Anonops #9: Get Los(t) Zetas

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Andy Baio: Think You Can Hide, Anonymous Blogger? Two Words: Google Analytics

Last month, an anonymous blogger popped up on WordPress and Twitter, aiming a giant flamethrower at Mac-friendly writers like John Gruber, Marco Arment and MG Siegler. As he unleashed wave after wave of spittle-flecked rage at “Apple puppets” and “Cupertino douchebags,” I was reminded again of John Gabriel’s theory about the effects of online anonymity.

Out of curiosity, I tried to see who the mystery blogger was.

He was using all the ordinary precautions for hiding his identity — hiding personal info in the domain record, using a different IP address from his other sites, and scrubbing any shared resources from his WordPress install.

Nonetheless, I found his other blog in under a minute — a thoughtful site about technology and local politics, detailing his full name, employer, photo, and family information. He worked for the local government, and if exposed, his anonymous blog could have cost him his job.

I didn’t identify him publicly, but let him quietly know that he wasn’t as anonymous as he thought he was. He stopped blogging that evening, and deleted the blog a week later.

So, how did I do it? The unlucky blogger slipped up and was ratted out by an unlikely source: Google Analytics.

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Hiding messages in VoIP packets

A group of researchers from the Institute of Telecommunications of the Warsaw University of Technology have devised a relatively simple way of hiding information within VoIP packets exchanged during a phone conversation.

They called the method TranSteg, and they have proved its effectiveness by creating a proof-of-concept implementation that allowed them to send 2.2MB (in each direction) during a 9-minute call.

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Google is watching you

Wie goed oplette, zag eergisteren een advertentie van internetzoekmachine Google op nrc.nl voorbijkomen. Eén van het type waar bedrijven nooit zo happig op zijn, namelijk het aanbieden van een opt-out om ergens van verschoond te blijven. Ofwel: u kunt hier uw gegevens uit onze bestanden laten verwijderen.

Dit is met een dwangsom van een miljoen euro afgedwongen door het College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens (CBP). Google biedt deze opt-out nu wereldwijd aan. Het CBP te Den Haag dwingt de multinational uit Californië dus tot een andere koers.

Ook dat is globalisering – een toezichthouder in een klein land kan ver reiken. De kwestie loog er niet om. De camera-auto’s van Google, die tussen 2008 en 2010 Nederlandse straten en huizen fotografeerden voor de dienst Streetview, bleken ook maar even alle wifi-routers te hebben afgeluisterd. Zo werden 3,6 miljoen Nederlandse draadloze internetzenders geïdentificeerd, met de adresgegevens van de aangesloten computers, plus de locatie ervan op de kaart.

Daarmee maakte Google zich schuldig aan het verzamelen van persoonsgegevens zonder toestemming van de betrokkenen. Dat is een wetsovertreding. In Duitsland was dat eerder al ontdekt. Mogelijk wacht Google daar strafrechtelijke vervolging.

Frankrijk legde al eens een ton boete op. Het CBP mag in Nederland nog steeds niet verder gaan dan een voorwaardelijke dwangsom, waar Google zich in 2009 tegen verzette. Het CBP verwierp de bezwaren en legde een dwangsom op. Met succes. Pas toen verontschuldigde Google zich, erkende de fout en kiest nu voor een drastische aanpassing van het privacybeleid. Iedere gebruiker kan nu door het toevoegen van ‘no map’ aan de naam van zijn internetrouter uit de database van Google blijven.

The New York Times noemt het nieuwe beleid van Google een royale concessie aan Den Haag. Google moet worden geprezen om de correcte uitvoering van het CBP-oordeel, zelfs wereldwijd. Dat privacy-toezichthouders elders zich ook hebben geroerd, speelt uiteraard mee.

Hoe makkelijk internetgebruikers er soms ook zelf mee omspringen, privacy blijft een kernwaarde. Het recht om onbespied te kunnen leven is een waarborg tegen de macht van overheden en bedrijven. Wie leeft zonder privacy stelt zich ook open voor permanent toezicht, is altijd vindbaar en commercieel beschikbaar. Wie dat wil moet daarvoor kiezen, of er van weg kunnen blijven.

