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  dinsdag 6 mei 2014 @ 17:12:01 #26
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Anonymous / @Anarchoanon / #Every5th

MEDIA ALERT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: @anarchoanon anarchoanon@riseup.net
(We operate anonymously to avoid retaliation by police, but we are real
people wiling to work with you to help you tell this story as you see
fit.)

Denver 5/5- Wednesday, May 5th saw the 7th monthly “Every 5th” protest in
the streets of Denver. The loose internet-based activist collective known
as “Anonymous” has been holding these events to call attention to
different issues in the city and the nation. The last event on April 5th
was a protest against police brutality, which was predictably attacked by
the Denver Police Department. This month's protest was to call for an
“end to Denver's war on free speech,” to call attention to the
unconstitutional anti-protest measures often taken by the police
department. The number of marchers fluctuated between 30 and 100
throughout the day. With slogans and banners calling attention to police
brutality and free speech issues, the march went all around downtown,
passed through the Auraria college campus, and visited the 16th st mall.
While the march was on the sidewalk outside Rock Bottom Brewery on 16th
st, a line of riot police charged the march and violently pushed several
people, including elderly women and children, to the ground in addition to
making several unprovoked arrests. After a tense standoff outside Rock
Bottom, the march went back up 16th st to disperse at the capitol
building. As people dispersed to leave the protest, squads of Denver
police stalked people leaving the protest, ambushing groups and
individuals in parking lots and streets, apparently as “revenge” for their
protest against the Denver Police Department. It was very apparent to
eyewitnesses that Denver Police were maliciously targeting protesters in
an attempt to intimidate them into ceasing first amendment-protected
protest activity. The Denver Police continue to claim that their actions
were to keep the public safe, which is very odd when reconciled with the
sounds of innocent bystanders screaming as the police rushed and attacked
people who were standing on the sidewalk. The protest was not hurting
anyone, there was no danger and no acts of destruction. The only danger
present was that crowds of people on the 16th street mall might see that
there are people ready to stand up against the privatized, militarized,
and gentrified direction Denver has been taking of late.

An account by a mother who was violently knocked to the ground by DPD
during the attack on the crowd outside Rock Bottom Brewery:

“I was walking on the sidewalk, playing my drum when the police suddenly
attacked the crowd. A police officer pushed me to the ground, someone
picked me up, and then another police officer picked me up and threw me
into a man standing nearby. The officer then yelled at me to “get off of
him!” after the police themselves threw me into this man. This was my
first protest in Denver, and I never said “fuck the police.” I was
conducting myself in a peaceful and legal manner, and the police really
opened up my eyes in terms of how they deal with protests in this city. I
did not feel safe and in fact felt endangered by the officers' aggressive
behavior. I asked who was in charge, but no officers would tell me who is
in charge. Who is responsible for this? This is not ok.”

The person who provided the above eyewitness account is available for
interviews upon request. We can provide other eyewitnesses as well.

“A group of us was calmly walking away from the protest, heading towards
the Capitol Hill neighborhood. As we passed through a parking lot, a
group of police officers on bicycles suddenly surrounded us, rammed our
friend's bike with their bike, knocking him to the ground. They proceeded
to chase him and arrest him without explaining themselves. Another
individual present was punched in the face although he was never detained
or accused of a crime. This kind of behavior by Denver Police is clearly
a direct retaliation against us exercising our first amendment rights to
publicly denounce the corruption and brutality of this city's police
force. Today, I am ashamed to be a taxpayer in the city of Denver,
because my tax dollars are financing the violent repression of peaceful
dissent.”

Video of police assaulting the crowd outside Rock Bottom Brewery:

A very interesting conversation between Denver Police twitter account and
“Your Anon News” an influential anonymous twitter account with 1.2 million
followers:
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  donderdag 8 mei 2014 @ 17:04:57 #27
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Protesters set up camp at net neutrality rally outside FCC headquarters

Occupy-style protest against proposed 'open internet' rules that protesters say will give control of the web to major corporations

Protesters set up camp outside the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on Wednesday to fight plans they say will create a two-tier internet and hand control of the web to major corporations.

The rally – reminiscent of the Occupy-style rallies that started in 2011 – started outside the FCC’s Washington headquarters at noon with protesters from Fight For the Future, Popular Resistance and others unfurling banners reading “Save the Internet”.

Protesters then announced they intend to camp out outside the FCC until 15 May when the regulator is expected to announce new rules for the internet that will formalise plans for higher speed internet for those able to pay for it. On Wednesday Google, Facebook and Amazon joined around 100 other technology companies in signing a letter to the FCC rejecting "individualised bargaining and discrimination" for internet traffic.

"[The FCC must] take the necessary steps to ensure that the internet remains an open platform for speech and commerce," the letter says.

Public interest groups have become increasingly concerned that the new rules will end “net neutrality” – the concept that all internet traffic should be treated equally on the web. FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has defended his plans for what he calls the “open internet”.

The future of net neutrality has effectively been in limbo since a federal court struck down most of the FCC’s open internet order in January in a case brought by Verizon. The loss paved the way for fast lanes that have the major broadband providers have lobbied hard for, and for which they plan to charge extra to their biggest users.

"We don’t have armies of paid lobbyists at our disposal but we can not let the freedom of the internet be hijacked by giant monopolies,” said Evan Greer of Fight For The Future.

More than a million people have now signed petitions to the FCC calling for them to enshrine net neutrality rules and prevent a tiered system.

A group of 86 organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Free Press and Reddit, are asking the FCC to reclassify broadband companies as "telecommunication services", which would give the commission the authority to impose net neutrality rules on them.

Wheeler has said the FCC’s new rules will protect net neutrality.

“The Internet will remain like it is today, an open pathway,” Wheeler wrote in a FCC blogpost in April. “If a broadband provider (ISP) acts in a manner that keeps users from effectively taking advantage of that pathway then it should be a violation of the Open Internet rules.”

