to combat crimes abusing the Tor system, compiled a report on April 18 stating that blocking online communications at the discretion of site administrators will be effective in preventing such crimes. Based on the recommendation, the NPA will urge the Internet provider industry and other entities to make voluntary efforts to that effect.

According to the NPA, while the IP addresses of site visitors are normally known to the visited sites, the Tor system enables users to visit sites or dispatch information without revealing their identities. Over the past several years, the Tor system was abused in a number of crimes including the posting of online murder threats on Internet bulletin boards, theft of money from accounts via illegal accesses to Internet banking sites, postings on dating sites by those seeking relationships with children, and leakages of security information from the Metropolitan Police Department.

The panel's report recommends measures against criminal cases abusing Tor taking place here and abroad. The panel specifically recommends that communications be blocked when there is access from IP addresses publicly listed as those allocated to the third in a chain of computers that are used by Tor.

The Tor system was utilized by citizens in pro-democracy movements in the Middle East to escape government suppression, while Wikileaks also recommends Tor to information providers. The planned access restrictions are therefore expected to spark a backlash from the industry.

"Communication privacy is our lifeline. We won't be able to accept such a request," said an industry insider. An NPA official said, "We will make detailed explanations and seek their understanding."

Anonymous statement Message to the Government of Nova Scotia in case for #OpJustice4Rehtaeh

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Anonymous Responds to Japanese Police’s Intent to Block Tor – Video

SAVE TOR IN JAPAN - Anonymous Responds to the Japanese National Police Agency

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Hig's word to the world

To the world:

I stared at the top of my bunk as I lay awake way past 2.
The thoughts around me were chaos at best.
When faced with the world as it is today; What is a man to do?
I....Cried...
I cried not for my beautifuly strong wife who I miss daily.
I cried not for my child who wont see me as his first sight.
I cried not for my many friends which can't grace me with their precense.
I cried not for my family who sacrafised their son and brother for a belief they didn't know.
I cried not for my fellow warriors who face the challenges presented and bare the weight of it anyway.
I cried not for those who share my fate.

I cried because OUR children will not have the education that many of us have obtained.
I cried because OUR familys must work harder for less.
I cried because OUR friends must struggle while our enemies rest.
I cried because OUR wifes & husbands must share the same fate.
I cried because OUR warriors MUST still fight for our freedoms.
I cried because still so many have yet to even take notice.

I have sacrafised much but there is still so much to do. As a Husband, Father, and Brother I gladly took on the world and asked only solidarity in return. Please however, hold back on anything that may cause you to endure the troubles I have. Instead push knowledge not packets. Educate others and continue to fight for the causes of the weak. Never forget those who have fallen because while I can't speak for everyone; I will not forget you.
- HiGz AkA w0rmer

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Anonymous Hackers taken down the US Copyright Office Website

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Anonymous started their #CISPABlackout with some websites which started to support Anonymous against CISPA and keep their website down but the Latest news came which will really a shocking one the US COPYRIGHT WEBSITE http://www.copyright.gov/ is down really a BAD NEWS for U.S who passed the CISPA.

From many days Anonymous is collecting their members to take down their websites on 22/04/2013 (TODAY) some of them with Anonymous but some of them refused, Anonymous also appealed to high profile websites like Google, facebook and many others which is popular on the Internet but no one knows that Anonymous going to give a hard Cyber-attack to US by defacing http://www.copyright.gov/.

Below is the Screenshot of http://www.copyright.gov/ which is taken by Anonymous Hackers themselves but seems US personally taken down the site because it is taking too long to respond.

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Amerikaanse werkgevers kunnen Facebook-login opeisen

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Eén van de elementen, zo meldt nieuwssite The Huffington Post, is dat werkgevers de socialemediawachtwoorden van hun werknemers kunnen opeisen. De Democraten wilden dat afzwakken met een amendement, om de privacy van de burgers te beschermen en om te verhinderen dat werkgevers zich zouden voordoen als hun werknemer op socialemediaplatformen.

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Anonymous A Call For A Global Day Of Resistance

Greetings World –

We are Anonymous. We hereby call forth this May 1st a Global Day Of Resistance. We call upon every person in the world, every city or town, every country; Unite, rise up – and take back the public commons from the oppressors. March in your streets, occupy public space – be free and reclaim your world. And stay. Become part of a world-wide “Global Spring”. From Idle No More in Canada to the pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain, on May 1st let us shake the world and the very foundations of all power and authority.

Anonymous will use all the tools at our disposal to facilitate and encourage this Global Day of Awakening. We are tired of having activists around the world hunted, jailed – and abused. We are tired of watching our own fall. And so Anonymous will stand with our freedom loving comrades all over the world and in unity raise our fist to the sky and shout: We Are Not Afraid!

We Are Anonymous

We Are Everywhere

We Are Legion

We Do Not Forgive

We Do Not Forget

One week from today world, Expect Us

Anonymous May Day Website – www.MayDay.tk

Anonymous Global Website – www.AnonymousGlobal.tk

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Australian LulzSec hacker arrested

Australian police have arrested a "well-respected" IT security professional and self-proclaimed leader of an international hacking ring after he allegedly infiltrated a government website this month.

The 24-year-old man, from Point Clare on the NSW central coast, claims to be a leader of the international hacking group LulzSec.

LulzSec, an abbreviation of ''lulz'' (laughs) and security, was formed in 2011. The group has claimed responsibility for multiple high-profile cyber attacks, including against Sony, Rupert Murdoch's News International, the CIA and other government organisations. They are also associated with prominent international hacking group Anonymous.

The man, known online as Aush0k, is a "well-respected" IT professional who works at the Sydney branch of an international security IT company, where he had access to sensitive information from clients that included government agencies, police said.
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He used this information to gain access to and deface a government website from his computer, which has been seized by police. Police would not confirm details of the hack or the website, but said that it was not a federal government site.

"He took advantage of a commonly known exploit to access the [website], and then put a back door in so that he could gain further access to the website and also posted other things on that website", said Detective Superintendent Brad Marden, from the Australian Federal Police.

The man is not thought to have accessed personal private information stored on the site.

"We are not dealing with small petty crime here," said Commander Glen McEwen, manager of cyber crime operations at the AFP. "The potential for such access has huge ramifications for society.

"The potential for damage is immeasurable. This is not harmless fun. This is serious."

The man appears to have been working alone, police said, but has been involved with LulzSec for some time, and his multiple claims to be a figurehead of the group did not go unchallenged by other members of the online community.

Police said his arrest at work on Tuesday evening in Sydney was the first by the AFP of a LulzSec member.

In the United States last week, LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger, 25, pleaded guilty to a computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment and was sentenced to one year in prison and community service.

In April, British LulzSec hacker Ryan Ackroyd, 26, pleaded guilty to cyber attacks on Sony, Nintendo, News International and the Arizona State Police.

The AFP said they discovered the man's online activities less than two weeks ago, as part of investigations into cyber crime. He is allegedly known to international law enforcement agencies.

The man was released on bail on Tuesday evening and will face court in May on charges of unauthorised access and modification to restricted data.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-(...)w.html#ixzz2RMd6uHUl

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Web censorship: the net is closing in

Across the globe governments are monitoring and censoring access to the web. And if we're not careful millions more people could find the internet fractured, fragmented and controlled by the state

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March against Monsanto

Anonymous plans day of global protest against biotech company.

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More than 250 marches have been organised around the world in response to Anonymous' call for action against genetically modified (GMO) crops. Their target: Monsanto, the multinational biotech corporation. Citing concerns over food safety, political favouritism, and environmental impacts, Anonymous and local activists are calling for a day of revolt against the GMO giant on May 25.

Anonymous- #OpMonsanto

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March against Monsanto



This is a Call to Action for a
Non-Hierarchical Occupation of Monsanto Everywhere

Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and unlabeled GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world's food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. This site is dedicated to empowering citizens of the world to take action against Monsanto & it's enablers like the FDA, USDA, EPA, GMA, BIO, and the processed food companies that use Monsanto's products.

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CISPA godfather claims Anonymous is after him

A co-author of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act says the hacktivist group Anonymous threatened him and others members of Congress on account of their support of CISPA.

The cybersecurity act known as CISPA overwhelmingly passed in the United States House of Representatives earlier this month only to ultimately once again stall in the Senate. Citing the same privacy concerns brought up by opponents outside of Washington, lawmakers in the Senate now say they are unlikely to consider the bill, suggesting that for the second time in as many years CISPA will fail to find its way out of Congress.

But even if those privacy woes indeed warranted a negative reaction from US senators, a co-author of CISPA suggests members of Anonymous had something to do with the defeat.

During a recent interview with Washington, DC-based The Hill, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland) said Anonymous hacktivists threatened members of Congress and encouraged anti-CISPA activists to attack supporters of the bill that he co-authored with Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan).

"Anonymous was threatening us. Anonymous was telling [others] to shut down people who supported the bill and that kind of thing," Ruppersberger told the paper during an interview published over the weekend.

When CISPA was introduced by Rogers and Ruppersberger for the first time in 2011, public outcry over alleged privacy violations spurred a legion of opponents to protest on the Web and on the streets. Upon the bill’s reintroduction earlier this year, a similar call to arms was made for privacy advocates to stand up and fight against the argumentative cyber act.

CISPA was described by its authors as being able “to provide for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities,” but its opponents have raised a number of questions about at what cost. Under CISPA, federal agencies — namely the US Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice — would intercept and monitor Internet traffic in order to analyze and deter any attempted cyberattacks. Critics have condemned it, however, saying it essentially allows online businesses to escape liability when letting Uncle Sam spy on Internet activity.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the largest anti-CISPA groups, wrote of the bill, “It is written so broadly that it allows companies to hand over large swaths of personal information to the government with no judicial oversight — effectively creating a ‘cybersecurity’ loophole in all existing privacy laws.”

Citing the growing opposition this time around, Rep. Ruppersberger told the Hill recently that he purposely asked other members of Congress favoring his bill to stay silent on the issue until the last moment possible to avoid an alleged backlash: three days before the act went up for vote in the House, recalls the Hill, the number of co-sponsors of CISPA jumped from two to 36.

"I didn't want to put anybody who was going to support the bill ... to be subjected to those attacks in their districts, and calling and threatening and that type of thing, so we really decided to not get anybody on the bill right away and to educate people right to the end," Ruppersberger said.

What exactly Ruppersberger means by attacks isn’t exactly obvious, but the call-to-arms that occurred leading up to the recent House vote is virtually inescapable. As with last year, members of Anonymous — along with the EFF, American Civil Liberties Union and others — went quite public with their opposition to the bill as it was readied for a congressional vote.

Last Monday more than 200 websites went offline in protest of CISPA, and the website Reddit and Web browser Firefox both informed their users of the legislation with predominantly displayed messages.

On their part, one message circulated by Anonymous and viewed over 22,000 times appears void of any actual threat, and instead asks opponents to voice their opinion about the bill using a viral Internet campaign. “Anonymous has asked numerous companies to participate in an Internet blackout on Monday, April 22. But, regardless of what these companies choose to do, individuals like ourselves can still help spread awareness of this threat. Below is a link to an image that promotes the hashtag #StopCISPA on Twitter. Make it your profile image all day Monday. Leave it up as long as you want,” reads the post uploaded to PasteBin and attributed to Anonymous.

“Tweet to #CISPA Reps @Call_Me_Dutch and @RepMikeRogers and tell them you oppose their bill,” reads another highly-read posting. Yet another message, viewed more than 7,000 times in under a week, contained the publically available office phone numbers for every congressman that voted for CISPA, along with information on how to raise objections with members of the Senate.

