Anonops #6: Anonymous en de MO-revoluties

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Exclusive: Military’s ‘persona’ software cost millions, used for ‘classified social media activities’

Mystery bidder

While data security firm HBGary Federal was among the contract's bidders listed on a government website, the job was ultimately awarded to a firm that did not appear on the FedBizOpps.gov page of interested vendors.

A controversy over the HBGary firm, which recently had its inner-workings dumped onto the Internet by hackers with protest group "Anonymous," was what initially brought the "persona" contract to light.

HBGary, which conspired with Bank of America and the Chamber of Commerce to attack WikiLeaks, spy on progressive writers and use malware against progressive organizations, was also revealed to have constructed software eerily similar to what the Air Force sought.

"This contract was awarded to a firm called Ntrepid," Speaks wrote to Raw Story. "In addition to the classified activities this software supports, USCENTCOM, like most military commands, does use social media to inform the public of our activities. I should emphasize that such uses do not employ the kind of technology that was the subject of this contract solicitation."

Ntrepid Corporation, registered out of Los Angeles, bills itself as a privacy and identity protection firm in some job postings, and a national security contractor in others, but its official website was amazingly just one page deep and free of even a single word of description.

In spite of their thin online presence, Speaks said the firm was awarded $2,760,000 to carry out the "persona management" contract.

He added that it was unclear why an the contract went to an unlisted bidder, and that he would try to find out and report back.

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#anonops down because of attacks from #iran #feb17 #libya #anonymous
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RT @AnonNewsNet: #Pirates of the world assemble! 30GB of #Jan25 Egyptian footage needs seeders http://goo.gl/B3JkV #Anonymous #AnonOps #Anon

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Oh hai all the protesters out there, we have followed closely the events and we want to provide you with some helpful hints.
The revolution will not be televised, all information will be on the internet.
But to get it there is one thing, to have it stay there is an entirely other thing.
So here is a collection of tools and links that will help you get your message out:

Contents:

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Comunique from A(A)A. Anon Anarchist Action

_.-oO·º'´¨`'º·Oo-._☠ Fighting against all oppression and capitalism ☠_.-oO·º'´¨`'º·Oo-._

We are Anonymous Anarchist Action
We have taken a stance, we have paid back. We have resisted the advocates of censorship,
we have retaliated and we have won, we are winning.
We master the tools and tactics that will make our revolution succeed in the name of humankind:
supporting black blocs, urban guerrillas and the cyber warfare ahead of us.
We defy all the system of oppression, your capitalists crooks, your fat cat politicians,
your racist and patriarchal ways, your intent to control peoples lives,
you who try to censor and control one of the most anarchist forms of communication (the internet),
you corporate liars, you greedy money heads... all of this we oppose.
We will fight till our end and when we are done, others will follow!
This is just the start!

As long as we obey, we are open to misdirection.
As long as we aren't informed, we are open to lies.
As long as we don't control our communications, we are open to manipulation.
As long as we aren't focused, we won't succeed.
As long as we are centralized, we can be shutdown
As long as we use for-profit tools, we are slaves to their greed.
Free your mind, free yourself!

Join us in the biggest yet social revolution that has just started!
From Greece to the streets of Cairo, to the revolutionary femmnists in Italy and the Squatters
of Spain, to the Zapatistas in Mexico AND THE ONLINE HACKTIVISTS!!
WE WILL WIN there is no other choice, for us, for our next generations, FOR EARTH!

We are Anonymous.
We are Anarchists.
We are many and we work as one
We are Anon Anarchist Action

Join us at : irc.anonops.ru (#anarchism)
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De Westboro Babtist Church scam.

Re-quoting from BoingBoing

OK, for those who don’t know, here’s how the WBC scam works:

Most of Fred Phelps’ 13 adult children are lawyers, with law degrees from Washburn University in Topeka, KS. Those that are still in the church practice in the family law firm, Phelps Chartered, LLC. Phelps himself had been disbarred in 1979 for perjury, but his children carried on the law firm. Over 20 years ago, they discovered that if they picketed AIDS funerals in Kansas, distraught loved ones would lose control, and physically attack the WBC protestors. They sued, and won. Sensing a major income stream, they started protesting full-time, hoping to be attacked.

They started picketing full-time at museum exhibits, college graduations, poetry readings, rock concerts, celebrity funerals, and, of course, AIDS funerals? anywhere they could use free speech to get people to attack them.

