Anonops #9: Get Los(t) Zetas

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Op donderdag 8 december 2011 11:23 schreef Bakakame het volgende:
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Dit is dan wel weer fijn nieuws

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India to ban 'offensive' Internet material

India on Tuesday vowed to ban offensive material from the Internet after Facebook, Google and other major firms told the government they were unable to screen content before it was posted.

Communications Minister Kapil Sibal said talks with the Internet giants had failed to come up with a solution following complaints that he had lodged three months ago over "unacceptable" images.

"My aim is that insulting material never gets uploaded," Sibal told reporters in New Delhi. "We will evolve guidelines and mechanisms to deal with the issue.

"They will have to give us the data, where these images are being uploaded and who is doing it."

Sibal said the government supported free speech and was against censorship but that some material on the Internet was so offensive that no one would find it acceptable.

He said he had shown some of the worst images to the Internet companies, who had said they could not control all distribution.

"Three months back we saw that Google, Yahoo!, Facebook had images which could be an insult to Indians, especially religious-minded people," Sibal said.

"We told them to find a way that such insulting images are not uploaded. We gave them some time... but there was no response."

Sibal said the firms had shown that their "intention was not to cooperate" and that they had explained they were only "platforms" on which people could display material.

"I feel that this in principle was not correct but it is very clear that we will not allow such insults to happen. We are thinking and will take the next step," he said. "We will not allow our cultural ethos to be hurt."

Facebook, which has 25 million users in India, released a statement saying it "recognised the government's interest in minimising the amount of abusive content" online and would continue to communicate over the issue.

Google confirmed Monday's meeting with Sibal but made no further comment, while Yahoo! and Microsoft were not immediately available.

Sibal showed some of the offending material to journalists, including fake images of naked politicians and religious figures.

He added that "sometimes when asked for data in respect to terrorists... there is hesitation (by Internet companies) to provide that data."

The Hindustan Times on Tuesday said the Internet companies had rejected Sibal's appeal for screening, saying a huge volume of information was uploaded on to the Internet and that they were not responsible for judging its content.

The paper added that Sibal had earlier complained about a site that targeted Sonia Gandhi, the influential president of the ruling Congress party.

Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the government was only acting "in respect of absolutely illegal, defamatory, pornographic or other similar kind of material".

BlackBerry maker RIM has been embroiled in a similar wrangle with India over access to encrypted email and instant message services that the government says could be used by extremists to plot attacks.

India has more than 110 million Internet users out of a population of 1.2 billion, according to latest research, with the figure likely to jump to 600 million in the next five years.

Sibal's call for Internet screening quickly attracted a storm of criticism on Twitter, with many users expressing anger over any attempt to restrict usage.

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Anonymous Hackers Hit Toronto Web Sites

More than 50 businesses' Web sites were redirected to the Occupy Toronto site.

Members of Anonymous recently redirected the Web sites of more than 50 Toronto businesses to the Occupy Toronto Web site.

"They also took down the Canadian version of the popular Craigslist website and obtained a number of 'valuable' emails they plan on using later if things don’t go their way," writes Softpedia's Eduard Kovacs.

"'The city of Toronto are fools to think that we would remove the city hall Web site off the Internet. We clearly indicated that we are removing Toronto from the Internet. We are offering to keep the peace as of now, but if you decide to declare war in any possible way, then you shall be prepared,' Anonymous said in a video statement," Kovacs writes.

Go to "Anonymous Takes Down More Than 50 Toronto Websites, Not 'Occupy Toronto'" to read the details.

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DHS abruptly abandons copyright seizure of hip-hop blog

A bizarre attempt by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to seize the domain name of a hip-hop blog accused of copyright infringement ended today with the government abruptly abandoning the lawsuit.

Government officials initially trumpeted the seizure of the music blog, DaJaz1.com, and 81 others as an example of the law prevailing over pirates. Attorney General Eric Holder warned at the time that "intellectual property crimes are not victimless," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement director John Morton proclaimed that "today, we turn the tables on these Internet thieves."

The only problem? It turns out that Holder's and Morton's claims appear to have been, well, exaggerated.