Since the bills passed in the House, a number of Washington sources have suggested that the Senate will once again let the bill die. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) said of CISPA that its "privacy protections are insufficient,” and the ACLU’s Michelle Richardson told US News & World Report that the bill was likely "too controversial” and “too expansive” to be considered by the Senate as is. Meanwhile, though, a report published by RT last week reveals that the federal government has already started to implement similar cybersecurity practices that put select parts of the Internet under the radar of the DHS.

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Barrett Brown Retains Top Lawyers For Legal Defense

May 1 Hearing

On May 1, 2013 Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney will determine “what, if anything should be done in utilizing [Barrett’s legal defense] funds towards the repayment of costs for Defendant’s court appointed representation.” Barrett’s supporters are delighted to announce that, after a long search, we have found a legal team that combines trial experience, tech-proficiency and a passion for justice. Attorneys Charles Swift and Ahmed Ghappour will be making an appearance in Barrett’s case this week.

We hope that the Court will turn over these funds to Barrett’s counsel of choice — per donors’ intent. The hearing will be held at 11:30AM at the Federal Courthouse, 1100 Commerce St., Dallas, TX 75242. If you are in Dallas, please come out and show your support.

About the Legal Team

Charles Swift is an attorney and former Navy officer, who retired in 2007 as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. While in the JAG Corps, he worked principally in the area of criminal defense, earning a reputation as a premier trial attorney. Most noteworthy is his quest for justice at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, concluding with the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

He has received numerous awards for his advocacy, including recognition as a Distinguished Alumnus at Seattle University School of Law, ACLU’s Roger Baldwin Medal for Distinguished Service, and was runner-up for Lawyer of the Year in 2005 as well as being named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in 2006 by the National Law Journal. Following his military career, Charles was a visiting professor and head of the Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, before leaving to enter private practice in Seattle.

Ahmed Ghappour (@amadooooo) is a Clinical Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. He also directs the National Security Defense Project, an access to justice initiative that raises constitutional challenges in national security and cyber security cases.

Before founding the NSDP, he worked with Charles Swift, and took numerous national security cases to trial. Prior to that, Ahmed was a Staff Attorney at Reprieve UK, where he represented Guantanamo detainees in their habeas corpus proceedings and challenged the US Extraordinary Renditions Program. He was also a senior legal advisor at a Cairo based human rights organization, where he worked on security sector reform, transparency and privacy, and international accountability litigation. Ahmed is also a computer engineer and hacked on high performance computers at SGI, Inc. before pursuing a career in the law.

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Barrett Brown Update: New Defense Team, Feds Fish For Activists

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Several new developments in the Barrett Brown case suggest that the playing field between the cyber-activist/journalist and the government may be starting to even out—at least a bit. But the feds aren’t giving up anytime soon.

On April 28 it was announced that Brown—currently facing upwards of 100 years behind bars for a slew of felonies ostensibly unrelated to his work as a journalist—had retained new defense counsel, including heavyweights certain to draw more attention to his case than ever before.

Brown’s new team will consist of attorneys Ahmed Ghappour and Charles Swift.

Swift’s name should be familiar to legal junkies in the post 9/11-era. A former Lt. Commander in the US Navy’s Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, he represented Salim Hamdan in his successful bid to gain Supreme Court recognition of habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo Bay detainees. Swift now focuses on national security and military litigation as a partner in his private practice.

For Brown, the change came not a moment too soon. As the target of what feels like an establishment pile-on, Brown will need the best defense money can buy—that is, if they’ll let him buy it.

On April 17, Magistrate Judge Paul Stickney had ordered the seizure of thousands of dollars in defense funds, solicited and held in an outside account with no connection to Brown. Although the funds were apparently listed in a still-sealed financial affidavit provided by Brown’s former court-appointed attorney, it remains unclear how the money could be legally seized.­

However, in a hearing on May 1, Judge Stickney essentially reversed himself, denying the government’s motion to transfer the funds to the court for remuneration to Brown’s original public defender. Stickney then accepted that the cash reserves be used to retain Ghappour and Swift.

The prosecution had seemingly hoped to hobble Brown by depleting his war chest and therefore his ability to defend himself. With the new ruling however, which allows him to spend the money on counsel of his choice—one not overburdened by a public defender’s typically heavy caseload—the court has dealt the prosecution a serious setback.

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OpUSA: Anonymous Hackers Send Message to President Obama

Hacktivist collectives from all over the world are making preparations for OpUSA, a new campaign against the US government that will be launched on May 7, 2013.

One of the Anonymous-affiliated groups involved in OpUSA, N4m3le55 Cr3w (Nameless Crew), has published a statement for US President Barack Obama and US citizens.

“Anonymous will make sure that this May 7th will be a day to remember. On that day Anonymous will start phase one of operation USA. America you have committed multiple war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and recently you have committed war crimes in your own country,” the hackers stated. [link]

“You have killed hundreds of innocent children and families with drones, guns, and now bombs. America you have hit thousands of people where it hurts them, now it is our time for our Lulz. For this you shall pay,” they added.

“Obama you have seen the over three billion dollars’ worth of damage we have done to Israel in operation Israel. It hasn't even been a few weeks and the Anonymous collective has gotten stronger since then. Therefore we will not tread lightly as you have not treaded lightly.”

The hacktivists reiterate that OpIsrael has been a major success, despite the fact that Israeli officials have downplayed the seriousness of the attacks launched on April 7.

The N4m3le55 Cr3w threatens that OpUSA aims at “wiping [the US government] off the cyber map” with the aid of doxes, DNS attacks, defacements, redirects, data leaks, and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.

The hackers have also provided their supporters with the necessary tools to achieve these goals. They’ve listed links to various DDOS tools, hacking applications, and resource forums.

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An Interview with AnonGhost Team; #OpUSA is a Cause AnonGhost said

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Our News Editor Praveen Kashyap had some time with the Owner of AnonGhost Team and takes a short interview with AnonGhost Team; in the interview they answered the truth of #OpUSA and some important points about them also.

#OpUSA is the Hackers Operation, in which Hackers going to Launch Cyber Attacks on USA this 07/05/2013.

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Manila-Taipei cyberwar threatens to escalate as PHL group vows 'operation' | SciTech | GMA News Online

A cyberwar between pro-Philippine and pro-Taiwan hackers threatened to escalate Sunday after a hacker group claiming affiliation with the hacktivist collective Anonymous vowed to get back at pro-Taiwan counterparts for attacking the Commission on Elections' website.

The Anonymous #Philippine Cyber Army claimed Comelec's website www.comelec.gov.ph, which was still inaccessible Sunday afternoon, remained under cyber-attack by Taiwan.

"Comelec is still under cyber attack by Taiwan. It has dealt great damage and delay on our government website, most especially on about our activities for the coming May 13 elections," it said.

But the group also hinted at a retaliatory attack against those it claimed are attacking the Comelec website.

The Comelec's website had contained a tool that could help voters find their precincts on Election Day.

"Be ready your keyboard guys, the OP will be launched soon," it said, but did not elaborate.

On Saturday, several Philippine websites were apparent victims of a distributed denial-of-service attack. Hours later, several Taiwanese websites were attacked.

The attacks came in the wake of a row between the Philippines and Taiwan last Thursday. A 65-year-old Taiwanese fisherman was shot dead in the encounter in disputed waters.

Bron: www.gmanetwork.com

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Associated Press “Joins Anonymous”



INTERNET — News broke Friday that the government had wiretapped and extensively spied on the Associated Press for reporting on terrorist activities. This was quickly followed by a now-deleted tweet in support of the shadowy collective of hackers known as Anonymous.

A spokesperson for the AP refused to comment, leading some to speculate the tweet was the result of hackers from Anonymous. Others believe this was possibly a false flag attack from the CIA aimed at discrediting the AP.

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Hacker Group Anonymous Launches #OpPetrol to Target Global Oil Industry - US News and World Report

The oil and gas industry has found itself in the crosshairs of hacker activist group Anonymous, which recently announced plans to launch cyber attacks on countries involved in the global oil trade.

[READ: Why Our Energy Policy – and Fights – Are Outdated]

Dubbed Operation Petrol, the attacks are scheduled to take place June 20 according to The Hill and will focus on countries including the United States, Canada, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia.

"It has been a long time coming," the group said in a video posted on YouTube, singling out Saudi Arabia as having "betrayed Muslims" by trading oil in U.S. dollars.

The announcement by Anonymous comes as inquiries into potential oil price manipulation by companies such as BP, Shell and Statoil intensify. This week, investigators with the European Commission continued to delve into the trading activities of those companies after authorities raided their offices last week.

[READ: Facebook's Zuckerberg Takes Heat Over Keystone, Drilling Ads]

"Due to the recent negative press regarding alleged price fixing, it is assumed that BP, Royal Dutch Shell and the price-reporting agency Platts, will be at the top of the target list," U.K.-based cyber-security company CyByl told Platts.

The oil and gas sectors are no strangers to cyber attacks. Last December, Saudi Aramco – Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company – revealed it had been the victim of an August 2012 cyber attack that affected tens of thousands of the company's computers.


Bron: www.usnews.com

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Press release for #OpUmea

Greetings world, we are Anonymous, and we are outraged.

This week, three guys who raped a girl with a wine bottle until she got internal injuries, was acquitted by the Swedish court. However, these guys were not acquitted by Anonymous. We are therefore callling upon the Anonymous collective to help us carry through with this operation.

The following text is from an article about the case:

"The prosecution recounted how the woman attended a party in Umeå, northern Sweden, in October last year where she met three 19-year-old men. She was acquainted with one of them. The charges said the men had taken her to a bedroom, where one had asked for oral sex while another exited the room only to return with an empty wine bottle. The Aftonbladet newspaper reported that the teen held the bottle up and said "Why don't we use this", before the men pinned her down on the bed and pried her legs open before inserting the wine bottle into her vagina. The men reportedly ended their actions when the girl started bleeding. One of the men allegedly told her not to report the incident to the police, which she nonetheless did. "

Since Anonymous as a collective firmly believes in human rights, meaning that every person have the right to their own bodies, we will never accept these kind of sexual abuse. For too many years now, people have stood by and watched while similar things happens, but Anonymous will no longer stand by and watch - we will act. And we have therefore decided to launch this operation, called #OpUmea, in which we will keep fighting this case until justice prevails. However, true justice cannot be brought in this case, because this girl will have to live with the memories of being forced to sex and abused by a wine bottle, even though she said no. The least we can do, is to show the rapists and the swedish court that no means no.

What will we do?
- We will encourage the girl to appeal the verdict and support her in her choice of doing so.
- We will try to get the media's attention.
- We will show the world that even if the corrupt court accept these kind of sexual harassments, Anonymous DO NOT.
- We will expose the rapists by publishing there name in the dox that is embedded in this press release.


What can you do?
- Spread this press release.
- Contact your local newspaper with this story and ask them to write about it.
- Help Anonymous spread flyers about this case on the streets.
- Get involved in the debate about this online, and don't forget to use the hashtag #OpUmea when you tweet about it.
- That these three guys gets cleared by the court is a sign that is wrong with our society - so get involved in politics or a social movement that fights for human rights.

Our goal with this operation is to get the girl to appeal the verdict and to get the three rapists punished for their crimes. Please note that we want these guys to be punished legally through a verdict against them in the swedish court. This operation does not include or encourage any illegal activites. So please DO NOT DDoS any site, order pizza, or visit the guys' houses. Let's do this the honest way.


The verdict (swedish): https://jumpshare.com/v/J1uiC1C9rrKSPbxEfIsw <- This information was legally acquired according to Swedish law - "2 kap 12 §
Dox on the three rapists: http://pastebin.com/msg08hEJ
Article about the case (English): http://www.thelocal.se/47920/20130515/#.UZVBzsjm49U
Article about the case (Swedish) http://www.folkbladet.nu/369496/tre-killar-frias-fran-valtakt

Do you want more information about #OpUmea? Please write to us on twitter:
twitter.com/SweAnon
twitter.com/AnonNewsSwe
twitter.com/iRBAWS

IRC channel for Anonymous Sweden: irc.anonops.com #anonsweden

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

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LulzSec hacker: 'Internet is a world devoid of empathy'

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LulzSec gained international attention when they hacked the Sony website in 2011, taking down the company's PlayStation network for weeks and accessing millions of users' accounts. The action was estimated to have cost the company over $100m (£65m).

