Anonops #13: Stop CISPA

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Anonymous calls for shut-down of TrapWire to start this Saturday

As details surface about a futuristic and frightening global surveillance network called TrapWire, members of the Anonymous collective are calling for citizens everywhere to voice their opposition and help end the system beginning this Saturday.

“As we learn about TrapWire and similar systems in the surveillance industry, it becomes more apparent that we must, at all costs, shut this system down and render it useless,” active members of Anonymous write in a press release issued early Thursday. Beginning this weekend, Anonymous is asking others concerned with TrapWire and the acceleration of America into a full-fledged surveillance state to make their voices heard — peacefully.

“An omniscient AI electronic brain able to monitor us through the thick web of CCTV cameras, as well as online social media feeds is monstrous and Orwellian in its implications and possibilities. Anonymous will now put forth a call to arms. We will see to it that this evil and invasive system ceases to function, and the right to privacy is upheld," active members of the collective state.

Only one week after RT first broke news of TrapWire, an intricate global intelligence infrastructure discussed thoroughly in hacked emails allegedly obtained from Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, activists around the globe have denounced the state-of-the-art surveillance system that is believed to be in use across the world.

According to internal emails Anonymous claims to have hacked last year from Stratfor and distributed to WikiLeaks for publication as the Global Intelligence Files, the TrapWire system has been put in place in locales including Las Vegas, New York, London and Washington, D.C. Now active members of the loose-knit hacktivism group are encouraging all of those opposed to a system orchestrated by mysterious artificial intelligence programming with vast government ties to civilly reject it.

As stated in emails included in the Global Intelligence Files, Stratfor had a contractual agreement with TrapWire and its parent company, Abraxas, to advertise its product in exchange for an 8 percent commission [pdf]. Abraxas founder Richard Helms has publically stated that TrapWire “can collect information about people and vehicles that is more accurate than facial recognition, draw patterns, and do threat assessments of areas.”

When Abraxas white-papers and other publically available information is corroborated by claims made in the Global Intelligence Files, though, the TrapWire system is turned into not just a tool to fight terrorists but a stealthy way of letting law enforcement and federal agencies monitor the moves and actions of any person of interest.

Off the record, Stratfor Vice President of Intelligence Fred Burton allegedly claims in the hacked emails that TrapWire has allowed its affiliated agencies to do “what no US Govt Agency has been able to do in the CT [counterterrorism] arena.” Other accusations attributed to Stratfor link the surveillance system’s intelligence to being delivered “inside the walls” of the White House, Scotland Yard and other agencies, with Burton even touting their elusive ties in one decoded emails as purposely circumventing the “dysfunctional” Department of Homeland Security and bureaucratic Capitol Hill politics.

When the government is given the ability to decide what constitutes suspicious activity and no oversight into that decision making is at all apparent, the consequences of the TrapWire system transcend to a point where free speech and political activism can become nonexistent, lest the fear of governmental retaliation is ignored entirety. Given repeated reports of activists and journalists being targeted by law enforcement even within the United States this year, though, the fear of federal surveillance of all US citizens is quickly becoming not just a distant worry but a very real crisis.

Anonymous members have taken notice, and write this week, “The imbalance between our accountability to the government and big business and their accountability to us is growing.” Beginning Saturday, they want others to help end that asymmetry.

“Anonymous cordially invites you to observe and participate in an upcoming protest of what we see as a direct violation to our fundamental rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in privacy,” members of the group write. “This Saturday the 18th, Anonymous members will be engaging SplashCam as a branch of Op-TrapWire. The goal is to peacefully disrupt the unnecessary and disturbing surveillance of citizens beginning the morning of the 18, and ending when the network and infrastructure are proven to be off-line and no longer functioning.”

In order to do as much, Anonymous is also circulating suggestions that could be implemented to attempt to render TrapWire-linked cameras useless, even momentarily, including placing boxes and bags over cameras, plastering the lenses with stickers and even using household lubricates and other viscous liquids to leave the lenses unusable.

“Some TrapWire cameras are sealed inside a plastic dome, from which they observe our every move. Cover or smear this dome, or the exposed lenses, and the camera becomes useless. A way to achieve this is smudging with Vaseline, or other grease. Pudding as well as bean or starch pastes are also great alternatives, and while removable, are not easily cleaned whence dry,” members write.

“Many cameras are not within easy reach, so for these we recommend supersoakers or water-balloons full of karo syrup and water or, more easily available, soda.If you are within reach of the camera but do not have access to aforementioned items, simple crayons or other waxes will suffice.”

In the single week since TrapWire has been exposed, both Abraxas and its parent company have tried to dismiss their connection with the program, although alleged Stratfor emails suggest that the system, at least at the time of that correspondence, was growing by the day.

The New York Police Department — who is documented in the Global Intelligence Files to have entered an agreement with the surveillance system — has shot down rumors of existing ties as well. In Australia, where TrapWire is rumored to be operated, a Sydney Morning Herald piece published earlier this week critiquing the project was mysteriously scrubbed from the website of the paper and its affiliates.

With the mainstream media only slowly catching on to a campaign growing even quicker than TrapWire itself, Anonymous members say that dismantling the linked devices and raising awareness is necessary for the sake of all.

“They will not hesitate to label us terrorists, and that we are out to destroy and undermine safety,” the members say in a statement. “They will say we are the ones placing you in danger. We are merely patriots taking a stand for individual rights outlined in the Constitution and which our elected officials swear to uphold but have failed to do.”

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RIAA Revenue Dwindles As Labels Cut Back

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The latest RIAA tax filing shows that the revenue generated by the anti-piracy group has reached a new low. In just two years the membership dues from music labels have been cut in half and have now sunk to below $30 million a year. While the group has 72 employees, payouts to the top two executives including CEO Cary Sherman amount to more than $3 million, some 25% of the total wage bill.

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John-Michael Howson taunts Julian Assange's Mum with Nazi slogan

3AW Sunday Morning contributor John-Michael Howson embroiled himself in controversy this morning when he used a Nazi slogan after Julian Assange's Mother backed out of an interview.

