Anonops #8: Occupy Wall Str.

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Op donderdag 6 oktober 2011 09:08 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:
Wel grappig dat veel van de bedrijven op de vlag die de demonstrant bij zich draagt ook verantwoordelijk zijn voor een groot deel van de arbeidsplaatsen, voor een groot deel van de naamsbekendheid van Amerika en voor een groot deel voor de huidige rijkdom...

Zonder die bedrijven zou Amerika nu niet zijn wat het is.

Voor wat het waard is natuurlijk.

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th3j35t3r twitterde op donderdag 06-10-2011 om 15:49:33 www.godhatesfags.com - TANGO DOWN - because > http://t.co/iiqOimPc ... on the 8th day god created hackers who could defeat ur NGINX #iSad reageer retweet

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‘God Hates Fags’ Church Uses iPhone to Announce Steve Jobs Funeral Picket

God Hates Steve Jobs about as much as God Hates Fags, but God loves Apple productstherefore, it's totally not hypocritical at all that Westboro Baptist Church member @MargieJPhelps used an iPhone to declare her congregation's next publicity stunt demonstration on God's behalf. Even God has an iPhone.

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‘Websites 50 gemeenten hebben enorm beveiligingslek’

De websites van 50 gemeenten en gemeentelijke diensten zijn zo slecht beveiligd dat hackers gemakkelijk gevoelige informatie kunnen ophalen, maar deze gegevens ook kunnen aanpassen of wissen. Dat melden GeenStijl en Webwereld.

De sites draaien op een oude Windows-versie met een groot beveiligingslek, waardoor ‘alle denkbare handelingen’ mogelijk zijn. Zo kunnen bijvoorbeeld privacy gevoelige informatie van politiemensen worden bekeken of gewijzigd, kunnen DigiD-sessies ‘gekloond’ worden en zijn verschillende bestanden vrij toegankelijk.

Het lek werd onder de aandacht van GeenStijl gebracht na een tip van een bron. Samen met Webwereld zijn de lekken aangemeld bij de verantwoordelijke instanties. De Vereniging Nederlandse Gemeenten hebben daarna via het noodnet een bericht aan de burgemeesters gestuurd. Ook Govcert, Logius en het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken zijn op de problematiek gedoken.

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http://www.krapuul.nl/shr(...)ag-occupyeverything/

Wat drie weken geleden begon met een bezetting op Wall Street, is razendsnel aan het uitgroeien tot een nieuwe, zelfbewuste protestbeweging in de VS. In navolging van Egypte en Spanje verspreiden pleinprotesten zich razendsnel door Noord-Amerika en de rest van Europa, tegen de hebzucht en corruptie van de allermachtigsten en voor echte democratie. Volgende week zaterdag 15 oktober volgen ook Amsterdam en Den Haag.

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Threats from the Invisible Industry

In February, a team of Anonymous hackers revealed a massive conspiracy on the part of Bank of America, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Hunton & Williams law firm, and three intelligence contracting companies to harass, monitor, and discredit left-wing groups, the journalist Glenn Greenwald, Wikileaks, and other targets. Beyond the plot itself, these revelations signaled a growing and dangerous dynamic whereby powerful institutions have sought to develop and implement the most comprehensive disinformation apparatus in history - one that, as in the past, will be pointed directly at those who seek a change in the status quo.

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This familiar tendency on the part of the US government to spend money it doesn't have on things it doesn't get is now directed at developing procedures it shouldn't use. The intelligence contracting industry, which includes firms that provide security applications to the entire US government and military, has been encouraged lately to direct more of its collective time and capabilities to the task of monitoring, misinforming and sometimes outright attacking American citizens and others abroad and benefit from the protection of the state and the incompetence of the media in order to make such attacks with impunity.

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Hackers kraken spionagesoftware Duitse regering

BERLIJN – De software die de Duitse regering inzet om computers af te luisteren blijkt slecht te zijn ontworpen en gaat verder dan de wet toestaat.

Dat stellen hackers van de Duitse hackersvereniging CCC, die de software in handen wisten te krijgen.

De programmatuur wordt door de Duitse regering op de computers van verdachten geladen en houden het volledige gedrag van de systemen in de gaten.

Zo wordt niet alleen de verbinding getapt, maar ook iedere handeling op de computer in de gaten gehouden. Ook in Nederland bestaat de juridische mogelijkheid dit type software in te zetten.

Gaten

De hackers analyseerden de software tot in detail en troffen veel fouten aan. Zo hoort informatie versleuteld naar een centraal punt te worden gestuurd. Ook kan de overheid opdrachten naar computers sturen. Nu blijkt de versleuteling wel te zijn geprogrammeerd, maar deze werkt niet. Alle informatie wordt dan ook leesbaar via internet verstuurd.

Een gevolg is dat andere mensen zonder autorisatie opdrachten naar de computers van geobserveerde personen kunnen sturen. Een ander gevolg is dat het mogelijk zou zijn voor CCC opdrachten te geven om de afluisterapparatuur te ontregelen. De hackers zeggen dat niet te hebben gedaan.

Wel is inmiddels een programma geschreven om de afgeluisterde computers te kunnen beheren als onderdeel van het onderzoek. Ook de software zelf hebben de hackers beschikbaar gemaakt.

Monitoren

Een ander probleem is dat de software meer blijkt te doen dan toegestaan. Zo is door het Duitse Federale Constitutionele Hof bepaald dat de software alleen telefoongesprekken via internet en andere communicatie mag monitoren.

In de praktijk blijkt nu veel meer te worden gemonitord. Ook bestanden kunnen bijvoorbeeld worden gelezen.

De software blijkt ook in staat te zijn veranderingen op computers door te voeren, bestanden te wijzigen of te verwijderen. Op afstand kan ook de camera, het toetsenbord en de microfoon worden aangesproken.

De hackers roepen de politiek nu op om in te grijpen. Zij willen dat deze vorm van spionage en afluisteren stopt.

A Message To Wall Street

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http://pastebin.com/dqZJJxQg

Greetings.

We are Anonymous.
We are acting on our own volition, in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, to decry the injustice committed by the few, and against the many.

As such, we will be targeting the New York Stock Exchange on the 10 October 3:30pm EST to illustrate our rejection of this corrupted American institution.

We will have a digital sit-in. Participants can join in whatever capacity they decide is right for them. We do not endorse any specific method. Despite your method, however, we do endorse that you take security precautions that protect your IP address from being targeted.

NYSE, we are not fighting to damage you financially. We are fighting to show that we will stand up to you and the damage being inflicted upon the people of the world.

Be safe, be Anonymous. Any action you take against this beast could have serious repercussions.

A reminder: Slavery was once legal.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Expect us.

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Op maandag 10 oktober 2011 17:11 schreef Louis22 het volgende:
Ik snap dat uneducated-bezwaar van geen kant.

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Anonymous 'hacktivists' briefly take down NYSE.com

Anonymous' call for a massive attack on the New York Stock Exchange's website was met Monday -- but very, very briefly.

A group calling itself Anonymous, a name used by disparate groups of online "hactivists," threatened to take down NYSE.com at 3:30 p.m. ET today as an extension of the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations that have continued into a fourth week.

The website was slow and then unavailable from about 3:35 p.m. to around 3:37 p.m, after which it returned to normal. Keynote, a mobile and Internet monitoring company, confirmed that NYSE.com slowed down during that time. It also measured widespread disruptions to the site between 5:30 p.m. and 5:55 p.m.

Another tracking site, AlertSite, measured "a definite increase in response times from 3:45 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET." After that, the site returned to normal. Monitoring site downforeveryoneorjustme.com also registered a series of brief outages.

But Rich Adamonis, a spokesman from the NYSE, rebutted the monitoring sites' findings.

"We detected no service outage on our corporate website at that time," he said.

In a message that went out in early October through a video on YouTube, the group called for a "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) attack, which directs a flood of traffic to a website and temporarily crashes it by overwhelming its servers. It doesn't actually involve any hacking or security breaches, and would have no effect on NYSE's stock-trading systems.

Adamonis confirmed that trading was not impacted.

DDoS is a tool that Anonymous has employed successfully before, taking down MasterCard.com and Visa.com for several hours on Dec. 8, 2010.

The YouTube video posted earlier calling for the NYSE.com attack proclaimed: "A new civil rights movement has begun. You now have an opportunity to make a difference. Join the protests. Organize your own. Watch online. Be a part of the movement."

Anonymous' attacks haven't always worked: It failed in an attempt to take down Amazon.com, which has extensive safeguards against sudden traffic spikes. The DDoS attacks have also led to the arrests of several participants.

At least a few people claiming to be part of Anonymous didn't think the attack on NYSE.com was a risk worth taking. One site used to coordinate Anonymous operations, AnonNews.org, posted a statement saying that it was "sincerely worried" about the plan, due to the bad press it could give to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

A back-and-forth debate raged across Twitter Monday afternoon, with various factions of Anonymous alternately cheering and decrying the planned attack.

But in the end, the chatter drew more attention than the actual effects of the cyberprotest. NYSE.com barely blipped, and the markets finished the day with a rally: The Dow Jones industrial average finished Monday up nearly 3 percent.

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Anonymous says Nyse take-down threat was 'media scare tactic'

A threat purportedly made by Anonymous to 'erase' the New York Stock Exchange from the Internet yesterday in support of the Occupy Wall Street protests failed to materialise, with the hacker collective claiming it had been running a media scare tactic.

Last week a video appeared on YouTube in which a computer-generated voice tells viewers that "on October 10, Nyse shall be erased from the Internet" in an operation dubbed 'Invade Wall Street'.

The film exhorts supporters to use the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) botnet to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack against the Nyse's Web site in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

However, the legitimacy of the message was quickly called into question, with a statement appearing online claiming to be from the 'real' Anonymous, saying: "Operation Invade Wall Street is bullshit! It is a fake planted operation by law enforcement and cyber crime agencies in order to get you to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement."

Yesterday, the day of the planned attack, Nyse said that its Web site saw no disruptions, although monitoring firm Keynote Systems claims there were two brief outages during the afternoon.

Now, in the latest twist, the Youtube account used to post the original message, TheAnonMessage, has added a new video claiming the whole thing was a "high-scale media scare tactic".

The group says that despite warnings that the planned attack on Nyse was fake, it was still widely reported. The video claims that Anonymous will now wait for the media and governments to become complacent that threats are not real and then "strike mercilessly".

Anonymous Statement Regarding #InvadeWallStreet

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Lulzsec hacker: 'we still have Sun emails, stored in China'

Sabu, the erstwhile leader of the hacking crew, says he is effectively on the run as he gives interview to Reddit readers about LulzSec's achievements, Facebook, sentencing and more

The hacker who styles himself "Sabu", erstwhile leader of the LulzSec hacking crew, claims to have a cache of emails copied from the Sun which are being stored on a Chinese server, along with data from a number of other hacks.

But he claimed this weekend that they will not be released yet: "there are a lot of interesting dumps we're sitting on due to timing," he wrote on his Twitter feed. He claims that hackers have broken into banks including HSBC and "a few others" but that they have found "no smoking guns yet" in the data there.

