Anonops #10: Stop SOPA

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Anon threatens to bomb anti-piracy group

The anti-piracy group CIAPC (Copyright, Information and Anti-Piracy Centre) on Tuesday asked police to investigate a bomb threat it received via email signed by the hacker group Anonymous. The threat follows a recent court-ordered ban on access to The Pirate Bay torrent site by Elisa and Saunalahti internet customers.

The email detailed how a bomb attack would be made on CIAPC’s office this week.

Antti Kotilainen, who heads up the association, said he takes the threat seriously.

CIAPC and the Finnish branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, IFPI Finland, have also asked police to investigate denial-of-service attacks on their websites.

On Monday, Helsinki District Court ordered internet service providers Elisa and Saunalahti to block access to The Pirate Bay, where users exchange computer files, including copyrighted films and music.

The music industry is now seeking similar Pirate Bay blocks for Sonera and DNA internet customers.

"If IFPI gets to block access for TeliaSonera & DNA, We'll tear it down. We'll make it crumble," tweeted AnonFinland, Finnish activists of the group Anonymous early Wednesday.

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Hackers 'Anonymous' nemen Brein op de korrel: 'Te wapen!'

De internetgroep Anonymous roept op om de auteursrechtenorganisatie Brein massaal te gaan faxen, of anders van binnenuit te infiltreren. 'Ze zoeken nog een sofware-ontwikkelaar'. Volgens Anonymous is Brein verwikkeld in een 'groot auteursrechtenschandaal' in Nederland.

Anonymous doelt op het feit dat Brein vindt dat internetproviders Ziggo en XS4ALL de toegang tot de downloadsite moeten blokkeren. De stichting kreeg daarin vandaag gelijk van de rechtbank in Den Haag. 'Na censuur in België en onlangs nog in Finland, kan nu de anti-piraterijlobby in Nederland domeinen en IP-adressen van The Pirate Bay blokkeren', aldus de hackers. 'Brein kan zelfs kiezen welke IP-adressen gecensureerd moeten worden. Anonymous zal niet stilzitten terwijl Brein delen van ons internet platlegt. Te wapen!'

Brein lijkt nog niet direct te hoeven vrezen voor een fax-bombardement. Want in plaats van het faxadres van de Stichting Brein in Hoofddorp, hebben de hackers per abuis het faxnummer van het bedrijf Brein BV in Haaksbergen geplaatst.

Finland
Twee Finse auteursrechtenorganisaties werden gisteren al het slachtoffer van hackers van Anonymous, nadat een rechter op hun verzoek The Pirate Bay liet blokkeren bij de providers Elisa en Saunalahti. Die hebben naar schatting gezamelijk 2,2 miljoen klanten.

In een reactie op het vonnis had Anonymous een zogenoemde distributed denial-of-service (ddos)-aanval gelanceerd, waarbij het netwerk wordt platgelegd doordat er met veel computers tegelijk informatie naartoe wordt gestuurd.

Serieus
Hoe serieus het dreigement aan Brein moet worden genomen, is echter moeilijk te zeggen. Achter anonymous schuilt namelijk geen vaste hackersgroep, maar doorgaans juist losstaande groepen van internetactivisten.

Het is overigens niet de eerste keer dat Anonymous Brein op de korrel neemt. In mei vorig jaar claimden leden van Anonymous de verantwoordelijkheid voor een ddos-aanval op de website van de stichting Brein.

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Stratfor back online after cyberhack

LONDON (AP) — Global intelligence analysis firm Stratfor has relaunched its website after hackers brought down its servers and stole thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to its customers.

Chief Executive George Friedman acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the company had not encrypted customer information and said this decision had embarrassed the company.

Loose-knit hacking collective Anonymous, which claimed responsibility for the attack over the Christmas holidays, had said it was able to get the details in part because Stratfor didn't bother encrypting them.

"It was a truly unforgivable failure and I feel awful about it," Friedman told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "Sometimes in rapid growth, you make a mistake. That's not an excuse, that's not a justification ... It's an explanation."

Stratfor had previously declined to say if the information was left unencrypted. Members of Anonymous have said it was targeting companies "that play fast and loose with their customers' private and sensitive information."

The company said Wednesday that it was moving its entire e-commerce process to a third-party system, which will eliminate the need to store credit information.

Friedman also revealed that the company was targeted more than once by hackers and had known for some time about a data breach.

He said he was first alerted to a website hack in early December — weeks before Anonymous took to Twitter to boast of bringing down the website and stealing a stash of credit card numbers, emails and other data from the company.

The hackers said then that their goal was to use the stolen credit information to donate to charities at Christmas, and some victims confirmed unauthorized transactions were made from their credit accounts.

Austin, Texas-based Stratfor is a subscription-based publisher providing political, economic and military analysis to help customers reduce risk. It charges subscribers for its reports and analysis, delivered through the web, emails and videos.

On Tuesday, Friedman said he had met with an FBI agent in early December after being informed by the company's vice president of intelligence that customers' credit card numbers had been stolen.

He said he had felt torn over the need to protect and personally inform customers at the time, but that the FBI was setting the rules and wanted to conduct its investigation without tipping the hackers off.

"It was very important to them that the criminals not know the extent to which we had knowledge of the damage," Friedman explained, saying the FBI had assured him that it had informed credit card companies about compromised cards.

"We were caught between a very difficult situation where the FBI had control of the investigation and expected certain care in that investigation — and the need to protect our customers," said Friedman. "What little we could do, we did."

Still, he said he was under "no illusion" that the breach would be exposed.

"We knew our reputation would be damaged by the revelation, all the more so because we had not encrypted the credit card files," Friedman said in a note to subscribers announcing the website's relaunch.

But he told the AP that subscribers have stood by the company and subscriptions have held up in light of the attack.

"Our customers are primarily focused on the criminals," he said. "Some customers have been critical, but the primary theme isn't that 'you didn't know how to lock the door,' but 'locked or not, what are these people doing coming in?'"

While dismayed over stolen emails in the previous breach, Friedman said he was "stunned" to learn that the company's servers were "effectively destroyed" in another hack on Dec. 24.

"I was absolutely unprepared for their attempt to destroy us," Friedman said, describing how hackers took full control of the servers, overrode the systems and made recovery "just about impossible."

"Our systems were shredded," he explained. "The destruction of our servers and our backups... was clearly intended to take us offline and silence us."

Stratfor said it was continuing to cooperate with an FBI investigation into the attack.

Cassandra Vinograd can be reached at: http://twitter.com/CassVinograd

Copyright © 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Mohamed Bouazizi was a produce vendor in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia. He was always meant to be a little person in the world, whose life and death could never matter. You were never meant to hear of him. But for no explicable reason, that changed on Dec. 17, 2010. His produce cart was seized by police, and he was beaten. Less than an hour later, he stood on the street doused in paint thinner, screamed “How do you expect me to make a living?” and let a lit match drop.

Bouazizi was at the end of his ability to endure, silently, the pain and abuse that had been the way life worked. But it turned out so was Tunisia, and the whole Middle East.

Within hours protests against the systemic corruption that had driven Bouazizi to self-immolation filled the streets of Sidi Bouzid, and over the next two weeks spread like fire over Tunisia.

It was Jan. 2, 2011. Ben Ali would leave power in 12 days, but no one knew that.

“There were two different posts in channel #operationpayback. First one about some law about to pass in Hungary, second one about a Tunisia problem. For some reason I paid attention to the Tunisian one, and it seems other people did too,” said an anon who participated in OpTunisia. It was a claim that Tunisian dictator Ben Ali was censoring Wikileaks cables related to Tunisia. Rumors emerged about Bouazizi as well, that he was a computer science student (he wasn’t), that he had immolated himself to protest police corruption (he had), and so on.

A few people formed #optunisia on IRC and started talking about what to do. The OpTunisia anon who spoke with Wired.com didn’t think either the op or the revolution had a chance.

“I saw nobody cared about those people, because it wasn’t a big country. It was like, ‘Fuck this is impossible…. Let’s fucking do it!’” the anon wrote in an online chat.

Over the next couple of weeks the small group DDoSed and defaced Tunisian government websites and passed media and news reports about the Tunisian uprising in and out of the country.

“We also distributed a care package containing stuff to workaround privacy (restrictions in Tunisia), including a Greasemonkey script to avoid proxy interception by the Tunisian government on Facebook users,” said the anon. (Greasemonkey scripts are powerful browser plug-ins).

Within that digital care package was a message to the people of Tunisia from Anonymous: “This is *your* revolution. It will neither be Twittered nor televised or [sic] IRC’ed. You *must* hit the streets or you *will* loose [sic] the fight. Always stay safe, once you got [sic] arrested you cannot do anything for yourself or your people. Your government *is* watching you.”

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Nederland maakt zich klaar voor totale Internet Censuur

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SOPA protest re-ignited with Reddit blackout, Wikipedia may join

(CBS) - The popular link-sharing community Reddit plans a site black out on Jan. 18 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sister bill the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

Reddit's co-founder Alexis Ohanian has been one of the most outspoken leaders of the movement against SOPA and PIPA.

"Instead of the normal glorious, user-curated chaos of reddit, we will be displaying a simple message about how the PIPA/SOPA legislation would shut down sites like reddit, link to resources to learn more, and suggest ways to take action," the site admin's wrote in a blog post.

Along with the protest message, the site will stream Ohanian testifying at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Shutting down the Reddit for 12-hours will no doubt send users into withdrawals. The site has a reputation for being highly engaging and addictive. Users have lamented over spending hours a day on the site. Not that we would know.

