Anonops #15: Last or not to Last

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ECA_Legion twitterde op dinsdag 28-01-2014 om 23:11:43 It's not just you nsa.gov appears to be Down via #Anonymous reageer retweet

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r3v3r3nd_m4yh3m twitterde op dinsdag 28-01-2014 om 23:30:15 STEAL THIS TWEET nsa.gov #TANGODOWN #Anonymous #ProtectSnowden #FreeAnons #OpBlitzkrieg We Are Legion #AntiSec #LulzSec reageer retweet

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Feds illegally poured through journalist’s computer for evidence of hacking, says attorney

US federal agents illegally obtained evidence against a former Reuters journalist when they scoured his computer for documents that were not mentioned in the search warrant they were granted, the reporter’s attorney argued in court Wednesday.

Matthew Keys, 26, was charged in 2012 with conspiring with hackers from Anonymous, providing them with a username and password that allowed them access to the Los Angeles Times website and subsequently change a headline. When federal agents investigating Keys examined the computer in question they accessed files Keys had sent about his own case to another journalist who was at work on a book about the anonymous hacking collective.

Keys’ attorney, Jay Leiderman, asked the US district court in Sacramento to suppress any evidence the police obtained from that computer.

“The warrant did not give the power to rummage through the journalist’s files,” he said Wednesday, nothing “there is no indication of why all this information needed to be seized.”

How the prosecution plans to use the information investigators obtained is unclear, however authorities said the search needed to be conducted because files relevant to the investigation may have been deleted by Keys. Attorneys cited child pornography investigations, in which entire hard drives are often seized, provide a precedent for this case.

According to the Guardian, Leiderman responded by saying that a child porn example is irrelevant to this case and asserted that Keys, being a journalist, would not destroy files that were part of an ongoing story.

The Justice Department claims that Keys, dejected over being fired from his job at KXTL Fox 40, a Tribune Company subsidiary, gave his log-in information to hackers in an Anonymous chat room and told them to “go f**k some shit up.” They then infiltrated the site of the Los Angeles Times, another Tribune company, and changed a headline from “Pressure builds in House to Pass Tax-Cuts” to “Pressure Builds in House to Elect CHIPPY 1337,” a reference to another hacker group.

Prosecutors explained that the plan was designed to “make unauthorized changes to web sites that the Tribune Company used to communicate news features to the public; and to damage computer systems used by the Tribune Company.”

Leiderman said that Keys was acting as an embedded journalist when the alleged criminal activity occurred in 2010. Keys faces up to 25 years in prison and a $750,000 fine if convicted, although prosecutors told the Associated Press last year that Keys would likely be sentenced to between 10 and 27 months behind bars because he has no criminal record. Keys has refused a plea bargain.

“He met these people in chat rooms, they knew he was a journalist and knew where he used to work,” Leiderman told the Huffington Post, adding that the credentials Keys provided were incapable of gaining access to the LA Times site. “There’s an incongruity to all of this that we’re hoping to get to the bottom of in the next couple months.”

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Anonymous hacks the FBI

We know who your agents are

The Slovenian branch of Anonymous claims it has hacked the FBI and uploading email addresses and personal information relating to the director to online storage site Pastebin.

Black-Shadow of the Slovenian branch of Anonymous said he has posted the FBI domain email addresses and passwords for 68 agents, although the user claims in his post that the collected log-in details are "not all ours".

His post also includes a short profile on FBI director James Comey, including sensitive information such as his date of birth, his wife's name, the date they got married, his educational history and even the geographical coordinates of his residence. Handy if you have access to a spare drone or cruise missile.

Two internal FBI websites are also included in the post – the FBI's Virtual Academy website from its training division, and the FBI Agents Association.

Two of the FBI's domain name servers for its website www.fbi.gov were targeted, and the hackers took information from seven open ports on the servers.

Anonymous Slovenia posted the Pastebin link on its Facebook Page, along with the comment "Laughing at your security." We guess that the only thing the Americans could come back at is that the Slovenians serve donkey in their pizza restaurants.

Anonymous has been out of the headlines lately thanks mostly to infighting amongst its members. It had developed a reputation for being script kiddies using DoS attacks. This particular take down suggests that there are some good hackers in the organisation who are working despite of the organisation's shortcomings.

Read more: http://news.techeye.net/b(...)he-fbi#ixzz2sN7EZmOf

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War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show

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A secret British spy unit created to mount cyber attacks on Britain’s enemies has waged war on the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec, according to documents taken from the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News.

The blunt instrument the spy unit used to target hackers, however, also interrupted the web communications of political dissidents who did not engage in any illegal hacking. It may also have shut down websites with no connection to Anonymous.

According to the documents, a division of Government Communications Headquarters Communications (GCHQ), the British counterpart of the NSA, shut down communications among Anonymous hacktivists by launching a “denial of service” (DDOS) attack – the same technique hackers use to take down bank, retail and government websites – making the British government the first Western government known to have conducted such an attack.

The documents, from a PowerPoint presentation prepared for a 2012 NSA conference called SIGDEV, show that the unit known as the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, or JTRIG, boasted of using the DDOS attack – which it dubbed Rolling Thunder -- and other techniques to scare away 80 percent of the users of Anonymous internet chat rooms.

The existence of JTRIG has never been previously disclosed publicly.

The documents also show that JTRIG infiltrated chat rooms known as IRCs and identified individual hackers who had taken confidential information from websites. In one case JTRIG helped send a hacktivist to prison for stealing data from PayPal, and in another it helped identify hacktivists who attacked government websites.

In connection with this report, NBC is publishing documents that Edward Snowden took from the NSA before fleeing the U.S. The documents are being published with minimal redactions.

Intelligence sources familiar with the operation say that the British directed the DDOS attack against IRC chat rooms where they believed criminal hackers were concentrated. Other intelligence sources also noted that in 2011, authorities were alarmed by a rash of attacks on government and corporate websites and were scrambling for means to respond.