The hacking collective went on to wreak a trail of chaos across the web during their 50-day campaign - targeting organisations including the FBI and Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).

In his first television interview, the Scottish teenager behind LulzSec's PR operation, Jake Davis, who on Wednesday was handed a 24 month sentence, talks to BBC Newsnight's Susan Watts about how he was increasingly drawn to life online.

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OpJustice4Kaitlyn Engaged



For Immediate Release -- #OpJustice4Kaitlyn

(Morgan Freeman Voice)

Greetings, Bigots. We are Operation Justice. The last operation our team conducted led to the case of Rehtaeh Parson's being re-opened and to an independent investigation into the actions of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. You may have read about us. Now we are in Florida and you should have expected us.

This letter is addressed to the Indian River County State Attorney's Office:

You are currently pursuing 2 felony charges against an 18 year old girl by the name of Kaitlyn Hunt. Kaitlyn was arrested on 2/16/2013 at 20:15, her case number 2013-00022169. She was a student at Sebastian River High School before they expelled her (you don't have to be a child to be a bully, you just have to have the emotional maturity of one--don't worry, we will get to them later).

While in the course of performing your duties we feel that you've lost perspective. Tsk, tsk. The truth is, Kaitlyn Hunt is a bright young girl who was involved in a consensual, same-sex relationship while both she and her partner were minors. She has a big future ahead of her and there are people, thousands of people in fact, that have no intention of allowing you to ruin it with your rotten selective enforcement.

Now, either we are to interpret your charges to mean that:

1) Indian River County is publicly taking a stance against all relationships that form between two consenting adolescents -- or
2) We're left to wonder if the intolerance of Kaitlyn's partner's parents (or maybe it was yours) is really what started this case against her.

The real question is, who in your office didn't have the balls or the intelligence to put an end to this ridiculousness?

Intolerance has been the curse of this country since it's inception. Frankly, we're sick of it. Specifically, we're sick of paying the salaries of people like you. Now most of you probably interviewed for your jobs and were appointed there, but one or two ranks above you is some asshole that every few years has to go door to door and beg people to remember his or her name on election day. There are quite a few organizations in this country that would prefer that our elected officials not hire bigots that hunt down and file erroneous charges against young women because of their sexual orientation. The fact is, the puritanism you practice doesn't have a place in this world any longer.

We hope you'll keep all of this in mind because the next petition we put 200,000 signatures on will have your name on it (maybe you Brian Workman), or your bosses name on it, and we will be calling for a resignation. That petition will be delivered by hundreds of men and women, holding signs and wearing masks, yelling into megaphones and getting all up in your business, right on your doorstep. We can afford to stand there for some time, because, LOL, there are a million more of us than there are of you.

We'll give you a few days to bask in your new found media attention and the public's disapproval of your performance. Don't worry, they'll call you.


Signed,

#OpJustice4Kaitlyn


We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
The corrupt fear us.
The honest support us.
The heroic join us.
Expect Us.


Twitter: @OpJustice
Inquiries: opjustice@mail.ru (This week we're Russian. привет bitches!)



Other Press Stuffs:

Letter from Kaitlyn's Mom: https://www.facebook.com/(...)doc/192326077586085/
Letter from Kaitlyn's Dad: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeKate/doc/192333027585390/
Parents Petition: http://www.change.org/pet(...)ame-sex-relationship

Some articles:

Now.MSN: http://now.msn.com/kaitly(...)ver-gay-relationship
Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/(...)esbian-relationship/
Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/a(...)ame-sex-relationship

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After Girl Expelled From High School and Charged Over Lesbian Relationship, Anonymous Goes on the Offensive | Mother Jones

When Florida high school student Kaitlyn Hunt was 17, she began dating a 15-year-old teammate on her school's girls' basketball team. Kaitlyn's parents say the parents of the 15-year-old never complained to them about the (consensual) relationship. But a few months after Kaitlyn turned 18, the younger girl's parents had her arrested. She was charged with a felony—"lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12-16 years old." The girl's parents also succeeded in getting her expelled from school by appealing to the school board after the school and a judge refused to grant their request, according to Kaitlyn's mother, Kelly Hunt Smith.

"That is absolutely ludicrous," Smith wrote on Facebook last Friday in a widely shared plea for help. "We need justice in this situation, not to feed into these parents' hates and insanity."

Enter Anonymous, the global hacker collective, which recently has raised eyebrows by pursuing justice for rape victims. In this case, some of the same Anonymous members are rallying behind a girl they feel has been wrongly accused of sexual misconduct. On Saturday, they launched the twitter hashtag #OPJustice4Kaitlyn, and a press release that begins: "Greetings, Bigots."

"The truth is, Kaitlyn Hunt is a bright young girl who was involved in a consensual, same-sex relationship while both she and her partner were minors," reads the release. "She has a big future ahead of her and there are people, thousands of people in fact, that have no intention of allowing you to ruin it with your rotten selective enforcement."

By this afternoon, protestors had already gathered outside of the office of the Indian River County Sheriff's Department. In a hastily assembled press conference, County Sheriff Deryl Loar claimed that the case had nothing to do with the fact that Kaitlyn had been dating a girl. "If this was an 18-year-old male and a 14-year-old girl," he said, "it would be prosecuted in the same way."

Still, Loar suggested at another point that he would not have pursued the case if not for the complaint from the girl's parents: "When you have vocal victims, that enhances the case as well," he said.

Anonymous has a complicated relationship with sex and gender issues. Historically, the group has embraced homophobic language, most often by appending the term "fag" to anything that it dislikes—i.e., a "moral fag" is someone who takes his causes too seriously. On the other hand, Anonymous has significant number of gay members, according to McGill University anthropologist Gabriella Coleman, who is writing a book about the group. "It is kind of an extreme commitment to free speech," she says. "And it is also a way of being open to anyone."

While it may seem like a dramatic shift to go from targeting alleged rapists to defending someone accused of a sexual offense, Anonymous' choice of targets is "in some ways always about what they can exploit and find," Coleman told me. "It is pretty random oftentimes, at least initially. But that's what makes them so interesting and difficult to grapple with, because you can't necessarily predict what they will do."

Indian River Sheriff Loar told reporters today that he'd never heard of Anonymous. But if the experiences of law enforcement officials targeted by other Anonymous ops are any indication, that will soon change. Anonymous has pledged to deliver a petition with 200,000 names on it calling for the resignation of one or more of the authorities involved in the case.

"That petition will be delivered by hundreds of men and women, holding signs or wearing masks, yelling into megaphones and getting all up in your business, right on your doorstep," the press release reads, in the group's characteristic swagger. "We can afford to stand there for some time, because, LOL, there are a million more of us than there are of you."

Bron: www.motherjones.com

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In fear of Anonymous Guantanamo Bay shuts down WiFi - National Anonymous | Examiner.com

In fear of Anonymous, the U.S. military has restricted access to wireless internet at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

According to a report issued by the Associated Press on Monday, May 20, officials responsible for the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have shut down WiFi access throughout the camp and banned the use of any social networks following threats from the international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous.

In solidarity with the Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers, Anonymous launched Operation Guantanamo (#OpGTMO) last week. The operation is meant to raise awareness of the human rights violations currently going on at Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

The following is an excerpt from a press release issued by Anonymous regarding Operation Guantanamo (#OpGTMO):

With no hope for justice, over 100 men who have been held and tortured for years have gone on a hunger strike. … Prisoners have died suddenly, violently, and suspiciously. All inmates in Guantanamo Bay have been locked in solitary confinement. Some are being force fed, an international crime. These men face the prospect of a terrible death in prison despite many of them having been cleared for release years ago.

Guantanamo Bay must be closed at once, and the prisoners should be either returned to their home countries or given a fair trial in a federal court. Guantanamo Bay is an ongoing war crime. Anonymous will no longer tolerate this atrocity.

A majority of prisoners currently at Guantanamo — 103 out of 166 — are on hunger strike to protest their conditions and their indefinite detention.

_{Michael Stone is a progressive freethinker and freelance writer residing in Portland, Oregon. Informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion, Michael’s task is to question the world in pursuit of the good. You can reach Michael at stonemichael@hotmail.com.}


Bron: www.examiner.com

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'Anonymous' a little less so, thanks to Israeli hackers | The Times of Israel

The worldwide hacker group is again targeting Israel, but an Israeli ‘task force’ has come up with a new tactic to fight back

After April’s largely unsuccessful campaign by Anonymous and Arab hackers, #OpIsrael, to “remove Israel from the Internet,” a second round of hack attacks against Israeli sites, “OpIsrael Reloaded,” is planned for Saturday. The followup campaign seeks to demonstrate that Israel did indeed sustain a great deal of damage and economic loss during the first effort.

The campaign has picked up some steam on hacker networks, but is unlikely to be as large as #OpIsrael. There were dozens of YouTube videos “advertising” that campaign with hundreds of thousands of views, while #OpIsraelReloaded showed up just a few times on the site, with only a few thousand views recorded, as of Thursday evening. Nevertheless, system administrators in government and enterprise are redoubling their network defenses to ensure that they weather the coming storm.

This time, however, the identities of the Anonymous hackers planning the attack are a little less, well, Anonymous. Born on the eve of the original #OpIsrael in April, a pro-Israel hacker team called the Israel Elite Force has been responding in kind, defacing sites in Arab countries and publishing what it claims are names and passwords for credit card, Facebook, bank and email accounts, and other information that is supposed to be secure.

The IEF’s latest gambit seeks to “rip the mask off the hackers attacking Israel,” the group says in a video. A message on a hacker site and in the IEF’s Twitter feed refers web surfers to a web page listing personal details of individuals the group says are key figures in the #OpIsrael hacking operations. The information was gathered, the group said, by hackers in its own organization, and with the help of a joint team of American and Israeli hackers.

“We know who you are,” the group says on its page. “You can not hide! You can not escape!” Following the introduction, the page posts several full-color photos, names, locations, and IP addresses of administrators and hackers who, it says, are actively involved in attempting to hack Israeli sites, and who hail from India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, and Malaysia, among other places.

In a message on a hacker site, the IEF writers tell their readers that they “want us to meet someone,” and go on to provide extensive details – including details of his education (M.Sc. in economics), location, computer hosting service, and a photo – of one of the hackers. “This is only one person.. and i got OVER 9000!,” writes the Israeli hacker behind the revelation, adding, for good measure “Don’t try me, Don’t make me mad.”

If the information is really correct, said Tal Pavel of the security group Middle Eastern Net and a lecturer at Netanya Academic College, “it would be a heretofore unprecedented development in the Middle East hacking arena. One of the most important resources hackers use, and need, is their anonymity, and losing that — with the screen between the cyber and physical world removed — could have a major impact on the nature of the hacking conflict between Israel and its cyber-enemies.”

The only way to confirm the information about the hackers’ identities would be to do an extensive vetting process, said Pavel. “If the information is accurate it shows that they did very good research.” Such unmasking of cyber-identities is by no means unprecedented; Anonymous itself, Pavel said, has on several occasions “outed” pedophiles, discovering their real names and locations, and giving the data to police for further action. “So it’s quite possible that the information on the hackers is correct,” he added.