Inmiddels vindt een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer dat Google nu tevoren toestemming moet vragen: van opt-out naar opt-in dus. Dat zou nog mooier zijn. Maar de kans dat Google dat invoert lijkt niet zo groot.

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Victory for Net Neutrality

Your phone calls, emails and persistence have paid off: Today the Senate voted down the resolution that would have shuttered the open Internet.

This outrageous measure would have stripped us of our right to communicate freely online and handed control of the Internet to companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon.

But the public outcry stopped this resolution in its tracks. And thanks to your efforts, not only did we win the vote, but Net Neutrality’s champions in Congress spoke out passionately and persuasively about the importance of the free and open Internet.

Now that we’ve thwarted this partisan stunt, we can get back to the real priority: strengthening the Federal Communications Commission’s rules to protect all Internet users, whether they access the Web via a home connection or a mobile device.

The FCC’s new rules go into effect on Nov. 20. But these rules fail to protect mobile Internet users from corporate abuse. As more and more of us use phones and tablets to get online, we need to make sure that all Internet users are protected.

In the months to come, the Free Press Action Fund will push the FCC to make its Open Internet rules much stronger — even if that means going to court, where we are suing the agency for failing to protect all Internet users.

Today’s Senate vote is a major victory for the public and sends a resounding message: The American people don’t want companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon blocking websites or interfering with our ability to access whatever we want, whenever we want it, from wherever we are.

The fight for the free and open Internet is far from over. I hope you’ll stay with us.

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Fight Club (novel)

As fight club attains a nationwide presence, Tyler uses it to spread his anti-consumerist ideas, recruiting fight club's members to participate in increasingly elaborate pranks on corporate America. He eventually gathers the most devoted fight club members and forms "Project Mayhem," a cult-like organization that trains itself as an army to bring down modern civilization. This organization, like fight club, is controlled by a set of rules:

Anonymous Project Mayhem 2012: Dangerous Idea #1

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Imagine we are Anonymous.
Imagine you are Anonymous.

Imagine we plant trees.
Imagine we become Seed trees.
Imagine we sow the world with seeds.

Imagine we finally find the COURAGE needed.
to BECOME THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE in the World.

Imagine we are no longer afraid of Fear.
Imagine we re invent and reverse Reality.

Imagine the corrupt start to Fear Us.
Imagine corrupt Banksters start to Fear Us.
Imagine corrupt Governments start to Fear Us.
Imagine corrupt Corporations start to Fear Us.

Imagine we conquer Freedom by beginning to be Free.
Imagine we conquer Justice by beginning to do Fair.
Imagine we conquer Truth by beginning to do and be True to ourselves.

Imagine Information equals Power.
Imagine we start a Fight Club.
Imagine the System is built upon lies.

Imagine we purchase a USB drive.
Imagine we take it to our workplaces.
Imagine we pretend we have to work late hours.
Imagine we accumulate all sort of evidences about illegal deeds.
Imagine Conscientious insiders worldwide begin to expose all lies.
Imagine we code an extremely simple interface so that anyone can do it.

imagine we all synchronize our clocks to act at the same Time, on the Winter solstice, The 21st of December 2012 at eleven minutes past eleven local time.

On the 5th of November 2012 TYLER will be out of beta testing.

TYLER is a massively distributed and decentralized Wiki pedia style Pee two Pee cipher-space structure impregnable to censorship

TYLER will gather an unprecedented number of the best hackers and coders ever to develop its structure from scratch, from the lessons learned from the Freenet, TOR, G N U net, e-Mule, Bit Torrent I2P, Tribler and related projects

From the 12th of December 2012, to the 21st of December 2012, people all over the world upload the evidence of illegality corruption and fraud They have gathered To TYLER

Imagine we Leak it all

Imagine...

We are Anonymous.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.

#AntiSec Fuck FBI Friday V - Cybercrime Investigator Communications

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Greetings Pirates, and welcome to another exciting #FuckFBIFriday release.

As part of our ongoing effort to expose and humiliate our white hat enemies, we targeted a Special Agent Supervisor of the CA Department of Justice in charge of computer crime investigations. We are leaking over 38,000 private emails which contain detailed computer forensics techniques, investigation protocols as well as highly embarrassing personal information. We are confident these gifts will bring smiles to the faces of our black hat brothers and sisters (especially those who have been targeted by these scurvy dogs) while also making a mockery of "security professionals" who whore their "skills" to law enforcement to protect tyrannical corporativism and the status quo we aim to destroy.

