Anonops #15: Last or not to Last

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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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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 Was An Undercover Journalist, Attorney Says

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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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puffyhoppe twitterde op donderdag 21-03-2013 om 16:15:26 (。´・ω・`)oh...怖っ！ RT @AnonBig: #YAN #Anonymous member loki killed by the FBI during a raid in his Houston home this morning. reageer retweet

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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

In Barrett Brown, News on March 26, 2013 at 3:08 PM

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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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http://htmlpaste.com/a632c09068de1af2ea20d2f4f74cd081a74b3000

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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