That started to become apparent when Dajaz1's editor, who's known as Splash, showed the New York Times e-mail messages from record label employees sending him unreleased songs. ICE had claimed that the music was "unauthorized."

Then ICE treated the case as practically top-secret, filing all the court documents under seal, says Andrew Bridges, a partner at the Fenwick and West law firm in San Francisco who's representing Dajaz1 pro bono.

"They kept getting extension after extension from the court under seal without showing me any papers whatsoever," Bridges told CNET today.

What's unusual here is that normally, U.S. law strongly discourages efforts to censor Web sites before a full trial can be held. That's called "prior restraint," and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Pentagon Papers case that even top-secret national defense information did not qualify for temporary, pre-trial censorship.

But in the DaJaz1 case, a series of allegations of dubious reliability offered in an ICE affidavit were enough to censor a popular music blog -- which had been featured on MTV News a few months earlier -- for over a year.

In fact, the four songs listed by newly-minted ICE agent Andrew Reynolds in the affidavit -- by Jamie Foxx, Chris Brown, Nelly, and Reek Da Villian -- all appear to have been sent to DaJaz1 for promotional purposes. (There's a parallel: Court documents in Viacom's lawsuit against Google showed that studio representatives surreptitiously uploaded copyright clips to the video sharing site for promotional purposes.)

Making the case even more unusual, Bridges said, is that routine procedural documents were all kept under seal. "Why did the government feel the need to keep secret the fact of its repeated extensions of time to file the forfeiture proceeding?" he says.

Homeland Security did not respond to CNET's request for comment.

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LAPD Info Posted by 'Anonymous' Hackers in Response to Occupy L.A. Raid

​Not everyone's buying L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck's glowing review of police performance during last week's raid of Occupy L.A.

A hacker group under Twitter handle @CabinCr3w just published the personal information of about two dozen LAPD officers on Tumblr. The crew has been badgering various police departments across America for what many suspect to have been an orchestrated joint crackdown on Occupy Wall Street.

An unnamed member of the crew tells KPCC reporter Tami Abdollah in a chat room that "the bay knows us from OpBART" ...

... or, the attack on BART for censoring cellular communication between officer-involved-shooting protesters.

That would make them part of superstar hacker group Anonymous, whose offshoot LulzSec likewise published the personal information (including cell numbers) of a handful of Arizona law enforcement earlier this year. That hit was a statement against racial profiling and harsh immigration policing.

The LAPD, on the other hand, have come under fire for their treatment of the nearly 300 protesters they detained and jailed in the wee hours of December 1.

"It all comes from those [LAPD] actions, and how the protesters are now being treated like criminals for practicing a fundamental right," the hacker tells KPCC.

LAPD Commander Andy Smith admits to the Los Angeles Times that "It's a creepy thing to do, but what they did doesn't appear to be against the law." Still, the first incarnation of the leak, reportedly posted December 5, has been removed from Sticky Paste, and the owner of that site denies taking it down.

(A list of every LAPD command staffer's email, however, is still up on Sticky Paste.)

As of yesterday morning, police were "investigating who may be behind the site," the Times reported. To that, the hacker group snapped, "Funny that @LAPD is "looking" for who posted their info... not like we hid that we did it. Y U NO EXPECT US?"

The original Sticky Paste leak listed some names of officers' family members, including children. However, the Tumblr sequel censors itself in this regard, saying, "we will not release family names."

Another strange factor: Some of the officers listed have been retired for years, and had nothing to do with the raid.

Update, 9:30 a.m.: This is getting good. The hacker group has begun bickering with LAPD homicide detective Sal LaBarbera, who launched a "cops on Twitter" debate this fall when he Tweeted a photo of a dead body, along with some casual commentary.

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AnonymousPress twitterde op vrijdag 09-12-2011 om 01:10:58 CENSORED? RT @CulturalHistory: @AnonymousPress You know every so often when I try to RT some of your stuff twitter will say you don't exist. reageer retweet

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AnonymousPress twitterde op vrijdag 09-12-2011 om 01:20:36 WTF?! RT @laraste: @AnonymousPress Yes, you are absolutely censored from my stream. I can't retweet your stuff if it includes # o c c u p y reageer retweet

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Salarissen medewerkers Radboud Universiteit op straat

Studenten van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen hebben ontdekt dat het interne netwerk kampte met een beveiligingsprobleem. Door de lek lagen de salarissen van medewerkers op straat. Ook was er toegang tot de adressen van personeel en studenten.

