Anonops #15: Last or not to Last

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Anonymous Hackers taken down the US Copyright Office Website

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Anonymous started their #CISPABlackout with some websites which started to support Anonymous against CISPA and keep their website down but the Latest news came which will really a shocking one the US COPYRIGHT WEBSITE http://www.copyright.gov/ is down really a BAD NEWS for U.S who passed the CISPA.

From many days Anonymous is collecting their members to take down their websites on 22/04/2013 (TODAY) some of them with Anonymous but some of them refused, Anonymous also appealed to high profile websites like Google, facebook and many others which is popular on the Internet but no one knows that Anonymous going to give a hard Cyber-attack to US by defacing http://www.copyright.gov/.

Below is the Screenshot of http://www.copyright.gov/ which is taken by Anonymous Hackers themselves but seems US personally taken down the site because it is taking too long to respond.

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Amerikaanse werkgevers kunnen Facebook-login opeisen

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Eén van de elementen, zo meldt nieuwssite The Huffington Post, is dat werkgevers de socialemediawachtwoorden van hun werknemers kunnen opeisen. De Democraten wilden dat afzwakken met een amendement, om de privacy van de burgers te beschermen en om te verhinderen dat werkgevers zich zouden voordoen als hun werknemer op socialemediaplatformen.

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Anonymous A Call For A Global Day Of Resistance

Greetings World –

We are Anonymous. We hereby call forth this May 1st a Global Day Of Resistance. We call upon every person in the world, every city or town, every country; Unite, rise up – and take back the public commons from the oppressors. March in your streets, occupy public space – be free and reclaim your world. And stay. Become part of a world-wide “Global Spring”. From Idle No More in Canada to the pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain, on May 1st let us shake the world and the very foundations of all power and authority.

Anonymous will use all the tools at our disposal to facilitate and encourage this Global Day of Awakening. We are tired of having activists around the world hunted, jailed – and abused. We are tired of watching our own fall. And so Anonymous will stand with our freedom loving comrades all over the world and in unity raise our fist to the sky and shout: We Are Not Afraid!

We Are Anonymous

We Are Everywhere

We Are Legion

We Do Not Forgive

We Do Not Forget

One week from today world, Expect Us

Anonymous May Day Website – www.MayDay.tk

Anonymous Global Website – www.AnonymousGlobal.tk

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Australian LulzSec hacker arrested

Australian police have arrested a "well-respected" IT security professional and self-proclaimed leader of an international hacking ring after he allegedly infiltrated a government website this month.

The 24-year-old man, from Point Clare on the NSW central coast, claims to be a leader of the international hacking group LulzSec.

LulzSec, an abbreviation of ''lulz'' (laughs) and security, was formed in 2011. The group has claimed responsibility for multiple high-profile cyber attacks, including against Sony, Rupert Murdoch's News International, the CIA and other government organisations. They are also associated with prominent international hacking group Anonymous.

The man, known online as Aush0k, is a "well-respected" IT professional who works at the Sydney branch of an international security IT company, where he had access to sensitive information from clients that included government agencies, police said.
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He used this information to gain access to and deface a government website from his computer, which has been seized by police. Police would not confirm details of the hack or the website, but said that it was not a federal government site.

"He took advantage of a commonly known exploit to access the [website], and then put a back door in so that he could gain further access to the website and also posted other things on that website", said Detective Superintendent Brad Marden, from the Australian Federal Police.

The man is not thought to have accessed personal private information stored on the site.

"We are not dealing with small petty crime here," said Commander Glen McEwen, manager of cyber crime operations at the AFP. "The potential for such access has huge ramifications for society.

"The potential for damage is immeasurable. This is not harmless fun. This is serious."

The man appears to have been working alone, police said, but has been involved with LulzSec for some time, and his multiple claims to be a figurehead of the group did not go unchallenged by other members of the online community.

Police said his arrest at work on Tuesday evening in Sydney was the first by the AFP of a LulzSec member.

In the United States last week, LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger, 25, pleaded guilty to a computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment and was sentenced to one year in prison and community service.

In April, British LulzSec hacker Ryan Ackroyd, 26, pleaded guilty to cyber attacks on Sony, Nintendo, News International and the Arizona State Police.

The AFP said they discovered the man's online activities less than two weeks ago, as part of investigations into cyber crime. He is allegedly known to international law enforcement agencies.

