Anonops #12: Spy on the Spyers

Anon: Wordt gebruikt als aanduiding van zowel de totale internet-community als voor 4chan pubers
Anonymous: Hacktivist-organisatie.
Anonops: Een netwerk/infrastructuur dat door Anonymous gebruikt word om actie te voeren.
Peoples Liberation Front: Cyber millitia. Volgens CommanderX gevormd in 1985 met behulp van LSD. Werkt samen met Anonops als dat zo uitkomt.
http://www.itworld.com/in(...)mmander-x?page=0%2C0
Lulzsec: Leakers. Ze "testen" met veel plezier beveiligingen op internet.
Whatis-theplan.org Discussie-forum. Verander de wereld in 3 stappen. Ligt onder vuur door oldfag-trollen.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
4chan is een Engelstalig internetforum. 4chan werd op 1 oktober 2003 opgericht door de toen 15-jarige "moot". Gebruikers kunnen volledig anoniem afbeeldingen en reacties plaatsen over alle denkbare onderwerpen. De site is gebaseerd op het Japanse internetforum Futaba Channel en is onderverdeeld in verschillende subfora, 'boards' genaamd. Het meest populaire (en beruchte) is het Random board, genaamd /b/. 4chan gebruikers zijn verantwoordelijk voor het bedenken of populariseren van vele zogeheten internetmemes.
Een bekende meme komt van een Japanse manga.
Als je denkt dat je geweldig bent of iets fantastisch hebt gedaan zeg je “I’m over 9000”
Oprah Winfrey weet het , na een berichtje van 4chan, nu ook:

Iedereen kan via 4chan, maar ook via de ouderwetse IRC-channels, volledig anoniem met elkaar “communiceren”. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

4chan gaat over borsten, cracken/hacken van software en websites, down- en uploaden. De veelal jonge gebruikers van 4chan verveelden zich niet alleen met elkaar, maar hun kattenkwaad bereikte ook de echte wereld. Buren en leraren kregen ongevraagd pizza-bezorgers aan de deur of werden over de telefoon lastig gevallen nadat persoonlijke gegevens via 4chan werden verspreidt. Ook werden websites bestookt met commentaar of extreem veel bezoek. Bezoek dat na verloop van tijd werd geautomatiseerd met behulp van een test-tool voor websites, omgebouwd en omgedoopt tot Low Orbit Ion Cannon.


Binnen de Anon-community ontstond op een dag het hacktivisme. En het heette Anonymous. Anonymous belichaamde een belangrijk Anon-ideaal: Vrij, open, ongecensureerd internet, onbeperkte vrijheid van (het delen van) informatie. En Anonymous vond een vijand. Januari 2008.
Deze interne propaganda-video lekte uit en kwam uit via Gawker. Scientology staat er om bekend om auteurswetgeving te misbruiken om hun methoden uit de openbaarheid te houden. Scientology vroeg Gawker de video te verwijderen. De video bleef opduiken en nadat advocaten van Scientology wereldwijd websites terroriseerden kwam Anonymous met hun oorlogsverklaring.
Anonymous gebruikte het volledige 4chan arsenaal. DDOSsen van scientology-websites, e-mail/fax-bommen, prank-calls. Maar de acties breidden zich uit naar de echte wereld. Main-stream media pikten het op en demonstraties over de hele wereld vonden plaats.


Na maanden werd het wat rustiger tussen Anonymous en Scientology, maar Oparation Chanalogy loopt nog steeds. De strijd voor een vrij en open internet bleef en richtte zich vooral op platenmaatschappijen in Operation Payback. Die Operatie kreeg een ander karakter nadat Anonymous zich solidair verklaarde met WikiLeaks toen Joe Liebermann financiële mogelijkheden van WikiLeaks probeerde af te sluiten.

Kort daarna kwam de video voor Operation Payback uit.

3 januari opende Anonymous de aanval op websites van Tunesië, en Anonymous bemoeit zich tot op de dag van vandaag met de revoluties in het Midden Oosten. Niet alleen met DDOS-aanvallen, maar ook met informatie (naar demonstranten en naar het internationale publiek) praktische tips (EHBO, maak zelf een gasmasker) alternatieve communicatiemiddelen.