When soldiers started coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan in body bags, they hit paydirt: Protest near (not at) funerals of soldiers, blaming America’s decline on “****,” and wait for the attacks.

They raise at least $200,000 a year doing this, and probably more. They fund the picketing business with lawsuits.

There is always a family lawyer at every protest. Every protest is videotaped, so they have rock-solid evidence when attacked. They target the highest-profile events they can, and make sure the media knows they are coming, so people are all riled up. They always protest on public property, sidewalks, and rights-of-way, so that they can’t be charged with trespassing. If there’s a legally-imposed “no protest zone” around funerals, they obey it. They are very clever to stay within the letter of the law.

And angry people fall for it, all the time. And the media never bothers to investigate how this scam works.

As mentioned this is a direct requoting from BoingBboing.

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Op woensdag 23 februari 2011 05:03 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

Guerrilla Projection on UN Calling to end of Massacre in Libya. 02-21-2011

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BarrettBrownLOL Barrett Brown
A group of activists including John Penley will project #Gadafi atrocities on the side of UN HQ in NYC tonight. #oplibya

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Skepticism in the Face of Evidence Is No Virtue

Barett Brown
February 16, 2011

In the space of its short life, this column has emphasized the dynamics of the information age as of extraordinary but poorly understood relevance to skepticism as both a system of thought and a movement within society. Ongoing events require that this now be explained in a bit more detail.

Since 2005, I have been involved to various extents and capacities with the Anonymous movement. For the past year, I’ve been in communication with several of its most active participants, including one who had been outed by the Church of Scientology after helping to launch Operation Chanology, a global campaign intended to remove that organization’s grip on lives and government agencies alike. And for the past month, beginning with the Anonymous movement’s assistance programs to Tunisians, Algerians, and Egyptians who seek to win their freedom, I’ve become more actively involved in tactics, messaging, and now legal defense for my fellow Anons. Some have been raided by the FBI and other agencies, which have been investigating a campaign involving DDoS attacks against financial companies—those that had given in to government pressure to deny their customers the ability to donate to Wikileaks. All of this is now in the public record, and I confirm it here as a prelude to the subject of this column and in the interest of full disclosure.

We are coming to the close of a two-decade debate over whether or not the explosion of communicational possibilities brought to us via the information age is sufficient to allow a subject population and its supporters to overthrow a government and perhaps establish a freer one. In light of the demonstrably key role that the Internet played in Tunisia and Egypt thus far, and in a certain small sub-Saharan country soon enough, that debate should be coming to an end. Nonetheless, it will go on forever, because certain people are impossible to defeat via argument alone because they are invincible—at least in a rhetorical and professional sense.

A few months back I argued that Foreign Policy editor Eugene Morozov was not qualified to assess the above dispute, being incompetent on the subject and having at any rate committed himself to a certain position that was silly even before recent events rendered it sillier still. “Tweets don’t overthrow governments; people do,” Morozov proclaimed then, thereby dispensing with those who have presumably gone around claiming that Twitter will gain sentience and begin liberating populations into a Greater Social Networking Co-Prosperity Sphere. Out of fairness to Morozov, I’ll note that he does make somewhat more cogent arguments; out of fairness to everyone else, I’ll note that his arguments tend to be of the following caliber: “Neither the Iranian nor the Burmese regime has crumbled under the pressure of pixelated photos of human rights abuses circulated on social networking sites.” Thus it is that the infancy of the information age has not yet brought down two of the world’s most repressive regimes.

As I noted then:

Not only has Twitter failed to take down either of the two regimes Morozov lists, but one of those regimes has attempted to use the service for its own ends. Indeed, the Iranian authorities have been as eager to take advantage of the Internet as their green-clad opponents. After last years protests in Tehran, Iranian authorities launched a website that publishes photos from the protests, urging the public to identify the unruly protestors by name. We are not told how effective this turned out to be or why this necessarily cancels out the effectiveness of Twitter in organizing the protests to begin with or how the fact that dictators use websites shows that they are not being undermined by the use of Twitter. The fellows talent is being wasted in socio-political commentary when he could be writing mystery novels.

Today, I have a better and slightly less catty answer to Morozov regarding the question of whether or not the Internet is a greater boon to dictators or to populations. Rather, I have a question, for him and for everyone else who has spent the past few years building their careers on this incompetent brand of pseudo-skepticism: If dictators are so fond of the Internet, why did Mubarak turn the damn thing off?