Critics charge, however, that cable firms will successfully challenge any new rules to tie their hands unless the FCC’s regulatory control over them is increased and point out cable firms have already effectively created a two-tier system. After the FCC lost to Verizon in January, a tiered system has already started to emerge with Netflix and others striking deals for a faster service with cable firms.

“The internet is as necessary to our society as shelter and water, people should have equal access to it,” said Greer. “We have seen an unbelievable amount of support from people since these new rules emerged. It may seem technical but it affects everyone’s life and people are not going to just stand by and let this happen.”
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  donderdag 8 mei 2014 @ 18:45:57 #28
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It seems like the FBI is not quite finished with one of its most valuable assets, Hector Monsegur (aka Sabu) the former Anonymous and LulzSec member who had his sentencing postponed for a seventh time on Wednesday.

Monsegur was due before Judge Loretta Preska in New York on Thursday but he has once again had his sentencing postponed, according to sources speaking to the Daily Beast website.

No new date has been set for Monsegur's next court appearance yet, giving us no indication of whether or not the FBI want to keep using Monsegur for a long or short period of time. His sentecning was last adjourned on 8 May.

Monsegur will face punishment for crimes associated with the 50 Days of Lulz campaign he and his fellow hackers carried out which saw them attack companiess such as Sony and EA as well as law enforcement agencies including the CIA and SOCA.

The former Anonymous hacker has already pleaded guilty to 12 criminal charges, including multiple counts of conspiracy to engage in computer hacking, computer hacking in furtherance of fraud, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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  dinsdag 13 mei 2014 @ 22:24:09 #29
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Autistic Hacker Helped FBI Nail Anonymous Boss

Criminal charge was dropped after man, 26, cooperated with the feds
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MAY 13--In an effort to identify leaders of Anonymous, the FBI arrested an autistic New York man and then used him as a cooperating witness to help snare a notorious fellow hacker who was subsequently indicted for his central role in a series of high-profile online attacks, The Smoking Gun has learned.

In return for the hacker’s cooperation--and in light of his autism--Department of Justice officials initially agreed to defer prosecution on a criminal complaint charging the man with hacking Gawker Media, an illegal incursion that yielded registration information for more than a million individuals who signed up with the popular blog network.

Federal prosecutors eventually dropped the hacking charge altogether, according to court records that were kept under seal long after the hacker’s arrest by a team of FBI agents. Investigators were concerned that if the man’s cooperation became public, he would be harassed by hackers then being targeted by the FBI. Additionally, disclosure of his cooperation, prosecutors contended, “would jeopardize substantial ongoing investigations into the defendant’s former co-conspirators, many of whom are suspected of carrying out substantial computer hacks against several businesses.”

So, to “help ensure the defendant’s safety,” Thomas “Eekdacat” Madden became, for a time, “John Doe.”

The 26-year-old Madden, whose cooperation has not been previously disclosed, lives with his parents in Troy, a city 10 minutes outside Albany. An only child, Madden graduated in December 2010 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he completed a double major in computer science and mathematics, according to school records.
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  dinsdag 13 mei 2014 @ 22:31:37 #30
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Report claims Anonymous will protest Glenn Greenwald for ties to PayPal billionaire

The Internet hacktivist group Anonymous is calling for protests against author and civil liberties advocate Glenn Greenwald because of his relationship with eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

In a release posted to Pastebin, the secretive activist group is calling for members to attend and disrupt scheduled book signings where Greenwald will be promoting his new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.

The point of contention between Greenwald and the group stems from his relationship with First Look founder and eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar.

eBay purchased PayPal in 2002.

Representing the “PayPal 14,” — a group charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after they attempted to disrupt PayPal’s operations in retaliation for PayPal’s refusal to process donations to WikiLeaks — Anonymous stated that the 14 are “struggling to raise more than $80,000 in court-ordered restitution” that must be paid to eBay/PayPal.

Anonymous claims that, while the 14 face jail and fines, Greenwald and Omidyar have been cashing in on the “digital information war.”

“Greenwald and Pierre occasionally express tepid ‘support’ for the PayPal14. But where’s the $80,000? That’s lunch money to Greenwald or Pierre. For the PayPal14, it’s a crushing financial burden,” they wrote. “Pierre, according to Forbes, rakes in $7.8 billion per year while the PayPal14 struggle to stay afloat. Pierre started off First Look, Greenwald’s news media outlet, with $50 million in funding — tens of millions more than $80,000.”

Anonymous is also complaining that Greenwald and Omidyar are watering down the “hacktivist movement” by not publishing all of Edward Snowden’s documents, or heavily redacting them, thereby keeping “aggressive, non-celebrity journalists from finding answers and pro-freedom hackers from building better defenses.”

Anonymous members are instructed to attend Greenwald’s book signings to protest, record their activities, hand out fliers, and explain the relationship between the author and his financial benefactor.

The “YourAnonNews” Twitter account expressed support for the campaign on Monday, along with the account representing Occupy Wall Street.

The Twitter account for WikiLeaks also backed the campaign, though they suggested that only PayPal — and not Greenwald — should be targeted.

. #Paypal14 are rightly fuming about Paypal boss @Pierre Omidyar (though the proxy attack on @GGreenwald is harsh) http://t.co/r4EauU1wTd

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 12, 2014


Omidyar has previously called for leniency for the PayPal 14, saying they should have been cited for a misdemeanor instead of facing felony charges.

Raw Story has requested a statement from Glenn Greenwald.
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  donderdag 15 mei 2014 @ 16:55:03 #31
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Anonymous projected sign: ‘United Stasi of America Don’t Spy on Us’



Hacktivist group Anonymous projected another message on the USA embassy in Berlin on Thursday night before heading away in an unidentified van. Disguised in capes and Guy Fawkes masks, the Anonymous members used a generator and a projector to display the message: ‘United Stasi of America Don’t Spy on Us.’ This is the third time the group has projected their protest against the US.

The action comes one week after Edward Snowden’s latest document ‘black budget’ was published in the Washington Post, outlining how the NSA use encryption codes, similiar to those used in banking systems, to trade data on medical records, web searches, Internet chats, and phone calls of citizens around the world.

