Anonops #16: Snowden leaked it all, who is next?

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ISIS Twitter Accounts Linked Back To UK Government Department | Your News Wire

A group of Anonymous hackers have discovered that a number of ISIS supporters’ social media accounts are being run from UK government departments, in an embarrassing exposure.

Hacking group VandaSec say they have discovered evidence that links three ISIS accounts to the Department of Work and Pensions’ London offices.

Mirror.co.uk reports:

Every computer and mobile phone logs onto the internet using an IP address, which is a type of identification number.

The hacking collective showed Mirror Online details of the IP addresses used by a trio of separate digital jihadis to access Twitter accounts, which were then used to carry out online recruitment and propaganda campaigns.

At first glance, the IP addresses seem to be based in Saudi Arabia, but upon further inspection using specialist tools they appeared to link back to the DWP.

“Don’t you think that’s strange?” one of the hackers asked Mirror Online. “We traced these accounts back to London, the home of the British intelligence services.”

VandaSec’s work has sparked wild rumours suggesting someone inside the DWP is running ISIS-supporting accounts, or they were created by intelligence services as a honeypot to trap wannabe jihadis.

However, when Mirror Online traced the IP addresses obtained by VandaSec, we found they actually pointed to a series of unpublicised transactions between Britain and Saudi Arabia.

We learned that the British government sold on a large number of IP addresses to two Saudi Arabian firms.

After the sale completed in October of this year, they were used by extremists to spread their message of hate.

Although the DWP denied owning the IP addresses at first, Jamie Turner, an expert from a firm called PCA Predict, discovered a record of the sale of IP addresses, and found a large number were transferred to Saudi Arabia in October of this year.

He told us it was likely the IP addresses could still be traced back to the DWP because records of the addresses had not yet been fully updated.

The Cabinet Office has now admitted to selling the IP addresses on to Saudi Telecom and the Saudi-based Mobile Telecommunications Company earlier this year as part of a wider drive to get rid of a large number of the DWP’s IP addresses.

It said the British government can have no control over how these addresses are used after the sale.

A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: “The government owns millions of unused IP addresses which we are selling to get a good return for hardworking taxpayers.

“We have sold a number of these addresses to telecoms companies both in the UK and internationally to allow their customers to connect to the internet.

“We think carefully about which companies we sell addresses to, but how their customers use this internet connection is beyond our control.”

The government did not reveal how much money was made from selling the IP addresses to the pair of Saudi firms, because it regards this information as commercially sensitive.
Bron: yournewswire.com

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Anonymous Shuts Down Almost All Icelandic Gov't Websites For 13 Hours - The Reykjavik Grapevine

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Late last night, hacktivist group Anonymous launched another DDOS attack in their #OpWhales campaign. The group effectively shut down every ministry’s website, with the exception of the Ministry of Welfare. RÚV reports these sites were offline for about 13 hours.

Although the sites are back online, Anonymous posted a video, which you can see below, promising that this latest attack is only the beginning.

The #OpWhales tag on Twitter also backs this up, as their official count vows to continue operations until whaling is ceased:

— Anonymous (@TeamRektIT) November 27, 2015

In addition to government websites, Anonymous also hit HB Grandi, the company which conducts fin whale hunting in Iceland:

— Anonymous (@_RektFaggot_) November 8, 2015

Anonymous is also apparently reaching out to individual members of parliament, as Social Democrat MP Katrín Júlíusdóttir – who opposes whale hunting – took to Twitter to express her frustration, saying, “Getting endless spam-tweets against whaling. Tiresome. I have only one thing to say: You are preaching to the choir, people!”:

— Katrín Júlíusdóttir (@katrinjul) November 28, 2015

While the campaign targets the hunting of any whales, Anonymous objects in particular to the hunting of fin whales. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has classified fin whales as endangered, with a moratorium put in place on the breed by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986.

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Akureyri In The Midst Of Super-Winter

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Rogue Merchants Opening Gates On Laugavegur

Americans On Pinterest Sure Love Iceland

Stunning Geothermal Area To Be Ruined For Geothermal Drilling

As the year draws to a close, the tourism industry in Iceland is expecting a great many visitors to the

As the year draws to a close, the tourism industry in Iceland is expecting a great many visitors to the

There is no need to worry about political correctness taking away the simple pleasure of the “Man of the Year” award as

There is no need to worry about political correctness taking away the simple pleasure of the “Man of the Year” award as

News has surfaced that a group of private investors are looking into the possibilities of building a high-speed rail link

News has surfaced that a group of private investors are looking into the possibilities of building a high-speed rail link

Over the past eight years, Iceland has dropped from #1 to #16 on the Human Development Index, conducted by the

Over the past eight years, Iceland has dropped from #1 to #16 on the Human Development Index, conducted by the

A decision was finally been made on what to name the lava field wrought by the Holuhraun eruption: Holuhraun. Vísir

A decision was finally been made on what to name the lava field wrought by the Holuhraun eruption: Holuhraun. Vísir

Just when you were getting used to the mild weather, another storm is expected to hit Iceland tomorrow. The Icelandic

Just when you were getting used to the mild weather, another storm is expected to hit Iceland tomorrow. The Icelandic

Every happy hour in town in your pocket.