Volgens Tweakers.net. bracht de onderwijsinstelling het nieuws zelf naar buiten, maar wil de universiteit er verder weinig over kwijt. Ook niet hoe de studenten achter het lek zijn gekomen.

Volgens een mededeling op de site van de Radboud Universiteit gaat was het niet mogelijk wijzigingen aan te brengen in de blootgelegde data. De studenten hebben vervolgens zelf de universiteit ingeseidn, waarna het lek is gedicht.

'De universiteit bedankt de studenten voor hun inzet en voor de zorgvuldige wijze waarop ze het informatielek hebben aangekaart', meldt de Radboud Universiteit.

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Russians fight Twitter and Facebook battles over Putin election

Protests against president's party escalate across social media with flood of automated counterattacks and alleged hacking

Russians have flooded Facebook and Twitter as they organise unprecedented protests against Vladimir Putin's United Russia party. But they are not alone. Thousands of Twitter accounts appear to have been created with the sole purpose of drowning out opposition voices by flooding the service's hashtag search function.

The automated attacks have dumped a blizzard of meaningless tweets with hashtags such as #Navalny, on which tweets about Alexei Navalny are collated, making it impossible to follow the flow of news about the arrested opposition leader. Many of the so-called "Twitter bots" have now been shut down.

The flood of fake tweets came after liberal websites, including the LiveJournal blogging platform, the website for radio station Ekho Moskvy and weekly journal Bolshoi Gorod , were shut down by distributed denial of service attacks on Sunday, the day of Russia's disputed parliamentary vote.

The website for Golos, an independent election monitor, was also shut down. Golos employees complained this week that their email had been hacked and inaccessible for several days. On Friday, tabloid Life News published employees' private emails, detailing correspondence with the US development agency – presented as "proof" that the group was acting on foreign orders to disrupt the Russian election.

The most interesting hack attack, however, came via a more antiquated instrument – the telephone. On Thursday, the liberal Yabloko party and newspaper Novaya Gazeta said their telephone lines had been paralysed by endless calls featuring a recorded female voice: "Putin is very good. Putin loves you. Putin makes your life happy. Love Putin and your life will fill with meaning. Putin does everything for you. Remember, Putin does everything just for you. Putin is life. Putin is light. Without Putin, life has no meaning. Putin is your protector. Putin is your saviour." Over and over again.

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Monsanto PR Firm Reportedly ‘Ended’ by Anonymous

It seems that Monsanto may be having a rough week.

Not only was the company hit by a press release declaring them the worst company of 2011, but a group of Anonymous hackers claim to have actually completely disrupted the operations of a PR firm which manages Monsanto’s own PR.

The hackers infiltrated the PR firm, known as The Bivings Group, citing “15+years of running marketing campaigns and helping some of the most corrupt corporations on the planet, as well as several governmental agencies, cover up their dirt.”

The hackers claimed to have succeeded in bringing down The Bivings Group on December 5th.

Going by information released by Anonymous, Bivings Group shut down all of their servers and liquidated their assets after the infiltration, while former employees moved on to start ‘The Brick Factory’, a new PR firm. The hackers actions are obviously driven by the PR firm’s decision to help run marketing campaigns for corrupt corporations like Monsanto.

One week after the hackers infiltrated their system, The Bivings Group reportedly stated:

. Our Cyber Infrastructure has recently been put under attack. We are evaluating the extent of the intrusion, and apologise for any downtime and issues this may cause you. It is not yet determined what the motives behind the attack are, or what, if any data has been compromised. We will continue to keep you up to date, and sicerely apologise for any inconvenience.

Sometimes it is hard to see what is wrong and what is right, though it is quite apparent that Monsanto is a corporation with no regard for human health or the planet. This isn’t the only example of resistance against corrupt companies like Monsanto, and it certainly won’t be the last.

Regardless of whether or not the attack will be considered to be in the right by some anti-Monsanto activists, one thing is clear: Monsanto’s own crimes against public health and the environment trump any form of cyber attack in terms of wrongdoing.

