Anonops #15: Last or not to Last

Its Over 9000!!! [Original Video and Audio]

LOLPRAH: OVER 9000 PENISES!

Tom Cruise Scientology Video - ( Original UNCUT )

Message to Scientology

Operation Payback #Anonymous Message RE: ACTA, SOPA, PIPA, Internet Censorship & Copyright

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BarrettBrownLOL twitterde op maandag 03-09-2012 om 02:16:10 And all this because man put in motion systems that returned to enslave him #ProjectPM reageer retweet

Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church Website LIVE

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

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From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world

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

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Gabriella Coleman Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

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

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Anonymous: From the Lulz to Collective Action

^{Gabriella Coleman, April 6 2011}

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Our Weirdness Is Free

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

_{by Gabriella Coleman, [01.13.2012]}

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Coding Fredom [PDF]

The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking

^{Gabriella Coleman 2013}

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Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

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

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

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Anonymous posts over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials

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Following attacks on U.S. government websites last weekend, Anonymous seems to have made a new "Operation Last Resort" .gov website strike Sunday night.

Anonymous appears to have published login and private information from over 4,000 American bank executive accounts in the name of its new Operation Last Resort campaign, demanding U.S. computer crime law reform.

A spreadsheet has been published on a .gov website allegedly containing login information and credentials, IP addresses, and contact information of American bank executives.

If true, it could be that Anonymous has released banker information that could be connected to Federal Reserve computers, including contact information and cell phone numbers for U.S. bank Presidents, Vice Presidents, COO's Branch Managers, VP's and more.

The website used in this attack belongs to the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC). The page extension URL is titled, "oops-we-did-it-again."

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OpLastResort twitterde op maandag 04-02-2013 om 04:16:07 Now we have your attention America: Anonymous's Superbowl Commercial 4k banker d0x via the FED http://t.co/ABcGMj44 #opLastResort #Anonymous reageer retweet

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NBC NEWS Drone Scoop COURTESY Anonymous Hackers?

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NBC News revealed an explosive Gov. white paper on the president’s drone deployment policy, seemingly scooped from a confidential government filing cabinet or in this case, a computer… What NBC news did not detail was exactly how they came across these documents, here’s one very plausible theory… Anonymous… And this is just the beginning folks…

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EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans

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A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be senior operational leaders of al-Qaida or an associated force -- even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.

The 16-page memo, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News, provides new details about the legal reasoning behind one of the Obama administrations most secretive and controversial polices: its dramatically increased use of drone strikes against al-Qaida suspects abroad, including those aimed at American citizens, such as the September 2011 strike in Yemen that killed alleged al-Qaida operatives Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. Both were U.S. citizens who had never been indicted by the U.S. government nor charged with any crimes.

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Federal Reserve hacked

US central bank confirms intrusion after hacktivist group Anonymous was claimed to have stolen 4,000 bankers' details

The US Federal Reserve bank has confirmed one of its internal websites was broken into by hackers after the hacktivist group Anonymous was claimed to have stolen details of more than 4,000 bank executives.

"The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," a spokeswoman for the US central bank said.

"Exposure was fixed shortly after discovery and is no longer an issue. This incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve system," the spokeswoman said, adding that all individuals affected by the breach had been contacted.

The admission follows a claim that hackers linked to Anonymous struck the bank on Sunday. The technology news site ZDNet separately reported that Anonymous appeared to have published information said to containing the login information, credentials, internet protocol addresses and contact information of more than 4,000 US bankers.

The claim was made via Twitter using an account registered to OpLastResort, which is linked to Anonymous, which has claimed responsibility for attacks on other government and corporate sites.

OpLastResort is a campaign some hackers linked to Anonymous have started to protest against government prosecution of the computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who killed himself on 11 January.

The bank declined to identify which website had been hacked. But information it provided to bankers indicated that the site, which was not public, was a contact database for banks to use during a natural disaster.

A copy of the message sent by the bank to members of its Emergency Communication System (ECS) and obtained by Reuters warned that mailing address, business phone, mobile phone, business email and fax numbers had been published. "Some registrants also included optional information consisting of home phone and personal email. Despite claims to the contrary, passwords were not compromised," the bank said.

The website's purpose is to allow bank executives to update the Fed if their operations have been flooded or otherwise damaged in a storm or other disaster. That helps the bank assess the overall impact of the event on the banking system.

Hackers identifying themselves as Anonymous infiltrated the US sentencing commission website in late January to protest against the government's treatment of Swartz.

Swartz was charged with using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer networks to steal more than 4m articles from Jstor, an online archive and journal distribution service. He faced a maximum sentence of 31 years if convicted.

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Westboro Baptist church key member Megan Phelps-Roper leaves

'We've done things that hurt people' says 27-year-old, who is leaving anti-gay organisation with her sister Grace

One of the most prominent members of the Westboro Baptist church has left it after spending her life as part of the fervently anti-gay movement.

Megan Phelps-Roper, who looked after social media for the church best known for its slogan "God hates fags", announced her departure in a post on the blogging platform Medium in which she also revealed her younger sister Grace, 19, was also leaving.

In the post, called Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise, the 27-year-old explained how she had become disillusioned with the teaching of Westboro, which is widely considered one of the most detested church groups in America for its "God hates fags" campaign.

Phelps-Roper writes: "We know that we've done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn't the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren't so, and regret that hurt.

"We know that we dearly love our family. They now consider us betrayers, and we are cut off from their lives, but we know they are well-intentioned. We will never not love them.

"We know that we can't undo our whole lives. We can't even say we'd want to if we could; we are who we are because of all the experiences that brought us to this point. What we can do is try to find a better way to live from here on. That's our focus."

The Westboro Baptist church gained notoriety for demonstrating at military funerals across the US, claiming the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are God's punishment on America for tolerating homosexuality.

The church has a small congregation, largely made up of the extended family of the Reverend Fred Phelps, the grandfather of Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper. Their mother, Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper, is one of its most outspoken representatives. In 2007 the BBC broadcast a documentary on the church by Louis Theroux, which was billed as The Most Hated Family in America.

As well as picketing military funerals, the church also pickets sporting events, concerts and other occasions in the apparent hope of publicity. As well as being anti-gay, it is also anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-Chinese.

In an accompanying Medium piece, Damsel, Arise: A Westboro Scion Leaves Her Church, Jeff Chu describes what led Megan, who was named by the Kansas City Star as "the future leader" of the church, to leave in November.

Chu writes that her ephiphany over Westborough's hateful dogma began with a Twitter discussion with Jewish blog Jewlicious's David Abitbol. She came to realise the problems with condemning people to death, arbitrarily fixating on the "sin" of homosexuality and believing that the church had all the answers.

The church told the Topeka Capital Journal that it did not know the whereabouts of the two women.

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Anon_Central twitterde op donderdag 07-02-2013 om 21:26:16 Tango Down: http://lapdonline.org | because fuck #LAPD! reageer retweet

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Anonymous Plans To Hack Goldman Sachs, Days After Federal Reserve Hack

The hacking group Anonymous says it will attack Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) on Feb. 14.

According to Anonymous’ Twitter account, the hacktivist group wants to shut down Goldman Sachs’ Facebook and Twitter pages on Valentine's Day to express its disdain for the financial behemoth. The group tweeted out a request to its 869,000-plus Twitter followers on Thursday to join in the cyberattack.

Anonymous released several e-flyers in several languages from its various Twitter accounts. All the e-flyers say the attack will involve three steps: First, Anonymous is encouraging supporters to report the Goldman Sachs Facebook and Twitter accounts as spam. Then, the flyer provides a URL where users can fill out an abuse form on Twitter (you can do the same on Facebook), reporting Goldman Sachs for Twitter malfeasance. In the final step, Anonymous followers are asked to make "friendly" phone calls to Goldman Sachs' offices in London, Paris or Dublin, depending on which flyer they saw.

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YourAnonNews twitterde op donderdag 07-02-2013 om 18:38:48 Please help us to destroy twitter and facebook account of Goldman Sachs february 14 #OpGm | http://t.co/V4hJYYdJ reageer retweet

“Operation Goldman Sachs" is being run through an official Tumblr page. "#OpGm" isn't the first time that Anonymous targeted Goldman Sachs. In 2011, Anonymous published the private personal information of a number of Goldman employees, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein. CNN wrote at the time that a Twitter user named CabinCr3w tweeted out that he had “doxxed,” or released, personal info of Goldman’s CEO, including Blankenfein’s age, education, recent addresses and legal cases he had been involved in. At the time, Goldman Sachs declined to comment on the leak.

Reports also surfaced recently that Anonymous had hacked into the U.S. Federal Reserve. In an interview with ABC News, ex-Anonymous member Greg Housh said the hack was a result of the lack of prosecution of “big bankers that caused a lot of the problems we’ve had over the last few years.” Housh also said to expect more Anonymous attacks on governments in the future.

The hack into the Federal Reserve resulted in the leaking of personal information of more than 4,000 bankers. ABC News says the Federal Reserve hack may have been a part of "Operation Last Resort," which was started earlier this year after Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz commited suicide over charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer. Swartz, a hero and now a martyr to activists, faced as much as 35 years in prison if found guilty.

According to Insider Media Group, the planned "operation" is a reaction to a recent interview given by Huw Pill, a chief economist at Goldman. While talking to the Huffington Post, Pill suggested that France lower wages by approximately one-third in an effort to increase competition in the labor force. The Operation Goldman Sachs Tumblr page is written in French, and might be an indicator that French hackers linked to Anonymous got the idea for the attack on Goldman from those comments.

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Anonymous salutes Christopher Dorner, ex-cop wanted for killing spree

Is Anonymous about to get a new face?

Christopher Jordan Dorner, the former LAPD officer now on the run after allegedly shooting three people, is an unlikely inspiration. But then so was Guy Fawkes, Catholic revolutionary and would-be mass-murderer. What they have in common is a frustration unto fury with the Powers That Be, a desperation, and a belief that, as Dorner put it in his manifesto, "The only thing that changes policy and garners attention is death."

So far, all he has is our attention.

Dorner's manifesto claims that he was railroaded out of the force after reporting that a fellow officer kicked a mentally ill man in the face, and documents his numerous grievances with the LAPD, beginning with racism and name-calling and ending with the fact that they have, in him, produced the perfect weapon of their own destruction and rendered it inevitable. He gives the impression of a man of firm principles pushed to extremes, rogue cop, an archetypal American character usually played by Bruce Willis, up against the Alan Rickmans of the world. In the lengthy document he gives shout-outs to the Clintons, George H.W. Bush, Michelle Obama (he approves of the bangs), Charlie Sheen, The Chive, and … Anonymous.

"#Dorner is the #99%," tweeted OccupyTheMob.

YourAnonNews, the pre-eminent Anonymous news account, tweeted, "The FBI will try to use #Anonymous images on Dorner's FB and words in his manifeto [sic] to discredit us. We didn't create him. The LAPD did."

The LAPD has also shot two innocent people, including one woman in her seventies, in the hunt for Dorner.

Despite his apparent murders of three people, Dorner was adopted by many Anons as an avatar of the man of conscience pushed to the point of desperate action. As is typical in a hive as diverse and populous as Anonymous, there have been a spectrum of reactions, with the more prominent accounts carefully making the distinction between supporting Dorner's stated principles and outright murder.

As part of the actions against the police YAN announced an email bomb of the LAPD (which is simply a lot of emails, nothing explosive), although the list of email addresses targeted appears to have been simply scraped from all public emails on the LAPD site and includes such ephemera as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Missing Children's email, and the email address of the public relations representative for the L.A. Dodgers.

YAN also tweeted the traditional "TANGO DOWN," claiming that Anonymous had taken the LAPD website offline, although I was unable to confirm any downtime and the site works fine at the time of posting. It generally takes longer than a few hours to organize an effective DDoS unless you have a botnet handy. As well, the account is tweeting updates on the pursuit of Dorner. Altogether, these are not actions which could in any way slow down the police pursuit or investigation, but once again, they are excellent optics for Anonymous.

Anonymous has an ongoing #FTP operation, a carry-over from FuckFBIFridays, and the current actions fit neatly under that umbrella and have been tweeted with that hashtag, as well as #OpLastResort. This was the action, formerly OpAngel, inspired by the suicide of Aaron Swartz, and is aimed at reforming the justice system. The OpAngel twitter account has enthusiastically taken up the cause, tweeting, "When people of conscience speak out, this happens: [link] Now you understand why we must exist & do what we do. #opLastResort"

Dorner's manifesto's subject line was: "Last Resort."

"The LAPD is doing illegal things to catch an ex-cop doing illegal things who was kicked off the force for exposing cops doing illegal things," said YAN, speaking the exact, literal truth.

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Pirate Bay co-founder: “I can sit here and jerk off for 5 years. And I will.”

New film examines infamous BitTorrent site's people, evolution, and trial.

Say what you will about The Pirate Bay: if nothing else, its founders are resilient, defiant, and clever. Two out of its three co-founders have yet to be brought to justice, having been convicted of aiding copyright infringement—none of them have paid a single cent of the multi-million dollar fine ordered by a Swedish court in 2009, and all seem quite resolute on maintaining that position. (Still, each of the three claim to no longer have any involvement in the site.)

There’s not much new information about the founders in Simon Klose’s new film TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, which debuted Friday at the Berlinale Film Festival in the German capital and is available freely online under a Creative Commons license. The non-narrated, largely Swedish-language film profiles the three co-founders during their prosecution by the Swedish government and doesn’t address—other than through filmed court testimony—the fourth co-defendant, businessman Carl Lundström. (Lundström did serve four months in Sweden under house arrest, but has since returned to living in Switzerland. He also declined to be profiled for the film.)

In February 2012, the Swedish Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the case against the co-founders, leaving the three with few, if any, legal options left at their disposal. After being deported late last year on a Cambodian visa violation, Gottfrid “anakata” Svartholm Warg remains in Swedish custody. Meanwhile, Fredrik “tiamo” Neij is still living in Laos with his wife and son.

In the closing minutes of the film (shot in November 26, 2010, on the day the first appeals decision was to be announced), Neij looks straight in the camera while taking a leisurely family lunch aboard a boat in Laos with co-founder Peter Sunde at his side. Neij flatly says: “I can serve a prison sentence. But why do it if I don’t have to?”

Later that day, just moments after the two of them find out that they’ve lost their appeal, Neij adds: “The statute of limitations is five years. They can’t issue an international warrant of arrest. I can sit here and jerk off for five years. And I will.”

The film also reminds us that Neij is wanted by Interpol, although his name does not turn up in Interpol’s online database. Meanwhile, Sunde remains a digital nomad, traveling seemingly freely about Europe and the rest of the world. He’s even answering a Reddit AMA on Saturday.

In other words, these guys seem very comfortable with ignoring Swedish justice.

Late last year, Håkan Roswall, the chief prosecutor in the Pirate Bay trial, told Ars that he has “no doubt whatsoever that every one of those four will serve their sentence.”