If it is, the revelations could open a new, and more serious, front in the ongoing cyberwar. “If Israeli hackers are revealing the names and phone numbers of Arab and Pakistani hackers, they might in turn target security personnel and publish details of top IDF generals, police officers, or even Mossad or Shabak [Shin Bet security agency] agents online.” Israel is known to have extensive networks of informers in the West Bank, for example; and if hackers specifically target the databases where that information is stored and release it, Israel’s intelligence operations could be severely hampered — not to mention the lives that would be lost, as the PA leadership executes the “collaborators” the hackers help uncover. “There’s no question that a border has been crossed,” said Pavel. “We will now have to see where that brings us.”

Bron: www.timesofisrael.com

Anonymous Message To Monsanto; We fight for farmers!

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Monsanto Employee Database

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The pastebin storing this information has been taken down.

I am reposting this for everyone's records. A chached version on google can still be found, but we're unsure how long it will take before that gets censored as well.

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"The Jester" trolls Westboro Baptist Church with hilarious hack

A hacker best known for claiming he took down WikiLeaks has foiled the Westboro Baptist Church's attempt to exploit the tragic tornado disaster that occurred in Moore, Okla., on Monday.

The much maligned congregation, known for hateful signs claiming that "God hates fags," registered the domain name GodHatesOklahoma.com a mere day after a category 5 tornado killed 24 people and displaced thousands. The site no doubt was intended to assert the notion that God allowed the tornado to happen as punishment for America's alleged embrace of homosexuality.

But then, at some point between then and earlier today, the site's content was replaced by a hacker known as the Jester. Instead of being bombarded by the WBC's hateful message, visitors were greeted by an image of Jesus flipping the bird with text that reads "Westboro Faptist Church— Even Jesus Hates You."

Below that, there was another message:

"'On the 8th day, God created hackers, and he saw that it was good.' From the Gospel according to @th3j35t3r."



After five seconds, the site would then redirect to a donation page for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief.

The page has since been disabled. Thankfully, the Jester tweeted out a cached version for posterity.

This isn't the first time the Jester has crossed paths with Westboro Baptist Church. In 2011, he knocked the organization's websites offline for over a month with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

The Daily Dot has reached out to the Jester for comment.

Bron: www.dailydot.com

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Anonymous-linked groups publish EDL supporters' personal information | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Statement released in name of hacktivist group accuses EDL of inciting the subjugation of Muslims

Individuals claiming to be part of international hacktivist group Anonymous have published phone numbers and addresses for supporters of the English Defence League (EDL) as part of what they said was the first phase of a campaign to destroy the far-right street protest movement.

An audio statement posted on YouTube on Tuesday in the name of Anonymous UK accused the EDL of using the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby to spread a campaign of hate and bigotry and said that it would begin a "systematic and comprehensive decimation [sic]" of the group.

A list of what were said to be mobile phone numbers for senior named EDL figures were published online on Tuesday evening along with addresses of what were said to be donors to the far-right group.

Twitter accounts also re-published leaked details of hundreds of names and addresses linked to the EDL which were circulated on the web in 2010 after hackers broke in to one of the organisation's websites, prompting it to warn members of the potential for reprisals.

More than 1,000 members of the EDL held a rally near Downing Street on Sunday, where its leaders blamed Islam for the killing of Rigby, and the group has promised to step up its activities over the coming weeks.

Tuesday's statement, which was addressed to the EDL in the name of Anonymous UK, said: "We have been patiently observing your organisation as you have [indoctrinated] our young with your criminal mindset.

"Your constant belligerence, like a pack of raving ignoramuses, furthers only bigotry and segregation. You have angered us considerably and summoned our wrath irrevocably."

It added: "Last week, an innocent drummer, Lee Rigby, lost his life at the hands of two vile and demented human beings in the most horrific and heinous manner ever witnessed on the streets of Britain.

"This villainous public display has thrown the United Kingdom into mourning; every community and every congregation extending their deepest condolences.

"You, however, have used this as another excuse to further spread your campaign of hate, bigotry, and misinformation. Under the guise of national pride you have instigated crimes against the innocent and incited the subjugation of Muslims.

"We will not allow your injustices, your lies, and your stupidity, to further radicalise our youth into fearing and despising their fellow man. We will begin the systematic and comprehensive decimation [sic] of your cult. You will fall, we can say this with complete confidence. We are everywhere, you cannot hide, you cannot win."

Bron: www.guardian.co.uk

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PvdA wil meer bescherming ethische hacker

Iemand die een bedrijf test op zijn digitale veiligheid en door 'hacken' oprecht alleen maar zwakheden probeert aan te tonen, moet dat wel met een gerust hart kunnen doen. Dat vindt Astrid Oosenbrug van de PvdA. Ze wil een wetsontwerp voor bescherming van deze lieden gaan uitdenken, voor wanneer zo'n getest bedrijf toch niet blij is met de proef en aangifte doet. Ze vindt ethische hackers vergelijkbaar met klokkenluiders, zei ze woensdagmiddag.

Het Kamerlid gaat deze zomer eerst haar licht opsteken op Observe-Hack-Make, een internationale conferentie in ons land over technologie en beveiliging. Daar vind je alle deskundigen bij elkaar, verwacht ze.

Er is begin dit jaar al wel een leidraad van minister Ivo Opstelten (Veiligheid) verschenen voor ethisch hacken, maar die is Oosenbrug niet duidelijk genoeg over de bescherming.
Bron: Volkskrant

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Anonymous disables Monsanto’s website - National Anonymous | Examiner.com

Anonymous hacktivists temporarily disabled Monsanto’s website as part of Operation Monsanto (#OpMonsanto).

After the website of the U.S. based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto briefly went down on Wednesday, May 29, hacktivists associated with the international collective known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack via Twitter.

According to media reports, the announcement that Monsanto’s website was down came from a Twitter account belonging to Anonymous Press

This is not the first time Anonymous has challenged Monsanto. Last week, international hacktivist collective Anonymous led global protests against biotech giant Monsanto, also as part of Operation Monsanto (#OpMonsanto).

Previously, Anonymous hacked Monsanto’s corporate website, as well as hacking a public relations firm representing Monsanto.

According to a statement released by Anonymous, Monsanto is facing the wrath of activists “because they are altering the nature of our food supply without a concern about long term effects on human health, because they are creating a monopoly on the supply of seeds for farmers and, because of increasing evidences of long term environmental damages.”

Monsanto stands accused by Anonymous and others of destroying the environment and poisoning the world's food source. The complaints against Monsanto are simply too numerous to catalog here. Suffice it to say that for many environmentalists Monsanto and their genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and other adventures in biotechnology, threaten the survival of the human race.

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#OccupyGezi #OccupyTurkey

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Anonymous Operations Turkey democracy expects your help

Greetings Government of Turkey,

We are Anonymous.

We have watched for days with horror as our brothers and sisters in Turkey who are peacefully rising up against their tyrannical government have been brutalized, beaten, run over with riot vehicles, shot with water cannons and gassed in the streets. From the epicenter of their revolution in Taksim Square to every city in Turkey, the people have risen. Hundreds of thousands have taken and held the streets for days, despite the relentless assault of the police. Thousands have been arrested. Where differ you exactly from a Junta!

Turkey is supposed to be a so called “modern” democracy, but the Turkish government behaves like the petty dictators in China or Iran. Anonymous is outraged by this behavior, and we will unite across the globe and bring the Turkish government to it’s knees. We will attack every internet and communications asset of the Turkish government. You have censored social media and other communications of your people in order to suppress the knowledge of your crimes against them. Now Anonymous will shut you down, and your own people will remove you from power.

We have seen in the past ur totalitarianism the same as with Mubarak u know what happend to him don’t do this to ur own people bee wise and step down and let the people decide there fate.

To the people of Turkey No matter how dark it may seem, no matter how alone and abandoned you may feel know that the world is watching. Know that anonymous is working tirelessly around the clock to bring you every assistance., know that Anonymous stands with you in this fight. Don’t be ruled by them but rule over them “Think For Yourself, Question Authority” .

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

IRC: irc.cyberguerrilla.org | PORT 6667 | SSL PORT 6697 Fingerprint=21:05:1D:5B:FC:58:E6:E9:3C:F8:48:00:3A:C5:22:3A:95:52:FF:ED | IRC Client setup | /RULES || Channel #OpTurkey
Cyberguerrilla Webchat:

https://webchat.cyberguerrilla.org:9090/?nick=Anonymous&hellip;&channels=OpTurkey&prompt=1&uio=d4
https://kiwi.cyberguerril(...)errilla.org/OpTurkey

IRC: irc.anonops.com | PORT 6667 | SSL PORT 6697|| Channel #Turkey || Webchat: http://webchat.anonops.com/

After a series of peaceful demonstrations for preserving a recreational area in Istanbul city center which is planned to demolished for the construction of a shopping mall, Turkish police attacked the protesters violently with tear gas and water cannon, directly targeting their faces and bodies. Dozens of protesters are hospitalized and access to the park is blocked without any legal basis. Turkish media, directly controlled by the government or have business and political ties with it, refuse to cover the incidents. Press agencies also blocked the information flow.

Please share this message for the world to become aware of the police state created by AKP of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which is often considered to be a model for other Middle Eastern countries. Turkish democracy expects your help. Thank you!

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Anonymous declares #OpTurkey, attacks govt websites in support of protests — RT News

Anonymous claim to have taken down several websites across Turkey targeting municipal governments in Mersin and Izmir. The hacktivists have announced #OpTurkey to support anti-government protests that have been gripping the country for three days.

The operation was kicked off in response to the police crackdown of protests which have taken the country by storm. The Gebze Institute of Technology has also come under digital fire.

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YourAnonNews twitterde op zondag 02-06-2013 om 21:05:48 "An itibari ile.. DOWN:DOWN http://t.co/iiHDx1G2WmDOWN http://t.co/IvOptO0pLXDOWN http://t.co/tPlEIbvL74 " via @boxerescape reageer retweet

Following the rumors that the government limited access to the Internet Anonymous has started tweeting passwords to free access to a VPN – virtual private network that connects computers and devices in one network, allowing information to be shared.

The hacktivist group also claimed that pro-government hackers are attacking Turkish news websites.

Decrying the reaction of Turkish authorities to the ongoing protests as those of a “petty dictator,” Anonymous vows to kick off a worldwide action which will “bring the Turkish government to its knees.”

With #opTurkey, the hacktivist collective plans to “attack every Internet and communications asset of the Turkish government.”

Anonymous - #opTurkey

“You have censored social media and other communications of your people in order to suppress the knowledge of your crimes against them," the collective alleges. "Now Anonymous will shut you down and your own people will warn you from power.”

Although rumors that the Turkish authorities have been blocking Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets throughout the country since Saturday remain unconfirmed, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made no effort to hide his disaffection for the communication medium.

Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at the role of social media in helping organize and co-ordinate rallies, after the wave of large-scale protests that gripped the country.

"There is now a menace which is called Twitter," Erdogan said in an interview for Haberturk Sunday evening. "The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society."

Turkey has been gripped with mass demonstrations for the past three days. The ongoing rallies started with protests on Friday against the refurbishment of Istanbul’s Taksim Square, where the authorities plan to build a shopping center in place of a park. However, the protests unfolded into anti-government demonstrations with thousands gathering all over the country. Riot police used ‘excessive force,’ officials admitted, to disperse the crowds with tear gas and water cannon. There have been about 1700 people reportedly arrested. Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday stressed he “will not seek permission from marauders” to implement his building plans. He is also reported to have called the social network Twitter ‘a trouble maker’, according to local media, blaming it for misinforming people.

Bron: rt.com

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Saudi Arabia Bans Anonymous Symbol

The Guy Fawkes masks associated with online hacking group Anonymous have been prohibited in Saudi Arabia according to a report by official news agency, SPA. On Thursday, May 30, Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Naif ordered confiscation of the masks and a ban on their further importation.

The news agency reports that the Saudi interior ministry has ordered all police stations to conduct a massive operation in order to find, confiscate, and destroy any Guy Fawkes masks existing in the country.