The Guardian, who Snowden released NSA secret files to, published an article on Friday morning stating how the NSA uses internet traffic to access communications around the world and how to avoid getting spied on.

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  vrijdag 16 mei 2014 @ 18:43:43 #32
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State Watchdog threatens to block Twitter under new blogger bill

A senior official from Russian control agency Roskomnadzor says new restrictions would apply to all bloggers who write in Russian, even if they live abroad, adding that whole platforms can be blocked inside the country for refusal to cooperate.

The new law defines ‘popular bloggers’ as those having 3,000 or more visitors per day and demands that such people were registered under their real names and follow some basic rules similar to those mentioned in the Law on Mass Media – verify their reports and abstain from posting slander or anything that can be described as ethnic, religious or social hatred. The law must come into force on August 1 this year.

However, the law has no provisions connected with the global and trans-border nature of blogs and the internet as a whole. The document is not saying directly if it applies to cases in which both the authors of blogs and the blog platforms are based outside Russia.

Deputy head of Roskomnadzor Maksim Ksendzov said that this would not matter.

“The law is not tied to the territorial registration or passport data. If someone writes in Russian or any other language used by the peoples of the Russian Federation, if he or she is seeking to attract the Russian audience’s attention and if they use Russian sites for this, such people will have to observe the law,” the official said in an interview with popular daily Izvestia.

Ksendzov added that as the law offers no means to influence the foreign-based bloggers the Russian agency would most likely have to block the whole blog platform or social network in Russia, but only after they refuse to take down the illegal content. Roskomnadzor already practices such scheme as part of the enforcement of the federal law that bans the dissemination of terrorist and extremist information and also the federal law on protection of children.

The official said that major companies like Twitter and Facebook were still reluctant to cooperate, unlike Google that had been removing offensive and illegal videos from its YouTube portal for some time already.At the same time, the way Twitter was encoding its traffic would lead to complete blocking of the microblogging service on the Russian territory even after Roskomnadzor blocks only one tweet, he noted.

Ksendzov suggested in the interview Twitter’s objectives in Russia were not only commercial, but also political and this was the reason of the uncooperativeness.

“Twitter is a global tool for distribution of political information. When they interact with us they use the audience as a means for reaching their goals. At the same time the value users and their interests for the company is extremely low,” the head of the Russian watchdog said.

“By gradually refusing to comply with our demands they are deliberately creating the conditions in which the blocking of this resource on our country’s territory becomes practically inevitable,” Ksendzov complained.

Following the release of the interview senator Ruslan Gattarov also blasted Twitter’s uncooperativeness at a Friday session of the Upper House’s commission for development of information society.

“The ugliest situation of all is that we have with Twitter. This company is not observing the Russian laws and only slightly reacts to the Roskomnadzor demands,” Gattarov said.

At the same time, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, known for his fondness with technology and gadgets, has played down the situation in his Facebook account.

“As an active user of social networks, I hold that the Russian laws must be observed by everyone – the networks and the users alike. But certain civil servants, responsible for the development of the industry must sometimes turn their brains on and give no interviews that announce the shutdown of social networks,” Medvedev wrote.

Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said that the authorities in the Kremlin were convinced that all foreign companies must observe all laws in force on the Russian territory. “The law exists to be observed,” Peskov told Interfax.
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  vrijdag 16 mei 2014 @ 22:25:30 #33
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Anonymous, the online hacktivist collective, is calling on people to read and disseminate a pirated copy of Glenn Greenwald's new book about Edward Snowden, in protest at his links to eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

The campaign is a bid to raise awareness about the plight of the PayPal 14, a group of Anonymous members who were convicted of taking part in a cyber-attack against PayPal in 2010.

The campaign is trying to help raise the $80,000 (£51,170) the group has been court ordered to pay PayPal in compensation for the damage it caused during the attack.

At the time of publication, the the GoFundMe page has raised $6,514 of the total.

The campaign, which was announced by Anonymous on Monday, called on supporters to physically protest at events Greenwald was taking part in this week to promote his book called No Place to Hide, which details his publication of a trove of top secret documents stolen by Edward Snowden and relating to governmental spying at the NSA and GCHQ.

Billionaire backer

In the press release published by Anonymous, the group said:

"As Greenwald gets a book tour, the PayPal14 get sentencing hearings. He is traveling the world to promote his book about Snowden's NSA leaks, and the 14 are struggling to raise more than $80,000 in court-ordered restitution for eBay/PayPal, companies ultimately overseen by Greenwald's billionaire backer, Pierre Omidyar."

Greenwald announced earlier this year that he would be working as one of the editors of a new website called The Intercept, which is owned by First Look Media - a company belonging to Omidyar.

PayPal is a wholly-owned subsidiary of eBay, which is why Omidyar is being targeted.

The Anonymous campaign calls on people to help promote the fundraising drive, to engage Greenwald and Omidyar on Twitter by using the hashtag #PayPal14 and to physically protest at Greenwald's book signing.

Pirated copy

While not a part of the original press release, many of the prominent Anonymous Twitter accounts - including @YourAnonNews which has more than 1.2 million followers - have been promoting links to a pirated electronic copy of Greenwald's book.

Greenwald kicked off his book tour on Tuesday in New York before travelling to Washington and Boston. While a member of Anonymous has claimed to IBTimes UK that there we people their in Anonymous' name, at least at some of the events, it doesn't seem as if they had much impact on the signings themselves.

Greenwald has yet to respond publicly to the campaign and both he and Omidyar have not responded to requests for comment from IBTimes UK.