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Anonymous reveals ample Fed access, FBI opens criminal investigation

Anonymous' 'Operation Last Resort' has published a new document revealing that the hacking collective has had an astonishing amount of access to The Fed's internal files and servers.

The new attack is Anonymous' response to the information security community's anger at the Federal Reserve ("The Fed") for its dismissive attitude and lack of transparency around Sunday's emergency contact system hack.

Anonymous has compromised the Grand Banks Yachts Web site to host this new file—Grand Banks Yachts, Ltd.—which manufactures and sells luxury yachts worldwide.

The URL filename ominously reads, "dorner-is-a-symptom-not-the-syndrome."

The Anonymous 'Operation Last Resort' action last Sunday exposed over 4,600 bank executive credentials for The Fed's expanding nationwide program, the Emergency Communications System.

The FBI has now begin to respond—at least to the bank hack—by opening a fresh criminal investigation into Anonymous 'Operation Last Resort.'

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OpLastResort twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2013 om 15:44:55 People are concerned by the Fed's lack of transparency regarding recent compromise. We thought we'd help: http://www.grandbanks.com(...)not-the-syndrome.txt #opLastResort reageer retweet

The new document essentially shows that Anonymous had access to several of The Fed's servers and internal documents.

Like everything we've seen so far in Anonymous' 'Operation Last Resort' actions, the details of the hack appear to be symbolic.

The new attack's filename refers to Christopher Dorner, an ex-LAPD police officer that killed three people, "declared war on the LAPD" and is currently the target of a California state-wide manhunt.

Dorner published a lengthy manifesto to Facebook stating that his murderous mission—to avenge corruption within the LAPD that ruined his life—was his only remaining path to justice.

Despite Dorner's public status as a fugitive and an alleged murderer, Dorner has been characterized by some Anons as "an avatar of the man of conscience pushed to the point of desperate action."

On Twitter, Anonymous' 'Operation Last Resort' directed the latest drop to Veracode chief technology officer and L0pht alum Chris Wysopal, in an apparently friendly acknowledgment of the Veracode CTO's analysis and comments about the technical details surrounding the recent Federal Reserve bank hack.

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The 'Operation Last Resort' video, posted Friday on the U.S. Sentencing Commission Web site, now has more than 1.38 million views at the time of writing. Still, two weeks after Anonymous took down the Web site, it remains "under construction."

We will update you with new developments as they become available.

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Brace Yourselves, CISPA is Back!

February 8, 2013 - Yesterday, U.S. congressmen Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) announced before the House that they are planning to revive the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA) and work closely with the White House to ensure its passage sometime later this year. The unpopular legislative attempt at ramping up cybersecurity regulations was tabled indefinitely last year in August after it was shot down in a Senate vote, but some had raised the possibility that it could've been delayed by the lawmakers to avoid having to make a decision right before the elections.

Unlike SOPA, this bill does not focus on the online pirating of music or videos found on torrent websites, but it instead offers corporate protection against foreign hackers stealing codes, formulas and patented information.

The concept of CISPA revolves around a sense of developing a security community among large technology companies like Facebook and Google. Essentially, the bill promotes companies to share information on cyberattacks with each other and the government. With companies like Facebook and sites that have endless amounts of personal information, the fear is that this would be a new step toward a legalized government invasion of privacy.

If you’re still confused about what CISPA is, or what it could mean for you, this is what we wrote last year when the bill was proposed:

Here’s how it’s dangerous: The language in the bill (read it here) is maddeningly imprecise. It limits the shared data to “cyber threats” or “national security” items only, but lacks any specific definitions or examples. “The ambiguities of these terms render these limits completely meaningless,” says Digital Trends, which notes that email or Facebook messages would be up for grabs. “And nothing in the bill requires companies to strip shared information of personally identifiable details.”

It’s unclear when this will come up for a vote in the House. But keep your eye on the acronym, and pay attention to who’s supporting it.

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Egypte doet YouTube in de ban

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Egypte heeft videowebsite YouTube voor een maand in de ban gedaan omdat daar een voor moslims beledigende film te zien was. Dat hebben staatsmedia zaterdag gemeld.

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Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm

Exclusive: Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups

A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.

A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an "extreme-scale analytics" system created by Raytheon, the world's fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

Raytheon says it has not sold the software – named Riot, or Rapid Information Overlay Technology – to any clients.

But the Massachusetts-based company has acknowledged the technology was shared with US government and industry as part of a joint research and development effort, in 2010, to help build a national security system capable of analysing "trillions of entities" from cyberspace.

The power of Riot to harness popular websites for surveillance offers a rare insight into controversial techniques that have attracted interest from intelligence and national security agencies, at the same time prompting civil liberties and online privacy concerns.

The sophisticated technology demonstrates how the same social networks that helped propel the Arab Spring revolutions can be transformed into a "Google for spies" and tapped as a means of monitoring and control.

Using Riot it is possible to gain an entire snapshot of a person's life – their friends, the places they visit charted on a map – in little more than a few clicks of a button.

In the video obtained by the Guardian, it is explained by Raytheon's "principal investigator" Brian Urch that photographs users post on social networks sometimes contain latitude and longitude details – automatically embedded by smartphones within so-called "exif header data."

Riot pulls out this information, showing not only the photographs posted onto social networks by individuals, but also the location at which the photographs were taken.

"We're going to track one of our own employees," Urch says in the video, before bringing up pictures of "Nick," a Raytheon staff member used as an example target. With information gathered from social networks, Riot quickly reveals Nick frequently visits Washington Nationals Park, where on one occasion he snapped a photograph of himself posing with a blonde haired woman.

"We know where Nick's going, we know what Nick looks like," Urch explains, "now we want to try to predict where he may be in the future."

Riot can display on a spider diagram the associations and relationships between individuals online by looking at who they have communicated with over Twitter. It can also mine data from Facebook and sift GPS location information from Foursquare, a mobile phone app used by more than 25 million people to alert friends of their whereabouts. The Foursquare data can be used to display, in graph form, the top 10 places visited by tracked individuals and the times at which they visited them.

The video shows that Nick, who posts his location regularly on Foursquare, visits a gym frequently at 6am early each week. Urch quips: "So if you ever did want to try to get hold of Nick, or maybe get hold of his laptop, you might want to visit the gym at 6am on a Monday."

Mining from public websites for law enforcement is considered legal in most countries. In February last year, for instance, the FBI requested help to develop a social-media mining application for monitoring "bad actors or groups".

However, Ginger McCall, an attorney at the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Centre, said the Raytheon technology raised concerns about how troves of user data could be covertly collected without oversight or regulation.

"Social networking sites are often not transparent about what information is shared and how it is shared," McCall said. "Users may be posting information that they believe will be viewed only by their friends, but instead, it is being viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like the Riot search."

Raytheon, which made sales worth an estimated $25bn (£16bn) in 2012, did not want its Riot demonstration video to be revealed on the grounds that it says it shows a "proof of concept" product that has not been sold to any clients.

Jared Adams, a spokesman for Raytheon's intelligence and information systems department, said in an email: "Riot is a big data analytics system design we are working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data into useable information to help meet our nation's rapidly changing security needs.

"Its innovative privacy features are the most robust that we're aware of, enabling the sharing and analysis of data without personally identifiable information [such as social security numbers, bank or other financial account information] being disclosed."

In December, Riot was featured in a newly published patent Raytheon is pursuing for a system designed to gather data on people from social networks, blogs and other sources to identify whether they should be judged a security risk.

In April, Riot was scheduled to be showcased at a US government and industry national security conference for secretive, classified innovations, where it was listed under the category "big data – analytics, algorithms."

According to records published by the US government's trade controls department, the technology has been designated an "EAR99" item under export regulations, which means it "can be shipped without a licence to most destinations under most circumstances".

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Anonymous Targets LAPD Website, Hackers Unhappy About Chistopher Dorner Case

Anonymous hackers claim to have disrupted a website of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPDonline.org) in response to the way authorities are handling the case of Chistopher Dorner, the alleged cop killer who’s currently on the run.

The hacktivists have announced attacking the site after the LA Times published reports about how police opened fire against innocent individuals whose vehicles matched the description of the one used by Dorner.

The individual behind the YourAnonNews Twitter account has posted some ironic messages in response to the incident:

“If #LAPD are monitoring this feed, I’d like them to know I am driving a grey 4-door sedan today & will not be Christopher #Dorner. KTHX.”

“Be careful if you're in LA, especially if you're Asian, white, female, male, or drive a truck of any make & color.”

In addition, Anonymous asks Dorner to contact them if he wants any information leaked.

“Dormer needs to be placed in custody without being killed. He also may have information he wants leaked; we will leak it if he desires,” the hackers wrote.

Currently, the LAPD website appears to be working properly.

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Geeks are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties

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Recent events have highlighted the fact that hackers, coders, and geeks are behind a vibrant political culture.

^{By Gabriella Coleman on February 4, 2013}

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A decade-plus of anthropological fieldwork among hackers and like-minded geeks has led me to the firm conviction that these people are building one of the most vibrant civil liberties movements we’ve ever seen. It is a culture committed to freeing information, insisting on privacy, and fighting censorship, which in turn propels wide-ranging political activity. In the last year alone, hackers have been behind some of the most powerful political currents out there.

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Op maandag 11 februari 2013 16:12 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Chris Dorner finds an ally in Anonymous; the group explains why

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Hello, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, we are anonymous.

As national headlines regarding the vigilante acts of former LAPD officer Christopher Jordan Dorner continue to intensify, we have decided amongst ourselves to pursue an appropriate recourse.

And so we watched with dread and utter hilarity as the LAPD began to pursue this man.

However the department has proven once more that it is incapable of serving the public, look no further than to the women who became LAPD’s most recent victims. The two were shot without warning and were not even given the chance to surrender simply because LAPD thinks they are above the law.

No one is above the law.

In coordination with federal authorities, the LAPD is now conducting a massive manhunt for The Dark Knight Christopher Dorner, so that they may effectively silence him forever without due process.

And now since the authorization of drones have been approved for the first time ever to pursue and execute an American citizen on United States Soil, the US Government will stage this event to set a new precedent from which it can assassinate American citizens for little to no reason at all.

But do not misinterpret us for we do not condone the vicious acts that Dorner has allegedly partaken in. Instead we sympathize and resonate with his struggle. Dorner was not born a killer he was a law abiding citizen that was tainted by the corrupt and inhumane practices of the Los Angeles Police Department who serve only themselves.

We however do not accept this fate, and call upon our brothers to raise arms against the LAPD, for justice and for the lulz we will rise to disrupt, dismantle and dissect all aspects of the manhunt whilst revealing the LAPD’s unwarranted hypocrisy.

We are hated, vilified, and like Dorner, considered to be enemies to the state. But there are those who whisper that we are culture and a necessity that bring truth to a cloaked world. In this spirit we will forge ahead and allow #OperationDorner to commence!

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YourAnonNews twitterde op maandag 11-02-2013 om 10:36:35 Update: Population of Kashmir denied internet access for 3 days. #KashmirBlackout reageer retweet

Al Jazera Reports: Kashmir Intifada 2013 #KashmirNow #FreeKashmir

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Goldman Sachs targeted by hacker group

The "hacktivist" group Anonymous has declared war on Goldman Sachs, a potent symbol of capitalism to be sure. Specifically, the group says it will launch an online on February 14.

As noted by the International Business Times, "Anonymous released several e-flyers in several languages from its various Twitter accounts. All the e-flyers say the attack will involve three steps: First, Anonymous is encouraging supporters to report the Goldman Sachs Facebook and Twitter accounts as spam. Then, the flyer provides a URL where users can fill out an abuse form on Twitter (you can do the same on Facebook), reporting Goldman Sachs for Twitter malfeasance. In the final step, Anonymous followers are asked to make 'friendly' phone calls to Goldman Sachs' offices in London, Paris or Dublin, depending on which flyer they saw."

These sorts of threats are always a bit nebulous. There have been times when similar declarations against financial companies were publicized and then ostensibly retracted. But it's also fair to say that this isn't the first time that a hacker group has tangled with Goldman Sachs. In 2011, the group published personal information about CEO Lloyd Blankfein on the Internet as a protest.

Anonymous seems to be stepping up its activity. Not too long ago, the Fed was targeted in an attack that exposed information about various bankers. If its social media operations were impaired, it would not be the end of the world. Still, Goldman Sachs is no doubt taking this threat seriously.

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A Message From Anonymous to the President of the United States

Article II, Sector 3 of the US Constitution, says the President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

At 9PM Eastern Standard Time, February 13, 2013 President Obama has planned to address a joint session of Congress to deliver the State of the Union Address.
The following day, President Obama will be introducing an executive order, purportedly aimed at bolstering U.S. cyber-security, after repeated failed attempts to pass legislation through Congress.

Anonymous has reached a verdict of NO CONFIDENCE in this executive order and the plans to reintroduce the CISPA bill to Congress on the same day. As such, President Obama and the State of the Union Address will be BANISHED from the Internet for the duration of live delivery.

So as not to infringe upon the Presidents free speech, subsequent broadcasts will be allowed to pass unhindered.
This action is being taken to underline a fact that appears to be sorely unrecognized by the Obama Administration that the Internet is a sovereign territory, and does not fall under the jurisdiction of any nation state.

We are the natives of this space, and its guardians, and we will fight until death to protect it as a neutral grounds for the unhindered interaction of all members of the human race, so long as they themselves act in harmony with this inviolable principle.

Our determination is that President Obama is acting in direct contravention of this principle, and his brief exclusion is an educational, rather than a punitive measure.
We hope that its lesson will be learned.
Punitive measures have not been ruled out.

-Anonymous

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Anonymous Tries, but Fails to Interrupt Obama’s State of the Union Address – Video

On Tuesday, Anonymous hackers revealed their intentions to make sure that there would be no State of the Union address on the web. They planned on blocking all the webcasts of US President Barack Obama’s speech.

“Tonight, the President of the United States will appear before a joint session of Congress to deliver the State of the Union Address and tomorrow he plans to sign an executive order for cybersecurity as the House Intelligence committee reintroduces the defeated CISPA act which turns private companies into government informants,” they said in a video statement.

“We reject the State of the Union. We reject the authority of the President to sign arbitrary orders and bring irresponsible and damaging controls to the Internet. The President of the United States of America, and the Joint Session of Congress will face an Army tonight.”

Some of the hacktivists were unhappy with the fact that the US president would not cover topics such as the NDAA, the killing of citizens by military drones, the Bradley Manning case, or secret interpretations of the law that allow for warrantless wiretapping and surveillance of US citizens.

Other Anonymous hackers gave a “verdict of no confidence” to the executive order aimed at protecting the country’s critical infrastructure. In addition, the protest was also aimed against the reintroduction of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).

However, the hacktivists’ plans have failed. The White House live streams worked without a glitch during the president’s speech.