The Saudi authorities stated that these masks promote “a culture of violence and extremism” and “encourages young people to breach security and spread chaos in society.”

The response on social networks to the ban was immediate, with thousands of internet users around the world declaring the measure a direct attack on human rights. Saudi authorities have refused to comment when asked for a statement.

Saudi Arabia, a monarchy whose leaders and people live in abundance due to is lucrative oil exports, is one of the few Arab nations free of sanctions for human rights violations due to its proximity with United States policy.

The Anonymous Mask features Guy Fawkes, an English revolutionary from the 17th century who was a key player in the Gunpowder Plot, a plan to blow up the British Parliament and install a Catholic monarchy. The mask was popularized by the recent movie, “V for Vendetta.”

The mask was then adopted by the international hacker group, Anonymous, which was founded in 2003 to carry out internet activism. The group conceives of itself a decentralized group of internet users functioning as a global brain. Anonymous largely consists of various image boards and internet forums. Lacking a defined leader, they use these means to coordinate protests.

Arab governments consider the masks even more of a threat as they have come to represent a universal symbol of protest, and of hope and justice, including during the Arab Spring demonstrations.

Bron: english.nuqudy.com

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LOCAL - First official death recorded in Gezi Park protests: Turkish Doctors Union

A Socialist Solidarity Platform (SODAP) member has been hit and killed after a car driver ignored warnings to stop for protesters organizing a Gezi Park solidarity demonstration in Ümraniye’s 1 Mayıs neighborhood, the Turkish Doctors’ Union (TTB) said today.

The victim, 20-year-old Mehmet Ayvalıtaş, is the first confirmed death in protests that have engulfed the entire country.

A statement released by TTB accused the government of conducting a provocative agenda, citing several remarks of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan which claimed he was “barely holding back the 50 percent” of the country that voted for him from coming onto the street.

A car drove into the crowds, despite warnings, according to the statement, and subsequently caused Ayvalıtaş’s death.

The hacker group RedHack also released a statement, saying Ayvalıtaş was a member, while implying that the killing was the intentional work of a fascist.

Republican People’s Party (CHP) Sabahat Akkiraz extended her condolences on the Ayvalıtaş while describing him as a “martyr.”

The TTB called on government to pull back all police forces, and release all those detained throughout the protests.

Over 1,480 people have so far been wounded in Istanbul, with five people in intensive care and two more in critical condition, the TTB said, adding that around 414 injuries have so far been recorded by Ankara’s Doctors’ Union, with 420 more in İzmir.

Bron: www.hurriyetdailynews.com

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Turkish protesters using encryption software to evade censors | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Facebook and Twitter reported to have been blocked in run-up to protests, with people turning to VPNs to broadcast content

Mobile internet users in Turkey are routing around suspected censorship by its government by downloading software that encrypts and hides their connections to the outside world, as the unrest in the country grows.

People there are also downloading communications apps such as Twitter and Ustream, which can broadcast live video, and Zello, which works like a walkie-talkie, so they can record events and avoid surveillance, as protests and disorder entered their sixth day.

Over the weekend, more than 120,000 people inside Turkey have downloaded Hotspot Shield, a free mobile app that provides a "virtual private network" (VPN) connection that cannot be tapped and can link to the outside world, avoiding censorship. Anchorfree, which makes the software, said its product – already popular inside the country as a means of evading government internet censorship – had leapt more than three thousandfold over the weekend.

The country, which has about 73 million inhabitants, of whom about half have internet connections, usually sees about 10,000 new users of VPN software each day, said Anchorfree, but that figure jumped tenfold on Saturday alone.

"The really interesting thing here," said David Gorodyansky, founder and chief executive of AnchorFree,, "is that tens of thousands of people are downloading Hotspot Shield and other communications apps in anticipation of further censorship. It just goes to show how evolving internet and mobile app technology is helping to thwart attempts to limit democratic rights and freedoms."

The Turkish government has been repeatedly criticised by pressure groups inside the country who say it has been blocking or censoring Twitter and Facebook content for months leading up to the latest protests, in which one man has died.

Over the weekend, access to social media sites was throttled, according to a report on Techcrunch quoting sources inside the country. But Turkcell, the largest of the three mobile phone companies there, which covers almost the whole country and has about 60% of users, denied reports that it was blocking connections.

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan recently called Twitter "a menace", adding "the best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society."

Kurdish groups inside and outside Turkey have previously complained to the Guardian that tweets using their hashtag #twitterkurds have been censored so that protests inside the country alleging mistreatment do not appear in Twitter's timeline or searches. Twitter has not been able to confirm this.

The Turkish government has implemented a centralised system where all internet traffic travels over Turk Telecom's systems, which means content can be blocked or websites effectively removed from sight. Thousands of sites are reported to be invisible inside the country, while being available outside. There is also a government body which can ban internet content without a warrant or judicial oversight.

However Renesys, an internet conectivity monitoring company, said there was no evidence that Turkey's connectivity to the outside world is being blocked, as has happened in Syria and Egypt more recently.

"We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual. We examined the 72-hour history of measurements from inside Turkey to these sites, and found no change in normal behaviour," noted chief technology officer Jim Cowie. But he added that it was impossible to know whether there might be local throttling of connections.

Bron: www.guardian.co.uk

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LOCAL - Anonymous hacks Turkish PM website: claim

The global hacking collective Anonymous hacked the Turkish Prime Ministry's webpage today, according to claims on ehackingnews.

The website "www.basbakanlik.gov.tr" cannot currently be opened.

Anonymous launched the operation #OpTurkey on June 2, conducting a series of attacks in response to the government’s heavy-handed response to the Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul and around the country.

The group managed to take down access to the Official Gazette and other sites with a hacking attempt late on June 2. The website of private channel NTV, which has come in for stiff criticism for failing to adequately cover the events, was also subjected to an Anonymous attack early June 3.

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Hackers breken in bij e-mail Erdogan



Hackers die zich Anonymous Turkey noemen, hebben woensdag gezegd dat ze vertrouwelijke informatie hebben bemachtigd van e-mailaccounts van naaste medewerkers van premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan. De informatie heeft betrekking op de protesten en onlusten die afgelopen dinsdag begonnen en in het weekeinde een climax bereikten.

In de burelen van de Turkse premier is bevestigd dat e-mailaccounts zijn aangevallen, maar de doelwitten zijn afgesloten van het netwerk rond de premier.
Bron: Telegraaf

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Project #KnightSec

KnightSec started as a group of hacktivists within the collective known as "Anonymous" whom, against some, "White-Knighted" under the flag of "Anonymous". They stuck up for victims of rape, abuse, bullying, and more in the face of adversity. Some were hunted down and outed publicly, others raided by the Federal Government.

This site was founded to tell their story, and to launch "Project #KnightSec", which on twitter from this day forth shall be hashtagged #ProjectKnightSec. #ProjectKnightSec aims to do 2 things, promote activism in the youth and old of the world, and to immediately change the world around every one of us for the better.

You do not have to be technical, you do not have to be "Anonymous", you just have to have the initiative, the drive to volunteer, to change the world. Plant a tree, Raise a forest. Speak out publicly against bullies both in school and workplaces. Volunteer to clean up disasters, Volunteer at a local soup kitchen, whatever it is you do, commit one good deed a day, or hundreds if you wish, and simply ask those whom you help to "pay it forward."

Together we can change the world, Together we can change the quality of life for future generations to come. Check this page frequently for updates, photos, and more.

Go out now, and promote the idea that is #ProjectKnightSec

-KYAnonymous

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Project #KnightSec

I prefer to keep my facebook personal, add the KYAnonymous one OFFICIAL KYANONYMOUS FACEBOOK CLICK HERE

06/06/2014

Greetings Citizens of the World, I am Deric Lostutter, and this is my story.

Approximately Mid-April 2012 a search warrant was carried out on my address in Winchester, Kentucky for alleged communications with one "Noah Mchugh" aka @justbatcat regarding the hacking of http://www.rollredroll.com and my alleged involvement in said hacking. Upon returning from a brief turkey hunt behind my farm I had just sat down and opened up my computer to work when my pitbull, named Thor, jumps up on the door as is common for him to do when someone new is at my house. I had been expecting a T-Shirt in the mail from ShieldTactical.com and what appeared to be a Fed-Ex truck was parked in my driveway. As I open the door to great the driver approximately 12 F.B.I. Swat Team agents jumped out of the truck screaming for me to "Get The Fuck Down" with m-16 assault rifles and full riot gear armed safety off, pointed directly at my head. I was handcuffed and detained outside while they cleared my house. My brother soon emerged later with his new girlfriend, both bewildered that the F.B.I. was at my house seeing as I have no prior criminal history, both of them in handcuffs as well. The Swat team left my belongings in the floor, my dogs shocked, my family nervous, my garage door battered open with a ram though I stated I had a key, and the RV camper window broken for entry though I stated to pull hard on the door.

Looking around I seen the Swat Team of course, a few fbi detectives from Columbus Ohio, Lexington KY, and Louisville KY. Also with them were a state trooper or 2, a local sheriff, and shortly thereafter the buildings were cleared the CIS labcoat wearing "Geek Squad" so to speak who analyzes your "evidence".

I was detained on the back patio, I asked if I was going to jail, they said no, they said who are you, I responded KYAnonymous. They asked me a few questions, asked me for my passwords for my account, stated that I could not tell anyone I was raided or I would face additional charges such as "destroying/tampering with evidence". They pulled out ALLEGED emails between me and @justbatcat aka Noah McHugh from Noah's inbox indicating that someone is trying to "sell me down the river". They stated they had been watching me for a long time, prior to Jim Parks, and that I was a good guy, and even joked around a bit about the good things I have done, none the less, sincere or not, They are the FBI and to them I am Anonymous, the embodiment of a dangerous threat according to their m16 assault rifles aimed at me for a computer.

Before they departed, I asked them for names and badge numbers of each involved. I got none of them as I requested and subsequently it took me the better part of a month just to get a phone call returned for the status of my belongings let alone tracking down my case agent to columbus ohio. I asked Agent Bixby (who in all fairness seems to be fighting for me and believes I am a good guy) the status of my belongings and they had no time table, as of this post they are still with the FBI being analyzed. I was emailed their intent to send out a "Target Letter" which means they are going to try to indict me for a Federal Offense, (most likely a felony and two misdemeanors) to a secret Grand Jury of 23 individuals, for which I can not be present to state my side, nor state my innocence. Let us not forget that Batcat did the hack, as stated in the Herald ARTICLE HERE which by all accounts is a clear admission of guilt. So I am curious to see the charges, as is the lawyer I have teamed up with, Jason Flores-Williams of the WhistleBlower Defense League.

WBDL is a group of very serious attorneys who come to their clients aid mostly "pro-bono" and look to defer defense costs through "Grass Roots" fundraising. Hence the need for a store on this site, and the wepay campaign which will be on this site later today. The group was founded in most part by famed attorney of Commander-X , Jay Leiderman.

This is my call to you, in the media, in the world of anonymous, who look to change the world to a free, transparent one, to my friends and family as well, to come to my aid, if you can find it in your heart, share my story, donate, buy a sticker, rally in the streets to demand the investigation against me be dismissed. I stood up for a rape victim, I shared information that was public, I had an opinion, and now I am needing you to stand up for me.

-KyAnonymous
**SIDE NOTE*** I would like to also extend my personal apologies to Jim Parks, The FBI Stated that the girls Noah allegedly found in his email are all over 18, On behalf of anonymous I am sorry for the embarrassment that caused you, I am also glad we were wrong about the age.

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BiellaColeman twitterde op donderdag 06-06-2013 om 22:57:00 Anonymous is forced to unmask when FBI knocks. Anon behind stubenville @shadowrapz raided: http://t.co/TMKfa3LaiV reageer retweet

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Anonymous releases private NSA documents regarding spying - Pastebin.com



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Greetings Netizens, and Citizens of the world.