Ene Aaron Barr van HBGary Federal maakte in een interview bekend dat hij de leiders van Anonymous had geïdentificeerd. Een groep hackers hackte de computers van HBGary, zette een boodschap op hun website, wiste een berg data en openbaarde 70.000 e-mails. Uit de e-mails bleek dat het Amerikaanse bedrijfsleven en de overheid alle legale en illegale middelen gebruikt om tegenstanders (mensenrechten organisaties, vakbonden en WikiLeaks) kapot te maken.
http://arstechnica.com/te(...)rr-met-anonymous.ars

IRL-Troll familie Westboro Baptist Church dacht ook mee te kunnen liften en daagde Anonymous uit.
Waarna Th3 J3st3r de WBC-websites maandenlang plat legde.

NATO maakt zich zorgen:

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http://www.thinq.co.uk/20(...)persecute-anonymous/
NATO leaders have been warned that WikiLeaks-loving 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security, following recent attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce and defence contractor HBGary - and promise to 'persecute' its members.

Anonymous en Occupy Wall Str.:

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From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world

(Reuters) - It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.

Anonymous daagt Mexicaans drugskartel uit.

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Gabriella Coleman Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella (Biella) Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism. Between 2001-2003 she conducted ethnographic research on computer hackers primarily in San Francisco, the Netherlands, as well as those hackers who work on the largest free software project, Debian. Her first book, "Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking" is forthcoming with Princeton University Press and she is currently working on a new book on Anonymous and digital activism. She is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, including ones from the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Anonymous: From the Lulz to Collective Action

^{Gabriella Coleman, April 6 2011}

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Our Weirdness Is Free

The logic of Anonymous—online army, agent of chaos, and seeker of justice.

_{by Gabriella Coleman, [01.13.2012]}

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Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have become a force in global affairs.

^{The Huffington Post, Saki Knafo. Posted: 1/30/12 12:20 PM ET | Updated: 2/1/12 07:36 PM ET}

TIMELINE: The Evolution Of The 'Anonymous' Internet Hacktivist Group

Vorige delen:
Anonops : Take down mastercard
Anonops : Take down Politie.nl
Anonops #3: Soldiers are enlisting.
Anonops #4: The war goes on
Anonops #5: Anonymous en de MO-revoluties
Anonops #6: Anonymous en de MO-revoluties
Anonops #7: Meer is beter
Anonops #8: Occupy Wall Str.
Anonops #9: Get Los(t) Zetas
Anonops #10: Stop SOPA
Anonops #11: Stop ACTA

Jacob Appelbaum van The Tor Project.

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Op woensdag 29 februari 2012 17:52 schreef Renderclippur het volgende:
Krijg ik er deze reclame onder

[ afbeelding ]

Is daar een forum? Kan je er trollen?

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Anonymous & WikiLeaks Unite to expose Stratfor as 25 Anons are arrested

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The Kicker

The Stratfor password was the company name. These people are such idiots that I propose that their name be promoted to that rare category of word, where like quisling, the owner of the name has distinguished themselves as to define a whole category of behaviour and that henceforth, whenever someone hides their money under the mattress, puts their key above the door, or uses their name as their password, we will say they have pulled a stratfor.

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Privacy betrayed: Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive

Twitter has sold billions of archived tweets believed to have vanished forever. A privacy row has erupted as hundreds of companies queue up to purchase users’ personal information from the new database.

­Every time you use social networks you become mere product – it’s an idea we will all have to get used to. So, should we give up worldly goods and hide in a Tibetan monastery till the end of our days, or start putting up a fight to protect our privacy? In the latest in a long series of scandals over social networks that profit from our private data, the UK-based DataSift firm has announced that is has bought every tweet posted since January 2010. The business intelligence and data-mining platform will be the first company to offer the archive for sale.

DataSift’s Historics is a cloud-computing social data platform that enables businesses to extract insights and trends that relate to brands, news, public opinion and … actually anything you could ever need… from Twitter's public tweets. Now entrepreneurs will have access to billions of tweets, which literally means they will purchase every Twitter user along with all his secrets, GPS-location included. Thought the law protected you from thieves? No, on the contrary – it actually helps thieves to abuse you and steal your personal data. DataSift now brings to the table what it calls “an invaluable information source” with 250 billion tweets posted in 2010 alone. Historics is available today as a limited release to existing customers and is scheduled to be generally available in April 2012.

Het artikel gaat verder.

