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quote:The Russian branch of hacker group Anonymous is claiming credit for shutting down the websites of the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
The websites were unavailable on May 9 due to DDoS attacks, according to news reports. In a tweet, the Russian branch of Anonymous proclaimed that the Kremlin’s website, kremlin.ru, was taken down.
Anonymous said in a Pastebin post that the attacks were to protest the inauguration of President Putin following allegations of vote tampering in the presidential elections.
According to RT.com, the Kremlin press service confirmed its websites were attacked by hackers: “We received threats from Anonymous several days ago but we can’t confirm it’s exactly this group that attacked the Kremlin.ru website. At the moment we can’t establish who’s behind the attack. Unfortunately we live at a time when technology security threats have mounted, but we have the means to resist them.”
Commenting on the attacks, Ash Patel, country manager for UK & Ireland for Stonesoft, said that “with a group such as Anonymous, one can never be certain as to who exactly is behind the cyberattack. For some time now, Anonymous has been attacking the sites of many government bodies and for that reason, there’s no denying that one motivation behind the attack on the Kremlin’s websites is political.”
quote:The House That Fox Built: Anonymous, Spectacle and Cycles of Amplification
This article focuses on 4chan’s /b/ board, a—if not the—pillar of online trolling activity. In addition to chronicling the history of the site, as well as the emergence of the nebulous collective known as Anonymous, the article considers the ways in which early media representations of and subsequent reactions to trolling behaviors on /b/ helped create and sustain an increasingly influential subculture. Echoing Stanley Cohen’s analysis of moral panics, the article goes on to postulate that trolls and mainstream media outlets, specifically Fox News, are locked in a cybernetic feedback loop predicted upon spectacle; each camp amplifies and builds upon the other’s reactions, thus entering into an unintended but highly synergistic congress.
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Interview op de site.quote:Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hillside in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path to join him, away from the prying eyes of law enforcement.
It’s been a few weeks of encrypted emails back and forth, working out the security protocol to follow for interviewing Doyon, one of the brains behind Anonymous, now a fugitive from the FBI.
Doyon, who readily admits taking part in some of the highest-profile hacktivist attacks on websites last year — from Tunisia to Orlando, Sony to PayPal — was arrested in September for a comparatively minor assault on the county website of Santa Cruz, Calif., where he was living, in retaliation for the town forcibly removing a homeless encampment on the courthouse steps.
The “virtual sit-in” lasted half an hour. For that, Doyon is facing 15 years in jail.Or at least he was facing 15 years in jail, until he crossed the border into Canada in February to avoid prosecution, using what he calls the new “underground railroad” and a network of safe houses across the country.
Thanks to his indictment, Doyon is one of the few Anonymous members whose real name is now publicly known.
But as the leader of the People’s Liberation Front — a hacker group allied with Anonymous — and the second-most wanted information activist after WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, he prefers not to show his face, and instead dons the ubiquitous Guy Fawkes mask, to wear with his Sunday best: a sweatshirt with the Anonymous calling card, “We do not forgive … We do not forget.”
Terrorists to some, heroes to others, the jury is still out on Anonymous’s true nature. Known for its robust defence of Internet freedom – and the right to remain anonymous — Anonymous came in first place in Time Magazine’s 2012 online poll on the most influential person in the world.
Fox News, on the other hand, has branded the hackers “domestic terrorists,” a role Anonymous has been cast to play in the latest Call of Duty Black Ops II, in which Anonymous appears as the enemy who takes control of unmanned drones in the not-too-distant future. (That creative decision may have put Activision, the creator of the video-game series, at the top of the Anonymous hit list.) For its part, much of what Anonymous does and says about itself, in the far reaches of the Internet, cannot be verified. Nor do all Anons agree on who they are as a group, and where they are going.
quote:Na Duits succes verwacht ook Nederlandse piratenpartij politieke doorbraak
De Piratenpartij heeft gisteren zeer goede zaken gedaan met de verkiezingen in Noord-Rijnland-Westfalen. Nu verwacht ook de Nederlandse Piratenpartij dit jaar door te breken in de politiek - wat in 2010 nog mislukte. 'We denken 2 tot 3 zetels te kunnen halen', zegt de woordvoerder van de Nederlandse piratenpartij Dirk Poot.