“While there must of course be limitations,” said Michael Leiter, the former head of the U.S. government’s National Counterterrorism Center and now an NBC News analyst, “law enforcement and intelligence officials must be able to pursue individuals who are going far beyond speech and into the realm of breaking the law: defacing and stealing private property that happens to be online.”

“No one should be targeted for speech or thoughts, but there is no reason law enforcement officials should unilaterally declare law breakers safe in the online environment,” said Leiter.

But critics charge the British government with overkill, noting that many of the individuals targeted were teenagers, and that the agency’s assault on communications among hacktivists means the agency infringed the free speech of people never charged with any crime.

“Targeting Anonymous and hacktivists amounts to targeting citizens for expressing their political beliefs,” said Gabriella Coleman, an anthropology professor at McGill University and author of an upcoming book about Anonymous. “Some have rallied around the name to engage in digital civil disobedience, but nothing remotely resembling terrorism. The majority of those embrace the idea primarily for ordinary political expression.” Coleman estimated that the number of “Anons” engaged in illegal activity was in the dozens, out of a community of thousands.

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The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for Anonymous — And for All of Us

^{By Gabriella Coleman 02.04.14}

The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous.

Specifically, they implemented distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the internet relay chat (IRC) rooms used by Anonymous. They also implanted malware to out the personal identity details of specific participants. And while we only know for sure that the U.K.’s GCHQ and secret spy unit known as the “Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group” (JTRIG) launched these attacks in an operation called “Rolling Thunder,” the U.S.’ NSA was likely aware of what they were doing because the British intelligence agents presented their program interventions at the NSA conference SIGDEV in 2012. (Not to mention the two agencies sharing close ties in general.)

Whether you agree with the activities of Anonymous or not — which have included everything from supporting the Arab Spring protests to DDoSing copyright organizations to doxing child pornography site users — the salient point is that democratic governments now seem to be using their very tactics against them.

The key difference, however, is that while those involved in Anonymous can and have faced their day in court for those tactics, the British government has not. When Anonymous engages in lawbreaking, they are always taking a huge risk in doing so. But with unlimited resources and no oversight, organizations like the GCHQ (and theoretically the NSA) can do as they please. And it’s this power differential that makes all the difference.

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musalbas twitterde op woensdag 05-02-2014 om 12:36:22 The joke's on GCHQ to be honest, AnonOps IRC was down every other day anyway due to Ryan and others DDoSing it out of boredom. reageer retweet

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700+ Russian websites - #TANGO #DOWN #LegionOps

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700+ Russian websites - #TANGO #DOWN
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We warned you Russia. Now you will feel the pain of 700 DOGS.
#LegionOps
#OpSochi
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It's not just you! http://ibm-mos.ru looks down from here.
It's not just you! http://sexandthecity.ru looks down from here.
It's not just you! http://www.you-tube.ru looks down from
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Found 742 domains hosted on the same web server as www.gilat.ru (109.70.27.4).

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BiellaColeman twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2014 om 15:56:33 4 D's " Deny, Disrupt, Degrade, and Deceive." Sounds a lot like GCHQ engages in Trolling http://t.co/hfzv5Z7Kyu reageer retweet

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Anonymous revealed to be under attack from both corporate and government spies

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The attacks were accompanied by threatening emails sent anonymously to those persons JTRIG could identify. When the digital smoke cleared and the attacked servers recovered, chat room participation had dropped 80 percent according to the GCHQ's own documents. The attacks came immediately before a nation-wide crackdown on the Occupy movement, which was later found to be coordinated by a non-profit group called the Police Executive Research Foundation (PERF), which has a board comprised of big-city police chiefs in the United States and Great Britain. The temporary disruption of Anonymous appears to have been done in advance of a wave of brutality against protestors to keep hackivists from organizing online.

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Taken together, the efforts of both JTRIG and Gourley show that the corporatized national security state uses its vast surveillance powers not just to track terrorists, but to attack citizens engaged in dissent. If that dissent consists of taking a stand against alleged institutional child abuse or keeping the homeless from freezing to death it is still targeted by the best highest technology and the most classified operatives.

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Statement on GCHQ's war against Anonymous

The recent news that GCHQ, the British SIGINT directorate, was involved in wide-ranging DDoS of IRC communications channels for global activists is shocking but comes as no surprise to Project PM.

Since its inception, Project PM's wiki and IRC channels have been subject to a determined barrage of sophisticated attacks from a number of different adversaries, with the aim of crippling a First Amendment protected journalism organization. One such attack on our IRC server was so massive it was said to have disrupted the internet for the entire country in which the server was hosted.

Western intelligence services, in an attempt to combat a handful of criminal hackers out of tens of thousands of programmers, journalists, activists & researchers, decided to abuse the law in a fantastically egregious fashion and target not just Project PM, but countless other networks worldwide. These actions, while not just a chilling attack on freedom of speech and association, also gravely undermined efforts to organize safety for activists being repressed, attacked and slaughtered in places like Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Greece, to name a few.

In essence, GCHQ's gross negligence charts a path that started with targeting a few hackers and blossomed into a behavior that undermines the foundational foreign policy objectives of the State Dept., non-governmental organizations and unaligned activists involved in pro-democracy activities. GCHQ's reckless actions also erode the very fundamental purpose a SIGINT directorate is supposed to serve — keeping channels of communication open.

In addition to the documented attacks on Project PM's IRC during 2011, this very wiki has been subjected to relentless bot spam that goes far beyond the normal expected level of activity, has required countless man-hours to remove, and which was traced to internet protocol addresses suspected to be associated with private contracting entities.

Furthermore, during the relevant time frame the information operations engaged by Barrett Brown were continuously targeted for disruption, as the record clearly shows that his online presence was incessantly intimidated and harassed by covert actors, many of whom appeared to be ex-military and somehow associated with HBGary.