How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

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Last year, a group of hackers calling themselves Lulz Security (LulzSec for short) caught the internet's attention with a series of high-profile data breaches and website takedowns targeting the likes of Fox News, Sony and the US government, before apparently disbanding after 50 days of "lulz".

Throughout that period, the group's own website proved impervious to rival hacking attempts, thanks to an online security service called CloudFlare. Speaking to New Scientist in advance of his talks at the RSA conference and SXSW festival next month, CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince explains why he kept the hackers online, and how attacks on their site have helped protect the internet.

- oeps -

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FBI agent: Companies taking Anonymous 'too lightly'

Businesses are not taking Anonymous and hacktivism seriously enough, according to an FBI special agent.

The youth of alleged Anonymous hackers, who are often teenagers or in their early twenties, has lead a number of businesses to dismiss the hacking group without taking into account the ramifications of a successful hack, FBI cyber-investigator Eric Strom told the RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco on Wednesday.

"[Businesses] are taking it too lightly," said Strom. "A lot of people think it's a bunch of kids goofing around. In reality it's not, [hacktivism] can destroy a business."

eCrime Police in the UK have been working with the FBI and international law enforcement to round up suspected 'hacktivists' — people who engage in hacking for some claimed ideological end, rather than for monetary gain. Several UK teenagers and young adults were arrested in a series of raids in 2011, including teenagers Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis, and Hartlepool student Peter David Gibson.

Some businesses and public sector organisations reputations have been damaged by Anonymous exposure of information. For example, law firm ACS-Law, which disastrously accused thousands of people of illegal file-sharing, went out of business after details of people who had allegedly illegally accessed pornography were exposed during an Anonymous hack. ACS-Law was later fined £1000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for the exposure of personal information.

The Police Central eCrime Unit at Scotland Yard, and the FBI itself, were hacked by alleged Anonymous and Lulzsec group members, who posted a recording of a telephone conversation discussing Anonymous and Lulzsec investigations. The FBI later acknowledged that the recording was bona fide.

Some people who are involved in Anonymous are minors, and so are risking lighter punishments by participating in hacking attacks, said Strom.

"There are a number of challenges involved in this, from the age that a number of people who are involved in this, to the fact of how do you define the movement's goals," said Strom.

Anonymous is an amorphous group whose goals reflected its differing membership, said academic and journalist Mischa Glenny, who was appearing in a panel discussion with Strom.

"It's worth remembering that hacktivism does have a political background," said Glenny."Although in groups like Anonymous you'll find all sorts of characters."

Glenny said that the group claimed to be political idealists, but that in certain cases those idealists had been 'hijacked' by criminal elements for their own ends. Glenny gave the example of a Greek investigative journalist who specialised in looking into organised crime who had been beaten at a demonstration after being demonised by Anonymous.

"We have a real problem here in trying to identify what is genuine idealism, what is criminality, what is a sort of anarchic attitude to the internet, and what is a cover for piracy and other intellectual copyright issues," said Glenny.

ZDNet UK understands that certain investigators looking at Anonymous believe that some attacks claimed by the organisation have been state-sponsored.

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ACLU of Massachusetts makes statement on Twitter subpoena case

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BOSTON -- After nine weeks of secret court hearings, the Suffolk Superior Court has ordered Twitter, Inc., to comply with a state administrative subpoena issued by the Suffolk District Attorney's office on December 14, 2011, seeking personally identifying information for an anonymous Twitter user during the period December 8, 2011 to December 13, 2011, for "account or accounts associated with" the names "Guido Fawkes", "@p0ison0N", "@OccupyBoston", or the Twitter hashtags "#d0xcak3" and "#BostonPD." Twitter hashtags are essentially key words used to indicate a topic of conversation.

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Anonymous hackers ratted out by infiltrators

A law enforcement operation that ended with the arrest of 25 hackers in Europe and South America was not the result of police intelligence but rather an informers’ job within the hacker community, claims Anonymous.

­As well as launching a cyber-assault on Interpol’s website, the hacker group appears to be conducting its own investigation in order to find out how police managed to break through its veil of anonymity.

In a statement on Anonymous’ Spanish-language website, the group said that the arrests were down to the “carelessness” of the parties involved. They had apparently given “personal details to spies and people who were not members” of the organization.

“This wave of arrests was not the product of intelligence or technical wizardry on the part of Interpol, like they want you to believe. They were done using a much more deplorable technique: the use of spies and informants within the collective,” says Anonymous.

