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Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, we come from the Internet, the new home of Mind.
On behalf of the future, we ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
Moar here:
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Surveillance Who’s Who exposes the government agencies that attended six ISS World conferences between 2006 and 2009. ISS world is a surveillance trade show known to industry insiders as ‘The Wiretappers’ Ball’. This project is part of our Big Brother Incorporated investigation into the sale of surveillance technology. Read more…
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ISS World is attended by brutal dictatorships and Western democracies alike. Governments and companies from all over the world meet, mingle, buy and sell – we want to know who’s dealing with who. Many countries publish government spending, which you can use in conjunction with our data and the WikiLeaks Spyfiles to dig around. Take direct action by submitting Freedom of Information requests or writing to your elected representative. A little data goes a long way in this sort of investigation. Join our discussion list to be kept up to date and share your findings.
Surveillance Who’s Who exposes the government agencies that attended six ISS World conferences between 2006 and 2009. ISS world is a surveillance trade show known to industry insiders as ‘The Wiretappers’ Ball’. This project is part of our Big Brother Incorporated investigation into the sale of surveillance technology. Read more…
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ISS World is attended by brutal dictatorships and Western democracies alike. Governments and companies from all over the world meet, mingle, buy and sell – we want to know who’s dealing with who. Many countries publish government spending, which you can use in conjunction with our data and the WikiLeaks Spyfiles to dig around. Take direct action by submitting Freedom of Information requests or writing to your elected representative. A little data goes a long way in this sort of investigation. Join our discussion list to be kept up to date and share your findings.Surveillance Who’s Who exposes the government agencies that attended six ISS... more
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The freedom of our internet is at stake, 1984 is here, Big Brother is watching you, tracking your every move, and he is slowly dissolving your connections to uncensored content. Google's actions have prompted me to write a "State of the Internet" address regarding our current Orwellian existence.
In addition to Google's new privacy concerns, this page will seek to document any programs, software, and companies or organizations that help fund, effect, or support censorship and/or tracking on the internet; as well as ways to protect yourself and browse anonymously online. This page will be updated from time to time with no notice.The freedom of our internet is at stake, 1984 is here, Big Brother is watching you,... more
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By Associated Press, Updated: Sunday, December 25, 4:34 PM
LONDON — Hackers on Sunday claimed to have stolen a raft of e-mails and credit card data from U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor, promising it was just the start of a weeklong Christmas-inspired assault on a long list of targets.
One alleged hacker said the goal was to use the credit data to steal a million dollars and give it away as Christmas donations.
Members of the loose-knit hacking movement known as “Anonymous” posted a link on Twitter to what they said was Stratfor’s tightly-guarded, confidential client list. Among the list: The U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force and the Miami Police Department.
The rest of the list, which Anonymous said was a small slice of its 200 gigabytes worth of plunder, included banks, law enforcement agencies, defense contractors and technology firms such as Apple and Microsoft.
“Not so private and secret anymore?” the group taunted in a message on the microblogging site.
Anonymous said it was able to get the credit details in part because Stratfor didn’t bother encrypting them — an easy-to-avoid blunder which, if true, would be a major embarrassment for any security-related company.
Stratfor said in an email to members that it had suspended its servers and email after learning that its website had been hacked.
“We have reason to believe that the names of our corporate subscribers have been posted on other web sites,” said the email, passed on to The Associated Press by subscribers. “We are diligently investigating the extent to which subscriber information may have been obtained.”
The email, signed by Stratfor Chief Executive George Friedman, said the company is “working closely with law enforcement to identify who is behind the breach.”
“Stratfor’s relationship with its members and, in particular, the confidentiality of their subscriber information, are very important to Stratfor and me,” Friedman wrote.
Stratfor’s website was down midday Sunday, with a banner saying “site is currently undergoing maintenance.”
Wishing everyone a “Merry LulzXMas” — a nod to its spinoff hacking group Lulz Security — Anonymous also posted a link on Twitter to a site containing the email, phone number and credit number of a U.S. Homeland Security employee.
The employee, Cody Sultenfuss, said he had no warning before his details were posted.
“They took money I did not have,” he told The Associated Press in a series of emails, which did not specify the amount taken. “I think why me? I am not rich.”
One member of the hacking group, who uses the handle AnonymousAbu on Twitter, claimed that more than 90,000 credit cards from law enforcement, the intelligence community and journalists — “corporate/exec accounts of people like Fox” news — had been hacked and used to “steal a million dollars” and make donations.