On the other hand, they don’t seem to be too discouraged. They highlight the fact that they’ve won the first three rounds by taking down sites of MIT, USSC and the Federal Reserve, so they “give round 4 to the sneaky gov.”

They warn that they’re in this for the “full 12 rounds.”

Here is the video in which Anonymous threatened the State of the Union address:

Anonymous vs. State of the Union - BATTLE ROYALE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

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Anonymous: ramping up OpSOTU for 24 hours

The 'Operation Last Resort' Twitter account has posted updates with increasing fervor over the last 24 hours, focusing on today's State Of The Union Address, as well as Congress' rushed re-introduction of cybersecurity bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).

These posts have included yesterday's publishing and distribution of a file containing detailed information about every security and surveillance camera in the Chicago area. Chicago has the largest surveillance program of any city in the United States.

Less than a day ago, 'Operation Last Resort' made public documents ("doxd") revealing sensitive information about Richard A. McFeely, the FBI executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch.

We heard he was after us so here you can go after him >> DOX on FBI Agent "Rick" Richard A. McFeely

McFeely was quoted in the media following the massive hack and defacement of the U.S. Sentencing Commission Web site which launched 'Operation Last Resort,' saying the FBI was "concerned" and would launch a criminal investigation into the matter.

Anonymous' tweets regarding the McFeely "dox" linked to several blogs posts that contained contact information for McFeely and the names of his family—though it should be noted that the information was less than could be obtained through a "people search" service, and the post was signed by #AntiSec.

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IJsland werkt aan censuur porno op internet

IJsland werkt als eerste westerse democratie aan een verbod op pornografie op internet. IJsland wil daarvoor mogelijk hetzelfde soort filters gebruiken als China voor het weren van politiek onwelgevallige inhoud.

De wet is bedoeld om jongeren te beschermen en de waardigheid van vrouwen niet aan te tasten. Pornografie op papier is in IJsland al verboden, maar door de opkomst van internet is een leemte in die wet ontstaan, aldus de Britse krant Daily Telegraph donderdag.

De regering in Reykjavik werkt aan wetgeving waarbij onder meer bepaalde websites kunnen worden geblokkeerd. Ook wil de minister van Binnenlandse Zaken een verbod om IJslandse creditcards te gebruiken voor de betaling van pornografie. Volgens prof. Gail Dines, een pornografiedeskundige, heeft IJsland een 'zeer progressieve benadering die door geen enkel ander democratisch land is uitgeprobeerd'.

NASA hacked and data leaked

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‘Anonymous’ hacks 600,000 Israeli email accounts

In the latest action targeting Israel, the international computer hacking network known as ‘Anonymous’ has claimed credit for publishing the personal information, including encrypted passwords, of over 600,000 Israelis as part of its ‘Operation Israel (#OpIsrael) on Friday.

In November 2012, Anonymous published a video announcing the launch of a campaign called #opIsrael to hack Israeli websites and emails to try to bring an end to Israeli policies that it claimed were in violation of international law.

The campaign, according to Anonymous, is for the “children and families in Gaza that are suffering as a result of the policies of the Israeli government.” In addition to assaults on Israeli websites, the hacker group also provided Gazans with communications tools in the event their Intrnet connections were to be severed during the Israeli assault on Gaza in early December 2012.

As part of the campaign, hackers took down the Israeli military spokesperson’s website, and hacked into the Israeli Prime Minister’s site. The group managed to steal passwords, erase databases and deface websites of these and other Israeli government agencies as well as private groups.

The email provider that was hacked in Friday’s attack, Walla!, told Australia’s SC Magazine that they are working on “'hermetically' sealing off user details in Walla! Accounts”.

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Op maandag 18 februari 2013 17:03 schreef Probably_on_pcp het volgende:

[..]

Ik bedank je ook nog even een keer PV

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Burger King Twitter Account Hacked

Hackers took over Burger King's Twitter account on Monday.

The cyber tricksters changed the fast food company's avatar and name to "McDonalds" and sent a McFlurry of questionable and offensive tweets. The Twitter mishap isn't all bad news for Burger King though — the account added 5,000 new followers in the first 30 minutes since the hackers took over.

Mashable has reached out to the company and will update this post with any response.

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Anonymous hacks U.S. State Department and investment firm, leaks data

Anonymous continues with its Operation Last Resort, and its latest targets were the websites of the U.S. Department of State (state.gov) and of investment firm George K. Baum and Company (gkbaum.com).

From the former they exfiltrated - and published - databases containing a treasure trove of personal information about their employees (names, birth dates, phone numbers, email addresses, home and work addresses, and so on).

"Our reasons for this attack are very simple. You've imprisoned or either censored our people. […] Basically, you tried to put an end to us and you got owned, there's nothing more you can say or do. You took away Topiary, Avunit, Neuron, Pwnsauce, lolspoon, Aaron Swartz shall we go on?" they wrote in a not accompanying the leak, reiterating that Operation Last Resort has been launched in memory of recently tragically deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz.

George K. Baum and Company's website was defaced, and a link to a ZeroBin post containing details of their customers' accounts (names, email addresses, passwords and more) in clear text was published on it.

According to a post on the @OpLastResort Twitter account, the investment firm was hit because its Vice President Joshua Magden was a client of Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting Inc.), a US-based think-tank that Anonymous hacked in December 2011.

Operation Last Resort started with the DDoS attack on MIT's official website and the defacement of one of its subdomains, on which Anonymous called for a reform of "computer crime laws, and the overzealous prosecutors who use them", "reform of copyright and intellectual property law", "greater recognition of the oppression and injustices heaped daily by certain persons and institutions of authority upon anyone who dares to stand up and be counted for their beliefs, and for greater solidarity and mutual aid in response", and a "renewed and unwavering commitment to a free and unfettered internet, spared from censorship with equality of access and franchise for all."

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Op dinsdag 19 februari 2013 20:29 schreef sp3c het volgende:
is er nu eigenlijk wat gebeurt met al die prive informatie die ze online gegooit hebben?

lezen mensen het uberhaupt nog?

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Op dinsdag 19 februari 2013 20:39 schreef sp3c het volgende:
nee ik bedoel dit soort dingen

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ik krijg niet de indruk dat mensen er nog heel erg van onder de indruk raken

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Op dinsdag 19 februari 2013 20:55 schreef sp3c het volgende:

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tuurlijk en de schending van de privacy van die mensen ook

maar ja ... lekker belangrijk ofzo

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I'm not really sure. All that I can say is that according to Xero Flux, no one there knows who they are. I guess that doesn't mean I guess they aren't willing to dump the data for them though...

Other users on here have also questioned anonymousIRC's legitimacy as well. Idk.

All that can really be said about all this is that OpLastResort isn't making any sense. Why leak the personal information of innocent people that don't have anything to do with anything, and then turn around and demand cyber legislation reform? If they aren't the FEDs they are the most useful idiots I've ever seen.

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Aaron Swartz files reveal how FBI tracked internet activist

Firedoglake blogger Daniel Wright publishes once-classified FBI documents that show extent of agency's investigation into Swartz

A blogger has published once-classified FBI files that show how the agency tracked and collected information on internet activist Aaron Swartz.

Swartz, who killed himself in January aged 26, had previously requested his files and posted them on his blog, but some new documents and redactions are included in the files published by Firedoglake blogger Daniel Wright.

Wright was given 21 of 23 declassified documents, thanks to a rule that declassifies FBI files on the deceased. Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of Freedom of Inorfamtion subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."

The FBI's files concern Swartz's involvement in accessing the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (Pacer) documents. In pursuit of their investigation, the FBI had collected his personal information and was surveilling an Illinois address where he had his IP address registered.

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How Anonymous accidentally helped expose two Chinese hackers

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How did security firm Mandiant put names to two previously unknown Chinese hackers who, it says, steal American corporate secrets for the Chinese government? With a little inadvertent help from Anonymous.

Mandiant's 74-page report covers a particular hacking group referred to as "APT1" and contends that the group works for or under the direction of the Chinese government as part of the military's secretive "Unit 61398." The report ties a huge string of hacks over the last few years to Unit 61398 and goes on to show the building where the hacks might be hatched. The report is stuffed with detail uncommon in these types of stories; it even includes a translated Chinese document showing a local telecom company agreeing to Unit 61398's request for additional fiber optic connections in the name of state security.

The Mandiant researchers then tried to go one step further, putting at least a few real names to the coders involved. (BusinessWeek recently did something similar, with fascinating results.) Mandiant began with a malware coder who goes by the name "UglyGorilla"—a name which is left repeatedly in code tied to the APT1 group.

Back in 2007, for instance, Mandiant says that UglyGorilla "authored the first known sample of the MANITSME family of malware and, like a good artist, left his clearly identifiable signature in the code: 'v1.0 No Doubt to Hack You, Writed by UglyGorilla, 06/29/2007'[sic]." But despite all the uses of the name "UglyGorilla" buried in code samples, leads to the person's actual identity were hard to come by—until Anonymous hacked security firm HBGary Federal in early 2011.

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Pirate Party Threatened With Lawsuit for Hosting The Pirate Bay

For several years the Swedish Pirate Party has provided hosting services to The Pirate Bay. One of the main reasons for the BitTorrent site to team up with the political party was because it wouldn’t easily cave in to pressure from the entertainment industry. This promise will now be put to the test as the Swedish copyright watchdog “Rights Alliance” threatens to sue the Pirate Party next week if they refuse to pull the plug on TPB.


To serve its millions of daily visitors, The Pirate Bay uses a variety of hosting providers.

While the locations and providers of most cloud servers are unknown to the public, it is no secret that some of TPB’s traffic is routed through the Swedish Pirate Party.

TPB turned to the Pirate Party in 2010 after several major Hollywood movie studios obtained injunctions against its former hosting providers. The Pirate Party wanted to make a stand against the “bullying” tactics of the entertainment industry, and after three years this promise will now be put to its most serious test yet.

Today the Pirates announced that they have received a letter from the Swedish “Rights Alliance,” who are threatening legal action against the party and its representatives if they don’t stop servicing TPB within a week.

In the letter, which also targets bandwidth provider Serious Tubes, the group cites last year’s Supreme Court rejection of The Pirate Bay case as a precedent that hosting providers can be held liable for providing Internet services to file-sharing sites.

“With that decision, it was finally determined that not only those who operate illegal file sharing services, but also the Internet providers to such illegal services are committing a criminal act,” the Rights Alliance writes.

The Pirate Party clearly sees things differently and are convinced that they aren’t doing anything that’s against the law.

“The Pirate Party’s activity is legal and lawful activities should not be subjected to threats of this type. It is not illegal to provide the Pirate Bay with Internet access,” Pirate Party leader Anna Troberg says in a comment.

“There is no list of illegal sites which ISPs can not provide internet access to,” she adds.

The Pirate Party goes on to highlight that these type of “blackmail” campaigns are a way for the copyright holders to get what they want.

“Unfortunately, the kind of blackmail that the Pirate Party is now exposed to is not uncommon. Large and small Internet service providers are often subjected to similar pressure from the copyright industry lawyers,” Troberg notes.

“It is sad that they are allowed to continue this way, with both politicians and judicial blessing,” she adds.

While the Pirate Party doesn’t think they are breaking any laws, they are not sure whether the court will give them a fair hearing if the case goes to trial. Adding to that, the criminal conviction against the Pirate Bay founders and previous injunctions against TPB’s hosting providers will not be in their favor.

“Unfortunately, the fact that an activity is legal is not a guarantee that you will get a fair trial. This is precisely why the Pirate Party and is needed more than ever,” Troberg concludes.

The Pirate Party has until February 26 to decide how to respond to Rights Alliance’s threats.

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Jeremy Hammond on Aaron Swartz and the Criminalization of Digital Dissent.

_{A statement released today, Feb 20th, by Jeremy Hammonds lawyer. This is Jeremy Hammond in his own words. Written from solitary confinement.}

Jeremy Hammond on Aaron Swartz and the Criminalization of Digital Dissent

The tragic death of internet freedom fighter Aaron Swartz reveals the government’s flawed “cyber security strategy” as well as its systematic corruption involving computer crime investigations, intellectual property law, and government/corporate transparency. In a society supposedly based on principles of democracy and due process, Aaron’s efforts to liberate the internet, including free distribution of JSTOR academic essays, access to public court records on PACER, stopping the passage of SOPA/PIPA, and developing the Creative Commons, make him a hero, not a criminal. It is not the “crimes” Aaron may have committed that made him a target of federal prosecution, but his ideas – elaborated in his “Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto” – that the government has found so dangerous. The United States Attorney’s aggressive prosecution, riddled with abuse and misconduct, is what led to the death of this hero. This sad and angering chapter should serve as a wake up call for all of us to acknowledge the danger inherent in our criminal justice system.

Aaron’s case is part of the recent aggressive, politically-motivated expansion of computer crime law where hackers and activists are increasingly criminalized because of alleged “cyber-terrorist” threats. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, whose office is prosecuting me and my co-defendants in the Lulzsec indictment, has used alarmist rhetoric such as the threat of an imminent “Pearl Harbor like cyber attack” to justify these prosecutions. At the same time the government routinely trains and deploys their own hackers to launch sophisticated cyber attacks against the infrastructure of foreign countries, such as the Stuxnet and Flame viruses, without public knowledge, oversight, declarations of war, or consent from international authorities. DARPA, US Cyber Command, the NSA, and numerous federally-contracted private corporations openly recruit hackers to develop defensive and offensive capabilities and build Orwellian digital surveillance networks, designed not to enhance national security but to advance U.S. imperialism. They even attend and speak at hacker conferences, such as DEFCON, offer to bribe hackerspaces for their research, and created the insulting “National Civic Hacker Day” – efforts which should be boycotted or confronted every step of the way.

Aaron is a hero because he refused to play along with the government’s agenda, instead he used his brilliance and passion to create a more transparent society. Through the free software movement, open publishing and file sharing, and development of cryptography and anonymity technology, digital activists have revealed the poverty of neo-liberalism and intellectual property. Aaron opposed reducing everything to a commodity to be bought or sold for a profit.

The rise in effectiveness of, and public support for, movements like Anonymous and Wikileaks has led to an expansion of computer crime investigations – most importantly enhancements to 18 U.S.C § 1030, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Over the years the CFAA has been amended five times and has gone through a number of important court rulings that have greatly expanded what the act covers concerning “accessing a protected computer without authorization.” It is now difficult to determine exactly what conduct would be considered legal. The definition of a “protected computer” has been incrementally expanded to include any government or corporate computer in or outside the U.S. “Authorization,” not explicitly defined by the CFAA, has also been expanded to be so ambiguous that any use of a website, network, or PC that is outside of the interest, agenda, or contractual obligations of a private or government entity could be criminalized. In Aaron’s case and others the government has defined violating a service’s Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), Terms of Service (TOS), or End-User License Agreement (EULA) as illegal. Every time you sign up for a service like Gmail, Hotmail, or Facebook and click the “I agree” button that follows a long contract that no one ever reads, you could be prosecuted under the CFAA if you violate any of the terms.