Wikileaks, which was the reason the attack on PayPal happened in the first place, has pledged its support to the fundraising drive and protest campaign against Omyidar, but said the "proxy attack" on Greenwald was "harsh".
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  zaterdag 17 mei 2014 @ 15:13:20 #34
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It appears likely that Edward Snowden was involved with CryptoParty. Cryptome has uncovered a public key for cincinnatus@lavabit.com, which is the same alias he used to contact Glenn Greenwald — and it’s associated with the organizing of an event in Honolulu, Hawaii in December 2012, where the now-famous NSA whistleblower was then living. Here’s the original page via Wayback Machine. Although I’m awaiting official confirmation from his lawyers, the odds are very high that it was him. CryptoParty is a global movement that was spawned nearly two years ago from an idea by Asher Wolf, an Australian activist.
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There’s also the video that Snowden created which I discovered in July last year, and has since been confirmed by Greenwald; a tutorial on GPG encryption for journalists, which was credited to “Anonymous 2013″ and posted by the Vimeo user anon108. Although setting up PGP proved too difficult for Greenwald, behind the voice-changing effect is someone who sounds extremely knowledgable about the mechanisms of digital security. Combined with the EFF and Tor Project stickers pictured on his laptop, the Anonymous and CryptoParty connections show a man attuned to the struggle for our rights on the internet; one with his eye on those communities.
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  maandag 19 mei 2014 @ 15:49:51 #35
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Waarom doneert Gabriella Coleman aan de #Paypal14

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In December 2010 when Wikileaks was stirring the pot of controversy with its hard hitting leaks, cowardly companies like PayPal and Visa caved into hidden but significant political pressure and blocked Wikileaks. This act of blatant censorship infuriated many citizens who expressed their dismay on every available online channel. Anonymous was well poised to harness the fury ball of anger and did so by coordinating one the largest DDoS campaigns the Internet has yet witnessed, variously called Operation Avenge Assange or Operation Payback.

Media attention was frenzied, catapulting this collective of collectives out of relative obscurity and into the international spotlight. In the New York Times, one of the Internet’s original patron saints—John Perry Barlow— prophetically cast the Anonymous campaign as “the shot heard round the world—this is Lexington.” In quoting Emerson’s poem “Concord Hymn,” Barlow hearkens to the first gunshot fired in the American Revolutionary war at the Battle of Lexington, which marked the outbreak of armed combat between the Colonies and the Kingdom of Great Britain. The information war, well under way, had seen a decisive battle.Months later, a slew of ordinary participants were arrested for their contributions.

For many who supported the protest, this once spectacular and exciting collective outcry has likely faded from memory. But for those facing the charges, it never went away. They have endured three years of expensive, time consuming and stressful battles against a mighty and well resourced US DoJ. Thanks to excellent legal support, they have accepted a plea bargain and the fine they are collectively facing is now a lot less than what it could have been: $86,000.

The DDoS is understandably a controversial political among geeks, hackers, and citizens. It has its limits and strengths and I myself am far from being a staunch fan. Whatever you may think of the DDoS (and I recommend looking out for this book on the DDoS by Molly Sauter), the Pay Pal 14 were driven by conviction. They have explained it with candor on their fundraising website: “They were not spreading malware, hacking servers, or even damaging the systems themselves. . . These people were making a statement and publicly exposing PayPal in front of their shareholders and the world on behalf of those of us who value freedom of information.” Their intervention also came at the right time helping to keep the issue of corporate censorship under the public limelight for a few precious weeks.

The time has come for those of us who believe in the right to dissent online to help them raise the funds so the can resume their interrupted lives.The government banks on the fact that activist movements, especially those running on spontaneity, often dissipate, fracture, and vanish. They bank on the fact that putting activists through an expensive legal wringer will cower many others into silent submission. We can prove them wrong. Lending support sends a strong message back: under adversity, the movement can preserve and take care of their own.

Yesterday I pledged $350 and if matched in 36 hours, I promised to double the amount. I was thrilled to see it took less than five hours for that to happen. I hope you consider donating what you can and spreading the word.
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  maandag 19 mei 2014 @ 17:48:27 #36
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As I described in a previous column, the copyright monopoly cannot be enforced without mass surveillance. There is no way to tell a private conversation in a digital environment from a monopolized audio file being transferred, not without actually looking at what’s being transferred. At that point, the secrecy of correspondence has been broken and mass surveillance introduced.

The copyright industry has been continuously and relentlessly pushing for more mass surveillance, including surveillance of citizens who aren’t under any suspicion (“mass surveillance”) for this reason. They defended the now-illegal Data Retention Directive, which logs everybody’s communications and location all the time (specifically including yours), as well as similar initiatives.

Most notably, the copyright industry is known for using child porn as an argument for introducing mass surveillance, so that the mass surveillance can be expanded in the next step to targeting people who share knowledge and culture in violation of that industry’s distribution monopolies. This is a case study in taking corporate cynicism to the next level.

This mass surveillance is also what feeds the NSA, the GCHQ, and its other European counterparts (like the Swedish FRA). It is continuously argued, along the precise same lines, that so-called “metadata” – whom you’re calling, from where, for how long – is not sensitive and therefore not protected by privacy safeguards. This was the argument that the European Court of Justice struck down with the force of a sledgehammer, followed by about two metric tons of bricks: it’s more than a little private if you’re talking to a sex service for 19 minutes at 2am, or if you’re making a call to the suicide hotline from the top of a bridge. This is the kind of data that the spy services wanted to have logged, eagerly cheered on by the copyright industry.

This has a direct connection to free speech as such.

In Germany, the effect of this logging and violation of people’s privacy has been studied extensively. According to a study conducted by polling institute Forsa before the data retention was in place, over half of German citizens would refrain from placing communications that could be used against them in the future – drug helplines, psychologists, even marriage counseling. A significant portion of Germans had already refrained from taking such contacts for that reason.
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  maandag 19 mei 2014 @ 18:33:04 #37
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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, and 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 any 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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  dinsdag 20 mei 2014 @ 17:03:05 #38
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#OpPayBack: Anonymous Takes Down US Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy websites

Earlier today, the online hacktivist group Anonymous conducted a massive Denial-of-service attack (DDoS) on defense related websites of the United States.

Attack was conducted under the banner of Operation PayBack. As a result, nineteen high profile websites belonging to US Army, US Marines, US Air Force and US Navy were taken down.