According to the group, the fact that certain members had not participated in a hacking operation for some time, and were all active on the same server (anonworld.info) that “had been under surveillance as of May last year” marked them out as infiltrators.

The group of hackers that suffered the most as a result of the Interpol raid is known as Sector404. The others were unsophisticated activists who participated in denial-of-service attacks.

The hacker community is also busy verifying who exactly police arrested during the raid. The fact that they knew each other by nicknames adds an element of difficulty to their research.

According to the communiqué issued by Anonymous Iberoamerica, hackers known as “Pacotron” (Thunder) and “Troy” were arrested in Spain.

A police raid dubbed "Operation Unmask" was launched in response to coordinated cyber-attacks hackers conducted against governmental and corporate websites in Chile and Colombia, Interpol reports.

A total of 25 arrests were made in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Spain.

Chile's chief prosecutor, Marlis Pfeiffer, told The Associated Press that police specialists currently examining confiscated computers and phones have encountered difficulties, most probably because of encrypted data.

"This operation shows that crime in the virtual world does have real consequences for those involved, and that the Internet cannot be seen as a safe haven for criminal activity, no matter where it originates or where it is targeted," announced Interpol's executive director of police services, Bernd Rossbach, in a statement released by Interpol.

The organization naturally has not revealed the sources whose information led to the detention of the hackers.
Initially, the Anonymous group became known for launching denial-of-service attacks on organizations which had interfered with the activities of the whistleblowing website, Wikileaks. Some of the data they obtained from the hacked sites was passed on to Wikileaks.

The Anonymous community is a fragmented organization with no discernible structure or membership. The hackers associated with it traditionally act independently, their number and whereabouts remaining unknown.

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Artist and Hacktivists Sabotage Spanish Anti-Piracy Law

In an attempt to sabotage a new anti-piracy law that went into effect today, hundreds of websites in Spain are participating in a unique protest organized by a local hacktivist group. The websites all link to an “infringing” song by an artist loyal to the protest, who reported the sites to the authorities to overload them with requests.

Traditionally, Spain has been one of the few countries where courts have affirmed that P2P-sites operate legally. This situation was met with disapproval by the United States Government who behind closed doors proceeded to help the Spanish authorities draft new laws to protect the interests of copyright holders.

Threatened with being put on a United States trade blacklist, the Government passed the so-called ‘Sinde Law’ in a rush late last year. The law allows for the blocking of allegedly infringing sites based on reports from copyright holders, a position similar to that proposed by the US SOPA bill.

Today the Sinde law went into effect and immediately it was met with resistance from opponents. The group Hackivistas was quick to organize a rather unique form of protest. They encouraged sites to link to a copyrighted track from the artist Eme Navarro, who’s a member of the music rights group SGAE, but critical of the Sinde law.

While Navarro generally publishes his music under a Creative Commons license, he created an “all rights reserved” track specifically for the protest. Thanks to the hacktivist campaign hundreds of websites are now linking to this copyrighted song without permission, and Navarro reported a first batch of sites to the Ministry of Culture early this morning.

As a result, the commission tasked with reviewing all the requests will be overloaded with complaints. All the reported sites have to be processed on order of arrival, so the protest will significantly slow down this review process.

“The aim of this action is testing this law and being the first ones who use it in order to show the absurdity and the censorship that it will bring,” the hacktivists say commenting on their action.

The sites participating in the campaign do risk being blocked by Internet providers, but according to the law they have to be notified about the alleged infringement first. Then they get the chance to remove the infringing link to avoid being blocked.

Besides from the “sabotage” angle, another goal of the protest is to find out how the takedown process works. Right now there is still much uncertainty about how the commission will operate and how websites will eventually be blocked, a Hacktivistas member told TorrentFreak.

“Nobody knows how they will shut down websites. We suspect that they will ask Spanish companies hosting the websites to shut them down, and that Spanish service providers will block websites that are hosted outside of Spain.”

“They will also censor foreign websites, so anyone in the world can join us. We want to check what happens in every case,” the hacktivist added.

Hacktivistas is known for their controversial campaigns. In 2008 the group gathered in front of the headquarters of the socialist party to share copyrighted files in public. The police knew what was going on but didn’t touch them, suggesting that P2P downloading is legal.

