Balkan Erotic Epic is a post from: "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation." Marshall McLuhan

I
Transylvanian
Love
Balkanians especially
This balkanian

Very MuchVerry MuchVerrryMuch

O victorie Minoră is a post from: "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation." Marshall McLuhan

Privesc în stânga, în dreapta- trec strada printrun loc interzis. O victorie minoră haha.

Intru în barul, cârciuma, fastfutul ăsta ce-o fi, dumnezeii lor mai știe..

O vitrină frigorifică de cinșpe metrii plină cu felurite salate și togo-uri: ”DIN GRĂDINĂ DIRECT ÎN FARFURIA DVS !!!”

Aiurea: culese verzi, băgate în tunuri de coacere, lăsate să respire, din nou băgate în tunuri, scoase, tăiate bucăți, congelate, decongelate, învârtite-n maglavaisuri, congelate din nou- băgate-n cutii, transportate, depozitate, distribuite, decongelate direct în friptoză, servite în farfuria mea…

..La care privesc și  mă gândesc că urmează alegerile- asemeni acestor legume oamenii care se înghesuie să candideze vin și ei direct din grădină..calamități pe două picioare, capete mesmerizate în abacul socotelilor duplicitare politicienii ar trebui să petreacă mai puțin timp făcând promisiuni și mai mult timp să și le țină.

Politicienii ar trebui plezniți în față de 57 de ori în fiecare zi. Mortăciuni pentru care viața este un eufemism servit la pet pe culoarele parlamentului, politicienii ar trebui să poarte masca desfermecării abuzate.

Decongelați în farfuria mea, friptozați pe jumătate, mirosind rânced, politicienii României scapă nemâncați datorită unei meta-grețoșenii care mă vidanjează subit.

april 2012 Weblog News Wikileaks: Julian Assange-Terrorist or Christ ? is a post from: "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation." Marshall McLuhan

Rumors coming from London show that Julian Assange is in imminent danger. It seems that in a couple of days he will be extradited to Sweden.

In this case we resume the daily monitoring of news concerning the topic Julian Assange.

remember this

update 13.04.2012

This Day in WikiLeaks: 04/10/12

An article in Global Research looks at how the Obama administration is opening new backdoors for intrusive government surveillance under the guise of “cybersecurity,” and how this could be used against WikiLeaks.

Publish Date: 04/11/2012 0:47

http://thisdayinwikileaks.blogspot.com/2012/04/041012.html

Wikileaks: US secret ties to former Australian PM coup plotters …

globalresearch.ca The latest batch of the several hundred leaked US diplomatic cables concerning Australia, provided by WikiLeaks to the Fairfax company’s.

Publish Date: 04/11/2012 10:39

http://ozhouse.org/2012/04/11/wikileaks-us-secret-ties-to-former-australian-pm-coup-plotters/

WikiLeaks: Makers of KONY2012 Spied For Ugandan Regime …

Kony2012 was viewed more than 100 million times; yet it now turns out that Invisible Children may have duped a global audience by hiding the fact that it’s been working closely with the Museveni regime all along, to the …

Publish Date: 04/12/2012 5:43

http://commonamericanjournal.com/?p=42726

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Becomes a Movie Character

Emmy Award winner Anthony LaPaglia will star in an upcoming film focusing on early forays into hacking by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Publish Date: 04/11/2012 4:19

http://mashable.com/2012/04/10/wikileaks-upcoming-film/

ANTHONY LAPAGLIA TO PLAY JULIAN ASSANGE IN – Armtown

Newcomer Alex Williams will play Julian Assange in Underground, the Australian TV movie that’s based around the early life of the WikiLeaks founder, Deadline reported. Rachel Griffiths will play Assange’s activist mother, …

Publish Date: 04/11/2012 3:16

http://www.armtown.com/news/en/pan/20120410/102388

Coming soon: First feature film about Assange goes into production …

The first-ever non-documentary film based on life of world-famous whistleblower Julian Assange will begin production next week. A crew of award-winning actors and filmmakers is to shoot a TV film about Assange’s early …

Publish Date: 04/11/2012 19:37

http://rt.com/news/first-assange-tv-movie-803/

George Soros: Eurozone Crisis Has Entered “A Less Volatile but …

Free Julian Assange! Reply. Susan the other says: April 12, 2012 at 11:36 am. Sorry, can’t follow. Will someone please translate: What does Soros mean by his recommendation to auction off the ECB’s seignorage rights?

Publish Date: 04/12/2012 18:00

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/04/george-soros-eurozone-crisis-has-entered-a-less-volatile-but-potentially-more-lethal-phase.html

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Slams Media for Libelous Coverage …

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has launched an attack on the Press Complaints Commission, claiming he has been subjected to inaccurate and negative media coverage “possibly on a scale not seen since the abuse of …

Publish Date: 04/05/2012 18:28

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Fucking With The Sun is a post from: "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation." Marshall McLuhan

fucking with the sun

copyright © motu 2007

drawings

graphic

pigmentprint, canvas, acrylic coating, 210×130 cm, edition 1 + 1eda

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The CyberSecurity Battle: winner Page with information superiority. is a post from: "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation." Marshall McLuhan

Whether we engage the enemy in war, or protect our computer networks, information superiority is crucial for success. Defined in the U.S. Army Vision 2010 doctrine as “the ability to collect, process and disseminate an uninterrupted flow of information while exploiting or denying an adversary’s ability to do the same,” is information superiority identified as “key factor in the 21 . Century operations. ”

The battle for your network is evolving around information superiority. If your network is breached, the attackers are using information superiority they know something you do not have your environment and they use this to access your network and digital assets to get.

I know the typical organization is not sufficient on its environment in order to effectively defend it. Why? Because most IT security professionals do not have the visibility and control they need to keep up with the rapid pace of change, both within the IT environment and the wider threats. Old techniques of sporadic assets determined in conjunction with static defense no longer works in this very dynamic world. Add to the challenge of its cloud-hosted and virtualized IT services, mobile and consumer devices in the workplace standard in all organizations strive for lean and effective operations in an increasingly competitive world.

So how can you maintain information superiority in today’s reality? As a network defender, you must have a clear baseline of your environment to protect it. Short, you should be able to see everything in your network. Once you “see it”, you can “check it”. “Real-time detection and intelligent security automation have become centerpieces for an effective security practice in which the defense is set correctly in meaningful time frames |. Solutions must go one step further and use contextual awareness intelligently filter out” noise, “assess the threat effect and automatically adjust to provide protection |. It is not enough to automatically find signs of infestation and warns a man to take action. In addition, newer and more responsive controls to address sophisticated threats needed to reduce risks when an outbreak occurs.

Below are just a few questions IT security teams should ask vendors when evaluating their abilities to provide the necessary information superiority for an adequate defense.

1 Which elements of the IT environment, your solution to detect and how often is the information updated? It is not enough to give visibility to programs, files, or threats on a monthly, weekly or even daily. IT security teams need continuous and comprehensive overview of all devices, applications and users on a network and an up-to-the-minute network map, including profiles on client applications, operating systems and handheld devices (mobile phones, tablets ) and network infrastructure (switches, routers, etc.) ). Real-time insight into the attacks, vulnerabilities, changes in behavior and environment are also important. Information superiority is achieved by using this awareness, identify threats to assets, vulnerabilities, and then bind this intelligence to the defense in an automated manner.

2 What types of controls are in place to minimize the impact of a potential attack? As advanced threats are of short duration, targeted and often exploit unknown vulnerabilities, the minimization of the available attack surface by means of intelligent, granular control is a necessary protection measure. For example, provides access control over applications and users IT security professionals to easily deploy integrated control and threat protection policy. In addition, solutions that can make use of “big data” (for example: The enormous amounts of safety data collected from users as well as network and data security technologies) and use Analytics to provide protection quickly, provide security professionals more control to speed threat mitigation.

3 What’s ability to help address ever-changing? Security automation is critical to proactive protection. Whether it is to block malicious attacks, enforce policies, prioritize and identify suspicious events to human analysts, or reporting to the organization everything must be done automatically and in real time.

I cybersecurity battle wins the page with information superiority. The sooner we realize that the status quo is no longer sufficient and that the ability to “see” and “manage it” is crucial for the 21 century of protection, the quicker we can strengthen the network defenders against invaders. Information superiority provides the indispensable basis for an effective defense in depth strategy enables us to win the battles and the war.

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Câinii Distracției, o schemă is a post from: "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation." Marshall McLuhan

O schemă despre Câinii Distracției, cei mai înrăiți dușmani ai Internetului

așa i-a făcut mama lor

Romanian Shit is a post from: "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation." Marshall McLuhan

guvernul româniei susține ACTA?
asta în timp ce folosește soft piratat..
(când niște pule întâlnesc ipocrizia)

O Nouă Producție Wikileaks is a post from: "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation." Marshall McLuhan

Wikileaks ne desfată cu o colecție (imensă, vreo 5 milioane) de e-mailuri „pierdute” de Stratfor. Din aceste e-mailuri putem afla cum sunt plătiți informatorii, cum se adună și se distribuie datele, cum se organizează campanii și cam cum funcționează manipularea în vederea „cosmetizării” persoanelor, populațiilor, popoarelor șamd. 