We hijacked two gmail accounts belonging to Fred Baclagan, who has been a cop for 20 years, dumping his private email correspondence as well as several dozen voicemails and SMS text message logs. While just yesterday Fred was having a private BBQ with his CATCHTEAM high computer crime task force friends, we were reviewing their detailed internal operation plans and procedure documents. We also couldn't overlook the boatloads of embarrassing personal information about our cop friend Fred. We lulzed as we listened to angry voicemails from his estranged wives and ex-girlfriends while also reading his conversations with girls who responded to his "man seeking woman" craigslist ads. We turned on his google web history and watched him look up linux command line basics, golfing tutorials, and terrible youtube music videos. We also abused his google voice account, making sure Fred's friends and family knew how hard he was owned. Possibly the most interesting content in his emails are the IACIS.com internal email list archives (2005-2011) which detail the methods and tactics cybercrime
units use to gather electronic evidence, conduct investigations and make
arrests. The information in these emails will prove essential to those who want to protect themselves from the techniques and procedures cyber crime
investigators use to build cases. If you have ever been busted for computer
crimes, you should check to see if your case is being discussed here. There are discussions about using EnCase forensic software, attempts to crack TrueCrypt encrypted drives, sniffing wireless traffic in mobile surveillance vehicles, how to best prepare search warrants and subpoenas, and a whole lot of clueless people asking questions on how to use basic software like FTP.

These cybercrime investigators are supposed to be the cream of the crop, but we reveal the totality of their ignorance of all matters related to computer
security. For months, we have owned several dozen white hat and law enforcement targets-- getting in and out of whichever high profile government and corporate system we please and despite all the active FBI investigations and several billion dollars of funding, they have not been able to stop us or get anywhere near us. Even worse, they bust a few dozen people who are allegedly part of an "anonymous computer hacking conspiracy" but who have only used kindergarten-level DDOS tools-- this isn't even hacking, but a form of electronic civil disobedience.

We often hear these "professionals" preach about "full-disclosure," but we are
sure these people are angrily sending out DMCA takedown notices and serving subpoenas as we speak. They call us criminals, script kiddies, and terrorists, but their entire livelihood depends on us, trying desperately to study our techniques and failing miserably at preventing future attacks. See we're cut from an entirely different kind of cloth. Corporate security professionals like
Thomas Ryan and Aaron Barr think they're doing something noble by "leaking" the public email discussion lists of Occupy Wall Street and profiling the "leaders" of Anonymous. Wannabe player haters drop shitty dox and leak partial chat logs about other hackers, doing free work for law enforcement. Then you got people like Peiter "Mudge" Zatko who back in the day used to be old school l0pht/cDc only now to sell out to DARPA going around to hacker conventions encouraging others to work for the feds. Let this be a warning to aspiring white hat "hacker" sellouts and police collaborators: stay out the game or get owned and exposed. You want to keep mass arresting and brutalizing the 99%? We'll have to keep owning your boxes and torrenting your mail spools, plastering your personal information all over teh internets.

Hackers, join us and rise up against our common oppressors - the white hats, the 1%'s 'private' police, the corrupt banks and corporations and make 2011 the year of leaks and revolutions!

We are Anti-Security,
We are the 99%
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect Us!

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Op vrijdag 18 november 2011 23:22 schreef Nemephis het volgende:
FuckFBIFriday release: http://thepiratebay.org/user/AntiSecurity

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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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Anonymous Leaks Another Computer Expert’s Personal Emails

In a typically nasty personal-political combo, Anonymous has leaked thousands of private emails belonging to a retired California cybercrime investigator named Fred Bacalagan, in what they say is payback for the recent Occupy Wall Street crackdown.

Anonymous hackers broke into two of Bacalagan's gmail accounts, his text message logs and his Google Voice voicemails, then dumped the whole thing on to a website and The Pirate Bay. Baclagan was a special agent supervisor at the Department of Justice specializing in cybercrime, and his emails contain thousands of correspondences from the private listserv of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists, spanning 2005 to 2011. So, any black hat hackers looking for tips on how to avoid being busted might want to scour the archive, which provides essentially an encyclopedia of computer forensics tips and tricks.