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Anonymous Mexico casts first stone in "Operation Safe Roads"

Roughly 11 days ago, Anonymous Mexico announced the new operation, #Opcarreterasseguras in Spanish, via social media and video. The hackivists seek to highlight “the thousands of kidnappings, murders and rapes that bus passengers fall prey to by organized crime elements on Mexican highways,” according to a press release.

Anonymous Mexico listed its demands in an accompanying video, which focused on security concerns like GPS tracking and silent alarms that would alert authorities when a bus was in the process of being hijacked. The deadline for those demands to be met was Dec. 10.

As the clock struck at midnight, Anonymous Mexico followed through with its promised cyber attacks on three bus companies: Transpais, Estrella Blanca, and Autobuses Del Oriente.

The press release announcing the cyber strike stated those involved were “also attacking several insurance companies as well as government websites, but we will allow the press to do their investigative reporting in order to report on it.”

At time of publication, the website for bus company Autobuses Del Oriente was the only site down, possibly due to a DDoS attack.

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“We did not expect them to meet our demands so quick. It will take time but I feel they didn't believe us” wrote a spokesperson for the operation, in a private Twitter message to the Daily Dot. The spokesperson went on to write the attack would continue for "24 hours straight."

“For example ADO operates in 13 Mexican states. Right now you can’t buy a ticket online because we downed them. They are losing money right now. We believe these actions repeatedly will teach them that safety is profitable,” added the spokesperson, before linking to their blogspot.

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News HBGary CEO Says Anonymous Hack Made Him Money: Begging for Round 2?

In an interview with Network World, HBGary’s CEO and founder Greg Hoglund bragged that the Anonymous attack on HBGary Federal earlier this year actually brought them business. Will this precipitate a second round with the hacking collective?

Earlier this year, HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr spoke publicly about his intent to infiltrate Anonymous. The hacking collective bristled at Barr’s declaration and hacked his email, which contained communications with Bank of America about how to neutralize WikiLeaks; which, at the time, was said to be sitting on a treasure trove of incriminating documents from some major bank, commonly thought to be BofA.

Barr attempted damage control by chatting with Anonymous members in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC), but HBGary Federal was publicly humiliated and Barr was eventually forced to resign.

However, HBGary founder and CEO Greg Hoglund, who had created HBGary Federal to contract with the U.S. government, stated in an interview published this morning in Network World that the Anonymous attack did not ruin HBGary. Instead, it created a degree of sympathy for the company and brought them business.

In a sense, it seems as if Hoglund was thanking Anonymous. In another sense, however, it could be interpreted as Hoglund asking for a second round with Anonymous.

That said, much of the various nodes of Anonymous have, in recent months, shifted their gaze to working as publicity engines for and participants in the Occupy movement. As hacker anthropologist and NYU professor Gabriella Coleman told us in a recent interview, “Some Anons have gotten quite involved [in Occupy] on the ground in different cities, lending a helping hand.”

In other words, perhaps Hoglund’s boasts are of little interest to Anonymous now.

But, one can’t help wondering if Round 2 of the Anonymous vs. HBGary battle is heating up.

#Anonymous: Message of Solidarity

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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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Recognizably Anonymous

How did a hacker group that rejects definition develop such a strong visual brand?

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Six or eight people, Housh reckons, hashed out a press release. It read like the script to a movie trailer, so somebody proposed turning it into a video, combing Archive.org to dig up images of rolling clouds and ominous background music available under a Creative Commons license. They kept fiddling with the ending of the script, using Anonymous-associated phrases already in circulation. Another contributor proposed a conclusion: “We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive, we do not forget.” Pause. “Expect us.”

“Everyone in the channel erupts,” Housh recalls. “Like ‘Oh my god. You’ve done it. You have done it! We win this game.’ ” The script was fed into AT&T text-to-speech software, and became the video’s creepy voice-over. Next the group created a Web site. For a logo, they considered imagery that had been floating around 4Chan and elsewhere, including the headless suit-man. Someone—Housh says the person wishes to remain anonymous—suggested imposing that image over a U.N.-style globe logo. Then a question mark was added where the figure’s head should be. In what seems like a missed opportunity, the Anonymous logo did not appear anywhere in the video. “We weren’t branding experts or anything,” Housh explains.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/(...)up/Affected_articles
Wikipedia:Bell Pottinger COI Investigations

It emerged in early December 2011 that accounts operated by Bell Pottinger, a British PR firm, had been extensively editing Wikipedia to further their clients' interests. This page attempts to identify and remove these edits.