What should you eat in Reykjavík? Shake your phone, and we will recommend you something.
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Anonymous Hacks Asia Pacific Telecommunity Against Internet Censorship in Asia

Anonymous hacker collective has attacked the official website of Asia Pacific telecommunity and defaced it in protest against growing plans for internet censorship in Asia.

The hackers gained access of the website’s admin panel (running Drupal) and from there, leaked all the data stored on the website along with defacing the site with one of their own pages.

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Recently, China's president (Xi Jinping), in a World Internet conference, emphasized on censorship being the right of every country.

In the same conference, the organization responsible for managing domain names, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) promised full support in working on the new internet plan in which Chinese officials will have stronger say on how the organization works.

ICANN will be taking over IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) which is currently run by the US government and with that move Chinese government will be able to monitor the internet all around the world. This move will certainly make internet users nervous.


Bron: www.hackread.com

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Anonymous celebrates as cyberattacks hit Turkey's banks

A new wave of cyberattacks slammed into Turkey's leading financial institutions this week, as the country's Internet continues to buckle under the pressure of a massive DDoS attack.

Anonymous has claimed responsibility for the massive DDoS attack that took down the Turkish Domain Name System—its address book for the Internet—last week. The hacktivist collective had also threatened the government with further attacks, though it is believed that another group is responsible.

Turkish leftist hacker group RedHack claimed responsibility for the attack on Turkey's banks. RedHack's brief message had a reference to the popular series Mr. Robot.

Translation: “Anyone has a credit debt? ”

On Thursday afternoon, Turkish time, worried customers filled up call centers and social media accounts of Turkish banks, including the country's leading private bank Garanti, when they were unable to access online banking services:


An unnamed banking executive told daily Habertürk: “We are looking into the issues with access. We will make a statement as soon as possible.” The support accounts of Garanti, İş Bank, and Ak Bank did not respond for a comment.

Earlier on Thursday, an unnamed ministry official told daily Sözcü that the Communication Ministry website was down because of “broken cables,” however, the ministry later released a statement rejecting reports of a cyber attack, claiming that the downtime was due to a “planned network upgrade:”

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Recently Bought a Windows Computer? Microsoft Probably Has Your Encryption Key

One of the excellent features of new Windows devices is that disk encryption is built-in and turned on by default, protecting your data in case your device is lost or stolen. But what is less well-known is that, if you are like most users and login to Windows 10 using your Microsoft account, your computer automatically uploaded a copy of your recovery key – which can be used to unlock your encrypted disk – to Microsoft’s servers, probably without your knowledge and without an option to opt-out.

During the “crypto wars” of the nineties, the National Security Agency developed an encryption backdoor technology – endorsed and promoted by the Clinton administration – called the Clipper chip, which they hoped telecom companies would use to sell backdoored crypto phones. Essentially, every phone with a Clipper chip would come with an encryption key, but the government would also get a copy of that key – this is known as key escrow – with the promise to only use it in response to a valid warrant. But due to public outcry and the availability of encryption tools like PGP, which the government didn’t control, the Clipper chip program ceased to be relevant by 1996. (Today, most phone calls still aren’t encrypted. You can use the free, open source, backdoorless Signal app to make encrypted calls.)

The fact that new Windows devices require users to backup their recovery key on Microsoft’s servers is remarkably similar to a key escrow system, but with an important difference. Users can choose to delete recovery keys from their Microsoft accounts (you can skip to the bottom of this article to learn how) – something that people never had the option to do with the Clipper chip system. But they can only delete it after they’ve already uploaded it to the cloud.

Bron: theintercept.com

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Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42 | Ars Technica

Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has died at the age of 42. His death, announced in a blog post by Docker CEO Ben Golub, came after an apparent encounter with police and a statement posted on Murdock's Twitter feed that he was going to commit suicide, though no cause of his death has been given.

Paul Tagliamonte, a Debian developer and member of the Debian FTP Team who contributed to a Debian Project memorial post to Murdock, told Ars:

Debian was one of the first operating systems I've ever used, starting with Debian 2.2 ("woody") in middle school. Debian has shaped, in the most literal and direct way, the course of my life. Ian was a figure I looked up to, a central figure in defining the Debian Community, Social Contract, the Debian Free Software Guidelines, and the Open Source Initiative.With his passing, I can only hope he's found peace, reflect on the things he was able to do for the world, and think about the ways in which he's touched my life.