Christine Assange was waiting on hold while Darren James, Nick McCallum and Howson interviewed Sam Castro from the Wikileaks Australian Citizens Alliance regarding Ecuador's decision to grant political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

PLAY: The fiery exchange between John-Michael Howson, Sam Castro and Christine Assange

Howson called Castro a hypocrite for supporting Assange's decision to seek political asylum in Ecuador, a country Howson claims has a 'poor' human rights record.

"You people are so full of it, you make me want to spew up," Howson said.

"You support free speech yet you're going on about a country that restricts free speech," he added.

Christine Assange was put to air after Castro's interview concluded and she immediately condemned John-Michael Howson's treatment of the previous guest.

"I won't be doing an interview with you because you're acting like a pig,'' Ms Assange said.

Howson responded by screaming on air: "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!''

Ms Assange then hung up the phone.

Howson claims he was censored by Ms. Assange because she denied him the chance to state his opinion:

"These people just want to come on air and give us their propaganda and they don't want any tough questions."

Callers were polarised on the appropriateness of his outburst, and Nick McCallum referred to John-Michael Howson as an 'equal opportunity abuser.'

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pacific_justice twitterde op zondag 19-08-2012 om 11:49:14 After Christine #Assange was grossly insulted today, It appears the #3AW website has been defaced LOL http://t.co/mjbi7TgZ #Anonymous reageer retweet

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Hackers backdoor the human brain, successfully extract sensitive data

With a chilling hint of the not-so-distant future, researchers at the Usenix Security conference have demonstrated a zero-day vulnerability in your brain. Using a commercial off-the-shelf brain-computer interface, the researchers have shown that it’s possible to hack your brain, forcing you to reveal information that you’d rather keep secret.

As we’ve covered in the past, a brain-computer interface is a two-part device: There’s the hardware — which is usually a headset (an EEG; an electroencephalograph) with sensors that rest on your scalp — and software, which processes your brain activity and tries to work out what you’re trying to do (turn left, double click, open box, etc.) BCIs are generally used in a medical setting with very expensive equipment, but in the last few years cheaper, commercial offerings have emerged. For $200-300, you can buy an Emotiv (pictured above) or Neurosky BCI, go through a short training process, and begin mind controlling your computer.

Both of these commercial BCIs have an API — an interface that allows developers to use the BCI’s output in their own programs. In this case, the security researchers — from the Universities of Oxford and Geneva, and the University of California, Berkeley — created a custom program that was specially designed with the sole purpose of finding out sensitive data, such as the location of your home, your debit card PIN, which bank you use, and your date of birth. The researchers tried out their program on 28 participants (who were cooperative and didn’t know that they were being brain-hacked), and in general the experiments had a 10 to 40% chance of success of obtaining useful information (pictured above).

To extract this information, the researchers rely on what’s known as the P300 response — a very specific brainwave pattern (pictured right) that occurs when you recognize something that is meaningful (a person’s face), or when you recognize something that fits your current task (a hammer in the shed). The researchers basically designed a program that flashes up pictures of maps, banks, and card PINs, and makes a note every time your brain experiences a P300. Afterwards, it’s easy to pore through the data and work out — with fairly good accuracy — where a person banks, where they live, and so on.

In a real-world scenario, the researchers foresee a game that is specially tailored by hackers to extract sensitive information from your brain — or perhaps an attack vector that also uses social engineering to lull you into a false sense of security. It’s harder to extract data from someone who knows they’re being attacked — as interrogators and torturers well know.

Moving forward, this brain hack can only improve in efficacy as BCIs become cheaper, more accurate, and thus more extensively used. Really, your only defense is to not think about the topic — but if you’re proactively on the defensive, then the hacker has already messed up. The only viable solution that I can think of is to ensure that you don’t use your brain-computer interface with shady software, brain malware — but then again, in a science-fictional future, isn’t it almost guaranteed that the government would mandate the inclusion of brain-hacking software in the operating system itself?

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'Operation Free Assange': Anonymous take down UK's Justice Ministry's website

The website for the UK Ministry of Justice is under attack after hacktivists engaged a mission to try and take down justice.gov.uk in retaliation for Britain’s handling of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Several Twitter accounts associated with the loose-knit Anonymous collective have acknowledged that the UK Ministry of Justice’s website is being targeted with a distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attack. The assault on the website is being carried out under a campaign branded #OpFreeAssange.

“#OpFreeAssange: TANGO DOWN! http://www.justice.gov.uk/ [500 Internal Server Error] [#Anonymous #WikiLeaks],” reads one tweet sent from the @Anon_Central Twitter account.

The hackers also claim to have taken down the website of another British government department, the Department of Work and Pensions. “Gov. of UK Expect Us!” read a tweet by Anonymous.

Assange, the founder and editor of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has been ordered by Swedish authorities to be extradited from the UK where he had been under house arrest. Two women from Sweden have accused Assange of sex crimes, although he has yet to be charged.

In fear of being sent to Sweden and then extradited to the US to be tried for his role with WikiLeaks, Assange applied for political asylum in Ecuador, which the Latin American country finally granted him last week after two months of waiting. Regardless, British authorities have refused to give Assange safe passage out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London so that he may travel overseas.

Before Ecuador President Rafael Correa approved the asylum bid, British authorities threatened to storm the embassy last week, prompting supporters of Assange and WikiLeaks to surround the building overnight in hopes of deterring any attempt by the UK to follow through with the extradition.

“If the UK did not throw away the Vienna conventions the other night, it is because the world was watching. And the world was watching because you were watching,” Assange told his supporters during his Sunday afternoon speech from London.

“So, the next time somebody tells you that it is pointless to defend those rights that we hold dear, remind them of your vigil in the dark before the Embassy of Ecuador."

In addition to lambasting the British for coming close to violating international law, Assange asked for US President Barack Obama to “do the right thing” and end his war on whistleblowing, saluting accused WikiLeaks contributor Private First Class Bradley Manning as a hero whose release from prison must be made immediately.

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Pussy Riot Trial: Hackers Target Website Of Court That Jailed Russian Punk Band

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The website of a Moscow court that convicted three members of punk band Pussy Riot to two years in jail each for belting out a profanity-laced anti-Kremlin song inside a cathedral was hacked on Tuesday.

A slogan denouncing President Vladimir Putin was posted on the site as was an appeal for the trio's release along with a video clip of one of the band's latest anti-Putin songs and a clip by Bulgarian singer Azis, local media reported.