So far, eleven accounts are confirmed to have been operated by the firm, and several more cannot be confirmed but have suspicious editing records. The list is probably not complete - please let us know on the discussion page if you have found others.

The affected articles are listed below, grouped into clusters by topic. It should not be considered a list of clients, and there may be false positives.

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FloridaFamilyJUSTtheBeginning

Florida Family Association feels the need to put hate at the forefront of what it stands for.

Your hatred, bigotry and fear mongering towards Gays, Lesbians and most recently
Muslim Americans has not gone unnoticed!

Anonymous will not stand for hate and divisive vitriol to be spread across our country and whenever we can...we will stop it...
FFA you managed to use your power to influence Lowe's to follow you into your racist stupor and they too will answer for that...
For now, you will answer to it..as well as your unfortunate followers having personal information shared with the world so everyone can know how racist and hateful you all are.
I am going to assume most of the people who receive your newsletter, email you and make donations are potentially part of the 99%. They are likely lower middle class people who have been mislead by all of your bullshit and god talk...therefor they too are unwitting victims. So I will NOT share all of the Credit Card information I got.
I am though reading the emails and getting information on those who did donate to make sure they are not worthy of the scorn of Anonymous as well...if i find information such as anyone being a part of other hate groups such as the Klan or anything similar all bets are off for those people.
Also, I am looking for you Steve Ensley...and I will find you.

I want all of your followers to know though their information is NOT SAFE in your hands until you address your security issues.

http://floridafamily.org/(...)no=%Inject_Here%1171

EMAIL & IP ADDRESSES OF THOSE WHO GET YOUR NEWSLETTER :

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Secular progressives are fundamental socialists, who are hostile toward Christianity and traditional American values. They are committed to dramatically changing America to look like the godless, socialistic Western Europe.

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Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties

One of my first large keynotes, in 2007, was called Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties. In the 15-minute original keynote at OSCON, I outlined all the civil liberties that were at risk because of enforcement of the copyright monopoly, and that the copyright industry brutally understood these liberties needed to be killed to preserve their business. What was fringe paranoia five years ago is now becoming the law of the land.

The keynote in question shows how the copyright monopoly is fundamentally incompatible with horizontal unmonitored digital communication, and therefore, with the Internet and private communications as very concepts.

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At the same time in the United States, China and Iran are held as shining examples of countries which still have a working freedom of speech despite having given the copyright industry the privileges they want. (Even I could not have made this up; it is just too far out) And to applause from the Senate, no less. This was in the SOPA/PIPA debate, and I would have a hard time finding a better example of how completely incompatible the copyright monopoly is with fundamental rights.

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WikiLeaks: A tale of two worlds

WikiLeaks, 4Chan and Anonymous are examples of how rogues can thrive against the will of empire.

Melbourne, Australia - There is something eerie about the WikiLeaks logo (see above). It works as a sort of graphic manifesto, an image of dense political content stating a notion of ample consequences. A cosmic sandglass encloses a duplicated globe seen from an angle that puts Iraqi territory at the centre.

Inside this device the upper and darker planet is exchanged, drip by drip, for a new one. The power of the image lies in the sense of inexorability it conveys, alluding to earthly absolutes like the flow of time and the force of gravity: a bullish threat that grants the upper world no room for hope. The logo narrates a gradual apocalypse, and by articulating this process of transformation through the image of the leak, WikiLeaks defines itself as the critical agent in the destruction of the old and the becoming of the new world.

What has become manifest since late November 2010, with the release of what is now known as "The US Embassy Cables", is that the narrative implicit in the WikiLeaks logo, that of a world disjunct, describes a greater struggle against the global power held diffusely by transnational corporations and enforced by governments around the world. This power is under attack by a relatively new actor that can be called, for now, the autonomous network.