Murdock, born in Germany in 1973, founded Debian in 1993 while studying computer science at Purdue University. The distribution gets its name from the combination of his name and that of his then-girlfriend Deborah Lynn. The pair married and had two children; they divorced in 2007.

Murdock's Debian Manifesto railed at the poor software maintenance of other Linux distributions of the time—and that of Softlanding Linux System (SLS) in particular, bemoaning the lack of attention developers gave to distributions and what he saw as the big cash grabs being made by would-be commercial Linux developers. He outlined Debian's modular architecture approach as well as its adherence to free software philosophy.

"The time has come to concentrate on the future of Linux rather than on the destructive goal of enriching oneself at the expense of the entire Linux community and its future," Murdock wrote in the Manifesto. "The development and distribution of Debian may not be the answer to the problems that I have outlined in the Manifesto, but I hope that it will at least attract enough attention to these problems to allow them to be solved."

After earning his bachelor of science from Purdue in 1996, Murdock became chief technology officer of the Linux Foundation. In 2003, he brought his experience with Debian to Sun, where he was vice president of emerging platforms. He led Project Indiana, the effort that created the OpenSolaris operating system, which he described in a 2007 interview as "taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and providing that for Solaris as well." But three years later, after Sun was acquired by Oracle, the plug was pulled on OpenSolaris in favor of a new proprietary version.

Simon Phipps, who led the open source effort at Sun alongside Murdock and worked (though at separate times from Murdock) at the Open Source Initiative, where Murdock was founding secretary, told Ars Murdock "was always energetic, enthusiastic, pragmatic and charming. I and my team [at Sun] appreciated his insight and activity as well as enjoying his company. I've been contacting them, and we are all devastated by his untimely loss."

After the Oracle acquisition, Murdock resigned his position at Sun. In 2011, he went back to Indiana to join the cloud software company ExactTarget as its vice president of platform and developer community. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2013 and became Salesforce Marketing Cloud. In November, he left the company to join Docker in San Francisco.

On Monday at 2:13pm Eastern Time, Murdock apparently posted that he was going to kill himself:

I'm committing suicide tonight…do not intervene as I have many stories to tell and do not want them to die with me #debian #runnerkrysty67

Also on Monday, Murdock wrote a string of posts that indicate he had a confrontation with police. Inquiries to the San Francisco Police Department by Ars went unanswered. Update: Public records indicate Murdock was arrested on December 27 and released on bail by the San Francisco County Sheriff's Department, but no details were available on the charges.

Golub wrote in his post that "Ian’s family has requested that well-wishers and press respect their privacy and direct all inquiries through Docker."

Ars will update this story with further details as they become available.

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Sean Gallagher / Sean is Ars Technica's IT Editor. A former Navy officer, systems administrator, and network systems integrator with 20 years of IT journalism experience, he lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.

Bron: arstechnica.com

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Op vrijdag 1 januari 2016 17:02 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:
Hopelijk wordt nog duidelijk waarom hij zelfmoord pleegde. We moeten als maatschappij meer eraan doen om te voorkomen dat mensen ongelukkig worden.

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Op zaterdag 2 januari 2016 14:29 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:

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Dat is nog te dun om ervan uit te gaan dat hij is uitgeschakeld, het geeft wel voldoende aanleiding om het kritisch te volgen. Een mix zou ook mogelijk zijn: ze hebben hem het leven zuur gemaakt omdat hij het een en ander wou onthullen of iets dergelijks en hierdoor heeft hij er zelf een einde aan gemaakt.

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Aaron Swartz

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Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer and Internet hacktivist. He was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS[3] and the Markdown publishing format,[4] the organization Creative Commons,[5] the website framework web.py[6] and the social news site, Reddit, in which he became a partner after its merger with his company, Infogami.[i] He committed suicide while under federal indictment for data-theft, a prosecution that was characterized by his family as being "the product of a criminal-justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach".[7].

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Op zaterdag 2 januari 2016 15:51 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:

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Ik geloof direct dat ze paardenmiddelen inzetten voor iets kleins (als het al strafbaar was) omdat ze hem in het vizier hadden maar waarom?

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Anonymous Nailed 2015

In 2015, the hackers collective Anonymous probably garnered maximum headlines and initiated an array of top trending hashtags, so it can be said that the group had a pretty enjoyable yet hectic year.

It was this year that Anonymous showed its disapproval of various personalities, policies and trends including the militant terrorist group Daesh or ISIS.

Careful analysis suggests that Anonymous’ strategy was shifted from satisfying personal grudges to targeting universal issues of public interest.

Anonymous used the Internet and social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook quite convincingly to compel people around the world to rally against a particular issue.

Such as, when Charlie Hebdo magazine was attacked and the Paris attack in November, Anonymous staged social media war to disrupt and outdo the ISIS via “Ops.”

Let’s find out more about the most prominent campaigns of Anonymous:

Anonymous released a video on YouTube soon after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people were killed. The masked man warned ISIS with this statement:

“We are fighting in memory of those innocent people who fought for freedom of expression.”