The hack attack - claimed by AnonymousRussia, which says it is affiliated with hacking activist group Anonymous - comes amid a chorus of criticism of the sentences, which Western governments and singers said were disproportionate and opponents of Putin called part of a crackdown on dissent.

A screenshot posted by opposition activist Ilya Yashin on Twitter showed the court's web page topped by an inscription reading: "Putin's thieving gang is plundering our country! Wake up, comrades!"

Another caption called for the release of the band's jailed members - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Marina Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30.

The site of Moscow's Khamovniki district court http://hamovnichesky.msk.sudrf.ru/ was operating normally by noon (0800 GMT) but its hacked version was on display for several hours on Tuesday morning.

Darya Lyakh, a spokeswoman for the court, said a department of the Supreme Court had asked federal investigators to look into the hacking attack.

The high-profile trial ended on Friday with two-year sentences for the three women who were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.

The judge said they had deliberately offended Russian Orthodox believers by storming the altar of Moscow's main cathedral in February where they had sung a "punk prayer" urging the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin.

The women said their aim had been to criticize close ties between the state and the dominant Russian Orthodox Church, whose leader offered support to Putin in the run-up to his reelection to the presidency in March after four years as prime minister.

The United States and the European Union called the sentences disproportionate and Washington has urged Russian authorities to "review" the case.

Human rights groups and musicians including Madonna and Paul McCartney have also criticized the trial, but opinion polls indicate few Russians sympathies with Pussy Riot and support from local musicians has been muted.

On Monday, Russia police said they were searching for other members of Pussy Riot and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed Western criticism of the sentences, saying people should not "go into hysterics" about the case.

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TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program

How do you make matters worse for an elusive intelligence company that has been forced to scramble for explanations about their ownership of an intricate, widespread surveillance program? Just ask Cubic, whose troubles only begin with TrapWire.

Days after the international intelligence gathering surveillance system called TrapWire was unraveled by RT, an ongoing investigation into any and all entities with ties to the technology has unturned an ever-increasing toll of creepy truths. In only the latest installment of the quickly snowballing TrapWire saga, a company that shares several of the same board members as the secret spy system has been linked to a program called Tartan, which aims to track down alleged anarchists by specifically singling out Occupy Wall Street protesters and the publically funded media — all with the aid of federal agents.

Tartan, a product of the Ntrepid Corporation, “exposes and quantifies key influencers and hidden connections in social networks using mathematical algorithms for objective, un-biased output,” its website claims. “Our analysts, mathematicians and computer scientists are continually exploring new quantification, mining and visualization techniques in order to better analyze social networks.” In order to prove as such, their official website links to the executive summary of a case study dated this year that examines social network connections among so-called anarchists, supposedly locating hidden ties within an underground movement that was anchored on political activists and even the Public Broadcasting Station [.pdf].

“Tartan was used to reveal a hidden network of relationships among anarchist leaders of seemingly unrelated movements,” the website claims. “The study exposed the affiliations within this network that facilitate the viral spread of violent and illegal tactics to the broader protest movement in the United States.”

Tartan is advertised on their site as a must-have application for the national security sector, politicians and federal law enforcement, and makes a case by claiming that “an amorphous network of anarchist and protest groups,” made up of Occupy Oakland, PBS, Citizen Radio, Crimethinc and others, relies on “influential leaders,” “modern technology” and “illegal tactics” to spread a message of anarchy across America.

“The organizers of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy DC have built Occupy networks through online communication with anarchists actively participating in the movements’ founding,” the executive summary reads. On the chart that accompanies their claim, the group lists several political activism groups and broadcast networks within a ring of alleged anarchy, which also includes an unnamed FBI informant.

Although emails uncovered in a hack last year waged at Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, suggested that Occupy groups had been under private surveillance, the latest discovery of publically available information implies that the extent to which the monitoring of political activists on American soil occurred may have extended what was previously imagined.

Things don’t end there, though. While the TrapWire tale is still only just beginning, the Ntrepid Corporation made headlines last year after it was discovered by the Guardian that the company was orchestrating an “online persona management” program, a clever propaganda mill that was touted as a means “to influence regional and international audiences to achieve U.S. Central Command strategic objectives,” according, at least, to the Inspector General of the US Defense Department [.pdf]. The investigation eventually revealed that the US Central Command awarded Ntrepid $2.76 million worth of taxpayer dollars to create phony Internet “sock puppets” to propagate US support.

One year later, the merits of Tartan’s analytics are now being brought into question, but so are the rest of the company’s ties. A trove of research accumulated by RT, Project PM founder Barrett Brown, PrivacySOS.org and independent researchers Justin Ferguson and Asher Wolf, among others, has linked Tartan with an even more unsettling operation.

Margaret A. Lee of Northern Virginia is listed on several websites as serving on the Ntrepid board of directors as secretary, a position she held alongside Director Richard Helms, CFO Wesley R Husted and President Michael Martinka. And although several parties are going to great lengths to deny the ties, a paper trail directly links Lee and company to Abraxas — and thus Cubic — and, of course, TrapWire, the very surveillance system that is believed to be blanketing the United States.

According to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s State Corporation Commission, TrapWire Inc. was registered to Margaret A Lee on March 7, 2009. Other publically available information reveals that, at least at one point, Wesley Husted served as chief financial officer for TrapWire, Inc., where Richard H Helms held the title of CEO.

Various sources have since claimed that Helms, a former CIA agent that once ran the agency’s European division, has severed ties with TrapWire, yet the other connections remain intact.

In RT’s earlier research in the TrapWire case, it was revealed that TrapWire’s parent company, Cubic Corporation, acquired an online identity masking tool called Anonymzer in a 2010 merger, and also controls the fare card system at some of the biggest public transportation systems in the world. According to the latest findings, Cubic’s control extends beyond just that, though. Under their Ntrepid branch, Cubic controlled an operation that spied on political activists with FBI informants and attempted to link them to crimes across America.

Whether or not the TrapWire system was implemented in such operations is unclear, and Cubic continues to maintain that they are not involved with the surveillance network.

Last week, Cubic Corporation issued a press release claiming, “Abraxas Corporation then and now has no affiliation with Abraxas Applications now known as Trapwire, Inc.”