Message to Anonymous by Anonymous

SPOILER

Om spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.

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Anonymous Hacks Back at Cybercrime Investigators

The Antisec wing of Anonymous has come out with another document release in its ongoing assault on law enforcement.

Antisec anons, who specialize in hacks that show the net’s vulnerabilities, gained access to the Gmail/Google account of one “Fred Baclagan.” Baclagan appears to be San Diego-based Alfredo Baclagan, a retired supervisor of the multi-agency Computer and Technology Crime Hightech Response Team. “CATCH” specializes in cybercrime investigation in the San Diego, Imperial Valley, and Riverside counties of southern California. They released a purported 38,000 emails from two accounts of Baclagan’s as a 581 MB torrent.

The video announcement opens with the computer voice intoning 
”Greetings Pirates, and welcome to another exciting Fuck FBI Friday release.” Though not directly an attack on the FBI, this release may be the most consequential for computer crime investigators since the hack of HBGary, and particularly their CEO Aaron Barr, who had raised Anonymous’ ire by claiming to the Financial Times he’d uncovered the leadership of Anonymous.

While Anonymous had fun with Baclagan’s personal information, and even claimed to purchased camera equipment for him using his Google wallet, the most important consequences of this release may be the archives of the International Association of Computer Investigation Specialists mailing list archive. That mailing list includes conversation threads from forensic experts around the world discussing investigations, techniques, and how to counter different legal defense tactics.

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35 min 50 sec ago - Egypt

Hackers calling themselves the "Eg-R1z TeAm" have apparently defaced the website of Egyptian state television. State media, personified in the name of its headquarters building "Maspero," has become one of the most hated institutions of the regime for broadcasting what activists say is slanted, biased and inflammatory information.

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SOPA Causes Anonymous To Declare Operation Blackout

(Lindsay ONeal) Last month, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced to the House of Representatives aiming to censor key aspects of the Internet in order protect the rights of the entertainment industry. The PROTECT IP Act, the Senate counterpart to SOPA, already passed earlier this year, but enforcement has been shelved for the time being due to rising concerns that it has the power to impede freedom of speech. While both bills state they are trying to help the entertainment industry sell more movies and music downloads, the effects of the bill are far-reaching and potentially devastating to Internet freedom as well as to the Internet itself.

SOPA caught the attention of Anonymous and on Wednesday they released this video which warned:
“We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. To the American Congress. Expect us.”

Well, one hour ago, Anonymous released yet another video… SPOILER ALERT:
“We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive censorship. We do not forget the denial of our free rights as human beings. To the United States government, you should’ve expected us.“

Anonymous - A Message to Congress on SOPA

Anonymous - Operation Blackout

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http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=246238

About 50 Israeli women posed for a nude photo on Saturday, in a show of solidarity with 20-year-old Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy. The women posed with a banner reading "Love without borders" in English, Hebrew and Arabic, at Beit Ha'am on Rothschild Boulevard.

Elmahdy was the target of sharp criticism from liberals and conservatives alike in Egypt for posting nude photos of herself on her blog in protest of the conservative Muslim country's restricted freedom of expression.

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Op zaterdag 19 november 2011 22:09 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Het artikel gaat verder.

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SOPA provokes Anonymous: Hacktivists threaten U.S. Congress

Anonymous fights Internet censorship by opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Those claiming to represent the international Internet hacktivist collective known as Anonymous has issued a threat to the U.S. Congress if they pass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently being considered in the U.S. House of Representatives.

SOPA , also known as the Internet censorship bill, would radically restrict Internet freedom in an attempt to protect intellectual property rights. Critics claim the bill, if passed, would cripple the Internet as we know it.

Indeed, growing concern with the Stop Online Piracy Act has generated a great deal of buzz with the online community. Some of the biggest websites and brands in the world are actively encouraging their users to protest the bill, including: AOL Inc., eBay Inc., Facebook Inc., Google Inc., LinkedIn Corporation, Mozilla Corp., Twitter, Inc. and Yahoo! Inc.

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Op zondag 20 november 2011 13:47 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
Is dit niet iets voor Anonymiss?