The man was released on bail on Tuesday evening and will face court in May on charges of unauthorised access and modification to restricted data.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-(...)w.html#ixzz2RMd6uHUl

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Web censorship: the net is closing in

Across the globe governments are monitoring and censoring access to the web. And if we're not careful millions more people could find the internet fractured, fragmented and controlled by the state

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March against Monsanto

Anonymous plans day of global protest against biotech company.

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More than 250 marches have been organised around the world in response to Anonymous' call for action against genetically modified (GMO) crops. Their target: Monsanto, the multinational biotech corporation. Citing concerns over food safety, political favouritism, and environmental impacts, Anonymous and local activists are calling for a day of revolt against the GMO giant on May 25.

Anonymous- #OpMonsanto

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March against Monsanto



This is a Call to Action for a
Non-Hierarchical Occupation of Monsanto Everywhere

Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and unlabeled GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world's food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. This site is dedicated to empowering citizens of the world to take action against Monsanto & it's enablers like the FDA, USDA, EPA, GMA, BIO, and the processed food companies that use Monsanto's products.

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ParttimeOccupy twitterde op zondag 28-04-2013 om 01:49:38 #freecb3rob #anonymous support #agains Spamhaus http://t.co/ULX4XT8Tnv reageer retweet

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CISPA godfather claims Anonymous is after him

A co-author of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act says the hacktivist group Anonymous threatened him and others members of Congress on account of their support of CISPA.

The cybersecurity act known as CISPA overwhelmingly passed in the United States House of Representatives earlier this month only to ultimately once again stall in the Senate. Citing the same privacy concerns brought up by opponents outside of Washington, lawmakers in the Senate now say they are unlikely to consider the bill, suggesting that for the second time in as many years CISPA will fail to find its way out of Congress.

But even if those privacy woes indeed warranted a negative reaction from US senators, a co-author of CISPA suggests members of Anonymous had something to do with the defeat.

During a recent interview with Washington, DC-based The Hill, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland) said Anonymous hacktivists threatened members of Congress and encouraged anti-CISPA activists to attack supporters of the bill that he co-authored with Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan).

"Anonymous was threatening us. Anonymous was telling [others] to shut down people who supported the bill and that kind of thing," Ruppersberger told the paper during an interview published over the weekend.

When CISPA was introduced by Rogers and Ruppersberger for the first time in 2011, public outcry over alleged privacy violations spurred a legion of opponents to protest on the Web and on the streets. Upon the bill’s reintroduction earlier this year, a similar call to arms was made for privacy advocates to stand up and fight against the argumentative cyber act.

CISPA was described by its authors as being able “to provide for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities,” but its opponents have raised a number of questions about at what cost. Under CISPA, federal agencies — namely the US Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice — would intercept and monitor Internet traffic in order to analyze and deter any attempted cyberattacks. Critics have condemned it, however, saying it essentially allows online businesses to escape liability when letting Uncle Sam spy on Internet activity.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the largest anti-CISPA groups, wrote of the bill, “It is written so broadly that it allows companies to hand over large swaths of personal information to the government with no judicial oversight — effectively creating a ‘cybersecurity’ loophole in all existing privacy laws.”

Citing the growing opposition this time around, Rep. Ruppersberger told the Hill recently that he purposely asked other members of Congress favoring his bill to stay silent on the issue until the last moment possible to avoid an alleged backlash: three days before the act went up for vote in the House, recalls the Hill, the number of co-sponsors of CISPA jumped from two to 36.

"I didn't want to put anybody who was going to support the bill ... to be subjected to those attacks in their districts, and calling and threatening and that type of thing, so we really decided to not get anybody on the bill right away and to educate people right to the end," Ruppersberger said.

What exactly Ruppersberger means by attacks isn’t exactly obvious, but the call-to-arms that occurred leading up to the recent House vote is virtually inescapable. As with last year, members of Anonymous — along with the EFF, American Civil Liberties Union and others — went quite public with their opposition to the bill as it was readied for a congressional vote.

Last Monday more than 200 websites went offline in protest of CISPA, and the website Reddit and Web browser Firefox both informed their users of the legislation with predominantly displayed messages.

On their part, one message circulated by Anonymous and viewed over 22,000 times appears void of any actual threat, and instead asks opponents to voice their opinion about the bill using a viral Internet campaign. “Anonymous has asked numerous companies to participate in an Internet blackout on Monday, April 22. But, regardless of what these companies choose to do, individuals like ourselves can still help spread awareness of this threat. Below is a link to an image that promotes the hashtag #StopCISPA on Twitter. Make it your profile image all day Monday. Leave it up as long as you want,” reads the post uploaded to PasteBin and attributed to Anonymous.