As a response to the reports which have been enabled by the whistle-blowing of Edward Snowden, himself a former contractor and thus not covered by whistle-blower protection laws, Project PM urges a renewed effort by an informed citizenry to oppose and expose rogue elements of the intelligence community, consistent with the serious threats to human rights, democracy and transparency posed by this creeping militarization of the internet.

Our statement on GCHQ's war against Anonymous.

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Anonymous Fights Against Venezuelan Govt, Takes Down Several Sites

Anonymous is making a claim on Twitter regarding some attacks on Venezuelan governmental websites. According to several Twitter accounts, some sites were hacked, while others were disrupted with DDoS attacks.

One of the affected sites belongs to the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, while another belongs to the Public Stock Exchange, but the list is longer.

As mentioned, some were hacked, while others were taken down with DDoS attacks.

The announcements come after many days of public protests and several deaths during clashes between protesters and government forces. The country’s President, Nicolas Maduro, has called the events a coup and has asked for the arrest of the leader of the opposition.

Twitter users that have a contract with CANTV, a state-owned ISP, are complaining about not being able to view images anymore. Twitter, as in many other protests, has become the go-to service for people who want to organize rallies and that makes it a target for unhappy governmental forces.

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YourAnonCentral twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2014 om 16:20:36 A special shout out to Stephen Hawking for being the voice over of every single #Anonymous video all these years. http://t.co/jdrERjZSxw reageer retweet

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Twitter Account of Venezuela’s United Socialist Party Hacked

The verified Twitter account of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has been hacked by LulzSec Peru.

The hacktivists have changed the @PartidoPSUV account’s pictures. The profile’s description currently reads “Don’t mess with the best. Hacked by LulzSec Peru.”

After hijacking the account, the hackers posted and retweeted tens of anti-government messages. The attack comes shortly after the Venezuelan state-owned ISP CANTV started blocking Twitter users from seeing certain images and avatar photos.

At the time of writing, the Twitter account of the political party is still controlled by LulzSec Peru.

This isn’t the first time LulzSec Peru hijacks the PSUV’s Twitter account. They also hacked it back in November 2012.

The people of Venezuela are protesting these days against the government. Three protesters were killed earlier this week.

Anonymous: Venezuela PR (Global Conflicts)

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http://www.fgma.gov.ve/

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also go ahead and download the mail spool see if there is anything good eh?....

the mail sp00l is 585MB so still uploading at this time....yea its not Friday anymore
Fuck them anyway

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Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters

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Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution.

The efforts – detailed in documents provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – included a broad campaign of international pressure aimed not only at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but at what the U.S. government calls “the human network that supports WikiLeaks.” The documents also contain internal discussions about targeting the file-sharing site Pirate Bay and hacktivist collectives such as Anonymous.

One classified document from Government Communications Headquarters, Britain’s top spy agency, shows that GCHQ used its surveillance system to secretly monitor visitors to a WikiLeaks site. By exploiting its ability to tap into the fiber-optic cables that make up the backbone of the Internet, the agency confided to allies in 2012, it was able to collect the IP addresses of visitors in real time, as well as the search terms that visitors used to reach the site from search engines like Google.

Another classified document from the U.S. intelligence community, dated August 2010, recounts how the Obama administration urged foreign allies to file criminal charges against Assange over the group’s publication of the Afghanistan war logs.

A third document, from July 2011, contains a summary of an internal discussion in which officials from two NSA offices – including the agency’s general counsel and an arm of its Threat Operations Center – considered designating WikiLeaks as “a ‘malicious foreign actor’ for the purpose of targeting.” Such a designation would have allowed the group to be targeted with extensive electronic surveillance – without the need to exclude U.S. persons from the surveillance searches.

In 2008, not long after WikiLeaks was formed, the U.S. Army prepared a report that identified the organization as an enemy, and plotted how it could be destroyed. The new documents provide a window into how the U.S. and British governments appear to have shared the view that WikiLeaks represented a serious threat, and reveal the controversial measures they were willing to take to combat it.

In a statement to The Intercept, Assange condemned what he called “the reckless and unlawful behavior of the National Security Agency” and GCHQ’s “extensive hostile monitoring of a popular publisher’s website and its readers.”

“News that the NSA planned these operations at the level of its Office of the General Counsel is especially troubling,” Assange said. “Today, we call on the White House to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the extent of the NSA’s criminal activity against the media, including WikiLeaks, its staff, its associates and its supporters.”

Illustrating how far afield the NSA deviates from its self-proclaimed focus on terrorism and national security, the documents reveal that the agency considered using its sweeping surveillance system against Pirate Bay, which has been accused of facilitating copyright violations. The agency also approved surveillance of the foreign “branches” of hacktivist groups, mentioning Anonymous by name.

The documents call into question the Obama administration’s repeated insistence that U.S. citizens are not being caught up in the sweeping surveillance dragnet being cast by the NSA. Under the broad rationale considered by the agency, for example, any communication with a group designated as a “malicious foreign actor,” such as WikiLeaks and Anonymous, would be considered fair game for surveillance.

Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institute who specializes in surveillance issues, says the revelations shed a disturbing light on the NSA’s willingness to sweep up American citizens in its surveillance net.

“All the reassurances Americans heard that the broad authorities of the FISA Amendments Act could only be used to ‘target’ foreigners seem a bit more hollow,” Sanchez says, “when you realize that the ‘foreign target’ can be an entire Web site or online forum used by thousands if not millions of Americans.”

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AnonyOps twitterde op dinsdag 18-02-2014 om 14:48:05 The word "Terrorist" is now about as meaningless as it was in the movie "V for Vendetta". reageer retweet

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Anonymous threat: GCHQ Website disrupted by DDoS

Tomorrow GCHQ’s website www.gchq.gov.uk was suffering from downtime and it could be a denial of service attack, some of the noticeable performance issues yesterday:


About GCHQ:

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a British intelligence agency responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the British government and armed forces.