Stratfor s-a supărat puțin și a dat un „comunicat”. Prea târziu !

Tot aici Wikileaks dă în premieră o listă cu agențiile media partenere. Din România nu se află nici una, din Bulgaria da!

Până și aici ne-au luat ăștia !!

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• Anonymous Hackers Give 5 million STRATFOR Emails to WikiLeaks (lissnup.wordpress.com)
• Wikileaks regains relevance with Stratfor doc-drop (go.theregister.com)
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• Wikileaks to Publish 5 Million Stratfor Emails: Anonymous Involved (forbes.com)
• WikiLeaks targets U.S. security think tank (cbsnews.com)
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• Stratfor CEO George Friedman Announces His Resignation Due To Wikileaks Emails (techfleece.com)

Read This, Please. is a post from: "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation." Marshall McLuhan

WE ARE IN WAR

so,first

PRESSTHIS

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

~ Arundhati Roy

BONUS

Anonymous: The Big Story is a post from: "World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation." Marshall McLuhan

Anonymous on the road to Immortality

Anonymous (group)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is an Internet meme originating 2003 on the imageboard 4chan. Representing the concept of many on-line community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known.

In its early form, the concept has been adopted by a decentralized on-line community actinganonymously in a coordinated manner, usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal, and primarily focused on entertainment. As of 2008, the Anonymous collective has become increasingly associated with collaborative, international hacktivism, undertaking protests and other actions, often with the goal of promoting internet freedom and freedom of speech. Actions credited to “Anonymous” are undertaken by unidentified individuals who apply the Anonymous label to themselves as attribution.

Although not necessarily tied to a single on-line entity, many websites are strongly associated with Anonymous. This includes notable imageboards such as 4chan and Futaba, their associated wikis,Encyclopædia Dramatica, and a number of forums. After a series of controversial, widely-publicized protests and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by Anonymous in 2008, incidents linked to its cadre members have increased.

Background

The name Anonymous itself is inspired by the perceived anonymity under which users post images and comments on the Internet. Usage of the term Anonymous in the sense of a shared identity began onimageboards. A tag of Anonymous is assigned to visitors who leave comments without identifying the originator of the posted content. Users of imageboards sometimes jokingly acted as if Anonymous were a real person. As the popularity of imageboards increased, the idea of Anonymous as a collective of unnamed individuals became an internet meme.

Anonymous broadly represents the concept of any and all people as an unnamed collective. As amultiple-use name, individuals who share in the “Anonymous” moniker also adopt a shared online identity, characterized as hedonistic and uninhibited. This is intended as a satirical, conscious adoption of the online disinhibition effect

”We [Anonymous] just happen to be a group of people on the internet who need — just kind of an outlet to do as we wish, that we wouldn’t be able to do in regular society. …That’s more or less the point of it. Do as you wish. … There’s a common phrase: ‘we are doing it for the lulz.”

—Trent Peacock. Search Engine: The face of Anonymous, February 7, 2008.

Definitions tend to emphasize the fact that the concept, and by extension the collective of users, cannot be readily encompassed by a simple definition. Instead it is often defined by aphorisms describing perceived qualities.

Iconography and aesthetics

As a cyberculture, Anonymous aesthetics are based in various forms of shock humour, including genres of cringe, surreal, and black comedy.

Online composition

Anonymous consists largely of users from multiple imageboards and internet forums. In addition, several wikis and Internet Relay Chat networks are maintained to overcome the limitations of traditional imageboards. These modes of communication are the means by which Anonymous protesters participating in Project Chanology communicate and organize upcoming protests.

A “loose coalition of Internet denizens,” the group is banded together by the internet, through sites such as 4chan, 711chan, Encyclopædia Dramatica, IRC channels, and YouTube. Social networking services, such as Facebook, are used for the creation of groups which reach out to people to mobilize in real-world protests.

Anonymous has no leader or controlling party, and relies on the collective power of its individual participants acting in such a way that the net effect benefits the group. ”Anyone who wants to can be Anonymous and work toward a set of goals…” a member of Anonymous explained to the Baltimore City Paper. “We have this agenda that we all agree on and we all coordinate and act, but all act independently toward it, without any want for recognition. We just want to get something that we feel is important done…”

“[Anonymous is] the first internet-based superconsciousness. Anonymous is a group, in the sense that a flock of birds is a group. How do you know they’re a group? Because they’re travelling in the same direction. At any given moment, more birds could join, leave, peel off in another direction entirely.”

— Chris Landers. Baltimore City Paper, April 2, 2008

Activities

The activities in this section were attributed to Anonymous either by their perpetrators or in the media. The actions taken by Anonymous do not seem to follow any single shared agenda. Those identifying with the term often take action simply for amusement. This is known within sites affiliated with Anonymous as “doing it for the lulz.”

lulz (uncountable)

1. (Internet, slang) Fun; amusement; humor; especially schadenfreude.

Habbo raid

A popular target for organized raids by Anonymous is Habbo, a popular social networking site designed as a virtual hotel. The first major raid is known as the “Great Habbo Raid of ’06,” and a subsequent raid the following year is known as the “Great Habbo Raid of ’07.” The raid actually predates and was not inspired by the news of an Alabama amusement park banning a two-year-old toddler affected by AIDS from entering the park’s swimming pool.Users signed up to the Habbo site dressed in avatars of a black man wearing a grey suit and an Afro hairstyle and blocked entry to the pool, declaring that it was “closed due to AIDS,” flooding the site with internet sayings, and forming swastika-like formations. When the raiders were banned, they complained of racism.In response, the Habbo admins often ban users with avatars matching the profile of the raiders even months after the latest raid.

Hal Turner raid

Main article: Hal Turner
According to white supremacist radio host Hal Turner, in December 2006 and January 2007 individuals who identified themselves as Anonymous took Turner’s website offline, costing him thousands of dollars in bandwidth bills. As a result, Turner sued 4chan, eBaum’s World, 7chan, and other websites for copyright infringement. He lost his plea for an injunction, however, and failed to receive letters from the court, which caused the lawsuit to lapse.

Chris Forcand arrest

On December 7, 2007, the Canada-based Toronto Sun newspaper published a report on the arrest of the alleged Internet predator Chris Forcand. Forcand, 53, was charged with two counts of luring a child under the age of 14, attempt to invite sexual touching, attempted exposure, possessing a dangerous weapon, and carrying a concealed weapon. The report stated that Forcand was already being tracked by “cyber-vigilantes who seek to out anyone who presents with a sexual interest in children” before police investigations commenced.

A Global Television Network report identified the group responsible for Forcand’s arrest as a “self-described Internet vigilant group called Anonymous” who contacted the police after some members were “propositioned” by Forcand with “disgusting photos of himself.” The report also stated that this is the first time a suspected Internet predator was arrested by the police as a result of Internet vigilantism

Project Chanology

Main article: Project Chanology

The group gained worldwide press for Project Chanology, the protest against the Church of Scientology.

On January 14, 2008, a video produced by the Church featuring an interview with Tom Cruise was leaked to the Internet and uploaded to YouTube. The Church of Scientology issued a copyright violation claim against YouTube requesting the removal of the video. In response to this, Anonymous formulated Project Chanology. Calling the action by the Church of Scientology a form of Internet censorship, members of Project Chanology organized a series of denial-of-service attacks against Scientology websites, prank calls, and black faxes to Scientology centers.

On January 21, 2008, individuals claiming to speak for Anonymous announced their goals and intentions via a video posted to YouTube entitled “Message to Scientology,” and a press releasedeclaring a “War on Scientology” against both the Church of Scientology and the Religious Technology Center. In the press release, the group states that the attacks against the Church of Scientology will continue in order to protect the right to freedom of speech, and end what they believe to be the financial exploitation of church members. A new video “Call to Action” appeared on YouTube on January 28, 2008, calling for protests outside Church of Scientology centers on February 10, 2008. On February 2, 2008, 150 people gathered outside of a Church of Scientology center in Orlando, Floridato protest the organization’s practices. Small protests were also held in Santa Barbara, California, andManchester, England. On February 10, 2008, about 7000 people protested in more than 93 cities worldwide. Many protesters wore masks based on the character V from V for Vendetta (who in turn was influenced by Guy Fawkes), or otherwise disguised their identities, in part to protect themselves fromreprisals from the Church.

Anonymous held a second wave of protests on March 15, 2008 in cities all over the world, including Boston, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Vancouver, Toronto, Berlin, and Dublin. The global turnout was estimated to be “between 7000 and 8000,” a number similar to that of the first wave. The third wave of the protests took place on April 12, 2008. Named “Operation Reconnect,” it aimed to increase awareness of the Church of Scientology’s disconnection policy.

On October 17, 2008, an 18-year-old from New Jersey described himself as a member of Anonymous, and he stated that he would plead guilty to involvement in the January 2008 DDoS attacks against Church of Scientology websites.

