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Anonymous Message On How YOU Can Be A Part Of #OpGlobalBlackout FACEBOOK ATTACK 12 AM EST USA

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GUYS THIS IS FAKE. PROVEN AT THEIR IRC CHAT. PLUS ITS NOT IN THEIR IRC NETWORKS PAGE.

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Anonymous Documentary We Are Legion Peels Back Hacktivist Group’s History

PARK CITY, Utah — New documentary We Are Legion puts an actual human face on Anonymous, the hacktivist group whose members usually are seen wearing Guy Fawkes masks — if they are seen at all.

Considering Anonymous’ retaliatory acts against websites run by the Department of Justice and the entertainment industry just last week in response to the government takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists could almost be mistaken for a 93-minute news segment.

But unlike most news segments about the group, the documentary contains genuine moments with actual Anons (some maintain their anonymity in the doc, but others don’t).

“The last two or three days we’ve seen a lot of what Anonymous does,” We Are Legion director Brian Knappenberger said in an interview with Wired.com here Saturday, the morning after the documentary’s premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival. “You know, there was a film about the Weather Underground that came out a few years ago, and that was made 30 years after they were blowing up buildings, and I love that film. But picture making a film like that while they were still blowing up buildings — that’s what I’m talking about.”

We Are Legion might be the first to portray the group’s members as true revolutionaries, and it could serve as a time capsule if the kind of online sit-ins and retaliatory strikes that Anonymous has helped create become the new model for civil disobedience across the globe.

For those who didn’t hear of Anonymous until Occupy Wall Street started up, We Are Legion effectively puts the group’s current incarnation in historical perspective. The documentary traces the roots of early hacker-activist groups like the Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater before jumping into Anonymous’ roots in 4chan.

The documentary goes deep. Speaking with current and former Anonymous participants — as well as Wired writers Ryan Singel and Steven Levy — Knappenberger gives a thorough chronological account of Anonymous’ exploits, up to the group’s current place at the forefront of online disobedience.

Starting with Mercedes Renee Haefer, who was arrested in conjunction with the denial-of-service attacks against online payment service PayPal last July, the documentary talks to Anons and experts about Anonymous’ vendetta against Scientology, defense of WikiLeaks, and support of the actions in Tunisia and Egypt during the Arab Spring.

Slamdance, the underground alternative movie fest that runs during the Sundance Film Festival here each year, seems like the perfect place for We Are Legion‘s primer on Anonymous. The film might have seemed out of place at a glitzy Hollywood-in-the-hills screening.

“It feels right,” Knappenberger said of the premiere. “Slamdance has a kind of undercurrent of revolutionary, counterculture, slightly anarchic vibe that just seemed to fit [the film] right away.”

Knappenberger is looking for distribution for his film so it can be seen by a wider audience. It seems possible that Hollywood backers will shy away from a film about Anonymous after the group’s actions against the Motion Picture Association of America and other entertainment industry power players. But Knappenberger said he isn’t worried.

“I just want to tell the story,” he said, adding that considering Anonymous’ various targets over the years, “Who aren’t I offending?”

He could also take advice from his subject Haefer, who in the film says that what Anonymous ultimately hopes to protect is freedom of speech, regardless of a person’s opinions or background.

Or, as she says simply, “Your opinion matters.”

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TRANSLATION - TV interview with Polish Minister of Culture

TRANSLATION - TV interview with Polish Minister of Culture

http://www.tvn24.pl/0,173(...)tonie,wiadomosc.html

"I'm disappointed, but some of it is our fault" Say Polish Minister of Culture, Zdrojewski.

"I feel regret when someone is telling that the document was kept secret, when it was accesible on site, or that someone says it wasn't consulted, the consultation lasted 1 and half year. But there is always a bit of fault on our side as well" - he explains himself in "Fakty po Faktach"
Zdrojewski said that some of the opinions about ACTA should be cleared. Firstly, has the ACTA document been examined by the government in secrecy or in public. - It was discussed in public, it is guaranteed in Poland. It was us that has taken steps for the document to reach public opinion in April 2010.