And, post the Paris attack that shocked the world and deprived over 130 innocent people of their lives, Anonymous launched another assault online with hashtags like #OpISIS and #OpParis.

A “war” of sorts was officially declared by the group against ISIS and as per the group’s claim, they were able to successfully take down around 20,000 Twitter accounts that were under use of ISIS for recruitment and propaganda purposes.

However, social-media users weren’t much satisfied with these efforts because it was always possible to open new accounts or communicate with potential targets through secure apps.

One such dissatisfied social media watcher is Gabrielle Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University in Montreal, who gave the following statement after the Paris attacks:

“You look at what is happening with this current iteration (of Anonymous’s operations) and you see that it doesn’t have much of an effect, which has nothing to do with Anonymous, per se, and more to do with the fact that ISIS has grabbed and secured global media attention in so many channels #OpISIS (which followed ‘Charlie Hebdo’) had a better track record as opposed to #OpParis because they had been at it longer and that was a smaller team of people.”

In December 2015, Anonymous continued its efforts to dethrone ISIS from social media by declaring Dec 11 as the “Troll ISIS Day,” and urged users to post mocking content saying: “Do not think you have to be a part of Anonymous, anyone can do this and does not require any special skills.”

Anonymous was also able to deface ISIS’s official website and place a viagra advert on its main page.

However, this strategy backfired as the campaign wasn’t as effective and all it could produce was some culturally insensitive posts that were down right derogatory for some communities.

Coleman acknowledged this fact as well by saying:

“You know there are a lot of people within Anonymous who were excited about and also dreading it (Troll ISIS Day). They were dreading it knowing that a lot of material would be offensive to Muslims. One of the things I’m looking out for is memes and images that set out to truly offend ISIS itself and not Muslims as a whole.”

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was also not spared for being so outspoken.

This came as no surprise since historically, Anonymous goes after larger-than-life organizations and popular personalities who it deems offensive to its philosophy in any way.

An example would be the group’s overwhelmingly strong dislike for the Church of Scientology, which compelled the group to conduct a spam campaign and rigging search engine results to show Evil Cult when Scientology was searched.

And who else could be as controversial and provocative than Donald Trump in 2015?

Therefore, when Trump proposed a ban on Muslims from entering the US, the war was declared again on him by Anonymous and the hashtag #OpTrump was generated to critique the candidate openly.

Soon after, Reuters reported that the website of Trump Tower New York was hacked and temporarily down.

The much-reviled group Ku Klux Klan also received hammering from ISIS this year.

The group hacked KKK’s twitter account and released the names of around a thousand potential members of the KKK citing that some members of the white supremacist group fed this information to Anonymous.

Post the information dump, another leak followed but this time, it prompted a backlash since the list of names included baseless accusations against various individuals including Mayor Jim Gray and Kentucky.

The final list also contained a message from Anonymous that read:

“Operation KKK will, in part, spark a bit of constructive dialogue about race, racism, racial terror, and freedom of expression, across group lines.”

“We consider this data dump as a form of resistance against the violence and intimidation tactics leveraged against the public by various members of the Ku Klux Klan group throughout history.”

Anonymous conducted several cyber attacks on Iceland and Japanese government websites in order to raise awareness against the ongoing Dolphin and Whale killings.

The hacktivist group conducted DDoS attacks on websites belong to the Iceland government and forced each and every government owned site to stay offline for at least 13 hours. The operation is still underway with #OpWhales.

Anonymous also carried out a series of cyber attacks against the Japanese government and defaced the Japanese PM’s site to register protest against whale hunt. The hacktivists also shut down the websites for two major Japanese airports for operation OpKillingBay.

Operation OpBeast was one of the highly praised operations Anonymous conducted in 2015. The operation’s main purpose was to raise awareness against x-rated animal abuse sites and shut them down. Anonymous was successful in deleting several such forums and websites. The operation forced some countries to put a ban on animal abuse sites.

Want to know more about Anonymous operations? Here is a list of 11 ongoing operations we suggest everyone should know about.

_{Waqas Amir is a Dubai based cybersecurity journalist with a passion for covering latest happenings in cyber security and tech world. In addition to being the founder of this website, Waqas is also into gaming, reading and investigative journalism.}


Bron: www.hackread.com

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Op zaterdag 2 januari 2016 15:51 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:

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Ik geloof direct dat ze paardenmiddelen inzetten voor iets kleins (als het al strafbaar was) omdat ze hem in het vizier hadden maar waarom?

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Aaron Swartz's Quest to Keep Corporations From Privatizing the Internet

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Aaron Swartz was an outspoken computer genius with a strong streak for justice until the US government hounded him to his death. Bittersweet and "impossibly brilliant," The Boy Who Could Change the World collects more than a decade of Swartz's essays on topics from intellectual property and politics to media and pop culture. Order your copy of the book today by making a donation to Truthout!