The news of successful DDoS attack was announced by Anonymous via their Twitter handle @Anon_Centre. While the list of all targeted websites is available here.

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The army.mil domain was down for hours as seen in the below given screenshot:



It is unclear if Anonymous will keep on attacking these domains or there are some other targets in the list. Stay in touch as we will keep you posted with more on this attack.

At the time of publishing this article, all targeted websites were restored and working online.
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  dinsdag 20 mei 2014 @ 19:37:09 #39
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An open letter to members of the New Jersey District Court, FBI, and DOJ, consisting of an invoice.

To the Honorable Susan D. Wigenton, US Attorney Paul J. Fishman, Assistant US Attorney Zach Intrater, and FBI Special Agent Christian Schorle,

"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?" -Shakespeare

It has long been one of the fundamental pillars of our system of law that when one commits a crime against another, they are made to give restitution to their victims.

I have, over the course of 3 years, been made the victim of a criminal conspiracy by those in the federal government. This was a conspiracy of sedition and treason, perpetrated with violence by a limited number of federal agents to deprive me of my constitutional rights to a fair trial and unlawfully put me in prison. This is not a hallucination on my part. These claims were in fact verified by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals when they vacated the false judgement against me imposed by the court of Judge Susan D. Wigenton. Perhaps you haven't read the opinion of the appeals court exposing all of you as liars and seditionists yet. If so, here you go: https://www.eff.org/files/2014/04/11/weev.pdf

On January 18th, 2011 I was kidnapped at gunpoint by the US Marshals from Fayetteville, Arkansas, the town where I was born, based off a criminal complaint based on complete falsehoods written by FBI Special Agent Christian Schorle. The complaint alleged I had broken into AT&T's servers (I hadn't, as confirmed by the appeals court which verified no evidence was presented that any of my accesses bypassed security restrictions) and that New Jersey was the jurisdiction because AT&T was headquartered there. In actuality, AT&T was headquartered at the time in Houston, Texas. This sort of blatant falsehood is verifiable by a simple Google search.

Thus I was taken from Arkansas, the nicest place I ever lived, and brought to Newark, New Jersey, a place worse than any of the many third world countries I have visited. I was held under bail conditions where the government refused to allow me to work in my industry, told me where I could live (I was not allowed to return to my birthplace of Arkansas where I lived at no expense, and instead forced to pay rent in New Jersey), and was subject to the indignity and expense of regular mandatory travel to the Newark courthouse to urinate in front of a federal employee. I was told where I could travel, and where and how I could sleep. My time and life was completely monopolized by the federal government during this period, again based off false statements from a lying piece of shit in the federal government.

I then spent a swath of the next years struggling to find an attorney because the overworked federal defender I was given told me to plea to false charges because even if I was innocent there was no way I'd win. I then struggled to get this attorney enough resources to fight the case while he was struggling to keep the lights in his office on.

Going to trial two years later, the United States Attorneys and FBI repeatedly perjured themselves in order to wrongfully convict me. FBI Special Agent Phillip Frigm claimed that the manufactured evidence was "secured" by MD5 signatures. This was factually wrong and perjurously asserted as true under oath-- MD5 signatures do not work in the manner he implied. Assistant US Attorney Michael Martinez claimed that I committed a crime because my use of the Internet was "not like going to ESPN and checking my favorite sports team's scores", and Assistant US Attorney Zach Intrater claimed that I had committed a crime because I automated web requests with a script. This, of course, ignores the fact that the vast majority of web requests are programmatic and automated-- total API requests and automated GET per year are approaching the quadrillions. Lie after lie after lie stacked up in open court on behalf of the agents of the government. If there was any integrity left in the justice system there would be special prosecutors appointed to charge you with the perjuries you committed.

Orchestrating this circus was the judge, Susan D. Wigenton, who not only ignored my constitutional right to a trial in a reasonable location but blatantly allowed manufactured evidence and perjury on the part of FBI and DOJ employees in her courtroom. The rights I have enumerated in the Constitution (and, in some cases, even The Declaration) were violated with near completion.

At sentencing, I made the following statement to Judge Wigenton:

"I don’t come here today to ask for forgiveness. I’m here to tell this court, if it has any foresight at all, that it should be thinking about what it can do to make amends to me for the harm and the violence that has been inflicted upon my life."

It is time, now that the fraud and violence committed against me has been exposed by the appeals process, to begin making amends to me for the harm her court has done.

My current market-determined hourly rate is 1 Bitcoin an hour. I was taken from my childhood home at gunpoint on January 18th, 2011, and I was not allowed to freely exercise my liberties as a citizen until April 11th, 2014. That's 1179 days that you used my time that I am now billing you for (I gave you a discount by not including the last day). I am owed 28,296 Bitcoins. I do not accept United States dollars, as it is the preferred currency of criminal organizations such as the FBI, DOJ, ATF, and Federal Reserve and I do not assist criminal racketeering enterprises.

Know that all this wealth will be directed towards a good and charitable cause. I am building a series of memorial groves for the greatest patriots of our generation: Timothy McVeigh, Andrew Stack, and Marvin Heemeyer. You see, In the "Special Housing Unit", which is Bureau of Prisons codespeak for "solitary confinement" and "torture", I had enough time to think about the current state of federal government.

The federal government has declared war on We the People. I am but the latest casualty of the unjust and seditious war being waged against honest Americans and defenders of the Constitution. At Waco the FBI directed the murder of 76 men, women, and children. At Ruby Ridge the FBI murdered both a 14-year-old boy and a woman cradling her infant child. All federal agents are, in fact, murderous thugs and seditious terrorists. Sedition is the charge for crimes which undermine the Constitution with violence. I can assure you that violence was used against me, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has already verified that the case against me undermined the Constitution.