While Reddit hasn't hit the mainstream, like Facebook or Twitter, its influence is nothing to scoff at. The site recently reported hitting over 2 billion page views and more than 34 million unique visitors at the close of 2011.

Ohanian and his Reddit army aren't the only ones fighting SOPA and PIPA. Tech heavyweights, like Google, Facebook and Twitter have banned together and put out a joint statement in opposition of SOPA.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales says he's behind Reddit's efforts and would like to coordinate with them.

"I'm all in favor of it, and I think it would be great if we could act quickly to coordinate with Reddit," Wales posted in a discussion today on his personal Wikipedia page. "I'd like to talk to our government affairs advisor to see if they agree on this as useful timing, but assuming that's a greenlight, I think that matching what Reddit does (but in our own way of course) per the emerging consensus on how to do it, is a good idea."

This isn't the first time Wales has made moves against SOPA. After a Reddit thread pointed out that domain registrar GoDaddy was not only for the bill, but exempt from it, Wales announced that all Wikipedia sites would be switching registrars in protest.

Forbes is claiming that Facebook and Google must join the protest for greater impact.

"Facebook and Google going offline would undoubtedly be the biggest tech story of the day, week, month, or possibly the year," claims Forbes contributor Paul Tassi.

He's right. It would be a jaw-dropping day in tech if all of the sites we rely on went dark in solidarity against these bills.

SOPA is intended to curb the illegal download of copyrighted materials from foreign "rogue" sites, like The Pirate Bay. There is already legislation that provides some protection for copyrighted material, like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which requires companies to remove copyrighted content "in good faith."

Worst-case scenarios are being debated. The Electronic Frontier Foundation speculates, "Instead of complying with the DMCA, a copyright owner may now be able to use these new provisions to effectively shut down a site by cutting off access to its domain name, its search engine hits, its ads, and its other financing even if the safe harbors would apply."

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Hackers willen lekken anoniem kunnen melden

Nederlandse hackers werken aan de oprichting van een eigen platform dat hun de mogelijkheid moet bieden anoniem lekken te melden aan bedrijven en overheden. Het platform, met de werktitel Hacker-leaks, is volgens hen nodig omdat hackers die te goeder trouw lekken opsporen en melden nu nog vaak vervolgd worden voor computervredebreuk.

Dat zegt Koen Martens, woordvoerder van een een groot aantal hackers in Nederland. Om beveiligingslekken te kunnen aantonen, moeten hackers vaak inbreken op computers en daarmee overtreden ze de wet. Onlangs nog deed het Utrechtse poppodium Tivoli aangifte tegen de hacker die zich meldde nadat hij een lek in de website van Tivoli had blootgelegd. 'Zolang dat zo is, moeten wij een andere manier verzinnen om anoniem te kunnen werken', aldus Martens.

Vorig jaar deed de PvdA al een voorstel om een klokkenluidersregeling in het leven te roepen voor zogenaamde white hat-hackers. Dat zijn hackers die te goeder trouw lekken aantonen.

Hoewel het erop leek dat er een Kamermeerderheid voor zo'n regeling was, is er sindsdien op dat vlak niets meer gebeurd. Volgens kenners zitten er erg veel haken en ogen aan een dergelijke regeling.

Zelf initiatief
Mede om die reden nemen de hackers nu het initiatief in eigen hand. Volgens Martens willen ze de nieuwe organisatie 'los van de overheid oprichten maar uiteindelijk wel in samenwerking met hen.'

De Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid (NCTv), Erik Akerboom, ziet wel iets in dat soort samenwerking. Akerboom, die vandaag het Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) opent, zegt daarover: 'We moeten hackers geen vrijbrief geven om lekker aan de slag te gaan, maar als zij op verantwoorde wijze proberen problemen aan de kaak te stellen, vind ik dat wij hen daarin moeten ondersteunen.'

Ook hoogleraar computerbeveiliging Bart Jacobs van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen denkt dat de overheid meer gebruik moet gaan maken van de kennis en kunde van hackers dan tot nu toe gebeurt.

'Hoe je het precies invult, is best lastig, maar ik denk dat het Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum een goede buffer zou kunnen vormen tussen die mensen en de overheid. Ik denk dat zij veel waardevolle informatie kunnen verschaffen.'

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Politie scant sociale media op 'verdachte info'

De KLPD heeft een systeem aangeschaft om verdachte informatie van openbare bronnen te verzamelen. De regio Twente gaat er als eerste mee aan de slag.

Het systeem CY-Humint (Cyber Human Intelligence) wordt geleverd door Athena GS3 Security Implementations Ltd in Holon Industrial Zone in Israël. Athena is onderdeel van de grote leverancier van infrastructuur- en transportsystemen Mer Group, in Nederland aanwezig met Cellular Infrastructure BV. Vragen van Webwereld worden vanuit Israël per e-mail beantwoord door Omer Laviv, chief executive officer van Athena.


Openbare bronnen

Over CY-Humint zegt Laviv: "Het is bedoeld om wethandhavende instanties te voorzien van vroege waarschuwingen, die worden gebaseerd op 'deep-web' activiteiten." Het is ontwikkeld in Israëlische defensiekringen met behulp van specialisten van de geheime dienst Mossad en nu is het beschikbaar voor export. Welke landen het systeem in gebruik hebben wil Laviv niet kwijt.

De documentatie van Athena is duidelijk over de redenen van het systeem: "Gebeurtenissen als de 'Arabische Lente', de Londense rellen en de maatschappelijke onrust over de hele wereld hebben onomstotelijk aangetoond dat de cyberspace is uitgegroeid tot een favoriete plaats voor aanzetten tot en het coördineren van terrorisme en criminaliteit, maar ook in de civiele onrust."

Volgens Laviv wordt het speuren in ieder geval beperkt tot openbare bronnen, zoals blogs, microblogs, websites, forums, chatrooms en sociale netten als Facebook, Hyves en Twitter. Het systeem maakt vooral gebruik van koppeling op grond van het volgen van het gebruik van IP-nummers en het wisselen daarvan. Het is vooral krachtig vanwege analyse: "CY-Humant creëert en onderhoudt virtuele identiteiten, aangevuld met krachtige middelen voor analyse. Het systeem ondersteunt informatieanalisten online met de efficiency van het verkrijgen van informatie in de echte wereld."

Europese subsidie

Het KLPD en de Politie Twente zijn samen met diverse andere opsporingsinstanties, IT-bedrijven en onderzoeksinstellingen partner in wat nu nog een 'onderzoeksproject' heet. Ordina doet de systeemintegratie en begeleiding in Nederland. Volgens managing partner Onno Franken van Ordina moet het project officieel nog van start gaan. Er is namelijk een Europese subsidieaanvraag, maar het besluit daarover moet in de komende maanden nog vallen.

"Met een aantal Europese partijen hebben we een voorstel ingediend om dit systeem te ontwikkelen voor aan aantal politiediensten in Europa", zegt Franken. "Als je dat samen doet, dan bespaart dat onderzoekskosten en je kunt later elkaars ervaringen delen."

'Niemand hoeft bang te zijn'

Volgens hem hebben ze een 'gezamenlijke visie' opgesteld om als politie meer te gaan doen met informatie. Ze willen op grond van diepgaande analyse potentieel crimineel gedrag en de potentiële vorming van criminele organisaties eerder in beeld te krijgen. Daarmee wil de politie preventief kunnen optreden, of sneller succes boeken met opsporing na een misdaad.

"Het systeem functioneert geheel binnen de wettelijke en ethische grenzen", stelt hij op de vraag of nu iedereen op internet potentieel verdachte wordt. "Als de verkregen informatie uit openbare bronnen verder onderzoek vergt, worden de reguliere kanalen en procedures die voor elk politieonderzoek gelden gevolgd. Niemand is zomaar verdachte en niemand hoeft er bang voor te zijn."

Breder gebruikt

In het verlengde daarvan speelt de vraag of juist de kwaadwillenden voortaan het openbare internet niet gaan gebruiken in de wetenschap dat de politie daar intensief surveilleert. Maar volgens Franken tonen de ervaringen met CY-Humint elders beslist dat het effectief is in het gebruik.

Ordina is de vaste partner van Athena in de Benelux. Dat suggereert dat er al meer opdrachtgevers zijn, maar namen willen Athena en Ordina niet noemen. Wel wil Franken nog kwijt dat de Belgische politie niet deelneemt in het project.

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Anonymous faction in new attack on corporate fraud

A faction within the online hacking collective Anonymous has moved into an unlikely new area – exposing corporate fraud and making money in the aftermath. A new financial research group, Anonymous Analytics, has released a report accusing Chinese firm Chaoda Modern Agriculture of “11 years of deceit and corporate fraud”. The company is one of China’s largest fruit and vegetable suppliers.

The group alleges that Chaoda’s management has funnelled more than $400 million out of the company through false accounting and payments to shell companies. Hong Kong’s government announced an investigation into the company on Monday, shortly before the release of the Anonymous report, leading its shares to fall by 26 per cent before being suspended from trading.

In a departure from illegal hacking, Anonymous Analytics claims that “all information presented in our reports is acquired through legal channels, fact-checked, and vetted thoroughly before release.” The group will however profit from Chaoda’s falling shares, stating “we have an indirect interest in these positions and stand to gain from a decline in the share price of these securities.”

The group has released the information in an encrypted insurance file and will publish the password if its members’ safety or anonymity is threatened.