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Israëlische vrouwen steunen naaktactie Egyptische blogger Aliaa el-Mahdy

Zo’n veertig Israëlische vrouwen gingen gisteren uit de kleren uit solidariteit met de Egyptische blogger Aliaa el-Mahdy. Die laatste plaatste een naaktfoto van zichzelf op haar blog waarna een officiële klacht tegen haar werd ingediend omdat zij de morele regels in Egypte zou hebben overtreden en haar lezers aangezet zou hebben tot onfatsoenlijkheid.

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Anonymous hacks cops coordinating Occupy evictions - PERF goes down

Sunday, Anonymous hacktivists assaulted PERF because of their alleged involvement in coordinating police crackdowns on Occupy protests across the country.
Anonymous hacktivists assaulted PERF, the Police Executive Research Forum, by taking down their website and releasing the private information of Sherwin B. "Chuck" Wexler - Executive Director at PERF.

PERF is a private but extremely influential national, non-governmental organization with close ties to law enforcement agencies across the country, as well as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The group allegedly orchestrated and coordinated the sometimes brutal police crack down on Occupy Wall Street, and other Occupy movements across the country.

After several news organizations identified PERF as being responsible for advising and coordinating the police crackdowns resulting in Occupy evictions and other brutalities, the hivemind of the nebulous and notorious international Internet collective known as Anonymous began to swarm, and sting.

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The #Antisec LE dump, PERF and your police state

I've been sifting through the emails that were dumped by #Antisec on Friday and it would appear that "internet security" is an oxymoron akin to "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp". The incompetence would be comical if these people did not wield so much power over the average citizen. Let's take a closer look below the fold...

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It is not surprising this breach in security is not being covered by any MSM outlets at the time I am writing this. It's a substantial breach and provides a pretty in depth look into cyber security and the so-called experts that are providing it and it's quite frankly embarrassing to them. Somehow we can't afford Health Care for the masses but we can afford to pay buffoons to not stop internet security breaches at the most basic level. It's a clown show, and we're paying for it while being told austerity is the answer to all our woes. While our kids are being pepper sprayed for exercising their right to assemble these guys are being rewarded with lucrative contracts. Here's a snippet from the release..

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How America could impose Internet censorship on the EU

As Victoria A. Espinel, the White House co-ordinator on copyright enforcement prepares to speak in the European Parliament next week, we learn of new powers being sought by the US government to impose IPR rules on other countries, including the EU. The Stop Online Piracy Act (also sometimes referred to as E-parasite) in the US congress seeks to impose the most draconian measures against Internet users and websites. But from an EU perspective, it contains a poison pill. American academics and NGOs who have studied are warning that it contains dangerous provisions which would empower US Embassies to force other countries to adopt the same anti-Internet measures.

The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA - also sometimes referred to as E-parasite) is a twin to the Protect-IP Act in the US Senate. American academics are saying that SOPA will create a firewall of Internet censorship.

SOPA contains measures against search engines and linking sites, and indeed it would appear, against any site which is deemed to be “dedicated to infringing activities.”

Sites could be ordered to disappear from the Internet, without an entitlement to a defence, under measures which would includes orders addressed to ISPs and domain registrars.

SOPA also contains provisions whereby the US government can check out websites for possible infringing content, and if the website tries to stop them, it may be sanctioned.

Section 205 of Stop Online Piracy Act is called: Defending Intellectual Property Rights Abroad. Section 205 would build on the existing Special 301 process but will take it much further. It provides for “aggressive support for enforcement action against violations of the intellectual property rights of United States persons”. And it specifically mandates US embassies to ‘enable’ foreign governments to comply with international obligations regarding IP rights. A new role of IP attache will be created in order to facilitate this. This role will be to work with United States holders of intellectual property rights and industry to address intellectual property rights violations in the countries where the attachés are assigned.

US Embassies currently put pressure on other governments using the Special 301 powers. Exactly how they do so has been revealed in various leaked diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks.

The EU should take this threat very seriously. SOPA could mean that US Embassiess will try to forces changes in EU and Member State law which would contravene to the acquis and indeed are contrary to the balance of rights which we have established in Europe.