“Tweet to #CISPA Reps @Call_Me_Dutch and @RepMikeRogers and tell them you oppose their bill,” reads another highly-read posting. Yet another message, viewed more than 7,000 times in under a week, contained the publically available office phone numbers for every congressman that voted for CISPA, along with information on how to raise objections with members of the Senate.

Since the bills passed in the House, a number of Washington sources have suggested that the Senate will once again let the bill die. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) said of CISPA that its "privacy protections are insufficient,” and the ACLU’s Michelle Richardson told US News & World Report that the bill was likely "too controversial” and “too expansive” to be considered by the Senate as is. Meanwhile, though, a report published by RT last week reveals that the federal government has already started to implement similar cybersecurity practices that put select parts of the Internet under the radar of the DHS.

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Barrett Brown Retains Top Lawyers For Legal Defense

May 1 Hearing

On May 1, 2013 Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney will determine “what, if anything should be done in utilizing [Barrett’s legal defense] funds towards the repayment of costs for Defendant’s court appointed representation.” Barrett’s supporters are delighted to announce that, after a long search, we have found a legal team that combines trial experience, tech-proficiency and a passion for justice. Attorneys Charles Swift and Ahmed Ghappour will be making an appearance in Barrett’s case this week.

We hope that the Court will turn over these funds to Barrett’s counsel of choice — per donors’ intent. The hearing will be held at 11:30AM at the Federal Courthouse, 1100 Commerce St., Dallas, TX 75242. If you are in Dallas, please come out and show your support.

About the Legal Team

Charles Swift is an attorney and former Navy officer, who retired in 2007 as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. While in the JAG Corps, he worked principally in the area of criminal defense, earning a reputation as a premier trial attorney. Most noteworthy is his quest for justice at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, concluding with the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

He has received numerous awards for his advocacy, including recognition as a Distinguished Alumnus at Seattle University School of Law, ACLU’s Roger Baldwin Medal for Distinguished Service, and was runner-up for Lawyer of the Year in 2005 as well as being named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in 2006 by the National Law Journal. Following his military career, Charles was a visiting professor and head of the Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, before leaving to enter private practice in Seattle.

Ahmed Ghappour (@amadooooo) is a Clinical Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. He also directs the National Security Defense Project, an access to justice initiative that raises constitutional challenges in national security and cyber security cases.

Before founding the NSDP, he worked with Charles Swift, and took numerous national security cases to trial. Prior to that, Ahmed was a Staff Attorney at Reprieve UK, where he represented Guantanamo detainees in their habeas corpus proceedings and challenged the US Extraordinary Renditions Program. He was also a senior legal advisor at a Cairo based human rights organization, where he worked on security sector reform, transparency and privacy, and international accountability litigation. Ahmed is also a computer engineer and hacked on high performance computers at SGI, Inc. before pursuing a career in the law.

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Barrett Brown Update: New Defense Team, Feds Fish For Activists

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Several new developments in the Barrett Brown case suggest that the playing field between the cyber-activist/journalist and the government may be starting to even out—at least a bit. But the feds aren’t giving up anytime soon.

On April 28 it was announced that Brown—currently facing upwards of 100 years behind bars for a slew of felonies ostensibly unrelated to his work as a journalist—had retained new defense counsel, including heavyweights certain to draw more attention to his case than ever before.

Brown’s new team will consist of attorneys Ahmed Ghappour and Charles Swift.

Swift’s name should be familiar to legal junkies in the post 9/11-era. A former Lt. Commander in the US Navy’s Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, he represented Salim Hamdan in his successful bid to gain Supreme Court recognition of habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo Bay detainees. Swift now focuses on national security and military litigation as a partner in his private practice.

For Brown, the change came not a moment too soon. As the target of what feels like an establishment pile-on, Brown will need the best defense money can buy—that is, if they’ll let him buy it.

On April 17, Magistrate Judge Paul Stickney had ordered the seizure of thousands of dollars in defense funds, solicited and held in an outside account with no connection to Brown. Although the funds were apparently listed in a still-sealed financial affidavit provided by Brown’s former court-appointed attorney, it remains unclear how the money could be legally seized.­

However, in a hearing on May 1, Judge Stickney essentially reversed himself, denying the government’s motion to transfer the funds to the court for remuneration to Brown’s original public defender. Stickney then accepted that the cash reserves be used to retain Ghappour and Swift.