Last Week, it was revelaed by the documents from the NSA Leaker Snowdens documents that the British Spy Agency GCHQ used DDoS Attack against the Anonymous hackers during the operation Payback which was used to take down some high profile websites like: MasterCard, Visa, Amazon, Moneybookers, and PostFinance.

Upon searching more about the Snowden documets we find that DDoS Attacks are illegal in the UK under the Police and Justice Act 2006, yet the leaked secret slides shows that GCHQ may have used such techniques against Anonymous.



One of the website of Anonymous group of hackers anonnews.org published a statement after the revelation of Secret documents which showed GCHQ attacked on Anonymous through DDoS Attacks.

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AnonOpsCenter twitterde op woensdag 12-02-2014 om 05:46:03 GCHQ.gov.uk is still #TANGODOWN We are anonymous.It is far to late to expect us. http://t.co/PVbTunXjqt reageer retweet

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YourAnonNews twitterde op donderdag 20-02-2014 om 15:43:17 police.gov.ua is down, thanks to #Anonymous. reageer retweet

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Anonymous ‘Hacktivists’ Send A Message To White Supremacist Website

Last Friday afternoon, “Anonymous” hacker took control of the official website of the “Nationalist Movement,” a white supremacist organization.

The Mississippi white power group was brought to media attention over the years when they held multiple marches on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest the federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader.

Friday, the group found their homepage, nationalist.org defaced, declaring an anti-fascist message:

“Greetings, fellow Anons and Citizens of the world. It has come to our attention that Fascists and white power groups across the world are causing the spread of hate and ignorance,” the message stated. “A spectre is haunting the Earth, the spectre of Facism [sic].

“For long, we have seen the damage caused by the ideology of white supremacy. We have seen, and participated in, many decades of resistance to white supremacy. We, and others, will never stop fighting fascism and racism wherever it rears its head.”

The rest of the white supremacist website, however, appeared to function normally.

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First Scientology wedding in UK to be streamed live on internet

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The most important thing you’ll see today: Internet censorship world map

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YourAnonNews twitterde op dinsdag 04-03-2014 om 01:08:59 Hope you guys are ready for this... #popcorn. reageer retweet

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YourAnonNews twitterde op dinsdag 04-03-2014 om 01:12:02 doc.mil.ru is down, thanks to #Anonymous. reageer retweet

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YourAnonNews twitterde op dinsdag 04-03-2014 om 01:13:52 could keep on going... 50 .ml.ru sites are down, the whole list: http://t.co/xstyFDWTZ5 reageer retweet

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ioerror twitterde op dinsdag 04-03-2014 om 13:34:50 It looks like #anonymous #italy is taking on #hackingteam: https://twitter.com/OperationItaly/status/440818556901408768 Hilarious times ahead, I'm sure. reageer retweet

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Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking to hacked material dismissed

The US activist-journalist faces 100 years in prison for posting hyperlink to site containing hacked material in chat room

Lawyers acting for Barrett Brown, the activist-journalist facing more than 100 years in prison for having posted a hyperlink to hacked material, have called for his case to be dismissed on grounds that it violates his First Amendment rights to free speech and would chill the internet.

Brown, 32, is being held in Texas ahead of two scheduled trials on 28 April and 19 May. He is charged with a total of 17 counts in three separate indictments relating to his work uncovering online surveillance.

The main allegation against him – spanning 12 counts - is that he posted a hyperlink on an internet chat room to a website containing material hacked from the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, Inc, (Stratfor). The hack included email addresses of 860,000 Stratfor subscribers as well as 60,000 credit card details.

In a legal memorandum lodged with a federal court in Dallas, Texas on Tuesday, Brown’s lawyers argued that the charges against him should be dropped ahead of trial because they were too vague and were in breach of his constitutional right to free speech. By hyperlinking to the hacked material, Brown did not “transfer” the stolen information as he arguably would have done had he embedded the link on his web page, but merely created a path to files that had already been published elsewhere that were in the public domain.

“Republishing a hyperlink does not itself move, convey, select, place or otherwise transfer, a file or document from one location to another... The government only alleges that Mr Brown ‘transferred’ a hyperlink containing directions to where the Stratfor file was already placed by another person when the Stratfor files were uploaded to public web servers,” the motion argues.

Brown’s case is being closely watched by First Amendment lawyers, publishers and activists who fear that a conviction could set a precedent that would criminalise the very act of linking on the internet. His legal team, led by Ahmed Ghappour of the University of Texas law school in Austin, point to a wide range of public activities that could be impacted.

The lawyers list “everyday members of the public desiring to conduct research on the internet, cyber security researchers who wish to analyze and prevent cyber-attacks and journalists who wish to perform routine press activities such as newsgathering and verification of sources. As such, persons of ordinary firmness would certainly experience chilling of their First Amendment rights.”

Brown is a well known figure in hacking and internet freedom circles, having had his writings published in outlets such as Vanity Fair and the Guardian. Until his arrest in September 2012, he ran a collaborative web publication, Project PM, that engaged in issues relating to official leaks and the work of the hacking collective Anonymous.

On 25 December 2011, he posted on his Project PM internet chat room the hyperlink to the Stratfor material for which he was charged nearly a year later. As the legal memo points out, the same hyperlink had already been posted on a separate chat room. By that point the FBI had also been fully aware of the disclosure of confidential information for several days.

Kevin Goldberg, a First Amendment expert who is legal counsel for the American Society of News Editors, said the Brown case raised serious issues about the potential criminalisation of the act of linking. “If we can be held criminally liable for hyperlinking to a website, the implications are profound. Are we to be expected to understand everything about a site before we link to it – that seems overly burdensome.”

He added: “What if I link to a sports outlet that I find interesting, but I don’t realise there’s an element of the page that is defamatory. Am I to be held responsible? That would be very chilling for the internet.”