Sabu – who says his online handle is a tribute to the American professional wrestler – says that after the arrests in the UK and US of a number of people alleged to have been involved with the crew, he is effectively on the run. But his writing also suggests he is staying put where he lives.

"I'm past the point of no return. Not trying to sound like a bad ass, however, it's the truth," he wrote. Later he added: "The ironic twist will be that my own friends will take me down, and not these idiots who hide behind the patriot veil." He also says that "technically, I'm on the run, so there you go."

LulzSec was an offshoot of the Anonymous hacking collective which during a hacking spree in May and July 2011 broke into a number of sites, including Sony Pictures Europe, Fox.com, PBS and finally the News International site.

At the latter it altered the Sun's web page so that it redirected viewers first to a faked story about Rupert Murdoch's death, and then to their Twitter feed. The group also attacked the US Congress's web site, an FBI affiliate and brought down the web site for the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency by using a "distributed denial of service" attack.

Sabu effectively acted as the leader of the group, maintaining discipline over what they did, as leaked chatroom logs published in June by the Guardian show.

At that time he told members of the crew not to give interviews – but says his willingness to do so now is because "that was during the height of LulzSec. We all agreed to do no interviews till the end if there was ever one."

LulzSec's achievements, he says, were that it "exposed the sad state of security across the media, social, government online environments".

After the Sun hack, Sabu claimed on his Twitter feed that he was looking at 4GB of emails from the company. The claim was never confirmed, although remote access to News International's systems had been compromised.

Sabu's revelations came in a long and sometimes detailed "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) thread on Reddit. Sabu responds to a number of questions and appears to reveal a number of details about himself, such as that he is married, studied social sciences and English, that his technical hacking skills are self-taught, and that he teaches "sometimes". He claims to speak three languages – English, Spanish and German – fluently, and to have "decent" Portuguese and Italian. He says he turned towards computer hacking in 2000, when the US government "ignored the peoples' please to stop bombing Vieques" – a part of Puerto Rico used by the US navy as a bombing range until 2003. He says he likes working on cars, playing music and spending time with his family: "I'm loving life a lot this year. I barely have time for ops [hacker operations] like I used to."

That confirms other details that have been collected by rival hackers about Sabu which suggest that he is of Puerto Rican extraction, aged about 30 and based in New York.

He insists that he had no knowledge of the identities of any of the other members of LulzSec. "I simply don't know anyone's identity at Anonymous." He says that when one alleged member was arrested in the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland, he had to go and look up its location: "I was a bit impressed, even." He vehemently denies the suggestions by some that he "snitched" on other LulzSec members to the authorities.

The breakup of LulzSec meant he has "lost too many friends. [I] will probably never talk to them ever again." But he thinks that it "has already achieved what it set out to achieve".

He suggests that one of the LulzSec members, called Avunit, who quit the group when it took aim at the FBI, "is relaxing somewhere on a boat".

Asked whether he is "safe", he replies: "no one can prove it's me anyway. The beauty of Anonymous." The closest that the authorities have come to him is when in September they arrested a hacker alleged to have gone by the online handle "Recursion", who was tracked down via logs held by the British company HideMyAss, which unwittingly provided a virtual private network (VPN) connection for the attack on Sony Pictures Europe.

That arrest was "probably the closest they ever got", Sabu says. He also makes a veiled threat against HideMyAss: he alleges it "turns out to be owned by some … people who are going around buying smaller VPN providers ... We should have a nice exposé for HMA and its mother computer/investors soon. Point is: research your VPN provider thoroughly."

He says he takes a number of precautions to evade law enforcement, using prepaid phones and BlackBerrys for calls and Twitter: "they're expendable. I don't ignore you, I simply don't know you." He trusts Twitter – to some extent: "believe it or not, Twitter has not been sleeping in bed with LEAs [law enforcement agencies]. In fact it's a process [for LEAs] to get account info."

He rails at the sentencing guidelines in place for computer activity: "The penalties for any cybercrime (with the exception of child pornography) is severely archaic. And enforced by non-computer users. A DDOS (distributed denial of service) should not [attract a sentence of] 10 years at all especially when rapists and murderers do LESS than time." (The Guardian's James Ball made a similar point earlier this year.)

He thinks a hacking attack against Facebook "is pointless unless some very courages [sic] individual go and burn down its datacenter containing DBs [databases]". But he calls Facebook "a serious global cancer … they have half a billion people's psychology and family down in a database".

LulzSec does not have a Google Plus account, he says: "We do NOT have a g+ account. So whoever is running it is more than likely posing and has no affiliation to us." (Other Reddit users said that files distributed from that account contain malware.) Google Plus was launched well after LulzSec apparently broke up.

His advice to would-be emulators: "Stick to yourselves. If you are in a crew – keep your opsec up 24/7. Friends will try to take you down if they have to."

Anonymous, he says, is "no leaders, no hierarchy, no cointelpro [counter-intelligence program] drama. And we are a living, moving mass of like-minded individuals." He says it is "pure democracy", though that can be anarchic. But he thinks it will spawn "many organisations and political parties". But he says that "you don't need to be 'anonymous' or need to hack to be Anonymous. It's an idea, not a job."

He says he hopes to give a talk at the next HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference in New York, expected to run in July 2012.

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https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-say-no-to-acta
Just Say ‘No’ to ACTA

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has already been signed by eight countries, poses a dangerous threat to the inherent freedom and openess of the Internet. Under ACTA, ISPs and websites will be given more power to track what we do online, while forcing them to turn over our information and reporting our activity to the authorities -- all in the name of copyright protection! This controversial intellectual property accord, which was negotiated in secret, violates our fundamental rights to free speech and access to our culture.

The European Parliament, which will soon hold a final consent vote on ACTA, may be our only hope to stop this dangerous agreement. A "No" vote on ACTA by the Parliament will dismantle ACTA in its current form and make countries back to the negotiating table. Call on the EU Parliament to take a stand and vote “NO” on ACTA!

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Housewives, students and security pros among Anonymous members

Members of the infamous hacking collective Anonymous range from housewives to information security professionals, according to a panel of security experts who claim to have infiltrated the group.

Speaking to the press at RSA Conference Europe, Akamai director of security intelligence Joshua Corman argued that the group has a diverse range of constituents, with varying levels of technological know-how.

Some are "very political", some are housewives, some have no hacking skills – while others are so-called "greyhats" with day jobs in information security, and a lot are students, he said.

He added that the large numbers of students in Anonymous represents a failure on the part of the IT security industry to engage with kids who have an interest in hacking and want to develop their skills in the area.

The panel also included Aaron Barr, who was famously chief executive of security firm HB Gary when Anonymous targeted him in retaliation for his investigatory work into the group.

He explained that LulzSec initially broke off from Anonymous, headed by members frustrated that decision making within the group took too long, adding that it operates almost like a "special operations group".

Also present was Will Gragido, senior product line manager at HP's DVLabs, who advised firms keen to mitigate the risk of attack by hacktivist groups to consider a defence-in-depth approach, including DDoS mitigation and web app security.

"Preparedness is key," he said. "It would be foolish to prepare for only one type of attack where there are several to be concerned about."

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Op vrijdag 14 oktober 2011 15:02 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Screenshots van een Fox News(!!) poll:

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st4rbuck_ twitterde op vrijdag 14-10-2011 om 22:21:41 #OpSyria: Tango down: http://t.co/4NAUYTsL More info on IRC: http://t.co/MWqN7kRA #Anonymous #Syria #OpFreedom reageer retweet

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The Syrian government is waging war against its citizens. Shell is a major investor in Syria. It is a key associate of the state oil company which controls the internal market.

Shell believes that companies should play an active role in supporting human rights and that it needs a licence to operate from society. But it has no such license now in Syria and it is doing business with an elite that commits gross and systematic human rights violations, including torture, arbitrary killing, and collective punishment
"It is noted that Shell, Total, BP, and OMV have purchased Syrian crude since the uprising, thus directly contributing to the budget the Assads what he has used for buying weapons to kill innocent civilians. Royal Dutch Shell bought 586400 barrels on 29 May 11, Austrias OMV bought 586400 barrels on 28 Jun 11, BP bought 586400 barrels on 10 Apr 11, and another 586400 barrels on 20 Apr 11."
"The EU sanctions prohibit European customers from buying Syrian oil but dont prohibit European companies with operations inside Syria from continuing their ventures there. Firms with existing contracts to buy Syrian oil have until Nov. 15 to do so."
All the while, Dick Benschop, head of Shells Dutch arm claims, "Halting the Shells operation in Syria would hurt the Syrian people more than its government"
This shows Shell does not care about human rights abuses in Syria.

Shell must recognize that the Syrian people are being killed by bullets that Shell has paid for. Shell officials have failed to understand that when people are massacred, the last thing they care about is the availability of petrol and petrol prices.

Shell must stop production immediately and show that human rights abuses and killing civilians are not acceptable.

Shell must recognize that once the Syrian people gain their freedom, they may not welcome Shell again if it appears sympathetic to the Assad regime.

Our objective is to urge Shell to reconsider its stand and stand with the people of Syria by halting its operations in Syria. It does not need to wait for orders from the EU to do so. If it does wait, it proves the point that it is willingly supporting murderous dictators for cheap oil.
Poster http://postimage.org/image/1hs8lw2is/
Twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/Op_Syria

https://twitter.com/#!/RevoluSec

https://twitter.com/#!/Syrian_MAJOR

We Are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.

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Occupy Wall Street live: protests spread around the world

5.08pm: In between gossiping about the celebrity and media life of New York, the scurrilous website Gawker does some notworthy journalism. It has just posted a great story under the headline"Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD", detailing the role of "security consultant" Thomas Ryan, who it says has infiltrated the Occupy Wall Street organisers.

Since the Occupy Wall Street protest began on September 17, New York security consultant Thomas Ryan has been waging a campaign to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Ryan says he's done contract work for the U.S. Army and he brags on his blog that he leads "a team called Black Cell, a team of the most-highly trained and capable physical, threat and cyber security professionals in the world." But over the past few weeks, he and his computer security buddies have been spending time covertly attending Occupy Wall Street meetings, monitoring organizers' social media accounts, and hanging out with protesters in Lower Manhattan.

As part of their intelligence-gathering operation, the group gained access to a listserv used by Occupy Wall Street organizers called September17discuss. On September17discuss, organizers hash out tactics and plan events, conduct post-mortems of media appearances, and trade the latest protest gossip. On Friday, Ryan leaked thousands of September17discuss emails to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is now using them to try to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets.

What may much more alarming to Occupy Wall Street organizers is that while Ryan was monitoring September17discuss, he was forwarding interesting email threads to contacts at the NYPD and FBI, including special agent Jordan T. Loyd, a member of the FBI's New York-based cyber security team.

You can read more here. Interestingly, Gawker says it was Ryan who revealed himself as a snitch. Ryan leaked an archive of emails on Friday in the hope of undermining the Occupy Wall Street movement, but, it appears he accidentally included some of his own forwarded emails in the dump.

