Anonops #5: Anonymous en de MO-revoluties

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Op vrijdag 28 januari 2011 01:09 schreef Im.Kant. het volgende:
Haha, grappig geschreven weer. Tevens zielig.

Stop die ventjes gewoon even in het gevang, om een voorbeeld te stellen. Maandje of vijf? En een levenslang internetverbod.

Oh, en het arrogante snotneusje die dat artikel op zijn geweten heeft mag wat mij betreft ook heropgevoed worden. De Britse overheid bedreigen op zo een manier is treurig en idioot. Ga rebelletje spelen op het speelplein, het schrijven van zo een brief kost meer tijd en is minder leuk.

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Op donderdag 27 januari 2011 22:21 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
http://imgur.com/DzIYU

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Even uitgetypt.

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Reports are emerging that Internet has gone down in Cairo and perhaps throughout Egypt, only hours before the largest planned protests yet.

According to a report from The Arabist, "Egypt has shut off the internet."

The fastest way to bring down a dictator is to force him to act like one where everyone can see it.

As Bill Engvall would say, "Here's your sign!"

Shutting off the internet will only enrage people all the more. Think of the rioting that breaks out during blackouts, only worse, because the people know the shutting off of the internet is a deliberate attack by the government. By this action, Mubarak has admitted the rule of law has failed and it is the tyrant against the people. My money is on the people.

Worse, even if the organizers of the protests wanted to cool things down,now they cannot. The riots will no longer be on planned locations, the rioting will be everywhere!

Way to go Egypt! Time to bury another Pharaoh!

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10.18am: The UN chief Ban-Ki moon has condemned Egypt's decision to cut internet access ahead of planned protests as being against the democratic principles of freedom of expression and association, the Associated Press reports:

Speaking to reporters Friday at the World Economic Forum, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that he has been following closely the protests in Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt and urged leaders to ensure that further violence is avoided. The UN chief said leaders should view the situation as a chance to address what he calls the "legitimate concerns" of their people.

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Rookvrije horeca die ten onrechte op de lijst staan kunnen dit doorgeven via: meldpunt2@CleanAirNederland.nl

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Op zaterdag 29 januari 2011 00:29 schreef Berlitz het volgende:
Zet het internet af en die losertjes doen niks meer.

Ze scheten al in hun broek toen er zo,n ddoser was opgepakt.

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Op zaterdag 29 januari 2011 00:35 schreef Berlitz het volgende:

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Dat waren geen anon-nerdjes.

Die durven de straat helemaal niet op.

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The Egyptian government cut internet connections across their country to silence protests, leaving nearly all of its citizens without online access. But they weren't entirely successful. When governments shut down broadband and mobile connections, here's what to do.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20029885-83.html
January 28, 2011 8:41 AM PST
FBI issues warrants over pro-WikiLeaks attacks
by Lance Whitney

The FBI is on the hunt for the hackers responsible for a recent wave of cyberattacks launched in defense of WikiLeaks.

FBI agents yesterday executed more than 40 search warrants in the United States as part of their ongoing investigation. Pointing to the group Anonymous, which has taken responsibility for the attacks, the FBI said that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) assaults were facilitated by software the group makes available as free downloads.

Late last year, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, and other companies were hit by DDoS attacks triggered by activists in support of WikiLeaks after the companies cut off sources of funding to the whistle-blowing site.

The FBI apparently started its investigation after it was contacted by PayPal in December and was able to trace two of the IP addresses provided by PayPal to physical locations, one of which was in Texas where the agency seized a server.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20029885-83.html#ixzz1CO1rMRnv

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President Hosni Mubarak's decision shut down access to the Internet last night to try — unsuccessfully — to stop the tide of unrest marked the first time an entire country (minus websites for Egypt's commercial international bank and stock exchange) has been sealed off. "It's quite easy, as we've seen," Lynn St. Amour, president of the Internet Society said from Davos. Indeed, in addition to recent efforts in Tunisia and Syria, Burma's military leaders partially cut off access during protests in 2005 and Nepal did the same as its king battled insurgents. China cut off access to its Xinjiang region for almost a year after ethnic unrest. But how exactly does it work? In Egypt's case it was made easier by the fact that although there are hundreds of service providers, just four own the infrastructure. Experts say newer telecommunications markets can orchestrate shutdowns relatively easily. Vodafone, one of the four internet service providers, released a statement saying, "All mobile operators in Egypt have been instructed to suspend services in selected areas. Under Egyptian legislation, the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply."

Governments also have the option of closing down routers, which direct traffic over a country's border. But in Egypt's case that would have permitted access from users within the country.

But "kill switches" aren't just the province of contested regimes in the Middle East and Asia. Earlier this week, Senator Joe Lieberman brought back a bill he first introduced last summer that would give President Obama power over privately owned Internet providers and computer systems during a "national cyberemergency." The revised version of the Lieberman-Collins bill now includes language stipulating that the federal government designation "shall not be subject to judicial review." It also expanded the president's purview to include "provider of information technology." Given the government's rush to cut off access to WikiLeaks for a few thousand embarrassing but dated diplomatic cables, it's hard to trust their definition of a "cyberemergency."

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The Egyptian authorities are revoking the Al Jazeera Network's licence to broadcast from the country, and will be shutting down its bureau office in Cairo, state television has said.