Former “President” Ben-Ali of Tunisia did not turn off the Internet, of course, when Tunisian activists began coordinating with Anonymous and other parties in taking down the government’s websites and in some cases replacing them with messages of support to the Tunisian people, thereby proving that their government was not so powerful as it seemed; when Anonymous-affiliated journalists began bringing attention to the nascent protests, in an effort to alert those around the world who themselves were in a position to help Tunisia succeed; when guides were written by experts and distributed by Tunisians and other North Africans to the many among them who had no knowledge of street confrontation, but who now know as much as any black-bloc anarchist; or when the great and still-growing network of Tunisians, Anonymous, and other parties began building darknets and other solutions to the problem of government censorship and infiltration. Ben-Ali should have done so, but he didn’t, and even if he had, many of the same techniques used to reconnect Egyptians during the shutdown would have been employed in Tunisia with similar results. Tunisia, incidentally, is not finished with its ongoing troubles, but nor is this coalition finished with its ongoing work, which will at any rate be ignored by those whose professional interests coincide with those who would prefer that we spend less time thinking up new ways to aid subject populations and more time reading about how such a thing is impossible—despite the evidence before our very eyes.

Contrary to all the evidence, there are two general views on this matter: 1) that perpetuated by Morozov and others like him who believe that such things as Wikileaks, Twitter, Anonymous, and Facebook are not quite as relevant as many would believe, and 2) that perpetuated by those of us who have used those very same dynamics to prove that they are already more relevant than even the most enthusiastic of us were predicting not long ago, when we thought in terms of years rather than the mere months it has taken to proceed to the current situation. Everyone among the thousands of North Africans and others who poured into our IRC channels would seem to agree with the latter view, having consequently watched and participated in those things which are necessary to making any informed decision on the matter. When you have seen a teenage Tunisian girl translating into French and Arabic the guides that were minutes before compiled by activists living in five different countries and then passing them on to her family and friends and then asking what else she can do to help free her country—and receiving a dozen answers, all of them good—it is difficult to take seriously the output of those whose first instinct at such a moment is to downplay it in accordance with the opinions they already held to begin with.

This dynamic will continue and will have in fact already expanded by the time this piece is read, this being an age in which events overtake the quickest of mediums (and the slowest of dictators). Already a number of this column’s readers have worked to promote such a dynamic, and we hope that more will join us at this crucial time. Many operations are run out of irc.anonsops.ru in #OpTunisia and #OpEgypt; other efforts are hatched at irc.freenode.net #projectpm. I may be reached at barriticus@gmail.com or, for secure communications by those facing surveillance, transistor@hushmail.com. Join us for proof that in such a time as this, one can act against tyranny in the time it takes to complain about it.

(For Freemary, who earned her name.)

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Barrett Brown is the instigator of Project PM, a distributed cartel intended to reduce certain structural deficits that have arisen in the news media. He's a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, and True/Slant. His first book, Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the Easter Bunny, was released in 2007; his second, Hot, Fat, and Clouded: The Amazing and Amusing Failures of the American Chattering Class, is set for publication in 2010. Brown can be reached via e-mail at barriticus@gmail.com.

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BarrettBrownLOL Barrett Brown
"Iranian Cyber Army": Fuck you toy fascists. We just rocked your shit.

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(CNN) -- WikiLeaks could have one foot in the online grave.

It's been months since its last major leak, and its staff members -- former and current -- say it's so thinly staffed and broke that it can't dissect a massive file a whistle-blower handed over, allegedly naming rich and influential global players guilty of tax crimes.

Founder Julian Assange, described as a megalomaniac in a tell-all book by the group's former spokesman, is facing extradition to Sweden on sex crime charges. Many observers predict he'll face extradition to the United States next.

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So, if WikiLeaks wilts, what will grow in its place?

Several leak-loving sites claim to be WikiLeaks' heir apparent. Greenleaks.org and GreenLeaks are battling to become the top site for whistle-blowers with dirt on environmental issues.

WikiLeaks' ex-spokesman and Assange's former right-hand man, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, has launched OpenLeaks, a secret information catch-all.

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But perhaps the most controversial incarnation of the WikiLeaks model comes from Anonymous, the hacker collective globally infamous for disrupting the websites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal in December.