De piraten hebben het momentum. '2012 is internationaal het jaar dat veel mensen zich realiseren hoe belangrijk internetvrijheid is. Dat zag je met de Amerikaanse opstand tegen de strenge internetwetgeving onder de noemer SOPA en in Europa tegen ACTA. Als dit soort wetten nu niet worden tegengegaan, is het echt te laat en wordt internet een gesloten bastion.'
In Duitsland leefde dit sentiment en de Duitse piratenpartij bestormde de politiek. In Noord-Rijnland-Westfalen, de grootste deelstaat en de deelstaat met de meeste inwoners van Duitsland, won de partij 7 procent van de stemmen. Ook in andere landen, waaronder Oostenrijk, Tsjechië en Zweden hebben partijen van de piratenbeweging afgelopen tijd voet aan de grond gekregen in het politieke landschap.
De beweging van Piraten ontstond in Zweden, naar aanleiding van de sluiting van de downloadsite The Pirate Bay. Vijf jaar later is de kwestie nog steeds actueel: in Nederland oordeelde de rechter dat na Ziggo en XS4ALL ook UPC, KPN, T-Mobile en Tele2 de populaire maar omstreden downloadsite moeten blokkeren. Volgens de Piratenpartij schendt dit de internetvrijheid.
Kroegmeetings
De Piratenpartij gaat de komende maanden met kroegmeetings hun verkiezingsprogramma aan de man brengen. Een uitgebreid program is dit niet, en de versie voor 2012 is ook nog niet klaar, maar het komt erop neer dat de partij internetvrijheid wil garanderen en een verbod op downloaden tegen wil gaan. Ook wil de partij privacy op internet waarborgen. Volgens Poot zit er tevens een groot gat in de vorige week aangenomen netneutraliteitswet, die de partij, mits verkozen, zal proberen te dichten.
Twee jaar geleden was de kritiek nog dat de partij geen visie over andere problemen had. Dit jaar proberen ze hier naar Duits voorbeeld verandering in te brengen. Over hypotheekrenteaftrek en andere politieke kwesties zal de partij werken met een systeem van permanente ledeninspraak. Poot: 'Zo kunnen we ons partijprogramma aanpassen op de huidige situatie. Een in cement gegoten verkiezingsprogramma is vaak na een jaar alweer achterhaald.'
Of Nederland net als Duitsland klaar is voor een Piratenpartij, dat moeten de verkiezingen op 12 september uitwijzen.
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quote:A hacker known for attacking jihadist websites, wikileaks, and feuding with various anonymous groups and individuals, appears to have had his real life identity compromised. There have been several previous attempts by numerous individuals, but it appears that one man does indeed know @th3j35t3r's identity.
@th3j35t3r, 'The Jester' in 'leet' hacker speak, was contacted on Twitter by another account named Smedley Manning (@cubespherical) who publicly tweeted that Jester should read the DM (direct message in Tweet speak) he sent or that he would live to regret it. Early this morning, a series of screenshots appeared to show the contents of the DMs that followed.
If this is genuine, the Jester knows he's been doxed as @cubespherical DMed Jester his real name (redacted in the screenshot), former Army assignment (partially redacted in the screenshot) which appears to be the 75th Ranger Regiment, and the type of vehicle Jester owned in 2003 (and, apparently, still owns - it a Chevy Silverado if you're curious). @cubespherical then told him that, as his name suggested, he was a Wikileaks supporter and that, some years ago, he knew Jester personally... and did not like him. They had had a previous run-in of some sort that had left a bad taste in @cubespherical's mouth. Jester, realizing he had been d0x'd (hacker speak for having your cover blown), asked what they could work out only to be informed that @cubespherical was going to post his real ID, resume, and other information, but not before raising a large donation for Wikileaks and himself. A recent tweet from @cubespherical reads "Jesters ( @th3j35t3r ) full creds as soon as BTC here:15JDgkwFVXvuxCt66eUQ434ty3jrvwPfGe hits 100K -". BTC refers to Bitcoin, an online currency in an amount equivalent to $100,000 (approx. 20,000 Bitcoin).