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Is it a Crime? The Transgressive Politics of Hacking in Anonymous

Michael Ralph and Gabriella Coleman are professors at New York
University and are collaborating on an article on the role of dissent
and direct action within Anonymous and in the 2011 "Arab Spring"
uprisings across Africa and southwest Asia. They seek to bring
anthropological knowledge and perspectives to bear on public
discussion and debates.

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http://www.knoxvilletechnology.com/

Business Protection Group is an anonymous group of network security professions that provide Internet Security to Private Firms. Our staff provides companies with the information on hackers which they need to present a case to the courts. We wish to keep our members anonymous to protect their families from retaliation for what we do. We are not affiliated with any Government or Local Police Department. Our members decided that Governments have too much red tape that is allowing most if not all of the serious hacking offenders get away with millions of dollars in sensitive Trade Secrets. we were founded in 2011 shortly after the huge increase of bold attacks from Anonymous, Lulzsec, and Antisec on government and Private Company computers. Business Protection Group brings accountability to a lawless Internet.

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If there is a network of computers connected to the Internet, it is at risk of attack and loss of secret information. Most hackers do it for fun, while others do it for profit. we do not draw a line between which is more serious of a offense. Our stance is that any breach of security of a private firm is against the law and should carry the same punishment. The Maximum Penalty.
Once caught, these individuals should never be allowed to access another computer in their lifetime.

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Distributed Denial Of Service attacks are the most common form of Internet related crime against businesses. While it does not create a risk of stolen data, it does prevent access to your companies assets. If your company requires the Internet for revenue or communications, this attack can cost you millions. There is however very little that can be done to stop an attack in progress, and this is why we believe shutting down the criminal hacker groups is the best method to combat it.

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Our operation runs entirely on donations and our target queue is prioritized by the donation size. The donations help cover normal business expenses, including air travel to various countries as we track down these criminals. We ask that any company that submits a investigative request to please donate the amount you feel it is worth for the legal and or personal destruction of your hackers life.

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Vikram S Pandit D0x (CitiGroup)

During Occupy Wall street, protesters had made way to CitiBank to withdraw their funds and close their accounts. They were met with strong police prescence and arrested. We as american citizens MUST have full control over our money and lively hood. When this is taken away from us, what else do we have? So the CEO of CitiBank has blindly jumped into the sights of the CabinCr3w…

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Vikram S Pandit

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D.O.B: 14 January 1957 (age 54)

Cell Phone: 646-512-4269 (Possibly Cancelled)

Office: (212) 793-1201

E-mail: vikram.pandit@citi.com

CEO of Citigroup

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Wife: Swati

Children: 2

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Alma mater: Columbia University

New York City

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-GREENWICH ADDRESS:

144 Pecksland Rd

Greenwich, CT

(203) 661-1214

Single Family Residence, 5 Bed, 7.50 Bath, 5105 Sq. Ft

SOLD FOR $3,400,000 IN 1999

Cost Per Sqft of home: $666/sqft (lulz)

-NY ADDRESS:

310 E 53rd St, Apt 29A

New York, NY 10022-5246

(ADDRESSES “VERIFIED” BY http://www.contact-the-ceo.com/page1.html)

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Pellegrini v. Citigroup Inc. et al

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Plaintiff:Beverly Pellegrini

Defendants:Citigroup Inc., Win Bischoff, Vikram S. Pandit, Gary L. Crittenden, Charles O. Prince, III, John C. Gerspach, Sallie L. Krawcheck, C. Michael Armstrong, Alain J.P. Belda, George David, Richard D. Parsons, Kenneth T. Derr, John M. Deutch, Andrew N. Liveris, Roberto Hernandez Ramirez, Ann Dibble Jordan, Klaus Kleinfeld, Anne M. Mulcahy, Judith Rodin, Sanford I. Weill, Robert E. Rubin, Franklin A. Thomas, Saul Rosen, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC, Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, Banc of America Securities LLC, RBC Capital Markets Corp., Deutsche Bank & Securities Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., Barclays Capital Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and KPMG, LLP

Case Number:1:2009cv03669

Filed:April 9, 2009

Court:New York Southern District Court

Office:Foley Square

Office County:XX Out of State

Presiding Judge:Judge Sidney H. Stein

Nature of Suit:Other Statutes - Securities/Commodities/ExchangesCause:15:77 Securities Fraud

Jurisdiction:Federal QuestionJury Demanded By:Plaintiff

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Asher et al v. CitiGroup, Inc. et al

Plaintiffs: Lionel Asher and Mary J. Asher

Defendants: CitiGroup, Inc., Charles O. Prince, III, Sallie L. Krawcheck, John C. Gerspach, Sanford I. Weill, Michael Armstrong, Alain J.P. Belda, George David, Kenneth T. Derr, John M. Deutch, Roberto Hernandez Ramirez, Ann Dibble Jordan, Klaus Kleinfield, Andrew N. Liveris, Dudley C. Mecum, Anne M. Mulchahy, Richard D. Parsons, Judith Rodin, Robert E. Rubin, Franklin A. Thomas, Rosen Saul, Win Bischoff, Vikram S. Pandit, Gary L. Crittenden, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC, Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, Banc of America Securities, LLC, RBC Capital Markets Corporation and KPMG LLP

Case Number:1:2009cv04485

Filed:May 11, 2009

Court:New York Southern District Court

Office:Foley Square Office

County:NewYorkPresiding

Judge:Judge Sidney H. SteinPresiding

Judge:Judge Unassigned

Nature of Suit:Other Statutes - Securities/Commodities/Exchanges

Cause:15:77 Securities Fraud

Jurisdiction:Federal Question

Jury Demanded By:Plaintiff

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Riddle v. Citigroup et al

Plaintiff:Beverly A. Riddle

Defendants: Citigroup, Citibank NA, Citi, Joseph Bonelli, Beth McCahey, Alison Levy, Marcie Mintz, Jeff Holbrook, Sarah Lashen, Sherrie Bachtler, Karen Segal, Helen O’Hehir, Lisa Coen, Steve Randich, Ed Zobitz, Chuck Prince, Pat Finn, Vikram Pandit, Members of the Citigroup Board of Directors, Jane Doe(s) and John Doe(s)

Case Number:1:2009cv05805Filed:June 24, 2009

Court:New York Southern District Court

Office:Foley Square Office

County:NewYork

Presiding Judge:Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein

Nature of Suit:Civil Rights - Employment

Cause:42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)Jurisdiction:Federal Question

Jury Demanded By:Plaintiff

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DeBerry et al v. GMAC Mortgage LLC et al

Plaintiffs:Willie Joe DeBerry, Joyce DeBerry and Shayla DeBerry Allen

Defendants:GMAC Mortgage LLC, Alvaro De Molina, Homecomings Financial LLC, Bruce Paradis, Citimortgage Inc and Vikram Pandit

Case Number:7:2009cv00107

Filed:August 28, 2009

Court:Georgia Middle District Court

Office:Valdosta Office

County:Cook

Presiding Judge:Judge Hugh Lawson

Nature of Suit:Torts - Property - Truth in Lending

Cause:15:1601 Truth in Lending

Jurisdiction:Federal QuestionJury Demanded By:None

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Plus Many More:

Two pages of legal action:

http://dockets.justia.com/search?query=vikram+pandit

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Detailed Financial information:

http://bit.ly/rqChzu

Article:

http://people.forbes.com/profile/vikram-s-pandit/19716

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Op maandag 17 oktober 2011 19:32 schreef ATOMIC_FUUU het volgende:

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Triest dat ze die man persoonlijk willen/gaan pakken. Ik snap dat die hele commotie in Amerika (en inmiddels in andere landen) frustratie opwerkt, maar dit vind ik te ver gaan.

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From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world

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

It turns out, with enough momentum and a keen sense of how to use social media, it actually is.

The Occupy movement, decentralized and leaderless, has mobilized thousands of people around the world almost exclusively via the Internet. To a large degree through Twitter, and also with platforms like Facebook and Meetup, crowds have connected and gathered.

As with any movement, a spark is needed to start word spreading. SocialFlow, a social media marketing company, did an analysis for Reuters of the history of the Occupy hashtag on Twitter and the ways it spread and took root.

The first apparent mention was that July 13 blog post by activist group Adbusters (r.reuters.com/suc54s) but the idea was slow to get traction.

The next Twitter mention was on July 20 (r.reuters.com/tuc54s) from a Costa Rican film producer named Francisco Guerrero, linking to a blog post on a site called Wake Up from Your Slumber that reiterated the Adbusters call to action (r.reuters.com/vuc54s).

The site, founded in 2006 "to expose America's fraudulent monetary system and the evil of charging interest on money loaned," is a reference to the biblical verse Romans 13:11 that reads in part: "The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed."

Guerrero's post was retweeted once and then there was silence until two July 23 tweets -- one from the Spanish user Gurzbo (r.reuters.com/wuc54s) and one from a retired high school chemistry teacher in Long Island, New York named Cindy tweeting as gemswinc. (r.reuters.com/xuc54s)

Gurzbo's post was not passed along by anyone but Cindy's was, by eight people, including a Delaware-based opponent of the Federal Reserve, a vegan information rights supporter, a Washington-based environmentalist and an Alabama-based progressive blogger.

Again, there was relative silence for nearly two weeks, until LazyBookworm tweeted the Occupy hashtag again on August 5. (r.reuters.com/zuc54s) That got seven retweets, largely from a crowd of organic food supporters and poets.

HASHTAG REVOLT

The notion of Occupy Wall Street was out there but it was not gaining much attention -- until, of course, it did, suddenly and with force.

Social media experts trace the expansion to hyper-local tweeters, people who cover the pulse of communities at a level of detail not even local papers can match.

In New York, credit goes to the Twitter account of Newyorkist, whose more than 11,000 tweets chronicle the city in block-by-block detail. His was one of the first well-followed accounts to mention the protests in mid-September.

Trendistic, which tracks hashtag trends on Twitter, shows that OccupyWallStreet first showed up in any volume around 11 p.m. on September 16, the evening before the occupation of lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park began. Within 24 hours, the tag represented nearly 1 of every 500 uses of a hashtag.

The first two weeks of the movement were slow, media coverage was slim and little happened beyond the taking of the concrete park itself. But then a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge prompted hundreds of arrests and the spark was ignited.

On October 1, #OccupyBoston started to show up on Twitter. Within a couple of weeks, #OccupyDenver and #OccupySD and others appeared.

The Occupy Wall Street page on Facebook started on September 19 with a YouTube video of the early protests. By September 22, it reached critical mass.

"Newcomers today, welcome! Feel free to post. Advertise your own pages of resistance. Network until it works," read one posting meant to inspire protests elsewhere.

For young activists around the world, who grew up with the Internet and the smartphone, Facebook and Twitter have become crucial in expanding the movement.

They are pioneering platforms like Vibe that lets people anonymously share text, photos and video over short distances for brief periods of time -- perfect for use at rallies.

"No one owns a (Twitter) hashtag, it has no leadership, it has no organization, it has no creed but it's quite appropriate to the architecture of the net. This is a distributed revolt," said Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at City University of New York and author of the well-known blog BuzzMachine.

Some reports say the protesters have raised as much as $300,000 in donations to cover everything from pizza to video equipment but others put the figure much lower.