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Top German cop installed spyware on his daughter's computer to monitor her Internet usage, gets hacked in retaliation

Trojans—they're not just for hackers anymore. German police, for instance, love them; a scandal erupted in Parliament last year after federal investigators were found to be using custom spyware that could potentially record far more information than allowed by law. The story made headlines, but it lacked a certain sense of the bizarre.

Fortunately for connoisseurs of the weird, Der Spiegel revealed a stranger story in its magazine yesterday. According to the report, a top German security official installed a trojan on his own daughter's computer to monitor her Internet usage. What could possibly go wrong?

Nothing—well, at least until one of the daughter's friends found the installed spyware. The friend then went after the dad's personal computer as a payback and managed to get in, where he found a cache of security-related e-mails from work. The e-mails, in turn, provided the information necessary for hackers to infiltrate Germany's federal police.

That was bad, but it got worse. The hackers got into the servers for the "Patras" program, which logs location data on suspected criminals through cell phone and car GPS systems. Concerned about security breaches, the government eventually had to take the entire set of Patras servers offline.

One moral of the tale: parents, think hard before taking technical measures against your own kids. There's a better than average chance that they—or their friends—know more than you do.

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Anonymous will shut down to protest SOPA

HACKTIVIST GROUP Anonymous will turn off its lights for twelve hours in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the US.

The hackers are following Reddit's lead, and will join a communications blackout on 18 January that will begin at 8am and end at 8pm.

Reddit said this week that in protest against SOPA, which could shut web sites like it down, it will cease to operate as normal and will be showing only a message of protest, and this has gained the approval of its already supportive user base.

At Anonymous the news was taken equally well, and while the @AnonymousIRC Twitter account tried to recruit other organisations such as Wikipedia and Google into joining the protest it received tweets of support for its plans from its members.

The Reddit announcement has also caused Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales to have another think about whether it is right to turn off his web site in protest, a tactic that was mooted last year.

"Reddit recently announced that they will be blacking out the site from 0800-2000, Jan 18th," he said in a statement on his personal page on the web site. "Were Wikipedia to consider a similar measure, it might make sense to do so at the same time, to increase impact."

Wordpress is also joining the protest and has posted a strong call to arms on its website. "You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it," it says. "There's something going on in U.S. politics right now that we need to make sure you know about and understand, because it affects us all."

That something is SOPA, and Wordpress said that if it is left unchecked and unprotested it will have a terrible impact on the internet and the web sites that depend upon it.

"We are not a small group. More than 60 million people use WordPress - it's said to power about 15 per cent of the web. We can make an impact, and you can be an agent of change," it said as it called on its users to protest.

"The Senate votes in two weeks, and we need to help at least 41 more senators see reason before then. Please. Make your voice heard." µ

Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/15col)

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Gegevens politici op straat door gehackte websites

De wachtwoorden, adresgegevens en mailadressen van ambtenaren en Kamerleden zijn gelekt nadat de websites Beauy.nl en Recreatief.nl zijn gehackt.

In de bestanden zijn vertrouwelijke gegevens te vinden van onder anderen Hero Brinkman van de PVV en van werknemers van het ministerie van Defensie en het ministerie van Economische Zaken.

In totaal zijn de privégegevens van 315.000 gebruikers gelekt zijn. Dat meldt Security.nl.

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Law professors react to PIPA, SOPA legislation

Congress is expected to consider two bills when it returns from recess on Jan. 24: the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP Act or PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The legislation is of major concern to Stanford thought leaders, in addition to nationwide legal experts, online security experts, Internet activists and the founders of many of Silicon Valley’s largest companies.

“The answer is to innovate, not to pass stupid laws that are going to screw up the Internet,” said Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Fair Use Project at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (SCIS) at a Dec. 7 event hosted by SCIS called, “What’s wrong with SOPA?” The panel convened experts on Internet infrastructure and security, digital intellectual property and Silicon Valley business to articulate many of SOPA’s problems.

More than 150 people attended the Law School event, which was “not meant to give equal time to both sides,” according to Falzone. The audience did include two representatives from the Motion Picture Association of America, supporters of SOPA and PIPA, who spoke up during a question and answer session.

“There were things about this bill that people in Silicon Valley needed to know – that is lawyers, entrepreneurs and technology people,” Falzone said. “Our goal was to put together an array of people who could speak to each one of those sets of considerations.”

Professor Mark Lemley, director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, spoke in a January interview with The Daily of the necessity of publicizing what he characterized as the incredible harm of this potential legislation.

“PIPA was introduced in the Senate in early 2011 and it went through the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously… mostly I think because people hadn’t paid attention to it,” Lemley said.

Lemley believes this unanimous action occurred because PIPA was a less extreme bill than SOPA – a conscious legislative decision to make the “lesser of two evils” look like a healthy compromise.

Both pieces of legislation are almost exclusively supported by traditional media companies like Viacom and members of Recording Industry Association of America, as well as companies heavily reliant on brands such as Nike, the NBA and Pfizer.

The founders of Google, Yahoo, Twitter, LinkedIn and many other Silicon Valley giants published an open letter warning of the dangers of SOPA and PIPA.

The letter appeared as a paid advertisement in The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspapers. It predicted SOPA and PIPA would, “have a chilling effect on innovation” and change “the very basic structure of the Internet.”

The letter also raised the legal concern that this legislation allows the closure of websites without due process and could be used to stifle legitimate speech.

“If we just shut down the Internet there would be a lot less piracy, right?” Lemley said. “But, there is a lot of socially valuable material that we get only because of the Internet. “

In the most severe version of SOPA the Attorney General would have authority to bring action against websites accused of “committing or facilitating online piracy.”

The bill also provides for a system of notifications directly from the copyright holder to web services like Internet service providers (ISP) and search engines. These web services are then able to suspend service to specific sites and are immune from prosecution for doing so in error.

“You wouldn’t necessarily even bring anybody into court,” Lemley said. “So each individual ISP who gets this notice has now got to keep a separate black list.”

Falzone said he fears a world in which websites could be shut down, “in a completely invisible way.”

“You would have people doing these deals in the proverbial smoky backroom… picking up the phone and saying, ‘Wouldn’t it be so unpleasant if we had to go through an elaborate process and spend money on lawyers?’” Falzone said.

Of further concern is that the act of physically limiting the websites that computers can access would not only fundamentally change the way the Internet currently operates, but in so doing would negate current efforts at improved Internet security.

For Lemley, the physical blocking of websites has foreign policy ramifications as well.

“It’s awfully hard to persuade the Chinas and Irans of the world that they should open their society and Internet to things they object to when we won’t open our society to things we object to,” Lemley said.

A third bill that Congress will consider, the Online Protection & Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN Act) may address some of the professor’s concerns with SOPA and PIPA.

This legislation would differ from SOPA because it would not allow for the physical blocking of websites; rather it would block funding for the infringing websites. It would also be enforced by the International Trade Commission and do away with the notification system of SOPA.

Falzone predicts that what Congress will ultimately pass will be similar to the OPEN Act and not SOPA. Falzone also said he foresees a more prolonged battle.

“Silicon Valley has now really thrown their weight behind [opposing SOPA & PIPA], and it is a real fight… everybody has brought their big guns.”

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by Gabriella Coleman
“Our Weirdness Is Free” was produced by Triple Canopy as part of its Research Work project area, supported in part by the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York Council for the Humanities.

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The question is: How and why has the anarchic hate machine been transformed into one of the most adroit and effective political operations of recent times?

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Facebook, Google, others face charges in India

Associated Press= NEW DELHI (AP) — For the first time, Indian prosecutors are taking Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other networking sites to court for refusing to remove material considered insulting to Indian leaders and major religious figures.

Government officials are upset about material insulting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ruling Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi and major religious figures. Some illustrations have shown Singh and Gandhi in compromising positions and pigs running through Mecca, Islam's holiest city.

On Friday, the federal government told a New Delhi court that there was sufficient material to proceed against 21 social networking sites for offenses of "promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national integration," according to the Press Trust of India news agency.

The cases, which PTI said name companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft, represent a new risk of doing business in the nation of more than 1 billion people, which is looking to technology to boost its economy and standard of living. The dispute highlights India's difficulty in balancing the Internet culture of freewheeling discourse with its homegrown religious and political sensitivities.

Convictions could bring fines and up to five years' imprisonment, through prosecutors have named only the companies involved rather than any executives. Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar on Friday asked India's External Affairs Ministry to serve summons to officials of foreign-based companies for court appearances March 13.

In December, Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal said he had spoken repeatedly with officials from major Internet companies over the past three months and asked them to come up with a voluntary framework to keep offensive material off the Internet. He said that the companies told him there was nothing they could do.

There was no immediate comment by the networking sites after Friday's court proceedings.

However, Facebook said last month that it would remove content that "is hateful, threatening, incites violence or contains nudity."

Google said in a December statement that it removes content that violates local law and its own standards.

"But when content is legal and doesn't violate our policies, we won't remove it just because it's controversial, as we believe that people's differing views, so long as they're legal, should be respected and protected," Google said in a statement in December.

Sibal had shown reporters Web illustrations showing Singh and Gandhi in compromising positions as well as a site showing pigs running through Islam's holy city of Mecca, a clear insult to Muslims.

Sibal said the Internet companies had told him that they were applying U.S. standards to their sites, and he objected, saying that they needed to be sensitive to Indian sensibilities.