The hackers said the attacks were revenge after the companies cut ties to WikiLeaks. Since then, Anonymous has grown more sophisticated, and experts say it's reasonable to fear that they could do more than wait for someone to give them secret documents. They could hack into highly sensitive military and corporate computer systems themselves.

This month, Anonymous launched anonleaks.ru, a site that features a searchable database of what appear to be tens of thousands of internal e-mails from a U.S.-based internet security firm whose website was also defaced.

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The thought of an army of prankster hackers breaking into your e-mails, credit card records or business is disturbing. But it would be a mistake to portray members of Anonymous as cackling evil-doers, Ridder and Zittrain said.

Instead, Ridder said, Anonymous is driving Web culture. "They are making a significant mark on what it means to put information online."

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Xeronymous Xer
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New provocation: PayPal cuts service to Bradley Manning support http://tinyurl.com/6cvnbb6 #anonymous #wikileaks #anonops

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San Francisco, CA – The online payment provider PayPal has frozen the account of Courage to Resist, which in collaboration with the Bradley Manning Support Network is currently raising funds in support of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. PayPal was one way people--especially international residents--were able to contribute to the grassroots effort supporting the accused WikiLeaks whistleblower. “We’ve been in discussions with PayPal for weeks, and by their own admission there’s no legal obligation for them to close down our account,” noted Loraine Reitman of the Bradley Manning Support Network (Support Network). “This was an internal policy decision by PayPal.”

“We exchanged numerous emails and phone calls with the legal department and the office of executive escalations of PayPal,” explained Jeff Paterson. “They said they would not unrestrict our account unless we authorized PayPal to withdraw funds from our organization’s checking account by default. Our accounting does not allow for this type of direct access by a third party, nor do I trust PayPal as a business entity with this responsibility given their punitive actions against WikiLeaks—an entity not charged with any crime by any government on Earth.”

The Support Network repeatedly requested and was refused formal documentation from PayPal describing their policies in this matter.

PayPal is a private company and thus under no legal obligation to provide Courage to Resist, the Bradley Manning Support Network, or anyone else with services. This was something made very clear to the Support Network by PayPal representatives.

“They opted to apply an exceptional hurdle for us to clear in order to continue as a customer, whereas we have clearly provided the legally required information and verification. I think our dealings with PayPal should be a cautionary tale for any possibly controversial not-for-profit entity with a PayPal account,” Paterson said, “While there may be no legal obligation to provide services, there is an ethical obligation. By shutting out legitimate nonprofit activity, PayPal shows itself to be morally bankrupt.”

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http://www.sfbg.com/polit(...)rence-freezing-funds
WePay, an upstart rival of PayPal, had a little pointed fun with the financial transaction behemoth today outside the Innovate 2010 software developer conference that PayPal hosted at Moscone Center. WePay employees created a large block of ice frozen around cash and the message “PayPal Freezes Your Accounts.”

It was a reference to the PayPal practice of unexpectedly freezing the accounts of grassroots groups with pending nonprofit status, a story that went viral in August after the Bay Guardian wrote about PayPal freezing the funds of the Flux Foundation just as the group was headed to Burning Man to build the Temple of Flux.

In the face of a strong public backlash, PayPal released the Flux Foundation's funds a day after our story came out. But as we reported, other small groups that don't have the same community ties and emotional resonance as the temple crew have had a hard time freeing their funds. Some even say they are preparing to sue PayPal, which started as a small Bay Area company but grew into a huge multinational corporation after being purchased in 2002 by eBay, the company where billionaire self-funded gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman made her fortune.

After their bad experience with PayPal, the Flux Foundation and many other groups have turned to WePay, which focuses on grassroots groups and other small clients. WePay co-founder Rich Aberman told the Guardian that many software developers who use PayPal to fundraise have had similar problems with funds being frozen as the grassroots groups, which is why he pursued this publicity stunt.

“It was just to raise awareness and poke a little fun at them at their own conference,” Aberman told us.

A PayPal representative that we interviewed in August said he couldn't discuss why the company freezes account or how much notice they give when they do so, citing privacy concerns, but said they were simply anti-fraud measures. Some PayPal critics note that the company makes money off investing those forzen funds and they say it is motivated by greed.

Aberman doesn't think the PayPal has malicious motives, but he says that it has just gotten too big to effectively serve small clients, focusing instead on merchants and other larger customers that are more sophisticated than small groups.