A source that has been in contact with @cubespherical states that he will donate 51% ($51,000) to Wikileaks and then disappear. This is deeply ironic as Jester has loudly criticized Wikileaks and claimed credit for a DDoS attack on Wikileak's site which drew the ire of some anons.
@cubespherical gave the source a small preview of who Jester is. Jester is, as he had himself previously claimed, former military. He was at Fort Benning in 2002 and, at some point in 2003, transferred to Fort Brag. He was known to disappear from time to to for 2 or 3 week periods. He left people guessing as to to where he'd been and what he'd done. He got a gig with SOCOM (Special Operations Command) and, according to Jester's own limited biography, he spent some time in Afghanistan. Currently, he works an a consultant in the information security industry. He has very recently deleted his real Facebook account. And he may be someone to take seriously. @cubespherical has indicated that he will use his 49% to "hide".
Jester has admitted to committing crimes but there's not yet any word on what charges could/would be brought against him. Jester has recently been a subject of controversy in the hacker scene as it has been alleged he has taken credit for attacks that never happened or for attacks that others have done. He also claimed to have launched an attack on a large numbers of iphones who snapped a photo of a new avatar he placed on his Twitter account. It was a QR Code that Jester claimed executed a multi layered attack. One of the people he targeted was a Rhode Island State Representative named Dan Gordon (R), a vocal supporter of the anonymous movement and Occupy Wall Street and a strong opponent of both SOPA and CIPSA. He ran afoul of Jester and, according to Jester, had his phone contacts, text messages, and emails sent to Jester's own server. He also engaged in a Twitter flamewar with Lulzsec that resulted in the CIA's website being crippled by a DDoS attack.
The @J35t3r account has been uncharacteristically quiet. His last tweet, dated May 10, reads "@cubespherical ummm dude. DM pls." I've been informed that there has been no further communication between the two since the last direct message shown here.
As for @cubespherical, he'll be tweeting updates on the donations total until the goal is reached and @th3j35t3r's true identity is revealed. There's been no word on how @cubespherical was able to idenitify Jester but he did have these final words, "I feel Wikileaks is advancing everyone to more open government, which ultimately cannnot be bad. Bradley needs to be released. #freebrad"
One of Jester's favorite phrases, when taunting anons that are being hunted by law enforcement, is "Tick Tock". But it appears that today, it's Jester who the clock is bearing down on.
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Update 1 05/14 9:30 a.m.: Jester is erasing posts on his blog: http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/
Update 2 05/14 3:12 p.m.: Jester has erased all Tweets from his Twitter account.
Update 2 05/14 3:24 p.m.: Jester has deleted his entire Twitter account.
Update 3 05/14 3:40 p.m.: @cubespherical has revealed to a source how he was able to uncover the Jester's identity.
Did he forget to remove exif (hidden datat embedded in a file) data from a photo he posted? Was he back-traced in an IRC chat? Was he tricked into downloading an exploit of some sort? These are the questions going through the minds of individuals familiar with the hacker scene.
According to @cubespherical, the explanation is, incredibly, low tech. Recently, @cubespherical bumped into a mutual acquaintance of @th3j35t3r's real life identity. When his name was brought up in conversation, the third party slipped up and linked this identity to Jester. Using this information, @cubespherical confronted Jester online with his real identity. This can be seen here.
There are many people in the hacker scene who feel that @cubespherical may himself be Jester and this may be an elaborate ruse to get his enemies to send him money (and will use a portion of the proceeds to donate to his charity of choice: The Wounded Warrior Project). Such conspiracy theories are common in the hacker game as elaborate ruses are common in Ops (operations - hacker planned and executed actions).
Others believe it to be genuine as, at this point, @th3j35ter has completely deleted his Twitter account which had tens of thousands of followers. Since @th3j35ter has revealed himself to have quite an ego, there are many who doubt he would go to these lengths for an operation with no goal other than raising money.