The sheer number of everyday computer users who could be considered criminals under these broad and ambiguous definitions enables the politically motivated prosecution of anyone who voices dissent. The CFAA should be found unconstitutional under the void-for-vagueness doctrine of the due process clause. Instead, Congress proposed bills last year which would double the statutory maximum sentences and introduce mandatory minimum sentences, similar to the excessive sentences imposed in drug cases which have been widely opposed by many federal and state judges.

The “Operation Payback” case in San Jose, California is another miscarriage of justice where 16 suspected Anonymous members (including a 16 year old boy) allegedly participated in a denial-of-service action against PayPal in protest of it’s financial blockade of Wikileaks. Denial-of-service does not “exceed authorized access,” as it is virtually indistinguishable from standard web requests. It is more akin to an electronic sit-in protest, overloading the website’s servers making it incapable of serving legitimate traffic, than a criminal act involving stolen private information or destruction of servers. PayPal’s website was only slow or unavailable for a matter of hours, yet these digital activists face prison time of more that 10 years, $250,000 in fines, and felony convictions because the government wants to criminalize this form of internet protest and send a warning to would be Wikileaks supporters.

Another recent case is that of Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, who last November was convicted under the CFAA. Andrew discovered that AT&T was publishing customer names and email addresses on it’s public-facing website, without password protection, encryption, or firewalls. Instead of acknowledging their own mistake in violating customer privacy, AT&T sought prison time for Andrew. Andrew has defended his actions saying, “We have not only a right as Americans to analyze things that corporations publish and make publicly accessible but perhaps a moral obligation to tell people about it.”
I am currently facing multiple computer hacking conspiracy charges due to my alleged involvement with Anonymous, LulzSec, andAntiSec, groups which have targeted and exposed corruption in government institutions and corporations such as Stratfor, The Arizona Department of Public Safety, and HB Gary Federal. My potential sentence is dramatically increased because the Patriot Act expanded the CFAA’s definition of “loss.” This allowed Stratfor to claim over 5 million dollars in damages, including the exorbitant cost of hiring outside credit protection agencies and “infosec” corporations, purchasing new servers, 1.6 million dollars in “lost potential revenue” for the time their website was down, and even the cost of a 1.3 million dollar settlement for a class action lawsuit filed against them. Coupled with use of “sophisticated means” and “affecting critical infrastructure” sentence enhancements, if convicted at trial I am facing a sentence of 30-years-to-life.

Dirty trial tactics and lengthy sentences are not anomalies but are part of a fundamentally flawed and corrupt two-tiered system of “justice” which seeks to reap profits from the mass incarceration of millions, especially people of color and the impoverished. The use of informants who cooperate in exchange for lighter sentences is not just utilized in the repressive prosecutions of protest movements and manufactured “terrorist” Islamophobic witch-hunts, but also in most drug cases, where defendants face some of the harshest sentences in the world.

For Aaron Swartz, himself facing 13 felony CFAA charges, it is likely that it was this intense pressure from relentless and uncompromising prosecutors, who, while being aware of Aaron’s psychological fragility, continued to demand prison time, that led to his untimely death.

Due to widespread public outrage, there is talk of congressional investigations into the CFAA. But since the same Congress had proposed increased penalties not even one year ago, any efforts at reform are unlikely to be more than symbolic. What is needed is not reform but total transformation; not amendments but abolition. Aaron is a hero to me because he did not wait for those in power to realize his vision and change their game, he sought to change the game himself, and he did so without fear of being labeled a criminal and imprisoned by a backwards system of justice.

We the people demand free and equal access to information and technology. We demand transparency and accountability from governments and big corporations, and privacy for the masses from invasive surveillance networks.

The government will never be forgiven. Aaron Swartz will never be forgotten.

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White House warns of dangers posed by WikiLeaks, LulzSec, other 'hacktivists'

New Obama administration strategy says organizations such as WikiLeaks and hacking group LulzSec may conduct "economic espionage against U.S. companies."

The White House warned today of the threat posed by WikiLeaks, LulzSec, and other "hacktivist" groups that have the ability to target U.S. companies and expropriate confidential data.

A new administration-wide strategy (PDF) disclosed at a high-profile event in Washington that included Attorney General Eric Holder says the theft of trade secrets is on the rise and predicts such theft will undermine U.S. national security unless halted.

It's a "steadily increasing threat to America's economy and national security interests," Holder said at the event, which also featured officials from the State Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

"Disgruntled insiders [may leak] information about corporate trade secrets or critical U.S. technology to 'hacktivist' groups like WikiLeaks," the White House warns. Such groups could "develop customized malware or remote-access exploits to steal sensitive U.S. economic or technology information."

It's an unanticipated inclusion in a strategy that was expected to be focused on state-sponsored intrusions -- especially in the wake of disclosures this week about the Chinese military's involvement in penetrating the networks of U.S.-headquartered companies -- and signals that the government's interest in WikiLeaks has not abated. Vice President Joe Biden has called WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange a "high-tech terrorist," and a grand jury has been empaneled in Alexandria, Va., as part of a criminal investigation of the group.

While WikiLeaks is probably best known for disclosing sensitive U.S. government files, it has also released internal bank documents (and once promised to release more) and has been the subject of a controversial funds blockade by Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal. For its part, LulzSec successfully targeted News Corp., HBGary, and Sony in 2011, but has been far less active since, especially after it was infiltrated by the FBI.

The White House strategy views both organizations as part of a broader problem of nongovernment groups taking aim at U.S. companies' networks, and predicts:

. Some intelligence services with less developed cyberprograms already use relationships with nominally independent hackers to augment their capabilities to target political and military information or to carry out operations against regime enemies. For example, the Iranian Cyber Army, a hacker group with links to the Iranian Government, has used social engineering techniques to obtain control over Internet domains and disrupt the political opposition...

. Political or social activists also may use the tools of economic espionage against U.S. companies, agencies, or other entities. The self-styled whistle-blowing group WikiLeaks has already published computer files provided by corporate insiders indicating allegedly illegal or unethical behavior at a Swiss bank, a Netherlands-based commodities company, and an international pharmaceutical trade association. LulzSec -- another hacktivist group -- has exfiltrated data from several businesses that it posted for public viewing on its Web site.

In response to these threats, as well as to state-sponsored groups such as the ones Mandiant disclosed this week, the administration says it will increase "international law enforcement cooperation" and that the FBI and Justice Department will "prioritize these investigations and prosecutions."

WikiLeaks' Assange said in November in an appearance from Ecuador's London embassy that prosecutors want alleged source Bradley Manning, who's currently facing criminal charges inside the military justice system, to identify him as a party to the extraction and delivery of secret U.S. government files.

The Army wants, Assange said from his embassy room where he has sought refuge to avoid an extradition attempt, "to break him, to force him to testify against WikiLeaks and me" -- an apparent reference to the Justice Department's grand jury probe. If prosecutors allege conspiracy to commit computer crimes, they could avoid some of the free speech problems they'd face in an Espionage Act prosecution.

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YourAnonNews twitterde op zaterdag 23-02-2013 om 19:42:58 Project PM has disappeared from the internet. If anyone has a copy of the site, contact us we will mirror with new TLD. PLF@riseup.net reageer retweet

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AnonymousIRC twitterde op maandag 25-02-2013 om 14:01:20 Bank Of America spy team working lurking on #Anonymous networks. [teaser #1] http://t.co/2EE6yOYhWW #Anonymous #OWS #Wikileaks reageer retweet

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AnonymousIRC twitterde op maandag 25-02-2013 om 19:07:50 the pastebins for the teasers all down? Why u so mad, Bank of America? #Anonymous #OWS #Wikileaks reageer retweet

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http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/teaser.txt

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Bank of America went totally nuts and fucking mad cow
and censored all the previous releases, as we love so
much fingering prolapses after buttraeping. here we go
again.

so....

MEGA TEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRR
ALSO COCKS
\:D/

Summary of Information: By the way, if you asked Santa for a present
this #LulzXmas BE PATIENT. Santa has another week people. Questions?
Twitter @ DesructiveSec - Anontastic - Comment: This new information
suggests that we may not be seeing any �Big� releases from #LulzXmas
just yet, however it is advised that we not let our guards down as this
could be what they are hoping for. Ends.



Respectfully,



Jay Haak

Threat Analyst - 24/7 Early Warning Team

TEKsystems Contractor for Bank Of America

Cell: (281) 840-1822

Email: jay.haak@bankofamerica.com

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Subject: EWT - TACTO - Tracking Occupiers
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Source: RawStory.com / Twitter



Date / Time: Tweeted � 28 APR 12 @ 21:07EST / Story Posted � 28 APR 12 @
19:19EDT



Summary of Information: The following tweet was observed: �Banks
cooperating with police to track #Occupy protestors: goo.gl/tpvko #OWS #MAY1st
#MAYDAY @M1GS� � AnonInfoWarfare. The link is to a story that was written
by Andrew Jones of RawStory claiming that American banks and those overseas are
working with law enforcement officials in order to detect and deter the Occupy
Protestors attacks. Currently there are 20 comments from readers, 193
Recommendations to Facebook Users, and 27 Tweets About this Story have been
observed.



http://www.rawstory.com/r(...)-police-to-track-occ
upy-protesters/



Comment: Some comments that have been observed have been individuals claiming
their not surprised while others are outraged. By this story being spread
through the normal social media venues and #MAYDAY quickly approaching we could
see some changes in the way Occupy decides to get the word out to their fellow
protestors. EWT will continue to monitor for any developments regarding this
story, or any suggestions of alternate means of communication regarding protest
activities. Ends.



Respectfully,



Jay Haak

Threat Analyst - 24/7 Early Warning Team

TEKsystems Contractor for Bank Of America

Cell: (281) 840-1822

Email: jay.haak@bankofamerica.com

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Bank of America (and their lackeys)

We have anchored at U.S. shores again to accept a consignment of a data package that probably belongs to our dear friends at Bank of America, though lots of contractors and subsidiaries (aka lackeys) are involved as usual.

It is a known fact that Bank of America is paying contractors to discredit journalist and sabotage their work as well as spying on the Occupy Movement and Anonymous ever since. It was to be expected that these efforts continue and it was also expected that their security remains - at best - lousy.

To start with, we present you about 320mb of internal reports and and emails assembled for Bank of America by a sub-contractor named TEKSystems (who in turn are a subsidiary of the Allegio Group whose founder also owns the Baltimore Ravens). These reports and emails assembled "intelligence" from sources like public channels on Anonymous and other IRC networks like Anonops, Voxanon and Cryto, as well as other social media.

We were geniously amused by the fact that there are actually paid analysts sitting somewhere, reading the vast amount garbage that scrolls by in large public channels like #anonops and #voxanon. Even more amusing is the keyword list that was found, containing trigger words like "Jihad" or "Homosexual".

Additionally about 6 Gigabyte of source code was looted, which is currently under assessment. We can tell so far that this software belongs to ClearForest, a company specializing on text and social network analysis. It is reasonable to assume that this code is the base system for what was used to categorize and store the acquired information. We will add the complete source code once we have finshied the initial assessment.

In the meantime, amuse yourself with the incredibly sensitive and important intelligence that BofA has gathered on Anonops and Voxanon (*smirk*). Please also note that the source has provided an accompanying release statement with the data.

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Pirate Bay abandons Sweden for Norway and Spain after legal threats

The Swedish Pirate Party has handed over hosting of the Pirate Bay to sister parties in Norway and Spain after the country’s copyright lobby sent a letter threatening criminal charges for hosting the controversial file-sharing website.

The Swedish Rights Alliance gave the party until Tuesday to cut all ties with the Pirate Bay following threats of serious legal consequences. In a letter sent directly to the party's board members, the Swedish Pirate Party was accused of violating copyright law by acting as an Internet service provider for the popular bittorrent site.

The alliance also charged that the Supreme Court of Sweden had “legally settled that not only those who operate an illegal file-sharing service, but also those who provide internet access to such an illegal service are committing a criminal act.”

The Rights Alliance said that such violations of copyright law could entail stiff fines for noncompliance, payment of damages and even potential prison terms. “These rules apply to legal entities, including non-profit organizations such as The Pirate Party and Serious Tubes, their board members, and other representatives of the organizations,” the letter continued.

The Pirate Bay’s decision to move its web-hosting services to Norway and Spain likely stems from legal precedents indicating more favorable climates for file-sharing sites.

In 2010, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and several movie studios were unable to force a Norwegian ISP to block the Pirate Bay. Spanish courts have so far failed to react to dozens of site closure requests from rightsholders, and threats from the United States that Spain will be put on a trade blacklist.

Swedish Pirate Party Leader Anna Troberg hailed the shift as a positive sign that despite legal pressure at home, the movement is continuing to become an international platform for reforming copyright laws and patents.

“Today, there are more than sixty different Pirate Parties all around the world. Every cut connection to The Pirate Bay will generate two new connections,” Torrent Freak quoted her as saying.

She further said that to take the Rights Alliance on at this time would not be prudent, despite the tenuous legal claims leveled at the Pirate Party.

“It would be crazy to enter a game where the rules are decided by the other team,” she said. “The Pirate Party’s mission is not to produce martyrs for the copyright industry. Our mission is to create longterm political change that ensures that the copyright industry in the future will not be allowed to threaten companies, organizations and individuals into silence with our common judicial system as a weapon.”

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Anti-protest: Bahrain bans import of plastic Guy Fawkes masks

The Kingdom of Bahrain’s Industry and Commerce Minister, Hassan Fakhro, issued an unusual decree this week: he banned the importation of a plastic face mask. Anyone caught importing the V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask now faces arrest, as anti-government protesters in the country have been using them to stay anonymous.

The stylised visage of Guy Fawkes became popular among protesters after the 2005 Hollywood film depicted thousands marching on Parliament wearing them.

Yet, while it has became an icon for protesters from members of the Occupy Wall Street movement to London demonstrators taking on the Church of Scientology, it has also been a key part of protests in the Arab Spring and Middle Eastern protests that have continued since the heady days of 2011.

Sadly, though, it is but a mask. And the thing about a masks is, you can print them, paint them or draw them yourself. Unless the minister plans to ban all such activity it seems an action as futile as the real Guy Fawkes’s.

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Leaked Info Allegedly Shows The Absurd Lengths BofA Goes To Spy On Hackers

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"[T]he data was not acquired by a hack but because it was stored on a misconfigured server and basically open for grabs. Even more alarming, the data was retrieved from an Israeli server in Tel Aviv."

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Anonymous Hacked Bank of America

And Seemingly Revealed That They Are Spying on Hacktivists

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Having a team on staff to protect a corporation from potential cyber-threats is nothing new. This isn’t what caught the attention of Anonymous to begin with; it was the methods being employed by Bank of America to gather data. Each of the 500+ e-mails pilfered reads like a surveillance report, most of them reporting on the activities of online activists from Anonymous to Occupy Wall St.