“Abraxas Corp., a risk-mitigation technology company, has spun out a software business to focus on selling a new product,” the article reads. “The spinoff – called Abraxas Applications – will sell TrapWire, which predicts attacks on critical infrastructure by analyzing security reports and video surveillance.”

Not only does a 2007 report in the Washington Business Journal insist that the companies are practically one in the same, though, but a 2006 article in the same paper reveals that Abraxas had just acquired software maker Dauntless. Researchers at Darkernet have since linked Lee, Husted and Helms to the Abraxas Dauntless Board of Directors as well.

Justin Ferguson, the researcher who first exposed TrapWire two weeks ago, has noted that Lee, Helms and Husted were listed on Abraxas Dauntless’ filings with Virginia as recently as December 2011. They also are all present on the TrapWire filings dated September 2011 and the latest annual filing made with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations on behalf of Ntrepid.

Nevertheless, in a conversation this week with Project PM’s Barrett Brown, Cubic Corp. Communication Director Tim Hall dismisses this ties again.

“There is no connection at all with Abraxas Applications and Trapwire and or Ntrepid,” Hall allegedly insists, according to audio uploaded to YouTube.

Brown, on his part, says he has obtained Cubic’s 2010 tax filings that show that Ntrepd, like Abraxas, is “wholly owned” by Cubic.

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Scared of Anonymous: Tampa police prepare for mass arrests during Republican convention

Are computer hackers, political activists and an underground army of anarchists preparing to overthrow next week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa? Police in Florida seem to think so, and are taking every precaution to prepare for violence.

Acting on the assumption that hacktivists with the loose-knit, international Anonymous collective will wage a war next week on Tampa with the help of weapon yielding anarchists angry at the Republican Party and American establishment all together, law enforcement agencies in Florida are in a hurry to secure the Sunshine State in the event that a mass orchestrated action disrupts the GOP’s national convention.

Authorities had originally deciphered YouTube videos uploaded by alleged Anonymous members to suggest that the group was calling for others to provoke criminal acts across Tampa. The discovery earlier this week of bricks and pipes on a Tampa rooftop has further led authorities to assume that anarchists will engage in a mass violent uprising to coincide with the RNC. To prepare for a mass revolt, the entirety of nearby Orient Road Jail has been emptied out on the command of Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee, who wants to ensure that the facility’s 1,700 beds can be utilized in the event of a mass arrest.

In Florida, it’s a classic case of fear mongering. Everywhere else, it’s a joke.

"It could be a 15 year old in the basement," security reporter Bruce Schneier tells Tampa Bay Online. "Anonymous is a lifestyle. Anyone can say they're with Anonymous."

Authorities aren’t so eager to heed the expert’s advice, however, even if Schneier has authored a tremendous amount of articles on Anonymous throughout his career as a technology and security journalist.

Earlier this year, Scheiner addressed a crowd at San Francisco’s RSA conference with a lecture on cyberculture, at the time saying, "Anonymous is more of a name that anyone can pub upon themselves if they act in a way that is consistent with Anonymous' work. We shouldn't think of them as an actual group".

The police aren’t buying that explanation, though, and are linking the hacktivism collective with balls-to-the-wall anarchy. In downtown Tampa’s North Florida Ave. this week, authorities discovered a pile of bricks and pipes on a businesses’ rooftop. Near the scene of the “crime” was a graffiti portrayal of Guy Fawkes, the British revolutionary whose likeness has been adopted by both Anonymous activists and Occupy Wall Street protesters as a single identity that a hive-mind can maneuver behind.

Florida-based private investigator Bill Warner is weary, to say the least. He doesn’t see the bricks and pipes as possible construction site components, but weapons or destruction. After all, not every building is erected with bricks and plumbing; only some. To Warner, this is an indication that domestic terrorists on par with al-Qaeda insurgents will disrupt the RNC.

"These are tactics terrorists use in the Middle East. They will hide bricks in piles in buildings and so forth. They will move into the area start their little protests. Then they will find their pile of bricks and pipes and start busting out windows," Warner tells Tampa’s Fox affiliate.

In a video posted earlier in the week by a person claiming allegiance to Anonymous, a call-for-action is put forth asking supporters to dismantle the “clean zone” being set up in Tampa where people will be able to exercise their First Amendment right to protest without fear of repercussion.

“Let us band together and knock down the walls of the clean zone for it violates our Constitution,” the video claims. “The city of Tampa is our city, the peoples city. Together united by one divided zero we will fight for what belongs to the people. May freedom be with you all.”

Speaking to local Bay News 9, Warner says, “This is pretty bad,” and takes the video as an indication that “There's a lot of trouble coming our way.”

"Have they more locations with those bricks on roofs some place around town? I don't know but they've done it already.They've done surveillance around the area. They know where to go.This is right across the street from the hotel where the media is going to stay," Warner adds.

On one of his several personal websites, Warner writes, “Anonymous and Black Block seek the overthrow of the US Government, they hate cops and everything they stand for and seek to disrupt the Tampa RNC.”

In another post, Warner says that Anonymous and Black Bloc — a separate, underground protest group that regularly encourages acts of violence — are one in the same and refers to them as “dirtbags.”

Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor has already prepared the city for any violence that a demonstration waged at the Republican Party could bring. She, unlike Warner, refuses to publically group the alleged Anonymous YouTube video with the other hairy evidence, though.

"This is no surprise for us, but we are watching what is happening,” she adds. “There's no doubt that a small percentage of people who are coming here are bent on destruction and disruption."

"Don't think that you are bothering us. It's our job to look into this, and we take it very seriously," Chief Castor adds to WTSP News.

And, for those people, Sheriff Gee has a simple warning, posted on the county website in an open letter “to the agitators and anarchists who want only to bring a dark cloud” to the RNC: “criminal activity and civil disturbances will not be tolerated and enforcement actions will be swift.”

Examiner.com claims that the Tampa police have spent over $13 million on security items, an dozens of high-def closed-circuit television cameras are reported to have been installed in preparation too. In response, activists have created a smart-phone app that allows protesters to see where the city has installed surveillance cameras across Tampa.