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Comcast Accidentally Admits SOPA Would Make the Net Less Secure

Comcast announced today that it has finished the rollout of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across its network. While patting itself on the back, Comcast’s blog post went on to essentially admit that a major element of the enforcement plan in SOPA and PIPA is incompatible with DNSSEC. Comcast is the owner of NBC-Universal, and a vocal supporter of SOPA.

The way Comcast outed itself is a little roundabout. The nation’s biggest ISP feels confident enough in DNSSEC that it shut down its internal domain Domain Helper redirect service. Domain Helper would try to redirect users that typed in commonly misspelled addresses to the right website. The important thing here is that Comcast ended support for Domain helper because it says DNS redirects are not supported by DNSSEC. SOPA and PIPA would use DNS redirects to block offending websites. Oops.

According to Comcast itself, DNS redirects are indistinguishable from malicious attacks like DNS poisoning. SOPA supporters have been brushing off claims that SOPA-mandated DNS redirects would mean a less secure Internet, but it appears that when not on Capitol Hill, Comcast believes quite the opposite to be true.

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Media Moguls Harassed By Opponents of Piracy Legislation

There has been a call to action online to show opposition to SOPA via phone calls and e-mail messages targeting companies that are pushing for SOPA and their executives.

Top entertainment executives are being targeted for harassment by activists because of their companies' support of the Stop Online Piracy Act that is being discussed in Congress.

Sources say that Jeffrey Bewkes, chairman and CEO of Time Warner, one of many Hollywood conglomerates that have publicly backed the proposed anti-piracy legislation, recently received menacing phone calls and e-mails from SOPA critics. (One source says voice-mails have been left swearing at executives, though that has not been confirmed). Bewkes' personal information also has been disseminated online among activists opposing SOPA. A Time Warner spokesman declined to comment.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that the activist group Anonymous has targeted Viacom-CBS mogul Sumner Redstone, posting a file online that ecourages members to call and e-mail him. It wasn't immediately clear if other industry players have been a target of hacking or harassment. Spokespeople for some entertainment giants said they were not aware of any cases of harassment or hacking at their companies, while others weren't available for comment.

What is clear, however, is that there has been a call to action online to show opposition to SOPA via phone calls and e-mail messages targeting companies and their executives that are pushing for SOPA.

In online forums, activists, including people associated with Anonymous, posted contact lists in recent weeks to rally SOPA critics — as is often the case with hotly discussed topics. But some of the calls to action were particularly harshly worded and included names of select executives' wives. "Attack supporting companies," says one playbook for SOPA critics that has been posted online. "Hack, leak and deface Web sites with the propaganda." The online initiatives have been given such names as Operation Hiroshima and Operation Blackout.

PiratePad.net and Pastebin.com are among the sites where executive information and suggestions for protest have shown up. Some posts on Pastebin, for instance, call SOPA "the first step limiting what you watch online and allowing the government to know what you watch online" and claims that "no one should be able to hide behind a corporation, impunity for no one."

One post on the site recently listed phone numbers for Redstone; NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke; Sony, Sony Music and Sony Pictures; Walt Disney Co. and CEO Robert Iger; Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman; and Time Warner and Bewkes. Sites have mostly listed general company phone numbers that can easily be found in the public domain, but some also have mentioned select executive's work e-mail addresses and -- at least in one case -- a private number.

“They should feel threatened,” Barrett Brown, a Dallas-based online activist who has worked with Anonymous, told the NYT. “The idea is to put pressure on the politicians and companies supporting it.”

The movement indicates how hot a topic SOPA has become. The legislation would allow the Justice Department and copyright holders to seek court orders against sites seen as enabling copyright infringement. As a result, Internet service providers could be blocked from enabling access to such sites, search engines could be blocked from linking to them, and online ad networks and payment providers could be barred from doing business with them.

Hollywood and other proponents say the legislation would help protect intellectual property and industry jobs. Critics, such as Google and many tech firms, fear a negative effect on the development of the Internet and voice free-speech concerns.

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#Anonymous to America – #Occupy #J17 #JoinUs

Greetings, we are Anonymous.

To those who wish to identify us, know this.

We are teachers and doctors.
We are lawyers and judges.
We are soldiers and firemen.
We are factory workers and sanitation workers.
We are engineers and IT specialists.
We are the desperate poor you pass on the street.
We are the millionaires who have a conscience.
We are the people you look down on in the checkout lain.
We are the police who dare to disobey illegal orders.
We are the patriots who refuse to blindly obey and look away.
We are the old grey ones and the young new bloods.
We are your mothers, daughters, sons and fathers.

To all people at all levels of government agencies military and media.
You are living under the direction of a police state ruled by corporations and contractors. Your government has been overthrown from within. The scale of the corruption is beyond the ability of any presidential election to resolve.

Governments that do not exist by the consent of the governed to serve the needs of the people have no right to exist. It is your duty to dissent against the treasonous oligarchy that has usurped the rightful power of the governed on behalf of profit interests. It is up to you to dissent, silently and publicly, in words and in actions. It is your patriotic duty to oppose the tyrannical and despotic system that greed and apathy helped to create.

Their show of force is a show of their weakness, and a show of our strength. Through nonviolent resistance we can win this. But if you do not dissent your children will inherent a police state based upon social darwinism and the absolute authority of an illegitimate oligarchy in which politicians are prostitutes and functionaries of the will of corporations. If you do not dissent the next generation will know your country as a land of hopelessness in which speech and rights are determined by wealth. If you do not dissent every soldier who has died serving your country will have died to ensure the absolute profits of corrupt and treasonous contractors who abuse agencies as the private armies of banks industries and multinational corporations.

If you do not see the reality of these statements, go back to sleep. May you rest well in your slumber, lest you awake to absolute tyranny. But if you are aware of the truth of these statements, if this is not the world you wish to leave for your family, then know this. Anyone can be Anonymous.

The corrupt fear us, the honest support us, and the brave join us.
We are not the private army of any government politician religion or cult.
We are the people, the only system.

We are the DataAngels calling on every American at every level of government and media.
Leak Harvest and Archive all evidence of wrong doing, expose all corruption.

We must Dissent.

We Are Anonymous.
We Are Legion.
We Do Not Forgive.
We Do Not Forget.
Expect us. Join us.

Tags: #Anonymous, America, #Occupy, #J17, #JoinUs, #OccupyCongress, #OWS, #DataAngels, DataAngels

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Army Uses Web Tool to Track Bradley Manning Mentions

If you’ve ever sent a tweet about Pfc. Bradley Manning you can safely assume someone working for the Army’s public affairs department took notice.

Manning, who is charged with being a source for WikiLeaks in 2010, had a hearing last month.

The public affairs department for the U.S. Army enlisted the help of Vocus, a public relations web tool that allows companies to monitor news and social media chatter by using keywords.

An Army Vocus report obtained by POLITICO says that most of the coverage of Manning is “negative,” however, “the majority of the coverage about the hearing remains balanced and factual.” The report found “1,045 social media conversations about the hearing.”

The actual daily summary report is marked as “unclassified” and can be viewed by clicking here (PDF).

Manning is accused of releasing more than 700,000 classified government documents. It was recommended that Manning receive a court martial; that decision is expected to be announced early next week.

It’s no secret that public relations professionals utilize web tools to monitor what people are saying about their organizations. There are numerous services available to companies for tracking their social media programs: Vocus, Cision, Meltwater. Google launched a tool last summer for individuals who wonder what their social media profile might look like. In addition to typing your name into Google or signing-up for Google Analytics, now anyone can also sign-up for “Me on the Web” to receive alerts if their name is mentioned online.

Do you monitor your name online? How do you feel about the Army’s public affairs department monitoring social media? Tell us in the comments.

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Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA

The public outcry over the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act seems to have gotten so loud that even members of Congress can hear it. On Thursday we covered the news that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was expressing second thoughts about SOPA's DNS provisions. He said he changed his mind after he "heard from a number of Vermonters" on the issue.

On Friday, several Republicans started backpedaling as well.

SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith (R-TX) announced that he would be pulling the DNS-blocking provisions from his own bill. “After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision," Smith said in a Friday statement.

Meanwhile, six GOP senators who served on the Senate Judiciary Committee (which unanimously approved the legislation last year) wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asking him to postpone a vote on PIPA to give them more time to study the legislation.

"We strongly believe that the theft of American intellectual property is a significant problem that must be addressed," they wrote. But since the Judiciary Committee last considered the legislation, "we have increasingly heard from a large number of constituents and other stakeholders with vocal concerns about possible unintended consequences of the proposed legislation, including breaches in cybersecurity, damaging the integrity of the Internet, costly and burdensome litigation, and dilution of First Amendment rights."

The current plan for the full Senate to consider the bill on January 24 "may not permit us to work through many of the concerns that have been raised," they warned.

Lest anyone doubt the signers' tough-on-piracy bona fides, they include Orrin Hatch (R-UT), who once proposed that Congress give copyright holders a special exemption allowing them to hack into the computers of those suspected of piracy. In a 2003 hearing, he suggested that damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."

Another member of Congress that has been feeling the heat from voters is Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). After reddit members raised $15,000 in 48 hours for his anti-SOPA challenger, Ryan came out with a clear statement of opposition to the legislation.

"It appears that lawmakers are beginning to realize how much damage their anti-'piracy' bills could cause to the Internet and to Internet-related businesses," said Public Knowledge's Sherwin Siy in a statement. "While we are pleased that some progress is being made, we are also firm in our opposition to both bills because some very bad provisions remain."