Update 4 05/14 3:56 p.m. A source has revealed that @cubespherical has stated he is a mercenary that works in PMAs (Personal Military Army). @cubespherical has indicated that the key for Jester to uncover HIS identity lays in his Twitter handle. He has also stated that, "I have the memory of an elephant." It seems one of those memories includes an incident, years prior, when Jester crossed @cubespherical. When asked if he wants Jester to know who he is he replied, "Payback wouldn't be the same without it."
Update 5 05/14 4:35 p.m. @cubespherical has revealed Jester's initials, R.D.C.
Update 6 05/15 1:46 a.m. A photo that was said to be from @th3j35t3r's true identity's Facebook has been found online. A reverse image lookup returns an image here shows the same photo. The used-car lot is 2.5 hours from Fort Brag, the place of the alleged incident that caused ill feelings. The photo was taken by the dealership in the dealer's lot. Some have have concluded this proves it's all a ruse led by @th3j35t3r and some compatriots. If it IS a ruse, what does @th3j35t3r plan to do with any money he raises? Conspiracies have been flying around the Twittersphere all day.
The website turned up another detail, the trucks VIN (vehicle identification number). The truck is listed as SOLD and a call to the dealership verified the fact. The manager declined to give further details as she said it would be illegal to do so. It is almost certain that an anon will gain access to DMV resources and run the VIN to pull up ownership records. As of yet, such documentation has not been released.
We are waiting on comment and further details from @cubespherical.
Author: @truelai
twitter:Anon_Central twitterde op woensdag 16-05-2012 om 00:29:29#Anonymous is hunting 4 black men for raping a 14 year old girl in the #Netherlands. http://t.co/qLsdeN69 | Primary suspects is @jay_baby_ reageer retweet
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quote:The Pirate Bay came under a sustained attack on Tuesday and Wednesday, knocking the file-sharing service's website offline for around 24 hours.
Early theories had the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack emanating from Anonymous, but the hacker collective denied responsibility. The Pirate Bay (TPB) also said on its Facebook page that it knew Anonymous was not behind the attack.
"We're under a quite big DDoS attack. We don't know who's behind it but we have our suspicions," TPB said in a separate post.
In yet another Facebook post, TPB also noted that Wikileaks.org was being targeted. The file-sharing outfit suggested that this confirmed its prediction in January that 2012 would be "the year of the storm".
At the time of writing on Thursday morning, TPB's website was back up and running, but Wikileaks' site was still down.
Theories abound as to the source of the anti-TPB broadside. Corero Network Security, which sells DDoS protection, told the BBC that "it could be the record labels, or a government somewhere that has had enough of not being able to catch The Pirate Bay, [or] it could be just one person who had rented some cloud power from Amazon and is sitting in a cafe, and is able to launch an attack."
The website TorrentFreak, which regularly covers file-sharing issues, suggested that there may be a link to the escalating legal attacks on TPB, the most recent of which has been a UK court order forcing ISPs here to blockade the service.
"Whoever is attacking The Pirate Bay has achieved what no copyright or governmental authority anywhere in the world has — an almost complete disruption of the site’s operations on a global basis with no court order required," TorrentFreak noted.
quote:Dear Citizens of the World
We at Anonymous fight for those who cannot speak for themselves. We fight for those whose voice has been stolen. We fight for the disenfranchised, and the left behind, the forgotten and the invisible.
Today we ask you to stand up for not just one lost forgotten child but hundreds like her around the world.
Many of you may have seen the hastag #oplithchild without really understanding what it means, let us explain.
Almost three years ago, a father found out his daughter was being sexually abused every time she visits her mother’s home on the weekends. As if that was not bad enough it turned out that this child was part of a larger conspiracy that no one could have predicted. Spanning countries and continents around the world; in recent months a custody battle was fought over the child, ending in her father’s death.
Drąsius Kedys died believing no one would stand up for his daughter. ABC News has reported that over thirty protesters were arrested trying to protect this child. Various videos can be seen floating around the internet showing the child being beaten by police as they try to rip her from the only safety net she has.