Secondly, minister says, public consultations have taken place. - It's a sad truth, when I and my coworkers, with extraordinary effort, in a few days after it's publication, propose 27 subjects of discussion. This document is left for over a year and is widely accepted. I have information from Polish Sejm and Senat (government) that the document recommended with enthusiasm and one of another parties senators checks it's regulation. I am full of regret and I have a feeling there is something entirely different at stake here.

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AnonDaily twitterde op maandag 23-01-2012 om 19:40:51 Well according to @WhiteHouse that disclosure of #ACTA text would cause "damage to the national security." Bullshit?! reageer retweet

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Twitter.com Taken Down By “Anonymous” Hacker Group Or Clandestine DOJ Conspiracy?

Hacker collective “Anonymous” continues to strike at sites around the Web in retaliation for the government shuttering Megaupload.com, and today the notorious group briefly took down Twitter.com’s homepage according to numerous social media sites while other sources complain of a “government ploy” to disrupt the hacker group’s twitter accounts.

The “government ploy” circulating on Facebook and Google+ alleges that the U.S. Department of Justice has shutdown Twitter to stop the spread of several attacks by Anonymous who utilize numerous affiliated Twitter accounts to publicize and expand their exploits.

Anonymous has a long history of attacking government and business websites, and on Thursday the organization intermittently shut down the Department of Justice and Universal Music‘s websites. The collective said through various channels that it was retaliating for the shut down of popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com. Anonymous also recently made headlines for hacking into Stratfor’s website and database, stealing credit card information and other sensitive details.

According to SM sources; Twitter.com was taken down in a rather unusual manner Sunday afternoon after CBS.com’s homepage was taken down by Anonymous. As Gizmodo points out, the CBS takedown wasn’t a standard distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack because the CBS homepage only showed an index page with a single file. That suggests that whoever hacked the site deleted everything on it.

The CBS site was down for about 20 minutes, according to the @YourAnonNews Twitter account, an official broadcast channel for Anonymous. Showing its global reach, Anonymous is also apparently attacking several Brazilian websites today as well, including the websites of Brazil’s federal district and Tangara da Serra city. Quite a way to retaliate for Megaupload.

The Department of Justice indictment against Megaupload alleges that it is connected to a vast criminal enterprise has caused more than $500 million in harm to copyright owners. If convicted, the company and its executives could forfeit $175 million in assets, including 15 Mercedes, a Maserati, a Lamborghini, a Rolls-Royce with the license plate “GOD,” and a huge pile of computers and large-screen TVs. Four people, including Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, were arrested Thursday in New Zealand, and three others named in the indictment are unaccounted for.

The Twitter.com site was back up as of 4:50 PM EST with several “Anonymous” user related accounts deleted; but then suddenly went back down for a short period again at 4:55 PM EST.

It has since resumed normal operations.

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Download here ALL the SONY Discography and movies for free:

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Op dinsdag 24 januari 2012 00:21 schreef viagraap het volgende:

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Link is down.

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“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
- Paul Newman

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Op dinsdag 24 januari 2012 01:37 schreef boekenplank het volgende:

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Je hebt ze allemaal klaarliggen he je quotes.

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Verzin zelf eens wat.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2012 20:56 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
UN = Anonymous.

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Operation Payback - Anonymous Message About ACTA Laws, Internet Censorship and Copyright

0m44s: "In these modern times access to the internet is fast becoming a basic human right. Just like any other basic human right, we believe that it is wrong to infringe upon it."

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Deskundigen vinden toegang tot internet als grondrecht onnodig

Het recht om met een spandoek de straat op te mogen gaan, is cruciaal, maar er moet geen recht komen op een doek, stokken en spijkers om die vrijheid van meningsuiting te kunnen botvieren. Zo reageren deskundigen op het voorstel om toegang tot internet tot een grondrecht uit te roepen.

De Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (SIDN) heeft de Tweede Kamer in een advies opgeroepen tot een debat over die kwestie.

Internetenquête
Het advies bevat de uitkomsten van een internetenquête die de SIDN liet houden om te vieren dat 25 jaar geleden de eerste Nederlandse domeinnaam is vastgelegd. Een krappe meerderheid sprak zich uit voor internettoegang als grondrecht.

Zo ver gaat de SIDN niet. 'Het is een ingewikkeld onderwerp waar we zelf ook nog niet uit zijn', zegt directeur Roelof Meijer. 'Vandaar dat we aandringen op een debat.'