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The stolen data was spread through various Anonymous accounts, but one group in particular took responsibility for its release. They’re called “Par:AnoIA,” and I had the opportunity to interview one of their members.

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ANONYMOUS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING:

AN AMERICAN ANON IN EXILE

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A while back I decided to interview @AnonyOps. We chat regularly. As a result, we quickly generated a huge stack of material.

We worked together in a consultative process to trim back the content. The result is true to the nature of the conversation we’ve held over a number of months.

This interview is the first time anyone has interviewed @AnonyOps about his decision to become Anonymous, his fear of persecution, the talent brain-drain and his decision to leave the U.S.

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The Saga of Barrett Brown: Inside Anonymous and the War on Secrecy

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Alleged “hacktivist” Barrett Brown, the 31-year old mislabeled “spokesman” for the shadowy hacker collective known as Anonymous, faces federal charges that could put him away for over a hundred years. Did he engage in a spree of murders? Run a child-sex ring? Not quite. His crime: making leaked e-mails accessible to the public—documents that shine a light on the shadowy world of intelligence contracting in the post-9/11 era.

A critically acclaimed author and provocative journalist, Brown cannot be too easily dismissed as some unruly malcontent typing away in the back of a gritty espresso lounge. He is eccentric. And he was clearly high on something, if only his own hubris, when he made a threatening video that put him in the feds’ crosshairs. But that’s not the real reason for the government’s overreaction. Evidence indicates it has a lot more to do with sending a message to the community he comes from, which the government sees—correctly—as a threat.

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FREE THE NETWORK: Take Back The Web, Internet, WIFI...

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Anonymous 'spokesperson' to spend year in jail without trial

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The federal trial against alleged computer criminal Barrett Brown has been delayed by six months. Now the activist once called the “spokesperson” of the Anonymous hacker movement will wait in prison for one full year before being tried.

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Social media editor charged in hacking conspiracy

Associated Press= SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A deputy social media editor for Reuters vowed that Friday would be "business as usual" despite charges of conspiring with the notorious hacking group Anonymous to deface an online story of the Los Angeles Times.

Federal authorities allege that in December 2010, Matthew Keys, 26, provided hackers with login information to access the computer system of the Tribune Co., the parent company of the Times that also owns a Sacramento television station Keys was fired from months before.

Investigators allege that Keys gave a hacker named "Sharpie" the information in an Internet chat room frequented by hackers and urged the hacker to do some damage to the Tribune Co.

According to the indictment, Sharpie altered a Times news story posted Dec. 14 and 15, 2010, to read "Pressure builds in House to elect CHIPPY 1337," a reference to another hacking group. "Chippy 1337" claimed responsibility for defacing the website of video game publisher Eidos in 2011.

Keys' Facebook page says he worked as an online news producer for the Sacramento FOX affiliate KTXL from June 2008 to April 2010.

The news agency Reuters hired Keys in 2012 as a deputy editor for social media and he was at work Thursday. He didn't return a phone call or respond to email messages seeking comment. Reuters spokesman David Girardin said the company was "aware" of the indictment when Keys was hired last year, but he declined further comment.

"I am fine," Keys tweeted Thursday, hours after his federal indictment was announced. "I found out the same way most of you did: From Twitter. Tonight I'm going to take a break. Tomorrow, business as usual."

The indictment alleges that a second attempt to hack the Times was unsuccessful.

Federal prosecutors allege in court papers that a legendary hacker and Anonymous leader named "Sabu" offered advice on how to infiltrate Tribune's systems. The FBI unmasked Sabu when it arrested Hector Xavier Monsegur on June 7, 2011. Monsegur secretly worked as an FBI informant until federal officials announced that he helped them arrest five other alleged hackers on March 6, 2012.

Federal officials declined to comment on whether Sabu assisted in the investigation of Keys.

The day after it was announced that Sabu was an FBI informant, Keys wrote a story for Reuters about "infiltrating" the hackers' chat room.

Keys is charged with one count each of conspiracy to transmit information to damage a protected computer, as well as transmitting and attempting to transmit that information. If convicted, the New Jersey native faces a combined 25 years prison and a $500,000 fine if sentenced to the maximum for each count.

He is scheduled for arraignment April 12 in Sacramento.

The indictment comes after recent hacks into the computer systems of two other U.S. media companies that own The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Both newspapers reported in February that their computer systems had been infiltrated by China-based hackers, likely to monitor media coverage the Chinese government deems important.

Anonymous and its offshoot, Lulz Security, have been linked to a number of high-profile computer attacks and crimes, including many that were meant to embarrass governments, federal agencies and corporate giants. They have been connected to attacks that took data from FBI partner organization InfraGard, and they've jammed websites of the CIA and the Public Broadcasting Service.

A computer security specialist said the LA Times attack would be an unusual hack if the government's charges are accurate.

"This is first case where I've heard of someone leaking stuff to Anonymous to have a site defaced, instead of defacing it himself," said Clifford Neuman, director of University of Southern California Center for Computer Systems Security. "He found some way to achieve his ends of defacing the website without having to do it himself."

A spokesman for the Chicago-based Tribune Co. declined to comment.

While Keys did not directly address the federal charges Thursday through his voluminous Twitter feed, commentary from his more than 23,500 followers and even a story about the news indictment were retweeted from his account.

He did not address the issue on his Facebook page, where his last posting Thursday was about the best way to make a grilled cheese sandwich.

According to Keys' Facebook profile, he is single, lives in New York City and works at Thomson Reuters Corp.'s New York office, where "I get paid to use Twitter and Facebook at work."

London-based Reuters has been expanding its business in the United States. This year, six of the Tribune's seven newspapers dropped The Associated Press for Reuters, citing cost savings. The Los Angeles Times stayed with AP.

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Matthew Keys, the Reuters deputy social media editor charged with helping Anonymous attack the website of his former employer, acted as an “undercover" journalist when he communicated with members of the hacker group, his attorneys told The Huffington Post Friday.

“This is sort of an undercover-type, investigative journalism thing, and I know undercover -- I’m using that term loosely,” attorney Jay Leiderman said. “This is a guy who went where he needed to go to get the story. He went into the sort of dark corners of the Internet. He’s being prosecuted for that, for going to get the story.”

Keys's other attorney, Tor Ekeland, said Keys was "surprised" by the indictment Thursday and called the government’s case against him “a classic example of DOJ overreach."

"It looks like the government is essentially indicting a reporter under the [Computer Fraud and Abuse Act] for writing about Anonymous," Ekeland said.

Federal prosecutors, however, say Keys went beyond the basic tenets of journalism. They portray him as a disgruntled ex-employee who wanted hackers to deface the website of his former employer, a local Fox station in Sacramento.

Keys's attorneys dispute that he turned over login information for the company's content management system and argue the charges against him set a "really scary" precedent for journalists.

“It is telling journalists that you can’t do what you need to do to bring the Anonymous story to the forefront," Leiderman said. "This is a nasty shot across the bow for all journalists that would seek to cover Anonymous."

Leiderman, based in California, and Ekeland, of Brooklyn, are representing Keys pro bono. Keys was previously represented by a federal public defender who was working on the case pre-indictment, according to Leiderman.

Ekeland has also represented alleged members of Anonymous and Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker known as “Weev” who was convicted in November of conspiracy and identity theft after collecting thousands of email addresses from an AT&T server and disclosing them to the website Gawker. Auernheimer will be sentenced next week and faces up to 10 years in prison.

On Thursday, Keys’s current employer, Thomson Reuters, suspended him with pay, a spokesman said. Keys did not return phone calls or an email seeking comment.

Prosecutors appeared to anticipate his attorneys' argument that Keys was acting as a journalist. U.S. Attorney Ben Wagner, who is prosecuting the case, told Reuters that officials at Justice Department headquarters signed off on the indictment several times "out of an abundance of caution” because Keys is a journalist. A Justice Department spokeswoman told HuffPost there was “natural” consultation between the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Justice Department’s Criminal Division in D.C.

The federal investigation into Keys began on Dec. 1, 2010, when his former employer, Fox 40, noticed the station’s email contact list had been compromised and a producer received unsolicited emails from an unknown person who claimed to have the list, according to an FBI affidavit obtained by The Huffington Post.

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Westboro Baptist Church Founder Fred Phelps May Be Gay, Suggests Former Member Lauren Drain

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I never understood why, when [the media asked him], “Why are you so against the homosexuals? Did you have a homosexual experience? Do you have homosexual tendencies?” And he would get so mad, he would shut down. And he’d be like, “I can’t talk to this person anymore, they’re stupid.” His reaction to that was stronger than any other question you can ask him. So I always wondered that — why does he get so mad? If I’m not gay, I’ll just say I’m not gay. And I’m not going to freak out, like, “Why are you calling me gay?” I always thought that was super strange. … I don’t know what happened there, so [speculation] is all that I can leave it at. But something happened, and something made him change his mind about the military, and in turn have kind of a crusade against sexual immorality and homosexuals.

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US teen football players found guilty of rape

Ohio high school hearing marred with claims of police favouritism and questions over role of social media.

Two high school football players in the US state of Ohio have been found guilty of rape.

The judge announced the verdict on Sunday following four days of testimony in Jefferson County juvenile court in eastern Ohio.

The two star players were charged with raping a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fuelled party last summer.

Prosecutors said the drunken girl was taken advantage of. Defence attorneys, however, said the girl has a history of heavy drinking and lying.

Attorneys for 16-year-old MaLik Richmond and 17-year-old Trent Mays have contested the charges and have sought the dismissal of the case because of an inability to subpoena certain witnesses.

The two teenagers were seen crying inside the courtroom after learning the verdict.

The suspects were arrested after a phone-camera picture of the victim on the night she was allegedly sexually assaulted was emailed to many people in the community.

The two defendants could be jailed in juvenile court until they turn 21.

Social media attention and allegations of selective prosecution have given the case an international profile.

Al Jazeera's John Terrett, reporting from Washington D.C., said the case has divided the community between those who claimed the two teenagers were unfairly charged, and those who wanted to end the culture of protecting young players.

"I'm afraid there's a lot of cases of date-rape and things here, but you don't often get to see evidence like this posted online," Terrett said. "For that reason this case has attracted an awful lot of tension".

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The persecution of Barrett Brown - and how to fight it

The journalist and Anonymous activist is targeted as part of a broad effort to deter and punish internet freedom activism

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Just this week alone, a US federal judge sentenced hactivist Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer to 3 1/2 years in prison for exploiting a flaw in AT&T's security system that allowed him entrance without any hacking, an act about which Slate's Justin Peters wrote: "it's not clear that Auernheimer committed any actual crime", while Jeff Blagdon at the Verge added: "he cracked no codes, stole no passwords, or in any way 'broke into' AT&T's customer database - something company representatives confirmed during testimony." But he had a long record of disruptive and sometimes even quite ugly (though legal) online antagonism, so he had to be severely punished with years in prison. Also this week, the DOJ indicted the deputy social media editor at Reuters, Matthew Keys, on three felony counts which carry a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison for allegedly providing some user names and passwords that allowed Anonymous unauthorized access into the computer system of the Los Angeles Times, where they altered a few stories and caused very minimal damage. As Peters wrote about that case, "the charges under the CFAA seem outrageously severe" and, about Keys' federal prosecutors, observed: "apparently, they didn't take away any lessons from the Aaron Swartz case."

But the pending federal prosecution of 31-year-old Barrett Brown poses all new troubling risks. That's because Brown - who has been imprisoned since September on a 17-count indictment that could result in many years in prison - is a serious journalist who has spent the last several years doggedly investigating the shadowy and highly secretive underworld of private intelligence and defense contractors, who work hand-in-hand with the agencies of the Surveillance and National Security State in all sorts of ways that remain completely unknown to the public. It is virtually impossible to conclude that the obscenely excessive prosecution he now faces is unrelated to that journalism and his related activism.

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The issues Brown was investigating are complex and serious, and I won't detail all of that here. In addition to Gallagher's article, two superb and detailed accounts of Brown's journalism in these areas have been published by Christian Stork of WhoWhatWhy and Vice's Patrick McGuire; read those to see how threatening Brown's work had become to lots of well-connected people. Suffice to say, Brown, using the documents obtained by Anonymous, was digging around - with increasing efficacy - in places which National Security and Surveillance State agencies devote considerable energy to concealing.

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Anonymous releases thousands of alleged records of Israeli officials

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Anonymous has struck again in its ongoing campaign against Israeli forces, this time by releasing thousands of names, ID numbers, email addresses and geographic data allegedly corresponding to Israeli politicians, IDF officers and even Mossad agents.

It appears that Anonymous has struck again in its ongoing cyber-war against the state of Israel, this time with the release of a batch of thousands of names, ID numbers, email addresses and geographic information which allegedly correspond to Israeli politicians, IDF officers, and even Mossad agents.

RT has viewed the spreadsheets but has not yet been able to verify the legitimacy of the data, which has quickly garnered thousands of views as the documents spread via social media.

Dubbed “#OpIsrael” on Twitter, various collectives of the amorphous Anonymous community are targeting official Israeli web domains, evidently causing intermittent disruption to the official website of spy agency Mossad via a self-described “sophisticated DDoS” attack.

The data was released by a hacker team going by the name of “The Red Hack,” a Turkish group, while the direct denial-of-service attack targeted at Mossad was attributed to another group operating under the moniker “Sektor 404.”

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News from Anonymous

Popular online aggregator @YourAnonNews prepares to host and fund its own site.

A branch of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, @YourAnonNews (YAN), announced on Wednesday that it plans to start its own publicly funded news site. The move will allow the account to operate without the restrictions of companies like Twitter and Tumblr, where it is currently hosted. YAN plans to fund the project entirely through crowd-sourcing and donated services. Days after the announcement, designers and programmers came forward to contribute.

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For Better or Worse, Anonymous Is Getting Involved in Another Rape Case

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The hacker collective which turned the national spotlight onto a then little-known football town called Steubenville has now shifted its eyes onto Torrington, Connecticut and the a rape case involving two 18-year-old football players, two 13-year-old girls, and the student body of Torrington who bullied the alleged victims. The announcement came through the creation of the #OpRaider hashtag last night:

Anonymous - #Operation Rohingya

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How Anonymous gamed Twitter to shed light on a hidden massacre

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OpRohingya aims to bring attention to the slaughter and forced dislocation of tens of thousands of Rohingya people from their traditional lands. The Rohingya people are Muslim in a predominantly Buddhist nation, and many observers are putting this conflict down to clashes between religions. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Dot, Global Square founder Heather Marsh debunks that claim, and indicates that the actual motivation for these sectarian clashes is no different than that which motivated either of the Gulf Wars.