The prosecution had seemingly hoped to hobble Brown by depleting his war chest and therefore his ability to defend himself. With the new ruling however, which allows him to spend the money on counsel of his choice—one not overburdened by a public defender’s typically heavy caseload—the court has dealt the prosecution a serious setback.

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OpUSA: Anonymous Hackers Send Message to President Obama

Hacktivist collectives from all over the world are making preparations for OpUSA, a new campaign against the US government that will be launched on May 7, 2013.

One of the Anonymous-affiliated groups involved in OpUSA, N4m3le55 Cr3w (Nameless Crew), has published a statement for US President Barack Obama and US citizens.

“Anonymous will make sure that this May 7th will be a day to remember. On that day Anonymous will start phase one of operation USA. America you have committed multiple war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and recently you have committed war crimes in your own country,” the hackers stated. [link]

“You have killed hundreds of innocent children and families with drones, guns, and now bombs. America you have hit thousands of people where it hurts them, now it is our time for our Lulz. For this you shall pay,” they added.

“Obama you have seen the over three billion dollars’ worth of damage we have done to Israel in operation Israel. It hasn't even been a few weeks and the Anonymous collective has gotten stronger since then. Therefore we will not tread lightly as you have not treaded lightly.”

The hacktivists reiterate that OpIsrael has been a major success, despite the fact that Israeli officials have downplayed the seriousness of the attacks launched on April 7.

The N4m3le55 Cr3w threatens that OpUSA aims at “wiping [the US government] off the cyber map” with the aid of doxes, DNS attacks, defacements, redirects, data leaks, and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.

The hackers have also provided their supporters with the necessary tools to achieve these goals. They’ve listed links to various DDOS tools, hacking applications, and resource forums.

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An Interview with AnonGhost Team; #OpUSA is a Cause AnonGhost said

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Our News Editor Praveen Kashyap had some time with the Owner of AnonGhost Team and takes a short interview with AnonGhost Team; in the interview they answered the truth of #OpUSA and some important points about them also.

#OpUSA is the Hackers Operation, in which Hackers going to Launch Cyber Attacks on USA this 07/05/2013.

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Manila-Taipei cyberwar threatens to escalate as PHL group vows 'operation' | SciTech | GMA News Online

A cyberwar between pro-Philippine and pro-Taiwan hackers threatened to escalate Sunday after a hacker group claiming affiliation with the hacktivist collective Anonymous vowed to get back at pro-Taiwan counterparts for attacking the Commission on Elections' website.

The Anonymous #Philippine Cyber Army claimed Comelec's website www.comelec.gov.ph, which was still inaccessible Sunday afternoon, remained under cyber-attack by Taiwan.

"Comelec is still under cyber attack by Taiwan. It has dealt great damage and delay on our government website, most especially on about our activities for the coming May 13 elections," it said.

But the group also hinted at a retaliatory attack against those it claimed are attacking the Comelec website.

The Comelec's website had contained a tool that could help voters find their precincts on Election Day.

"Be ready your keyboard guys, the OP will be launched soon," it said, but did not elaborate.

On Saturday, several Philippine websites were apparent victims of a distributed denial-of-service attack. Hours later, several Taiwanese websites were attacked.

The attacks came in the wake of a row between the Philippines and Taiwan last Thursday. A 65-year-old Taiwanese fisherman was shot dead in the encounter in disputed waters.

Bron: www.gmanetwork.com

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Associated Press “Joins Anonymous”



INTERNET — News broke Friday that the government had wiretapped and extensively spied on the Associated Press for reporting on terrorist activities. This was quickly followed by a now-deleted tweet in support of the shadowy collective of hackers known as Anonymous.

A spokesperson for the AP refused to comment, leading some to speculate the tweet was the result of hackers from Anonymous. Others believe this was possibly a false flag attack from the CIA aimed at discrediting the AP.

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Hacker Group Anonymous Launches #OpPetrol to Target Global Oil Industry - US News and World Report

The oil and gas industry has found itself in the crosshairs of hacker activist group Anonymous, which recently announced plans to launch cyber attacks on countries involved in the global oil trade.

[READ: Why Our Energy Policy – and Fights – Are Outdated]

Dubbed Operation Petrol, the attacks are scheduled to take place June 20 according to The Hill and will focus on countries including the United States, Canada, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia.

"It has been a long time coming," the group said in a video posted on YouTube, singling out Saudi Arabia as having "betrayed Muslims" by trading oil in U.S. dollars.