The conditions that allow the network to challenge the power of governments and corporations can be traced to the origin of the Internet and the Cold War zeitgeist that made the network we know possible. It was only because Cold War strategists had to narrate to themselves the unfolding of convoluted thermonuclear apocalypse scenarios, a dark art that peaked with Herman Kahn's surreal book On Thermonuclear War, that a computer network with the characteristics of the internet was implemented.


"I loved this concept of the purest things in the universe being unowned. The early Internet was so accidental, it also was free and open in this sense. "

- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak


The idea of imminent apocalypse was so extraordinary that it allowed for the radical thinking that over a decade evolved into the TCP/IP computer protocol suite, a resilient network protocol that makes the end user of the network its primary agent. The design philosophy of the internet protocols represents a clean break from the epistemes and continuums that had historically informed the evolution of Western power, as traced by Foucault and Deleuze from sovereign societies to disciplinary societies to societies of control.

Steve Wozniak has written, "I was also taught that space, and the moon, were free and open. Nobody owned them. No country owned them. I loved this concept of the purest things in the universe being unowned. The early internet was so accidental, it also was free and open in this sense".

To produce a commons is indeed an accident for Empire. Dismissed as a never-meant-for-the-masses autonomous zone, by and for the military and academia, it was allowed to evolve out of control. But this accident that happened because of daydreaming an extreme future never stopped happening.

It evolved.

At some point it gained an accessible graphic interface, and spilled all over the globe. By then it was too late to disarm what is now the increasingly contentious coexistence of two worlds, as the WikiLeaks logo registers. One world is a pre-apocalyptic capitalistic society of individualism, profit and control; the other a post-apocalyptic community of self-regulating collaborative survivors. The conflict arises from an essential paradox: Because the web exists, both worlds need it in order to prevail over the other.

The "cyber war" announced so spectacularly (in the Debordian sense) in the days following WikiLeaks' US Embassy Cables release is not really about the DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service), "denial of service" attacks that barely obstructed access to the MasterCard website for a few hours. If anything, the ephemerality of the disturbance leaves the sensation that Anonymous, the group that launched it, is far from being a structural threat. What journalists around the world have failed to narrate is the tale of a network that increasingly challenges, bypasses and outcompetes the global corporate-government complex. This is a struggle about the obsolescence of the very idea of the nation-state, and an almost unanimous coalition of governments, led by the US, fighting furiously to regain control by exerting legal, financial, symbolic and, perhaps most concerning, technical violence on their adversary.

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What is interesting is that WikiLeaks, after all, is still up and running. Someone still hosts it (poetically, a hosting company located in a Cold War-era anti-nuclear bunker), and their fund-raising channels have diversify to bypass the embargo (with partial success). WikiLeaks is an example of how a rogue can still thrive against the will of Empire, supported by an emerging ecology of more autonomous actors. MasterCard, PayPal and Amazon don't need to be shut, just bypassed or outcompeted. As the autonomous ecology matures, it allows for more complexity. This is where the war stands to be won: in the building of autonomous structures of all sorts (structures that bypass and outcompete existing ones) on top of other new structures until the entire old world is unnecessary.

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Op maandag 12 december 2011 15:56 schreef Stephan1237 het volgende:
Weblog GeenStijl heeft ontdekt dat vanaf het kantoor van auteursrechtenwaakhond Buma Stemra illegaal materiaal wordt gedownload van internet. De organisatie strijdt sinds jaar en dag tegen illegaal downloaden van beschermde materialen, maar maakt zich er volgens GeenStijl zelf ook schuldig aan.
De bloggers baseren zich op de website Youhavedownloaded.com. Daar wordt bijgehouden vanaf welk IP-adres bepaalde bestanden met bijvoorbeeld films worden gedownload. Een IP-adres is het digitale adres van iemands internetverbinding, dat valt te koppelen aan huisadressen.

GeenStijl vulde het IP-adres van het hoofdkantoor van Buma Stemra in en ontdekte dat via hun verbinding een aflevering van een Amerikaanse tv-serie is gedownload, en het spel Battlefield 3.