The Government has not intervened. Earlier this morning the child was taken from her grandparents’ home and thrown into the back of a van. There is fear the child may be murdered as she can name names and faces of government officials. We fight for her, we fight for Drasius Kedys, and we fight for your children.
We ask you to stand with us, hold the Lithuanian Government accountable for allowing this sexual abuse of our sister to continue. We ask you to help us protect her.
In a nutshell: A girl just three years old was pimped out by her own mother to three adult men; for 4,000 Euros per month. Those three men are high ranking members of the Lithuanian Government. Most of the key figures in this story are dead — murdered — with the exception of the mother, and the court is trying to force the child to live with her again — this child is the last breathing witness.
Freakoutnation.com
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gtnrvLemx0E
After Kedys failed to get a court order protecting his daughter, he allegedly killed a judge and the mother’s sister, both of whom he accused of being part of the pedophile ring. Kedys then disappeared, only to be found dead near a reservoir in mysterious circumstances two years ago. His funeral was attended by thousands of Lithuanians who had come to regard him as a martyr who dared fight a corrupt justice system.
abcnews.go.com
httpv://youtu.be/eOOA2pbpYq4
Lutianian justice has rejected all the requests of the plaintiff. Algimantas Valantinas, the General Prosecutor of Lithuania did not find it appropriate to ask that the judge Furmanavičius be interrogated, but he did find appropriate to criticise Drąsius Kedys for having published on Internet, the videos and 200 letters sent to European Parliament members and Lithuanian authorities, where face hidden, Diemantele tells what has happened to her. Drasiaus plea letter in English is available here: A father fighting for his daughter
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We Are Anonymous
We Do Not Forgive
We Do Not Forget
We Are Legion
Expect Us
Peace and Love,
#ATeam
twitter:AnonOpsSweden twitterde op donderdag 17-05-2012 om 19:22:32Right now #OpLithChild goes #OccupyLithuania, people pitched tents outside president palace, cops wanted to demolish, people defended!
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Thomas Ryan?twitter:Reckz0r twitterde op donderdag 17-05-2012 om 19:14:30http://t.co/GKrESNrU - The Jester's True Identity (DoX) reageer retweet
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quote:We have some news just breaking right now. ZeroPaid has learned who was behind the attack of Swedish BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay. The attacker goes by the name Anonymous Nyre – a defector of the online collective Anonymous. A comment was left on PasteBin explaining the attack:
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quote:A day after the Indian government proposed a hyper watchdog to police the internet, the websites of the Supreme Court of India and the Congress mysteriously went offline on Thursday. This sparked off rumours that the hacker group Anonymous Central had taken down the two sites to protest the government's censorship plan.
The hacking was reportedly in response to the blocking of torrent site thepiratebay.com and vimeo.com.
While the Supreme Court of India website came back online after a little while, the Congress website was still offline at the time of filing of this report.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) website had also reportedly come under attack.
Earlier, tweeting about the government's plan, Anonymous Central had tweeted, "Namaste #India, your time has come to trash the current government and install a new one. Good luck."
The proposed plan for censorship pushes for a government-run 50-member body to control the web. The government's web takeover plan has already been placed before the United Nations (UN).
The UN is expected to discuss the proposal in the next 72 hours. The proposal would end "equal say" process for internet governance and push the civil society to the fringes.
The proposed Committee for Internet Related Polices (CIRP) would be 50-member body funded by the UN. It would meet once a year and would have the power to oversee all internet standards bodies.
If put into force, the move carries a huge potential of hurting India's image. The move has already been raising the hackles of some MPs. Headlines Today accessed letter of Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh objecting to the proposed watchdog.
"India's proposal, though cleverly worded, hurts its reputation. It hurts advancement of internet as a vehicle for openness, democracy. If accepted, it will be harmful to the interests of Indian citizens. India's position is closely associated with countries none of which is a sparkling example of democracy. Any attempt to expand government's power over internet should be turned back," Chandrasekhar wrote in his letter.