The announcement by Anonymous comes as inquiries into potential oil price manipulation by companies such as BP, Shell and Statoil intensify. This week, investigators with the European Commission continued to delve into the trading activities of those companies after authorities raided their offices last week.

[READ: Facebook's Zuckerberg Takes Heat Over Keystone, Drilling Ads]

"Due to the recent negative press regarding alleged price fixing, it is assumed that BP, Royal Dutch Shell and the price-reporting agency Platts, will be at the top of the target list," U.K.-based cyber-security company CyByl told Platts.

The oil and gas sectors are no strangers to cyber attacks. Last December, Saudi Aramco – Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company – revealed it had been the victim of an August 2012 cyber attack that affected tens of thousands of the company's computers.


Bron: www.usnews.com

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Press release for #OpUmea

Greetings world, we are Anonymous, and we are outraged.

This week, three guys who raped a girl with a wine bottle until she got internal injuries, was acquitted by the Swedish court. However, these guys were not acquitted by Anonymous. We are therefore callling upon the Anonymous collective to help us carry through with this operation.

The following text is from an article about the case:

"The prosecution recounted how the woman attended a party in Umeå, northern Sweden, in October last year where she met three 19-year-old men. She was acquainted with one of them. The charges said the men had taken her to a bedroom, where one had asked for oral sex while another exited the room only to return with an empty wine bottle. The Aftonbladet newspaper reported that the teen held the bottle up and said "Why don't we use this", before the men pinned her down on the bed and pried her legs open before inserting the wine bottle into her vagina. The men reportedly ended their actions when the girl started bleeding. One of the men allegedly told her not to report the incident to the police, which she nonetheless did. "

Since Anonymous as a collective firmly believes in human rights, meaning that every person have the right to their own bodies, we will never accept these kind of sexual abuse. For too many years now, people have stood by and watched while similar things happens, but Anonymous will no longer stand by and watch - we will act. And we have therefore decided to launch this operation, called #OpUmea, in which we will keep fighting this case until justice prevails. However, true justice cannot be brought in this case, because this girl will have to live with the memories of being forced to sex and abused by a wine bottle, even though she said no. The least we can do, is to show the rapists and the swedish court that no means no.

What will we do?
- We will encourage the girl to appeal the verdict and support her in her choice of doing so.
- We will try to get the media's attention.
- We will show the world that even if the corrupt court accept these kind of sexual harassments, Anonymous DO NOT.
- We will expose the rapists by publishing there name in the dox that is embedded in this press release.


What can you do?
- Spread this press release.
- Contact your local newspaper with this story and ask them to write about it.
- Help Anonymous spread flyers about this case on the streets.
- Get involved in the debate about this online, and don't forget to use the hashtag #OpUmea when you tweet about it.
- That these three guys gets cleared by the court is a sign that is wrong with our society - so get involved in politics or a social movement that fights for human rights.

Our goal with this operation is to get the girl to appeal the verdict and to get the three rapists punished for their crimes. Please note that we want these guys to be punished legally through a verdict against them in the swedish court. This operation does not include or encourage any illegal activites. So please DO NOT DDoS any site, order pizza, or visit the guys' houses. Let's do this the honest way.


The verdict (swedish): https://jumpshare.com/v/J1uiC1C9rrKSPbxEfIsw <- This information was legally acquired according to Swedish law - "2 kap 12 §
Dox on the three rapists: http://pastebin.com/msg08hEJ
Article about the case (English): http://www.thelocal.se/47920/20130515/#.UZVBzsjm49U
Article about the case (Swedish) http://www.folkbladet.nu/369496/tre-killar-frias-fran-valtakt

Do you want more information about #OpUmea? Please write to us on twitter:
twitter.com/SweAnon
twitter.com/AnonNewsSwe
twitter.com/iRBAWS

IRC channel for Anonymous Sweden: irc.anonops.com #anonsweden

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Expect us, always!

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LulzSec hacker: 'Internet is a world devoid of empathy'

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LulzSec gained international attention when they hacked the Sony website in 2011, taking down the company's PlayStation network for weeks and accessing millions of users' accounts. The action was estimated to have cost the company over $100m (£65m).

The hacking collective went on to wreak a trail of chaos across the web during their 50-day campaign - targeting organisations including the FBI and Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).

In his first television interview, the Scottish teenager behind LulzSec's PR operation, Jake Davis, who on Wednesday was handed a 24 month sentence, talks to BBC Newsnight's Susan Watts about how he was increasingly drawn to life online.