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Anonw0rmer gets 27 months in prison

A federal judge in Austin today sentenced a Galveston man to 27 months in federal prison for hacking into computers of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Alabama Department of Public Safety, Houston County, Alabama and the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association.

Higinio O. Ochoa III, aka Anonw0rmer, who pleaded guilty in June to accessing a protected computer without authorization, had faced up to five years in prison. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks ordered him to pay more than $14,000 in restitution.

Ochoa hacked into the computers in February and downloaded personal and confidential information, deleted data and defaced Websites, according to U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman’s office.

Ochoa claimed he was associated with hacker groups known as “Anonymous” and “CabinCr3w,” according to court documents. He also boasted on Twitter and other websites about his hacking, the documents said.

Source: http://www.statesman.com/

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Hacking group claims massive attack on oil giant

A hacking collective said it successfully attacked the world’s largest oil company – and is threatening to strike again.

Saudi Aramco, the biggest oil producer on the planet, was reportedly forced to quarantine thousands of infected PCs from its other systems after the onslaught.

The hacking group – which calls itself the “Cutting Sword of Justice” – said that it had destroyed as many as three-quarters of the company’s computers on August 15. That would total at least 30,000 machines.

Saudi Aramco has not confirmed or denied that the attack took place, but said it has experienced “a network disruption”.

In a statement the company said that “the company’s specialised technical team immediately responded to restore service” and “confirmed the integrity of its electronic network that manages its core business”.

The hacking group has posted data including hacked IP addresses which the New York Times said might lend credibility to their claims.

And in their own statement, posted online, the group said the company should expect to see another large-scale attack as soon as Saturday.

It said:

. “We, behalf of an anti-oppression hacker group that have been fed up of crimes and atrocities taking place in various countries around the world, especially in the neighboring countries such as Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt and …, and also of dual approach of the world community to these nations, want to hit the main supporters of these disasters by this action.One of the main supporters of this disasters is Al-Saud corrupt regime that sponsors such oppressive measures by using Muslims oil resources. Al-Saud is a partner in committing these crimes. It’s hands are infected with the blood of innocent children and people.

… This is a warning to the tyrants of this country and other countries that support such criminal disasters with injustice and oppression. We invite all anti-tyranny hacker groups all over the world to join this movement. We want them to support this movement by designing and performing such operations, if they are against tyranny and oppression.”

It is not known precisely who is behind the attacks, with some speculating a foreign government such as Iran might be sponsoring the hackers.

Security expert Rob Rachwald, from the firm Imperva, said the attack was unprecedented:

“The Saudi Aramco attack is the first significant use of malware in a so-called hacktivist attack.

“In the past, hacktivists have typically used application or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks – in which they clog a website with traffic until it goes offline. However, the attack on Saudi Aramco is the first significant use of malware in a hacktivist attack. Hacktivists rarely use malware, if other hacktivists jump on this trend it could become very dangerous.”

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Redhack:

_{TO OUR ANONYMOUS, LULZSEC BROTHERS AND ALL THE HACKTIVIST FRIENDS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD;}

Anonymous name has been used by AnonsTurkey on twitter for their personal interests and they are attacking the oppressed people with the influence of the government and the racist agenda of the chauvinists.

Relationship between Redhack and Anonymous goes back to the time of 4chan in 2005. We continue to be in solidarity with active and true hackers within Anonymous and offer our help within our capabilities when it is required.

We steer the real arm of the Anonymous in Turkey for years. We have helped them as much as we can within our capabilities. We had the opportunity to meet freedom defender Jeremy Hammond and some of you will know what we have gone through after the FBI rats infiltration.

We were actively involved in the Anonymous actions about the censorship in 2011 that have shook Turkey. Our position was also to help to organise it. After these actions some inexperienced teenagers that have taken active part in have stayed with Redhack hoping to learn something. But the “populism” was high with these people and this wasn’t accepted within our ranks. Neither within our group there are no names nor within the Anonymous. Anonymous or Redhack never thought that names were important but ideas were. But these people always put forward their names and we did not accept this. We always thought that they were young and might change positively. But then they were not happy about us being socialist and our revolutionary values were hard for them to accept. According to them we should act within the norms of “official ideology” and act around the chauvinism that was imposed on people and the brotherhood relations with the Kurdish people should have been cut off. Due to these reasons we have decided to exclude them from Redhack and Anonymous Turkey. But they have not stopped and created an Anonymous Turkey account on twitter with the help of some DDOS and BOP geeks. Later they have offered us their support when Redhack was widely talked about in Turkey. We thought they have probably changed; also we have never refused support from others. But things have developed quite strangely. Rise of Redhack have disturbed US and the Turkish government. Soon after US Embassy in Ankara has condemned us, the groups that were supporting us have changed as well.

At that time Anonymous centrally offered us their support and carried out actions with us. These people wanted to join OpsupportRedHack but we have refused this due to their track record. Then they have announced on twitter that they will no longer support Redhack. But the group names themselves AnonsTurkey and their 15-17 years old kids started to attack us with their BOTNET owner friends that uses them.

We have continuously warned them that “names are not important its either Redhack or Anonymous, what’s important was what was done”. But they refused this and showed up on TV programs using the prices we have paid for years and had adolescent discussions. Although this nasty behaviour we have tried hard to protect our hacker ethics up until when they have attacked www.haber.sol.org.tr . The reason behind it was this site has reported that one of their actions was wrongly credited as it was Redhack. They have not requested them to change this article. This is a significant news site for the left in Turkey. Not only this site but they have also carried out DDOS attack on the sites of Kurdish people using the “excuse of PKK”, anarchists and democrats that had weak systems.

We have reacted against these unjust and wrong actions that damage the fraternity between the peoples. This is a blow to the oppressed people’s struggle against brutal fascist regime of Turkey which also declared Redhack as terrorist.

Presently the media is reporting about this and claiming that Redhack and Anonymous are fighting between themselves after AnonsTurkey have announced that “Anonymous will not have any dealings with Red hack anymore”. This is deemed as that Anonymous is under their monopoly and further damages the fight for freedom by hacktivist.

It cannot be normal for these people to attack us at the same time when we are declared as terrorists and Interpol, Intelligence Services and fascist hackers attacking us.