The Alliance for Global Justice, which calls itself "the fiscal sponsor for Occupy Wall Street," has raised $23,200 via WePay.com.

OCCUPY EVERYWHERE

As of Monday afternoon, Facebook listed no fewer than 125 Occupy-related pages, from New York to Tulsa and all points in between. Roughly 1 in every 500 hashtags used on Twitter on Monday, all around the world, was the movement's own #OWS.

The websites keep proliferating -- We Are the 99 Percent, Parents for Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together, even the parody Occupy Sesame Street (concerned mostly with the plight of monsters living in garbage cans).

Online streaming video has also been a huge resource for the protesters, using cheap cameras and high-speed wireless Internet access.

Supporters, opponents and the merely curious got the chance last Saturday to watch the Occupy Wall Street protesters decide whether to occupy a major public park, Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village area.

They saw warnings the police were about to arrive in riot gear and with horses, vans and buses to take away protesters if there were mass arrests. Local media reported about 10 arrests among the 3,000 or so people in the park.

As the seconds to a possible confrontation ticked down, the tension led to various reactions from those watching online.

"Anyone arrested is a political prisoner," said one.

"Here comes Czar Bloomberg's Cossacks," said another, in reference to New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the appearance of the mounted police.

There were "we are watching" messages of support from cities across the United States and some who found it the best entertainment going on a Saturday night.

"So much more exciting than a TV show" was one comment.

(Reporting by Ben Berkowitz; Additional reporting by Martin Howell and Anthony DeRosa in New York; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

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AnonymousIRC twitterde op maandag 10-10-2011 om 00:02:12 #Anonymous to @Telecomix. This is a emergency distress signal. Please activate all operatives and agents handling #Egypt. #OpEgypt reageer retweet

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Anonymous veröffentlicht DB-Dump von Pädophilen-Handelsseite

Das Internet-Kollektiv Anonymous veröffentlichte am heutigen Montag die gesamte Benutzer-Datenbank der Website "Lolita City", einer, wie die Hacktivisten schreiben, "Darknet-Handels-Seite für Pädos". Insgesamt wurden die Daten von knapp 1600 Personen - sowie Informationen über den Server-Standort des Forums - veröffentlicht. Die Aktion ist Teil der bekannten "Operation Antisec".

Der Datenbank-Dump enthält insgesamt 1589 Benutzernamen. Klarnamen oder Passwörter sind nicht enthalten. Anonymous zufolge wurden die Passwörter mit SHA512 gehasht und aus Sicherheitsgründen in einer separaten Datenbank hinterlegt. Neben den Foren-Benutzernamen und Informationen über die Aktivität der Benutzer finden sich aber deren Nicknames für die anonymen Kommunikationsnetze TorChat und TorPM.

Neben den Benutzer-Informationen veröffentlichen die Anons auch Informationen über den Server-Standort des Forums. Mit Hilfe verschiedener technischer Maßnahmen, bei denen Anonymous offenbar eine Reihe von Cluster-Servern einsetzte, kamen die Anons zu dem Schluss, dass "Lolita City" in den USA gehostet wird.

Einen interessanten Fund machten die Anons in der Datenbank: dort ist jemand mit dem Nickname "Th3J35t3r" ("The Jester") als Benutzer von Lolita City verzeichnet. Ob es sich allerdings tatsächlich um den berüchtigten Hacktivisten handelt, der durch Aktionen gegen WikiLeaks und Anonymous auffiel, ist nicht zu sagen. Womöglich verwendete schlichtweg jemand den selben Nickname - unter Umständen sogar mit dem Ziel, dem sonst unter diesem Nick auftretenden Hacktivisten zu schaden. Es dürfte jedenfalls interessant sein, auf eine Stellungnahme von "The Jester" zu diesem Thema zu warten.

Die Aktion wird von den teilnehmenden Anons als Teil der bekannten "Operation Antisec" sowie der speziell gegen Pädophile vorgehenden "Operation Darknet" bezeichnet. Die Hacktivisten kündigen an, bald noch gegen weitere Websites, auf denen Darstellungen von Kindesmissbrauch gehandelt werden, vorzugehen.

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Op dinsdag 18 oktober 2011 10:09 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Al gepost?

I AM NOT MOVING - Short Film - Occupy Wall Street

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The Real Role Of Anonymous In Occupy Wall Street

Anonymous has caught the attention of the media--and even Homeland Security--with its biggest contribution to Occupy Wall Street: hype. But, so far, the amorphous, leaderless hacktivist movement has disappointed anyone expecting full-on revolution from a Guy Fawkes-masked army or a massive cyber attack.

Anonymous does, however, have prominent members and often unites a large number of sympathizers. The gap between expectations and reality when it comes to Occupy Wall Street results from the disconnect between those dominant members and fringe elements who hit up the costume shop and start posting YouTube videos.

The story of how Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street intertwine dates back to February 2010, to the birth of "The 99 Percent Movement."

The notion of “the 99 percent” most likely started with journalist David DeGraw in his 2010 book, The Economic Elite vs. The People of the United States. “The harsh truth is that 99% of the US population no longer has political representation,” DeGraw writes. As a follow-up, he formed the 99 Percent Movement, a social network soliciting ideas for a platform of economic and legal reform.

In January 2011, the movement’s host site, AmpedStatus.com, was repeatedly taken down by unknown attackers. It was then that Anonymous hacktivists contacted DeGraw, offering to set up a more secure site. That grew into a collaboration called A99, which published a laundry list of demands in March. And on March 12, A99 announced Operation Empire State Rebellion (#OpESR) with the Arab-Spring-style demand of forcing a man from office--in this case, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. On June 1, A99 hastily called for multi-city occupations on the 14th. (In New York, it would have taken the same spot, Zuccotti Park, that is home to the present occupation.) But the OpESR action was a flop. Just 16 people showed up in Manhattan, and similarly feeble numbers in 22 other cities.

Meanwhile, organizers at activist magazine Adbusters had been developing their own occupation idea since February, which crystallized in a July 13 call to action. “Adbusters has never communicated directly with Anonymous,” said senior editor Micah White in an email.

But Anonymous spread the word vigorously, using Twitter, blogs, Internet Relay Chat (or IRC, their preferred discussion forum) and eventually YouTube videos. A sometime hacktivist named Robert whom I met at the September 17 protest in New York said that he knew about the campaign just two hours after the Adbusters page went live.

“The geek aspect is most important in the early days of a movement,” said Joseph Menn, a Financial Times security correspondent and author of the book Fatal System Error. “Once you get mainstream coverage, it’s self-perpetuating.”

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An October 2nd YouTube video announces We declare our war against the New York Stock ExchangeOn October 10th, NYSE shall be erased from the Internet.

In reality, on the 10th, a short distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack slowed down the NYSE site for about a half hour and took it offline for a couple minutes.

If the site was down for two minutes, thats not much of a protest, said Josh Shaul, CTO of Application Security, Inc. and an expert in database vulnerabilities. It shows that the big guns of Anonymous certainly didnt come out for this event.

In fact, many prominent sites and Twitter accounts denounced it ahead of time, in part because the DDoS tools to be used are easy to trace back to the hacker. Many of our brothers and sisters have gone down in the fight for using such tactics, like the Wikileaks defendants who took down Visa, Paypal, and Mastercard [sic], said a communiqué. We do not want history to repeat itself, and are sincerely worried.

Some even claimed it was a troll--a hoax--designed to lure Anonymous members into breaking the law, possibly by a federal agent. I got an indication of that back on October 4 when not_me sent an email saying It's not coming through usual channels and they're convinced it's government.

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How Diaspora* Found Its Tiger Stripe in the Midst of a Paypal Fiasco

We want to update you on the whole PayPal fiasco. We have good news and bad news, but after the day we’ve all had, why don’t we start with the good news?

So the good news is… actually, the GREAT news is that Silicon Valley startup Stripe has come to the rescue to enable Diaspora* donations on its service instead of PayPal. So we’re back, baby!

When PayPal mysteriously and arbitrarily decided to freeze everyone’s donations, we reached out to various payment services. Stripe responded right away to our call for help and swung into action, helping us get our online donations capability back up and running in just a few hours. Think about it. In just a few hours, we got a whole new payment service installed. We ran two credit cards through the system, so it should be OK. You can check out their amazing new service at the Diaspora* Foundation’s donation page. Stripe is really cool and simple and works great. As you can imagine, we got the opportunity to spend a lot of time with them today, and like us, they are inspired by a social mission: to make it as easy as possible for, say, a Honduran and an Indonesian, not only to chat together, but also to have meaningful economic exchanges on the web. So we’re very excited to have the opportunity to work together.

Now, for the bad news… We had raised $45,000 in just a few days, and then PayPal froze our account. Even though we’ve complied with every PayPal request, including providing them with our certificate of incorporation, they still won’t give us an explanation for any of their moves. And it wasn’t buyer’s remorse: From the thousands of donations we received, we had only one complaint and refunded that person’s money immediately. PayPal just sent us an email saying “appeal denied,” where they announced that they would lock up the Diaspora* community’s donations for 180 days. Yes, you heard that right. PayPal gets to earn interest on all of our donations for 6 months, while we have to wait for PayPal to come up with a reason to justify their decision. And it seems that this is common practice for PayPal, as the case of Shelley Michaels, Steve Hudgell, independent developers, WikiLeaks, and so many others show. Obviously, PayPal’s behavior is unacceptable, which is why we have asked our lawyer to get involved.

Since we announced the news earlier today, hundreds of you have tweeted and emailed PayPal urging that they release the funds. To all of you, we say THANK YOU. Unfortunately, the fight continues. Please keep up the pressure! If we keep pressing PayPal and draw media attention to their decision, they will have to relent.

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Diaspora is an open-source and distributed community of social networks run by users that enables you to own your own personal data, control with whom you share, and discover cool stuff throughout the Web

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anonymouSabu twitterde op woensdag 19-10-2011 om 16:32:23 ATTN: Media: #OpPayPal is back for round two. On a new phase: awareness and account closings: credit unions. Prepaid ccs. Alts. Spread news. reageer retweet

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http://pastebin.com/88Lzs1XR

As promised here is the entire user database of the 1589 users active on Lolita City, an darknet trading site for pedos.

While we were not able to obtain the password credentials (they use an SHA512 hash separate database to secure their passwords), but we were able to determine the following info of the server location.

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Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe

A little more than one year after the infrastructure-destroying Stuxnet worm was discovered on computer systems in Iran, a new piece of malware using some of the same techniques has been found infecting systems in Europe, according to researchers at security firm Symantec.

The new malware, dubbed “Duqu” [dü-kyü], contains parts that are nearly identical to Stuxnet and appears to have been written by the same authors behind Stuxnet, or at least by someone who had direct access to the Stuxnet source code, says Liam O Murchu. He’s one of the leading experts on Stuxnet who produced extensive analysis of that worm with two of his Symantec colleagues last year and has posted a paper detailing the Duqu analysis to date.

Duqu, like Stuxnet, masks itself as legitimate code using a driver file signed with a valid digital certificate. The certificate belongs to a company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, which Symantec has declined to identify. F-Secure, a security firm based in Finland, has identified the Taipei company as C-Media Electronics Incorporation. The certificate was set to expire on August 2, 2012, but authorities revoked it on Oct. 14, shortly after Symantec began examining the malware.