'Voor ons is het recht op vrije meningsuiting van belang, niet de vorm waarin je die mening ventileert', stelt een woordvoerder van Amnesty International. 'Toegang tot internet is het middel dat een doel dient, niet een doel op zich.'

Meningsvorming
'Het internet is ontzettend belangrijk voor de meningsvorming', zegt ook Bits of Freedom, een voorvechter van digitale burgerrechten. 'Maar de toegang is al wettelijk geregeld', aldus een woordvoerster. 'Een telecombedrijf dat internet of telefoon aanbiedt, mag niemand als klant weigeren.' Een sterkere verankering in de wet is niet nodig. 'We hebben de vrijheid van meningsuiting al.'

In hun verkiezingsprogramma's spraken PvdA, D66, SP en GroenLinks zich vorig jaar uit tegen plannen om gebruikers die illegaal gekopieerde fims, muziek en software downloaden na drie overtredingen van internet te verbannen. Zo'n maatregel is wel van kracht in Frankrijk. Daar kregen 760 duizend internetters een eerste waarschuwing en 62 duizend een tweede. 165 Fransen is door de rechter toegang tot internet ontzegd.

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Op zondag 22 januari 2012 18:53 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
http://www.anonyupload.com/

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anonops twitterde op dinsdag 24-01-2012 om 13:45:57 We have NO affiliation with this site, and by the looks of it, this is a SCAM - http://t.co/4kd9jtts reageer retweet

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Nieuwe ‘Megaupload’: AnonyUpload – en meer alternatieven

Hoewel er natuurlijk al genoeg filesharers en -hosters zijn, is een ‘Anonymous-achtig’ collectief bezig nog een alternatief op te zetten voor Megaupload, dat onlangs uit de lucht werd gehaald door de FBI. De hacktivisten hebben wel geleerd van de Megaupload-zaak.

De site, Anonyupload, moet morgen af en te gebruiken zijn. De makers stellen geen leden van Anonymous te zijn, maar de groep wel te steunen. Daarbij moet gezegd dat een ‘lidmaatschap’ ook een vaag begrip is voor het losse verband van hackers. Op het twitteraccount ‘van’ Anonymous wordt afstand gedaan van de site:

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anonops twitterde op dinsdag 24-01-2012 om 13:45:57 We have NO affiliation with this site, and by the looks of it, this is a SCAM - http://t.co/4kd9jtts reageer retweet

Op dit moment zouden ze bezig zijn de servers op te zetten. In Rusland, zodat ze niet onder de Amerikaanse wetgeving vallen (hoewel dat, gezien Megaupload, geen fluit uitmaakt). De makers verklaren dat Anonyupload niet bedoeld is als vervanging voor Megaupload, dat vorige week door de FBI werd opgerold. In totaal zijn bij die operatie zes mensen gearresteerd, waaronder de 29-jarige Nederlander Bram van der K. en Megaupload-oprichter Kim Dotcom. Anonymous nam snoeihard wraak voor die actie, door sites van de Amerikaanse overheid, auteursrechtenorganisaties en uitgevers neer te halen.

Het verdienmodel is gebaseerd op donaties, waarvan al genoeg zou zijn binnengekomen en voorlopig niets extra nodig is, valt te lezen. Anonyupload vraagt gebruikers, nu de donaties zijn stopgezet, serverruimte te kopen om het project te helpen. De bedoeling is niet te veel geld te verdienen, schrijft men; een sneer naar de puisant rijke oprichter van Megaupload, Kim Dotcom. Dotcom krijgt ook een persoonlijke boodschap van Anonyupload:

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PVV steunt achterkamertjespolitiek ACTA

Het achterkamertjesverdrag ACTA is achter gesloten deuren onderhandeld. En minister Verhagen wilde die onderhandelingsstukken geheim houden. Terwijl we dan niet weten wat de reikwijdte van dat verdrag is. Op 14 december stemde het parlement over of die stukken openbaar moesten worden gemaakt. Je zou toch denken dat de PVV tegen geheimhouding van dit verdrag is. Wat bleek? Niets is minder waar.