Anonymous has obtained some documents that "they" do not want you to see, and much to "their" chagrin, we have found them, and are giving them to you.
These documents prove that the NSA is spying on you, and not just Americans. They are spying on the citizens of over 35 different countries.
These documents contain information on the companies involved in GiG, and Prism.
Whats GiG you might ask? well...

The GIG will enable the secure, agile, robust, dependable, interoperable data sharing environment for the Department where warfighter, business, and intelligence users share knowledge on a global network that facilitates information superiority, accelerates decision-making, effective operations, and Net-Centric transformation.

Like we said, this is happening in over 35 countries, and done in cooperation with private businesses, and intelligence partners world wide.
We bring this to you, So that you know just how little rights you have. Your privacy and freedoms are slowly being taken from you, in closed door meetings, in laws buried in
bills, and by people who are supposed to be protecting you.

Download these documents, share them, mirror them, don't allow them to make them disappear. Spread them wide and far. Let these people know, that we will not be silenced, that we will not be taken advantage of, and that we are not happy about this unwarranted, unnecessary, unethical spying of our private lives, for the monetary gain of the 1%.

And now, the candy: http://thedocs.hostzi.com/

Mirrors:
http://t.co/XVlZQ53Zhp
http://t.co/JYUHrhi3Ue
http://t.co/qR9PRzySbq
http://t.co/yGw2sP976W
http://t.co/MrmBj4kma5

We are Anonymous
We do not forgive
We do not forget
and by now,
You should expect us

Bron: pastebin.com

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Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents

In the wake of last night’s revelation that everyone in the world has a creepy NSA-shaped stalker, defenders of online liberty and generally angry internet people Anonymous have leaked a treasure trove of NSA documents, including seriously important stuff like the US Department of Defense’s ‘Strategic Vision’ for controlling the internet.

The documents — 13 in total — were posted online, along with an accompanying message full of the normal Anonymous bluster: people won’t be silenced, they have the memory of trivia-master elephants, the governments of the world will fall, your average press release really.

The documents seem to mostly relate to PRISM and supporting operations, and mostly date from around 2008, supposedly not long after PRISM first reared its ugly head. One of the key things Anonymous has highlighted from the documents is the existence of an “intelligence-sharing network” that shares data gleaned from PRISM with “intelligence partners” around the world. Although we’re still in the process of combing through the documents, you can bet your last Bitcoin that ‘intelligence’ has been shared with British security services.

Hit up the documents for further details; just be warned that although this might look like the plot of a B-list movie starring Aston Kutcher, the docs themselves are incredibly dry and full of more acronyms whatever presentation you should be working on. [Pastebin]

Bron: gizmodo.com

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#OpTurkey: Anonymous Hacks Fox Entertainment Turkey & Vodasoft, Leaks account details online – HackRead – Latest Cyber Crime – Information Security – Hacking News



Just an hour ago a well known Anonymous hacker going with the handle of @AnonsTurkey on Twitter has hacked into the official websites of Fox Entertainment Turkey (fox.com.tr) and a Turkish based call center VodaSoft (vodasoft.com.tr).

@AnonsTurkey who is very active these days for #OpTurkey, managed to breach the servers of both websites, ending up with leaking confidential information such as thousands of login accounts and database online with a message.

After analyzing the leaked data of Fox Entertainment Turkey, I have found out login details of around thousands of users which includes usernames, date of births, emails (@fox.com.tr & others) and their encrypted passwords.

While the leaked Vodasoft data includes site’s database, around 1600 usernames, company names, job title, emails, encrypted and plain-text passwords of site users and staff.

The hacker has pasted the data on a clipboard site, which can be found by clicking Fox Entertainment Turkey and [b]Vodasoft[/b].

@AnonsTurkey is the same Anonymous hacker who had hacked the official website of Turkish PM.

#OpTurkey is an online operation initiated by Anonymous as a result of protests that have been held in Turkey since 28 May 2013. The initial Istanbul protests were led by about 50 environmentalists against replacing Taksim Gezi Park with a reconstruction of the historic Taksim Military Barracks (demolished in 1940), with the possibility of housing a shopping mall. The protests developed into riots when a group occupying the park was attacked, with tear gas and water cannons, by police.

Follow @HackRead


Bron: hackread.com

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Operation Troll The NSA

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Let's jam up the NSA's scanners

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‘Anonymous Belgium-hackers’ zijn juristen van Mylex

Er was de voorbije weken veel te doen rond internetvrijheid, en censuur op het Belgische web. Na het omstreden voorstel van Peter Dedecker, lanceerde ‘Anonymous Belgium’ in mei de boodschap dat zij het Belgische web zou bevrijden. Hoe dit precies in zijn werk zou gaan, werd in de boodschap niet vermeld. Nu blijkt dat juristenkantoor Mylex achter de actie zat.


Mylex geïnspireerd door Nadim Kobeissi

Het juristenkantoor haalde haar inspiratie uit de presentatie van Nadim Kobeissi op het door Bloovi georganiseerde event Phare Conference te Gent. Nadim Kobeissi vertelde tijdens zijn presentatie op Phare over het feit dat het internet in België door de overheid gecensureerd wordt. De meesten van de aanwezigen waren verrast door dit nieuws. Dat zette juristenkantoor Mylex aan om een actie te bedenken die meer burgers hiervan zou bewust maken.

Mylex nam identiteit van Anonymous Belgium aan

Om genoeg aandacht te kunnen vestigen op het feit dat de Belgische overheid internetcensuur toepast heeft het juristenkantoor de identiteit van Anonymous Belgium aan. "Wanneer we hadden gewerkt met onze eigen kantoornaam, was de impact, en het maatschappelijk debat, nooit hetzelfde geweest," schrijft het kantoor in een persbericht.

"We vrezen niet voor represailles door Anonymous. Zij staan immers voor hetzelfde principe: vrijheid voor het internet," klinkt het.

Persbericht

Midden mei lanceerde 'Anonymous Belgium' de boodschap dat deze organisatie het Belgische web zou bevrijden. Op de website censorthis.be stond als lanceerdatum 15 juni en de vraag zich in te schrijven voor meer nieuws. Verschillende redacties kregen vandaag een persbericht binnen, begeleid met een filmpje persmap & een ludieke bivakmuts. Het persbericht verklapt dat Mylex achter Anonymous Belgium zit en toont via een filmpje waarom het juristenkantoor deze actie ondernam. Kijk even mee:

Censor This: Unveiled.

Waarom deze actie?

"We geloven in de basisprincipes van het world wide web. We geloven dat internettoegang ten allen tijde vrij moet zijn, en dat dit ook juridisch gewaarborgd moet blijven. Vandaag blokkeert de Belgische overheid maar liefst meer dan 80 websites. Dit gaat in tegen het principe van openbaarheid van bestuur en is niet in overeenstemming met het Wetboek van Strafvordering. Bovendien is er ook geen transparantie over welke websites het gaat," zegt Mylex.

"Vaak worden websites geblokkeerd waar illegale medicatie, gokproducten, en andere worden verkocht. Dit is echter weinig meer dan een drogargument. Censuur is slechts een masker voor de goede huisvader & pakt de bron van het probleem niet aan."

"Hoe verschilt onze democratie nog van dictatuurstaten?"

‘Hoe verschilt onze democratie dan nog van censuurstaten?’, vragen de juristen van Mylex, alias Anonymous Belgium. "Kan iedereen, ook maar een beetje gekrenkt door de inhoud beschikbaar van het net, straks vragen om een blokkering van die website? En hoe zal onze democratie dan nog verschillen van meer extreme censuurstaten zoals China, Iran of Noord-Korea?".

Meer uitleg over hun ideologische strijd geven de juristen op de website http://unveiled.censorthis.be. Je krijgt er ook de kans om de actie te steunen door een anonymous-foto (met blaclava of ander hoofddeksel) van jezelf te posten op twitter met de hashtag #liberatebelgium


Bron: www.bloovi.be

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Anonymous hacks TV watchdog for fining live streaming of Gezi protests, 13 June 2013

The global hacking collective Anonymous has hacked the website of the Turkish TV watchdog, after it fined today the broadcasters that showed live streaming of the Gezi Park protests.

Anonymous announced the operation targeting the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), dubbed “Tango Down RTÜK,” via the Twitter account of the collective’s Turkish members. “You have fined the media organizations that told the truth. Now Anonymous is punishing you,” the group said in its message. “You will not expel the one who speaks truth from nine villages,” it added, referring to a Turkish proverb meaning that those who tell the truth are never well received.

Private TV networks that live broadcasted the clashes between police and demonstrators such as Halk TV, Ulusal TV, CEM TV and EM TV were fined for “harming the physical, moral and mental development of children and young people” by airing the live footage. Halk TV had in particular gained sudden popularity for its 24-hour streaming when mainstream media outlets gave little coverage of the protests.

Bron: www.turkishweekly.net

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Anonymous trolls NSA with ‘keywords of terror,’ disables website - National Anonymous | Examiner.com

Anonymous disables the National Security Agency’s website and trolls their “impressive surveillance apparatus” with “keywords of terror” as part of Operation Troll the NSA (#OpTrollTheNSA).

Hacktivists associated with the international internet collective Anonymous initiated Operation Troll the USA on June 12, in response to bombshell revelations made by Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former federal government contract worker who revealed details of a vast secret surveillance program operated by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Softpedia reports hackers from WikiCrew disrupted the official NSA website, nsa.gov, via a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on June 12. At time of publication the site had been inaccessible for over 13 hours. Softpedia also reports “hackers of the St0rmyw0rm group have leaked a file which they claim contains the email addresses of over 400 individuals that work for the NSA.”

In addition to temporarily disabling the official NSA website, and leaking NSA employee email addresses, hacktivists associated with Anonymous actually trolled the NSA by sending out a large number of messages, emails and tweets containing terror-related words. The following is an excerpt from the trollthensa.com website:

. If millions of us, all at the same exact time, call or email someone with our keywords-of-terror-filled script, we can give our nation’s impressive surveillance apparatus the kind of test it deserves. They say they don’t read or listen to the contents of our messages. Why not test it out? It’ll be fun.

Last week Anonymous hacktivists released a collection of documents detailing the U.S. government’s covert intelligence-sharing network, as well as exposing key elements of a secret data-mining program currently being operated by the National Security Agency, and in so doing illuminating some of the “Net Centric Operations” being conducted by the Department of Defense. In particular, the documents offer a detailed look at the DoD’s “Global Information Grid” (GIG), a top-secret intelligence-sharing network.

Michael Stone is a progressive freethinker and freelance writer residing in Portland, Oregon. Informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion, Michael’s task is to question the world in pursuit of the good. You can reach Michael at stonemichael@hotmail.com.

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BiellaColeman twitterde op maandag 17-06-2013 om 19:05:16 Wow, Brazil's largest magazine (their twitter account has over 2 million followers) hacked by guess who? https://t.co/7QOjTSFZJ2 reageer retweet

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VEJA twitterde op maandag 17-06-2013 om 18:31:36 We are #Anonymous #Brasil reageer retweet

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Anonymous Hacks Brazil’s Largest Magazine VEJA’s Twitter account, invites people to Protest against Government

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The online hackavist group Anonymous Brazil has hacked the official Twitter account of one of Brazil’s largest magazine @VEJA, asking the Brazilians to join them in protests against the increase of Bus fare.

Anonymous Brazil posted an image on hacked Twitter account with a message saying:

. Its not about cents, its about our rights!

The account was hacked few minutes ago and I am breaking the news for you where the verified Twitter account is posting Tweets in Portuguese language against the Brazilian government and encouraging youth to come out and protest.