The new code does not self-replicate in order to spread itself — and is therefore not a worm. Nor does it contain a destructive payload to damage hardware in the way that Stuxnet did. Instead, it appears to be a precursor to a Stuxnet-like attack, designed to conduct reconnaissance on an unknown industrial control system and gather intelligence that can later be used to conduct a targeted attack.

“When we talked about Stuxnet before, we expected there was another component of Stuxnet we didn’t see that was gathering information about how a plant was laid out,” O Murchu says. “But we had never seen a component like that [in Stuxnet]. This may be that component.”

Although Duqu was created some time after Stuxnet, a component similar to it could have been used by Stuxnet’s attackers to gather intelligence for their payload.

Duqu appears to have been operative for at least a year. Based on the dates the binary files were compiled, Symantec says attacks using the malware may have been conducted as early as December 2010, about five months after Stuxnet was discovered, and about 18 months after Stuxnet was believed to have first been launched on computers in Iran.

“The real surprising thing for us is that these guys are still operating,” O Murchu says. “We thought these guys would be gone after all the publicity around Stuxnet. That’s clearly not the case. They’ve clearly been operating over the last year. It’s quite likely that the information they are gathering is going to be used for a new attack. We were just utterly shocked when we found this.”

Symantec received two variants of the malware on Oct. 14 from an unidentified research lab “with strong international connections.”

“Obviously this is a sensitive topic, and for whatever reason, they’ve decided at this point they don’t want to be identified,” O Murchu says, referring to earlier beliefs about Stuxnet had been created by a nation state with the aim of sabotaging Iran’s nuclear program.

Symantec received two variants of the malware, both of which had infected the same machine. Since then, O Murchu and his colleagues have found other samples on about 10 machines. The researchers found, after searching their own malware archive for similar files, that one of the variants was first captured by Symantec’s threat detection system on Sept. 1, 2011. Symantec has declined to name the countries where the malware was found, or to identify the specific industries infected, other than to say they are in the manufacturing and critical infrastructure sectors.

Although the vast majority of Stuxnet infections were based in Iran, O Murchu says the Duqu infections that have been discovered so far are not grouped in any geographical region. He said, however, that this could change if new infections are discovered.

The name given to the malware is based on a prefix “~DQ” that the malware uses in the names of files that it creates on an infected system. O Murchu says the malware uses five files. These include a dropper file that drops all of the components onto an infected system that the malware will need to do its work; a loader that places the files into memory when the computer starts; a remote access Trojan that serves as a backdoor on infected systems to siphon data from it; another loader that executes the Trojan; and a keystroke logger.

Like Stuxnet, Duqu uses a sophisticated and unique technique to hide its components in the memory of a machine, rather than on the hard drive, to avoid detection by anti-virus engines, and also tricks the system into loading files from memory instead of from hard disk. This technique was one of the first red flags Symantec had found in Stuxnet that indicated it was doing something beyond other types of malware they had seen before.

The malware is configured to run for 36 days, after which it automatically removes itself from an infected system.

O Murchu says they still have no idea how Duqu was delivered to infected systems. Stuxnet primarily used a zero-day vulnerability that allowed it to spread to systems via an infected USB stick.

“There’s an installer component [to Duqu] we haven’t seen,” O Murchu saus. “We don’t know if the installer is self-replicating. That’s a piece of the jigsaw that we’re missing right now.”

The variants are about 300 kilobytes in size — compared to Stuxnet’s 500 kb — and use a custom protocol to communicate between an infected system and a command-and-control server to siphon data from an infected machine and load new components onto it. According to O Murchu, the malware tries to disguise its malicious communication by appending it to a 100 x 100 pixel jpeg file. The appended data is encrypted, and the researchers are still analyzing the code to determine what the communication contains.

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Libel reform vows to slay anonymous trolls

Single complaint could take down a post

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A single complaint about an anonymous article or posting online could be enough to legally force a website to take it down – if new Parliamentary proposals on defamation get passed into law.

Measures against online anonymity are a key part of proposals published today in a committee report that will be debated when Parliament votes on changing the UK's defamation laws.

Though the draft Defamation bill mainly deals with traditional media and issues such as libel tourism, one of its expressed aims is to bring internet publishing and social media in line with the mainstream press.

"We agree that the internet cannot be exempt from the law of the land, and that the rule of law should apply to the fullest extent possible online," states paragraph 93 of the report.

The two core recommendations of the committee include a new "notice and take-down procedure", and "measures to encourage a change in culture in the way we view anonymous material that is user-generated, including via social media".

The notice and take-down procedure would mandate that, upon receiving a complaint, website editors would need to publish the complaint next to the original article. If the complainant wishes to push the matter further and get a take-down order, they can initiate a defamation action which would be cheaper and more streamlined than it currently is. It would involve both parties submitting a comment to a defamation judge who would then make a decision on the case.

This will apply to public parts of social media sites, such as Twitter, forums and public Facebook pages, as well as blogs and online publications. Mumsnet and TripAdvisor were both specifically named by the report. It will apply equally to sites that are moderated and sites that are not.

The scenario for anonymous postings – articles and presumably videos and sound tracks – is even tougher. If one complaint is received, the web editor or website hoster will have to take the post down, unless the writer or creator is willing to identify him/herself. Paragraph 125 states:

We recommend that any material written by an unidentified person should be taken down by the host or service provider upon receipt of complaint, unless the author promptly responds positively to a request to identify themselves, in which case a notice of complaint should be attached. If the internet service provider believes that there are significant reasons of public interest that justify publishing the unidentified material — for example, if a whistle-blower is the source — it should have the right to apply to a judge for an exemption from the take-down procedure and secure a "leave-up" order."

If the writer or creator does identifies him/herself, the dispute can then be taken to before a defamation judge, following the same notice and take-down procedure stated above.

One protection for anonymous writers is built into the bill – if there is an overriding public interest in publication, something that could protect whistle-blowers for example.

Acknowledging the practical limitations on what they recommend, including the time and expense of tracking down anonymous users, the committee expressed the hope that their new laws will change what they called the "Wild West" of online culture, making for a general shift over future years.

We expect, and wish to promote, a cultural shift towards a general recognition that unidentified postings are not to be treated as true, reliable or trustworthy. The desired outcome to be achieved — albeit not immediately — should be that they are ignored or not regarded as credible unless the author is willing to justify or defend what they have written by disclosing his or her identity.

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Terroristen attackieren Hans-Peter Uhl

(Berlin) Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU), die Internet-Koryphäe der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, wurde heute Mittag Opfer eines terroristischen Angriffs.
Cyberkriminelle griffen heimtückisch und skrupellos die Homepage von Uhl an und ersetzten die Seite mit eigenen Kommentaren.

Ob die sich "Anonymous" nennenden Angreifer wirklich aus dem Umfeld dieser Hackergruppe kommen, oder die Urheber des Attentats eher dem Umfeld des Chaos Computer Club (CCC) oder der Piratenpartei zuzurechnen sind, steht noch nicht fest.
Hans-Peter (Erich) Uhl wurde gestern durch seine fulminante und dennoch humorvolle Rede zur Verteidigung des Bundestrojaners in ganz Deutschland weltberühmt.
Wann die Internetseite des in Bayern überaus populären Politikers wieder erreichbar sein wird, steht noch nicht fest.

Der Staatsschutz soll bereits die ersten Ermittlungen aufgenommen haben.

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"Herr Uhl, es ist etwas passiert"
"Wie? Was?"
"Ihre Homepage wurde gehackt. "
"Meine was?"
"Sie wissen schon: Internet. Und nun ist alles weg"
"Na endlich!"

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http://fakeconvos.com/index.php

Welcome to Fake Convos!

Fake Convos is a fun web app that lets you easily create fake Facebook news feeds and conversations. Unfortunately there is not much more to say. The best thing to do is just get started. Log in with Facebook to create a new convo!

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MEP proposes 'black box' PC monitoring system

Under the pretext of a plea for children to be better protected on the internet, MEP Tiziano Motti has proposed installing a black box on every computer in Europe, to monitor and record every little scrap of traffic.

"We politicians are often hypocrites," Motti told EuropaPortalen of his plan. "On the one hand, we say that pedophilia is terrible and that it must be fought. On the other hand we do not give police the necessary tools to combat it. With my suggestion we can stop the hypocrisy."

Motti's proposal is to use a technology developed by Italian hacker Fabio Ghioni dubbed 'Logbox' to record every scrap of traffic that originates from every computing device across the EU.

That's worth a second-glance: Motti isn't just suggesting that PCs and laptops need to be monitored, but nothing capable of being connected to the Internet. As a result, Logbox would be installed on smartphones, featurephones with WAP access, eReaders, Blu-ray players and even TVs.

Logbox sits quietly in the background, monitoring the traffic for violations - and alerting authorities if something untoward, such as an image of child abuse, is discovered. Any evidence gathered is encrypted and stored securely, waiting for the police to show up.

"It allows the honest citizens to anonymously register their activities on the internet in a comprehensive, secure and neutral manner that can not be abused," Motti's proposal explains. "So, users can clearly demonstrate that they have not committed criminal acts so that the police do not waste time on the innocent in their investigations."

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Other MEPs haven't quite agreed with Motti's proposal. ActivePolitic has gathered some dissenting responses, including MEP Lars Christian Engstrom's rejection of Motti's proposal. "If it were China, North Korea or Saudi Arabia who had proposed this, what would we say then? It's scary in a democratic Europe to even hear a politician suggest such a thing. It is so absurd that I really hope we never have to discuss it seriously in Parliament."

Last year, Motti convinced the European Parliament to support a proposal extending the data storage directive to cover Google search terms, again using child abuse as the hot-button topic. Hopefully, Motti's latest wheeze won't be so lucky.

Read more: http://www.thinq.co.uk/20(...)ystem/#ixzz1bLmuo8bo

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birmingham SSN list: http://pastebin.com/T4M2xtGz
boston police password list: http://pastebin.com/HkxFzncy
full 550MB torrent coming soon!

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPECIAL #OCCUPYWALLSTREET EDITION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#ANTISEC SOLIDARITY WITH OCCUPATION MOVEMENT & ANTI-POLICE BRUTALITY PROTESTERS

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The IACP thought they could hold their 2011 annual conference in Chicago
unfettered by the clutches of insurrection. They must not have known their
conference starts on the Day of Action Against Police Brutality. They must not
have known that all over the world people are in the streets demonstrating
discontent with capitalism and the state. They also had no idea that for the
past few months black hat hackers have been owning their websites and databases.
They should have expected us.

In solidarity with the Occupation Movement and the International Day of Action
Against Police Brutality, allied #anonymous and #antisec vessels took aim at the
corrupt bootboys of the 1%: the police. We hacked, defaced, and destroyed
several law enforcement targets, leaking over 600MB of private information
including internal documents, membership rosters, addresses, passwords, social
security numbers, and other confidential data. According to the IACP's
development documents, their systems cost several hundred thousand dollars. We
are pleased to destroy it all for free, leaking their private info and defacing
their websites in one swift blow.