Kees Verhoeven (D66) diende tijdens het overleg samen met Pauline Smeets (PvdA) en Ewout Irrgang (SP) een motie in. In de motie wordt de regering verzocht om namens de EU alle ACTA-partners te verzoeken om de onderhandelingsdocumenten openbaar te maken. Ook wordt de regering in de motie verzocht om zonder deze stukken niet namens Nederland akkoord te gaan met ACTA, in ieder geval tot aan de definitieve ratificatie.

Het CDA, de VVD en de SGP verrasten ons niet: die stemden tegen de motie. Maar teleurstellend was de draai van de PVV. Waar deze partij in november samen met GroenLinks, de SP, de PvdA en D66 nog vurig pleitte voor openbaarmaking van de stukken en in december openheid eiste, bleek tijdens de voorbereiding op de Handelsraad al dat de partij als een blad aan de boom was gedraaid. En een dag later stemde de PVV dan ook tegen de motie, waardoor die geen meerderheid haalde. En daardoor kon ook Europa het verdrag ondertekenen. Als puntje bij paaltje komt maakt de partij zich dus blijkbaar toch niet zo druk over achterkamertjespolitiek en internetvrijheid.

Omdat de onderhandelingen over ACTA in het geheim hebben plaatsgevonden is het niet duidelijk wat de reikwijdte van het verdrag precies is. Bits of Freedom adviseerde de Kamer dan ook om te vragen om openbaarmaking van de onderhandelingstukken voordat het parlement zich uitspreekt over dit verdrag. Nu zal het parlement slechts nog één kans krijgen om het verdrag te weigeren: als Verhagen een wetsvoorstel voor goedkeuring introduceert. We hopen dat de PVV dan meer ruggengraat heeft.

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Brein eist blokkade Pirate Bay van internetproviders – KPN weigert

Internetproviders UPC, KPN en T-Mobile hebben van Stichting Brein het verzoek gekregen downloadsite The Pirate Bay te blokkeren. KPN is echter niet bereid om gehoor te geven aan het verzoek.

De verzoeken volgen op de uitspraak van de rechtbank in Den Haag begin januari dat internetproviders Ziggo en Xs4all verplicht zijn om The Pirate Bay te blokkeren.

Woordvoerders van UPC en T-Mobile meldden vanmiddag aan Webwereld dat ze het verzoek van Brein momenteel bestuderen. Ze zeggen nog niet of ze bereid zijn hier gehoor aan te geven.

Tweakers meldt dat ook KPN zo’n verzoek tot blokkade heeft gekregen. Een woordvoerder meldt tegen die site dat KPN niet bereid is daar gehoor aan te geven.

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US govt security website hacked

Portal offering Internet security advice taken offline by hacktivist group Anonymous in protest of piracy crackdown

Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down a website operated by US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that offers Internet security advice to consumers.

The hit on OnGuardOnline.gov appears to go beyond the usual denial of service attack. The Pastebin post claiming responsibility for attack purports to show a log of the intrusion in progress, with the hacker gaining complete access to the site's back-end MySQL database and posting links to a full copy of its copied structure.

The post also warns of further action if any of the anti-piracy bills – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the US and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Europe – pass, promising to destroy "dozens upon dozens of government and company websites". Anonymous affiliate group AntiSec also to have take control of "hundreds of rooted servers", as well as passwords, bank accounts and online dating details.

Hacking affiliated to the Anonymous movement continues around the world, with activists in Brazil launching denial of service attacks on the main Brazilian government website, brazil.gov.br, as well as other governement websites.

A seperate Anonymous-affiliated hacking group recently brought down multiple Polish government websites in protest of the Polish government's support for ACTA.

The @WikipediaAnon twitter account which claimed responsibility for the attack tweeted: “Dear Polish government, we will continue to disrupt and interfere with your government official websites until the 26th. Do not pass ACTA."

"We have dox files and leaked documentations on many Poland officials, if ACTA is passed, we will release these documents," the account tweeted later.

According to the BBC, governmnent spokesperson Pawel Gras initially claimed the website was down due "huge interest in the sites of the prime minister and parliament".