We had to show some attitude against these populist and chauvinistic waves. Our attitude is not against the Anonymous but against those using this name for their dirty desires. If anyone is looking for Anonymous Turkey it’s always been us from the beginning.

They cannot damage our relations with Anonymous. We know that they didn’t like our efforts to pull Anonymous away from being under the guidance of government and turn it into being against the system. We won’t let Anonymous to be used as a stalking-horse for the capitalism and the request of the government.

Whoever works “unconditionally and generously” for Anonymous is the Anonymous. Whoever works “unconditionally and generously” for Redhack is the Redhack.

Hacking should be left to hackers, not to the clowns that are interested in being famous and enemies of socialism.

The manipulators supported by US imperialism and works for the government cannot damage the brotherhood between the Anonymous and Redhack.

The enemy has many faces but only one name: CAPITALISM!

WHOEVER OWNS THE SUN IS ALSO THE LORD OF THE SHADOWS AND THE SUN IS RISING FOR THE PEOPLE!

LET’S CONTINUE THE HACKING FOR THE PEOPLE!

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anon_1907 twitterde op maandag 27-08-2012 om 21:19:17 #TangoDown www.interpol.com #OpFreeAssange #Anonymous second day || Expect Us - Justice --@AnonOpsLegion reageer retweet

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Anonymous hacks AVX Corporation, alleging war profiteering in Congo

One of the latest Anonymous operations, #OpColtan or #OperationGreenRights, aims to raise awarness of AVX Corporation’s maneuvers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1998. As of the writing of this article, AVX’s website is down, presumably thanks to Anonymous.

AVX, headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, sells capacitors, electrical components, interconnects and other products to corporations such as Motorola and Nokia. According to an AVX website that is still up, the company operates in a number of markets, including, “computer, telecommunications infrastructure, cellular, industrial, automotive, consumer, military and medical sectors.” AVX is organized as three divisions: Passive Components, KED Resale Components and Interconnects.

It seems that in 2001 the United Nations accused AVX of extracting Columbite-tantalite (coltan), a black metallic ore used in the construction of consumer electronics such as smart phones, computers, DVD players, etc., during a civil war in the Congo in 1998. Warring groups within the Congo had apparently been smuggling coltan out of the region with the help of neighboring Rwanda and Uganda. The coltan ultimately ended up in the hands of US manufacturers such as AVX in the form of tantalum. (Profit first, ask questions later.)

The UN’s accusations never culminated in any international action, but AVX claims to be committed to conflict-free tantalum (an element of coltan), with plans for purchasing it from “verified” sources in the DRC and surrounding countries. Anonymous, it would seem, isn’t putting too much faith in AVX to ethically source tantalum from the DRC.

“NOW a new civil war is growing up in Congo and is totally hypocrite to share DRC in different areas in order to say that some of these are war free,” reads Anonymous’s Pastebin post. “AVX, UN trial refused to punish you, but Operation Green Rights doesn’t forget. AVX, is the time to pay for your crimes, the trial is the whole mankind.”

Typical Anonymous rhetoric, but it does serve to shine a light on the reality that DRC is entering another period of civil war, and that corporations could very well profit from it. Hopefully AVX is committed to its “conflict-free” pledge, but with global corporations, profit drives everything, most especially during war.

#OpColtan also demonstrates the upside of Anonymous’s role in raising awareness of global corporate ethics (even as a preventive measure). If the US and UN are unable or unwilling to do anything about it, then there are precious few options other than letting Anonymous do its work.

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[Updated] Hackers Dump Millions of Records of Banks, Politicians

TeamGhostShell, a hacking collective linked with the infamous group Anonymous, is claiming that they have hacked some major US institutions including the likes of CIA, banks and accounts of politicians and has posted those details online.

The dumps comprising of millions of accounts has been let loose on the web by the hacking collective. The motivation behind the hack, the group claims, is to protest against banks, politicians and to avenge the hackers who have been captured by law enforcement agencies.

The leader of TeamGhostShell, DeadMellox, reported the hack through a tweet. Records, containing details of CIA accounts/records, banks, politicians, were leaked under the project dubbed ProjectHellFire and the hackers have said that more will follow.

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DeadMellox twitterde op zaterdag 25-08-2012 om 20:52:14 #ProjectHellFire - 1 million accounts/records leaked http://t.co/PKvJFGWY http://t.co/IeAdmD3i https://t.co/b0uG7zeb https://t.co/G5O66nue reageer retweet

“We are also letting everyone know that more releases, collaborations with Anonymous and other, plus two more projects are still scheduled for this fall and winter. It’s only the beginning.” the hackers said.

The hackers have also claimed that they are in possession of “three different access points” to millions, probably billions, of databases from a Chinese mainframe; US stock exchange mainframe/s; and Department of Homeland Security which they are going to offer to deserving hackers.



The dumps have been posted here, here, here and here.



[Update @ 11:11 UT]: The hackers have mentioned the name CIA which is basically a company named C.I.A. Services and not the Central Intelligence Agency of the US. For this reason we have omitted the name CIA from the title as well as the content of the story.

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British Minister likens Anonymous to fascists and racists

Hacktivist cabal Anonymous has continued its attack on UK government websites in retaliation to the UK’s treatment of Julian Assange, this time hitting former Wales and Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Hain.

Hain told the BBC he feels Anonymous' actions resemble those he experienced in the “anti-apartheid and anti-fascist struggles." The MP participated in South Africa's anti-apartheid movement in the 1970s. "I have had these attacks for 40 years, mostly from racists and fascists."

He added that Anonymous had got its targets wrong as he has been a supporter of Assange.

Hain used the attack to urge for cyber security, taking to Twitter where he wrote "after targeting of several sites in recent months latest incident is more evidence that UK needs to wake up to growing cyber security threat." Anonymous targeted the UK’s Ministry of Justice and the Home Office last week.

Meanwhile, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said that the standoff regarding Assange as an “unfortunate incident over, after a grave diplomatic error by the British in which they said they would enter our embassy."

Ecuadorian officials have been outraged at British government threats of trying to seize Assange should he stray from the Ecuadorian embassy where he has been camped for two months.

The Washington-based Organization of American States also condemned Britain's threat with South American foreign ministers claiming Britain's stance is unacceptable.