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Edpilkington twitterde op woensdag 05-03-2014 om 18:30:35 BREAKING in Barrett Brown case - US gov files motion to dismiss own criminal charges vs BB for posting a web hyperlink to hacked material reageer retweet

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Anonymous launches cyber attacks in defense of Ukraine

Hackers have taken down several Russian media website in the past week and alleged attacks on defense infrastructure in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine.

On March 7, the website of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, one of the largest Russian dailies, the paper of record of the Russian government, and the parent company of RBTH, was taken offline by cyber terrorists. In Google, the publication’s title was changed to “pwned by CyberMaidan.”

Rossiyskaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Vladislav Fronin said that the site was obviously the victim of a cyber attack.

“There is no doubt that it was hacked. It was done by professionals who first messed around on the site, and then took down the server. They left their mark – Maydanovskaya sotnya (Maidan100),” Fronin said.

In Russia, the Information Security Center (TsIB) of the FSB and the Bureau of Special Technical Measures (BSTM) of the Ministry of Interior Affairs are responsible for handling cyber threats.

The TsIB fends off foreign intelligence services, extremists, and criminal organizations in cyberspace, and the BSTM mainly investigates computer crimes.

The Kiber sotnya organization, which is suspected in the hacking, posted a denial on its Facebook page stating that while they “stand up to Russian propaganda,” they do not “deserve the credit for hacking the Rossiyskaya Gazeta site.”

Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky Labs, a global leader in cybersecurity, announced that it was investigating the attack at the request of Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

This is the not the first instance of hack attacks on media associated with the Russian government. On Sunday, March 2 the website of TV channel RT was also attacked by cyber terrorists, who posted inflammatory headlines on the homepage.

“They hacked the administrator’s access. Control over the site has been restored,” a spokesperson for the channel said.

On March 6, the hacker group Anonymous posted documents online that allegedly disclosed the dealings of Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport and announced a cyberwar against Russia’s military industry.

According to a message from Anonymous posted on Cyberguerilla.org, the hackers are determined to disrupt the infrastructure of the Russian defense industry as much as possible.

Anonymous writes that they have also managed to infect computers from Oboronprom, Sukhoi design bureau, Gazflot, UC Rusal, Veles-Capital, and others with viruses.

Rosoboronexport refused to comment on the hacking.

Vitaly Kamlyuk, a leading antivirus expert at Kaspersky Labs said that the increasing reliance of companies on technology also increased their vulnerability

“It is clear that our dependence on technology, as well as the enormous computing power of today’s computers, have made us potentially vulnerable to attacks on very diverse targets. We have already seen Anonymous act in other countries. And, despite all the measures that have been taken, cyber attacks will most likely continue in the future,” Kamlyuk said.

IlyaSachkov, CEO of Group-IB, which specializes in cybercrimes, thinks that the hack attacks have already crossed the line into actual cyber warfare.

“The war is already underway, and its main goal is to attack public opinion,” Sachkov said. “Informational resources like social networks, blogs and microblogs are used to create turmoil and confusion.”

But not all experts agree. “It is hardly appropriate to call it a cyberwar, in this case it is more likely hacktivism. This is a form of cyber attack used as a political or social protest. It is much easier to attack a government website or the media than to organize a real protest or demonstration. Hacktivists begin to be particularly active during tense political events. That is what we are seeing now, in light of what is happening in Ukraine,” said Kamlyuk.

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BiellaColeman twitterde op zondag 16-03-2014 om 15:42:08 Ceiling cat, once part of the infinite mythical jest of the collective Internet imagination has been found in Toronto http://t.co/8R3CZVXbNa reageer retweet

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My cat got lost in the ceiling. I hit the roof

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Media Release: Narconon Argentina closed today reported by Anonymous

Earlier today, March 17, 2014, Anonymous Argentina reported that the Scientology drug rehab, Narconon Buenos Aires, Argentina, "has been closed for tax evasion."

Anonymous has been protesting and exposing this destructive cult known as the Church of Scientology since 2009 in Argentina.

The Narconon International link to Narconon in Buenos Aires was down today with only the following visible when clicking on the Website - Argentina Drug Rehab:

[www.narconon.org.ar: Monday 17th of March 2014 11:06:38 PM]

In a lengthy, recorded Skype interview this evening, Anonymous stated that a credible source who recently left Scientology, confirmed the closure was for 'tax evasion'. A phone call to the Scientology ORG in Argentina confirmed Narconon was closed, but no details were given at this time.

Meetings with government authorities are being scheduled to discuss the 'tax evasion' and other matters relating to the closure and possibility of Narconon reopening.

Narconon Buenos Aires was once sponsored by the City Government, Mauricio Macri, "The truth about drugs" in Argentina, with Anonymous responding with: "Again using our money to finance sects, and the illegal practice of medicine that, in addition to violating laws of Mental health-analyzed by legislators and medical specialists."

An article published May 12, 2013, states: "The church, convicted in France for fraud, in Buenos Aires gives "drug" content courses with no scientific basis. They are free because the government pays Macri. It also has a therapeutic community with questionable methods."

"Proudly Syria, an employee of the Church of Scientology, confirms what a huge sign at the entrance to the local church headquarters: "Yes, yes. We are taking courses sponsored by the city government."

However, following the publication of the above article, the government of the city of Buenos Aires stopped financing the courses.

In this photo from left to right is: Gustavo Libardi, Head of Scientology and OSA Argentina, Gloria Martinez from one of their anti-drug front groups "Honrando La Vida" and María Eugenia Vidal, mayor deputy of the City of Buenos Aires last year, when Scientology was lobbying against legalizing drugs in Congress

Anonymous Argentina has a comprehensive website with numerous articles and links to countless Narconon and other stories relating to the abuses inside Scientology and their so-called 'Front-Groups'.

