Anonops #8: Occupy Wall Str.

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:
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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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