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OpRohingya on Sunday was extremely successful: not only did they trend No. 1 in the U.S., but they were also #3 in the U.K. and hit top 10 worldwide. For those who might dismiss this as slacktivism, we'd draw your attention to the fact that this morning a report on the Rohingya slaughters is on the front page of the Guardian, which has not previously covered the issue. Al Jazeera, the Qatari network, has covered the Rohingya issue a number of times, but it has yet to truly penetrate Western media, which is riding a wave of optimism since Aung San Suu Kyi was freed from her decades-long house arrest. Coverage on radical sites has been growing, but until the Twitter storm, there was virtually no coverage in what could be considered the Mainstream Media.

Tweets in the tweetstorm included the fax number to the CNN assignment desk (no joy there so far) as well as a live protest, livestreamed, in front of the CNN offices. The protesters were reportedly told by a CNN staffer that they "don't care" about the issue. The protest was, as all protests currently are, livestreamed. In a hearkening back to Tiananmen Square days, black faxes were sent to Burmese embassies, and numerous government sites including the office of the president were either DDoS'd or defaced. Instructions for the Twitterstorm, distributed on Pastebin, were unusually detailed, which certainly had an impact on their effectiveness. By laying out so many specific options, Anonymous maximized the chance that someone would feel connected enough to any specific one to tweet it, and by suggesting copy/paste tweets rather than retweets, Anonymous successfully gamed the Twitter system, gaining the top ranking.

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Don’t believe hack claims against Mossad’s website, expert says

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In an unsettling announcement, the hacker group known as Anonymous and affiliates proclaimed over the weekend that they had broken into the Mossad’s servers and stolen the names and personal details of top IDF officials, politicians and, especially, Mossad agents. But those claims are inflated, to say the least, according to Middle East Internet expert Dr. Tal Pavel.

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NATO-Commissioned Report Says Killing Hackers Is Basically OK

Cyber-warfare is all well and civilized when it's confined to a tit-for-tat hacking of banks, but it's got the potential to spiral out of control real fast. To try and prevent that, and save the world from a hacked-WoW-account-induced apocalypse, NATO's comissioned a set of international laws to try and make cyber-warfare more…civilized.

Despite how it might seem, war's actually relatively civilized. Agreements like the Geneva Conventions and Ottowa Treaty lay down laws as to how warfare should be conducted - be nice to your prisoners and no blowing people up with landmines, for example - and the UN charter explains when war might be justified, say for self-defence. But none of those were written with cyber-warfare in mind, which is difficult when the Americans are going round hacking the Iranians, the Koreans are hacking each other and China's just hacking everyone.

In an attempt to make some sense of the mess, NATO (basically the Western powers-that-be) commissioned a report from a bunch of legal experts at the ‘NATO Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence' to suggest some rules for cyber-warfare. Well, the report's in, and the suggestions are kinda surprising.

Basically, cyber attacks which cause "physical damage, injury or death" constitute a ‘use of force', and thus can be retaliated to with real physical weapons. Equally surprising is the classification of civilian hacktivists as legitimate targets during war.

For those of us who aren't looking forward to WWIII, though, there is some good news. As with conventional warfare, there's a list of targets that's off-limits for cyber-warfare, including things like hospitals and nuclear power plants (oops, USA/Israel). Additionally, an attack originating in a country doesn't constitute proof for retaliation - there has to be proper evidence that the attack is the actual work of a government.

It's worth noting that these proposals aren't law - yet. At the moment, it's just a set of suggestions, but given the work that's gone into it, and the lack of sensible alternatives, something tells me that these ‘suggestions' might get the global thumbs-up real soon. [CCDCOE via Guardian]

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VICE Speaks to Barrett Brown from Prison

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Anonymous plans to flood Facebook with "uncensored material" April 6

Hacktivist collective Anonymous has taken on the Church of Scientology, the CIA, kitten-abusing teens, and the security think tank Stratfor with great success. The one target it has never been able to reach, despite numerous attempts, is Facebook.

So instead of trying to take the world's largest social network offline or hack its servers, Anonymous plans on flooding Facebook with "uncensored material" as part of a campaign called #OpTruthForce.

"In past years we have seen a growing force around the world," Anonymous wrote on AnonNews.org. "Governments and corporations are working strategically to stop free speech by the people. In more recent months we have witnessed an increased number of account blocking and deletion by Facebook, of users who dare to ridicule, mock, satirize, or speak out against political leaders or corporations heavily involved with politics."

The bombardment is planned for April 6, the same day Mahatma Gandhi disobeyed British law through civil disobedience.

"All anons WORLDWIDE hit facebook with uncensored material. We shall continue this bombardment of material as long as we can—hopefully 24 hours," an Anonymous rep added. "We will flood their system—their admins won't be able to keep up. THEY CAN'T BAN US ALL AT ONCE!"

They may have a tough time of it. Threats of attack against Facebook in the fall of 2011 and 2012 never quite panned out. But this may be a good time to exploit the site's lax security: In the last week, two child pornography videos went viral on the social network, accumulating thousands of likes before being removed.

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Wisconsin man indicted in Anonymous attack of Koch Industries

A Wisconsin man could face years in federal prison if he is convicted of helping hacker collective Anonymous take down Koch Industries' website during protests in the state's capital in 2011, according to an indictment revealed this week.

The charges were announced Tuesday by the U.S. attorney's office in Wichita, Kan. -- the home of Koch Industries, a $115-billion-a-year oil and manufacturing conglomerate owned by libertarian iconoclasts Charles and David Koch.

Officials said Eric J. Rosol, 37, of Black Creek, Wis., participated in an Anonymous-organized shutdown of Koch websites www.kochind.com and www.quiltednorthern.com on Feb. 27 and 28 in 2011.

Rosol is the first and only defendant charged in the attack, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office told the Los Angeles Times.

The Koch site shutdown came during the height of pro-union protests in Wisconsin's state capital that winter, when the Koch brothers came under criticism for backing the state's union cutbacks. Under the hashtag #OpWisconsin, Anonymous members issued a statement accusing the Kochs of "political manipulation" and said, "We are actively seeking vulnerabilities."

In the world of computer crime, the attack was more of a mobbing than a robbery.

Using Internet-relay chats to organize, according to the indictment, Anonymous conducted what's known as a distributed denial-of-service attack, or a DDOS, where users repeatedly access a website until it's too overwhelmed to function. (The physical equivalent would be a group of people standing in front of a door so closely that no one else can enter.)

"If successful, the attack causes the target computer to be unable to respond or to respond so slowly as to be effectively unavailable to users," prosecutors said in a news release.

[For the Record, 7:15 a.m., PST March 28: An earlier version of this post stated that an indictment charges that Anonymous conducted what is known as a dedicated denial-of-service attack. The indictment actually charges that the group conducted a distributed denial-of-service attack, in which a website is overloaded, not hacked.]

A confidential FBI affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun in July 2011 showed FBI agents peering in on the chat channels where Anonymous members were organizing to use a DDOS tool called the "Low Orbit Ion Cannon" to overcrowd the Kochs' websites during the attack.

"Keep it up, boys and kids! LAZERS TO 146.209.131.43," one user chatted on Feb. 28, 2011, apparently referring to the site's IP address, according to the affidavit. "kochind.com is down and sinking further! Keep it up!"

"hmmm... kochind looks down to me," one user on the #OPWISCONSIN chat channel said.

"after it's down, do you have to keep firing?" one chatted.

"YES ALWAYS KEEP FIRING," a user replied, according to the affidavit.

The site quickly returned to service, according to news reports after the attack.

Rosol is charged with one count of conspiracy to damage a protected computer and one count of damaging a protected computer. Each charge carries a maximum prison sentence of five years and a $250,000 fine. Rosol did not respond to a phone message left Wednesday.

An archived version of his blog showed that he posted a link to a Greenpeace report on Koch Industries the day of the website attack; the post has since been removed.

Rosol posted a link to a story about his indictment on Facebook on Wednesday.

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Hacker collective Anonymous declares cyberwar on North Korea

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The loose, sprawling collective of hackers, hacktivists, and hangers-on, Anonymous, is now targeting North Korea. The group claims to have infiltrated North Korean web servers as well as Uriminzokkiri.com, a China-based North Korean propaganda site. In a statement directed against DPRK head honcho and Dennis Rodman BFF Kim Jong-un, Anonymous warned, "First we gonna wipe your data, then we gonna wipe your badass dictatorship 'government'".

Anonymous's statement claims that hackers have penetrated the North Korean intranet service Kwangmoyng, as well as local mail and web servers. They have also allegedly stolen records from over 15,000 user accounts on Uriminzokkiri.com, a DPRK propaganda and news-gathering site located in China.

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Hello, citizens of the world.

We are Anonymous

North Korean government is increasingly becoming a threat to peace and freedom.
Don't misunderstand us: As well we disagree with the USA government too - these guys are crooks,
USA is a threat to world peace too, and direct democracy (or any kind of democracy) doesn't exist
there. The American government is a target and enemy of Anonymous as well!
This is not about country vs country - This is about we, the people, the 99% (of USA and of North
Korea) vs oppressing and violent regimes (like USA gov. and N.K. gov)!
We, the people, are gathering together because we are stronger now and we won't fight your wars
anymore, we won't eat your shit anymore!!!

We demand:
- N.K. government to stop making nukes and nuke-threats
- Kim Jong-un to resign
- it's time to install a free direct democracy in North Korea
- uncensored internet access for all the citizens!

To Kim Jong-un:
So you feel the need to create large nukes and threaten half the world with them?
So you're into demonstrations of power?, here is ours:
- We are inside your local intranets (Kwangmyong and others)
- We are inside your mailservers
- We are inside your webservers
Enjoy these few records as a proof of our access to your systems (random innocent citizens, collateral
damage, because they were stupid enough to choose idiot passwords), we got all over 15k membership
records of www.uriminzokkiri.com and many more. First we gonna wipe your data, then we gonna wipe your
badass dictatorship "government".

To the citizens of North Korea we suggest to rise up and bring these motherfuckers of a oppressive
government down!
We are holding your back and your hand, while you take the journey to freedom, democracy and peace.
You are not alone.
Don't fear us, we are not terrorist, we are the good guys from the internet. AnonKorea and all the
other Anons are here to set you free.

We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us!

Partial leak (example records) of www.uriminzokkiri.com
jzhh123456 127.0.0.1 M 공인 김강희 jzhh@126.com 245847 1965614 0 2012-06-29 00:00:00 중국 0 P 1340895600 25d55ad283aa400af464c76d713c07ad (12345678) Y 0 Y S
kdn 127.0.0.1 M 교원 김동남 kdn@kdn.com 1234567890 197011 0 2012-07-14 00:00:00 대동강 0 P 1342191600 25d55ad283aa400af464c76d713c07ad (12345678) Y 0 Y S
naolbu 127.0.0.1 M 무직업 naolbu 393932863@qq.com 15550457379 190061 0 2012-08-26 00:00:00 북경 0 P 1345906800 62c8ad0a15d9d1ca38d5dee762a16e01 (1234qwer) Y 0 Y S
mini88888 M 2 lihaozhe mini_888888@163.com 0 19830905 0 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0 P 1244628730 74d738020dca22a731e30058ac7242ee (loveme) Y 0 Y S
trretr M 0 fgd liuzhexi123@hotmail.com 0 19851212 2 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0 P 1244630676 e10adc3949ba59abbe56e057f20f883e (123456) Y 0 Y S
skyma009 M 8 Chalie syibyeey@yahoo.com.cn 0 19780909 2 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0 P 1244352432 e10adc3949ba59abbe56e057f20f883e (123456) Y 0 Y S

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Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites

North Korea’s official Twitter and Flickr accounts have been hacked and two of its main websites defaced, in hacker group Anonymous’s latest efforts to disrupt the communist county’s online presence.

Last week, hackers that purported to be part of the ‘hacktivist’ collective claimed to have swiped 15,000 passwords from North Korea’s Uriminzokkiri.com news and information site in response to the North Korean regime and its nuclear weapons program. While that feat remains unclear since the hackers posted details of just six of the accounts that they claimed to have gotten, there is no doubt about the latest efforts.

Here’s a screenshot of the hacked tweets from @uriminzok, which has around 15,000 followers. The first of which was sent at 22:45 PDT on Wednesday.



Similarly, a distinctly Anonymous image has been uploaded to the country’s Flickr account, while books and music store Ryomyong.com and Aindf.com (the website for a North Korea-linked political regime in South Korea) have both been defaced to show images lampooning North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.



The hackers claim Uriminzokkiri.com has been hacked too and, while the site has gone offline, that could be down to a DDoS attack rather than a hack.

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A Pastebin note from hackers claims that the group has members inside of North Korea who are helping with the efforts against authorities in the country:

. We have a few guys on the ground who managed to bring the real internet into the country using a chain of long distance WiFi repeaters with proprietary frequencies, so theyre not jammed (yet). We also have access to some N.K. phone landlines which are connected to Kwangmyong through dial-ups. Last missing peace of puzzle was to interconnect the two networks, which those guys finally managed to do.

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The U.S. Government Is Suing Barrett Brown's Intelligence Research Site

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Last week, as I noted in my interview with Barrett from prison, Barrett’s mother plead guilty to her charge of obstructing evidence: she hid his computers from the FBI. Late last night, the news broke through the “Free Barett Brown” Twitter account that Brown’s Wiki, ProjectPM, which is described on the project’s Twitter page as being, “Dedicated to research of government corruption, sitting in bubble baths drinking wine,” was being subpoenaed by the Department of Justice.

ProjectPM is an online compendium where Barrett and his fellow researchers share information they've been gathering about the intelligence industry in the United States. The Department of Justice is suing the company’s hosting provider, CloudFlare. While ProjectPM appeared to have gone down on Wednesday, it seems the site is back up. This kind of spotty connection has been very common for the site over the past few months. Even Googling ProjectPM does not yield any results that point to the site.

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Anonymous wil Israël van het internet verwijderen

Hackersgroep Anonymous lanceert naar eigen zeggen op zondag, de gedenkdag voor de Holocaust, een grote digitale aanval op Israël. De beweging wil Israël 'van het internet laten verwijderen'.

Anonymous komt met #OpIsrael, zoals de aanval wordt genoemd, in actie tegen 'Israëls voortdurende schendingen van de mensenrechten, het verbreken van de wapenstilstand met de Palestijnen en de continue bouw van illegale nederzettingen', stelde de beweging in een persbericht.

Tijdens de operatie worden websites van de Israëlische overheid, veiligheidsdiensten, banken, media en bedrijven doelwit. Leden van Anonymous maken in de aanloop naar en tijdens de aanval op berichtendienst Twitter melding van de websites die zij hebben gehackt en persoonlijke gegevens van Israëlische ambtenaren en soldaten die zij hebben gestolen.

Symbolische dag
'Wij vallen aan op de internationale gedenkdag voor de Holocaust, omdat dit een belangrijke, symbolische dag is', verklaarde een hacker tegenover het ANP. 'Wij willen dat de wereld op deze dag stilstaat bij de misdaden van het zionisme tegen de Palestijnen.'