Today, the 'Anonymous Argentina' Facebook page announced the closing of the Buenos Aires Narconon.

Anonymous (a collective group of activists), ex-Scientologists, and the general public have been protesting Scientology since 2008.

On February 10, 2008, thousands of Anonymous joined simultaneous protests at Church of Scientology facilities around the world. Many protesters wore the stylized Guy Fawkes masks popularized by the graphic novel and movie V for Vendetta, in which an anarchist revolutionary battles a totalitarian government; the masks soon became a popular symbol for Anonymous.

Protests, complaints to government and health authorities, investigations, and public outcry have been successful in shuttering numerous Scientology drug rehabs, Narconon, around the globe. Narconon of Georgia, Narconon UK, Narconon Canada, Narconon Alberta, Narconon Trois-Rivieres, and others, have been shut down.

March 11, 2014, saw Yarra Ranges Councillors in Australia, unanimously voted to reject the controversial Scientology's drug rehab, Narconon application that would allow them to shift from East Warburton to Green Gables in La La Ave, Warburton.

As more victims and family members speak out, the real truth about Narconon's fraudulent success rate and horrific abuses are being exposed, with numerous lawsuits for wrongful deaths, fraud, and misrepresentation.

On March 22, 2013, McALESTER Staff Writer, Jeanne LeFlore reported: "Narconon Arrowhead counselors allegedly traded drugs for sex and fraudulently charged a patient's credit card some $14,500, according to allegations in five lawsuits filed Thursday against the facility."

Today's news of Narconon Buenos Aires in Argentina being closed for tax evasion, only adds to Scientology and David Miscavige's nightmare of dwindling revenue and watching their Narconons fall in disgrace like black dominos.

More news to follow once more confirmed details arrive.

Narconon Reviews is a resource website page for a journalist, lawyer, government official, advocate, or individual who is seeking more information about Narconon.

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Anonymous-OS 0.1 : Anonymous Hackers released their own Operating System

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Anonymous Hackers released their own Operating System with name "Anonymous-OS", is Live is an ubuntu-based distribution and created under Ubuntu 11.10 and uses Mate desktop. You can create the LiveUSB with Unetbootin.

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Update: Another Live OS for anonymity available called "Tails". Which is a live CD or live USB that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.It helps you to use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer:all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network or to leave no trace on the computer you're using unless you ask it explicitly, or use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, email and instant messaging. You can Download Tail from Here

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Jake Davis on life beyond LulzSec and hacktivism – Tech Weekly podcast

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Former hacker Jake Davis, known as Topiary, reveals his journey as a teenager towards the darker and illegal realms of the web – and how he is rebuilding his life after prison

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YourAnonNews twitterde op donderdag 20-03-2014 om 15:48:20 Internet in Syria almost entirely down at 12:26 UTC. Only Aleppo link to Turkey remains connected. http://t.co/lYCjAx0xMR (via -... reageer retweet

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ECA_Legion twitterde op donderdag 20-03-2014 om 15:51:58 Syria Internet #offline In retaliation to attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army on the West!#SDoS Nuked reageer retweet

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Video: A message from Anonymous Turkey.

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We demand that the Government of Turkey put an immediate end to censorship.

Greetings World.

This most recent bill you have drafted aims to prevent the development of the people of Turkey. If you have your way, the upcoming generation will be left behind in terms of technology, and will not be able to keep up with the rest of the globe.
This will cause the nation to lag behind most of the developed world.

Actually, it is largely evident that you are nothing more than “pawns.” You intend for this nation to be oppressed and deprived of its most basic freedoms. This country, like all others, needs access to technology in order to prosper and prepare for the future.

We will not let you achieve what we perceive as detrimental objectives.
We are working on delivering the aid which the public requires to get informed.
We are warning you! Censorship is a crime!

Put these drafts back on the shelf! Otherwise you shall meet the full wrath of Anonymous!
Expect us, government of Turkey. Never forget that a free internet equals a free mind.

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How to Chain VPNs for Complete Anonymity

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Big name individual hackers and hacker groups everywhere in the news are getting caught and thrown in jail. Everytime I see something like this happen, I won't lie, I get a little sad. Then I wonder, how are these guys getting caught? If a group like LulzSec, with all the fame and "1337-ness" can get caught, I think my hacker comrades are doing something wrong.

When members of LulzSec started getting captured, it was because proxy and VPN services complied to federal request and handed over the private information of its users. I think this is wrong for a number of reasons—foremost, people should be able to have their own privacy respected. Today's Null Byte will be demonstrating one of the methods around this: Chaining VPNs.

A VPN allows you to connect to a remote network, and over all ports, encrypt and forward your traffic. This also changes your IP address. Chaining VPNs is a tricky task, though there is a simple and uncommon method I know of. Using multiple VPNs together has the huge perk of being completely anonymous.

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dhammicmarxist twitterde op zondag 23-03-2014 om 23:15:52 It appears some Anons took down the Brazilian site for #Monsanto (http://t.co/lxx4QZq9aX). \(^-^)/ #Anonymous reageer retweet

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6 Anti-NSA Technological Innovations That May Just Change the World

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Rather than grovel and beg for the U.S. government to respect our privacy, these innovators have taken matters into their own hands, and their work may change the playing field completely.

People used to assume that the United States government was held in check by the constitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and which demands due process in criminal investigations, but such illusions have evaporated in recent years. It turns out that the NSA considers itself above the law in every respect and feels entitled to spy on anyone anywhere in the world without warrants, and without any real oversight. Understandably these revelations shocked the average citizen who had been conditioned to take the government’s word at face value, and the backlash has been considerable. The recent “Today We Fight Back” campaign to protest the NSA’s surveillance practices shows that public sentiment is in the right place. Whether these kinds of petitions and protests will have any real impact on how the U.S. government operates is questionable (to say the least), however some very smart people have decided not to wait around and find out. Instead they’re focusing on making the NSA’s job impossible. In the process they may fundamentally alter the way the internet operates.