It was impossible to verify where credit card details were used. Fox News was not on the excerpted list of Stratfor members posted online, but other media organizations including MSNBC and Al Jazeera English appeared in the file.
Anonymous warned it has “enough targets lined up to extend the fun fun fun of LulzXmas through the entire next week.”
The group has previously claimed responsibility for attacks on companies such as Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, as well as others in the music industry and the Church of Scientology.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/hackers-attack-us-security-think-tank-stratfor-promise-more-targets-for-christmas/2011/12/25/gIQAvmb3GP_story.html?tid=sm_btn_tw
The List >>>> http://pastebin.com/8MtFze0s
Stratfor.com before it became "under construction" >> http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/16416728
http://pastebin.com/bQ2YHDdwBy Associated Press, Updated: Sunday, December 25, 4:34 PM
LONDON — Hackers... more
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Anonymous, as you probably know by now, is a hacker group that is made up of countless individuals who claim to oppose certain ways different governments or high profile organizations work. Over the last few months their 'hackathon' has only been gaining momentum but
authorities like the FBI and various police departments from around the globe have been working overtime trying to crack down on their activities. While they have met with some amount of success, the response from these cyber activists has still been overwhelming.
The police have arrested a teenager, one Jake Davis who goes by the alias Topiary, in Scotland. The 18 year old hacker is believed to be a key member and spokesman for hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous. He was released on bail on the condition of no 'Internet access'. However, besides being a spokesperson, there is no actual proof that he has taken part in any of the hacks. The hearing for his case has been scheduled for August 30th 2011.
Anonymous being a group that is not the type to take any of this lying down immediately started a campaign called 'Free Topiary' to seek justice for Jake Davis. According to a Pastebin post, Anonymous said, “Jake Davis brought lulz to the oppressed. He spoke in a voice that resonated globally and reached us personally. We are sick of the twisted corporatocracy that controls us through our government, our news media, and our internet. From the remote and desolate Shetland Islands, Jake's voice reached millions. Perhaps the success of his message was in its simplicity, Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve."
They state that Jake Davis may face jail time but a jail sentence to him was not a failure of any sort. The group goes on to state that if they were criminals, they would be rich. Since they are not, they are trying to raise money through BitCoin to help pay for his legal fees. The group is certainly sticking by each other and instead of worrying about getting caught; they still continue to target websites and 'expose' them .
http://tech2.in.com/news/general/anonymous-unfazed-by-topiary-arrest-starts-support-campaign/233742Anonymous, as you probably know by now, is a hacker group that is made up of countless... more
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For the Internet collective known as Anonymous, the lulz are bittersweet this week with the arrest of the hacktivist extraordinaire known as Topiary.
"Topiary" is the online alias of 18-year-old Jake Davis. Authorities claim Davis is a key player in the Anonymous collective. Davis is also accused of association with Lulz Security (LulzSec) - the short lived but stunningly successful offshoot of Anonymous.
Davis appeared at a central London court Monday after London's Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard, announced Sunday they had charged the 18-year-old Davis with multiple offenses. Davis is being charged with unauthorized access to a computer system and conspiring with others to launch online attacks against the website of the U.K.'s Serious Organized Crime Agency, the British equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Davis is reported to be the creator of press releases for both Anonymous and Lulz Security. Davis is being described by his fellow hacktivists as the "greatest digital graffiti artist of all time". As such, Davis is quickly becoming an Internet celebrity. The fact that media reports describe Davis as being autistic only contributes to the mystique and air of celebrity surrounding Topiary.
Davis supporters, via the Anonymous collective, have launched an online campaign - Free Topiary - planning protests and collecting donations to pay for legal fees.
The following is an excerpt from Free Topiary:
A purveyor of many lulz, this swank garden hedge known as Topiary left his personal Twitter account with a quotation... "You cannot arrest an idea."
Jake wrote many lulzy press releases for both Anonymous and Lulz Security.
The Lulz Boat's journey on the seven proxseas went underway only with the aid of Jake and his natural ability to entertain.
There was a great purpose and an important message behind these mischevious acts of cyber-vandalism. Jake Davis brought lulz to the oppressed. He spoke in a voice that resonated globally and reached us personally.
Jake Davis may face jail time, but he publicly spoke of this in the most noble of terms. A jail sentence is, to him, not a failure of any sort.