De cyberaanval zondag is een vervolg op de grote digitale aanval van Anonymous op Israëlische websites tijdens de strijd tussen Israël en de Palestijnse Hamas in de Gazastrook in november vorig jaar. Toen werden Israëlische websites dagelijks miljoenen keren aangevallen en werden de persoonlijke gegevens van 5000 Israëlische overheidsfunctionarissen op internet gepubliceerd.

Scepsis
Hoewel Anonymous #OpIsrael aankondigt als 'de grootste internetoorlog in de geschiedenis van de mensheid', bestaat er scepsis over de aanval.

'Websites van de Israëlische overheid en veiligheidsdiensten zijn zeer goed beschermd, omdat deze continu worden aangevallen,' aldus dr. Gabi Siboni, een Israëlische expert in digitale oorlogsvoering aan de universiteit van Tel Aviv.

'Anonymous gebruikt vooral DDoS-aanvallen, waarbij sites worden bestookt met dataverkeer, zodat de servers overbelast raken en de sites tijdelijk slecht bereikbaar worden. Daar kunnen privépersonen en bedrijven weinig tegen doen, maar de schade blijft meestal beperkt.'

Beveiliging opgeschroefd
Toch meldde de Israëlische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Yuval Steinitz deze week dat de beveiliging van belangrijke digitale infrastructuur is opgeschroefd. Daarnaast opent de Israëlische Internet Associatie op de dag van de aanval een telefonische hulplijn voor burgers en bedrijven die denken slachtoffer van #OpIsrael te zijn.

Die voorbereidingen zijn terecht, vindt Siboni. 'Websites over bijvoorbeeld Joodse cultuur of nieuwssites die dagelijks veel bezoekers trekken, hebben grote symbolische betekenis in onze samenleving. Helaas is het te kostbaar en te ingewikkeld om al deze websites afdoende te beveiligen.'

In november publiceerde Anonymous op Youtube onderstaande aankondiging van cyberaanvallen op Israël.

Anonymous #OpIsrael

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Anonymous Press Release: Iceland Member Of Parliament & Former WikiLeaks Spokesperson To Meet With "PayPal 14" Defendant

Thursday - April 4, 2013 10:00 AM ET USA Iceland Member of Parliament and former WikiLeaks Spokesperson Birgitta Jonsdottir, who arrived yesterday in the USA for a 5 day visit to show support for imprisoned whistle-blower Bradley Manning - will meet with "PayPal 14" defendant Mercedes Haefer on the evening of April 7, 2013.

The "PayPal 14" are the individuals alleged by the government to be part of Anonymous and to have participated in the online protests in which many thousands of people showed their support of WikiLeaks by doing DdoS, or cyber sit-ins on the web sites of PayPal, MaserCard, Visa, Amazon - and even the Swedish Prosecutors Office in December of 2010. During that time, Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir was a Spokesperson for WikiLeaks, and had helped in the production of the now famous "Collateral Murder" video - which showed the wanton slaughter of innocent civilians and journalists by US forces in Iraq.

The meeting between these two courageous activists is historic. Since her indictment, Mercedes Haefer has continued to stand strong and speak out publicly on behalf of the rights of online activists to not be monitored by their government because of their views and to be able to engage in civil protest on the Internet. She has become a symbol of defiance against the draconian laws and prosecutions of human rights and information activists in the USA. MP Birgitta Jonsdottir has since left the WikiLeaks organization - but has continued to use her position in the Icelandic government to push for civil reforms in that country and has recently founded the Pirate Party of Iceland.

A small portion of this historic meeting will be opened to the media. MP Birgitta Jonsdottir and Mercedes Haefer, accompanied by attorney Stanley Cohen - will be briefly available to the media on the evening of April 7, 2013 at approximately 7:30 PM ET USA in New York City. Photography and filming will be allowed. There may be brief statements made by Haefer, Jonsdottir or Cohen - and there will be a VERY brief Question & Answer session as well. Due to the tight timing, as well as the size of the venue being provided to the media - RSVP is absolutely required. If you are a journalist and want to attend this event, please send an E-Mail to AnonymousGlobal@riseup.net no later than the morning of April 7th and we will confirm your attendance and send you the details you will need.

SIGNED -- Anonymous
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MP Birgitta Jonsdottir Public Appearances NYC - http://bit.ly/15F7Qis

Anonymous - www.AnonymousGlobal.tk

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#OpIsrael #Anonymous
#BREAKING: Israeli forces are raiding hackers in the West Bank. #Anonymous arrests are happening right now in Al Khalil, Tulkaram, and Nablus. Stay safe and change your location if you are in West Bank and working on Hacking Israeli sites!

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Anonymous hacks Israeli sites

JERUSALEM, April 7 (UPI) -- A number of Israeli websites were taken over Sunday by anti-Israel hackers, officials said. In retaliation, Israeli hackers broke into anti-Israel websites.

A wide scale of Israeli sites were allegedly hacked early Sunday, including those for the Israel Police, Prime Minister's Office, the Israel Securities Authority, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry and the Central Bureau of Statistics, Haaretz reported. Most were running again by Sunday morning.

Some government agencies denied being hacked.

The hackers, who were affiliated with the group Anonymous, said they were against Israeli policies in Gaza and the West Bank and planned to wipe Israel "off the map of the Internet."

"You have not stopped your endless human rights violations," the hackers said in an online post addressed to Israel's government. "You have not stopped illegal settlements. You have not respected the cease-fire [ending Operation Pillar of Defense in November]. You have shown that you do not respect international law."

Meanwhile, Israeli hackers broke into the Anonymous website, OpIsrael.com, on which the Anonymous hackers coordinated the attack on Israeli sites, The Jerusalem Post reported.

An Israeli hacker, under in user-name EhIsR, posted under a heading titled "A few forgotten facts" that "Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, 2,000 years before the rise of Islam."

Roni Becher, the head of the cyberattack division of the Avnet information security company, said: "At this stage, we are mainly seeing a buildup of tension and power struggles between Israeli hackers and hackers from various groups who have joined Anonymous. Anonymous hackers are updating lists of websites they intend to attack."

"In general, it is apparent that many organizations are making efforts to stop the attack, or at least to minimize damages," he added.

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The Pirate Bay duikt op in Groenland

Fans van The Pirate Bay kunnen hun favoriete site, voorlopig, weer bezoeken zonder allerlei omwegen. De torrentsite heeft een Groenlandse domeinnaam in gebruik genomen en die blijkt niet op de zwarte lijst te staan bij providers als Ziggo. Via thepiratebay.gl is direct op de site te komen.

Volgens Bright is het twijfelachtig of het .gl-domein lang vrij te bezoeken blijft voor Nederlanders. Stichting Brein heeft al laten weten actie te ondernemen tegen het nieuwe domein. De kans is groot dat het .gl-adres binnen een paar dagen of weken aan de zwarte lijst wordt toegevoegd.

Overigens bleek eerder al dat de blokkade van The Pirate Bay niet heel veel effect heeft. Downloaders zoeken hun heil op andere sites en bovendien is het Zweedse piratenbolwerk redelijk eenvoudig te vinden via zogeheten proxysites.

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Lulzsec members admit cyber attacks on CIA and Serious Organised Crime Agency

Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam also pleaded guilty to blocking access to Sony, News International and the Westboro Baptist Church

Three members of the high profile internet “hacktivist” group LulzSec have admitted to their parts in a series of cyber attacks against targets which included the CIA, the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency and News International, a court heard today.

Jake Davis, 20, and 18-year-old Mustafa Al-Bassam, who can be named for the first time today, have both pleaded guilty to attacks on websites belonging to the two agencies, as well as Sony, News International and the NHS.

And they, along with accomplices Ryan Ackroyd, 26, also admitted hacking into the systems of Sony, Twentieth Century Fox and a US police force in bids to steal data and redirect visitors to spoof sites. Fellow defendant Ryan Cleary, 21, had already pleaded guilty on the same charges, as well as four other related ones and all four men now await sentencing.

As Ackroyd issued a last-minute change of plea to guilty at Southwark Crown Court today, prosecutor Sandip Patel told the court: “He was the hacker, so to speak, they turned to him for his expertise as a hacker”, and said Ackroyd admitted using the persona of a 16-year-old girl Kayla online.

The group, an offshoot of the “Anonymous” hacktivists, caused an international stir as they coordinated high profile attacks against some of the world’s biggest companies and intelligence agencies in 2011, often from their bedrooms. It was later revealed that their de facto leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka “Sabu”, had been turned by the US authorities following his own arrest.

Apart from hacking into sites, the group carried out non-hacking attacks - called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) - in a bid to block access to the websites they targeted. DDoS, one of the most common attacks used by online activism groups, work by bombarding websites with traffic until they cannot deal with the weight and cease to load.

The group used a system which allows them to infect and, thereby, take control of other people’s computers - called a botnet – to carry out the attacks. The tactic, one of the most commonly used by similar groups, allows them to use the computers in their power to blast target sites with amplified volumes of traffic.

The full extent of LulzSec’s campaign was revealed as members of the group admitted to their parts in DDoS attacks on the CIA, SOCA, News International and the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. They also attacked gaming sites Bethesda and Eve Online.

And their hacking campaign took in the NHS, Sony and Twentieth Century Fox. They also targeted HBGary, which was allegedly looking to infiltrate hacktivist groups, US Public Broadcasting Service Inc, FBI contractor Infragard, Nintendo and the Arizona State Police. And they carried out another attack on News International.

The attacks were carried out with other, unknown members of the groups LulzSec, Anonymous and Internet Feds.

Davis, Al-Bassam and Cleary all admitted to the same count of launching DDoS attacks, which prosecutors agreed could lie on file in respect of Ackroyd. All four admitted another count of computer hacking, while Cleary alone admitted a further four hacktivism-related counts, with two more lying on file.

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Outrage Erupts Online Over 17-Year-Old Girl's Suicide After Her Rape Goes Viral

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Multiple Anonymous-affiliated OP accounts are already trying to find and publish the identities of the four men involved with Rehtaeh's rape.

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Columnist Enlists Anonymous to Take Down Rapists

A Canadian political heavyweight has called upon Anonymous to "name and shame" four teenagers accused of raping a girl who committed suicide last week.

17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons of Halifax, Nova Scotia, committed suicide last week, 18 months after she was allegedly gang-raped by four boys and then subjected to a vicious bullying campaign spurred by a photo of the attack that was spread around her school by one of her attackers. "This day changed the lives of our family forever," her mother wrote in a tribute message on Facebook. "Rehtaeh was suddenly shunned by almost everyone she knew, the harassment was so bad she had to move out of her own community to try to start anew in Halifax."

The RCMP investigated the attack but the boys involved were never charged, and while Nova Scotia Justice Minister Ross Landry requested a review of the case after the story made national headlines, it seems unlikely that the situation will change. That's led to a growing call for the involvement of online activist group Anonymous, including from high-profile Canadian political strategist, commentator, author and Liberal party heavyweight Warren Kinsella, who wrote an open letter calling on the group to "find out who the little bastards are."

In fact, Kinsella seems quite happy to take Anonymous off the leash altogether. "The RCMP, who allegedly investigated, are led in Nova Scotia by Alphonse MacNeil. He calls himself a 'consensus builder. and has two daughters. I'm sure you could find his email address if you needed to," Kinsella wrote. "The Nova Scotia government, which agreed with - and energetically defended - the RCMP's decision to do nothing about the rape or the child pornography, is led by NDP leader Darrell Dexter. Interestingly, he represents Cole Harbour in the provincial legislature. His email isn't readily available, either, but I know you'll find that, too."

"The names of the little bastards who did this, and who are still alive and walk free in Cole Harbour, are unknown to most of us. But, as in the Steubenville, Ohio case, I am certain anyone who is sufficiently motivated can find out who the little bastards are, and name and shame them," he continued. "I'm unclear how to appeal to you, Anonymous. But if there was ever a case that cried out for your attention - and if there were ever men like MacNeil, Dexter and Landry who deserved to be fired, or worse, for their pathetic responses - I don't know what it is. What happened to Rehtaeh and her family is so horrible, so evil, I am ashamed that it happened in my country."

Kinsella's involvement is noteworthy because he's not just some guy on the internet: He was a high-ranked adviser on the successful reelection campaign of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and until 2010 headed the "war room" of the federal Liberal party. His influence is such that he is known in some political circles as the "Prince of Darkness."

Anonymous, of course, is well known for its ability to dig up dirt and stir up trouble, and is being sought as an executor of justice in this case in large part because of its involvement in a similar case in Steubenville, Ohio, in which the rape of 16-year-old girl by members of the local high school football team in 2012 went largely ignored until evidence, including police documents and a video made on the night of the attack, was leaked onto the internet.

Twitter users are spreading the call to Anonymous with the hashtag #OpJustice4Rehtaeh, and despite warnings from the Nova Scotia RCMP, the group has responded with a statement saying it has already identified two of the four accused rapists and will soon have the other two as well, and that it will release their names to the public unless authorities take "immediate legal action."

"We do not approve of vigilante justice as the media claims. That would mean we approve of violent actions against these rapists at the hands of an unruly mob. What we want is justice. And that's your job. So do it," the statement says. "The names of the rapists will be kept until it is apparent you have no intention of providing justice to Retaeh's family. Please be aware that there are other groups of Anons also attempting to uncover this information and they may not to wish to wait at all. Better act fast."

"Be aware that we will be organizing large demonstrations outside of [RCMP] headquarters," it concludes. "The rapists will be held accountable for their actions. You will be held accountable for your failure to act."

A Change.org petition calling for an independent inquiry into the investigation has so far attracted roughly 14,000 signatures.
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#OpJustice4Rehtaeh Statement Anonymous

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Rehtaeh Parsons Update: "Anonymous" says its members have contacted alleged rapists in case of girl who committed suicide

(CBS) -- The internet activist group Anonymous told Crimesider in an e-mail that some people in the group have communicated with more than one of the alleged rapists in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Canada teen who hanged herself after being bullied and becoming depressed over an alleged rape by four teenage boys.

"Some of us have had contact with the boys in question. And yeah, they're still not denying anything," a spokesperson for the group said in an e-mail. "One of them post (sic) on Facebook a day ago that yes, she was drunk and throwing up when he had sex with her, but she wanted him to."

Seventeen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons was taken off life-support by her mother, Leah Parsons, on Sunday after she hanged herself last week. According to Leah Parsons, her daughter never recovered from an alleged rape by four teenage boys that left her deeply depressed and bullied in her community.

Rehtaeh's mother said one boy took a photo of the alleged rape in 2011 and her daughter was subjected to bullying after it went viral.

After a year-long investigation, police concluded there were no grounds to charge the four boys because of insufficient evidence.

But Anonymous says the group is far from satisfied with police involvement in the case.

"I wouldn't call it an investigation. That would involve fact-finding research, with interviews and interrogations," the spokesperson said. "The evidence of a crime was being transmitted from cell phone to cell phone by hundreds of students."