Correa told the UK’s Sunday Times that the sex crime allegations made against Assange would not be deemed a crime in Latin America. "The crimes that Assange is accused of, they would not be crimes in 90 to 95 per cent of the planet," he said.

He also played the Pinochet card, questioning the British government’s contradictory approach to extradition, when it did not extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet after his 1998 arrest in London.

Pinochet was wanted on an international arrest warrant issued by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, who is now featured on Assange's legal team.

"Britain supported Augusto Pinochet unconditionally. And they let him go, they didn't extradite him on humanitarian grounds, whereas they want to extradite Julian Assange for not using a condom, for the love of God,” Correa said.

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LulzSec hacker arrested over Sony attack

A second member of the LulzSec hacking collective has been arrested by US authorities in connection with attacks on Sony Pictures Europe

US police have arrested Raynaldo Rivera, 20, an alleged member of the hacking group LulzSec, on charges that he took part in an extensive breach of the computer systems belonging to Sony Pictures Europe.

Rivera, of Tempe, Arizona – who allegedly used the online nicknames of "neuron", "royal" and "wildciv" – surrendered to police in Phoenix six days after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles produced an indictment charging him with conspiracy and unauthorised impairment of a protected computer. If convicted, he could face 15 years in prison.

The indictment, which was unsealed on Tuesday, accuses Rivera and co-conspirators of stealing information from Sony Pictures Europe's computer systems in May and June 2011 using an SQL injection attack – which exploits flaws in the handing of data input for databases to take control of a system – against the studio's website.

SQL injection, or SQLi, is an increasingly common technique used by hackers to break into systems.

The indictment says Rivera then helped to post the confidential information onto LulzSec's website and announced the intrusion via the hacking group's Twitter account.

While Rivera was the only person named in the indictment, the FBI said his co-conspirators included Cody Kretsinger, 24, a confessed LulzSec member who pleaded guilty in April to charges stemming from his role in the Sony attack.

Yet the indictment and the arrest still leaves open one of the most puzzling questions left by the hacking spree seen in the first half of 2011, when the hacking collective Anonymous – and LulzSec, which grew out of it, were coming to public attention.

That is the question of who hacked into Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) system in April.

The attack, which may have leaked credit card details for millions of users, has never been traced to any group – although Sony suggested not long afterwards that Anonymous might have been involved.

Since then it has given no further details about who it suspects of carrying out the attack, and no data from the attack has ever been posted publicly.

By contrast the Sony Pictures Europe hack of which Rivera is accused saw the data leaked on 2 June, and LulzSec's activities are generally reckoned to have begun on 30 May with the posting of a fake story about Tupac Shakur to the PBS website.

Following the Sony Pictures Europe breach, LulzSec published the names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of thousands of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony, and publicly boasted of its exploits.

"From a single injection we accessed EVERYTHING," the hackers said in a statement at the time. "Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?"

Authorities have said the Sony breach ultimately cost the company more than $600,000 (£378,000).

LulzSec, an underground group also known as Lulz Security, is an offshoot of the international hacking collective Anonymous and took credit for attacks on a number of government and private sector websites, including the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency, the US Congressional website, and the Sun and News International sites.

The latest indictment says Rivera is suspected of using a proxy server in a bid to conceal his IP address to avoid detection.

Court documents revealed in March that a former Anonymous member known as Sabu, whose real name is Hector Xavier Monsegur, had pleaded guilty to hacking-related charges and had been providing information on his cohorts to the FBI since June 2011, after he was identified as he logged into a public bulletin board from his home address.

That same month, five other suspected leaders of Anonymous, all them alleged to be LulzSec members as well, were charged by US authorities with computer hacking and other offences.

A number of arrests followed in the UK, where six people have been charged with various offences linked to LulzSec's activities.

An accused British hacker, Ryan Cleary, 20, was indicted by a US grand jury in June on charges related to LulzSec attacks on several media companies, including Sony Pictures.

Kretsinger, who pleaded guilty to the same two charges now facing Rivera, is due to be sentenced on 25 October. A prosecutor said he was likely to receive substantially less than the 15-year maximum prison term carried by those offenses.

Monsegur, 28, a Puerto Rican living in New York, has pleaded guilty to 12 charges, including three of conspiracy to hack into computers, five of hacking, one of hacking for fraudulent purposes, one of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and one of aggravated identity theft.

Those charges would attract a total of 124 years' jail, but it is thought he has arranged a plea bargain with the US government. Monsegur received a six-month reprieve from sentencing earlier in August in light of his cooperation with the government.

Anonymous and its offshoots focused initially on fighting attempts at internet regulation and the blocking of free illegal downloads but have since taken aim at the Church of Scientology, global banking and other targets.

Anonymous, and LulzSec in particular, became notorious in late 2010 when they launched what they called the first cyberwar in retaliation for attempts to shut down WikiLeaks.

The rise of LulzSec saw a burst of similar "crews" aiming to hack sites, but since then Anonymous has focussed on providing an outlet for documents released by WikiLeaks.

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Operation NYT

In mid-August, Wikileaks released a trove of e-mails culled from the 5.6 million seized from the criminal private intelligence firm Stratfor, which aside from its public geopolitical analysis work was soon revealed to have been engaged in covert surveillance operations against activists including those located in Bhopal and engaged in advocacy for those sickened by the Union Carbide disaster.

Having engaged in regular correspondence with the executives of another firm called Trapwire which oversees deployment of an eponymous surveillance and "data-mining" capability used in an unknown number of cities and regions around the world – correspondence conducted in large part in reference to the corrupt promotional bargain the two firms had struck – Stratfor's e-mails included a good deal of confirmable information as well as assertions regarding the nature of the product itself and the way it might be used.

While real researchers poured through the release and compared the info therein with primary sources like those stemming from the 70,000 HBGary e-mails, The New York Times put on the story some yahoo who declared fears to be "wildly exaggerated" in part because two unnamed, titleless sources at the Department of Homeland Security told them they tried it and didn't like it.

No indication is given as to whether or not this was proven to the reporter, or if he saw any evidence of it at all. At any rate, this reporter did not see fit to mention what was elsewhere being shouted by Anonymous, Telecomix, Wikileaks, ProjectPM, and independent researchers: that Cubic is in control of this capability, and that this was where the main problem lay.