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#OpPetrol Damage List- Updating as the hack happens - Hackers News Bulletin



#OpPetrol

Today is 20th June 2013, this is the day for which Anonghost said to be more powerful for 12 Countries under #OpPetrol and they have already hacked a long list of websites which we are collecting from 12 may 2013.

Today they also attacked many of the websites, leaked documents, hacked accounts, below is the list of the Damage under #OpPetrol on 20th June 2013 and the list will be updated when the any hack happens related to #OpPetrol.

If you want to catch out the Past Damage of #OpPetrol (HERE) in which they hacked:

139. http://www.francescopassaniti.fr/site/Op.html
140. http://golfarcachon.org/fr/Op.html
141. http://www.sainville.fr/dvpt/
142. http://www.cani-cross.be/nouveau/Op.php

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Jake Davis: Freed hacker faces strict tech rules

A convicted hacker who was detained in a young offender institution has been released - but will now face strict limitations on his technology use.

Jake Davis, 20, was convicted of computer hacking for his role in the notorious group LulzSec.

He cannot contact anyone who associates themselves with the wider Anonymous hacktivist collective.

He told the BBC he planned to release a prison diary and to write a film about the internet.

Davis returned to Twitter on 22 June after finishing his 37-day term at Feltham young offender institution.

During that time he penned what he described as a "nerdy" diary, written using pen and paper, which he hopes to publish online once it has been subjected to legal checks.

He is forbidden from creating encrypted files, securely wiping any data or deleting his internet history.

In June 2012 he pleaded guilty to being part of LulzSec, an offshoot of Anonymous famed for attacking several high profile sites including Sony Pictures and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Shortly after being released, he tweeted: "654 days on curfew and 37 days in Feltham. Up next: Another 365 days on licence (parole) and 1,825 days of intense monitoring. Free though!"

He had been sentenced to 24 months - but he had been wearing an electronic tag for 21 months which counted against his term.
Licking elbows

Davis is now based in Islington, north London, where he said he was working on a number of projects.

He said he had begun an unspecified project with contemporary art firm Artangel - the company told the BBC it had had "several exploratory chats with Jake over the past six months", but would not go into further detail.

Longer term, he told the BBC he would write a fictional film about the internet, working with production company Fly Film, who could not be reached for comment on Monday.

Publically on Twitter, he has been sharing anecdotes about his time inside.

In one post, he wrote: "I was sacked as a prison cleaner for mopping too near a computer. Those deadly, soapy mops are a serious threat to GCHQ, make no mistake!"

As alter ego Topiary, Davis's last tweet before his arrest in July 2011 read: "You cannot arrest an idea."

On Sunday, in a nod to that sign off, Davis joked: "You can arrest an idea, you can imprison an idea, you can warp an idea, you can break an idea, but you still can't lick your own elbow."

While he wishes to distance himself from the hacking world, he has pledged support to Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor who leaked secret documents regarding the monitoring of internet users.

At the time of Davis's sentencing, prosecutors said the actions of the LulzSec group had been "cowardly and vindictive".

"The harm they caused was foreseeable, extensive and intended," said Andrew Hadik, a lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service. "Indeed, they boasted of how clever they were with a complete disregard for the impact their actions had on real people's lives."

He added: "This case should serve as a warning to other cybercriminals that they are not invincible."

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Anonymous North Korea

Anonymous North Korea

Greetings to our fellow Citizens of World.
To the tyrants of the North Korean Government... a notice.

We Are Anonymous. Previously we said we would penetrate the intranet and private networks of north korea. And we were successful.

. We are not a threat to the world peace like your government.
. We do not forcing ourselves like your government.
. We will no longer abide by your ways of ruling,
. We work toward world peace and for the Republic of Korea.

Thus, we have a Memorandum of June 25 to indicating our strength. Oh good people of North Korea, it is time to wake up. Soon you will experience a new culture, and your worthless leadership Will be recognised by everyone. Come and join us!

To the worthless tyrant kim jong Un and your puppet government body!
The only power you have are missiles and nuclear. We are more powerful than that. You cannot destroy ideas with missiles. You end talks by placing the blame on the Republic of Korea. And the price of your error will be costly and placed upon you. Your major missile documentation and residents, military documents show down is already in progress. Your attempt to cover this has been uncovered.

. We are partially sharing this information with the world.
. Expect us! and Wait for us!
. Anonymous are ready for this day!
. Kim Jong-un, now it is time for you to step down.

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Anonymous Hackers Leak Customer Database of Relead

Hackers of the Anonymous movement have set their sights on Relead, a company that helps its customers identify anonymous web visitors and convert the information into sales leads.

Since Relead hasn’t been too keen on revealing who its customers are, the hacktivists have decided to find out for themselves. They’ve leaked the company’s entire customer database online.

“You see, if you are an enemy of anonymity, you are an enemy of Anonymous, and we love to know who our enemies are,” the hackers said in a statement published next to the leaked data.

“Who is paying Relead to help them snoop on their unsuspecting website visitors? Who is willing to provide cash to a company that is essentially taking the NSA surveillance program as a business model?” they added.

The hackers have told SecurityWeek that it hasn’t been too difficult to gain access to the company’s customer database.

Forbes has contacted some of the individuals and companies whose names appeared on the list leaked by Anonymous.

Some of them have argued that such practices are becoming commonplace, while others believe that if they don’t use such tools, their competitors might do it.

F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen is also on the list of Relead’s customers. He says he had signed up for their free evaluation to see what type of information the service could provide.

“I was worried about Relead so I signed up for their free eval to see how much it would see. It saw almost nothing,” Hypponen said on Twitter.

He’s not the only one who found that the service couldn’t pinpoint individual visitors.

The CTO of IT security firm Rewterz.com, Muhammad Omar Khan, also said that Relead didn’t generate any useful results.

Relead representatives have not made any comments regarding the incident.

Bron: news.softpedia.com

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Anonymous Goes After America’s Biggest Private Prison Company - Business Insider



Companies like CCA currently profit from America's addiction to incarceration – converting a bloody trail of prison riots, deaths, and general human misery into black balance sheets. The conventional financial wisdom is that CCA will be reliably profitable in the future because of its strong history of growth over the past thirty years. But this growth has been fueled by a historical anomaly. Between 1970 and 2005, the U.S. prison population grew by 700 percent, far outpacing both population growth and crime. As a result, our country now has 5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prisoners.

CCA did not exist before this massive expansion of incarceration – and the company depends on it to survive. But Anonymous' report shows us that as America weans itself from that addiction, CCA's ledgers will quickly turn red.

This is not Anonymous' first foray into corporate issues. Since 2011, it has published four reports digging into the financials and governance of publicly traded Chinese companies. Each report has seriously rattled the target company; in one case, the Financial Times reported that the company responded by suspending trading of its shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Today's report on CCA marks the first time, however, that Anonymous has trained its sights on a U.S. company. They have certainly found a deserving target.

Anonymous points outs that state governments are increasingly enacting policy reforms designed to reduce their reliance on incarceration – including top CCA "customers" like California and Colorado. Based on a state-by-state examination of these reforms, combined with a close look at CCA's falling occupancy rates and decreased spending on new construction, Anonymous identifies ongoing criminal justice reforms as posing a far more serious risk to CCA's business model than CCA's management is willing to admit. It concludes that CCA's management "has been caught up in its own hype" and that "winter is coming" for the company.

Recent events lend support to Anonymous' conclusions. In just the last few months, four state governments have announced the cancellation of five prison contracts with CCA: Idaho, Kentucky, Texas, and Mississippi. While the Idaho and Mississippi cancellations seem to have arisen from dissatisfaction with CCA's performance (the Mississippi prison was rocked by two riots in just twelve months, and CCA employees at the Idaho prison recently falsified nearly 4,800 hours of staffing records), the Texas and Kentucky cancellations were driven by falling state prison populations that rendered the CCA contracts unnecessary.

Of course, continuing this momentum requires the political will to further reduce the flow of people into prisons. The ACLU is working on a number of fronts to make this happen, and an increasing number of state legislators are realizing that current incarceration rates are unsustainable. And we will continue to emphasize that handing control of prisons over to for-profit prisons are a bad public investment: one that fails to offer a real solution to state or local fiscal problems, lets those companies engage in sharp tactics to garner more government contracts and avoid public accountability, and has resulted in a truly horrifying track record of abuse, neglect, and misconduct.

They're digging in now.

Bron: www.businessinsider.com

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RT's Ruptly team detained filming Anonymous 'United Stasi of America' action — RT News

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Staff of RT’s video agency Ruptly were detained for several hours by Berlin police while filming the Anonymous 'United Stasi of America' action. Despite the crew having official permission to work in the area, police attempted to confiscate the footage.

The reporters were searched and detained for two hours. Police released the Ruptly team without charges as they found no grounds to seize the memory card with the video.

On July 14, Anonymous activists protested government surveillance programs by beaming giant words reading 'United Stasi of America' across the US embassy wall near the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin.

The projected note – up to three meters high – made reference to the former East German secret police, the Stasi.

The projection came from the car parked across the embassy and only lasted for two minutes. After that, three Anonymous activists packed up and left the scene.

However, a handful of police proceeded to detain the journalists filming on location.

“The police considered them first as suspects and then as Anonymous conspirators,” Ruptly said.

"Staffers of Ruptly video agency were shooting Anonymous actions and they had all the necessary work permits and accreditation. In this case, any fact of confiscation is illegal, so the Berlin police failed to remove our stuff," said Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor-in-chief.



In June, German magazine Der Spiegel reported that the US combs through half a billion German phone calls, emails and text messages each month, and has classified Germany on the same target level as China.

Back then Markus Ferber, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian sister party and member of the European Parliament, accused Washington of using "American-style Stasi methods," thus comparing them to the communist East Germany’s much-dreaded Ministry for State Security (Stasi).

The Stasi secret police employed a network of informants that served as watchdogs against any forms of government dissent. Spies reported the actions of friends and relatives, drilled holes into apartments and hotel rooms to film citizens with hidden cameras, and infiltrated schools and universities. In some cases, spouses and family members spied on each other.

they picked most prominent place in Berlin for embassy as if democratically inviting open protests

their locations in Berlin and Amsterdam on biggest squares where often gatherings,protests, festivals

RT reported on Germany's lack of sovereignity after WW2 in the past, they should do it again.


Bron: rt.com

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Anonymous claims hack of US's Fema in retaliation for 'implied threats' | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Hacking collective posts contact information for agency employees but unconfirmed if servers have been compromised

The Anonymous hacking collective claims it has compromised US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) servers and has posted the contact information of people connected to the agency online.

Anonymous said it released the information because recent events, including the NSA surveillance revelations, have brought "oblique and cowardly implied threats against Anonymous very much back into the forefront of the hive's consciousness".

The release includes the names, mailing addresses and email addresses of contractors, subcontractors and government employees linked to Fema, including private defense contractors, federal agents and local authorities.
Much of the information was already accessible online to someone determined to find it, though Anonymous said it redacted social security numbers and login information because its "intent is not to harm, merely to issue a firm warning".

However, the mailing addresses connected to some of the people listed on the release are not publicly affiliated with their employers and Anonymous referred to them as home addresses in an email. It did respond to a question asking why this does not fall under the banner of harmful information.

Anonymous said it targeted Fema because of a training exercise the agency used in 2012 to prepare employees for a cyberattack. In the scenario, a fictional group called "The Void" launches a cyberattack on US businesses and infrastructure.

Anonymous sees The Void as a stand-in for their organization and feels that the training exercise made some unfair implications about the collective. It said actions taken by The Void "implicitly link financial gain and fraud to activist hackers". Anonymous was also upset because it believes the exercise implies the collective is anti-American.

Fema did not respond to requests for confirmation on whether its servers were compromised.