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OpJustice4Kaitlyn Engaged



For Immediate Release -- #OpJustice4Kaitlyn

(Morgan Freeman Voice)

Greetings, Bigots. We are Operation Justice. The last operation our team conducted led to the case of Rehtaeh Parson's being re-opened and to an independent investigation into the actions of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. You may have read about us. Now we are in Florida and you should have expected us.

This letter is addressed to the Indian River County State Attorney's Office:

You are currently pursuing 2 felony charges against an 18 year old girl by the name of Kaitlyn Hunt. Kaitlyn was arrested on 2/16/2013 at 20:15, her case number 2013-00022169. She was a student at Sebastian River High School before they expelled her (you don't have to be a child to be a bully, you just have to have the emotional maturity of one--don't worry, we will get to them later).

While in the course of performing your duties we feel that you've lost perspective. Tsk, tsk. The truth is, Kaitlyn Hunt is a bright young girl who was involved in a consensual, same-sex relationship while both she and her partner were minors. She has a big future ahead of her and there are people, thousands of people in fact, that have no intention of allowing you to ruin it with your rotten selective enforcement.

Now, either we are to interpret your charges to mean that:

1) Indian River County is publicly taking a stance against all relationships that form between two consenting adolescents -- or
2) We're left to wonder if the intolerance of Kaitlyn's partner's parents (or maybe it was yours) is really what started this case against her.

The real question is, who in your office didn't have the balls or the intelligence to put an end to this ridiculousness?

Intolerance has been the curse of this country since it's inception. Frankly, we're sick of it. Specifically, we're sick of paying the salaries of people like you. Now most of you probably interviewed for your jobs and were appointed there, but one or two ranks above you is some asshole that every few years has to go door to door and beg people to remember his or her name on election day. There are quite a few organizations in this country that would prefer that our elected officials not hire bigots that hunt down and file erroneous charges against young women because of their sexual orientation. The fact is, the puritanism you practice doesn't have a place in this world any longer.

We hope you'll keep all of this in mind because the next petition we put 200,000 signatures on will have your name on it (maybe you Brian Workman), or your bosses name on it, and we will be calling for a resignation. That petition will be delivered by hundreds of men and women, holding signs and wearing masks, yelling into megaphones and getting all up in your business, right on your doorstep. We can afford to stand there for some time, because, LOL, there are a million more of us than there are of you.

We'll give you a few days to bask in your new found media attention and the public's disapproval of your performance. Don't worry, they'll call you.


Signed,

#OpJustice4Kaitlyn


We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
The corrupt fear us.
The honest support us.
The heroic join us.
Expect Us.


Twitter: @OpJustice
Inquiries: opjustice@mail.ru (This week we're Russian. привет bitches!)



Other Press Stuffs:

Letter from Kaitlyn's Mom: https://www.facebook.com/(...)doc/192326077586085/
Letter from Kaitlyn's Dad: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeKate/doc/192333027585390/
Parents Petition: http://www.change.org/pet(...)ame-sex-relationship

Some articles:

Now.MSN: http://now.msn.com/kaitly(...)ver-gay-relationship
Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/(...)esbian-relationship/
Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/a(...)ame-sex-relationship

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After Girl Expelled From High School and Charged Over Lesbian Relationship, Anonymous Goes on the Offensive | Mother Jones

When Florida high school student Kaitlyn Hunt was 17, she began dating a 15-year-old teammate on her school's girls' basketball team. Kaitlyn's parents say the parents of the 15-year-old never complained to them about the (consensual) relationship. But a few months after Kaitlyn turned 18, the younger girl's parents had her arrested. She was charged with a felony—"lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12-16 years old." The girl's parents also succeeded in getting her expelled from school by appealing to the school board after the school and a judge refused to grant their request, according to Kaitlyn's mother, Kelly Hunt Smith.

"That is absolutely ludicrous," Smith wrote on Facebook last Friday in a widely shared plea for help. "We need justice in this situation, not to feed into these parents' hates and insanity."

Enter Anonymous, the global hacker collective, which recently has raised eyebrows by pursuing justice for rape victims. In this case, some of the same Anonymous members are rallying behind a girl they feel has been wrongly accused of sexual misconduct. On Saturday, they launched the twitter hashtag #OPJustice4Kaitlyn, and a press release that begins: "Greetings, Bigots."