28,296 Bitcoins. This is my invoice. It will only come once. As government criminality continues to be exposed on a daily basis, there is an urgent question which our government must answer: by what civil and peaceful means can those of us harmed by government perjury, fraud, and violence be compensated for the losses we have experienced? My Bitcoin address: 1JTeYcsx37XTq5NRgjepAHDqaLHTZUL88a
Now the government's answer, or lack of it, will be permanently preserved in the Bitcoin block chain as a matter of public record. PAY ME MY MONEY, YOU LYING SUBHUMAN GARBAGE. You also should resign from your posts, as you've shown yourselves to be collective disgraces to rule of law and enemies of the United States Constitution. Those of us who actually love this country should take your places.
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  donderdag 22 mei 2014 @ 15:40:45 #40
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Anonymous puts Indonesia on notice over West Papua

The global activist network Anonymous has launched a campaign to raise attention on censorship and the killings of indigenous West Papuans in Indonesia's eastern region.

Anonymous, which is known for its activist stunts and disruptions to government and corporate websites, says West Papuans have been silenced for too long by Indonesia's military and government.

Anonymous also says the United Nations should take responsibility for the sham referendum it sanctioned in 1969 which incorporated the former Dutch New Guinea into Indonesia.

Indonesia denies that it censors media coverage of West Papua, and claims it is steadily bringing in development to improve the lives of people there.

However Indonesia's military insists it will continue to respond firmly to separatism.

Anonymous asks for a UN peacekeeping force, the withdrawal of all non-organic Indonesian troops in West Papua, and a free and fair referendum so Papuans can decide their own destiny.
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  vrijdag 23 mei 2014 @ 22:55:07 #41
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Surf champ accused of hacking

An alleged Anonymous hacker accused of targeting the Indonesian Government and personal details of thousands of AAPT customers is a surf lifesaver and cancer support fundraiser living in a beachside property in Scarborough.


Adam John Bennett has appeared in Perth Magistrate's Court charged with hacking into the database of telecommunications company AAPT and obtaining sensitive information - including credit card and Medicare details, addresses and phone numbers.

As of this week, the 40-year-old was a fundraising manager for Cancer Support WA. He previously held a position as a company director with Paynes Find Gold Limited. In his spare time, Mr Bennett is an experienced surf lifesaver, prominent within the Scarboro Surf Life Saving Club, and a participant in national lifesaving championships.

Cancer Support WA was yesterday doing its own inquiries into the allegations.

"We are aware that a staff member, Adam Bennett, was charged on Thursday and that he is assisting with a Federal police investigation," it told _The Weekend West _. "We take the matter very seriously and are investigating internally."

Federal authorities will allege Mr Bennett, operating under the online pseudonym of "Lorax", hacked AAPT servers in 2012 and obtained more than 200,000 names and 100,000 email addresses.

He is also accused of compromising Indonesian Government web servers.

A teenage accomplice in NSW is accused of hacking into data belonging to the ACT Government and the Netspeed ISP based in Canberra.

After Government and Australian Communications and Media Authority investigations were launched into the security breaches, law enforcement agencies began a hunt for the two hackers associated with Anonymous.

In the past few days, the Scarborough property was raided and several hard drives were seized, which will take police months to analyse.

Mr Bennett did little to hide his social media profile, with his personal Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook pages open for all to see. The online Anonymous persona Lorax is also one of the most open on the internet, hosting regular online radio broadcasts.

Part of Mr Bennett's bail conditions imposed by a Perth magistrate was that he not use the internet for any other purposes than for banking, employment and legal advice.

Lorax's last post on a Facebook page, entered last week, read: "Goodbye and thanks for all the fish!"

After the arrests, Tim Morris - the AFP's national manager high tech crime operations - said online attacks could have a big impact on government and business services.

"Hacking activities can affect everyone from small businesses right up to large government organisations," Assistant Commissioner Morris said.

"These acts can cause serious disruption to government and business networks, which in turn can be catastrophic for people who rely on these networks to run their small business or administer their entitlements or personal finances.

"The impairment or disruption of communications to or from computer networks is a criminal act, not harmless fun."

Mr Bennett is due to appear in court next month.
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  vrijdag 23 mei 2014 @ 22:58:29 #42
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On January 23, 2013 Brown was indicted once more on charges related to the raids on his apartment and his mother’s house. The FBI accused Barrett of “knowingly and corruptly conceal[ing] and attempt to conceal records, documents and digital data contained on two laptop computers”. His mother would later receive six months probation and a $1,000 fine for her role in hiding computers for her son.

At this point the lead prosecutor, Assistant United States Attorney Candina S. Heath, began working to convince Judge Sam Lindsay that Barrett Brown was attempting to manipulate the media while in prison. Recently unsealed court documents reveal the prosecution’s fears that Brown’s media connections would paint the government in an unfavorable light. Ms. Heath argued that silencing Brown’s attorney’s, Charles Swift and Ahmed Ghappou, was necessary to protect the jury, and Barrett himself, from being tainted by media portrayal of the case.

The transcript of the proceedings that led to the gag order reveal a fearful government attempting to silence a rising voice in independent media. The prosecution attempted to limit Barrett’s ability to write while in prison based on an article where “He is critical of the witnesses that will be called. He is critical of the government which has the tone, and I mentioned the tone of the article was problematic.” Ms. Heath claimed criticism of the government would affect the FBI agents she wanted to call as witnesses. Judge Lindsay did not buy the claim however. “I think at this point what you are saying, Ms. Heath, is too broad. I think it is overly broad, and I really do not think if I put something like that in the order that it would pass constitutional muster.”

Eventually the court would decide on a gag that forbid Brown or his attorneys from speaking to the media, but did allow Brown to write articles unrelated to the case and for the Free Barrett Brown organization to continue making statements regarding fundraising.

Another telling part of the unsealed documents relates to media connections Brown maintained. Ms. Heath told the court that after listening to recorded phone calls made from the county jail between Barrett Brown and Kevin Gallagher she worried more articles would be written about the case. Gallagher is the head of Free Barrett Brown. The prosecution discussed conversations between Brown and Gallagher where the two discuss journalists who may be interested in writing about the case. The documents mention Michael Hastings, Janet Reitman of Rolling Stone (listed as Jenna Wrightman), and Glenn Greenwald.
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While Barrett Brown sits in prison awaiting sentencing on August 18 the implications of his trial are already being felt. What does it mean for journalists and activists who are arrested under false or exaggerated claims? Does having well known friends in the media, or being a journalist alone justify a gag order? Are we likely to see similar orders issued in the future? If one judge can be convinced that maintaining a media presence is tantamount to manipulating public opinion it is likely that others will follow suit.

