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Anonymous #OpWorldBank

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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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#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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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