"The truth is, Kaitlyn Hunt is a bright young girl who was involved in a consensual, same-sex relationship while both she and her partner were minors," reads the release. "She has a big future ahead of her and there are people, thousands of people in fact, that have no intention of allowing you to ruin it with your rotten selective enforcement."

By this afternoon, protestors had already gathered outside of the office of the Indian River County Sheriff's Department. In a hastily assembled press conference, County Sheriff Deryl Loar claimed that the case had nothing to do with the fact that Kaitlyn had been dating a girl. "If this was an 18-year-old male and a 14-year-old girl," he said, "it would be prosecuted in the same way."

Still, Loar suggested at another point that he would not have pursued the case if not for the complaint from the girl's parents: "When you have vocal victims, that enhances the case as well," he said.

Anonymous has a complicated relationship with sex and gender issues. Historically, the group has embraced homophobic language, most often by appending the term "fag" to anything that it dislikes—i.e., a "moral fag" is someone who takes his causes too seriously. On the other hand, Anonymous has significant number of gay members, according to McGill University anthropologist Gabriella Coleman, who is writing a book about the group. "It is kind of an extreme commitment to free speech," she says. "And it is also a way of being open to anyone."

While it may seem like a dramatic shift to go from targeting alleged rapists to defending someone accused of a sexual offense, Anonymous' choice of targets is "in some ways always about what they can exploit and find," Coleman told me. "It is pretty random oftentimes, at least initially. But that's what makes them so interesting and difficult to grapple with, because you can't necessarily predict what they will do."

Indian River Sheriff Loar told reporters today that he'd never heard of Anonymous. But if the experiences of law enforcement officials targeted by other Anonymous ops are any indication, that will soon change. Anonymous has pledged to deliver a petition with 200,000 names on it calling for the resignation of one or more of the authorities involved in the case.

"That petition will be delivered by hundreds of men and women, holding signs or wearing masks, yelling into megaphones and getting all up in your business, right on your doorstep," the press release reads, in the group's characteristic swagger. "We can afford to stand there for some time, because, LOL, there are a million more of us than there are of you."

Bron: www.motherjones.com

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In fear of Anonymous Guantanamo Bay shuts down WiFi - National Anonymous | Examiner.com

In fear of Anonymous, the U.S. military has restricted access to wireless internet at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

According to a report issued by the Associated Press on Monday, May 20, officials responsible for the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have shut down WiFi access throughout the camp and banned the use of any social networks following threats from the international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous.

In solidarity with the Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers, Anonymous launched Operation Guantanamo (#OpGTMO) last week. The operation is meant to raise awareness of the human rights violations currently going on at Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

The following is an excerpt from a press release issued by Anonymous regarding Operation Guantanamo (#OpGTMO):

With no hope for justice, over 100 men who have been held and tortured for years have gone on a hunger strike. … Prisoners have died suddenly, violently, and suspiciously. All inmates in Guantanamo Bay have been locked in solitary confinement. Some are being force fed, an international crime. These men face the prospect of a terrible death in prison despite many of them having been cleared for release years ago.

Guantanamo Bay must be closed at once, and the prisoners should be either returned to their home countries or given a fair trial in a federal court. Guantanamo Bay is an ongoing war crime. Anonymous will no longer tolerate this atrocity.

A majority of prisoners currently at Guantanamo — 103 out of 166 — are on hunger strike to protest their conditions and their indefinite detention.

_{Michael Stone is a progressive freethinker and freelance writer residing in Portland, Oregon. Informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion, Michael’s task is to question the world in pursuit of the good. You can reach Michael at stonemichael@hotmail.com.}


Bron: www.examiner.com

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'Anonymous' a little less so, thanks to Israeli hackers | The Times of Israel

The worldwide hacker group is again targeting Israel, but an Israeli ‘task force’ has come up with a new tactic to fight back

After April’s largely unsuccessful campaign by Anonymous and Arab hackers, #OpIsrael, to “remove Israel from the Internet,” a second round of hack attacks against Israeli sites, “OpIsrael Reloaded,” is planned for Saturday. The followup campaign seeks to demonstrate that Israel did indeed sustain a great deal of damage and economic loss during the first effort.

The campaign has picked up some steam on hacker networks, but is unlikely to be as large as #OpIsrael. There were dozens of YouTube videos “advertising” that campaign with hundreds of thousands of views, while #OpIsraelReloaded showed up just a few times on the site, with only a few thousand views recorded, as of Thursday evening. Nevertheless, system administrators in government and enterprise are redoubling their network defenses to ensure that they weather the coming storm.