It is a triumph.
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." ~ Henry David Thoreau
The following is a selection of relevant tweets in support of Topiary:
We need more people like #Topiary free him
As a crotchy oldman I say, Free #Topiary
Topiary used SQL in college but he never injected. #FreeTopiary
If I was a judge, I'd give Topiary 9001 hrs of community service & count every one of his crimes as hours off his sentence. #FreeTopiary
If I have kids, I'll raise them to be the nextTopiary #FreeTopiary
#Topiary is not a hacker or a DDoSer. His arrest will not slow us down. We are stronger than ever. We are #Anonymous. We are one! #AntiSec
Currently Jake "Topiary" Davis is out on bail.
https://www.examiner.com/anonymous-in-national/free-topiary-from-anonymous-to-celebrity-hacktivistFor the Internet collective known as Anonymous, the lulz are bittersweet this week... more
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The city of Orlando, Fla., home to amusement parks, fancy houses and an underachieving basketball team, has been arresting people for feeding the homeless without a permit. This got the attention of the hacker collective Anonymous, which has threatened to shut down a different Orlando-themed website every day.
Orlandofloridaguide.com got a taste of the group’s wrath Tuesday. According to an Anonymous statement, Visitorlando.com is the next target of “Operation Orlando.”
Late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, Disney World’s website failed to load; there was a notice on the Internet that the site was down for maintenance.
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/anonymous_declares_war_on_orlando_20110628/The city of Orlando, Fla., home to amusement parks, fancy houses and an underachieving... more
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The Westboro Baptist Church is best-known for picketing military funerals and gay pride gatherings with "God Hates Fags" and other slogans deemed offensive and shocking by most who see them. They're led by the incendiary Fred Phelps, who burned a Koran last September. WBC and Phelps always seem to be looking for new ways to push the envelope when it comes to hate.
While their actions might be protected as free speech, that's not going to stop "Anonymous", a hacker group with a simple name but an already-impressive list of accomplishments. Anonymous is best-known for shutting down Mubarak government websites earlier this month, and bringing down the websites of Visa and Mastercard last year, in defense of Wikileaks. More recently, Anonymous absolutely destroyed security firm HBGary and delivered a scathing come-uppance letter on the firm's hacked front page.
Now Anonymous has written an open letter to the congregation and supporters of the Westboro Baptist Church, calling them "an assembly of graceless sociopaths and maniacal chauvinists & religious zealots."
The letter goes on to warn:
"Cease & desist your protest campaign in the year 2011, return to your homes in Kansas, & close your public Web sites.
Should you ignore this warning, you will meet with the vicious retaliatory arm of ANONYMOUS: We will target your public Websites, and the propaganda & detestable doctrine that you promote will be eradicated; the damage incurred will be irreversible, and neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover."
As outlined above, Anonymous has both the ability and experience needed to deliver on these threats. The letter concludes with their standard signature:
WE ARE ANONYMOUS.
WE ARE LEGION.
WE DO NOT FORGIVE.
WE DO NOT FORGET.
EXPECT US.
Before everyone raises a glass to cheer on this new breed of renegade "hacktivists", consider what the implications are for the future of free speech. In this arena, the arm of the law is not long, and Anonymous is essentially unstoppable, at least for the time being. Where does such a group draw the line? What if their next target is something or someone which you don't find so offensive?
Anonymous essentially has the power to fully circumvent the First Amendment, and in the process, they are rewriting the rules on how we react to speech we don't like. With new tools like the Low-Orbit Ion Cannon becoming more widely available to the average computer user, the future of protest is changing in front of our eyes.
Or should we take heart that citizens are rising up to challenge the old paradigm and the hate-mongers who misuse it? Should we accept that times are changing, and that certain kinds of speech should not be allowed? Certainly the sentiments expressed publicly by WBC are unwelcome by the vast majority of the population. The government's hands are tied when it comes to restricting hate speech — is it time for us to take matters into our own hands?
Original article w/ links to sources: http://talkingskull.com/article/should-anonymous-hack-westboro-baptist-churchThe Westboro Baptist Church is best-known for picketing military funerals and gay... more
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Amazon, the shopping website, was unavailable in several countries for a period on Sunday night with a group of “hacktivists” who are sympathetic to the WikiLeaks website thought to be responsible.Amazon, the shopping website, was unavailable in several countries for a period on... more
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