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http://pastebin.com/mJWUDtGD

#opmegaupload #antisec #anonymous
#ANTISEC SEZ ITS SOPA/PIPA/ACTA RETALIATION TIME.
PASS THAT TRASH AND WE WILL RM HALF THE CORPORATE INTERNET

"OnGuardOnline.gov, a partnership of fourteen federal agencies managed by the Federal Trade Commission
(FTC)" ... "the bad guys constantly develop new ways to attack your computer, so your security software must be
up-to-date to protect against the latest threats." ... etc etc you got rooted and rm'd. umad? don't like
it when your site is wiped of the internet do you?

If SOPA/PIPA/ACTA passes we will wage a relentless war against the corporate internet, destroying dozens upon
dozens of government and company websites. As you are reading this we are amassing our allied armies of
darkness, preparing boatloads of stolen booty for our next raid. We are sitting on hundreds of rooted servers
getting ready to drop all your mysql dumps and mail spools. Your passwords? Your precious bank accounts? Even
your online dating details?! You ain't even trying to step to this.

follow @anonymousirc - browse the onion embassy - chat on anonops

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http://www.load.to/e6arTZSBjt/onguard2.sql.gz
http://www.badongo.com/file/26149204
http://mirrorafile.com/files/BNZXWNZV/onguard2.sql.gz

BUST OUT TEH HAXLOG!?!?

mysql> use dc-onguardonline-gov;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed

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US launched cyber attacks on other nations

The assumption that the US has the technological know-how to cripple a competing nation has always been just that: as assumption. In a recent sit-down interview, however, a former spy chief confirmed that America has already waged cyber attacks.

Mike McConnell, the former director of national intelligence at the National Security Agency under George W Bush, tells Reuters this week that cyber war is more than a distant possibility. According to the current vice chairman at Booz Allen Hamilton, the US has already launched attacks on the computer networks of other nations.

McConnell did not add any input as to what countries have been hit with American cyber warfare in the past, but he did confirm that the US has already used the ability. When asked by Reuters if the United States had the capability to destroy the computer system of an adversary, McConnell responded “Yes.” When asked if it worked, he confirmed “yes” as well.

"Do we have the ability to attack, degrade or destroy? Sure. If you do that, what are the consequences? That is the question,” added McConnell.

Although the former spy chief neglected to name any countries that have been the target of American attacks, the US is believed by some to be the culprit behind a virus that targeted computer systems in Iran in 2010. Stuxnet, an advanced computer worm discovered in June of that year, impacted the computers used in conjunction with Iran’s nuclear program. In a January 2011 article in the New York Times, an American nuclear intelligence expert speaking on condition of anonymity said that the Israelis were behind Stuxnet, placing the blame on one of America’s most important allies. The expert adds in the article that Israel did indeed work hand-in-hand with the US in perfect Stuxnet before sending it to the Iranian networks, but that Washington wanted “plausible deniability.”

Other sources have since all but confirmed America’s involvement in the worm. German cyber security expert Ralph Langner told National Public Radio last year that the virus seemed like something out of science fiction, but added that, "Thinking about it for another minute, if it's not aliens, it's got to be the United States.” He went on to call the US “the leading force” behind Stuxnet, an assumption that many in Iran believe as well. While the Iranians have never officially recognized retaliation on their part, rumors of revenge via cyberwar have been rampant in recent weeks, particularly after news broke out of Mexico last month that hackers south of the border were being recruited by Iran to participate in an infiltration of American computers.

Before it launched an airstrike` attack on Libya in 2011, a cyberattack was considered as a route to oust Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, an Obama official said to the New York Times last year. In the end, however, America relied on other techniques. “These cybercapabilities are still like the Ferrari that you keep in the garage and only take out for the big race and not just for a run around town, unless nothing else can get you there,” the insider, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Times.

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Why was MegaUpload really shut down?

In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ)

I present to you... MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.

"UMG knows that we are going to compete with them via our own music venture called Megabox.com, a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings," MegaUpload founder Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz told Torrentfreak

Not only did they plan on allowing artists to keep 90% of their earnings on songs that they sold, they wanted to pay them for songs they let users download for free.

"We have a solution called the Megakey that will allow artists to earn income from users who download music for free," Dotcom outlined. "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works."

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Op dinsdag 24 januari 2012 21:44 schreef YazooW het volgende:

Veel te makkelijk om dit als een "conspiracy" te zien, reden waarom ze neergehaald zijn is omdat megaupload draaide op content die niet van hun zelf was en daar ook nog eens een hoop geld aan verdiende.