In the years that followed the group wrote handbooks to avoid internet censorship, mapped copyright lobby networks, and launched fake governmental campaigns to promote copyleft and free access to cultural goods.

Joining the current protest is easy, websites can add a link to the infringing track through a simple piece of code provided on the campaign website. Just make sure not to ask Eme Navarro for permission.

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Twitter gives Boston police, prosecutors data from one subscriber in criminal inquiry

Social media giant Twitter handed over subscriber information yesterday for one Twitter account indirectly tied to the Occupy Boston protest, ending a court battle fought behind closed doors as Boston law enforcement investigated hacking attacks on the Boston police and a police union.

The administrative subpoena was first sent to Twitter last December requesting information on the following Twitter subscriber accounts and hashtags: Guido Fawkes, @pOisAnON, @OccupyBoston, #BostonPD and #dOxcak3.

In the Dec. 14 letter, a prosecutor in Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office told Twitter the information was needed to assist law enforcement in an ‘‘official criminal investigation.’’

According to Twitter spokesman Matt Graves, the company provided the subscriber information for @pOisAnON, an account that is associated with the name of Guido Fawkes. “We provided information on a single user,’’Graves said in a telephone interview yesterday.

Graves declined comment when asked how Twitter responded to the court’s order requiring the company to hand over information linked to hashtags and @OccupyBoston.

But Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, said prosecutors are satisfied with Twitter’s response to the court order.

“Twitter’s recent communication with our office gave both parties a clear understanding of what information was relevant to our probe. We requested and received only that information,’’ Wark said in an email. “This is a focused investigation, not a fishing expedition.’’

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Attorney Peter Krupp and the American Civil Liberties Union have fought the request by prosecutors in Suffolk Superior Court, where court records were impounded and court hearings were held out of earshot of the public in recent weeks.

But Superior Court Judge Frances McIntyre last week ruled against the ACLU’s efforts. She ordered Twitter to hand over the information this week, and Twitter has complied with the judge’s instructions.

Speaking for the ACLU, Krupp said yesterday they continue to believe that the constitutional rights of their client, who uses the Twitter name of Guido Fawkes, are being violated. The ACLU also wants the entire case file to be made available to the public; only McIntyre’s order and the subpoena have been unsealed.

‘‘We continue to believe that our client has a constitutional right to speak, and to speak anonymously,’’ Krupp said, adding that the request by prosecutors ‘‘infringed our client’s rights under the First Amendment.’’

He said there will be no more legal fights on behalf of Guido Fawkes because Twitter has provided the information to law enforcement officials.

Prosecutors and Boston police have not publicly disclosed the focus of the criminal inquiry.

Wark said that prosecutors are not targeting those who participated in the Occupy Boston takeover of Dewey Square, some of whom were arrested by police when the makeshift campground was shut down in December.

‘‘The relationship between this investigation and Occupy Boston is tangential at best,’’ Wark said. ‘‘The charges arising out of the Dewey Square protest have already been addressed by the court. [Any media report] that links this investigation to the protest movement has been, and will continue to be, completely erroneous.’’

During the past several months, the main police website and the website for the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association have been targeted by computer hackers, some of whom claimed to have acted on behalf of Occupy Boston protesters.

Twitter heeft de aanklagers dus uit moeten leggen dat het onzin is om info te vragen over een hashtag.

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AntiSec dumps Monsanto data on the Web

Anonymous continued its ongoing attack on agricultural biotech giant Monsanto today by publishing an outdated database of the company's material. This is the newest in a barrage of strikes from hackers aligned with Anonymous who operate under the "AntiSec" banner.

In a statement posted with the database on a Pastebin site, the hacktivist group wrote it was aware that exposing the database would not do much harm to Monsanto but warned it would continue to target the company for what it sees as wrong.

"Your continued attack on the worlds food supply, as well as the health of those who eat it, has earned you our full attention," wrote AntiSec. "Your crimes against humanity are too many to name on one page."

Anonymous' battle with Monsanto began last July when the hackers disrupted the company's Web site and then released data on about 2,500 individuals involved in the agriculture industry. According to Monsanto, 10 percent of this information was related to current and former Monsanto employees.

Monsanto was one of seven companies that supplied the U.S. military with Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and for a while made bovine growth hormones. Now it focuses on making genetically engineered seeds and pesticides.