Meanwhile, reacting to the proposal for an internet watchdog, Gagandeep S Sapra, had tweeted, "Block The Internet, Ban the Cartoons, Change Text in Textbooks, Delay Justice, Forget the Citizen, Oh What a Beautiful Country #India"
Ashwin Siddaramaiah tweeted, "Not just TPB, but also vimeo, dailymotion, pastebin and many more sites are blocked. This Govt. Has been the worst I've seen."
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday(...)bsites/1/189182.html
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quote:Dont worry about hackers illegally accessing government systems. It turns out government workers and civil servants who are trusted with private citizen data are more likely to access your data illegally.
The U.K. government is haemorrhaging data private and confidential citizen data from medical records to social security details, and even criminal records, according to figures obtained through Freedom of Information requests.
Just shy of 1,000 civil servants working at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), were disciplined for accessing personal social security records. The Department for Health (DoH), which operates the U.K.s National Health Service and more importantly all U.K. medical records, saw more than 150 breaches occur over a 13-month period.
And all this comes to light no more than a fortnight after the Queen formally announced the U.K. government will monitor all Web and email traffic, and log all landline, mobile phone, and Skype calls.
And its the privacy campaigners who are in the wrong to say that the data wont be illegally accessed or abused?
There is one, simple fact: from health records to criminal records, employment details and other personal data, government databases are not only open to abuse, but are actively being exploited by the very people we supposedly trust with our data.
Crunching the numbers: the DWP has a database of around 100 million people. More than 200,000 civil servants have to be vetted to extremely high standards before they can access this database.
Between April 2010 and March 2011, 513 civil servants were found to have made unauthorised disclosures of official, sensitive, private and/or personal information. The year continuing, between April 2011 and January 2012, more than 460 staff were disciplined.
The DoH on the other hand said it did not log each and every breach of unlawful access to U.K. medical records. It did say there were 158 recorded breaches in 2011. Only four years earlier, there were only 28 cases, representing a fivefold increase.
The FOI requests were made by Channel 4s investigative series, Dispatches.
Out of the hundreds of thousands of employees in both departments, the numbers represent only a fraction of the total staff. Having said that, it took only one person allegedly to leak more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables to Wikileaks, the largest unauthorised release of classified data in the history of the United States.
Currently, under the Data Protection Act, it is a criminal offence to obtain or disclose personal data without permission or procure disclosure to other persons. The penalties for a criminal offence go up to £5,000 ($7,900) in a lower magistrates court, or an unlimited fine in a higher Crown court.
Some British politicians even called for some extreme data breaches to result in prison sentences something dismissed by other parliamentary committee members.
Rarely does the fine rise to five-figures, let alone six. Only recently, one Scottish local authority was fined £140,000 ($220,000) for five separate data breaches the highest fine imposed by the courts to date.
But as is often the case, the financial benefits from selling personal data are rarely outweighed by the fines or penalties imposed.
Under new legislation presented by Europe, if a data breach occurs, whether by an individual deliberately acting outside the law, or accidentally due to unforeseen events, the person for which that data relates to must be informed.
But those laws are at least two or three years away, and until then, companies and public sector organisations will face meagre fines compared to the ¤1 million flat-rate or 2 percent of their annual global turnover.
SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.Free Assange! Hack the Planet
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
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quote:The Chicago Police Department website is down, and “hactivists” from the group Anonymous are taking credit. It’s part of a protest in Chicago against the NATO summit, where U.S. President Barack Obama is meeting with world leaders.
Activists are protesting NATO’s policies, holding signs such as “War (equals) Debt,” and “NATO, Go Home.” Members of the hacker group Anonymous, calling themselves “AntiS3curityOPS,” posted a video on YouTube with an ominous message to the Chicago Police Department, but that video has since been made private. We added a full transcript of the video to the bottom of this post.
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quote:CHICAGO - De bekende hackersgroep Anonymous zegt de website van de NAVO te hebben aangevallen.
De site was zondagavond uit de lucht.
Het militaire bondgenootschap komt zondag en maandag bijeen in de Amerikaanse stad Chicago.
Als reden noemen de hackers het politieoptreden tegen demonstranten rond de NAVO-top. ''Als jullie ons censureren, zullen wij uit noodzaak jullie censureren'', schrijft Anonymous op internet.