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Put all these technologies together and what we see emerging is a new paradigm of communications where decentralized networks replace massive servers, and where social media giants like Facebook and Google may very well go the way of the dinosaur myspace. If you can’t beat them at their game, make their game irrelevant.

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Turkije blokkeert (na Twitter) ook YouTube

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Aanleiding is volgens Hürriyet een uitgelekte opname van een bespreking op hoog niveau over de burgeroorlog in buurland Syrië.

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YourAnonNews twitterde op donderdag 27-03-2014 om 17:07:38 TOR download site also blocked in #Turkey. Release the mirrors! tormirror.almnet.de/ tor.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de reageer retweet

Anonymous Public DNS door @AnonymousVideo

Anonymous #Op Turkey Twitter Storm 2014

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Anonymous Launches OpAlbuquerque Over Senseless Police Shooting, Scared APD Removes Own Sites

On Mar 24, 2014 The Albuquerque Police Department in the state of New Mexico is coming under fire following the release of video footage taken from the helmet-mounted camera of an officer who shot and killed a man earlier this month for camping. James Boyd, a 38-year-old homeless man thought to be schizophrenic, was shot by the Albuquerque PD on Sunday, March 16.

APD release HelmetCam footage of shooting homeless man dead for illegaly camping

A statement and video was released by Anonymous threatening the Albuquerque police with a Cyber Attack against the websites of the Albuquerque Police Department, and asking the Citizens of Albuquerque to occupy the sites of Albuquerque Police department.

Hundreds of peoples have already protested against the Albuquerque Police for killing the homeless man, which incidentally is the second shooting in the last ten days. Earlier this week Albuquerque Police shot dead a man named Alfred Redwine, saying that Redwine opened fire on the police officers. This is however severely contested by Redwine’s family members who counter claim that he was only holding a cell phone in his hand, not a gun.

Original Statement Released by Anonymous on pastebin reads,

. Greetings city of Albuquerque, we are Anonymous. Recently, a video has been released to the public which shows Albuquerque Police Officers murdering a man in cold blood for ‘illegally camping’. This man, which was schizophrenic, obviously had no intention of hurting these police officers, on the contrary, this man looks as if he is simply attempting to protect himself from visually fierce militarized thugs. Whether this man had a history of crime is irrelevant. We drastically need to address the growing police state that has occupied our country. When will we say no more? How many more citizens will be murdered? Naturally, the APD will attempt to label Anonymous as a terrorist organization for our demands of justice, but the question has to be asked. Who do we terrorize? Is it not a growing police state that terrorizes it’s own citizens? APD you now have the full attention of Anonymous. To the citizens of Albuquerque, it’s time to organize. On March 30th we are asking the citizens of Albuquerque to occupy the APD HQ and occupy the sites of the Albuquerque Police Department. Let them know that your city is not a place for war games against the homeless and the less fortunate. Anonymous grab your cannons and aim them at Albuquerque police websites.

Anonymous has requested their supporters and all the protesters to launch a DDOS attacks against the Albuquerque Police Department’s webpage on the website of the City of Albuquerque (cabq.gov/police) and the Albuquerque Police Department’s site (apdonline.com) on 30th March 2014.

While the operation is yet to be initiated , Surprisingly, the Social media pages including Facebook and Twitter page and some of the websites of Albuquerque Police Department were already.

Today released on KQRE local media the Chief of the APD says they’ve already taken down some of their web sites. Try clicking on their recruiting page and it’s gone. APD has also taken down its Facebook and Twitter pages.

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‘Anonymous International’ Leaks Kremlin's Instructions to Russian TV

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A Russian Internet group called “Anonymous International” has leaked what it claims is a “tyomnik”—a list of prepackaged news stories prepared by the Kremlin for Russia’s central television news stations. The group does not name its source for the document, but the whistleblower says Vladimir Putin’s administration is the author.

The tyomnik (see below for a translation of the first two sections) instructs TV journalists to justify Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea, to laud President Putin’s efforts to develop the region, and even to advertise Crimea’s tourist season, on which the local economy desperately relies. (Russian journalist Ilya Barabanov joked that the talking points for Crimean vacations—“nearby, safe, among our own people”—are oddly similar to the slogan for the Sochi Olympics: “hot, cool, yours.”) The document also coaches television news stations to propagate an apocalyptic description of events in the Ukrainian heartland, where criminals and fascists supposedly run wild.

Russian television has long been infamous for parroting the Kremlin on political issues. It is still rare, however, that the public glimpses this propaganda system’s internal workings. If Anonymous International’s leak is genuine, Russians are getting to peek behind the curtain today.

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Albuquerque police-shootings protest turns into 'mayhem'

• Tear gas used against protesters in New Mexico
• Anonymous warns of cyberattack on city websites

A protest over deadly police shootings turned from peaceful into "mayhem", Albuquerque's mayor said late on Sunday, as officers in riot gear clashed with demonstrators.

People are angry over Albuquerque police's involvement in 37 shootings, 23 of them fatal, since 2010. Critics say that is far too many for a department serving a city of about 555,000.

The US Justice Department has been investigating the department for more than a year, looking into complaints of civil rights violations and allegations of excessive use of force.

Alexander Siderits, 23, said he was participating in the protest because he was "fed up" with how police treat citizens. "It has reached a boiling point, and people just can't take it anymore," he said.

An Associated Press reporter saw gas canisters being thrown and Albuquerque police and Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies charging at the crowds, which had mostly dispersed by late Sunday.

Mayor Richard Berry said one police officer was injured, and at one point protesters trapped police in a vehicle and tried to break the windows, the Albuquerque Journal reported.

Berry didn't know of any arrests, and multiple messages left for the police department were not immediately returned. Video by KRQE-TV showed people being led away in restraints, but it was unclear if those people were arrested.