This time, however, the identities of the Anonymous hackers planning the attack are a little less, well, Anonymous. Born on the eve of the original #OpIsrael in April, a pro-Israel hacker team called the Israel Elite Force has been responding in kind, defacing sites in Arab countries and publishing what it claims are names and passwords for credit card, Facebook, bank and email accounts, and other information that is supposed to be secure.

The IEF’s latest gambit seeks to “rip the mask off the hackers attacking Israel,” the group says in a video. A message on a hacker site and in the IEF’s Twitter feed refers web surfers to a web page listing personal details of individuals the group says are key figures in the #OpIsrael hacking operations. The information was gathered, the group said, by hackers in its own organization, and with the help of a joint team of American and Israeli hackers.

“We know who you are,” the group says on its page. “You can not hide! You can not escape!” Following the introduction, the page posts several full-color photos, names, locations, and IP addresses of administrators and hackers who, it says, are actively involved in attempting to hack Israeli sites, and who hail from India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, and Malaysia, among other places.

In a message on a hacker site, the IEF writers tell their readers that they “want us to meet someone,” and go on to provide extensive details – including details of his education (M.Sc. in economics), location, computer hosting service, and a photo – of one of the hackers. “This is only one person.. and i got OVER 9000!,” writes the Israeli hacker behind the revelation, adding, for good measure “Don’t try me, Don’t make me mad.”

If the information is really correct, said Tal Pavel of the security group Middle Eastern Net and a lecturer at Netanya Academic College, “it would be a heretofore unprecedented development in the Middle East hacking arena. One of the most important resources hackers use, and need, is their anonymity, and losing that — with the screen between the cyber and physical world removed — could have a major impact on the nature of the hacking conflict between Israel and its cyber-enemies.”

The only way to confirm the information about the hackers’ identities would be to do an extensive vetting process, said Pavel. “If the information is accurate it shows that they did very good research.” Such unmasking of cyber-identities is by no means unprecedented; Anonymous itself, Pavel said, has on several occasions “outed” pedophiles, discovering their real names and locations, and giving the data to police for further action. “So it’s quite possible that the information on the hackers is correct,” he added.

If it is, the revelations could open a new, and more serious, front in the ongoing cyberwar. “If Israeli hackers are revealing the names and phone numbers of Arab and Pakistani hackers, they might in turn target security personnel and publish details of top IDF generals, police officers, or even Mossad or Shabak [Shin Bet security agency] agents online.” Israel is known to have extensive networks of informers in the West Bank, for example; and if hackers specifically target the databases where that information is stored and release it, Israel’s intelligence operations could be severely hampered — not to mention the lives that would be lost, as the PA leadership executes the “collaborators” the hackers help uncover. “There’s no question that a border has been crossed,” said Pavel. “We will now have to see where that brings us.”

Bron: www.timesofisrael.com

Anonymous Message To Monsanto; We fight for farmers!

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Monsanto Employee Database

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The pastebin storing this information has been taken down.

I am reposting this for everyone's records. A chached version on google can still be found, but we're unsure how long it will take before that gets censored as well.

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"The Jester" trolls Westboro Baptist Church with hilarious hack

A hacker best known for claiming he took down WikiLeaks has foiled the Westboro Baptist Church's attempt to exploit the tragic tornado disaster that occurred in Moore, Okla., on Monday.

The much maligned congregation, known for hateful signs claiming that "God hates fags," registered the domain name GodHatesOklahoma.com a mere day after a category 5 tornado killed 24 people and displaced thousands. The site no doubt was intended to assert the notion that God allowed the tornado to happen as punishment for America's alleged embrace of homosexuality.

But then, at some point between then and earlier today, the site's content was replaced by a hacker known as the Jester. Instead of being bombarded by the WBC's hateful message, visitors were greeted by an image of Jesus flipping the bird with text that reads "Westboro Faptist Church— Even Jesus Hates You."

Below that, there was another message:

"'On the 8th day, God created hackers, and he saw that it was good.' From the Gospel according to @th3j35t3r."



After five seconds, the site would then redirect to a donation page for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief.

The page has since been disabled. Thankfully, the Jester tweeted out a cached version for posterity.

This isn't the first time the Jester has crossed paths with Westboro Baptist Church. In 2011, he knocked the organization's websites offline for over a month with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

The Daily Dot has reached out to the Jester for comment.

Bron: www.dailydot.com