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The Pirate Bay Adds Domain to Bypass Court Order

Showing how futile Internet censorship can be, The Pirate Bay has registered a new domain name to allow Belgian users to access the site and bypass a recent court order. For just a few dollars, The Pirate Bay should now be fully accessible in the future, and the site has already started redirecting Belgian users to their new home.

Yesterday the Antwerp Court of Appeal ordered the Belgian ISPs Belgacom and Telenet to initiate DNS blockades of 11 domains connected to The Pirate Bay within 14 days or face fines.

The local anti-piracy movement applauded the verdict, which they see as a landmark case that will open the doors for further censorship attempts. However, it is questionable that it will have much of an effect.

Earlier today we already reported how the usenet indexing site Newzbin2 updated its anti-censorship client to allow Belgians to keep their access to The Pirate Bay. And a few hours later The Pirate Bay team delivered an even easier solution.

“The Judge obviously has no idea what he’s dealing with, because the verdict of this expensive court battle can be easily undone,” The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak.

“Just a few minutes ago we registered a new domain that’s not listed in the order. We have already started pointing users from Belgium to the new address, so they know where to go when their ISPs implement the DNS blockade.”

The new domain name is “depiraatbaai.be,” the literal translation of The Pirate Bay in Dutch. The new domain is already pointing to The Pirate Bay’s servers and people accessing the standard domain from a Belgian IP-address will be redirected to the new home.

“We have to admit that Belgian domain names are not cheap, but we have to make a stand here,” The Pirate Bay team told us.

The above is a clear example that the people judging on these issues don’t have the slightest idea what they’re dealing with. This is supported by the fact that the actual court order only lists the www domains of The Pirate Bay and not the bare addresses (www.thepiratebay.org vs. thepiratebay.org).

The ‘error’ above was pointed out by Maarten Schenk and soon picked up by the mainstream media in Belgium. They point out that if the verdict is taken literally, the ISPs don’t have to block the domains without the www. A massive failure.

“Let’s hope the ISPs are brave enough to put this theory to the test,” The Pirate Bay team notes.

The take home message is, as always, that there are plenty of options for users and site admins to bypass these and other censorship attempts. Or as John Gilmore once said: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”

For the time being the number of Belgian visitors to The Pirate Bay is only going up.

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http://fffff.at/occupy-the-internet/

Are you a “webmaster”, admin, blog owner or someone with access to index.html files? Are you interested in taking part in the recent global wave of revolution from the comfort of your home computer? Occupy the Internet!

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Researchers ID Skype Users Who Also Use BitTorrent

Entertainment companies seeking to trace people who are illegally file sharing may be interested in new research that could identify file-sharers through their Skype accounts. A research team has figured out how to link online Skype users to their activity on peer-to-peer networks, a correlation that could represent a major threat to users' privacy.

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A Skype user's IP address can be figured out even without their knowledge due to a major privacy vulnerability, the researchers wrote. Skype was notified in May -- the same month that it was announced Microsoft had acquired the company -- but the issue has not been fixed.

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Online political hacker group hits Boston police websites

A politically motivated computer hacker group attacked and brought down dozens of police websites around the country and said it posted e-mail information about nearly 1,000 Boston police officers Friday, claiming it was working in support of the Occupy protest movement.

Anonymous, the group taking credit for the computer intrusions, said in a statement, “In solidarity with the Occupation Movement and the International Day of Action Against Police Brutality, [we] aim at the corrupt bootboys of the 1 percent: the police.”

Specifically, the group said it attacked multiple Boston police websites. Most notably, Anonymous claimed to have hacked the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association website and its web-based e-mail portal, posting the names, e-mail addresses, and passwords of Boston police officers on the Internet for all to see.

In the statement, Anonymous said it attacked BPD sites in response to “the unprovoked mass arrests and brutality experienced by those at Occupy Boston.”

“Let this be a warning to BPD and police everywhere: future acts of aggression against our movements will be met with a vengeance ... ,” the statement read.

Early on Oct. 11, Boston police moved in on some of the Occupy Boston protesters on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway and arrested 141 demonstrators.

Late Friday night, Boston police acknowledged the cyber attack, saying in a statement: “It has come to the attention of the Boston Police Department that various websites used by members of the BPD -- including the website belonging to the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association -- have been hacked into and possibly compromised. In light of this information, the Boston Police Department is requiring all department personnel to secure their login information by resetting their passwords on the BPD network.”

The department recommended that police officers change their e-mail passwords and any other Internet, e-mail, and wireless device passwords.

A Boston police spokeswoman could not be reached for comment early this morning.

The group claimed that it “hacked, defaced, and destroyed several law enforcement targets, leaking over 600MB of private information including internal documents, membership rosters, addresses, passwords, Social Security numbers, and other confidential data.”

It claimed to take down at least 40 police-related websites.

The International Association of Chief of Police website was also targeted. The website was down and unreachable early this morning.

Anonymous also took aim at the website of Matrix Group International, which provides Internet services for government agencies. The Matrix website was down early this morning.

Anonymous also claimed to have hacked Birmingham/Jefferson County, Ala., police websites, releasing the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of nearly 1,000 police officers.

Described as “e-Robin Hoods,” the Internet group Anonymous is known for its hacking skills and online activism.
In a video regarding the police clashes with occupiers on Wall Street, Anonymous said, “This event serves to remind us that we’re living in a police state with absolutely no respect for the right of the people to peacefully assemble and exercise their constitutional free speech. But we will not be scared away… This abuse of authority by the NYPD only serves to strengthen our resolve and reinforce our belief that corruption and injustice in America must be fought.”

“We are Anonymous,” said the masked, computerized voice. “We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”

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Anonymous hacktivists claim child porn takedown

Group may be doing more harm than good, critic warns

The internet hacktivist group Anonymous says it temporarily took down more than 40 child pornography sites on a hidden network and posted a list of more than 1,500 of the sites' usernames online.

Earlier in October, "Operation Darknet" used denial-of-service attacks to disable a server called Freedom Hosting that it identified as "the host of the largest collection of child pornography on the internet," Anonymous said in a statement posted on PasteBin, a text storage site used mainly by programmers.

A particularly large site called "Lolita City," that contained more than 100 gigabytes of child pornography, the group added. Denial-of-service attacks flood websites with traffic, making them unavailable. In this case, the Freedom Hosting sites were unavailable for 30 hours, Anonymous said.

The group then demanded that all child pornography be removed from the sites.

The sites, located on a hidden "darknet" on an anonymous network called Tor, refused and managed to restore their services, but Anonymous has been targeting them with other tools since then, the group said.

"We will continue to not only crash Freedom Hosting's server, but any other server we find to contain, promote, or support child pornography," it added in a statement.

The Tor network and a related site, I2P, were originally designed for and used by activists in countries with authoritarian governments, such as China and Iran.

'Unfortunately, a potentially benevolent resource has been corrupted by these sick and sadistic abominations of the world," Anonymous said in a statement posted on YouTube on Oct. 17.

Some internet users praised Anonymous's campaign as "awesome" and a "great job" in messages posted on YouTube, Twitter and other online forums.

Campaign may put more kids at risk: security blogger

However, the group also faces criticism for the attacks.

Graham Cluley, Vancouver-based senior technology consultant at internet security company Sophos, wrote on the company's Naked Security blog Monday that Anonymous's " intentions may have been good, but take-downs of illegal websites and sharing networks should be done by the authorities, not internet vigilantes."

He suggested that such "amateur" attacks could compromise investigations by police, preventing successful prosecutions.

"They may have inadvertently put more children at risk through their actions," he added.

He suggested that the right thing to do with online evidence of child abuse is to report it to "appropriate authorities."

He also suggested that people who use the child pornography sites were unlikely to use their own names as usernames, and releasing the names may therefore put innocent people at risk.

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Op dinsdag 25 oktober 2011 15:48 schreef 3M1N3M het volgende:
Heeft Anonymous iets te maken met Illuminati?

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October 19, meeting, message from #freeanons:

Until a few months ago, Anonymous was doing some big operations with much importance but we also had lulz but some where reckless and got arrested. We are immensely proud, humbled to the core to be a part of the idea of anonymous, proud of what we can do and proud of our growing power and influence. We were and are still convinced that our action, methods were completely legal and cause no harm, despite the minimal economic damage that few companies we attacked claim.

These companies and states that protect them self have declared war against us, not because of the alleged damage, but mostly of the disgrace on there honour and the global conscience and awareness we helped to create. A hundred of our friends in several countries are now paying the unjust price of this unjust war. Their number is growing almost every day. This war will be long and we must win it.

The purpose of #freeanons is to anticipate the damage that this war will cause by creating an international solidarity structure. It is trough such a structure that we can organise and win our legal defence and show solidarity to our arrested friends…. WE can not, We must not abandon them, our motto is an anon = an anon.

Nix and horsefeet aka Nancy and David worked for months to offer us a legal and full transparent structure for the fund raising, “Freeanons Solidarity Inc.” is finally born, we celebrate this first victory with you tonight. See http://www.freeanons.org
Major causes attract great persons, a huge team joined us helping for all this operation needs; Website, flyers, posters, documentation, legal studies and fund raising

Every additional help is always welcome and needed!!

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dherics twitterde op donderdag 27-10-2011 om 17:18:18 RT @YourAnonNews Keep sending in links of police brutality, I need to get to them before google takes them down. #Anonymous #OWS #CabinCr3w reageer retweet

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Hacker leaks 90,000 passwords as a warning to 'naive' Swedes

Right-wing MP's Twitter account hijacked and popular portals and websites compromised in country's worst-ever online attack

Sweden has suffered its worst-ever data leak after an anonymous hacker hijacked the Twitter account of a prominent MP and released details of more than 90,000 private email accounts.

The hacker struck this week when he disclosed the passwords and email details of several Swedish political journalists. He tweeted them from the account of William Petzäll, a controversial 23-year-old far-right MP.

Petzäll denied having anything to do with the leak.

He pointed out that he has been receiving treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at a clinic in Sweden, after resigning last month from the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party.

The scandal deepened when it emerged the hacker had also raided the popular Swedish blog portal, Bloggtoppen.se.

He appears to have broken in several months ago – making off with more than 90,000 passwords and usernames.

These have also now been leaked, making it easy to hack the accounts of well-known politicians, editors and celebrities. The Aftonbladet newspaper also reported that another 57 websites have been compromised, potentially releasing the login details of up to 200,000 people.

The hacker's identity remains unknown. His online name is: sc3a5j.

In an interview with Expressen newspaper, he said he had masterminded the biggest internet breach in Sweden's history to remind people to change their passwords more often.

He said: "I dumped this information to let people know that they handle their information wrongly.

"Many web pages are not up to scratch. And consumers need to know they should never use the same [passwords] for different services on the web.

"This is how we got into Twitter accounts as well."

Expressen journalist Micke Ölander said on Thursday the affair wasn't an example of political skulduggery but was merely a wake-up call not to use the same password for all accounts.

"It's a story about the possible naivety of Swedish internet users who log into their bank account and the New York Times web pages using the same password," he said.