Kevin Gallagher believes, The message sent by the DOJs gagging technique is clear. It says that in cases involving dissidents and political activists, not only will we listen to and transcribe all of your calls from jail and monitor all letters and communications, but we will drag family, friends and the media into the case, and try to prevent the defendant from defending theirself in the press.
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  zaterdag 24 mei 2014 @ 14:42:39 #43
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BiellaColeman twitterde op zaterdag 24-05-2014 om 12:28:48 In all my years studying Anonymous this case is the most troubling + puzzling: Hacker, Creeper, Soldier, Spy https://t.co/s5yH9j98xB reageer retweet
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Hacker, creeper, soldier, spy

Chapter One: ‘My family is military’
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MILTON, ONT., APRIL 2014 Guards at the Maplehurst Correctional Complex, a maximum-security jail near Toronto known to inmates as the Milton Hilton, came to rouse their newest prisoner from a concrete bed in the intake holding cells. Pulling back the hoodie covering his face, they found his T-shirt had been yanked up and twisted around his throat as a ligature.

The distraught prisoner was Matt DeHart, a 29-year-old American who had been brought to jail days earlier by a Canada Border Services Agency official and five police officers, who arrested him at the apartment he shares with his parents while fighting for refugee protection here.

Pulled from the cell and taken to hospital, he appeared to suffer no serious physical injury but underwent a mental health assessment. After returning to jail, Matt then dived headfirst from his bunk onto the concrete floor of his cell, requiring another urgent hospital visit. He told doctors he had crashed on purpose because he “had no hope.”

Days later, Matt appeared by video link at a detention review before a tribunal of Canada’s Immigration & Refugee Board (IRB). It took half an hour for jail guards to retrieve him from a one-to-one suicide watch cell and sit him in front of the camera. Matt peered into the lens. He looked dreadful: unshaven and unkempt, his eyes red and swollen, his lids heavy from medication. He squinted and grimaced.

It’s not that I’m not patriotic — I am. I voted for Bush. My family is military, pretty gung ho. But everything has changed.
— Matt DeHart

Gone was his bravado and the wide, almost goofy smile he seemed shy about flashing during many meetings with the National Post over the past eight months, while he was on bail from immigration detention on strict conditions. His father, Paul DeHart, a retired U.S. Air Force major who worked in the powerful National Security Agency, sat grim-faced, watching his son on the video monitor.

“We’re here on a claim of torture,” Paul said, his voice straining as he stated Matt has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. “To visit your son in a maximum-security prison in a suicide smock … more heavily medicated than he’s ever been … For anyone with PTSD to be treated that way, much less your own child … is very disturbing.”
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  zondag 25 mei 2014 @ 06:57:18 #44
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Government Seeks Seven-Month Sentence for LulzSec Leader ‘Sabu’

As a reward for his extensive cooperation helping prosecutors hunt down his fellow hackers, the government is seeking time served for the long-awaited sentencing of top LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, also known as “Sabu.”

After delaying his sentencing for nearly three years, the government has asked a federal court to sentence Monsegur to time served — just seven months — calling him an “extremely valuable and productive cooperator” in a document that details for the first time his extensive cooperation providing “unprecedented access to LulzSec.”

Monsegur, who has long been despised by members of LulzSec for his reported snitching, faced a possible sentence of between 259 and 317 months imprisonment under U.S. sentencing guidelines. But the U.S. Probation Office and prosecutors have asked for a reduced sentence “without regard to the otherwise applicable mandatory minimum sentence in this case” in a motion submitted to the U.S. District Court (.pdf) in the Southern District of New York on Friday.

A top leader of the hacking group LulzSec, Monsegur turned informant after he was secretly approached by authorities in June 2011, providing information that led to the subsequent arrest of other top members of LuzSec and Anonymous, including Jeremy Hammond, aka “Anarchaos”of Chicago, who was sentenced last year for his role in the hack of private intelligence firm, Stratfor.

The court document provides a timeline of events around Monsegur’s cooperation with authorities that many have suspected for years, including his efforts to draw fellow hackers into incriminating conversations.

Calling his cooperation “complex and sophisticated” the document describes, for example, his close involvement with law enforcement agencies in several jurisdictions to investigate Hammond in Chicago, while coordinating with FBI agents in New York, physical surveillance teams deployed in Chicago, and an electronic surveillance unit in Washington, D.C.

Hammond was sentenced last year to ten years in prison.

Monsegur, an unemployed father of two, formed LulzSec in the spring of 2011 with about five other core members, who went on a rampage over the next couple of months, targeting about 250 victims, including media outlets, government agencies and contractors, and private companies during their crime spree. Monsegur led the loosely organized group of hackers from his apartment in a public housing project in New York, working as a key player to analyzed victim web sites for vulnerabilities that could be exploited and providing other technical assistance.

The group, which also operated under the name Internet Feds, hacked a number of high-profile victims including HB Gary — a private intelligence firm that bragged it had identified members of Anonymous — the reality TV show “X-Factor,” PBS, Sony Pictures, Senate.gov, Nintendo, and a Georgia-based affiliate of the FBI’s Infragard organization.

Monsegur, as Sabu, was one of the most outspoken and brazen of the LulzSec crew before falling silent that summer, leaving behind a parting Tweet that quoted the The Usual Suspects film.

When he reappeared in September, many members of the anonymous hacking group suspected that Sabu had been arrested, since fellow hackers had outed him by publishing information about his identity online. Sabu denied at the time that he’d been snagged by the feds. But according to the government’s motion, his demise as leader of LulzSec was swift and painless and within hours after being interviewed by authorities, “he was back online cooperating proactively.”