"The information minister [Anas al-Fikki] ordered ... suspension of operations of Al Jazeera, cancelling of its licences and withdrawing accreditation to all its staff as of today," a statement on the official Mena
news agency said on Sunday.

In a statement, Al Jazeera said it strongly denounces and condemns the closure of its bureau in Cairo by the Egyptian government. The network received notification from the Egyptian authorities on Sunday morning.

"Al Jazeera has received widespread global acclaim for their coverage on the ground across the length and breadth of Egypt," the statement said.

An Al Jazeera spokesman said that the company would continue its strong coverage regardless.

'Designed to stifle'

"Al Jazeera sees this as an act designed to stifle and repress the freedom of reporting by the network and its journalists," the statement said.

"In this time of deep turmoil and unrest in Egyptian society it is imperative that voices from all sides be heard; the closing of our bureau by the Egyptian government is aimed at censoring and silencing the voices of the Egyptian people.

"Al Jazeera assures its audiences in Egypt and across the world that it will continue its in-depth and comprehensive reporting on the events unfolding in Egypt.

"Al Jazeera journalists have brought unparallelled reporting from the ground from across Egypt in the face of great danger and extraordinary circumstances. Al Jazeera Network is appalled at this latest attack by the Egyptian regime to strike at its freedom to report independently on the unprecedented events in Egypt."

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RT @AymanM: Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English have just been taken off air in #Egypt (via phone)

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"Internet not working, police cars burning," sent out one Egyptian. "Today marks a great day for Egypt," sent out another.

These messages weren't coming from mobile phones or computers, but from an amateur radio sending out Morse Code somewhere amidst the chaos in Egypt.

The Egyptian government's efforts to limit communications within the country has triggered a wave of activism from an international group of free speech activists on the Internet called Telecomix.

Organizing using chat rooms, wikis, and collaborative writing tools, this largely anonymous group has worked to inform Egyptians about their communications options while receiving incoming messages from them. Telecomix has previously worked on free speech efforts in Tunisia, Iran, China and other countries who have tried to censor or block parts of the Internet.

Egypt has been identified as a "top priority" for Telecomix on one of its network sites, We Re-Build. It has a wiki set up as a one-stop shop with the latest chat rooms and resources for the ongoing efforts.

There are roughly 20 extremely active members, 50 active and some 300 total including lurkers, according to chat administrator Christopher Kullenberg from Gothenburg, Sweden.

"Think of Telecomix as an ever growing bunch of friends that do things together," Kullenberg says.
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For the majority of users, anonymity is stressed and real identities are rendered obsolete.

Said one chat user, in awe from Australia: "I'm new here, just trying to help."

Here's a timeline of recent events for the group:

When Internet and mobile services were cut off in Egypt on Thursday night, though landlines were operational, members immediately got to work to send information to Egyptian fax numbers. Searching for a common string of characters found in Egyptian fax machines numbers on Google, they discovered a large amount of numbers.

At first, they sent out Wikileaks cables to these numbers, but then they determined the Egyptians didn't need additional motivation. Instead, they were interested in information on how to communicate with each other and the outside world. The activists thus began providing instructions for using dial-up modems and amateur radios, known as Ham radios, which the Egyptian people could use to communicate.

The group says it's also worked on receiving and decoding amateur radio messages, sent on frequencies recommended by the group of activists. While these groups have only been able to receive a small amount of messages of a short length with an unknown source, the Egyptian people's use of amateur radio to transmit messages represents an interesting utilization of old-fashioned technology to circumvent government restrictions.

Most activists behind these messages tell The Huffington Post they wish to remain anonymous. But besides Telecomix, other Internet groups have assisted, including "Anonymous," which has helped by sending out large amounts of faxes into Egypt. "Anonymous" was also involved in denial of service operations against organizations who took actions against Wikileaks. They've also participated in many other operations, with targets ranging from Scientology to Gene Simmons.

Have these efforts proven effective in helping the Egyptian people? "We cannot really tell," said Kullenberg. "Opening up communication channels is enough for us. What that leads up to, is up to the people communicating."

Said another user, wd40_: "Time will tell."

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AlJazeera crew leave Suez as no longer safe to be there. Direct threats made against jazeera. Unsure where anger originating?Thugs? #Jan25

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nolanjazeera Dan Nolan
Aljazeera Cairo bureau has been shut down. Just visited by plain clothes govt security, TV uplink is now closed #Egypt #Jan 25

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RT @umarmirza Demonstratie voor Egypte en tegen Mubarak op t Malieveld in Den Haag (14-16.00). Spread the message! foto's > mail me #jan25
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Op zondag 30 januari 2011 17:38 schreef schommelstoel het volgende:
over de NOS en RTL gesproken zou je haast door deze gebeurtenis kunnen laten zien dat beide nieuws programma's niet het nieuws neutraal brengen en of 100% verteld wat er wel gaande is.

VIa Fok! en andere internet media ben je meer en duidelijker op de hoogte als dan dat je NOS of RTL zou volgen.
Door het volgens van de NOS en RTL krijgen mensen een opgedrongen mening door van anderen.

Klopt totaal niet wat ze daar doen.

Een actie beginnen richting NOS en RTL nieuws?