The following is an interview with Mako Hill, one of the editors of the writings of the late Aaron Swartz. Hill was also Swartz's colleague and friend.

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Anonymous hacks Thai police sites over Burmese jailings for British backpacker murders | World news | The Guardian

International cyber activists call for tourists to boycott Thailand following widely condemned police investigation

The hacking collective Anonymous has declared war on the Thai police, taking down multiple websites in protest against what it said was the scapegoating of two Burmese men convicting of killing two British backpackers on Koh Tao island.

The cyber activist group posted links to 15 Thai police websites, including the Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau, and published several Thai police email addresses, asking its members to hack them.

On Wednesday, seven of the websites were down and two links showed a black screen with “Failed Law. We want Justice. #BoycottThailand” written in white text.

The links also showed Anonymous’s signature mask, a white stylised Guy Fawkes face, under text saying “Blink hacker group”. Anonymous is a loose international network and works with multiple hacking organisations.

Related: British backpacker murder case that put Thailand on trial

Migrant bar workers Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were sentenced to death on 24 December for the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge, 23, from Norfolk, and the murder of 24-year-old David Miller, from Jersey, in September 2014.

The case drew the attention of rights groups who warned that migrants had previously been falsely accused of crimes in Thailand. The pair initially confessed to the murder but later rescinded their statements, saying they had been tortured by police to admit to the brutal beach attack.

The police, who deny any wrongdoing, were also accused by the defence team of mishandling crucial DNA evidence.

In a 37-minute video posted on its Facebook page, Anonymous said the Thai police “would rather blame foreigners or migrants for such crimes so as to protect their tourism industry than accuse their own Thai locals, that may deter tourists from choosing Thailand as their holiday destination”.

It cited past murder cases in Thailand involving foreigners in which Thai police first accused non-Thais who were later acquitted.

“Anonymous has found that Thai police, lie, fabricate evidence, do poor police investigating, contaminate crime scenes, loose DNA and evidence, accuse non-Thai nationals” and “refuse to believe that their own Thai locals are responsible for any wrongdoing”, a masked figure said in the video.

“We do not like the facts in this recent Koh Tao case and we do not believe the Thai court has convicted the actual murderers,” the figure said, speaking in a digitised voice.

It added that Anonymous dissuades foreigners from visiting the south-east Asian nation until “Thai police make many changes in the way they handle rape and murder cases involving foreigners or migrants and show more respect to deceased victims.”

Police spokesman Dechnarong Suticharnbancha told the local Khaosod news website that the police were working to track down the hackers.

“Even if the source of attack was from abroad, they will be convicted eventually,” he said. “It’s not a problem. Thai police are excellent.”

The defence team plans to apply to the appeals court to commute the sentence and, if they are unsuccessful, can take their case to the supreme court. The verdict sparked protests outside the Thai embassy in the Myanmar city of Yangon.

Miller’s family said after the sentencing they believed the police investigation and forensic work “was not the so-called shambles it was made out to be” and said justice was delivered.

The Witheridge family neither supported nor condemned the sentencing. They said in a statement at the time: “We have had to endure a lot of painful and confusing information. We now need time, as a family, to digest the outcome of the trial and figure out the most appropriate way to tell our story.”
Bron: www.theguardian.com

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Thai court to sue anonymous hackers who shut down government websites | Prachatai English

The Thai Court of Justice plans to press charges against anonymous hackers who took down hundreds of websites of the Thai courts in protest against the conviction of two Burmese migrant workers for the murder of two British backpackers on Ko Tao Island.

On Wednesday, 13 January 2016, Suebpong Sripongkul, spokesperson of Thailand’s Court of Justice (CoJ), announced that the Thai authorities will carry out an investigation and press charges against a group of anonymous hackers who on Tuesday night downed at least 297 sites, including Appeal and Criminal Court websites.

Once hacked, the well-known white mask of the anonymous group appeared on the attacked sites along with messages saying “BLINK HACKER GROUP”, and “Failed Law We Want Justice ! # Boycott Thailand”.

The Blink Hacker Group is believed to be associated with a hacker group called Anonymous Myanmar Hacker.

Members of the Facebook group called We are Anonymous on Wednesday posted a message saying that ‪#‎Anonymous was shutting down all Thai Court of Justice websites in protest over the ‪#‎KohTao murder verdict. #Anonymous was supporting the campaign to ask tourists to boycott Thailand "until such time changes are made with the way Thai police handle investigations involving foreign tourists."

The group also claimed that they are planning to release “a huge leak of all Thai officials involved in corruption in Thai Courts.”

Previously, on January 4, the same group of anonymous hackers took credit for carrying out similar online attacks on at least 14 websites associated with the Royal Thai Police.

Despite the attack which caused the CoJ websites to go blank, the main functions of the CoJ agencies are still intact.