On December 2, 2009, Anonymous held a competition, “Scientology Sucks: A Contest”, and asked the contestants to carry out (legal) pranks on the Church of Scientology and offered $1000, $300 and $75 (initially $400, $100 and $50) from donation money for the top three entries. The contest was won by a user who called himself MalcontentNazi for his videoScientology’s Secret Nazi Ties in which he dressed as a Nazi and stood in front of a Scientology church and praised the church and consequently made a prank call to the church asking them why they were not able to pull the guy, who dressed himself as a Nazi and made fun of them, off the streets.

Protests continued, and took advantage of media events such as the premiere of the Tom Cruise movieValkyrie, where the venue was chosen in part to reduce exposure to the protests.

Epilepsy Foundation forum invasion

On March 28, 2008, Wired News reported that “Internet griefers” — a slang term for people whose only interests are in harassing others — assaulted an epilepsy support forum run by the Epilepsy Foundation of America. JavaScript code and flashing computer animations were posted with the intention of triggering migraine headaches and seizures in photosensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics.According to Wired News, circumstantial evidence suggested that the attack was perpetrated by Anonymous users, with the initial attack posts on the epilepsy forum blaming eBaum’s World. Members of the epilepsy forum claimed they had found a thread in which the attack was being planned at 7chan.org, an imageboard that has been described as a stronghold for Anonymous. The thread, like all old threads eventually do on these types of imageboards, has since cycled to deletion.RealTechNews reported that the forum at the United Kingdom-based National Society for Epilepsy was also subjected to an identical attack. It stated that “apparent members of Anonymous” had denied responsibility for both attacks and posted that it had been the Church of Scientology who carried them out. News.com.au reported that the administrators of 7chan.org had posted an open letter claiming that the attacks had been carried out by the Church of Scientology “to ruin the public opinion of Anonymous, to lessen the effect of the lawful protests against their virulent organization” under the Church’s fair game policy. The Tech Herald reported that when the attack began, posts referenced multiple groups, including Anonymous. The report attributes the attack to a group named “The Internet Hate Machine” (a reference to the KTTV Fox 11 newsreport), who claim to be part of Anonymous, but are not the same faction that are involved in the campaign against Scientology.

Some Anonymous participants of Project Chanology suggest that the perpetrators are Internet users who merely remained anonymous in the literal sense, and thus had no affiliation with the larger anti-Scientology efforts attributed to Anonymous. During an interview with CNN, Scientologist Tommy Davis accused Anonymous of hacking into the Epilepsy Foundation website to make it display imagery intended to cause epileptic seizures. Interviewer John Roberts contended the FBI said that it “found nothing to connect this group Anonymous (with these actions),” and that it also has “no reason to believe that these charges will be leveled against this group.”The response was that the matter was on the hands of local law enforcement and that there were ongoing investigations.

Defacement of SOHH and AllHipHop websites

In late June 2008, users who identified themselves as Anonymous claimed responsibility for a series of attacks against the SOHH (Support Online Hip Hop) website.The attack was reported to have begun in retaliation for insults made by members of SOHH’s “Just Bugging Out” forum against 4chan’s users. The attack against the website took place in stages, beginning when Anonymous users flooded and trolledthe SOHH forums, which were then shut down. On June 23, the group organized DDoS attacks against the website, successfully eliminating over 60% of the website’s service capacity. On June 27, the hackers utilized cross-site scripting to alter the website’s main page with satirical images and headlines referencing numerous racial stereotypes and slurs, and also successfully stole information from SOHH employees.

No Cussing Club

In January 2009 members of Anonymous targeted California teen McKay Hatch who runs the No Cussing Club, a website against profanity. As Hatch’s home address, phone number, and other personal information were leaked on-line, his family has received a lot of hate mail, lots of obscene phone calls, and even bogus pizza and pornography deliveries.

2009 Iranian election protests

Main article: 2009 Iranian election protests

Following allegations of vote rigging after the results of the June 2009 Iranian presidential electionwere announced, declaring Iran‘s incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner, thousands of Iranians participated in demonstrations. Anonymous, together with The Pirate Bay and various Iranian hackers, launched an Iranian Green Party Support site Anonymous Iran. The site has drawn over 22,000 supporters world wide and allows for information exchange between the world and Iran, despite attempts by the Iranian government to censor news about the riots on the internet. The site provides resources and support to Iranians who are protesting.

Operation Didgeridie

Main article: Internet censorship in Australia

In September 2009 the group reawakened “in order to protect civil rights” after several governments began to block access to its imageboards. The blacklisting of Krautchan.net in Germany infuriated many, but the tipping point was the Australian government’s plans for ISP-level censorship of the internet. The policy was spearheaded by Stephen Conroy and had been driven aggressivelyby the Rudd Government since its election in 2007.

Early in the evening of September 9, Anonymous took down the prime minister’s website with adistributed denial-of-service attack. The site was taken offline for approximately one hour. On the morning of February 10, 2010, Anonymous launched a more prepared attack codenamed “Operation Titstorm.” It defaced the prime minister’s website, took down the Australian Parliament House website for three days and nearly managed to take down the Department of Communications‘ website. The Australian newspaper later reported that neither attack was considered a serious crime by information security consultants, who suggested they only had an impact because the government “knew the [second] attack was coming but was unable to stop it.”A cover story in Security Solutions magazine said that “[s]uch attacks should not be considered cyberterrorism to ensure its meaning is not diluted.”

Operation Titstorm

Main article: Operation Titstorm

Occurred from 8 am, February 10, 2010 as a protest against the Australian Government over the forthcoming internet filtering legislation and the perceived censorship in pornography of small-breasted women (who are perceived to be under age) and female ejaculation. The protest consisted of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) on Australian Government websites. The Australian anti-censorship groups complained that the attack only hurts their cause, and Australian government members dismissed the attack and said that they would just restore the service when the attack finished.Analysis of the attacks cited their peak bandwidth at under 17Mbit, a figure considered small when compared with other DDoS attacks.

Operation Payback

Operation Payback is a coordinated, decentralized group of attacks on opponents of internet piracyby internet activists using the “Anonymous” moniker. Operation Payback started as retaliation todistributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on torrent sites; piracy proponents then decided to launch DDoS attacks on piracy opponents. The initial reaction snowballed into a wave of attacks on major pro-copyright and anti-piracy organizations, law firms, and individuals. Following the United States diplomatic cables leak in December 2010, the organizers commenced DDoS attacks on websites of banks who had withdrawn banking facilities from WikiLeaks.

LAW FIRMS

On 21 September 2010, the website of ACS:Law was subjected to a DDoS attack as part of Operation Payback. When asked about the attacks, Andrew Crossley, owner of ACS:Law, said: “It was only down for a few hours. I have far more concern over the fact of my train turning up 10 minutes late or having to queue for a coffee than them wasting my time with this sort of rubbish.”

When the site came back online, a 350 MB file which was a backup of the site was visible to anyone for a short period of time. The backup, which included copies of emails sent by the firm, was downloaded and made available onto various peer-to-peer networks and websites including The Pirate Bay. Some of the emails contained unencrypted Excel spreadsheets, listing the names and addresses of people that ACS:Law had accused of illegally sharing media. One contained over 5,300 Sky broadband customers whom they had accused of illegally sharing pornography, while another contained the details of 8,000 Sky customers and 400 Plusnet customers accused of infringing the copyright on music by sharing it onpeer-to-peer networks. This alleged breach of the Data Protection Act has become part of the ongoing investigation into ACS:Law by the Information Commissioner’s Office.

On 30 September, the Leesburg, VA office of Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver law firm – also doing business as the “U.S. Copyright Group“ – was evacuated by the police after an emailed bomb threat was received. It’s believed the event could be connected to Anonymous.Non-related copyright or law firms sites, such as websheriff.com, were also attacked. These attacks were originally organized through an Internet Relay Chat channel. The attacks also became a popular topic on Twitter.

AUSTRALIAN PRO-COPYRIGHT ORGANIZATION

On 27 September 2010, the DDoS attack on the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) unintentionally brought down 8,000 other small websites hosted on the same server.

ACAPOR

In September 2010, in an attempt to ensure that Portuguese citizens can’t access thepiratebay.org, Associação do Comércio Audiovisual de Portugal (ACAPOR) has filed a complaint against The Pirate Bay. The complaint was filed with the General Inspection of Cultural Activities, which is part of thePortuguese Ministry of Culture. According to the movie rental association, The Pirate Bay is directly responsible for about 15 million illegal downloads in Portugal every year. By installing a Pirate Bay block at all ISPs, ACAPOR hopes to decrease the financial damage they claim it causes.

On 18 October 2010, the ACAPOR website was defaced, presenting a speech from Operation Payback and a redirect to The Pirate Bay after a few seconds. In addition to defacing the website, they also managed to grab a copy of the email database of ACAPOR and uploaded it to thepiratebay.org. The leaked e-mails so far revealed ACAPOR’s methods of denunciation, their dissatisfaction with the Portuguese government and justice system, their perception of the copyright debate as war, and their antagonism with the ISPs. ACAPOR claimed that “the business of ISPs is illegal downloading.”

MORE ATTACKS

On 4 October 2010, Operation Payback launched an attack on the Ministry of Sound website and the Gallant Macmillian website.