AntiSec says the reason for the attacks is to protest the company's lawsuits against organic dairy farmers for stating on labels that their products don't contain growth hormones.

"You have put over 9000 small-time farmers out of business by using your enormous legal team to bury them with your malicious patent lawsuits," AntiSec wrote in its statement today. "You have continually introduced harmful, even deadly products into our food supply without warning, without care, all for your own profit."

Besides going after Monsanto, AntiSec has also recently claimed responsibility for attacks on U.S. law enforcement agencies, Vanguard Defense Industries, and private prison companies. In these assaults, the hackers deface the companies' Web sites as well as release documents, e-mails, and other files.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301(...)e-web/#ixzz1nzIU3Upf

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Constitution of Voxanon

Welcome to VoxAnon!

VoxAnon is not just a mere IRC server.

It represents a community. It is a movement. It is a philosophy. VoxAnon has been forged to provide a platform to facilitate inter-Anonymous discussion and activities. We are an alternative to those dissatisfied with the current selection of IRCs that Anonymous has. We represent a home to the homeless, a hivemind to abandoned, and a temple for the unfaithful.

The Founding Fathers of VoxAnon are veteran Anons who have been seeking a new means of safe and secure communication. The creation of VoxAnon will help not only facilitate but encourage the free flow of ideas without the threat of censorship and persecution. Additionally, we seek to build an efficient, proficient, and skillful community. We offer our network services to anyone who calls themselves an Anon, or considers themselves an ally of Anonymous. VoxAnon is a place where they will be able to propagate their skills or ideas for the cause.

We encourage everyone to consider VoxAnon to be your new home and we will in turn welcome you with open arms as brothers and comrades. United as one, divided by zero!

Mijn TT backfires

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Anonymous supporters attacked, their bank data vulnerable

Anonymous supporters who willingly enlisted their personal computers to launch denial-of-service attacks against the groups' enemies may have unwillingly donated their personal banking information in the process.

After the Jan. 20 raid on Megaupload, a law enforcement sting that drew the immediate anger of Anonymous hackers, an unnamed attacker took a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack tool called Slowloris, popular with Anonymous supporters, and rigged it to include the Zeus Trojan, a devious piece of malware used to siphon victims' online banking credentials.

That same day, an Anonymous-backed list of several different DDoS attack tools hit the Web. Backed by numerous Anonymous-affiliated blog postings and tweets, supporters were urged to download one of the tools, which would enable them to launch DDoS attacks from their own computers against big-name Anonymous targets, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, Universal Music Group and the Recording Industry Association of America.

[Feared Banking Trojan Hits Android Smartphones]

The trojanized Slowloris link was on the list, meaning countless people who thought they were supporting Anonymous' Operation Megaupload mission — targets also included Warner Music Group, the New Zealand police and the Motion Picture Association of America — were actually compromising their own financial security, the security firm Symantec reported.

The DDoS guide, Symantec said, was called "Tools of the DDoS trade" and "Idiot's Guide to Be Anonymous."

In the following weeks, the compromised DDoS tool was used in attacks on several United States government websites to protest the government's support of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and against Syrian government websites.

And all the while, Anonymous' loyal hackers may have been transmitting their own bank account data to a remote server.

"Not only will supporters be breaking the law by participating in DoS attacks on Anonymous hacktivism targets," Symantec wrote, "but may also be at risk of having their online banking and email credentials stolen."

Symantec said this explosive mixture of financial malware and worldwide hacktivism campaigns with eager (and easily deceived) participants is "a dangerous development for the online world."

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The Department of Homeland Security Is Searching Your Facebook and Twitter for These Words

The Department of Homeland Security monitors your updates on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to uncover “Items Of Interest” (IOI), according to an internal DHS document released by the EPIC. That document happens to include a list of the baseline terms for which the DHS–or more specifically, a DHS subcontractor hired to monitor social networks–use to generate real-time IOI reports. (Although the released PDF is generally all reader-selectable text, the list of names was curiously embedded as an image of text, preventing simple indexing. We’ve fixed that below.)

twitter:

anonops twitterde op zaterdag 03-03-2012 om 19:37:38 #DHSTweets Send a funny tweet using DHS-monitored keywords from this list >> http://t.co/2cLWFKEV (via @youranonnews) reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2012 20:00 schreef Schenkstroop het volgende:
Ik vind de logo van Anonymous verdacht veel lijken op die van de United Nations.. En United Nations is altijd slecht nieuws ongeacht hun mooie praatjes. Zijn mijn zorgen hierom terecht of interecht?