Washington insiders hold disproportionate sway on Capitol Hill. But members of Congress are ultimately chosen by American voters. When enough of them express a strong view on an issue, members of Congress do pay attention.

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Op zaterdag 14 januari 2012 18:08 schreef rsfxrs020 het volgende:

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Is het niet overzichtelijker om eens in de maand een overzicht van max. 3 regels te publiceren van wat je (in godsnaam) allemaal gepost hebt?

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Op zaterdag 14 januari 2012 18:30 schreef Selestha het volgende:
Supertopic dit, bedankt voor alle nuttige links!

twitter:

Anonymousjock twitterde op zaterdag 14-01-2012 om 19:01:08 #LuLz Apparently #Anonymous now has operatives inside Congress itself. Expect Us! http://t.co/trEbcMNX http://t.co/K1hS5VT5 reageer retweet

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White House Jumps Into SOPA, PIPA Debate

One day after DNS blocking was removed from the conroversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the White House on Saturday urged Congress to craft online piracy legislation that does not undermine freedom of expression on the Web.

The administration said it is aware of the three copyright protection bills currently before Congress—SOPA, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), and the Online Protection and Digital ENforcement Act (OPEN). Without formally endorsing any of those bills, however, the White House outlined what it will and will not support.

"While we believe that online piracy by foreign Web sites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet," IP enforcement coordinator Victoria Espinel, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, and U.S. cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt wrote in a blog post.

Specifically, the trio said any new legislation must "be narrowly targeted only at sites beyond the reach of current U.S. law, cover activity clearly prohibited under existing U.S. laws, and be effectively tailored, with strong due process and focused on criminal activity."

If third parties like payment processors or search engines are involved, the bill must guard against overly broad language that might discourage innovation, the White House said.

The administration also urged Congress to avoid Web site blocking via the Domain Name System (DNS).

"Our analysis of the DNS filtering provisions in some proposed legislation suggests that they pose a real risk to cybersecurity and yet leave contraband goods and services accessible online," the White House said. "We must avoid legislation that drives users to dangerous, unreliable DNS servers and puts next-generation security policies, such as the deployment of DNSSEC, at risk."

SOPA and PIPA initially included provisions that would allow the Justice Department to obtain a court order against overseas "rogue" Web sites that were trafficking in fake goods and block them. Backlash, however, prompted SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith to remove DNS blocking from the bill on Friday. Sen. Patrick Leahy, sponsor of PIPA, proposed studying the effects of DNS blocking before implementation.

In a Saturday morning statement, Rep. Smith said that without DNS blocking, his bill is now in line with the White House's requirements.

"The White House has urged Congress to act this year. I am committed to working with my colleagues in the House and Senate to send a bipartisan bill to the White House that protects free speech, the Internet and America's intellectual property," Smith said. "The Stop Online Piracy Act does just that and I look forward to working with the White House and the Senate towards its enactment this year."

Not everyone was ready to jump on the SOPA bandwagon after Smith's changes, however.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the steps taken by Smith and Leahy are "heartening," but "we still have a long fight ahead and we face formidable foes."

"Both bills still contain fundamental flaws that threaten freedom of speech and the future of the Internet. We've written before, for example, about the threats to the human rights community, to students, to software development, and to the economy," the EFF said. "These threats remain. What is worse (and we can't say this enough), is that this legislation, if made law, will do little to stop online infringement. These bills cannot be fixed—they must be killed."

The OPEN ACT
The OPEN Act, meanwhile, would have the International Trade Commission (ITC) handle this issue rather than the Justice Department. Bill sponsor Rep. Darrell Issa was supposed to hold a Jan. 18 hearing to examine the security effects of DNS blocking, but said today that he would postpone that hearing after receiving assurances that anti-piracy legislation will not move to the House floor without a consensus.

"Although SOPA, despite the removal of this provision, is still a fundamentally flawed bill, Ihave decided that postponing the scheduled hearing on DNS blocking with technical experts is the best course of action at this time," Issa said. "Right now, the focus of protecting the Internet needs to be on the Senate where Majority Leader Reid has announced his intention to try to move similar legislation in less than two weeks."

The Senate is scheduled to take up PIPA on Jan. 24.

One of the panelists at Issa's Jan. 18 hearing was supposed to be Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit.com. Reddit actually plans to go dark on Jan. 18 in protest of SOPA. Despite the changes from Smith, that blackout appears to still be on. Earlier today, Reddit tweeted a Fast Company editorial that said PIPA and SOPA must be squashed, not changed.

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Donald Ainsworth

#CabinCr3w - #DoxCak3 - #Anonymous

We are Anonymous, We are Legion
We do not forgive, We do not forget
Expect us, Donald Ainsworth

Credit: sxycutiek, doxxy, Anon1781, Jack, X**********, vizzle, projecticarus, DiabloAnon, XveCt0r, 1984

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Donald Ainsworth "I want a fat dick in my mouth plox"-actual quote

Age: 55-65
Occupation: Driver for GREYHOUND

BUS NUMBER:6252 en route to Memphis, TN

Incident:

Incident happened at (time) on 1/14/2012 when Bus Driver Donald Ainsworth found it appropriate to kick 13 Occupiers off a his bus headed to Occupy Congress. He kicked them off in Amarillo,TX No other reason than they were Occupiers.806 374 5371 (station number)

article in daily kos with live broad cast:
http://www.dailykos.com/s(...)f-Greyhound-in-Texas

Pix:
http://yfrog.com/mmheug
http://prntscr.com/5c1h1
http://prntscr.com/5c1f2
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=34t69dz&s=5
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnnyn/6699350797/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnnyn/6699342419/in/photostream/
http://pic.twitter.com/dtNHIXCh

Contact Greyhound CEO David Leach @ home to let him know how you feel

Greyhound CEO: David S. Leach

(972) 899-3053.
2820 Merlins Rock Ln,
Lewisville, TX 75056

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Greyhound
Main corporate wiki
:http://www.corporationwik(...)es-inc/29893818.aspx

Executive Bios:
http://www.greyhound.com/en/about/executivebios.aspx

Departments & Titles:

Exe/Ted Burk
Title:SVP Corporate Development

Tec/Chris Boult
Title:VP IT

HR/ Rhonda MacAndrew
Title:VP HR

Ops/Bill Blankenship
Title:COO

David Leach
Title:CEO/President

Myron Watkins
Title:VP Operations

Fin/Jeff Altizer
Title:CFO

Leg/Mark Southerst
Title:Chief Legal Officer

Facebook:
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Routes:
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regular routes:1 NeOn routeDestinations3,700+Stations2,400+FleetMCI MC-12, 102D(L)3, G4500, D4505
Prevost X3-45
Van Hool C2045L

Officers:

President and CEO: David (Dave) Leach
COO: Bill Blankenship

CIO: Chris R.Boult

NYSE: AMR

Greyhound Lines, Inc.
600 Vine St., Ste. 1400
Cincinnati, OH 45202
OH Tel. 513-241-2200
Fax 513-419-3394

Politica contribution for 2009/2010
Mr. David S. Leach
(GLI Distributors/Administrator),
(Zip code: 75056)
$1000 to RICHARD E NEAL FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
on 05/21/10

work contact
15110 Dallas Pkwy, Suite 600
Dallas, TX 75248-4635

Corporate wiki:
http://www.corporationwik(...)-leach/30293503.aspx

employees
Operator with Executive Office: 214-849-8219
Bryan: 214-849-8217
Ursala: 214-849-8215
Safety Dept: 214-849-8214
Claudette: 214-849-8213
Jennell: 214-849-8211

CIO: Chris R.Boult

Possible wife: Michelle?
both late 40's?
Dallas Tx75052?

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Facebook page for greyhound:
https://www.facebook.com/GreyhoundBus?sk=wall

Associated websites with greyhound:
http://www.Greyhound.com
http://www.Greyhound.ca
http://www.luckystreakbus.com/
http://twitter.com/GreyhoundBus
http://www.youtube.com/gogreyhound
http://www.flickr.com/greyhound_bus
http://www.shipgreyhound.com/
http://shipgreyhound.ca

Greyhound customer server number:214-849-8966.
Corporate office: 214-849-8000
biGreyhound Lines, Inc.
PO Box 660691, MS 470
Dallas, TX 75266-0691

Greyhound Bus Lines Corporate Office / Headquarters
PO Box 660362 Dallas,
TX 75266
(214)849-8000

To mail complaints:
Customer Service
Greyhound Lines, Inc.
P.O. Box 660689, MS 490
Dallas, TX 75266-0689
513- 462 -1349

Location: Ohio (Cincinnati, Hamilton)

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Greyhound site/server info:
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Greyhound Lines, Inc.
P.O. Box 660362
Dallas, TX 75266
US

Domain Name: GREYHOUND.COM
Administrative Contact :
Hull, Joyce
dnsmgr@greyhound.com
P.O. Box 660362
Dallas, TX 75266
US
Phone: 214.849.8355
Fax: 214.849.6198

Technical Contact :
Manager, Domain
dnsmgr@GREYHOUND.COM
P.O. Box 660362
Dallas, TX 75266
US
Phone: 214.849.8875
Fax: 214.849.6198

Record expires on 24-Apr-2021
Record created on 23-Apr-1994
Database last updated on 24-Apr-2011
Domain servers
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K11.GREYHOUND.COM 216.195.89.154
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Greyhound Lines, Inc.
P.O. Box 660362
Dallas, TX 75266
US
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Domain Name: GREYHOUND.COM
Administrative Contact:
Hull, Joyce
Greyhound Lines, Inc
P.O. Box 660362
Dallas, TX 75266
US
214.849.8355 fax: 214.849.6198

Technical Contact:
Manager, Domain
Greyhound Lines, Inc.
P.O. Box 660362
Dallas, TX 75266
US
214.849.8875
fax: 214.849.6198
Customer Assistance
214-849-8966
7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., Central time zone,
Monday through Friday

Record expires on 24-Apr-2021.
Record created on 23-Apr-1994.