On 7 October 2010, they attacked the website of the Spanish copyright society, sgae.es. As of 7 October 2010, total downtime for all websites attacked during Operation Payback was 537.55 hours.

On 15 October 2010, Copyprotected.com was SQL injected and defaced, and three days later Operation Payback launched a DDoS attack against the UK Intellectual Property Office.

Production companies SatelFilm.at and Wega-Film.at were hit by “drive-by” DDoSes during October 21, 2010, in response to their efforts to gain a court injunction against an ISP that refused to block a movie streaming website, and Operation Payback then knocked porn website Hustler.com offline the following day.

MUSICIAN AND COPYRIGHT ADVOCATE

During the 2010 MIPCOM convention, Gene Simmons of KISS stated:

Make sure your brand is protected…Make sure there are no incursions. Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars. Don’t let anybody cross that line.

In response to Gene Simmons’ comments,members of Operation Payback switched their attentions to his two websites SimmonsRecords.com and GeneSimmons.com, taking them both offline for a total of 1 day and 14 hours. At some point during the course of this DDoS, GeneSimmons.com was hacked and redirected to ThePirateBay.org, In response to the attack Simmons wrote:

Some of you may have heard a few popcorn farts re: our sites being threatened by hackers. Our legal team and the FBI have been on the case and we have found a few, shall we say “adventurous” young people, who feel they are above the law.

And, as stated in my MIPCOM speech, we will sue their pants off.

First, they will be punished.

Second, they might find their little butts in jail, right next to someone who’s been there for years and is looking for a new girl friend.

We will soon be printing their names and pictures.

We will find you.

You cannot hide.

Stay tuned

This led to additional attacks and subsequently more downtime for his websites. Later, Simmons’s message was removed from his website.

RIAA

On October 26, 2010, LimeWire was ordered to disable the “searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality” after losing a court battle with the RIAA over claims of copyright infringement. The RIAA also announced intentions to pursue legal action over the damages caused by the program in January to compensate the affected record labels. In retaliation, members of Operation Payback announced that they will attack RIAA’s website on October 29, despite that the group typically doesn’t hit targets twice. On October 29, riaa.org was taken offline via denial-of-service attack. After the attack, riaa.com and riaa.org sites became unavailable from Europe. Operation Payback’s main site was attacked later that day and they moved their website from tieve.tk toanonops.net.

NOVEMBER 5

Around October 28, 2010, the group set up a new website with the intention of coordinating protests around the world to raise awareness of their cause. The date for the protest activities were on November 5, the intended day of the Gunpowder Plot, which Anonymous heavily affiliates with through its use of Guy Fawkes masks. After that event, Operation Payback took a break from attacking websites to organize.

FBI INVESTIGATION

After an attack on the United States Copyright Office, the FBI launched an investigation. FBI representatives did not respond to interview requests.

Her technical team posted a screenshot of a server log file showing the wikileaks.org URL Visa attacks had been denial of service attacks, but credit card data was not compromised. It is unknown whether Palin’s card was compromised as part of a broad attack on Visa or a specific attack on the Palins. Sarah Palin’s email had already been hacked by a member of Anonymous in 2008.

On 10 December 2010, The Daily Telegraph reported that Anonymous had threatened to disrupt British government websites if Assange were extradited to Sweden. Anonymous issued a press releasein an attempt to clarify the issue. Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlowdescribed the attacks as “the shot heard round the world—this is Lexington.”

Operation Payback’s attempt to take down Amazon.com was aborted after it failed to make a significant impact on that site’s performance. The failed DDoS attack has been attributed to Amazon’s massive server capacity, which is normally used to handle the excessive traffic during the December holiday shopping season.

In late December the FBI began to raid suspected participants in Operation Payback.

On January 3, 2011, Anonymous brought down Zimbabwean government websites after the Zimbabwean President’s wife sued a newspaper for US $15 million for publishing a WikiLeaks cable that linked her with the alleged trade in illicit diamonds. On January 27, 2011, five males aged between 15 and 26 were arrested in early morning raids in the U.K. onsuspicion of involvement and 40 search warrants were executed on the same day by the FBI.

Several Uge sucess parts of Operation Payback;

Operation Paperstorm

Although Operation Payback succeeded in bringing our protest to the public’s attention, Anonymous felt that it was time to move into the offline world. To this end, Operation Paperstorm is engaging in a viral messaging blitz in metropolitan areas throughout the world. By doing so, it will bring Anonymous, Wikileaks, and Internet freedom as a whole to the attention of not just the internet-savvy crowd, but that of the whole populace.

For more information, go to:

http://anonops.blogspot.com/

http://twitter.com/op_paperstorm

4 Reasons to Close Your Bank of America Account

There is substantial speculation that Bank of America will be WikiLeaks’ next target.

At the Hack in the Box Conference in 2009, Julian Assange claimed to be in possession of a top executive’s hard drive.

But there is little reason to wait for the contents to be leaked.

Bank of America’s history of fraud and ethical misconduct are already well documented in the news.

Here are four reasons why leaving Bank of America should be your New Year’s resolution.

1. WikiLeaks:

On Friday, Bank of America joined PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard in blocking donations to WikiLeaks, reports David Murphy of PC Mag. This should come as no surprise.

In a November 11th interview with Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg, Assange announced his plans for a “megaleak” early in 2011 that will target a “major American bank.”

He stated, “It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume,” adding, “For this, there’s only one similar example. It’s like the Enron emails.”

A self-proclaimed fan of American Libertarianism, Assange commented that WikiLeaks can potentially impact executive behavior in the private sector. “WikiLeaks means it’s easier to run a good business and harder to run a bad business, and all CEOs should be encouraged by this,” he stated.

This may be true, but it provides a terrifying scenario for companies guilty of illegal or unethical business practices.

A spokesperson from Bank of America stated, “The decision [to block WikiLeaks’ transactions] is based upon our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.”

2. Blackwater:

Apparently financing the sale of the mercenary army, Blackwater (now Xe) is consistent with “internal policies for processing payments.”

Blackwater’s founder Erik Prince is selling the company to a group of Los Angeles financiers, reported the “New York Times,” and sources say that Bank of America will be bankrolling the deal.

Blackwater’s crimes include the murder of 17 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square, Baghdad in 2007, allegations of falsifying paperwork to give a firearms gift to the king of Jordan, purportedly paying a businessman in Iraq to buy black-market steroids for Blackwater operatives, and trying to bill the U.S. government for prostitutes for hard-partying operatives in Afghanistan, as well as strippers in New Orleans in Katrina’s aftermath.

Jeremy Scahill’s blog for “The Nation,” documents all of this and much more, including testimony of Blackwater operatives spraying buildings that housed Iraqi civilians with AK-47s from the windows of drug-fueled parties.

The company, which generates 90% of its revenues from the U.S. government, has over ten years of documented illegal activity hanging over its head and is bearing numerous civil lawsuits.

Bank of America’s involvement in the $200 million sale of Blackwater is shameful, although not surprising, and should provide a reason to move your funds to another bank.

3. Fraud:

On December 7th, Ronald D. Orlo of MarketWatch reported that Bank of America admitted to fraud in the municipal bond derivatives market and will pay $137.3 million in damages. This story was covered in business sections, but made surprisingly few headlines.

“The conduct was egregious — in return for business, the company repeatedly paid undisclosed gratuitous payments and kickbacks and affirmatively misrepresented that the bidding process was proper,” said SEC director of enforcement Robert Khuzami.

“According to the agency, in some cases these bidding agents gave Bank of America Securities information on competing bids, helping the financial institution win the transactions. The agency charged that Bank of America rewarded these bidding agents with payments and kickbacks.

The SEC reports that the bidding process generally was not competitive because it was ‘tainted by undisclosed consultations, agreements or payments.’”

The Department of Justice stated that Bank of America “self-reported” the fraud, an act which usually results in a more lenient settlement.

4. Arizona/Nevada Lawsuit:

Arizona and Nevada are suing Bank of America on charges of misleading customers in loan-modification, reports the “Los Angeles Times.”

On Friday, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard filed a lawsuit against Bank of America for “failing to implement anti-foreclosure measurements it promised in 2009.”

“Bank of America has been the slowest of all the servicers to ramp up loss mitigation efforts in response to the housing crisis,” he said. “It has shown callous disregard for the devastating effects its servicing practices have had on individual borrowers and on the economy as a whole.”

Within hours of Goddard’s complaint, Nevada’s Attorney General, Catherine Cortez Masto filed a similar complaint, stating the bank lied to customers.

“We are holding Bank of America accountable for misleading and deceiving consumers,” said Masto. “Nevadans who were trying desperately to save their homes were unable to get truthful information in order to make critical life decisions.”

“Goddard said Bank of America failed to provide justifications for denials of modifications, misled borrowers into thinking they had to miss payments to obtain modifications, and initiated foreclosure proceedings while trial loan modifications were in place — all in violation of its settlement with the state last year.”

There is often little that individual citizens can do to protest bad behavior of giant corporations. But seeing as how Bank of America received $45 billion in taxpayer-supported government bailout funds over the past two years, their recent conduct involving WikiLeaks transactions, financing the sale of Blackwater, fraud in the municipal bond market, and abuse of loan-holders in Nevada and Arizona is enough reason to exercise your dollar votes by choosing a different bank.