Een andere hackersgroep, AntiS3curityOPS, claimt de websites van de gemeente Chicago en van de lokale politie te hebben platgelegd.
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quote:Een Amerikaanse student die in 2009 werd veroordeeld tot het betalen van 675 duizend dollar (bijna 530 duizend euro) voor het illegaal downloaden en online delen van 30 muzieknummers, moet die boete gewoon betalen. Het Amerikaanse Hooggerechtshof weigerde vandaag het hoger beroep dat de student had aangespannen, te behandelen.
De student Joel Tenenbaum was aangeklaagd door de Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Een jury legde hem de boete van 22 duizend dollar per nummer op, maar een federale rechtbank schrapte dat later omdat de boete excessief en niet in lijn met de grondwet zou zijn.
Maar een aantal grote platenmaatschappijen, waaronder Sony BMG Music Entertainment en Warner Brothers, deden hun beklag over het schappen van de boete. Een federaal hof van beroep stelde hen in het gelijk, en oordeelde dat Tenenbaum alsnog moest betalen. De student tekende hoger beroep aan, maar dat werd vandaag afgewezen. Het Hof heeft dat besluit niet nader toegelicht.
RIAA, dat een aantal van de grootste Amerikaanse platenlabels vertegenwoordigt, heeft in totaal ruim 12 duizen Amerikanen voor de rechter gesleept wegens het schenden van het auteursrecht. Tenenbaum verklaarde voor de rechter dat hij vindt dat individuele downloaders die muziek delen zonder daar geld aan te verdienen niet hetzelfde behandeld moeten worden als bedrijven die voor eigen gewin materiaal stelen dat auteursrechten bevat.
quote:supreme court will hear aclu case challenging warrantless wiretapping law
The Supreme Court has just agreed to consider whether plaintiffs represented by the ACLU have the right to challenge the constitutionality of a controversial law that authorizes the National Security Agency to conduct dragnet surveillance of Americans international emails and phone calls.
quote:Hollywood planning a second SOPA for 2013
If a few remarks by Chris Dodd are to be believed, the next version of the Stop Online Piracy Act, whatever that might look like, will likely come in early 2013.
Dodd, the CEO of the Motion Picture Association of AmericaHollywoods lobbying arm, as well as a major proponent and lobbying agent for SOPAwas quoted Saturday referencing his eagerness to directly lobby Congress for a new copyright bill on the MPAAs behalf.
"I can't say anything to them about this for another seven months, but I think my colleagues understand how important this is," he said in an interview with Variety.
Dodd has to wait until January to personally lobby members of Congress. For 30 years, until he assumed leadership of the MPAA in 2011, he was a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Ethics regulations prohibit him from making deals with Washington until two years after his departure.
The only other hint Dodd left about the next SOPA is that the MPAA will no longer try and equate Web piracy with physical theft, a notion widely mocked online.
"We're going to have to be more subtle and consumer-oriented," he said. "We're on the wrong track if we describe this as thievery."
Its unclear if Dodd is interested in a much milder form of combating web piracy, or if hes interested in similar legislation that would simply be less likely to rile up the public.
He did, at least, note that he was caught off guard by the publics voracious opposition to SOPA and its sister bill, the Protect IP Act. "My learning curve about understanding this industry is still climbing," he said.
How much he meant to reveal about the MPAAs next legislative push is unclear. The organization refused to comment on this story.
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quote:WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - One or more unauthorized
users gained access to the inner workings of a website run by
the U.S. Justice Department, a department spokeswoman said on
Monday after the hacker group Anonymous said they were behind
the incident.
The hackers accessed a server that operates the Bureau of
Justice Statistics' website, the spokeswoman said.
The bureau is responsible for collecting and analyzing data
about crime - including computer security incidents - from
throughout the United States.
The department spokeswoman declined to say when the alleged
unauthorized access occurred or what data the hackers might have
obtained. The department is looking into whether the
unauthorized users broke criminal laws, she said.
Online statements attributed to Anonymous said they were
responsible for the security breach and that the files they
obtained include emails.
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