According to Suebpong, the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) has tracked down about 10 IP addresses of the alleged attackers which belong to overseas internet users.

He said that the anonymous attackers might face charges under Articles 10 and 12 of the 2007 Computer Crime Act (CCA) for causing disturbances in the computer systems of public agencies.

Article 10 of the CCA sets five years’ imprisonment, a fine of up to 100,000 baht or both as the penalty for causing online disturbances while Article 12 of the CCA stipulates that those who attack the computer systems of state agencies face up to 15 years of jail term, a fine of up to 300,000 baht or both.

On 14 December 2015, Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, two Burmese migrants, were convicted of rape and murder and were handed death sentences.

The Thai court cited DNA evidence as the primary evidence in the case. However, the ruling was much criticised by those who believe the two migrant workers are scapegoats.

Earlier this week, Laura Witheridge, sister of one of the the Ko Tao murder victims, Hannah Witheridge, posted a message on her Facebook profile saying that the Thai police are corrupt and that their investigation leading to the conviction of the two Burmese migrants was “bungled.”

After the message was posted, Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda, the Royal Thai Police Chief, threatened to file lawsuits against Laura for defaming the Thai police.

Bron: prachatai.org

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Anonymous Releases Court Data as Police Vow to Catch Hackers

^{By Sasiwan Mokkhasen
Staff Reporter}.


BANGKOK — Police said today they would go after the hacker collective known as Anonymous after its members took down hundreds of court websites and released sensitive data it claimed to have obtained.

Following Wednesday’s massive Anonymous attack in protest of the outcome of the Koh Tao murders trial, police spokesman Dechnarong Suticharnbancha said the Technology Crime Suppression Division would track down the self-described hacktivists for prosecution.

He acknowledged police still have no clue where the attacks originated from.

Courts spokesman Suebpong Sripongkul said Wednesday that at least 10 IP addresses linked to the attacks from outside the country were identified.

Statements posted online to accounts used by members of Anonymous indicated the attacks were part of a campaign to call attention to corruption in Thailand’s justice system after two Myanmar men were found guilty and sentenced to die for the deaths of two Britons on Koh Tao in September 2014.

Some sites were accessible while others remained offline Thursday. Suebpong said such attacks would be ineffective.

“The Court of Justice would like to say that the computer attack cannot change the judgment, and the lawful verdict issued by the court,” he said.

Those participating in Anonymous campaigns are more sympathetic volunteers than “members,” and typically employ sophisticated methods to cover their tracks. It was unclear how police intended to bring them to justice.



Data Dump

The Blink Hacker Group associated with Anonymous last night leaked a large, 1GB data file said to contain internal information stolen during the attack including personal details about court officials.

“We hacked in Thai Justice Net in order to find some of confidential files after police sites attacked,” they wrote “Pages can be restored by any mins...our target is just to take down their Justice Net and get their information.”

A brief review of the database found what appears to be genuine records and telephone numbers for personnel and judges.

Dechnarong said they believe the hackers were the same who previously brought down a number of police websites on Jan. 4.

Junta deputy chairman Pravit Wongsuwan reportedly ordered the Royal Thai Police to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Asked this morning whether more money should be budgeted for securing government websites, Pravit said, “Sure.”



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Breaking: Anonymous Just Announced Who They Support For President…It’s NOT Who You’d Expect! – USA Newsflash

The hacker group Anonymous just announced their choice for the next president of the United States and it is not Donald Trump! The hacker group is supporting Bernie Sanders!

In their article, the group gives out 10 reasons why Bernie Sanders deserves more coverage from the mainstream media and, ultimately, your vote:

1) He supports a new Glass Steagall act- hell he even detailed 5 reasons explaining why it’s important; passed over 80 years ago, it had prevented commercial banks from participating in investment banking. It was repealed in 1999, and banks used this new-found ability to plunder the savings of their depositors by making extremely risky “investments” for their own profit. This is the primary reason for the 2008 financial crisis, and the reason why the big banks had to be bailed out by taxpayers. Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to reinstate Glass-Steagall while Trump wants regulations on Wall Street to be weakened.

2) He wants to break up the big banks; no more of this “too big to fail” nonsense- he also voted against the bailout of Wall Street. Hillary, on the other hand, receives money and support from Wall Street. She has also voted multiple times for the bailout despite “evolving” on the issue. Trump wants to maintain the size of the big banks. He also wanted to bail out the banks.

3) Sanders opposed NAFTA and the TPP: two “trade” agreements, the first causing the loss of up to a million jobs in America and the second a formerly-top-secret agreement which would hand sweeping powers to corporations. Hillary was for the TPP and supported it a dozen times- only recently has she “evolved” on the matter. Trump hates the TPP too… but only because he thinks China would somehowbenefit from it.