ANONYMOUS – OPERATION BLING – A Call To Action

In short, the video bellow requests that we write “You are anonymous” on federal reserve notes so that “the system” will go to work for us. That’s a brilliant tactic and very compatible with the principles of open source insurgency. The video of Clinton and Obama calling for the very things WikiLeaks is giving them is just icing on the cake.

http://youtu.be/b-vVRH4YZqQ?hd=1

Julian Assange and Wikileaks have only served as catalysts for a revolution that has been long overdue, a revolution in which the people of the world stand up and remind the governments of the world that their responsability is to the people, the people’s responsability is not to them… LET’S SPREAD THE WORD!

http://youtu.be/ntDMujmIn6A

In the aftermath here it came;

Operation Leakspin

Operation Leakspin was conceived by the Anonymous group, with the purpose of sorting through recent WikiLeaks releases and raise awareness of potentially important and previously overlooked cables.

As with all actions by Anonymous, it has arisen in an ad-hoc fashion and holds neither a centralized leadership nor an enforceable command structure.

Due to the decentralized nature of the project, several independent websites are participating in the effort. It is not clear how much co-ordination, if any, exists between these sites. A list follows:

- Cable Wiki; Meant to serve as a wiki for the translation of cables to multiple languages, together with additional analysis of the cables.

- Sinde Gate; local group providing translations and explanations of cables related to the scandal “Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain’s proposed copyright law”. ”Sinde Gate” is named after the name of the responsible Spanish minister.

- Operation Leakspin Quality Control; a forum for quality control on the translation/analysis of the cables.

- Operation Leakspin Blog; a blog informing about the operation Leakspin.

- Operation AnonPress; An operation dedicated to pushing the US Embassy Cables further into the public domain.

All previous operations naturally lead Anonymous on to the path of the Arab Revolutions and directly to;

#Operation Tunisia

Operation Tunisia was an operation by internet group Anonymous during the Tunisian revolution. The group supports freedom of information, regardless of circumstance and were taking steps to help the Tunisians achieve this.

Tactics

In their traditional manner; Anonymous launched a series of DDoS attacks against government website, reportedly over 9000 people participated in the DDoS attacks Additionally, Anonymous provided protesters with documents required to take down the incumbent government as well as methods of circumventing government censorship via proxies. The providing of information was considered by some a part of previous Operation Leakspin.

Websites run by the Tunisian government have been successfully targeted by Operation: Tunisia, a cell within Anonymous’ Operation Payback, in a distributed denial of service action, which dropped image and message on several government sites before the Anon-fueled DDoS knocked them offline.

The message from Anonymous is to the point:

The Tunisian government wants to control the present with falsehoods and misinformation in order to impose the future by keeping the truth hidden from its citizens. We will not remain silent while this happens. Anonymous has heard the claim for freedom of the Tunisian people. Anonymous is willing to help the Tunisian people in this fight against oppression. It will be done.

This is a warning to the Tunisian government… It’s on the hands of the Tunisian government to stop this situation. Free the net, and attacks will cease, keep on that attitude and this will just be the beginning.

The sites affected include: pm.gov.tn, rcd.tn, benali.tn, carthage.tn, bvmt.com.tn, sicad.gov.tn,indrustrie.gov.tn, commerce.gov.tn, douane.gov.tn and ministeres.tn.

At first Anonymous posted a video on Youtube http://youtu.be/BFLaBRk9wY0 declaring their intentions. Once the DDoS attacks were commenced, it wasn’t long before the top five government websites in Tunisia were knocked offline for a substantial amount of time, but this was a relatively small achievement compared with the tools and knowledge that Anonymous supplied the protesters, arguably giving them the ability to topple the government.

You can still get the most recent care package released by anonymous. Contains first aid, printable Fawkes mask, etc. Use this wisely.
- Torrent Download: http://www.demonoid.me/files/download/2577264/002509810716

And at the end Ben Ali was…

Attack on Fine Gael website

The website for the Irish political party Fine Gael, a centre right party and currently the Republic of Ireland’s largest opposition party at that time, was hacked by Anonymous according to TheJournal.ie. The site was replaced with a page showing the Anonymous logo along with the words “Nothing is safe, you put your faith in this political party and they take no measures to protect you. They offer you free speech yet they censor your voice. WAKE UP! <owned by Raepsauce and Palladium>”. Up to 2,000 people’s personal details were compromised in the attack by the hackers, known as Anonymous, Fine Gael said.

This hack is still involved in controversial information… Maybe YOU can explained… LULZ

Operation Algeria

The first indications of a national uprising in Tunisia came when Anonymous activists began organising protests, using the net as their primary communications vehicle.

Algeria, another North African Maghreb state, is the next target as Anonymous online hacktivists demand to see the right to freedom of speech respected, and a democratic government installed.

Anonymous Press Release: A Warning Message to the Algerian Government

http://youtu.be/2Xiv31-llc4

Operation Payback (is a bitch), this is the Internet, we run this. An open message from Anonymous to the governments of the world and their legal leeches regarding the motivation of the cyber protests against ACTA lawyers and those who threaten freedom of speech online.

Corrupt governments of the world, we are anonymous. For some time now, voices have been crying out in unison against the new ACTA laws. The gross inadequacies of the new laws being passed internationally have been pointed out repeatedly. Our chief complaint is that such measures would restrict people’s access to the internet.

In these modern times access to the internet is fast becoming a basic human right. Just like any other basic human right, we believe that it is wrong to infringe upon it. To threaten to cut people off from the global consciousness as you have is criminal and abhorrent. To move to censor content on the internet based on your own prejudice is at best laughably impossible, at worst, morally reprehensible.

The unjust restrictions you impose on us will meet with disaster and only strengthen our resolve to disobey and rebel against your tyranny. Such actions taken against you, and those you out source your malignant litigation too, are inevitable, unavoidable and unstoppable.

A Letter from Anonymous – Our Message, Intentions, and Potential Targe

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Hello World. We are Anonymous. What you do or do not know about us is irrelevant. We have decided to write to you, the media, and all citizens of the free world at large to inform you of the message, our intentions, potential targets, and our ongoing peaceful campaign for freedom.

“True, This! —
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! —
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —
States can be saved without it!”

- The Cardinal Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy by: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The message is simple: Freedom of Speech. Anonymous is peacefully campaigning for Freedom of Speech everywhere in all forms. Freedom of Speech for: The Internet, for journalism and journalists, and citizens of the world at large. Regardless of what you think or have to say; Anonymous is campaigning for you.
The recent news of our campaigns has been, at best, misinformed. Anonymous is not always the same group of people. The Constitution of the United States is said to be a living document, because it can be edited, amended; changed at the will of the people to suit the peoples’ needs. In that same vein, Anonymous is a living idea. Anonymous is an idea that can be edited, updated, remanded, changed on a whim. We are living consciousness. We are not a terrorist organization as governments, demagogues, and the media would have you believe. At this time Anonymous is a consciousness focused on campaigning peacefully for Freedom of Speech. We ask the world to support us, not for our sake, but for your own. When governments control freedom they control you. The Internet is the last bastion of freedom in this evolving technical world. The Internet is capable of connecting us all. When we are connected we are strong. When we are strong we have power. When we have power we are able to do the impossible. This is why the government is moving on Wikileaks. This is what they fear. They fear our power when we unite. Do not forget this.

“…Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.”
- Monsignor, Boondock Saints

Anonymous’ intentions are very clear. We are not vigilantes, regardless of the sentiment of quoting Boondock Saints, we are people on a campaign for freedom. Anonymous’ intentions are to change the current way the governments of the world and the people view true Freedom of Speech and The Internet. Anonymous is willing, ready, and able to campaign for the freedom for all. We are campaigning right now as you read the news, watch the television, fight with your
significant other, love your children, hate your neighbor, criticize the man or woman next to you. We are campaigning. The goal is simple: Win the right to keep the Internet free of any control from any entity, corporation, or government. We will do this until our, proverbial, dying breath. We do this not only for our selves, but for the world and its people at large.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”
- Ron Paul

Pay attention citizens, governments, and the world. Anonymous’ peaceful campaign will focus on any organization, corporation, government, or entity until the Internet is truly free.
Anonymous is doing what many successful campaigns have done in the past; a sit-in. It may be hard to comprehend, but a digital sit-in is our most effective method to show that all of us deserve Freedom of Speech and a free Internet. Our methods may appear, on the outside, to be cruel to those the entities that we are campaigning against, but remember buy supporting censorship they are denying everyone a basic human right. Any person, corporation, government, or miscellaneous entity that stops supporting censorship and starts promoting Freedom of Speech and a free Internet will become our allies. Anonymous, at this time, wants to persuade our counterparts rather than hurt them. We are campaigning for freedom for everyone, even the opposing side.
Do not fear us. Anonymous’ campaign does not intend to harm the individual citizen, any organizations, any websites, or government, that supports true freedom of speech. Anonymous’ past is not our present. We are here for all of you; to campaign for all of you. Where others have made this promise and failed; we make this promise and aim to keep it for everyone.
Anything attributed, credited, or tagged to Anonymous is not always what we do. We arenot always the same consciousness on a yearly, monthly, or even hourly basis. Do not believe everything you hear or read on the news. Anonymous is often credited with actions that are not campaigned for by Anonymous. The true core of Anonymous is here to help the free world for now. Anonymous wishes to represent the truth and ask that you as a citizen, media organization, or government do the same.