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Wanted: Oakland cop who injured Iraq War veteran - Anonymous offers bounty

$1,000 USD, this is the price to be paid - no questions asked - for the name of the Oakland Police officer who critically wounded an Iraq War veteran. The cash reward comes as the veteran, 24 year-old Scott Olsen, remains listed as in serious, but stable condition.

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Anonymous Response to the threat by the NYPD

Dear the members of the NYPD

We are Anonymous, we have recently read a statement that was released by an official in your department. We are quite amused, we are so amused we have decided to release this statement. We understand your loyalty to your partners of the New York Police Department, what we do NOT understand is your irresponsible propaganda that is being released by your partners. Every one of the demonstrators has been very peaceful, a few curse words and a few name calling rants is NOT violence nor is it considered a threat. What IS a threat is being told to disperse from an area or face consequences as severe as being admitted into Bellevue Hospital for psych evaluation, that IS a threat, not only is that a threat but it is a form of terrorism. How you ask? let me explain, locking someone up in a mental institution for practicing their right to assemble and their right to freedom of speech is a form of psychological terror. You have put countless amount of OUR brothers and sisters in the hospital and in lockup, sometimes blinded by pepper spray that YOUR partners in the WHITE shirts have used very irresponsibly.

WE the people have a RIGHT to defend ourselves, WE the people have a right to FREE speech, WE the people have a right to ASSEMBLE, and you have shown nothing but disregard for the constitution you were sworn into to protect. So now we will conclude this letter with a fair warning, IF ANY of our brothers and sisters are hurt in any way, WE will file complaints with the GRAND JURY against your partners that your protect in the WHITE shirts. Remember while you do not know who we are, we DO know who you are, and we have lots of PROOF of the terror that your partners are trying to unleash amongst peaceful assembling Americans who are in their right to do what they are currently doing. DO NOT threaten the safety of the people, and do not harm any of our brothers and sisters and believe your actions will not be seen nor addressed, and always remember, you are here to protect US.

We are Anonymous

We are Legion

We are the 99%

We do not forgive

We do not forget

Expect Us!

We Got Him

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Op_ESR twitterde op vrijdag 28-10-2011 om 18:36:59 #SFSD ESU Officer #Bergstresser = Officer Who Injured #ScottOlson ~ #OpESR #A99 #AntiSec #ProSec #InfoSec #OWS reageer retweet

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Anonymous Hackers Retaliate Against Oakland PD

The prolific and shadowy Anonymous hacking group has launched a full-scale online attack against the Oakland Police Department in retaliation for an instance of violence this week that has the city in an uproar.

The multi-pronged hacktivism campaign, called "OpUprise," is Anonymous' response to what is sees as the police department's gross mishandling of the Occupy Oakland protestors, in particular the incident surrounding Scott Olsen.

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Electronic Arts: Spiele-Gigant will Kunden ausspionieren

Der Spielehersteller Electronic Arts will mit "Battlefield 3" einen Bestseller landen - doch über eine mitgelieferte Spionage-Software kann der Konzern die Käufer ausspähen. Gamer und Juristen sind empört, Datenschützer ermitteln.

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Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets

Group called Anonymous demands release of one of their own who was kidnapped

An international group of online hackers is warning a Mexican drug cartel to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the syndicate's associates, from corrupt police to taxi drivers, as well as reveal the syndicates' businesses.

The vow is a bizarre cyber twist to Mexico's ongoing drug war, as a group that has no guns is squaring off against the Zetas, a cartel blamed for thousands of deaths as well as introducing beheadings and other frightening brutality.

"You made a huge mistake by taking one of us. Release him," says a masked man in a video posted online on behalf of the group, Anonymous.

"We cannot defend ourselves with a weapon … but we can do this with their cars, homes, bars, brothels and everything else in their possession," says the man, who is wearing a suit and tie.

"It won't be difficult; we all know who they are and where they are located," says the man, who underlines the group's international ties by speaking Spanish with the accent of a Spaniard while using Mexican slang.

He also implies that the group will expose mainstream journalists who are somehow in cahoots with the Zetas by writing negative articles about the military, the country's biggest fist in the drug war.

"We demand his release," says the Anonymous spokesman, who is wearing a mask like the one worn by the shadowy revolutionary character in the movie V for Vendetta, which came out in 2006. "If anything happens to him, you sons of (expletive) will always remember this upcoming November 5."

The person reportedly kidnapped is not named, and the video does not share information about the kidnapping other than that it occurred in the Mexican state of Veracruz during a street protest.

Anonymous draws its roots from an online forum dedicated to bringing sensitive government documents and other material to light.

If Anonymous can make good on its threats to publish names, it will "most certainly" lead to more deaths and could leave bloggers and others open to reprisal attacks by the cartel, contends Stratfor, an Austin-based global intelligence company.

"In this viral world on the Internet, it shows how much damage could be done with just one statement on the Web," said Fred Burton of Stratfor, which published a report Friday that probes the implications of the cartel drawing the activists' ire.

Mike Vigil, the retired head of international operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration, said the Zetas must take Anonymous seriously.

"It is a gutsy move," Vigil said. "By publishing the names, they identify them to rivals, and trust me, they will go after them."

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YourAnonNews twitterde op zondag 30-10-2011 om 13:56:40 Starting today #OpCartel begins. Heads up #Zetas! reageer retweet

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#OpDarknet Official Release -- 10/30/2011 - Pedo hunt trophies, Bear Rugs for Mike Perry

In our last battle against Pedo Fort aka Freedom Hosting, we scored a major victory against the army of child pornographers. We were able to use 'The Legion' and 'Chris Hansen' to level pedo fort for over about 30 hours. To our shock, the community of pedos were able to quickly regroup and rebuild Lolita City and Freedom Hosting within a week. While us Anons regrouped to plan a new strategy, the World suddenly became aware of our little war against child pornography.

Amiss the publicity, the pedos collaborated and dreamed of schemes for ways to disprove Operation Darknet. False stories were planted against the IT community about us Anons didn't "hack" Freedom Hosting and Lolita City. What the pedos didn't realize was that we actually took a secret treasure chest from their pedo fort. We worked silently for weeks to try and crack the lock containing this treasure that the pedo bear was diligently trying to protect.

At-last, we cracked the lock and found the true identity of the builder and architect of Freedom Hosting. What we found was truly shocking, it was the deeds to a California, USA 'shell' company for 12 Tor Exit Nodes named Formless Networking LLC.

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An Open Source Analysis of the Anonymous - Los Zetas Op

In order to gauge the potential impact of Anonymous' threat against Los Zetas (or any target), you need to assess the size of the attack surface. The larger the online footprint of the target, the greater the potential impact of the attack. Stratfor's Oct 28 analysis underestimates the Cartel's digital footprint and ignores Mexicos' indigenous hacker population: "The online media frequently used to organize Anonymous-labeled activities are far removed from the violent world of Mexican criminal cartels. This distance — along with the likely physical distance of many Anonymous members from Mexico — could limit the activists’ understanding of cartel activities."

For my analysis, I've examined two data sets: the size of the South American hacker population and the use of online tools by the Zetas and other Mexican crime syndicates and cartels. The asymmetrical nature of cyber conflict doesn't require large numbers of Anonymous members to be involved to be effective but there are certain parameters that will impact the measure of success of their op; one - the number of Anonymous members who speak the language and know the terrain and two - whether the Zetas or their associates use social networks enough for them to be vulnerable.

Mexican Hackers
Assuming that some of Anonymous members are hackers rather than script kiddies, Diosdelared.com might be a good starting point. Diosdelared.com is a large, popular South American hacker forum that has doubled in size since Taia Global analysts first reviewed it in April 2010. It now has 4524 members of which 1351 are from Mexico, 1201 from Argentina, 461 from Peru, 443 from Spain, 227 from Columbia, and 219 from Venezuela. There hasn't been any mention yet of OpCartel in their public postings but with over 1300 members who self-identify as Mexican, even a ten percent participation rate could have a significant impact on the Zetas' organization.

Mexican Drug Gangs
The use of online tools by drug gangs has been escalating. YouTube has been a popular medium to generate fear and recruit new members for several years. Facebook and Twitter were added to their toolkit in April, 2010, when a drug gang shuttered the Mexican town of Cuernavaca by spreading threats of violence via social networks to anyone who broke their curfew. The streets of Cuernavaca stayed empty for the designated period. In August, 2011 Mexican drug gangs learned how useful social networks can be for targeting victims. Also last summer, the head of the Beltran Leyva gang hired a computer technician to assist him in becoming "virtual". The specific degree of the Zetas online presence isn't known but they're clearly building a digital fingerprint if the history of their peers is any indication; a fingerprint that could be uncovered and exploited by a group like Anonymous.

Summary
If Anonymous makes good on their threat to release information on the Zetas' businesses and associates on November 5, their rivals and hopefully law enforcement would almost certainly exploit that information to hurt the Zetas. More importantly, if the OpCartel movement attracts broad Mexican and South American support, it could be the beginning of a movement that would lead to the overthrow the drug cartel's power and influence in Mexico. The fact that Mexico is about to begin one of its most important holidays - Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead) - is highly significant. The combination of religion and patriotism is a potent mix, and the Anonymous movement is riding on a wave of successes that connect social media to revolutionary change in the Middle East, North Africa, and the global Occupy movement. Why not Mexico as well?

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Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones

Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area

Britain's largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted area.

The surveillance system has been procured by the Metropolitan police from Leeds-based company Datong plc, which counts the US Secret Service, the Ministry of Defence and regimes in the Middle East among its customers. Strictly classified under government protocol as "Listed X", it can emit a signal over an area of up to an estimated 10 sq km, forcing hundreds of mobile phones per minute to release their unique IMSI and IMEI identity codes, which can be used to track a person's movements in real time.

The disclosure has caused concern among lawyers and privacy groups that large numbers of innocent people could be unwittingly implicated in covert intelligence gathering. The Met has refused to confirm whether the system is used in public order situations, such as during large protests or demonstrations.

Nick Pickles, director of privacy and civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, warned the technology could give police the ability to conduct "blanket and indiscriminate" monitoring: "It raises a number of serious civil liberties concerns and clarification is urgently needed on when and where this technology has been deployed, and what data has been gathered," he said. "Such invasive surveillance must be tightly regulated, authorised at the highest level and only used in the most serious of investigations. It should be absolutely clear that only data directly relating to targets of investigations is monitored or stored," he said.

Datong's website says its products are designed to provide law enforcement, military, security agencies and special forces with the means to "gather early intelligence in order to identify and anticipate threat and illegal activity before it can be deployed".

The company's systems, showcased at the DSEi arms fair in east London last month, allow authorities to intercept SMS messages and phone calls by secretly duping mobile phones within range into operating on a false network, where they can be subjected to "intelligent denial of service". This function is designed to cut off a phone used as a trigger for an explosive device.

A transceiver around the size of a suitcase can be placed in a vehicle or at another static location and operated remotely by officers wirelessly. Datong also offers clandestine portable transceivers with "covered antennae options available". Datong sells its products to nearly 40 countries around the world, including in Eastern Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. In 2009 it was refused an export licence to ship technology worth £0.8m to an unnamed Asia Pacific country, after the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills judged it could be used to commit human rights abuses.