Victoria A. Espinel is speaking at the IP Forum, co-ordinated by the French pro-copyright MEP Marielle Gallo, next week.European Parliament hardline event on ACTA and enforcement

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"Possibly the most interesting content in his emails are the IACIS.com internal email list archives (2005-2011) which detail the methods and tactics cybercrime units use to gather electronic evidence, conduct investigations and make arrests," said the group, and invited anyone who has ever been arrested for computer crimes to check the archives for discussions about their case.

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“Pirate Blogger” Law Student Raided By Police For File-Sharing Articles

Anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen say they have been busy recently tracking down piracy ‘masterminds’. After busting who they claim is the leader of a huge movie piracy group, last week they had the police detain a less likely target – a 19-year-old law student who runs a file-sharing blog. RettighedsAlliancen say that guides on his site showed readers how to break the law, an act serious enough to involve the police.

On November 2nd, lawyers from RettighedsAlliancen, officials from the bailiff’s court and computer experts called at the home of an individual claimed to be a leading movie pirate.

The man, known online as Kefissos, stands accused of being connected to the ‘After Dark’ release group and responsible for the illegal uploading of hundreds of movies. Although it’s not certain they belong to the man, accounts in the name of Kefissos can be found on several leading torrent sites including The Pirate Bay, and many of the movies indexed have Danish connections.

But RettighedsAlliancen’s work this month had only just begun.

On Tuesday last week, as usual 19-year-old law student Halfdan Timm was studying at the University of Aarhus. Half a mile away the occupants of an unmarked Ford Mondeo car were unsuccessfully trying to track Halfdan down at his apartment. A little later during a break in his lectures Halfdan was confronted by police officers.

“I was given two options,” Halfdan explains. “Either I could go quietly with the two policemen, or I could be arrested and ‘do it the hard way’.”

Halfdan told TorrentFreak that he was under suspicion of “piratkopiering” (piracy-copying), and that the police had a search warrant for his apartment.

Not wanting to make life difficult, Halfdan chose the easy way and took the police to his home. Once there the police asked him if he had anything to show them in advance of their search. Halfdan pointed to his desktop computer containing downloaded songs and informed them that he had a collection of 50 downloaded movies burned on DVD.

“One policeman in rubber gloves then began a very careful examination. Sofa pillows, broom closet, refrigerator, my dirty underwear, the rest of my wardrobe, my entire bedroom, under my bed, toilet and even my roommate’s room – even though he has nothing to do with the case,” Halfdan adds.

Then the discussion moved on to the 40,000-member NextGen site, a private BitTorrent tracker founded in February 2010. NextGen is also home to Sublime, a group supplying local subtitles for all the latest Hollywood movies.

Nxtgen

“At first, they tried to figure out whether I was leading the tracker, searching for hidden equipment in the apartment, but when they realized that wasn’t the case, they tried to get as much information as possible about the actual owners.”

Halfdan doesn’t deny being a member of the site and admits he has downloaded movies and music, but according to comments made to Politiken by RettighedsAlliancen chief Maria Fredenslund, Halfdan is a file-sharing “mastermind”.

“By mastermind we mean one who stands behind file-sharing services,” she said. “We came across him in connection with our investigations and have notified the police.”

Halfdan puts the “mastermind” label down to simple stupidity but believes he may have been targeted for another reason – running a file-sharing related blog.

GratisFilm.info was founded by Halfdan in February 2011 and contains posts covering issues such as staying anonymous online (Halfdan notes the irony) and using seedboxes.

“It’s quite an idealistic cause for me, as I believe being anonymous online is (should be) a human right,” Halfdan told TorrentFreak.

“On the site, I guide on how to stay anonymous, gain access to The Pirate Bay even though it’s blocked in Denmark, but also about more ‘common’ subjects like new South Park episodes, the forthcoming Google Music, who Anonymous (the group) is and so on. Pretty much everything I find interesting. I believe using the police is [RettighedsAlliancen's] way of shutting me down.”

GratisFilm also carries reviews on a handful of BitTorrent sites, including NextGen. In early October, Halfdan interviewed the site’s owner, a fact he discussed with the police. This, he believes, has led some to believe he has a personal relationship with the site’s owner.

Halfdan’s assertion, that he was targeted because of his negativity towards anti-piracy companies, is rejected by RettighedsAlliancen, but they are clearly unimpressed with some of his articles.