The gathering came days after a YouTube video emerged threatening retaliation for a recent deadly police shooting.

The video, which bore the logo of the computer hacking collective Anonymous, warned of a cyberattack on city websites and called for the protest march. Albuquerque police said their site had been breached on Sunday afternoon, and police spokesman Simon Drobik confirmed the disruption was due to a cyberattack.

In the shooting on 16 March that led to the YouTube posting, a homeless man was killed on the east side of Albuquerque. The shooting was captured on video and followed a long standoff. The FBI has opened an investigation into the shooting.

Last week, Albuquerque police fatally shot a man at a public housing complex. Authorities said he shot at officers before they returned fire.

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Albuquerque – Law Enforcement Shot Another Unarmed Man and Confiscated Videos *Graphic Warning*

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Today, a US Marshal shot an unarmed man in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Police allege that he had not been meeting his parole requirements since February and was wanted on new charges including 3 counts of child abuse and an account of aggravated battery. The victim is Gilbert Angelo Serrano who is currently in stable condition. The victim’s sister and her mother are currently at the UNM Hospital. Police were refusing to let Serrano’s family visit him in the hospital. Right after the shooting, US marshals started confiscating phones that had pictures and video of the shooting. Several witnesses told KRQE that Serrano was not armed. People also came to protest at the scene after news of the shooting spread online.

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Anonymous started #OpAlbuquerque and #APDProtest in response to the police shootings. The Albuquerque police department took down their own website and social media accounts in response. There is a protest planned for April 2 and another protest planned for April 4.

#OpAlbuquerque - List of Demands

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Anonymous Unmasked

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Since its inception in 2003 as an online anarchist collective, Anonymous has been grabbing headlines with their cyber attacks on government, corporate and various other targets. But who are they? High Times speaks to the greatest hacktivists of our generation.

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Anonymous Publishes 0-Day Exploit For D0xing Police Departments

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Members of Anonymous made a recent posting on Pastebin with the tags #OpPigRoast and #OpAlbuquerque in response to the recent actions of the Albuquerque police department, Snowden revelations, and crackdown on the Occupy protest movement. What is described as a 0-Day exploit for D0xing entire police departments, is a simple legal means for the public to identify Police officers, with the intention to develop a nationwide database for the tracking of misconduct.

. Today we bring you a juicy 0-Day exploit affecting U.S. police forces nationwide. It allows for the simple identification and d0xing of entire police departments. While we have been aware of this exploit since 2002, we have traded it only in private, out of fear of its abuse.

The recent actions of the Albuquerque police department, the revelations of Edward Snowden, and the crackdown on the Occupy movement were all events that brought us to release this exploit publicly.

It is powerful because it will force a sense of accountability that is lacking. It is powerful because it is legal. It is powerful because it sheds light on those who abuse their power.

We can begin to monitor them. We can call them out. We can make them feel as vulnerable as they try to make us feel.

We can turn the tide.

Join us. Activist organizations, act upon this exploit before the government patches it. Community organizations, open government advocates, and freedom lovers stand against any attempt to limit our open and democratic access to government data in the name of false security. Datalovers, seed it far and wide.

Collaborate and share the data received, even with your enemies. Check and see if documents are already online, and if not, put them online yourself.

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Anonymous richt vizier op Israël, maar cyberaanval richt weinig schade aan

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'Wij zullen niet stoppen voordat de politiestaat een vrije staat wordt en Palestina vrij is.' Met die woorden kondigde hackerscollectief Anonymous medio vorige week een grote cyberaanval aan op honderden websites van Israëlische ministeries en organisaties, onder de naam #OpIsrael. Vooralsnog lijkt er weinig schade te zijn aangericht.

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Het is Anonymous waarschijnlijk vooral te doen om het trekken van aandacht. Op Twitter, YouTube en posters werd de aanval van 7 april groot aangekondigd.

Anonymous Operation Israel - April, 7 2014

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Nederland voert per direct downloadverbod in na uitspraak Europees Hof

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Anonymous by Anonymous

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Freedom fighters or cyber-terrorists?

Internationally famous for cyber-attacks against the Church of Scientology, government agencies of the US, Israel, Tunisia, Uganda, and others; child pornography sites; copyright protection agencies; the Westboro Baptist Church; and corporations such as PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, and Sony, who are the hacktivist collective known as ‘Anonymous’? What do they think? What motivates them?

In November 2012, The Imaginary Book Co. invited Anonymous to share their thoughts. We wanted to try and capture something of the essence of an imaginary non-organisation, to preserve it as a time-capsule for the future. We believe we’re witnessing the birth of something important, although perhaps it’s too early to even say what it is yet: a new form of democracy? Time will tell...

We assured Anonymous we would not edit, collate, correct, censor, comment upon, or judge what we received. That’s for others to do. We would simply print. We didn’t know what we’d get, if anything. This is what we got.

Anarchic, chaotic, sensible, deep, shallow, thoughtful, radical, revolutionary, and funny, this book is the first time Anonymous have written in their own words; plenty has been written about them, most of it inaccurate. And who’s to say this book itself isn’t more disinformation? Does it express the hopes and desires and motivations of the entire collective? Undoubtedly not; just a small sample of the thousands of reasons why anyone would associate themselves. Nevertheless, it’s a snapshot of Anonymous, right here and now, at this moment in time. If you want to know where Anonymous is headed, this is the book for you. When your government starts burning books, this is the one they’ll come for first…

Published to coincide with Anonymous’ worldwide “Million Mask March” on November 5th 2013, this 212 page paperback book, measuring 190mm x 250mm (7.72 x 10.08 inches) is packed with images, slogans and texts that explain, not only what Anonymous think, but how to get involved yourself.

All royalties from this book are being donated to FreeAnons, which provides legal and moral support for activists facing prosecution for involvement, alleged or otherwise, in Anonymous actions.