GeenStijl vindt dat pikant, omdat slechts 4 tot 6 procent van de wereldwijd via internet gedownloade bestanden via de genoemde site wordt bijgehouden. Mogelijk dat er meer bestanden zijn gedownload via de verbinding van Buma Stemra. (ANP/Redactie)

Bron : http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/55(...)-zelf-illegaal.dhtml

En wie gaat Buma/Stemra voor de rechter slepen

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KLPD gebruikt ‘afluister-software’ op computers verdachten

Het Korps Landelijke Politiediensten (KLPD) gebruikt software die op afstand kan worden geïnstalleerd op de computer van verdachten. Daarmee kan vertrouwelijke communicatie zoals een skypegesprek worden gevolgd. Dat bleek vanavond uit antwoorden van minister van Justitie Ivo Opstelten op vragen van D66, GroenLinks en SP.

Half oktober ontstond er ophef in Duitsland over het gebruik van ‘Bundestroyaner-software’ door de politie. Die bleek veel meer te kunnen dan wettelijk toegestaan. Zo maakt de Bundestroyaner het mogelijk op afstand de microfoon van een geïnfecteerde computer aan te zetten en gesprekken in de huiskamer af te luisteren.

Ook werd betwijfeld of het wel alleen verdachten waren waarbij de Duitse politie meekeek. De software zou onder andere via e-mail op computers terechtkomen. De producent, het Duitse softwarebedrijf Digitask, verklaarde tegen nrc.next dat de software ook aan een Nederlandse overheidsdienst is verkocht.

Welke dienst wilde het bedrijf niet zeggen. Dat lijkt nu het KLPD te zijn geweest. Opstelten noemt alleen de Unit Landelijke Interceptie van de dienst, die voor de hele politie werkt, als gebruiker van dit soort software.

De minister schrijft dat die alleen wordt gebruikt na goedkeuring door een officier van justitie. Functionaliteiten die in strijd zijn met de wet worden volgens Opstelten onklaar gemaakt.

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Voice-over-internet companies win EU backing in dispute with mobile carriers

EU ministers call for checks on telecom operators that penalise the smooth functioning of services such as Skype

Voice-over-internet companies complaining that mobile and landline internet providers penalise the smooth functioning of their services got backing from EU ministers on Tuesday, who called for the European Commission and regulators to check on telecom operators that do so.

The move gives leverage to complaints about mobile carriers around the world that have blocked internet telephony services such as Skype.

A report by the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) association, VON Europe, whose members include both Google and Skype-owner Microsoft, says Vodafone Group restricts access to web-based calls on pay-as-you-go deals, while some mobile providers do not allow VoIP at all, including France Telecom's Orange, Bouygues, Germany's E-Plus and its parent group, Dutch provider KPN.

It points to the example of the French operator SFR which sells "internet access" packages for Apple's iPad which specifically ban voice-over-internet (VoIP) and peer-to-peer use, while labelling it "unlimited". In the UK, only Three and O2 allow VoIP-based use of the iPad on their mobile internet packages.

"In other words, ISPs do have incentives to discriminate between players operating at the application and content layers," notes VON Europe's report. "Internet service providers can act as monopolists by shaping traffic in a way that departs from the application providers', content/service providers' or users' interests."

Ministers urged the pan-European regulator and the European Commission to monitor mobile companies' traffic management to ensure they do not hamper "net neutrality", meaning that all services are treated equally.

The regulator, BEREC, says infringements of "net neutrality" – in which some internet traffic such as voice calls is blocked in favour of other data – are infrequent, but ministers are concerned that some services are being throttled.

That in turn could stifle the development of brand new services because carriers and telecoms companies would defend older models, but put Europe at a disadvantage compared with countries that better implement net neutrality.

In the US, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recommended a number of rules to enforce net neutrality on fixed, though not mobile, companies at the end of 2010. But mobile carrier Verizon Communications challenged even that weak approach in October.

BEREC will publish a joint report from regulators in the 27 EU member states in February on whether telecom firms respect the principle of net neutrality.

Microsoft's Skype service says it is either blocked or overpriced by mobile operators, who see its low-cost service as a threat to their business. Skype's customer base is forecast to reach 150 million by 2016, according to Juniper Research.

The Netherlands passed a law in October banning mobile firms from charging customers extra for web-based call services.

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