Cubic Corporation has successfully hidden its ties to other secret subsidiaries such as Ntrepid, which tax documents from 2010 show to have been "wholly owned" by Cubic even in addition to having a board virtually identical to Cubic's other, acknowledged and respected subsidiary, Abraxas.

That Ntrepid won the 2010 persona management from CENTCOM/USAF – another matter that we have screamed to the rooftops about since OpMetalGear and through echelon2.org – is simply one of several matters that absolutely should be of concern to every population in which Cubic controls aspects of civilian, public space security. This should be doubly the case in light of the Team Themis scandal, involving Palantir, HBGary, Berico, the Justice Department (which for some reason failed to investigate when deferred to by the netfascist Lamar Smith of SOPA infamy), Bank of America, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Incidentally, the NYT was offered the first look at the e-mails which produced that and other scandals, but declined, and the e-mail evidence of this and other incompetence will be provided to all through other press channels within the next 48 hours, or else via the usual Anonymous venues.

The facts on Trapwire have since been confirmed by a series of other outlets ranging from The Daily Caller to Pravda to The New American to NBC.com to Cryptome, and by six Australian outlets that were promptly forced to delete the assertion via Cubic's powerful lawyers – but these facts have yet to be acknowledged by the NYT nor by those other outlets that still think highly of the Grey Lady despite her being a filthy, poorly-composed whore – Thomas Friedman's syphilitic dominatrix.

Death to this horrid paper. And dox upon Mark Mazzetti, who was caught sending an unpublished column to a CIA spokesman with the note, "This didn't come from me," – an incident that has since been inexplicably described by The Time's own spokesperson as a favor Mazzetti did for the author of the column even after the managing editor said it was some sort of secret he couldn't tell Politico for reasons of, presumably, national security.

For the present, we will simply extend the bounds of sanity to the extent possible by spreading these and other failures of the New York Times by attaching the info to those deeds to come, and by encouraging all Anons to assist in this brief engagement, done in conjunction with #OpTrapwire and #OpBigBrother. Incidentally, the apparent changing of a New York Times website administrator password earlier today was, although amusing if true, not in accordance with generally-accepted Anonymous tradition of non-aggression via hacking or DOS towards publications not run (officially) by the state. Gawker has been only exception, lol Kayla.

Jeremy Hammond and others who have been charged with stealing secrets from the gods are not the responsibility of the New York Times, the media, or the public. They are our heroes. As such, it is our duty to do whatever possible – within the ethics agreed upon by the individual actors who may choose to conduct this and other operations and generally exemplified by prior Anonymous-attributed activities – to force attention to those portions of the information of great and demonstrable relevance to the Grand Imperial Republic of the United States, its pseudo-vassals, and those populations within reach of its situational awareness and covert operational capabilities.

We will do this despite, and because of, the failures we continue to see from a media that has evolved under pressure of a degenerate market demographic, the American people, but which could have easily chosen to compete for the honest and the virtuous and supported itself while encouraging the civic virtue that will either revive soon, or be transformed into guerrilla online civil war of a sort even more unexpected than what we have brought you these years past.

Don't wait. Retaliate.

We do not forget.

Anonymous

irc.anonops.pro / webchat.anonops.pro #ProjectPM

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Siemens and Fujitsu General Hacked, Data leaked for #OpColtan

Earlier we posted that another Philips website had been hacked not long after a large load of data was leaked from various other Philips sites. Well now another two electronics Giants have been hacked by Anonymous hacktivist in the name of OpColtan.

The two companys are Siemens Switzerland (siemens.ch) and Fujitsu General Brazil(.fujitsugeneral.com.br) and both have resulted in data from server databases being leaked via paste sites.

The attacks have been carried out by @OpGreenRights and the Siemens attack has been posted to private paste in two different parts while the Fujitsu leak was posted to pastebin in a single paste.

The leaked data from the Siemens attack contains basic database information as well as other non critical information related to the site.

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The Nine Commandments of Covering Anonymous

The first time that I heard about Anonymous was four years ago. I was then a rookie writer at the Phoenix, and our receptionist patched through a cold call from a self-described unmasked hacker named Gregg Housh. Crack salesman that he is, within minutes Housh had my full attention, and was schooling me with lore of his real-life and virtual crusades with the Internet collective known as Anonymous. I was intrigued by their latest scrum — a war with the Church of Scientology — and decided to dig deeper. After a week of researching and scanning their networks, I found myself not only obsessed with the peculiar Internet Relay Chats (IRC) and image boards that Anons inhabit, but fascinated by their unique embrace of everything from vigilantism to bukkake.

Most coverage of Anons and their shenanigans — from their beef with Scientology to their WikiLeaks-related hits on MasterCard — has been superficial. Low points have come from television outlets like the Los Angeles Fox News affiliate that garnered derisive memetry by labeling Anonymous an "Internet hate machine." On the opposite end of that spectrum is a select cadre of insider writers and academics, many of whom the mainstream media rely on for explanations. But in between the broadcast goofballs and the experts, accurate long-form reporting on Anonymous is anomalous. There's also been little discussion of the actual act of covering Anonymous — even as its affiliates, like Occupy Wall Street, and the group's numerous targets have rocked headlines.

As we're all increasingly connected to an online culture over which Anonymous wields great influence — from silly Tumblr trends to mass calls for activism — it's no longer adequate for journalists to only kind of get it. This is a critical concern, and one that's been debated extensively since the June release of Parmy Olson's 400-plus page opus, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency. In blog posts, on chats, and at interactive conferences, journalists and Anons alike are discussing the unique challenges of reporting on this hard-to-peg troop of trolls and hackers, geeks and Web warriors. While they sometimes disagree on tactics, collectively these muckrakers set the tone for this burgeoning line of journalistic and anthropological inquiry. Using their stories, we've devised a blueprint for not just covering, but understanding Anonymous.

Read more: http://thephoenix.com/bos(...)ymous/#ixzz258oM5Ruw

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Voortvluchtige oprichter Pirate Bay opgepakt

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Een van de oprichters van de populaire downloadsite The Pirate Bay is opgepakt in Cambodja. De Zweed Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (27) staat op een internationale lijst van gezochte personen, zei zijn advocaat zaterdag tegen de krant Svenska Dagbladet.