4) For his entire political career Sanders has stood against the for-profit prison industrial complex and the practice of over-criminalization. This issue has had Clinton “evolving” towards prison reform since… a few months back… but before entering her higher form, she lobbied in 1994 for a crime law that had increasedprison funding and sentences. Trump wants to “get a lot tougher” on crime, despite police killings being the highest in two decades and despite the fact that violent crime is also down.

5) Sanders voted against the Iraq War, and is against a war with Russia. Clinton voted for the Iraq War- she also has a neoconservative war-mongering foreign policy. Most Republican candidates, besides Rand Paul, do not seem averse to war. Trump’s claim that he opposed Iraq’s invasion at the time it was debated is baseless, though he too is against conflict with Russia; China’s his whipping boy.

6) Sanders voted twice against the Patriot Act, which allowed widespread mass surveillance to be used against the American public. Hillary voted for it twice and Trump is all for reauthorizing it.

7) Sanders doesn’t degrade racial and religious minorities, nor does he inflame the majority- he comes right out and tells us that the elite are to blame. He said this at a rally: “they’re always playing one group against another. Rich got richer — everybody else was fighting each other. Our job is to build a nation in which we all stand together”. Hillary has an “abysmal” racial justice record and Trump… well, he’s said enough about that topic to fill a phone book.

8) Sanders wants to decriminalize the use of marijuana. Clinton is against decriminalizing it and Trump seems to favor legalizing it for medical uses.

9) Bernie refuses to take money from the super rich… or the corporations. Hillary receives money from everyone who has it- bankers, corporations… she doesn’t discriminate. Trump is already one of the super richand admitted that he has manipulated the system for his own benefit.

10) The corporate mainstream media hates Bernie and censors him, attempting to make it look like he endorses Hillary. Trump gets WAY more mainstream coverage than Bernie despite both polling similarly. If you want to choose someone who wasn’t handpicked for you, then Bernie is your best best.
Bonus!) Whenever someone tries to come up with a top ten list NOT to vote for Bernie… it comes out convincing MORE people to vote for him- just read those top comments. On the other hand, one of the most popular search result for the top ten reasons TO vote for Trump is satirical.

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why would you support a man that has a strong stance on mandatory (forced) vaccinations? Sanders is a fucking pharma rat and idgaf who goes against me… none of those worthless people up there are going to change the country….. Sanders was stated as saying Children and infants that are not vaccinated are killers…. so fuck him

Well you’re an idiot.

People who don’t vaccinate allow defeated diseases to come roaring back, endangering the small percentage of people who either can’t be vaccinated or for who vaccines are ineffective. In short: by not vaccinating their children they are effectively culpable for the deaths they cause. If not legally, then morally. We live in a plural society and while rugged individualism may sound keen in theory it doesn’t work in a world where we’re all so interconnected. In fact it never has for our species since our social nature has been an integral part of our evolution.

yes, but even this liberal democrat who fully agrees with you doesn’t believe in forced inoculations. We are not a Cuba or the soviet union or Nazi Germany. There are some children who should not be inoculated.
My problem with Bernie is his position on gun control and immigration. Voting to allow gun manufacturers and dealers to be protected from lawsuits is just heinous. Voting to send Maine and Vermont’s nuclear waste to a small Spanish speaking town on the Mexican border in TX is also heinous.

Becoming inoculated against commonly spread social bacteria and disease is GOOD FOR EVERYBODY. It protects the greatest number of people when the greatest number of people are protected. See? It is a BENEFIT TO SOCIETY – keeps everybody healthier so SOCIETY DOESN’T SPEND AS MANY RESOURCES CARING FOR THE ILL!

Bernie Sanders has integrity. He has not taken one single cent from corporations for his campaign coffers. He will be the people’s President and even more importantly, his intelligence and experience make him the most viable candidate!

I beg to differ, Sanders has taken big bucks from the NRA, FOR YEARS . HE HAS HIS HAND DIRTY FROM BIG OIL AND DEFENSE CONTRACTORS LIKE THOSE PRODUCING THE F35 jet in his backyard. This man filters campaign finace money into illegal payments. The only reason for his going on the dem ticket is to steal the funding tat xemocrats raised to support our candidates!

you do know that campaign finance is public record right? Show me the filings!

I mistakenly tried to comment on different comments. to comment on the article would only to tell the author that it is agreeable. I’ll remit my opinions.

Immunization is not necessarily a communistic concept. Grow up fool.

anonymous is a group of highly intelligent individuals. this should not come as a surprise to anyone…

Absurdly dumb clickbait article. It’s exactly who I’d expect and to suggest they’d ever support a racist fascist like Trump shows a complete lack of understanding in what Anonymous is about.

Anonymous is a Communist activist group! I never knew that before. Thanks for the information.

It all makes sense now, why they talk and talk, but never really do anything that matters. Typical communist “community organizing”. Incite others to do your dirty work with incendiary propaganda so you can remain unscathed by the repercussions.