According to the document, authorities approached Monsegur at his New York home on June 7, 2011 at which point he needed little convincing to cooperate. He quickly admitted guilt to criminal conduct before he was even charged with any crime and even spilled the beans to authorities about past crimes he had committed for which they had no knowledge of his role.

He admitted, for example, to participating in DDoS attacks against PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa, which were targeted after the companies blocked donations to WikiLeaks. Monsegur also admitted to hacking thousands of computers between 1999 and 2004, engaging in various hacktivism activities as well as carding activity — stealing and selling credit card information for financial gain or to pay off his own bills. He also admitting to selling marijuana, illegally possessing an unlicensed firearm, and purchasing stolen electronics and jewelry.

“Monsegur admitted his criminal conduct and immediately agreed to cooperate with law enforcement,” the document notes. “That night, Monsegur reviewed his computer files with FBI agents and provided actionable information to law enforcement. The next morning, Monsegur appeared in court on a criminal complaint charging him with credit card fraud and identity theft, and was released on bail, whereupon he immediately continued his cooperation with the Government, as described further below.”

Monsegur entered a guilty plea to the court on August 15, 2011, for an indictment charging him with twelve counts in New York, including nine counts related to computer hacking; one count related to credit card fraud; one count of conspiring to commit bank fraud; and one count of aggravated identity theft. The plea resolved four other cases filed against him in the Eastern and Central Districts of California, the Northern District of Georgia, and the Eastern District of Virginia).

But Monsegur apparently violated the terms of his agreement in 2012. According to the document, in May 2012, his bail was revoked over “unauthorized online postings” he made, and he was arrested on May 25th, before being released on a revised bail December 18, 2012. Monsegur has been free since that time, while cooperating with authorities, and has spent only a total of seven months in prison since 2011.

In court records, Monsegur was generally identified only as CW-1 and was praised extensively (.pdf) for “actively cooperating with the government.” Authorities in fact petitioned the court several times to delay Monsegur’s sentencing during his continued cooperation.

According to authorities, part of Monsegur’s post-arrest cooperation included providing information to help repair hacked systems belonging to PBS and Senate.gov. He also provided authorities with information about hacks involving servers belonging to the Irish political party Fine Gael and the Sony Playstation Network.

But his most extensive assistance led to the arrest of fellow LulzSec members, including Ryan Ackroyd, aka “Kayla” of Doncaster, United Kingdom; Jake Davis, aka “Topiary” of London; Darren Martyn, aka “pwnsauce” of Ireland; Donncha O’Cearrbhail, aka “palladium” of Ireland; Mustafa Al-Bassam, aka “T-Flow” in the UK; as well as Hammond, Ryan Cleary and Matthew Keys, a former Reuters employee accused of inciting members of Anonymous to hack one of his former employers.

Monsegur provided “crucial, detailed information regarding computer intrusions committed by these groups, including how the attacks occurred, which members were involved, and how the computer systems were exploited once breached,” the government reveals.

This assistance “contributed directly to the identification, prosecution and conviction of eight of his major co-conspirators, including Hammond, who at the time of his arrest was the FBI’s number one cybercriminal target in the world. On top of that, Monsegur engaged in additional, substantial proactive cooperation that enabled the FBI to prevent a substantial number of planned cyber attacks,” the government noted.

Working at the direction of law enforcement for three years, sometimes into the late evening and early morning, Monsegur drew his fellow hackers into online chats designed to confirming their identities and whereabouts.

“During some of the online chats, at the direction of law enforcement, Monsegur convinced LulzSec members to provide him digital evidence of the hacking activities they claimed to have previously engaged in, such as logs regarding particular criminal hacks,” the government notes. “When law enforcement later searched the computers of particular LulzSec members, they discovered copies of the same electronic evidence on the individuals’ computers. In this way, the online nicknames of LulzSec members were definitively linked to their true identities, providing powerful proof of their guilt.

“Other times, at the direction of law enforcement, Monsegur asked seemingly innocuous questions designed to elicit information from his co-conspirators that, when coupled with other information obtained during the investigation, could be used to pinpoint their exact locations and identities,” the document reveals.

Ackroyd has been sentenced to 30 months in prison; Davis was sentenced to two years in a juvenile detention facility; Al-Bassam was sentenced to 20 months, which was suspended for two years; Martyn and O’Cearrbhail received probation and a fine; Cleary was sentenced to 32 months in prison; the case of Keys is pending.

Monsegur also helped “disrupt or prevent at least 300 separate computer hacks” that authorities say targeted U.S. Armed Forces, Congress, unidentified U.S. courts, NASA, and a number of private companies.

“Although difficult to quantify, it is likely that Monsegur’s actions prevented at least millions of dollars in loss to these victims,” the government states effusively. “Monsegur also provided information about vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure, including at a water utility for an American city, and a foreign energy company. Law enforcement used the information Monsegur provided to secure the water utility, and the information about the energy company was shared with appropriate government personnel.”

The government notes that because Monsegur’s cooperation was publicly exposed shortly after his arrest, he and his family faced severe threats, causing authorities to relocate him and some of his family members.

“Monsegur repeatedly was approached on the street and threatened or menaced about his cooperation once it became publicly known,” prosecutors note. “Monsegur was also harassed by individuals who incorrectly concluded that he participated in the Government’s prosecution of the operators of the Silk Road website.”

In one case, a reporter had to be removed from the school where the journalist had sought to interview children for whom Monsegur served as guardian.

Monsegur’s sentencing is set for May 27.
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wikileaks twitterde op zondag 25-05-2014 om 01:58:50 Page 11 of "#Sabu" sentencing doc contains apparent reference to FBI operation against WL http://t.co/9eCiFxStK1 See http://t.co/Ex6qZMkKgf reageer retweet
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Edpilkington twitterde op dinsdag 27-05-2014 om 17:54:53 Judge at "Sabu" hacker informant sentencing "salutes" his "extraordinary cooperation" with FBI - lets him walk with time served reageer retweet
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