Anonops #15: Last or not to Last

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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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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 Was An Undercover Journalist, Attorney Says

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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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puffyhoppe twitterde op donderdag 21-03-2013 om 16:15:26 (。´・ω・`)oh...怖っ！ RT @AnonBig: #YAN #Anonymous member loki killed by the FBI during a raid in his Houston home this morning. reageer retweet

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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

In Barrett Brown, News on March 26, 2013 at 3:08 PM

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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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http://htmlpaste.com/a632c09068de1af2ea20d2f4f74cd081a74b3000

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.

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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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#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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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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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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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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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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Anonymous Responds to Japanese Police’s Intent to Block Tor – Video

SAVE TOR IN JAPAN - Anonymous Responds to the Japanese National Police Agency

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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