A document seen by the Guardian shows the Metropolitan police paid £143,455 to Datong for "ICT hardware" in 2008/09. In 2010 the 37-year-old company, which has been publicly listed since October 2005, reported its pro forma revenue in the UK was £3.9m, and noted that "a good position is being established with new law enforcement customer groups". In February 2011 it was paid £8,373 by Hertfordshire Constabulary according to a transaction report released under freedom of information.

Between 2004 and 2009 Datong won over $1.6 (£1.03m) in contracts with US government agencies, including the Secret Service, Special Operations Command and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In February 2010 the company won a £750,000 order to supply tracking and location technology to the US defence sector. Official records also show Datong entered into contracts worth more than £500,000 with the Ministry of Defence in 2009.

All covert surveillance is currently regulated under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), which states that to intercept communications a warrant must be personally authorised by the home secretary and be both necessary and proportionate. The terms of Ripa allow phone calls and SMS messages to be intercepted in the interests of national security, to prevent and detect serious crime, or to safeguard the UK's economic wellbeing.

Latest figures produced by the government-appointed interception of communications commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy, show there were 1,682 interception warrants approved by the home secretary in 2010. Public authorities can request other communications data – such as the date, time and location a phone call was made – without the authority of the home secretary. In 2010, 552,550 such requests were made, averaging around 1,500 per day.

Barrister Jonathan Lennon, who specialises in cases involving covert intelligence and Ripa, said the Met's use of the Datong surveillance system raised significant legislative questions about proportionality and intrusion into privacy.

"How can a device which invades any number of people's privacy be proportionate?" he said. "There needs to be clarification on whether interception of multiple people's communications – when you can't even necessarily identify who the people are – is complaint with the act. It may be another case of the technology racing ahead of the legislation. Because if this technology now allows multiple tracking and intercept to take place at the same time, I would have thought that was not what parliament had in mind when it drafted Ripa."

Former detective superintendent Bob Helm, who had the authority to sign off Ripa requests for covert surveillance during 31 years of service with Lancashire Constabulary, said: "It's all very well placed in terms of legislation … when you can and can't do it. It's got to be legal and obviously proportionate and justified. If you can't do that, and the collateral implications far outweigh the evidence you're going to get, well then you just don't contemplate it."

In May the Guardian revealed the Met had purchased software used to map suspects' digital movements using data gathered from social networking sites, satnav equipment, mobile phones, financial transactions and IP network logs. The force said the software was being tested using "dummy data" to explore how it could be used to examine "police vehicle movements, crime patterns and telephone investigations."

The Met would not comment on its use of Datong technology or give details of where or when it had been used.

A spokesman said: "The MPS [Metropolitan police service] may employ surveillance technology as part of our continuing efforts to ensure the safety of Londoners and detect criminality. It can be a vital and highly effective investigative tool.

"Although we do not discuss specific technology or tactics, we can re-assure those who live and work in London that any activity we undertake is in compliance with legislation and codes of practice."

A spokesman for the Home Office said covert surveillance was kept under "constant review" by the chief surveillance commissioner, Sir Christopher Rose, who monitors the conduct of authorities and ensures they are complying with the appropriate legislation.

He added: "Law enforcement agencies are required to act in accordance with the law and with the appropriate levels of authorisation for their activity."

Datong declined to comment

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Anonymous cancels crackdown on Mexican Zetas drug cartel — Update 1 —

10/30/2011

Mexico City Anonymous group anounced it has cancelled reprisals against the Zetas cartel for being a very risky operation. It was informed through a press and social networks for different users.

After the disappearance of one of its members in Veracruz, one of the members announced reprisals against the drug cartel “Los Zetas” with “Operation Cartel.”

However, because of the great risks involved in leaking information and to safeguard the integrity of persons adhering to the collective group of hackers, they decided to cancel the whole operation.

“Destroying # OpCartel because the lives of people who are not participating can be put at risk,” was published in the first text of the cancellation of the operation, through Twitter account @ Sm0k34n0n.

Before this action the company of strategic intelligence analysis, Stratfor, published an article about the “serious risk” involving actions of leakage of information about members of Los Zetas.

“Last October 6 Anonymous posted to inform on those who are members of Los Zetas … if Anonymous carries out its threat, it will almost certainly lead to death of the persons named as members of the cartel, whether or not the information published is accurate, “says the article by Stratfor.

In an interview with Milenio, two members of Anonymous, Skill3r and GlynissParoubek were in contact to explain the circumstances:

Milenio – Why was it decided to cancel the operation?

Anonymous – We can not be reckless administrators to condemn to death those who participate, we have talked and discussed extensively by all and it was decided to remove it.

Milenio – So why issue threats?

Anonymous – It’s very easy to make a video on behalf of Anonymous and launch air threats, but to think, plan, and evaluate the pros and cons is another story,” they said.

Milenio – What’s next?

Anonymous – “There will be other operations, but for now we hope to make clear that the cartel operation is false.”

Anonymous released a statement where they reject any relation with pages publishing names of officials involved in the Los Zetas cartel.

“Dear followers and supporters of this page (Anonymous). I hereby disclaims Mexico Anonymous entirely the responsibility of the news of hacking a page that is linked to alleged Zetas cartel,” is detailed in the text circulated.

“Our struggle is not of this type and our ideals do not go with that operation. The article published by various electronic means is completely false. We ask for your support to spread this news” They ended denying the media who published the page.

Milenio

Previous posts related to this
http://neglectedwar.com/blog/archives/7775
http://neglectedwar.com/blog/archives/8485
http://neglectedwar.com/blog/archives/8516
http://neglectedwar.com/blog/archives/8590

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Update 1

OpCartel Anounced it will continue its fight against Zetas independently from Anonymous

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For #FuckFBIFriday, we are releasing 1GB of private emails and documents
belonging to Vanguard Defense Industries(VDI), a defense contractor that sells
arms to law enforcement, military, and private corporations.

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Anonymous vs. Zetas: is #OpCartel a flop, hoax, or honeypot?

[Video Link] Over the last few days, word has spread of a purported #antisec operation by Anonymous against the most brutal of all Mexican drug cartels, Los Zetas. What was unusual about the way this story spread, however, was the speed at which it was amplified by credulous reports from larger media outlets. This op got lots of press, fast. Faster, in fact, than it got support from Anons.

Geraldine Juarez and Renata Avila were two of the earlier voices I read expressing doubt about the prevailing storyline—a report by Juarez is here. Some I spoke to within Mexico wondered if the Mexican government (no bastion of purity) might be involved.

At the New York Times, writer Damien Cave digs in here on why the story is important.

And over at Wired News, a must-read piece by Quinn Norton that cinches the deal for me (and in it, she references the aforementioned Global Voices item). Quinn's been covering Anonymous extensively for some time, and I trust her spidey sense on this one.

"Everyone, Anonymous and not, seems to agree that going after the Zetas, who are known for hanging people by their own intestines, would be a new level of ambitious, and might even be the point where Anonymous would bite off more than they could chew," Quinn writes. "But there’s some nagging problems with the video that proposes the op."

Read the rest at Wired.

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China a minimal cyber security threat: Paper

Despite having an Information warfare strategy since the mid '90s China's offensive cyber-warfare capabilities are fairly rudimentary

Despite growing concern about China’s cyber-warfare capabilities, Australia and other Western nations have little to worry about when it comes to their national security.

That’s the view of Desmond Ball, a professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, who in a recent journal paper argues China's offensive capabilities are limited and its own Internet security has notable deficiencies and vulnerabilities.

According to Ball, China had carried out a number of high-profile and successful hacks, denial of service attacks and website defacements in recent years. However, its offensive cyber-warfare capabilities were fairly rudimentary.
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[China has] evinced little proficiency with more sophisticated hacking techniques, the paper reads. The viruses and Trojan Horses they have used have been fairly easy to detect and remove before any damage has been done or data stolen. There is no evidence that Chinas cyber-warriors can penetrate highly secure networks or covertly steal or falsify critical data.

They would be unable to systematically cripple selected command and control, air defence and intelligence networks and databases of advanced adversaries, or to conduct deception operations by secretly manipulating the data in these networks.

According to Ball, the capability gap in anti-virus and network security applications between China and other nations was immense.

Chinas cyber-warfare authorities must despair at the breadth and depth of modern digital information and communications systems and technical expertise available to their adversaries, the paper reads.

In Balls view, and despite having an information warfare (IW) plan since 1995 and conducting cyber exercises since 1997, Chinas cyber-warfare capability was not expected to better rivals for several decades.

At best, [China] can employ asymmetric strategies designed to exploit the (perhaps relatively greater) dependence on IT by their potential adversaries the paper reads.

Chinas cyber-warfare capabilities are very destructive, but could not compete in extended scenarios of sophisticated IW operations. In other words, they function best when used pre-emptively, as the PLA now practices in its exercises. In sum, the extensive Chinese IW capabilities, and the possibilities for asymmetric strategies, are only potent if employed first.

In the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisations (ASIO) 2010-11 Annual Report, the agency noted that espionage by cyber means was emerging as a serious and widespread concern.

ASIO is seeing increasingly both foreign state and non-state actors taking advantage of the access, relative anonymity and global reach of the internet, the report reads. From the comfort of wherever their computer terminal may be, they probe Australian information systems and data holdings for vulnerabilities and mine for valuable commercial, diplomatic and military intelligence sometimes with success.

Despite the rise of espionage through cyber means, ASIO has not seen any reduction in the intensity of other, more traditional forms of espionage human spies are still being recruited and run and foreign intelligence agencies are still interfering covertly in the Australian community. Indeed, effective coordination between traditional, human-based espionage and computer network operations represents a potent threat to our most sensitive data and networks that are not connected to the Internet."

In July 2010, ASIO established a Cyber Espionage Branch to provide advice to government and business on the threat of cyber-espionage and to investigate increasingly sophisticated and frequent cyber-intrusions into computer networks.

For its part, Australia has worked during the past year to raise cyber security as a foreign policy issue on the international agenda and has moved to better secure its cyber borders.

In the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trades (DFAT) 2010/11 Annual Report, the department said it had worked with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and other agencies on a framework for Australias international engagement on cyber.

The department took the lead for Australia in contributing to the development of international cyber norms by under taking work on messaging, principles to underpin norms, and mapping international activity, the report reads.

The department also worked with the Department of Defence to strengthen cooperation with the US and the United Kingdom on cyber in AUSMIN and AUKMIN consultations and contributed to planning for the United Kingdoms London conference on international cyber norms, scheduled for November 2011."

In a sign of the growing government acceptance of cyber-attacks as genuine threats to national security, the Australian government said it June that it would develop its first Cyber White Paper.

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"The Night of Thousand Masks".



Message By Anonymous :

Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot. V for Vendetta.

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Op vrijdag 4 november 2011 12:57 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
De tactiek van anonymous is die van terreur verstopt achter anonimiteit. Wat is dat voor een rare intimiderende beweging?

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Anon_Central twitterde op vrijdag 04-11-2011 om 20:08:41 Holy shit, /b/ has been occupied. lol reageer retweet

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THE OCCUPIED /b/