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Obama hails police state methods in Chicago:When a president openly endorses subjugation of its citizens by what in another era would've been easily recognized as Nazi storm troopers, it speaks volumes on the current state of our "democracy" and that administrations supposedly deep respect for our "freedoms".

Should we not ask ourselves how many of us have taken the blue pill? V 22... more

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Transcript: Patriot Hacker th3j35t3r Addresses USM Students

The hacktivist opened himself up to questions regarding his operations, methodologies... more

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Operation Cannabis 420 – The OFFICIAL Press Release

Dear Citizens of the World For far too long cannabis has been oppressed by big... more

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We Just Built Skynet in the Desert, Now What?

Ten years after 9/11, the National Security Agency (NSA) is close to putting the finishing touches on what will be the single biggest spy center in the country. According to James Bamford of WIRED, this new one million-square foot spy complex in the Utah Desert will actually be capable of monitoring, intercepting and de-encrypting just about any message sent over any communication network in the country. It will be capable of keeping tabs on any civilian in the U.S. or any foreigner visiting the USA. And it will all be hooked up to federal computers in Washington, giving it access to the records and databases of the most powerful government agencies in the country. If all this is starting to sound a lot like Skynet in the Terminator movies, that’s because, well, it is - minus the Schwarzenegger robots, of course.

The sheer amount of data that the NSA – and by extension the CIA, FBI and Pentagon – will be able to collect on both foreigners and its own civilians is staggering. The $2 billion center, which goes by the disarmingly bland name of the Utah Data Center, is the final piece in the puzzle for the Pentagon, which has been attempting to build a Global Information Grid ever since 9/11. Remember the Total Information Awareness program of 2003? Well, it’s now here in physical form – and it’s heavily guarded. In military parlance, it’s not a “soft” target - the facility has been hardened to the point where a 15,000-pound vehicle traveling at 50 miles per hour couldn't muscle its way inside. At its peak, this new surveillance center will be able to handle so much data that the NSA practically had to coin a new word to describe it: yottabytes. There are so many servers running this system that the annual cooling costs are estimated to be $40 million.

That’s quite an electricity bill for a "data center."

That's because this federal spy center goes far beyond what’s already being collected about us online, to explore the “Deep Web” that’s all but invisible to typical search engines. The spy center will also delve into the world of code-breaking and reverse-encryption. Even things that we think are far beyond any type of cyber-penetration will be readily available to the powers-that-be. That’s where things get downright scary. We assume that spambots and spiders slither behind us everywhere we go online, but what do we really know about all the other information that is being tracked about us? What information is being collected about us by security monitors in the streets and satellites overhead? The scope of what's being collected by the NSA is breathlessly thorough in detail, reaching into every area of our lives:

"Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy."

This digital "pocket litter" that each of us leaves behind us may sound harmless – but that's until all of this highly unstructured data gets dumped into a supercomputing capable of mining all this data and producing patterns and insights. This “pocket litter” is no longer trash once it can be used to construct ever-more precise profiles of everyday civilians and predict future behaviors.

“Cybersecurity” and “the war on terror” are handy little buzzwords for enabling governments to extend their cyber-surveillance over every aspect of our lives. At the end of the day, pure democracy and absolute authoritarianism are really just flip sides of the same coin. This is precisely why dystopian novels such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We are so terrifying. Authoritarian regimes always start out with a willingness to help - not enslave - its civilians. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. A government that claims to protect its citizens by spying on them is a government that needs to be watched, monitored and held under strict surveillance by its own citizens.

http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/we-just-built-skynet-in-the-desert-now-whatTen years after 9/11, the National Security Agency (NSA) is close to putting the... more

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Anonymous Hacks Department of Justice

Greetings world, We are Anonymous. Today we are releaseing 1.7GB of data that used... more

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FISA Approves EVERY Secret Surveillance Warrant in 2011: Report (link)

http://www.justice.gov/nsd/foia/reading_room/2011fisa-ltr.pdf An annual... more

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Hackers Group Anonymous Launches Anti-CISPA Plan

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Web surveillance plans create 'nation of suspects'

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Who Fights for the Users? Part II: FBI's AntiSec

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The FBI Can Haz Lulz Too...

Since Sabu's arrest a number of spurious lulz cannon tools have been interspersed... more

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Kony 2012 Debunking Shows How Far Alternative Media Has Come

Great analysis on the Kony 2012 propaganda video. I didn't even need to watch it... more

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The Jester Posts PGP Data File from Webkit Exploit Op

The Jester posted a link to data exfiltrated during last week's Webkit exploit... more

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: Hackers & Pirates - true GDP boosters - YouTube

The true hero's of the movement are pirates and anonymous ...they create real GDP... more

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Anonymous Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (How several government agents created & control "Anonymous")

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Anonymous-Bill HR 347

It passed its law and now we are very angry i would find a rock and hide under it if i... more

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The Jester's QR-Code Pwns Targets with WebKit Exploit

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NDAA and the Constitution – Part 2: Shut Up! You Don’t Get a Lawyer!

Shut Up! You Don’t Get a Lawyer!? http://youtu.be/llxtS0JlwKM

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Vatican becomes latest Anonymous hacking victim

Italian branch of the hacking collective takes down Vatican website in retaliation for misdeeds throughout history

The Italian branch of the hacking collective Anonymous took down the Vatican's website on Wednesday in retaliation for the "corruption" of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Vatican website was still inaccessible on Wednesday evening, although a spokesman said he could not confirm the crash was caused by the hackers group.

The action comes the day after the FBI issued charges against an individual alleged to be a member of Anonymous, and four people alleged to be principal members of its sister hacking collective LulzSec.

In a statement on its Italian-language website, the collective accused the Catholic Church of being responsible for a long list of misdeeds throughout history, including the selling of indulgences in the 16th century and burning heretics during the Inquisition.

"Anonymous decided today to besiege your site in response to the doctrine, to the liturgies, to the absurd and anachronistic concepts that your for-profit organisation spreads around the world.

"This attack is not against the Christian religion or the faithful around the world but against the corrupt Roman Apostolic Church."

It also accused the Vatican of being "retrograde" in its interfering in Italian domestic affairs.

Anonymous is a group of online "hacktivists" – individuals from around the world who engage in hacking attacks and other actions in the support of various causes, including targeting private security firms, Middle Eastern regimes, and the Church of Scientology.

The group rose to prominence after a string of "denial of service" attacks – a simple hack which temporarily takes websites offline – after the release of diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks. It targeted politicians who had denounced the leaks, the US department of justice website, Visa and Mastercard for blocking WikiLeaks' payment streams, and others.

The group had previously been better known for online pranks and mischief-making, particularly based from the internet bulletin board site 4chan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/07/vatican-anonymous-hacking-victimItalian branch of the hacking collective takes down Vatican website in retaliation for... more

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Panda Suffers the Wrath of AntiSec

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FBI Issues Press Release on Anonymous - LulzSec Arrests

Four Principal Members of “Anonymous” and “LulzSec” charged... more

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