“Normal people collecting money for normal things is such a small part of their business and PayPal just don't know how to handle them. They just see these as high-risk accounts based on the anti-fraud systems they've created,” Aberman said. Where he does fault PayPal is by presenting itself as a good service for these groups: “They just need to be more forthright about the user they're trying to serve.”

By contrast, Aberman said WePay was created as a way for individuals and small groups to raise money informally: “Since our customers are different, we handle them differently.”

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https://www.wepay.com
WePay makes it easy to collect and manage money online. Unlike competitors, WePay allows users to keep their group's money in a dedicated account, and to share this account with their group. The service is great for roommates, clubs, organizations, fantasy leagues, teams, and much more. WePay was founded by Bill Clerico and Rich Aberman in Boston in 2008. The company is located in Palo Alto, CA and has 14 employees.

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Op donderdag 24 februari 2011 13:22 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

Question: Honeypot?

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WE wont attack paypal again, cuz it is protected by prolexic technologies, akamai, Radware #anonymous #freebradley #bradleymanning

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This domain has been seized by Anonymous under section #14 of the rules of the Internet.

Greetings Westboro Baptist Church,

If you're reading this, it means that Anonymous has lost its patience with you, likely because you've threatened us again after we denied you a war.

Your recent antics to gain media attention for yourself were found to be laughable. In response to your rather poorly-written "bring it" letter, wherein you tried to goad Anonymous into giving you yet more attention by calling us "crybaby hackers", we wrote, sincerely, a press release explaining clearly the hoax behind the initial declaration of war against your church.

We had thought this latest release would be enough to make you realize that we have no interest in going to war with you. Anonymous is hard at work with ongoing operations such as those involving Bahrain, Libya, and Iran, not to mention we are working tirelessly to maintain coverage of all our HBGary leaks for the public to enjoy.

Your continued biting of the Anonymous hand, however, has earned you a swift and emotionless bitchslap, in the form of this very message. Despite having had the capability to hack your sites previously, we chose not to and instead responded maturely to your threats, but you have not respected this.

For this unremitting display of overzealousness, we award you no points. Take this defacement as a simple warning: go away. The world (including Anonymous) disagrees with your hateful messages, but you have the right to voice them. This does not mean you can jump onto Anonymous for attention.

God hates fags: assumption. Anonymous hates leeches: fact.

We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us - always.

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http://www.scmagazineus.com/anonymous-defaces-westboro-baptist-website/article/196978/

Anonymous apparently did "bring it" after all.

The loosely affiliated hacker collective has defaced the website of the hate-spewing Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, known for its anti-gay rhetoric and purely attention-seeking protests, amid an ongoing feud between the two entities.

"Your continued biting of the Anonymous hand, however, has earned you a swift and emotionless [slap], in the form of this very message," read a message from Anonymous posted on the compromised site. "Despite having had the capability to hack your sites previously, we chose not to and instead responded maturely to your threats, but you have not respected this."

The group posted the letter during a live radio interview Thursday on the "The David Pakman Show" between Westboro spokeswoman Shirley Phelps-Roper and an Anonymous member. Video of the interview is live.

The battle between Anonymous and Westboro began last week, when an open letter was posted to AnonNews.org, which called for the controversial church to end its protests and shut down its websites. A Westboro representative responded in a tweet, asking Anonymous to "Bring it."

But on Monday, Anonymous said it wasn't behind the letter and urged members to not launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against the church's website.

Apparently, however, Anonymous was not pleased with Westboro's continued assault on the hacker organization, including a spokeswoman's reported remarks that the group exists because its members' parents didn't spank them as children.

As of Thursday at about noon EST, Westboro's website was unreachable and downloads.westborobaptistchurch.com was defaced to include the message from Anonymous.

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anon1049 anTon onsZers by Ravana9000
#WBC suing #Anonymous? Good luck tracking down the hackers from #Belarus, #Tunisia, #Azerbadjan … Even more good luck finding a lawyer there

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AnonymousIRC Anonymous by AnonLegionGR
The @th3j35t3r and #Anonymous cooperation on #WBC was an eclipse; we're still like Sun and Moon, following our own agendas.
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randbomb Most Random
I'd rather sit next to @th3j35t3r in Hell than @meganphelps in Church. Please RT if you agree. #th3j35t3r = win #WBC = FAIL!