Anonymous is The Internet Hate Machine.

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2012 20:06 schreef YuckFou het volgende:

[..]

Die gasten hebben het dan echt stervensdruk want als je die lijst bekijkt dan staat zo'n beetje alles waarover je post er wel op, weertermen, drugs, computertermen, ik bedoel, rain, hail, winter, cocaine, drugs, virus?

En als je daarbovenop het systeem nog eens expres gaat voeren....

Geen nieuw idee. Jaren geleden was het idee om in iedere e-mail dat soort woorden (bv met witte letters) te zetten, veel woorden kan je zelf wel bedenken.

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Hello Big Media, Welcome to Black March where ‘we the people’ Censor You

Welcome to Black March — if you haven’t heard of it, pay attention if you want power back in the hands of ‘we the people.’ This month, achieve greatness. Most of all, fuck censorship.

Black March was a concept formed through Reddit activism, then adopted by the keyboard warriors of Anonymous in order to fight censorship.

On Shauna Myers Google+ page, this concept is broken down for us:

. After censorship bills have been thrown at us from all angles, its time to show big media corporations that we no longer have need of their services and will no longer be paying for them. That doesn’t mean no one should listen to music or watch any movies for an entire month. That means everyone should strive for independent artists.

. A list of independent, online artists of all varieties is being compiled by our own +Moan Lisa with links to YouTube profiles, DeviantArt galleries, and expositions of all varieties and sizes. (http://goo.gl/B0YJe) These independent artists are the ones who should be receiving your money this month, not the enormous corporations dominating Hollywood.

. These media corporations have already gone so far as to publicly issue threats against politicians who should dare to not fight for their wants. (http://goo.gl/vM0IX) The time has come to take matters into our own hands. If our governments will not stand up to them, then it is up to us.

. Bring money back to real people.
. Show big media that their time has come.
. Fight back against harsh censorship bills.
. Welcome to #BlackMarch

Moan Lisa compiled the list as stated above containing Indie movies, not those by Big Media trying to implement censorship. Use your money, attention and time toward something more valuable. Be a warrior.

The above image was created by: Occupy Movement which you can also find on Google+. Good job!

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Anonymous hacked?

As political parties, bank managers, and drug dealers have often found to their cost, infiltrators can be very hard to detect.

This is something that, perhaps, the members of Anonymous recently discovered for themselves, at least according to Symantec, the online security people.

For the company believes that members of the hacking collective were deceived into downloading a Zeus Trojan that gave up their banking details and other personal information.

On its blog, Symantec described how, on January 20--the day of the rather charming Kim Dotcom's sequestration by the FBI--members of Anonymous used their own personal computers to participate in DDoS attacks.

These were launched against a broad and institutional swathe of targets, such as the Recording Industry Association of America and the FBI.

Some mean-spirited--and still anonymous--individual allegedly inserted a Zeus Trojan into the Slowloris attack tool, of which many DDoS-ers are fond.

When members of Anonymous downloaded this tool, their banking details were apparently exposed like boxer shorts above low-slung pants and sent to a remote server.

I am grateful to MSNBC for discovering Symantec's troubling analysis.

However, Anonymous seems to have unloaded its own feelings about it.

For, on the YourAnonNews Twitter feed, there was posted a fierce rebuttal: "This post from @Symantec about @YourAnonNews's spreading the DDOS hijacking trojan is wrong & libelous to say the least http://goo.gl/MUVxD."

The following tweet read: "Dear @Symantec - @YourAnonNews NEVER posted the DDOS hijacker nor did we attempt to trick people; instead we WARNED of it."

And a third offered: "Also, @Symantec - maybe if you paid attention to more details and did proper due diligence, your source code wouldn't have been stolen. SMH."

So there.

Some will chortle with schadenfreude that the hackers may have themselves been hacked. But doesn't this tale, if true, offer something greater--and something sadder--about the brittleness of human trust?

In Anonymous' case, one assumes that many of its members have never met in person. Their relationship is guided entirely by their ability to trust through gadget-based means.

It is the equivalent of trying to find a lover online and only ever having dates with them online. You can't so easily look them in the eyes and see if their facial expressions and body movements betray their true thoughts. Skype doesn't quite deliver the same chance of interpreting human nuance.