Operation Egypt

Operation Egypt was participation by internet hacktivist group Anonymous during the 2011 Egyptian revolution on an attempt to bring the Egyptians freedom of speech.

- Background

Anonymous had just completed their very successful Operation Tunisia in which the group successively provided Tunisians the tools needed to oust their leader, as well as attacking government websites, and at the end contribute to the final victory against a brutal dictator, and here it goes again, another country, other people ready to sacrifice on the path to freedom.

In their usual manner, Anonymous posted a video to Youtube declaring their intentions before beginning their operations.

VIDEO – OPERATION EGYPT – ANONYMOUS PRESS RELEASE – 26/01/2011

http://youtu.be/yOLc3B2V4AM

Like in Tunisia, Anonymous did provide the Egyptians with resources to circumvent government censorship but in a smaller scale, mainly launched DDoS attacks against Egyptian government websites.

The websites of Egypt’s Ministry of Information and President Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party were knocked offline by Anonymous in support of protesters calling for Mubarak’s ouster during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 . All top government sites were taken offline by the attacks with relative ease and they remained offline until Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

THE TEN PILLARS OF FREE SPEECH – an Anonymous User’s Manual

1. FREE SPEECH IS AT THE VERY TOP OF YOUR WISH LIST. Free Speech is the most fundamental of your fundamental rights. Once you lose it, you won’t have the means to complain when politicians come back and destroy your wealth, your health, your soul, your ideals, your hopes, your projects, your whole life. Free Speech is the freedom that protects all freedoms.

2. FREE SPEECH IS ALL OR NOTHING. Free speech is not negotiable. You cannot decide what others are allowed to say, because others cannot decide what you’re allowed to say. Free Speech is a reciprocity : even if you hate what I say, and even I hate what you say, you guarantee my freedom and I guarantee yours. We don’t have to agree with each other, except on that point : we have the right to disagree with each other.

3. IF YOU CANNOT SAY WHAT YOU THINK, YOU CANNOT BE WHAT YOU ARE. Your opinions are not concepts : they are the way you react to the world and take a chance to change it. When you are fully censored, your deepest thoughts, emotions, hopes, ideals, react like flowers without sun : they slowly die. This vicious process endangers the true meaning of your existence, and you progressively lose your own identity. Free Speech is the fresh air that makes your very own self breathe.

4. FREE SPEECH IS THE THING THAT DICTATORS HATE THE MOST. Some of them will allow you to run a big business, or to travel abroad, but they’ll never accept the fact that you have independent thoughts, critical opinions and dissenting ideas. Every time you fight for Free Speech, you disturb those motherfuckers. And that’s a pretty moral thing to do.

5. FREE SPEECH IS THE ULTIMATE SIGN OF DEMOCRACY. If you’re not allowed to sing, then the choir falls apart. Your very own Free Speech is the sword, the shield and the flag of democracy. That’s why, definitely, the future of democracy asks you to be as vocal as you can be, as frequently as possible. The trap of international censorship is desperately trying to swallow the Internet : make it spit freedom back out right now.

6. FREE SPEECH IS ALIVE ON THE INTERNET. No media in history of man is more independent than the Internet. It’s a fantastic victory for freedom. Well… it was. If censorship wins the war, Free Speech will be put in its death-bed, if not killed outright. We don’t like that idea.

7. FREE SPEECH IS BEAUTIFUL. For freedom is the most beautiful ideal and the greatest cause you will ever find. If you do not understand that point, maybe you should better work for Bank Of America, or run a dictatorship.

8. FREE SPEECH NEEDS YOUR COURAGE. Fighting for freedom has never been an easy game, and it never will be. You have to be strong, organized, mobilized and optimistic. Show your values, show your virtues, show your guts, for God’s sake (or whatever you believe in)!

9. IF YOU DON’T DO IT FOR YOUR OWN FREEDOM, DO IT FOR THE LULZ. The fight for freedom is exciting. With Anonymous, this excitement induces lots of lulz, which is excellent for your psychological health. Enjoy it to the max : dictators hate it when people laugh at them. And if you don’t do it for the fun, do it because most human beings live under censorship – and you’re next on the list, my dear Anon friend.

10. FREE SPEECH ON THE INTERNET IS HERE TO STAY. We will never surrender. We are legion.

We are one.

We are you.

You are Anonymous. Welcome.

IDIFTL

Either, by shout it out loud “I did it for the lulz” (IDIFTL) or just by natural evolution of a great concept, Anonymous as came of age and now stand tall amongst the comrades in arms and as take its place on the pantheon of the most success freedom fighters.

Either you like Anonymous or not the fact of the matter is that they are here and now, and History may, or may not, harshly judge those who oppose the actual status quo. To maintain the status quo is to keep the things the way they presently are, and for now one thing i´m shure, I dont want to leave this poison present this to my son.

But for now this story continues in 2011:

The Year Anonymous Took On Cops, Dictators and Existential Dread

You may be asking yourself what Anonymous is about after hearing the rumors and blatant lies the media has associated with Anonymous.
Allow me to simply inform you what Anonymous is and/or are not terrorists much like the powers that be would have you believe.
Anonymous has been demonized by these regimes simply because we have brought justice to the oppressed.
When freedom is jeopardized, Anonymous will avenge the oppressed.

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
We are many.

Game on!
~anonymous~

“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” – Marshall Mcluhan

“They are made of money. We are made of cocks.” — Antisec Anonymous, on targeting law enforcement.

Ever since we learned that people, distances, and dollars could all be counted in millions, then billions, the human struggle has been about consequence: What could anyone do that would matter in such a huge world? And in 2011, having left the self-indulgent identity of 4channers behind, Anonymous faced this existential dilemma.

A single question haunted every video, every news report, every AnonOps channel on IRC: Is what Anonymous does of consequence? It’s not a universal requirement; we don’t require our sports stars and celebrities to be of consequence. Hell, we don’t even require it of our politicians.

But Anonymous had taken up the idea of making a difference in the late 2010 operations. Sure, Anonymous is bombastic, entertaining, sometimes quite clever, sometimes cruel, nearly always vicious, and eternally sophomoric, but will the actions of Anonymous change the world?

As Anonymous, its online watchers and the media evaluated its moves, it became clear through the growing protest movements and collectives of 2011 that the question of consequence wasn’t just about Anonymous.

It was about whether action outside a system that few of us are, or can be, a real part of can affect the world. When we judged Anonymous, we were also judging our own willingness to act outside the confines of normal society. We were judging not only if Anonymous could leave its mark, but whether we could or should.

The question of consequence was, by the end of 2010, hanging in the wings, but it took the fire that sparked the Arab Spring to bring it to center stage.

Anonymous Foreign Policy

Mohamed Bouazizi was a produce vendor in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia. He was always meant to be a little person in the world, whose life and death could never matter. You were never meant to hear of him. But for no explicable reason, that changed on Dec. 17, 2010. His produce cart was seized by police, and he was beaten. Less than an hour later, he stood on the street doused in paint thinner, screamed “How do you expect me to make a living?” and let a lit match drop.

Bouazizi was at the end of his ability to endure, silently, the pain and abuse that had been the way life worked. But it turned out so was Tunisia, and the whole Middle East.

Within hours protests against the systemic corruption that had driven Bouazizi to self-immolation filled the streets of Sidi Bouzid, and over the next two weeks spread like fire over Tunisia.

It was Jan. 2, 2011. Ben Ali would leave power in 12 days, but no one knew that.

“There were two different posts in channel #operationpayback. First one about some law about to pass in Hungary, second one about a Tunisia problem. For some reason I paid attention to the Tunisian one, and it seems other people did too,” said an anon who participated in OpTunisia. It was a claim that Tunisian dictator Ben Ali was censoring Wikileaks cables related to Tunisia. Rumors emerged about Bouazizi as well, that he was a computer science student (he wasn’t), that he had immolated himself to protest police corruption (he had), and so on.

A few people formed #optunisia on IRC and started talking about what to do. The OpTunisia anon who spoke with Wired.com didn’t think either the op or the revolution had a chance.

“I saw nobody cared about those people, because it wasn’t a big country. It was like, ‘Fuck this is impossible…. Let’s fucking do it!’” the anon wrote in an online chat.

Over the next couple of weeks the small group DDoSed and defaced Tunisian government websites and passed media and news reports about the Tunisian uprising in and out of the country.

“We also distributed a care package containing stuff to workaround privacy (restrictions in Tunisia), including a Greasemonkey script to avoid proxy interception by the Tunisian government on Facebook users,” said the anon. (Greasemonkey scripts are powerful browser plug-ins).

Within that digital care package was a message to the people of Tunisia from Anonymous: “This is *your* revolution. It will neither be Twittered nor televised or [sic] IRC’ed. You *must* hit the streets or you *will* loose [sic] the fight. Always stay safe, once you got [sic] arrested you cannot do anything for yourself or your people. Your government *is* watching you.”