Domain servers in listed order:

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K11.GREYHOUND.COM 216.195.89.154
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ICANN Registrar:
NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Created:
1994-04-23
Expires:
2021-04-24
Updated:
2011-04-24

Server Type:
Microsoft-IIS/6.0

IP Address:205.216.16.228

ASN:
AS26584
IP Location:
United States - United States - Savvis
Response Code:
200
3600
300

Web site support
webmaster@greyhound.com
1-800-268-9000
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greyhound documents:

prohibited items:
http://www.greyhound.com/(...)bited_items_list.pdf

buisness doc:(canada) still digging
http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f204100/204112.htm

Safety doc:
http://www.saferoads.org/(...)yhound%20Support.pdf

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Dirt
Boycott

:http://www.boycottowl.com/Greyhound/385


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roxby@greyhound.com

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GreyHound Employees from Linkedin:
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Michael Widmer
Cathy Woodruff
Charles Sweet
David Leneveu
Tony Richens
Brent Hogan
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Tom Huntley
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ADDRESS & CONTACT INFO:

Address Confirmed:

802 Catclaw
San Antonio, TX 78260
Cindy S Ainsworth
Don R Ainsworth
Lacey Ainsworth
802 Catclaw
San Antonio, TX
one level home
grey shingles/brown brick
large trees
catclaw meets into the corner of: Rock Bend Ln

http://g.co/maps/7g6nn

Neighbors:

Joseph W Penrose
(210) 497-3673
806 Catclaw
San Antonio,
TX 78260-6800
Age: 35-39
Associated: Jennifer K Penrose

Anna Delacruz
(210) 481-2901
810 Catclaw
San Antonio, TX 78260-6800

(713) 353-3348
Geo-local/lat/long lookup:
Type of Phone: LandLine
Carrier: (multiple carriers)
City: Houston
State: TX
County: Harris
County Population: 3,886,207
Local Timezone: CST
Latitude: 29.75
Longitude: -95.36

Lat/long conversion:
Address:1301-1381
Chenevert St, Houston, TX 77010, USA
Latitude:29.7500868°
Longitude:-95.3601537°
Accuracy:8: Address level.
Status:200: Successful geocode

map local of surounding area:
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Ainsworth Don R
Ainsworth Cindy

Assessed Value: $201,110
Sq. ft.: 2,194
Bedrooms: 3
Taxes: $4,388 (2010)

(210) 757-0960
sly has now confirmed this is a fax.
GEO-lat/long lookup:
Type of Phone: LandLine
Carrier: (multiple carriers)
City: San Antonio
State: TX
County: Bexar
County Population: 1,555,592
Local Timezone: CST
Latitude: 29.43
Longitude: -98.48
Lat/long conversion:
Address:100-198 Hays St,
now San Antonio, TX 78215, USA
Latitude:29.430109°
Longitude:-98.4800025°
Accuracy:8: Address level.
Status:200: Successful geocode.

Map local of surriounding area:
hmmm this one doesn't pull up that way, but i have other ways xD

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(972)-889-3053
GEO Lat/Long Lookup:
Type of Phone: landline
Carrier: AT&T ARKANSAS
City: Dallas
State: TX
County: Dallas
County Population: 2,345,815
Local Timezone: CST
Latitude: 32.78
Longitude: -96.79
Address:2124-2196
Canton St, Dallas, TX 75201, USA
Latitude:32.7799913°
Longitude:-96.7899932°
Accuracy:8: Address level.
Status:200: Successful geocode.
map local of surounding area
:http://www.spokeo.com/rev(...)1?addr_num=1626#1626

heads up, we have yet to talk to the people on the phone numbers, tons of calls, but only get pick ups, breathing, things slamming around in the background, and hang ups. We put our bets on that it's accurate. Have fun

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We are Anonymous, We are Legion
We do not forgive, We do not forget
Expect us, Donald Ainsworth

#CabinCr3w - #DoxCak3 - #Anonymous

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13 Occupiers were removed from a Greyhound bus by the driver in Amarillo, Texas. The driver removed ALL Occupiers from the bus not the ones with the ability to livestream. The driver was specific about removing Occupiers.

CNN Inside Anonymous

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Rupert Murdoch squares off with Obama over online piracy legislation

News Corp chief accuses White House of siding with 'Silicon Valley paymasters' as two bills go through US Congress

The gathering storm over online piracy legislation being debated in the US Congress has sucked two more heavy hitters into the fray, with the Obama administration and Rupert Murdoch lining up on opposite sides of the argument.

The controversy over the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) going through the House of Representatives and its Senate equivalent, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa), has intensified. Websites including Reddit and possibly Wikipedia are planning to 'go dark' on Wednesday in protest at the proposals, which they say will lead to government censorship of the internet and be disastrous for innovation.

On Saturday, the Obama administration made clear that it would not tolerate several of the more controversial aspects of the two bills, particularly the power to interfere with the architecture of the web by tampering with its Domain Name System (DNS).

"We will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global internet," said three of Obama's top technology advisers in a statement. The authors said manipulating the DNS by forcing service providers to block access to pirating sites could damage cybersecurity by driving users to much more unscrupulous servers.

Just before the White House statement was issued, a sponsor of Sopa – the Texan congressman Lamar Smith – said the DNS blocking provision in the bill would be dropped.

Under the two bills, the US department of justice would have the power to censor foreign websites engaging in piracy by requiring search engines, payment portals and online advertising networks to desist from carrying them.

Murdoch – whose News Corporation includes the Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox, which is among the companies calling for a legislative clampdown against piracy of films, music and other copyrighted material – launched a tirade against the Obama administration for its criticism of Sopa.

"So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery," he wrote in a series of five tweets, accusing Google of hosting pirated material and selling advertising against it.

The White House statement was not a simple denunciation of Sopa and Pipa. It also makes clear that the administration is in favour of new legislation to combat online piracy, though the authors say it must be narrowly targeted. "Online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response," they say.

The two bills have led to an outpouring of criticism from proponents of a free internet, Silicon Valley giants such as Google and Facebook, and start-up entrepreneurs.

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US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux

Flying assassins upgraded after Windows virus outbreak

_{By John Leyden • Get more from this author
Posted in CIO, 12th January 2012 11:42 GMT}

The control of US military spy drones appears to have shifted from Windows to Linux following an embarrassing malware infection.

Ground control systems at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, which commands the killer unmanned aircraft, became infected with a virus last September. In a statement at the time the Air Force dismissed the electronic nasty as a nuisance and said it posed no threat to the operation of Reaper drones, but the intrusion was nonetheless treated seriously.

"The ground system is separate from the flight control system Air Force pilots use to fly the aircraft remotely; the ability of the pilots to safely fly these aircraft remained secure throughout the incident," it said.

The discovery of the virus was nonetheless hugely embarrassing for the Air Force. The credential-stealing malware, first reported by Wired, made its way from a portable hard drive onto ground systems, which control the drones' weapons and surveillance functions. Portable disks are used to load map updates and transfer mission videos from one computer to another, Defense News added.

"The malware was detected on a standalone mission support network using a Windows-based operating system," a US Air Force statement at the time explained. "The malware in question is a credential stealer, not a keylogger, found routinely on computer networks and is considered more of a nuisance than an operational threat. It is not designed to transmit data or video, nor is it designed to corrupt data, files or programs on the infected computer. Our tools and processes detect this type of malware as soon as it appears on the system, preventing further reach."

Drone units were advised to stop using the removable drives to prevent another outbreak. Behind the scenes other changes appear to have been made: screenshots of drone control computers uploaded by security researcher Mikko Hypponen suggest that at least some of the consoles have been migrated from Microsoft Windows to open source Linux.

Photos of US drone control systems taken in 2009 (here) and 2011 (here) provide evidence of the change - in the earlier picture the Windows desktop GUI can be easily discerned whereas the latter slide indicates the new systems are Linux-based and have "improved displays".

The 2009 photo originally came from the air force base's website but the image has since been removed. A cropped copy can be found here. The 2010 slide came from an unclassified presentation on the US's unmanned drone operations.

Hypponen told The Reg: "If I would need to select between Windows XP and a Linux based system while building a military system, I wouldn't doubt a second which one I would take." ®

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House Kills SOPA

In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met huge online protest against the bills. Another reason would be that the White House threatened to veto the bill if it had passed. However, it isn't quite time yet to celebrate, as PIPA(the Senate's version of SOPA) is still up for consideration.

The online protests about the bill were surprising and large. They ranged anywhere from callng Representatives, companies, and senators to get them to change their mind, to actively moving domain's away from and targeting the business model of the companies that supported/lobbied for the bill. GoDaddy lost well over 100,000 domains in the space of about 10 days due to their involvement with these bills, along with other various targets. Reddit in particular has been influential in turning the tide against SOPA and PIPA, and is a good demonstration of how the Internet enables Democracy.