Whenever you're trying to collectively build something--or even collectively trying to destroy something--a twisted being will soon waft into your day, pretend they're on your side, and then try to ruin things.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301(...)acked/#ixzz1o9RpZmoT

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Anonymous Hackers Attack Christian Websites, Declare 'Religion Sucks LOL'

Calling it a "sickness to this world," members of the formless 'hacktivist' group of computer programmers known as Anonymous declared war on religion on Friday, March 2, hacking the websites of three Christian organizations all based in and around Charlotte, North Carolina. The homepages for Bethel Outreach International Church, Charlotte International Church, and Crossfire Ministries were all replaced with the 30-minute long YouTube video, "Richard Dawkins: An Atheist's Call to Arms," and an informal declaration of war, with the title, "religion sucks lol [laugh out loud]."

The attack was announced by Twitter account @AnonymousIRC to its 276,783 followers. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is one of the several online social platforms that Anonymous uses to congregate and make plans, along with Facebook and Twitter. The first tweet, sent out at around 10 am EST read, "http://www.betheloic.org HACKED Reason:religious idiocy and foh dah lulz #Anonymous #AntiSec #OWS #ROOTED #DAWKINS." WRITER'S TRANSLATION: "The website www.betheloic.org has been hacked. The reason being the idociy of religion and because attacking them makes us laugh." Two tweets followed moments later with the same message, except for the name of the website that Anonymous had hacked, most likely with a proxy DDoS spam attack.

The video that Anonymous posted on each hacked site is a 31-minute speech by famous atheist Richard Dawkins, in which he told his fellow atheists not to hide their beliefs, and to fight against "the incursion of religion into politics and education."

This Friday's attacks are a continuation of Anonymous hacktivist's plan to launch online attacks against their perceived enemies once a week. Last Friday, Anonymous hackers took down several FBI affiliated website, including the Dayton, Ohio branch of InfraGard.

Anonymous also declared war on America in a YouTube video earlier this week, calling on US citizens to rise up against their government, although nothing much has come of this hyperbole so far.

The full text (some expletive words have been censored) that Anonymous posted reads:

Greetings fellow pirates, hey there religionf-gs! Guess what? U dun goofed! We rm'd you and your gods and saints neither't protected you nor casted some awesome thunderbolt onto us.

Let us be clear from the start: any kind of religion is a sickness to this world.
A sickness that creates hate and intolerance,
a sickness that brings people to wage war on their fellow people,
a sickness that has come to this world long time ago, when mankind wasn't educated,
a sickness that brought false hope and suppression to those who believed
and often even more terror and suppression to those who dared not to believe.
Religions are authoritarian hierarchies, designed to dominate your free
will. Religions are mind control. They're power structures that aim to convince you to give away your power for the benefit of those who enjoy dominating people. When you subscribe to a religion, you enroll in a mindless minion training program. Religions don't market themselves as such, but this is essentially how they operate. In case you ever wondered why religious teachings are invariably mysterious, confusing, and incongruent? This is no accident - it's intentional.

We see religion pretty much the same way as we see many governments. Fear mongering and making lots of money, so a small group of ppl will become insanely rich, while the believing masses can eat dirt .As long as they are afraid that "omgomg god will come and strike great vengeance upon me" all is good.

To quote Encyclopedia Dramatica (bringing you answers to life, the universe and everything since last Thursday) on this issue:

»Religion is a severe mental illness created over 9000 years ago, at the
same time as the Earth. Since then, religion has been one of the biggest sources of drama, f----try, and unwarranted self-importance in the world today, secondary only to the internet. It is responsible for such insanity as Christf-gs believing that beating someone half to death with a 2,000 year old book will heal them and Muslims believing that if they blow themselves up they will get 72 virgins. Even atheists are not immune to the psychotomimetic effects of religion; the mere mention of religion is enough to send any atheist into hours of butthurt sh-tfits.«

So people of the world, don't let religion control your life. Don't fight against each other for contrary beliefs. This world and our life can be a wonderful adventure, where you have the unique chance to help mankind and your fellow citizens. Where we can all work together to make this earth a better place for ourselves, our children and all those generations who will come after us. ^(;,;)^

[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door Papierversnipperaar op 04-03-2012 15:31:33 ]