Some of those in the #optunisia channel were Tunisians, including slim404, whose real name was Slim Amamou, an outspoken Tunisian blogger. Amamou and others put themselves at risk by passing news and software back and forth between anons and the outside world and the people on the ground.

Amamou was arrested on Jan. 6, 2011. The anons in #optunisia barely slept. Police were shooting protestors, the government was censoring websites including Facebook, but the news still spread, and the protests only grew. Then, less than a month after Bouazizi’s immolation, 23 years of brutal dictatorship ended with Ben Ali’s flight from Tunisia.

“I remember I woke up like two days later and my house was full of empty bottles of champagne,” said the anon. “But then we started OpEgypt, so no rest.”

Did Anonymous make a difference in Tunisia?

“I think its better to ask Tunisians if they think we helped,” said the anon. “I did whatever I thought I could have done. My little grain of sand.”

Amamou was released from jail and went on to become the secretary of state for sport and youth — perhaps Anonymous’ first minister — though he resigned in May to protest the transitional government’s censorship of the web.

Perhaps we will never know how consequential Anonymous was for Tunisia, but Tunisia changed everything for Anonymous. OpTunisia was the first of what became known as the Freedom Ops, Anonymous operations that mostly started in Middle Eastern countries in support of the Arab Spring, but spread much further.

The next was OpEgypt, where the protests were much bigger, and the situation even more complex.

Right from the beginning of the occupation of Tahrir Square and the Jan. 25 “Day of Revolt”, Anonymous started to set up lifeline internet connections and target government servers to DDoS just as they had in Tunisia.

Three days later, Mubarak turned off the internet. Anonymous was aghast, both at this display of existential threat to the net as a way of political expression, and to their impotence in the case of a nation just taken offline.

But Mubarak fell on Feb. 11, not having lasted much longer than Ben Ali. Once again anons found they liked the sense of being part of history. For a few weeks, the pranksters-turned-activists were most known around the world for fighting the good fight beside the people, and they liked it. The Freedom Ops proliferated.

The Freedom Ops are useful in explaining how Anonymous ops work. At any time on IRC there were ops for any number of countries, not just Middle Eastern ones. There were channels for Britain, Italy, Ireland, the USA, Venezuela, Brazil, and many more, as well as Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and most of the rest of the Middle East. Most of the ops had few participants, so those who were there linked to a press release or video about problems in that country with a bold call to action, but, for long stretches, nothing would happen.

That was OK; that is how Anonymous proposes ideas to itself. This reverses the order that the media was used to. In most of the world, the bold proclamation comes after the decision to act. In Anonymous, hyperbolic manifestos and calls to apocalyptic action show you want to talk about an issue. For many people reporting on Anonymous, it often looked like Anonymous was all bluster and no action.

But that’s the wrong way to look at it. For the lulzy hive mind, bluster can be the point itself. Other times, quieter, less dramatic actions would spring up and fill the channel, only for it to go quiet again when anons had moved on to another action. For the Freedom Ops, lying fallow was no shame, and dormant ops often sparked up in response to news events from the relevant region.

It’s important to understand what sort of op each one is if you want to understand whether it was successful, and sometimes that’s not even possible.

If the infamous #OpCartel — a call to take on murderous Mexican drug cartels — was launched to spark a real war between Los Zetas and Anonymous, it failed. If it was launched to create confusion and generate media hype, then the anons behind it can take those lulz to the bank; it was very successful as trolling. But without ever knowing who did it, we can never know why it was done, and this is the case with many, perhaps most, ops.

Anonymous’ January belonged to Tunisia, Egypt, and the Arab Spring, and it was the most serious moment in the hive mind’s history. But their February belonged to a previously obscure security company called HBGary Federal, and may have Anonymous’s lulziest of moments.

The Harrowing Tale of HBGary and HBGary Federal

It began with a Financial Times article in which Aaron Barr, the CEO of an obscure government-focused security company formed by the better known security company HBGary, claimed to have uncovered the leadership of Anonymous. He said the group had around 30 members, and 10 “core” members who made the decisions, and that he’d linked their IRC handles to their real names using social network analysis. He was building a security conference talk around his research.

“I am doing a pretty good job identifying key people and illuminating how they work. All of this I am doing using social media analysis. There are probably a few government organizations that might be interested in this data before I go public with it…. I think it will make quite a splash,” said Barr in an e-mail to a colleague.

The reaction from Anonymous was electric, but not for the reason many believed. It wasn’t the threat of arrest and prosecution per se — that had been a part of life as an anon for years, going back to DDoSing the Church of Scientology. Anonymous was incredibly angry, but at something more akin to heresy than infiltration. By claiming the leaderless collective had leadership they all secretly obeyed he’d walked into Anonymous’ Vatican and declared their Virgin Mary a whore. They responded with the viciousness of the defiled.

A team of several anons, allegedly five, swung into action. They hacked HBGary Federal’s server, social engineered their way into founding company HBGary’s servers as well, and even took down rootkit.com, HBGary founder Greg Hoglund’s site that tracks rootkits in the wild. They pulled out over 71,000 e-mails and internal documents. They defaced the websites. The notice on HBGary Federal’s site read “This domain seized by Anonymous under section #14 of the rules of the Internet.” (Rule 14: Do not argue with trolls — it means that they win. See more of the ‘rules‘, link is NSFW.)

Their public statement on the hack was, in part, addressed to Aaron Barr:

“You think you’ve gathered full names and home addresses of the ‘higher-ups’ of Anonymous? You haven’t. You think Anonymous has a founder and various co-founders? False. You believe that you can sell the information you’ve found to the FBI? False…. The personal details of Anonymous ‘members’ you think you’ve acquired are, quite simply, nonsense.

So why can’t you sell this information to the FBI like you intended? Because we’re going to give it to them for free.”

That first release contained mainly material pertaining to Aaron Barr and HBGary Federal; Greg Hoglund and HBGary’s material remained, unreleased, in the hands of a few anons. But Barr and the others were not naive computer users, and Barr had already been in Anonymous IRC channels for some time. On Feb. 7, two days after the Financial Times article that had started the fracas, Aaron Barr, HBGary founder Greg Hoglund and Penny Leavy, president of HBGary and wife of Hoglund, came to IRC to talk to the hive mind.

Like something out of a surrealist cyberpunk novel, the three executives debated the people in #ophbgary, negotiating and pleading for the future of their companies with anons who went by nicks like heyguise, PewPewPew, Sabu, and n0pants. Barr himself went by CogAnon.

The chat was fast paced and erratic, sprinkled with jokes, insults, soft statements of support, and apparent candor on both sides. Leavy and Hoglund took a conciliatory note with the collective — at one point Leavy tried to engage the room in talking about the game Fallout.

But Barr seemed unable to back down in front of the anons, even for the good of his colleagues, whose mail hadn’t been released. “I repeat this was only about research on social media vulnerabilities,” he told the anons. “You guys crossed the line.”

“No CogAnon,” came the blunt reply, “you did.”

The anons holding the HBGary mails offered a deal to Leavy and Hoglund. They asked that Barr be fired and a contribution be made in his name to Bradley Manning’s legal defense.

Leavy started to debate with the anons over the morality of Manning’s actions, but the anons warned her off the topic. She took the hint, but not before the room nearly turned on her. It was untrod territory for all involved. No one, not the anons or the security company executives, had a sense for the etiquette of negotiations between button-down corporate America and the rude boys of the net.

Still, anons didn’t release Hoglund’s mail immediately, until it became clear that his IRC attitude had been a negotiation tactic. Anonymous looked through the purloined e-mails and found triumphant chatter between the two companies on Barr’s work, including Hoglund discussing how to frame HBGary’s post about it:

I think these guys are going to get arrested, it would be interesting to leave the soft impression that Aaron is the one that got them, and that without Aaron the Feds would have never been able to get out of their own way. So, position Aaron as a hero to the public. At this point they are going to get arrested anyway.

That, and a few hostile messages about Anonymous from Hoglund to the media sealed the deal: The remaining e-mails were released.

Despite Hoglund’s dire predictions for the group, no law enforcement hammer fell on Anonymous. To this day very few arrests of anons have been for sophisticated hacking, and given the nature of the group, it’s hard to tell if the few arrests that have been made were of the right people.

Instead HBGary showed the hive mind that it could be bold and lulzy, and the police weren’t right there to arrest them. They learned that they could be colder, and funnier, than ever. They could capture the media imagination, and they weren’t hunted down like dogs. They could dump data on the internet, and all over the world people picked through the HBGary e-mails to uncover security world schemes and even plots against WikiLeaks. HBGary had taught them that they could be lulzy, and a certain kind of anti-establishment hero at the same time.

But this new way of being an anon wouldn’t fully blossom until May, when the Lulzsboat set sail.

After OpTunisia and OpHBGary, most of 2011′s Anonymous major actions fell into one of two camps: the activist and lulzy hacking. But the old culture went on as well, the lolcats of 4chan, the protests in front of the Church of Scientology. Anonymous only got harder to characterize, and there were no anons that agreed with all of the collective, except maybe about liking cats.