PIPA is less well known than SOPA, but the provisions are basicly the same. It still includes the same DNS blocking and censoring system that the original SOPA did, just without the SOPA name. There are around 40 co-sponsors of the bill in the Senate so far, with no word on how many senators support the bill in addition to that. There will most likely need to be 60 votes in the Senate in order to invoke cloture and end an almost guaranteed filibuster.

So, what are your thoughts? Relieved? Happy? Let me know down below in the comments.

Continue reading on Examiner.com House Kills SOPA - Denver Computers | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/c(...)s-sopa#ixzz1jeBG9waS

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We have talked about the fact that inappropriate emails will not be
tolerated. I am copying your dad because we're friends and I want to
be completely transparent about my communications regarding this
email. This is an example of an email that I will not tolerate. Do
not send another one like it, I'm sorry if this truly represents the
way you feel.

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In 2011, Anonymous showed that the Internet had the power to force greater online transparency, Occupy Wall Street showed that it was possible to mobilize supporters online, and the tech sector continued to churn out super-easy, off-the-shelf tools that make it possible to build apps and Web sites in hours—not weeks or months. Add to that mix the super nastiness of a Super PAC and a bunch of idealistic young political activists who can code, and you might just be able to change the complexion of the 2012 election campaign. As the election trail winds through New Hampshire, the lesson is becoming increasingly clear: If you don’t speak code, you don’t speak the language of the election’s new activists capable of changing the political zeitgeist.

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yeah - its always there, but there are two trends in western soceities
that have traditionally kept it weak for the past few decades: rising home
ownership and the presence of an enemy

if ur afraid you want a strong state, and if you have a mortgage you don't
riot

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http://www.channel4.com/n(...)-man-behind-the-mask

From comic strip to symbol of world rebellion, the V for Vendetta mask is an iconic image of our times. Channel 4 News takes author Alan Moore to meet some of the protesters he inspired.

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Were SOPA/PIPA Protests a Success? The Results Are In

Wednesday's online protests against two online antipiracy bills currently before Congress are being hailed as a success after sites such as BoingBoing, Reddit and Wikipedia temporarily shut down to oppose the Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) and Protect IP (PIPA) Acts. As a result, more than 162 million people saw the protest message on Wikipedia, 18 senators have backed away from the proposed legislation, and 4.5 million people signed a petition against the acts.

The New York Times called Wednesday's online activism, that also included messages of protest from Craigslist, Google and Mozilla, "a political coming of age for the tech industry." While the Motion Picture Association of America's Chairman and CEO (and former U.S. Senator) Chris Dodd said on Tuesday the protests were an "abuse of power" that turned users into the tech industry's "corporate pawns" (PDF).

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Internet Blackout Causes 18 Senators to Flee from PIPA

It may have been a sight to behold as the internet helped topple governments in the Middle East last year, but yesterday it did something even more impressive. It caused Senators to change their minds on policy.

Though the entertainment lobby has poured millions upon millions into Senators and Representatives in order to get anti-piracy, internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA passed, yesterday’s massive online protest against the two bills by major sites like Google, Reddit and Wikipedia, actually produced real results. As calls flooded into congress, lawmakers were forced to change their position on the bills.

I’m sure it wasn’t a road to Damascus moment where they finally saw the error of their ways, rather I imagine it was somewhat terrifying to consider that they may have significant trouble getting re-elected should they choose to pass bills like SOPA and PIPA that ignited this much passion among constituents.

With SOPA on the shelf for now, it was PIPA that lost the greatest amount of supporters. The tally is currently 18 Senators and counting, many of whom were former co-sponsors of the bill. It’s mostly Republicans who have changed their minds, though I’m not sure what that says. That Democrats are still tighter with Hollywood perhaps?

Here’s a list

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http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/sopa.txt

INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for
the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person
to own the copyright to a motion picture.

Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures
in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call
Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent.
There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like
Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever.

So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they
circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: "stole") other peoples creative works,
without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they're all successful and most of the
studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations - it's all based on being
able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create.
If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing
other peoples rules.

The reason they are always complainting about "pirates" today is simple. We've done what they did. We circumvented the
rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow
people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take
over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them).
It's all based on the fact that we're competition.
We've proven that their existance in their current form is no longer needed. We're just better than they are.

And the funny part is that our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA. We fight for freedom of speech.
We see all people as equal. We believe that the public, not the elite, should rule the nation. We believe that laws
should be created to serve the public, not the rich corporations.

The Pirate Bay is truly an international community. The team is spread all over the globe - but we've stayed out of the
USA. We have Swedish roots and a swedish friend said this:
The word SOPA means "trash" in Swedish. The word PIPA means "a pipe" in Swedish. This is of course not a coincidence.
They want to make the internet inte a one way pipe, with them at the top, shoving trash through the pipe down to the
rest of us obedient consumers.
The public opinion on this matter is clear. Ask anyone on the street and you'll learn that noone wants to be fed with
trash. Why the US government want the american people to be fed with trash is beyond our imagination but we hope that
you will stop them, before we all drown.

SOPA can't do anything to stop TPB. Worst case we'll change top level domain from our current .org to one of the
hundreds of other names that we already also use. In countries where TPB is blocked, China and Saudi Arabia springs to
mind, they block hundreds of our domain names. And did it work? Not really.
To fix the "problem of piracy" one should go to the source of the problem. The entertainment industry say they're
creating "culture" but what they really do is stuff like selling overpriced plushy dolls and making 11 year old girls
become anorexic. Either from working in the factories that creates the dolls for basically no salary or by watching
movies and tv shows that make them think that they're fat.

In the great Sid Meiers computer game Civilization you can build Wonders of the world. One of the most powerful ones
is Hollywood. With that you control all culture and media in the world. Rupert Murdoch was happy with MySpace and had
no problems with their own piracy until it failed. Now he's complainting that Google is the biggest source of piracy
in the world - because he's jealous. He wants to retain his mind control over people and clearly you'd get a more
honest view of things on Wikipedia and Google than on Fox News.

Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can't access this information
when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We're sorry for that.

THE PIRATE BAY, (K)2012

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asteris twitterde op donderdag 19-01-2012 om 22:32:42 Wow! RT @dragonfire1024 BREAKING: In response to #Megaupload seizure #Anonymous takes down #US Justice Dept website http://t.co/S0VWPFgo reageer retweet

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alphaleah twitterde op donderdag 19-01-2012 om 22:33:21 And, again, that was fast! RT @BarrettBrownLOL: http://www.universalmusic.com/ down #Anonymous #Antisec #SOPA reageer retweet

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Stemming over omstreden auteursrechtenwet PIPA uitgesteld

De leider van de Democratische fractie in de Amerikaanse senaat Harry Reid heeft een stemming over de Protect IP Act (PIPA), een omstreden anti-piraterijwet, uitgesteld. Aanvankelijk zou de Amerikaanse Senaat er aanstaande dinsdag over stemmen, maar de wet stuitte wereldwijd op veel weerstand.

'In het licht van de recente ontwikkelingen' besloot Reid om de stemming, waarin moest gaan blijken of PIPA daadwerkelijk als wetsvoorstel zou worden ingediend, op te schorten.

In een officiële verklaring stelt Reid dat hij ervan overtuigd is dat er de komende weken een compromis kan worden bereikt tussen voor- en tegenstanders van deze wet. Hij heeft er vertrouwen in 'dat er een balans kan worden gevonden tussen de bescherming van intellectueel eigendom van Amerikanen en het behouden van het open en innovatieve karakter van het internet.'

SOPA
Samen met een soortgelijke wet, de Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), leidde het wetsvoorstel de laatste dagen tot veel onrust. De twee wetten zijn bedoeld om de toegang tot buitenlandse sites te blokkeren, zodra die content aanbieden die op een illegale manier is verkregen.

Tegenstanders menen dat de wetten de internetvrijheid beknotten en kunnen leiden tot censuur. Eerder al werd de behandeling van SOPA uitgesteld, zodat er meer deskundigen over gehoord kunnen worden. De afgelopen dagen bleek de steun onder Amerikaanse politici voor de wetten al steeds verder af te kalven.

Afstel
Of van uitstel in dit geval ook afstel komt, is echter nog de vraag. Ondanks de verminderde steun is er in de senaat momenteel nog geen meerderheid tégen de wetten. En uit de verklaring van Reid blijkt dat hij vastbesloten is om tenminste enig resultaat te boeken. 'De Amerikaanse economie is jaarlijks miljarden dollars en duizenden banen kwijt aan piraterij', memoreert hij. 'Dat moeten we stoppen.'

Het belangrijkste verschil tussen SOPA en PIPA is dat de eerstgenoemde een wetsvoorstel van het Huis van Afgevaardigden is, terwijl het tweede uit de Senaat komt. Inhoudelijk verschillen de twee wetten slechts op een aantal details van elkaar.

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How The Anonymous Hacker Group Took Down The FBI's Site In Its Largest Attack Ever

Hacker group Anonymous coordinated ~5,600 people to attack and bring down the websites of the Department of Justice, RIAA, MPAA, Universal Music Group, the US Copyright Service, and the FBI yesterday evening.

The attack, called #OpMegaUpload, was the largest ever by Anonymous. The name references the FBI's takedown and indictment of file-sharing site Megaupload, which was what provoked Anonymous.

Mother Jones reporter Josh Harkinson dove into chat rooms to find out more about it.

Apparently, the attacks were organized in old-school Internet Relay Chat chatrooms, which help maintain users' anonymity, and there hackers organized the distributed denial of service (dosing) assaults.