Yea and sanders supports socialism, which is a prettier way of saying communism. It’s just the first step into transitioning this society into communism by putting sanders in office….pfff mandatory vaccines yea…a lot of free thinking there. Let’s raise taxes and turn all healthcare and education over to the government…you know consididering the government doesn’t have enough control over us already..

uhm…the only people who think socialism is a nicer way of saying communism are the ignorant and intellectually challenged. It’s called a dictionary. Look into it. Don’t go through life showing the work how ignorant and lazy you are.

Read your bible, Nick. Jesus was a socialist before communis
ion was ever heard of.

I assure you Anonymous does not support Donald Trump. If you need any further proof, look up #OpTrump. You are spreading false videos with no association to Anonymous, as anyone can make videos, to further your own agenda. This article is nothing more than clickbait.

Read the article. “The hacker group Anonymous just announced their choice for the next president of the United States and it is NOT Donald Trump! The hacker group is supporting Bernie Sanders!”

Everyone scared of socialism needs to stop calling the police dept, the fire dept, and stop sending their kids to public schools.

True ideological socialism isnt horrible.
But the socialism most people relate to are very poor examples. Cuba was not a socialist society regardless of what their government said.
The ussr never made it to a true socialist or even a true communist society.
Communism is about community first not under government control the people yield all the power and decide everything equally.
Socialism is an ideology that the society and government have equal say in everything and both must fully agree on any steps taken.
Socialism and communism is not about ultimate government control but it is extremely hard to accomplish because its biggest barricade is getting the government to give up all control of how the country is run.
Corruption is the biggest obstacle that socialism and communism has always encountered and in my opinion always will. Power hungry and corrupt politicians are not simply going to yield their powers to rule for the sake of an equality based society which is why it is a very slippery slope to try to convert the United States into a socialist government. A few do it with some success France Canada in fact most European countries are socialist country with a capitalist economy. It is possible but very difficult to achieve.

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BREAKING: Oregon Militia Teams Up With Anonymous. 1/15/16 Burns,OR Meeting Information | Press Releases

In a previous article titled ”Oregon Breaking News: Anonymous Supports. The US Government Doesn’t“, I discussed the basics of what is happening at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. In that article, I also shared an Anonymous video that was posted to a YouTube Account that has since been removed. In the video the collective discussed their support for the uprising while not wholeheartedly agreeing with all of the tactics used to implement the uprising.

While they were generally critical of the upriser’s techniques, the Anonymous collective primarily tackled the major looming issue of the overreaching actions being taken by the federal agency known as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

Their claims are that the BLM has given the ranchers no option but to take these drastic measures because of their bully tactics and downright illegal unconstitutional activity that, as a catalyst, is crippling and economically suffocating small towns and families throughout the west.

As promised, we were able to secure an interview with folks that have been on the ground in Oregon during these intense last two weeks. Through my new platform ”The All Rights Matter (#ARM) Show” hosted by Anon Radio Live we were able to interview with the now internationally famous Brandon Curtiss. As head of the well established III%ers of Idaho, Curtiss’ main mission, in cooperation with other patriot groups, is to provide critical perimeter security and serve as a buffer between the occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge and the FBI/Law Enforcement. The armed militia supporting the occupation are practicing nonaggression and transparency while not skimping out on standing their ground on the rights provided to us all under the Constitution of the United States of America. “No More Free Waco’s” is becoming the mantra of all of the individuals participating in what is shaping up to be one of the most interesting and crucial conflicts in 2016.

While we may all know the basics of the Hammond Ranch Trial that led to all of this, there are many questions that have gone unanswered simply because main stream media refuses to ask them. That’s where Anon Radio Live steps in. That’s where #ARM takes a united stand with the Anonymous community to create a piece of history that will not soon be forgotten…

Listen to The #ARM Show below to hear the truth directly from the leader of the militia on the ground. Again, the narrative of the main stream media isn’t fitting what the ladies and gentlemen on the ground are really experiencing. Considering the joint motives of those that run corporate media and our government, the aforementioned is not really a surprise at all.

If you want answers, you go to those who have the solutions. Not the morally corrupt corporate media world. Never trust corruption to lead you to truth. That’s also why Anon Radio Live is so important… No censorship, but still respecting the real definition of truth, justice, and liberty in America. ~Sincere #ARM

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Anonymous taking action on Flint water crisis | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WEYI

The international hacking group known as "Anonymous" is taking on the Flint water crisis.

In a video posted on Youtube the group blames the government, specifically Gov. Rick Snyder.

The group which describes itself as a faction of Anonymous has launched a campaign called #OpFlint.

The group in the Youtube video calls for Gov. Snyder to be charged with "voluntary or involuntary" manslaughter.

The video shows the Anonymous style of a man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask sitting at a desk and delivering a threat.

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#OpFlint