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It's agreed among those active in Anonymous that the original Public Release to WBC was -not- an Anonymous operation.

Operations typically have an entire planning and recruitment phase (This can take a couple of days for each phase, to a couple of weeks) online before an Public Release is made; there was no planning or recruitment phase on any of the the traditional "anonymous" areas of gathering. Traditionally Anonymous has their entire operation planned prior to the release and announcement to the world of the upcoming operation. None of Anonymous traditional formations and planning was done prior to this release.

A third unknown party sparked this confrontation, either WBC themselves or another unknown; the Anonymous "Hive Mind" was in agreement after WBC's response was released that an operation against WBC was pointless and a waste of man power when currant operations in Bahrain, Iran, Libya were far more important. It was only after WBC continued to taunt Anonymous lack of response, beside the Denial Press Release, that anything was decided on Anonymous part.

The key thing about Anonymous in this entire affair was that they neither sparked nor wanted the confrontation; it was the believe of the "Hive Mind" that paying attention to WBC and giving it Media fodder would detract from what was taking place in the Middle East. However, neither the Media nor the WBC wanted to let the issue lay with sensationalist release, and Anonymous is perfectly content to respond when so many are clamoring for it. "When the people speak We listen"...It is best when it comes to Anonymous to leave them alone, avoid casting the spotlight on what they are or are not doing. They have their own agenda, but if you provoke them Anonymous will respond and it is not always in a way one can anticipate.

Anonymous is the consummate prankster; morals, ethics, laws which would keep normal groups in line with society expectations are what Anonymous will ignore simply because Our reaction to it is amusing to them.

I do not agree, nor do I disagree, with what Anonymous does or does not do. I was fairly proud that the papers and media outlets within Idaho had ignored most of sensationalism which follows in Anonymous' wake, and while this article is not sensationalist, it will provide Anonymous with ad revenue to grow and expound upon their currant operations and future ones as readers decide to google these hacktivists.

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Expect movement on #OpWisconsin soon. #Koch has declared war on our democracy. Democracy will soon fight back. #anonymous #anonops #wiunion

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https://www.thepaypalblog(...)to-resist-situation/

While it is generally not our policy to comment publicly on account dealings, we are sharing the following statement to clarify information regarding the Courage To Resist organization’s PayPal account and their claim that this is somehow associated with their support of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. Let me be clear, this decision had nothing to do with WikiLeaks.

We recently placed a temporary limitation of the Courage to Resist organization’s PayPal account as they had not complied to our stated policy requiring non profits to associate a bank account with their PayPal account (for the vast majority of non-profits, this is not an issue).

In a press release issued today, the Courage to Resist organization claimed that their resistance to follow our policy is because PayPal sought to withdraw funds from their checking account. To be clear: PayPal cannot take such action without the authorization of an account holder, nor does it ever take such unauthorized actions.

Upon review, and as part of our normal business procedures, we have decided to lift the temporary restriction placed on their account because we have sufficient information to meet our statutory ‘Know Your Customer’ obligations. The Courage to Resist PayPal account is now fully operational.

–Anuj Nayar, director of communications

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Butterworth sounded tired as he recounted the days for us—when we spoke, 17 had passed since the initial attack. Since then, HBGary has been flooded with phone calls and voicemails of the "you should be ashamed of yourself" type and worse; the fax machines have been overwhelmed with Anonymous outpourings; people have been "directly threatening our employees with extortion"; threats have been made. Then came RSA.

Butterworth, with a long career in military signals intelligence and private security firms, is no stranger to the dark world of cyberattacks, but he's used to adversaries who retreat after an electronic strike.

Instead, he believes that Anonymous has "decided to continue their antics. They're in it for the laughs… this is a real funny game for them." Not content with the damage they have inflicted, they "harass a company that's trying to get back to work." Each time a new story about the company appears in the press, Butterworth said that these attacks spike again.

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Yeah, I don't buy the death threats accusation at all. My belief, given that culture, is that physical threats are absolutely a lie.

Notice that, mysteriously, the faxes with threats 'weren't available', and the best email they could come up with was hoping they'd die from AIDS.

I don't think, at this point, that anyone should run anything said by either Palantir or HBGary as fact without careful checking.

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Op dinsdag 22 februari 2011 23:11 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

A Message to the People of the World - Transmitted by Anonymous