Harkinson spoke to one hacker, who said they launched the operation because:

. "Taking down megaupload was another bad attempt at fighting piracy. Putting a webmaster in jail because the users of his website posted copyrighted material is outrageous. ... [Thanks to SOPA and PIPA,] a lot of people really fear the end of the internet as we know it ... They cannot ignore us now.

Meanwhile, Megaupload is preparing to defend itself against accusations that it is a huge criminal enterprise. The arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom apparently played out like a movie, with Dotcom retreating deeper into his enormous mansion and activating layer after layer of security.

His defenders are saying that shutting down Megaupload for hosting some pirated content would be like shutting down YouTube for the same reasons.

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Digitale oorlog na '#JodenGaanEraan'

Negen dagen voor de klassieker tussen Feyenoord en Ajax is de digitale strijd tussen de supporters van beide clubs losgebarsten. Op Twitter is de hashtag '#JodenGaanEraan' al urenlang trending topic.

Dat komt voor een groot deel door mensen die schande spreken van de antisemitische hashtag. Ook zijn er mensen die aan Twitter vragen om actie te ondernemen tegen mensen die de hashtag gebruiken.
Daarnaast verschijnt als tegenactie de #BommenOpRotterdam steeds vaker op Twitter, die hashtag is ondertussen ook trending topic geworden.

Het trending topic #JodenGaanEraan is extra pijnlijk omdat het juist vandaag exact 70 jaar geleden is dat Duitsland tijdens een geheime conferentie in Wannsee sprak over de deportatie en vernietiging van Joden tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

'Zeer kwetsend'
Hoogst onsmakelijk. Zo betitelt Ronny Naftaniel vanavond het trending topic. De directeur zei dat zijn Centrum Informatie Documentatie Israël (CIDI) heeft geprobeerd de zogenoemde hashtag te verbieden, vooralsnog tevergeefs. 'We hebben nog geen contact kunnen krijgen met Twitter.'

'Natuurlijk gaat het om voetbal en natuurlijk gaat het om supporters. Maar als je dit met opgeheven hoofd zegt, kennelijk met een zekere trots, dan zit je op het niveau van de nazi's', aldus Naftaniel. De CIDI-directeur wil niet zeggen dat de uitlatingen strafbaar zijn, maar 'kwetsend zijn ze zeker'. Het CIDI is samen met clubs en de KNVB al langer bezig om kwetsende uitlatingen uit voetbalstadions te bannen.

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Op vrijdag 20 januari 2012 20:33 schreef viagraap het volgende:

Anonymous Message To Congress. #OpGlobalBlackout Threat To Shutdown YT Facebook Twitter UN servers

Als ze dit waar kunnen maken

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Anonymous' neue Waffe

Anonymous-Aktivisten haben für ihren am Donnerstag begonnenen DDoS-Angriff auf die Website des US-Justizministeriums eine speziell präparierte Webseite genutzt, die massenhaft Anfragen an die Domain justice.gov sendet. Nach dem Aufruf der Seite sorgen einige Zeilen JavaScript dafür, dass der Browser den Behördenserver mit HTTP-Anfragen überflutet. Die Seite wird unter anderem bei PasteHTML gehostet, wo jedermann anonym HTML-Quellcode veröffentlichen kann.

Bislang hatte das lose Aktivistenkollektiv für derartige Angriffe vor allem die Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) eingesetzt, die von den Teilnehmenden zunächst heruntergeladen und ausgeführt werden muss. In einigen Ländern einschließlich Deutschland ist dies ein klarer Fall von Computersabotage und somit strafbar. Wie das im konkreten Fall aussieht, ist allerdings unklar: Der JavaScript-Code erfordert keine Nutzerinteraktion und legt direkt nach dem Öffnen der Seite mit dem Angriff los.

Man hat vorab keine Chance, die mit dem Besuch der Seite verbundenen Konsequenzen zu erkennen. Anonymous-Sympathisanten haben den Link zur Seite massenhaft über Twitter verbreitet und dabei häufig diverse Link-Verkürzer eingesetzt, die die wahre URL verschleiern. Um möglichst viele Aufrufe zu erreichen, wurden die Twitter-Besucher in vielen Fällen unter falschen Vorwänden auf die Seite gelockt.

Der Angriff ist Teil der #OpMegaupload, die Anonymous nach der Verhaftung von Kim Schmitz ins Leben gerufen hat. Während die Webseite des Justizministeriums gestern Abend zeitweise tatsächlich nicht erreichbar war, hat sich die Lage inzwischen wieder beruhigt. Die Behördenseite ist derzeit uneingeschränkt erreichbar.

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Some people just don't know how to keep a job:

Aaron Barr, Cybersecurity Analyst Who Was Hacked By Anonymous And Infiltrated Occupy Wall Street, Gets Fired

NEW YORK -- Just last week Aaron Barr, the former HBGary Federal CEO whose email was hacked by Anonymous in February, was "schooling" the FBI on security and social media. Now he's been let go from his new job at another federal contractor, Sayres and Associates. His former boss at Sayres told HuffPost it was because Barr was acting like a "cowboy" on the company dime.

Barr's strange year in the public eye began in early 2011. At the time he was the CEO at HBGary Federal, an information security contractor working with both federal government agencies and with outside firms. In a February 4 article, he claimed to the Financial Times that he was on the cusp of exposing the leaders behind the loose-knit confederation of hackers and activists known as Anonymous.

The Anons struck back, releasing thousands of internal emails from HBGary -- emails that showed that HBGary was working for a law firm, which was in turn working for the US Chamber of Commerce, to hurt Wikileaks by feeding it false information and discrediting its supporters in the media.

As the plot was exposed, Barr was forced to step down at HBGary. Months later, he had moved on to a new job at Sayres and Associates, which does contracting work with the US Navy and the Department of Homeland Security.

"When I hired Aaron about eight months ago, it was under the perception that we were going to be able to help the NSA with some things relating to national security, not with Anonymous and social groups," said John Sayres, the company's founder.

According to Sayres, what he got instead was a series of headaches.

"When I brought him on I said hey, we'll give him six months and see how he can help our company -- and I saw no help, all I saw was things I didn't want to see," he said.
Those may have included a mention on Threatpost about Barr's "strange trip" to visit Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park, where he dyed his hair blue in an attempt to fit in with protesters and see what they were up to. Barr's name also appeared in a set of emails mistakenly released by another cybersecurity analyst he is friends with, Thomas Ryan. Ryan snuck his way onto an Occupy Wall Street email organizing list, forwarding some of those messages to FBI agents and then releasing a batch of them onto the web.

At the time, Barr told HuffPost he was simply dropping in on Occupy Wall Street out of curiosity, hoping to see how Anonymous was interacting with the movement. Barr said he played no part in Ryan's efforts to "snitch" on Occupy Wall Street -- even though he was copied on one of the emails between Ryan and an FBI employee.

Following it all is a little bit complicated -- a vertigo-inducing trip into the shady border zone between feds, security consultants and hackers. But after Barr popped up in the news again last week, presenting at an FBI-sponsored cybersecurity conference with a speech called “How I learned to stop worrying and love social media," his boss decided he'd had enough.
"I never got a copy of what he was presenting at the conferences," said Sayres. "He was kind of like a cowboy, off on his own and doing his own thing, and that's not how I run the company."
Sayres said he never expected Barr to be back at it again, talking in public about Anonymous, or collaborating with the FBI, which he said his company has no business with.
"It looks to me like he's back in the same old playground," Sayres said. The conference speech was on January 11, and Barr was let go a week later.

For his part, Barr described his parting with Sayres and Associates as "amicable." He added that he has already found a new job, but declined to tell HuffPost where.
"Lol," he emailed. "Let me settle in first."

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Op vrijdag 20 januari 2012 20:33 schreef viagraap het volgende:

Anonymous Message To Congress. #OpGlobalBlackout Threat To Shutdown YT Facebook Twitter UN servers

Als ze dit waar kunnen maken

twitter:

AnonDaily twitterde op zaterdag 21-01-2012 om 04:33:07 So it seems that the last YouTube video I posted is NOT real. Apologies for the confusion. -AD reageer retweet

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Anonymous valt website Sarkozy aan

Hackerscollectief Anonymous heeft de website van de Franse president Nicolas Sarkozy aangevallen. De cyberactivisten wisten gisteren de code van de homepage te kraken en er hun motto achter te laten. Na enkele uren was de site hersteld.

De aanval van Anonymous lijkt een reactie op uitspraken van de Franse minister van Cultuur, Frédéric Mitterand. Die steunde de Amerikaanse aanpak van de grote downloadsite Megaupload.com. 'Het is misdadig, het is diefstal', zei Mitterand gisteren over het uitwisselen van auteursrechtelijk beschermde bestanden.

De Amerikaanse autoriteiten haalden Megaupload.com donderdag uit de lucht. Het hoofdkwartier in Nieuw-Zeeland werd ontmanteld. Zeker zeven mensen zijn aangeklaagd, onder wie een 29-jarige Nederlander. Hij en drie anderen worden mogelijk uitgeleverd aan de Verenigde Staten. Daar worden ze beschuldigd van onder meer witwassen, waar tot 20 jaar celstraf op staat.

Na de actie tegen Megaupload.com vielen hackers de websites van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie en de recherche FBI aan.

twitter:

BarrettBrownLOL twitterde op zaterdag 21-01-2012 om 08:00:45 Apparently I launched a campaign called "Operation Donkey Kong." No more drugs for me. http://t.co/dY9XKzCo reageer retweet