In a statement released by Anonymous on Thursday, the group vowed to bring "justice" to the case and asked the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia, where the alleged crime took place, to take "immediate legal action against the individuals in question."

"It's laughable to believe that the police or even Rehtaeh's so-called teachers were unable to find evidence of a crime," the spokesperson said in the e-mail to Crimesider.

"The boys were very open about what they had done which, other than having sex with an inebriated, vomiting 15-year-old girl, was to spread nude images of a minor to hundreds of people," the spokesperson said.

The internet activist group says it plans to release the names of the alleged rapists if law enforcement does not take action.

Complete coverage of Rehtaeh Parsons on Crimesider

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RCMP willing to work with Anonymous in Parsons case

But group needs to expose itself

CALGARY — The RCMP are open to working with the hacker group Anonymous on the case of a Nova Scotia teenager who committed suicide after her mother claims she was raped then bullied mercilessly, says its commissioner, but he has an important caveat.

“If they want to work with us, they’ve got to take their masks off, sadly,” RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson said in Calgary.

“But I don’t think they’re prepared to do that.

“We’re open to working with everybody in society.”

The hacker group Anonymous says it won’t disclose the names of four boys allegedly involved in the gang-rape of Rehtaeh Parsons — for now.

Parsons, 17, was taken off life-support Sunday after trying to hang herself in the bathroom of her home April 4.


Her parents said she was raped by four boys when she was 15, then bullied after photos of the attack circulated online.

Paulson, who was at an RCMP event in Calgary, said he thinks people like those involved in Anonymous, in some circumstances, present themselves as civic-minded.

“But in another case they don’t, and they don’t have the same stringent review of evidence and concern for truth that we have developed in our efforts.”

Paulson said the RCMP is “very concerned about vigilante response to the Parsons case.”

He pointed to a similar situation in Port Coquitlam, B.C., where innocent people were named publicly in relation to the bullying and abuse of Amanda Todd which led to her committing suicide.

“It’s not the way to get to the bottom of these things,” he said.

“These are deep rooted problems in our communities.

“We have to be very, very careful, so I would say for everybody to express their support and concern and sympathy and compassion for the family but let’s proceed carefully and allow justice to work its way.”

Paulson said the threat of vigilantism is mounting in momentum.

But he also said vigilantism is not a Canadian trait.

What happened to Parsons is very tragic and the Mounties hearts go out to the family, said Paulson.

“We’re working with the family and people in Nova Scotia to try and make this a better set of conditions.”

“It’s just a terrible, terrible sets of facts.”

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Q&A: Inside Anonymous' Operation to Out Rehtaeh Parsons' Alleged Rapists

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In the days following the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons -- the teenage girl from Halifax who committed suicide after being gang raped, photographed, and harassed -- the hacktivist group Anonymous is playing a game of chicken with the authorities in Nova Scotia. Anonymous says they have the names of four suspects, and are threatening to release that information if justice is not delivered. Those names have in fact been circulating in small online circles, but the information has been withheld from publication on Anonymous's largest social media channels. All of this has caused a storm of negative feedback from those who view Anonymous's actions as destructive "vigilantism" while Anonymous maintains they are only involved because "several crimes have been committed in Nova Scotia. A 17-year-old girl killed herself because the police failed to do their jobs."

I spoke with a member of Anonymous who is directly involved with the operation to bring Rehtaeh's rapists to justice, in order to get a better handle on their motivations.

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Anonymous claimt aanval op site Vlaamse kunstenaar Fabre

Anonymous : message to Jan Fabre | Anonymous : bericht aan Jan Fabre.

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How Anonymous have become digital culture's protest heroes

The hacktivist collective's justice campaign following Rehtaeh Parsons' suicide shows how they've made online protest mainstream

In 2007, the hacktivist collective Anonymous was dubbed the "internet hate machine" by Fox News for their trolling campaigns. Six years later, they are the white knights of the digital realm, seeking justice for the now deceased 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons, an alleged gang rape victim who killed herself after bullying by her Nova Scotian classmates. This is just one of the collective's high profile causes in the past week, but in terms of good PR and an agency for change, it compares to their actions on Steubenville.

They call it #OpJustice4Rehtaeh on Twitter, and all types of people – from journalists and teens to women who normally wouldn't associate with Anonymous – have been spreading Anonymous' related material in the name of Parsons since Tuesday, after news of her mother turning off her daughter's life support made global headlines.

The concerned non-Canadians and feminists in faraway places that joined in the online protest don't consider themselves "hacktivists", nor are they afraid of the FBI or their peers labeling them as terrorist sympathisers. The spooky criminal portrayal of Anonymous has melted from the public consciousness, to be replaced with an image of strangers in pale masks passionate about improving society, one cause at a time. Since Anonymous causes are varied and inspired by current events, jumping on this form of vigilante-motivated activism – or what some would call clicktivism – has never been more popular. Or as in Parsons' case, as effective.

The goal of #OpJustice4Rehtaeh was to seek justice primarily by getting the Canadian justice and police department to review her case. None of the four teen assailants were convicted despite capturing, and then spreading photographic evidence of their alleged crime at Parsons' school.

A Change.org petition by Parsons' mother was heavily circulated, and it hit 100,000 signatures within days. "For the love of God do something", wrote Parsons' father on Wednesday in a personal blogpost addressing the justice minister of Nova Scotia. His words validated #OpJustice4Rehtaeh, launched the day before.

Anonymous' successful leveraging of the press and social media helped them identify the four rapists in just a few hours, which they then threatened to disclose unless their demands were met. No hacking was involved as this time, Anonymous was apparently a friendly tip line.

They were able to get this information so quickly, wrote an Anon on Pastebin, because "dozens of emails were sent to us by kids and adults alike, most of whom had personal relationships with the alleged rapists. Many recalled public confessions made blatantly by these boys in public where they detailed the rape of an inebriated 15-year-old girl." Why this same information was not sent to the police at the time of the investigation over a year ago is not apparent, though Anonymous hinted it sent this information to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in a more recent release.

Despite a Canadian minister previously telling the media the case was closed and would not be reopened, by Thursday the tune had changed, proving the collective's efforts were not in vain. In addition to submitting new evidence to the RCMP and putting pressure on the Canadian Department of Justice, Anonymous organised a rally outside the Halifax police department on Sunday. Roughly 100 people attended, including Parsons' mother. Speaking on her behalf as her partner, Jason Barnes told Canada's Herald News in an interview, "Leah's been… very happy with the things that Anonymous has done for us and really stepped forward and made this a large enough issue to make people think, and see it." Out of all the operations recently carried out by Anonymous, #OpJustice4Rehtaeh has had an incredibly high "effect real change" rate of just a few days.

Before you scoff at Anonymous expertly using PR and social media to change the world, consider this: Obama's technical team for his re-election campaign in 2012 took measures to DDoS-proof their websites as well as avoid Anonymous' attention at all costs. Anonymous expert and author Gabriella Coleman shared with me a forthcoming report for the Centre for International Governance Innovation which states:

. "Anonymous was treated as (potentially) even more of a nuisance than, say, the foreign state hackers who infiltrated the McCain and Obama campaigns in 2008. Had Anonymous successfully accessed servers or DDoS the campaign website, it would likely have ignited colossal media attention and potentially battered the campaign's reputation. Although this alone would likely not put Obama's chances for re-election at risk (the team was confident there was no controversial information to leak), a visit from Anonymous was treated as a real possibility and liability."

Anonymous' core strength lies in its PR tactics, not its boots-on-the-ground protests or actual hacking skills. Besides #OpJustice4Rehtaeh, in the last week Anonymous attacked North Korean social media accounts, then Israeli websites in solidarity with the Palestinians. While both operations apparently caused no substantial impact (North Korea is still a dictatorship, and Israel hasn't changed its stance on Palestine), they were both highly publicised, which is enough of a win for the group now primarily concerned with mobilising activists through the spread of information. If fact, Anonymous has been making headlines on an almost weekly basis for over a year now.

Australian security expert Stilgherrian calls this adoption of multiple causes, going beyond Anonymous's initial defence of internet freedoms, as proof they have become the "Hello Kitty of activism," but Coleman likens Anonymous's current, accepting form to something more organic: a fungus. "They refuse to die and they seem to bud in new places and situations," she explains. "They spore and spread" around the globe because clicktivism is easy and fitting with our already established digital habits.

There isn't enough bleach on the internet to kill the spread, but it looks like we web citizens wouldn't want to even if we had enough chemicals. We've all been infected in one way or another now, and our participation, however small, has evolved the fungus into something more manageable. Regarding the Parsons case, Anonymous is now withholding the names of the minors involved "out of respect for Rehtaeh's mother." The internet's love machine is a more fitting nickname.

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BitsofBiss twitterde op woensdag 17-04-2013 om 10:09:07 Anyone who hasn't seen what #anonymous has done to the Westboro Baptist Church Facebook page should check it out.Funny. reageer retweet

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Last push to show our strength in numbers against CISPA. This Bill is close to passing. They have finished closed door sessions, and is possible they could call the vote at anytime. This time,we are adding a FAXBOMB. Numbers for fax are located in info with twitter handles. Hashtag is (#ShutDownCISPA).

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YourAnonNews twitterde op woensdag 17-04-2013 om 19:22:42 Alex Jones and CNN are both talking about 4Chan analysis of the pics. reageer retweet

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Anonymous raises £35,000 to start a site for 'citizen journalists'

Anonymous has succeeded in raising $54,798 (£35,924) to fund the development of its crowdsourced news platform, Your Anon News.

Many of Anonymous' social media accounts, such as its Twitter and Tumblr accounts, use the Your Anon News title, but this latest project is meant as an outlet for reports that the campaign's video describe as hidden from many people, "separating it from the political and celebrity gossip than inundates the mainstream". Citizen reporters, independent of any existing organisation, will be able to livestream events as they happen.

The campaign page states: "We haven't had a space to to provide a proper forum for our many contributors and talented supporters. We love the livestreamers that provide Your Anon News with first-hand reporting and the independent journalists whose voices often unheard, but we aren't supporting them the way we should. We're here to change that."

That change will come with a new website that will allow Anonymous "to collect breaking reports and blog postings from the best independent reports online". It said: "We'll provide feeds for citizen journalists who livestream events as they are taking place, instead of the 10-second sound bites provided by the corporate media. Likewise, we know it would be beneficial to our followers to exist as a community beyond simple social media interactions. Many people have asked us to establish a site that accomplishes all of this and we've decided it's time we build it."

The money raised in the Indiegogo campaign will be used to pay for development and early hosting costs. The initial goal for the project was only $2,000 (£1,311), which was so low it was bound to be met. That's because, according to the campaign page, it's going to be an ongoing project that will still require funding beyond this initial phase.

It said: "We will rely heavily on the generosity of our supporters while developing this new site. Already, programmers and designers have come forward to donate their time. However, there are other aspects of running such a large project that require financial support. We would like to ask each of you to participate -- if and when you can -- and help us make this project a success."

Meanwhile, Anonymous continues to cause various groups, organisations and countries around the world a host of problems. Its high-profile takeover of many of the few official North Korean websites has been an ongoing sideshow to the increased tensions on the Korean peninsula. Yesterday, the birthday of North Korea's founder Kim Il-Sung, saw many of the sites displaying mocking cartoons of current leader Kim Jong-Un.

Tweets have indicated that the next stage of #OpFreeKorea will come on 19 April if the North's leader hasn't stepped down by then, with #OpKoreanWar due on 25 June. What form these attacks will take is unknown as of yet, but we can probably guess that typical tools like DDoS attacks will figure.

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Anonymous 'brandjacks' Westboro Baptist Church on Facebook

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The Internet was positively giddy with schadenfreude Wednesday as rumor spread that Anonymous, that loosely connected cabal of cyber-vigilantes, had seized control, or otherwise "hacked," the Facebook page belonging to Westboro Baptist Church. Only the church — infamous for picketing funerals of soldiers with its 'God Hates [fill-in-the-blank]' signs — didn't have a Facebook page. So whose page was Anonymous unleashing its anarchic mirth upon? Its own.

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NPA to urge Internet providers to block users of hijacking software

The National Police Agency (NPA) is poised to urge Internet service providers to voluntarily block communications if an anonymous software system called "Tor" -- short for "The onion router" -- is found abused online.

The move comes on the heels of a series of online threats via remotely hijacked computers using the Tor system, which allows users to mask their online identities and locations by routing connections through several servers.

An expert panel to the NPA, which was looking into measures to combat crimes abusing the Tor system, compiled a report on April 18 stating that blocking online communications at the discretion of site administrators will be effective in preventing such crimes. Based on the recommendation, the NPA will urge the Internet provider industry and other entities to make voluntary efforts to that effect.

According to the NPA, while the IP addresses of site visitors are normally known to the visited sites, the Tor system enables users to visit sites or dispatch information without revealing their identities. Over the past several years, the Tor system was abused in a number of crimes including the posting of online murder threats on Internet bulletin boards, theft of money from accounts via illegal accesses to Internet banking sites, postings on dating sites by those seeking relationships with children, and leakages of security information from the Metropolitan Police Department.

The panel's report recommends measures against criminal cases abusing Tor taking place here and abroad. The panel specifically recommends that communications be blocked when there is access from IP addresses publicly listed as those allocated to the third in a chain of computers that are used by Tor.

The Tor system was utilized by citizens in pro-democracy movements in the Middle East to escape government suppression, while Wikileaks also recommends Tor to information providers. The planned access restrictions are therefore expected to spark a backlash from the industry.

"Communication privacy is our lifeline. We won't be able to accept such a request," said an industry insider. An NPA official said, "We will make detailed explanations and seek their understanding."

Anonymous statement Message to the Government of Nova Scotia in case for #OpJustice4Rehtaeh

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Hig's word to the world

To the world:

I stared at the top of my bunk as I lay awake way past 2.
The thoughts around me were chaos at best.
When faced with the world as it is today; What is a man to do?
I....Cried...
I cried not for my beautifuly strong wife who I miss daily.
I cried not for my child who wont see me as his first sight.
I cried not for my many friends which can't grace me with their precense.
I cried not for my family who sacrafised their son and brother for a belief they didn't know.
I cried not for my fellow warriors who face the challenges presented and bare the weight of it anyway.
I cried not for those who share my fate.

I cried because OUR children will not have the education that many of us have obtained.
I cried because OUR familys must work harder for less.
I cried because OUR friends must struggle while our enemies rest.
I cried because OUR wifes & husbands must share the same fate.
I cried because OUR warriors MUST still fight for our freedoms.
I cried because still so many have yet to even take notice.

I have sacrafised much but there is still so much to do. As a Husband, Father, and Brother I gladly took on the world and asked only solidarity in return. Please however, hold back on anything that may cause you to endure the troubles I have. Instead push knowledge not packets. Educate others and continue to fight for the causes of the weak. Never forget those who have fallen because while I can't speak for everyone; I will not forget you.
- HiGz AkA w0rmer