The Fema exercise occurred in 2012, but Anonymous said in a statement that it believes the exercise was used "as part of the ongoing justifications for Prism and the other NSA spy programs". With these recent developments, Anonymous said it wanted to show it "does not wave the white flag".

We are not fighting any one government or corporation, we are fighting any enemy of freedom of speech and anyone compromising the right to remain anonymous online, without fear of reprisals from governments or corporations with the legal authority or financial resources to destroy the lives of anyone who dares express opinions contrary to their own official line.

Anonymous seemed to imply a threat of its own at the end of the release and said: "Also, please return to us Barrett Brown, we are asking nicely. Pretty please, with sugar on top."

Brown has been imprisoned since September after being accused of 17 offenses springing from his affiliation with Anonymous. Brown is not a hacker but had close ties to the collective and helped publicize some of their most renowned hacks including the Stratfor hack in 2011.

The Fema exercise was co-ordinated by homeland security consulting company Obsidian Analysis, who appointed former Fema chief of staff John McNamara to be company vice-president in May. The National Level Exercise: Cybertop Capabilities Tabletop Exercise, can be downloaded from the Fema site here.

Bron: www.guardian.co.uk

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Anonymous Plans Global Government Hacking Day For Fifth Of November

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“This video is an idea — a shared idea — so listen very carefully, and make sure you’re sitting down.”

Anonymous #NOV5TH 2013 - THE LION SLEEPS NO MORE.

The warning was given in activist coalition Anonymous’ most recent video declaration, a call for advocates around the world to rally on Nov. 5 and a warning to government officials that their facilities will be targeted and their secured websites will be hacked.

Anonymous is preparing for a Nov. 5 global day of hacking, global protests and acts of civil disobedience, calling on all people to prepare for what it is considering a day of widespread resilience in the face of global tyranny.

The video, “The Lion Sleeps No More,” warns officials that government buildings around the world will be targeted in acts of civil disobedience by free-thinking members of society who are rallying around the social and ecological issues facing not only the U.S., but every government throughout world.

“Governments of the world, take this message as your will and testament,” the video states. “The game is officially over. Social media has given birth to something new. Now it’s time to set the record straight. This video was intended as that spark that gets delivered straight into the hearts and minds of the world.”

This isn’t the first time Anonymous has capitalized on Nov. 5, a historically symbolic date of resistance based on the 1605 failed attempt to blow up London’s House of Lords. Last year, adorned in masks that depict the common interpretation of Fawkes, Anonymous called for a global day of hacking and resistance. They were successful, but not to the extent they desire for the upcoming day of action.

On Nov. 5, 2012, government and financial websites around the world were hacked, including Australian government sites and Argentina’s government bank. In the U.S., Trapwire, which produces security cameras, was the target of the hacktivist coalition, which chose the company based on its key role in practices that Anonymous claims violate Americans’ right to privacy.

This year, preparing months in advance and utilizing social media to drum up support, Anonymous is calling for an event of epic proportions, one that will serve as a historic day of global solidarity among those who are fighting different, yet similar, battles in their own countries.

“The time for global civil disobedience is now. This time it seems unions around the world are also supporting this action,” the video states. “The lion sleeps no more. Ask yourself this: Where will you be when we make history? Nov. 5, 2013 — worldwide, now it’s a vendetta, now it’s personal. Now it’s time to occupy everywhere. It’s time to throw everything we have at Nov. 5. It’s time to relight the flame of protest until our demands are met.”

Twitter is largely being used as an organizational tool for Nov. 5 preparations. Using the hashtag #NOV5TH, users have already begun to spread the video message and information regarding local protests.

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Why Anonymous hacked the tiny island nation of Nauru

For most people, the hacktivist collective Anonymous’s attack on the website of the island nation of Nauru probably seems pretty random.

But the Republic of Nauru, whose government website and primary ISP, CenpacNet Inc., were brought down over the weekend, is one of the primary processing centers for refugee immigration to Australia, a policy based on the country’s “Pacific Solution.”

This policy holds immigration applicants on islands off Australia instead of on the mainland. This has become a controversial issue in Australia. The asylum seekers and their supporters had earlier protested peacefully for a change in the long holding times for immigrants, but to no avail.

On Friday, a riot broke out in the processing center on Nauru, nearly destroying it and causing an estimated AUS$60 in damages. Nauru’s president called on “strong and able men” to help corral the escaped refugees, raising Anonymous’s ire.

Nauru police have charged 150 of the center’s approximately 550 residents, who have been transferred to jail facilities.

Anonymous’s attack, according to the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland, “resulted in all official emails and government being shut down for over four hours. It was claimed that the Nauruan government had suspended all Internet access outside of official use preceding the Anonymous attack.”

Nauru’s economy was based on phosphate mining. In its wake, the island has experienced environmental degradation and economic turmoil as the phosphate ran out. One of its few hard currency avenues is aid from Australia.

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Anonymous hacks Christian extremists, fights for church state separation - National Anonymous | Examiner.com

Fighting for the separation of church and state, Anonymous hacks a Christian extremist website working towards an American theocracy.

According to a report dated July 24, hacktivists associated with the international collective known as Anonymous hacked and leaked close to 10,000 usernames and passwords from Intercessors For America, a group “of like-minded people who recognized the need for God to intervene in U.S. governmental and cultural issues."

Cyber War News reports the hack and leak as “a raw sql extraction which contains user accounts and administrator accounts as well as server accounts. Account details are mostly email addresses and clear text passwords with the administrator and server passwords being encrypted. All together there is 9,885 non duplicated email:password combos found.”

Speculating on the motivation of the Anonymous hacktivists, Eduard Kovacs at Softpedia writes: “As far as their motivation is concerned, it appears the attackers don’t like that the religious organization is interfering with the government.”

The Anonymous hacktivists responsible for posting the document containing the leaked material left a brief, terse statement, noting that “This leak is in the true spirit of Anonymous. Any individual trying to claim responsibility for it is not the hacker who did it.” And, perhaps more importantly, “Never should religion interfere with government.”

What do you think about Anonymous hacktivists targeting Christian extremists? Leave a comment - express yourself.

_{Michael Stone is a progressive freethinker and freelance writer residing in Portland, Oregon. Informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion, Michael’s task is to question the world in pursuit of the good. You can reach Michael at stonemichael@hotmail.com.}

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Bron: www.examiner.com

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Nederland bij koplopers in 'censuur' op Google


De Nederlandse platen- en filmmaatschappijen behoren tot de grootste bestrijders van piraterij op internet. Afgelopen maand vroeg de entertainmentbranche Google ruim 175 duizend internetadressen onzichtbaar te maken in zijn zoekmachine.

De verzoeken werden ingediend door Brein, de stichting die overtredingen van het auteursrecht opspoort namens auteurs, uitvoerende kunstenaars, uitgevers, producenten en distributeurs van muziek, film, video, boeken, games en interactieve software.

Brein staat op de dertiende plaats van een lange lijst waarop Google laat zien welke bedrijven en organisaties hebben gevraagd om de verwijdering van links naar illegaal gekopieerde content. Is de klacht gegrond, dan verwijdert het Amerikaanse bedrijf die internetadressen uit de index van zijn zoekmachine.

Fox, Disney, NBC
De grootste 'piraterijbezems' onder de meer dan 3.200 klagers zijn de Britse (BPI) en Amerikaanse (RIAA) koepels van platenlabels, tv- en filmmaatschappijen als Fox, Disney en NBC Universal en softwareproducenten als Microsoft (dat Office uitgeeft) en Adobe (Photoshop). De Britse platenmaatschappijen, verenigd in het BPI, zijn met verwijderingsverzoeken voor ruim 2,7 miljoen links het fanatiekst in de bestrijding van wat zij zien als onlinemuziekdiefstal.

Sinds begin dit jaar hebben rechthebbenden Google verzocht om meer dan 105 miljoen internetadressen te verwijderen, zo heeft de activistische website TorrentFreak uitgerekend. Dat is twee keer zoveel als in heel 2012. Volgens TorrentFreak is dat het bewijs dat de entertainmentbranche de strijd tegen piraterij van films, muziek en software aan het opvoeren is.

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Het Amerikaanse verbond van platenlabels (RIAA) klaagt dat het 'een oceaan aan illegale downloads probeert leeg te scheppen met een emmer. Elke dag komt er weer meer bij en het einde is niet in zicht.' De RIAA heeft er bij Google op aangedrongen volledige internetdomeinen te blokkeren in plaats van dat er duizenden individuele links worden aangemeld. Als er meerdere verzoeken komen voor het verwijderen van links naar hetzelfde liedje op een enkele website, moet dat voldoende zijn voor een volledige ban.

De Zweedse muziekdienst Spotify publiceerde vorige week een studie waaruit zou blijken dat legale alternatieven voor illegale downloads in Nederland de piraterij van muziek hebben teruggedrongen. Op het onderzoek waarmee Spotify schermde, kwam kritiek, omdat het maar één kanaal bekijkt waarlangs internetters illegaal verspreide muziek binnenhengelen. Volgens Spotify is 10 procent van de downloaders verantwoordelijk voor de helft van de liedjes die in Nederland van internet worden geplukt en waarvoor de artiest niet wordt betaald.

Bron: Volkskrant

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Key slams 'juvenile' hacking by Anonymous

The hacking of more than a dozen National Party websites by opponents of the GCSB spying bill has been branded juvenile by the Prime Minister, whose site was among those disabled.

The sites were targeted by the New Zealand wing of the powerful global hacking group Anonymous overnight. Several of the sites have now been restored, including John Key's.

The hacking followed protests at the weekend when thousands of people turned out to show their opposition to the bill. It gives the Government Communications Security Bureau power to spy on New Zealanders not just foreign targets as at present.

Anonymous uploaded a video on YouTube in which they claimed they hacked the websites because Mr Key refused to listen to protests and uproar over the ''despicable piece of legislation''.

"It's pretty juvenile behaviour in my view," Mr Key said.

"These people are obviously doing something that's both illegal and inappropriate. And they're trying to make their own political point. But their point's wrong."

The websites would remain offline until National patched its web servers or withdrew the bill and apologised to those it had affected, including Kim Dotcom, Anonymous said.

But Dotcom, one of the bill's harshest critics, called for the cyber attacks to stop.

The internet mogul tweeted a warning to the hackers that they were only adding to Mr Key's reasoning to pass the GCSB bill.

"Dear Anonymous NZ, hacking National Party websites is just giving John Key a new excuse to pass the GCSB bill (cybercrime). Please stop it," Dotcom tweeted.

It was disclosures that the GCSB had illegally spied on Dotcom, the founder of online storage company Megaupload, that prompted the bill. Dotcom is fighting attempts by the US government to extradite him on charges of internet piracy, copyright infringement, and money laundering.

'It's not a sophisticated attack'

Finance Minister Bill English, whose website was among those hacked, warns there could be worse to come.

"The fact that they've taken down a ministerial website doesn't matter that much. But if these people decided to take down the IRD website or the Work and Income website that would leave a lot of New Zealanders vulnerable," Mr English said.

His site was among the few restored by this evening.

Anonymous is a loose global network of online hackers. It gained international notoriety for hacking the likes of Mastercard and Sony in the US and last year made Time Magazine's list of the world's most influential people.

An internet security expert, Daniel Ayres, says the National Party sites were easy targets, with only basic security.

"It's not a sophisticated attack. It's roughly the equivalent of someone dumping a tonne of manure on your lawn," Mr Ayres told ONE News.

"It does mean that quite a lot of internet crime has happened behind the scenes because they have to take over a bunch of internet computers."

The bill widening the powers of the GCSB is currently before Parliament and likely to pass with United Future MP agreeing to support it, giving Key the numbers he needs to get it over the line.

To secure the support of Mr Dunne to be able to pass the law, the Government has made some concessions, increasing supervision of the GCSB and making provision for reviews of its operations.