“I was not aware that he criticized RettighedsAlliancen,” said Maria Fredenslund.

“But we can see that he teaches others to break the law and conceal themselves on the net. He is one of those who deliberately break the law. We believe that this was something that was so serious that it should be handled by the police.”

So are the police taking the matter seriously?

“The officers told me even they thought this was a waste of time, and that they could use their day better than driving around the whole day to pick up 50 movies and a computer,” Halfdan told us.

“I’m very surprised that the police went in on the case at all, but it does say quite a bit that they waited 3 months [after the initial complaint] to move, and that it’ll take at least 6 months before they start investigating my computer. This has a very, very low priority for them.”

Troels Møller, Piratgruppen spokesman and co-founder of internet think-tank Bitbureauet, is clearly outraged at this latest entertainment industry response to the file-sharing issue, describing it as completely disproportionate.

“Just as I thought Antipiratgruppen was becoming a bit more reasonable lately, they show their evil face from the old days again – the days of threat letters and blackmail,” he told TorrentFreak. “They were ransacking his apartment and searching through his dirty clothes! All this for copying some stuff on the internet? Where are the proportions? Is this really how the entertainment industry wants to treat its fans and customers?”

“What strikes me most about this case though, is that Maria Fredenslund apparently thinks that people should be arrested for teaching others how to use the internet anonymously. I would like to point out that this is not illegal! They don’t care about privacy or freedom of expression. In fact, they appear to be outright enemies of these fundamental rights.”

“Denmark is quickly becoming a frightening and shameful example to the rest of the world on how not to handle the filesharing ‘problem’,” Troels concludes.

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‘Anonymous’ targets pepper-spraying policeman

The online “hacktivist” group Anonymous published the personal contact details on Monday of a California university policeman who used pepper spray on protesters, and it urged supporters to flood him with phone calls and emails.

YouTube videos of Friday’s incident on the campus of theUniversity of California, Davis have gone viral and led to the suspension of the college police chief, two police officers and calls for the chancellor to step down.

In the YouTube videos, one of which has received 1.44 million views, two university police officers in riot gear are seen spraying an orange mist on protesters sitting peacefully on the ground.

Following the spraying, the crowd begins chanting “Shame on you!”

A YouTube video on Monday purportedly from Anonymous published the home address, the home telephone number, the cellphone number and the email address of one of the policeman who allegedly used the pepper spray on protestors.

In the video, an artificially altered voice tells the “police forces of the world” that “brutalization of our citizens is both unjust and uncalled for.”

Specifically addressing the officer involved in the Davis incident, it said: “You are a coward, and a bully.”

“Flood his phones, email and mailbox to voice your anger,” it said.

A call to the cellphone number listed identified it as that of the police officer involved and said his voicemail box was full.

Anonymous has been involved in scores of hacking exploits including the recent defacing of a website of Syria’s Ministry of Defense to protest a bloody crackdown on anti-government protestors.

Last year, the shadowy group launched retaliatory attacks on companies perceived to be enemies of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

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Anonymous Press Release

Arturas T. Rosenbacher has been up to his games again. It wasn’t enough that he scammed Anonymous supporters out of money under the guise of AnonCMD, and it wasn’t enough that he was posting false information on OccupyChicago’s Facebook profile, and lying to the organizers about his false claims in helping start Wiki leaks, he had to do something to solidify is narcissistic insanity. On Sunday, November 6th Arturas decided it would be a great idea to release a famous rap star’s cell phone number to the world on twitter. The rap star, known as Lupe Fiasco donated tents, food and water to Occupy Chicago, and is an outspoken supporter of the Anonymous collective. Arturas did this under the flag and banner of Anonymous, using Anon Dev Pro as his twitter name, and telling those who listened that he knows high profile anons. The only reason Arturas knows high profile Anons, is because of his past track record with us, which is entrenched with scamming innocent people out of money.
Arturas wants attention, he wants to be famous. Let us make him famous. Let us all contact each and every Occupy movement and make sure the people know about the traitor T. No Occupy is safe with a traitor in the midst; T must be cataloged and identified by each and every individual within all Occupy movements. He must be shamed upon site for the damage he has done to Occupy Chicago, Lupe Fiasco, and the collective of Anonymous.
Arturas;
We told you we would come for you T, we warned you, and you did not listen. How did you think we would forget? How did you think we would forgive? Your actions will no longer con the masses into believing you are of any worth. Now everyone will know exactly who and what you are, which is nothing more than a small time con man with psychological problems seeking attention.

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

Any Info on T?
Contact @Anon2World on Twitter or Youtube

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South African lawmakers approve 'secrecy bill' to protect state
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ANC majority vote pushes controversial bill, which could outlaw whistleblowers and dilute public interest rights, to upper house

A controversial law to protect state secrets has been approved by South Africa's parliament, despite objections from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, rights organisations, and a group representing Nelson Mandela.

The African National Congress majority ensured that 229 MPs voted in favour of the protection of state information bill, with 107 votes against and two abstentions.

The ANC claimed it was updating legislation drawn up 30 years ago by the apartheid government.

Llewellyn Landers, an ANC MP, said the bill would not have a public-interest defence clause because "it would do irrevocable harm to the state and the people of South Africa if a court should find that a whistleblower was found to have given information not out of public interest but out of maliciousness".

But rival MPs united against the "secrecy bill", legislation that critics argue is the first piece of law-making since the end of apartheid to dismantle a part of South African democracy.

The law would make it a crime to leak, possess or publish information judged as classified by the government. Whistleblowers and journalists could face up to 25 years in jail if found guilty of such action.

In a rousing speech from the floor on Tuesday, Lindiwe Mazibuko, parliamentary leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, warned: "This bill will unstitch the very fabric of our constitution. It will criminalise the freedom so many of our people fought for.

"What will you, the members on that side of the house, tell your grandchildren one day? I know you will tell them that you fought for freedom. But will you also tell them you helped to destroy it?

"Because they will pay the price for your actions today. Let this weigh heavy on your conscience as you cast your vote."

More than 1,000 protesters gathered outside the parliament building in Cape Town. Many wore black on what was dubbed Black Tuesday, a reference to Black Wednesday on 19 October 1977 when the apartheid government banned two newspapers and 19 black consciousness movements.

In a rare political intervention, the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory issued an "expression of concern" about the bill and proposed four amendments. Mandela, 93, has always remained loyal to the ANC, and has almost never intervened since stepping down as the country's president.

Tutu said: "It is insulting to all South Africans to be asked to stomach legislation that could be used to outlaw whistleblowing and investigative journalism … and that makes the state answerable only to the state..

"Please hear the warnings of the academics, civil society leaders, labour representatives, media corps, and legal and constitutional experts. This law will do our people and our country a disservice."

In the past few months, the ANC did accept more than 120 amendments to its original draft but not, crucially, a public-interest defence clause.

When the bill was passed, editors in the parliamentary public gallery walked out in protest.

There was swift condemnation within South Africa and abroad.

Human Rights Watch, in New York, described the move as "a blow to freedom of expression and democratic accountability'. The group said: "Parliament should have heeded the calls of South African civil society, representatives of the media and political opposition, and refrained from holding the vote."

Daniel Bekele, the group's Africa director, added: "The manner in which the government pushed this bill through parliament instead of proceeding with consultations as promised, as well as the secrecy embedded in this legislation, send very worrying signs about the government's commitment to transparency."

The Helen Suzman Foundationexpressed outrage at the vote. "This marks a low point in South Africa's transition to democracy. It represents a significant step backwards in the long walk to freedom to which so many South Africans have devoted their lives."

The group Media Monitoring Africa said it had noted the decision with deep regret and warned that it would be bad for South Africa and its international reputation.

The Times of South Africa on Tuesday carried a black front page with the headline "Not in our name," and a statement signed by 15 national newspaper editors. It began: "Mark this day. Depending on the actions of the 400 MPs in the national assembly at 2pm, it will end as a day of triumph or of shame for our adolescent democracy.

"The spreading culture of self-enrichment, either corrupt, or merely inappropriate, makes scrutiny fuelled by whistleblowers who have the public interest at heart more essential than ever since 1994."

The bill will now move to parliament's upper house before going to the president, Jacob Zuma, to be signed into law. It could face a challenge in the constitutional court.

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