As with any culture, there were factions that hated each other. Some anons thought the hacker anons were ruining it for everyone else, others thought trying to assist with revolutions in far-flung, tiny countries was a waste of time. And some still simply liked crank-calling people and sending unpaid pizzas to random victims’ homes.

By April Anonymous had someone beyond HBGary and Middle Eastern dictators to love to hate: Sony. The Sony PS3 console had been a favorite of hackers, who used a jailbreak created by George Hotz (geohot) in 2010 to install custom firmware and run Linux and OtherOS. Running Linux was originally a feature used by Sony to promote the PlayStation, but later removed the feature with a patch.

In January 2011, Sony sued Hotz and others for allegedly violating federal law against circumventing encryption. Hotz settled in April under a gag rule, but it didn’t stop him from blasting Sony on his personal blog and asking people to join him in a boycott of Sony products.

Anonymous went further, relaunching Operation Payback to DDoS Sony websites. Some anons were content with that, while others wanted to punish Sony. 77 million accounts on the PlayStation Network were hacked in April, which Sony laid at Anonymous’ feet, although some anons denied it. Hackers hit again in May, this time the Sony Online Entertainment network, with 24.6 million account records breached.

The Sony PlayStation Network was down from April 20 to May 14, and by the time Anonymous was done with Sony, its stock price had fallen from $31 per share to just over $25.

But while Sony’s terrible security practices were highlighted by around 19 to 20 security breaches between April and June of 2011, the most flamboyant came from the Anonymous spinoff group, Lulzsec.

- LulzSec Chasing Roots

LulzSec first gained mainstream significance after it hacked tech giant Sony.

In its opening salvo the group cited Sony‘s handling of the PlayStation Network outage and the network’s continued weakness as its primary motivation. The attack led many to believe that the group followed a similar hacktivist code to that of its 4Chan-born sibling Anonymous.

This theory was later questioned as the collective began attacking increasingly random targets.

LulzSec’s anarchistic approach to hacking peaked when the group released the personal information of as many as 62,000 random internet users.

The statement released in celebration of its one-thousandth tweet served to put an end to this theory once and for all. In it LulzSec once again reiterated that its attacks are done purely for the entertainment of its contributors:

“This is the lulz lizard era, where we do things just because we find it entertaining. Watching someone’s Facebook picture turn into a penis and seeing their sister’s shocked response is priceless.

“Receiving angry e-mails from the man you just sent 10 dildos to because he can’t secure his Amazon password is priceless. You find it funny to watch havoc unfold, and we find it funny to cause it.”

AntiSec Hacktivism

Later, despite its constant reiterance that it was simply “in it for the Lulz,” LulzSec became one of Anonymous’ closest allies in its ongoing Operation Anti-Security campaign — often abbreviated to AntiSec.

This alliance could be seen as the first stage of LulzSec’s journey to current “responsible” approach to hacking. It showed LulzSec for the first time directing its hacks and cyber-attacks against targets for an ongoing cause, in this case Anonymous’ ongoing protest against internet censorship and moderation:

“We encourage you to spread the word of AntiSec far and wide, for it will be remembered. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships.

“As we’re aware, the government and whitehat security terrorists across the world continue to dominate and control our Internet Ocean. Sitting pretty on cargo bays full of corrupt booty, they think it’s acceptable to condition and enslave all vessels in sight.

“Our Lulz Lizard battle fleet is now declaring immediate and unremitting war on the freedom-snatching moderators of 2011.”

Setting Sail on a Sea of Lulz

In May this small group of anons broke off from the hive to form Lulzsec, short for Lulz Security. They started a 50-day flamboyant hacking spree that germinated the seeds the HBGary hack had sown. At the beginning of 2011, Anonymous, for all its bombastic video editing, was still often shy to act, careful of its targets, and worried about retaliation. HBGary had taught anons to aim bigger and d0x harder. Lulzsec would teach Anonymous to shoot the moon, or at least try to DDoS it.

Lulzsec, under the motto “The world’s leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense”, veered between the political and funny, and the completely random and hilarious. Early on in their rampagethey hacked PBS as a way to give a negative review of a documentary on WikiLeaks, and released PBS login information. But while they were there, they also put up fake news stories claiming that deceased rappers Tupac and Biggie Smalls were alive and living in New Zealand.

At another point, Lulzsec called magnets.com, then tweeted that the website’s customer service wouldn’t tell them how magnets worked. (Wired speculates that the actual question was probably “Fucking magnets, how do they work?”) In retaliation for not finding out how magnets work, Lulzsec not only DDoSed magnets.com, but used a phone redirect to clog magnets.com’s phone system. The same day they DDoSed cia.gov offline. While not really hacking, this did show what many considered to be an excess of chutzpah — a way of saying to the world that there was no hornet’s nest Lulzsec wouldn’t kick.

They hacked Sony six times, the U.S. Senate website twice, and an FBI contractor once, getting account data and releasing it onto the web. They hit Minecraft, Eve Online, and Nintendo. They released account data, logins and passwords from a porn site and Arizona law enforcement. They lit up the media in May and June as no other hacker group ever had.

Much of the computer security industry came to love the group. Lulzsec hadn’t used particularly sophisticated hacks in many cases, but that was the point. After years of security staff complaining to their managers that security was abysmal and privacy dead — only to be told there wasn’t money for security, the hacker group had done what they could never do: made people pay attention.

In a post called Why we secretly love LulzSec Patrick Gray admitted his pleasure at watching the mayhem.

“LulzSec is running around pummelling [sic] some of the world’s most powerful organisations into the ground… for laughs! For lulz! For shits and giggles,” he wrote. “Surely that tells you what you need to know about computer security: there isn’t any.”

But after 50 days, Lulzsec called it quits (even as law enforcement closed in). They quietly folded back into Anonymous to create Antisec, Anonymous’ black hat hacking wing. While Antisec retained the witty and sarcastic voice of Lulzsec, they too succumbed to the pull of current events, and their attacks became progressively more political. Events around the world were once again about to change Anonymous, including the pursuit and arrest of people purported to be associated with Lulzsec itself.

The Dress Rehearsal Revolution

OpBART arose out of unlikely ground for Anonymous: the messy, offline world of race relations and police violence from the California Bay Area’s light rail system’s police force. Anti-police brutality protests had become a recurring feature in San Francisco and Oakland since the 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant in an Oakland station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.

On Aug. 11, anti-BART activists were planning a rally at San Francisco’s Civic Center transit stop to protest the July 3 shooting of a homeless man named Charles Hill. It was nationally unremarkable, and a local transit police shooting wasn’t likely to ever draw in Anonymous, but the response from BART to the planned protest put them right in the Anonymous crosshairs.

By coincidence I was there that day, getting off at Civic Center. I wasn’t there as a journalist or protestor — just meeting a friend for dinner nearby. I was only vaguely aware of the protest. As I pulled into San Francisco, my phone went dead. At first I assumed it was my phone, but it dawned on me as I went through the downtown stops that it might be something else. The train’s doors slid open to a line of police in riot gear, and I got off, still clutching my dead phone.

To thwart protesters from coordinating via mobile devices, BART cut cell service to its downtown stations. It might not seem like much, but it’s different to be there. To face a line of blank-faced paramilitary police is one thing, and something that I have done many times for my Wired coverage of the Occupy movement. During that time, I have been yelled at, pushed, struck, and tear gassed by police. But none of that was as chilling as standing in front of that peaceful and even bored line of BART police and knowing that they had cut off my way of communicating with the rest of the world.

When news got out, Anonymous turned on BART with a vengeance. Announcements of action on behalf of the anti-BART protestors began pouring onto YouTube; Anti-BART anon accounts opened on Twitter; #OpBart formed on IRC. Over the next month, Anon hackers attacked the ill-defended BART and MyBART websites and did data dumps, and in one nadir moment that caused a public fights among anons, attempted to blackmail BART spokesman Linton Johnson into resigning after finding and threatening to post explicit pictures of him, which they eventually did.

As OpBART progressed, it became a media circus. Anonymous released customer and police data, and talked about protests going on forever. They were perfecting their media hacking toolkit, sometimes addressing media professionals directly.

A few anons showed up in masks at the protests and were mobbed by press. They amplified and encouraged voices on the ground, in particular the longstanding group calling for the dismantling of the BART police force, No Justice No BART. No one in the press could tell where the Anonymous protest ended and the local news story began.

Between Anonymous’ bombastic support online and the potential national ramifications of a small regional police force having power over telecom infrastructure (the FCC opened an inquiry), representatives of all levels of media showed up at several Monday protests, helicopters circling overhead, and police riot lines greeted them. A couple of times, media and police found they far outnumbered the protestors. The BART police closed stations and kettled the media at one point. The San Francisco police department arrested activists outside the stations.

No one knew it yet, but it was a dress rehearsal for what would become the largest effort Anonymous has ever undertaken — its support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. There was no downtime; OWS began just as OpBART wound down.

OpESR To Occupy Wall Street:

There was some discussion regarding the role of Anonymous in the protests called “Occupy Wall Street”, protests that are now spreading throughout the country.

Some have stated their disdain for Anonymous, calling them mask wearing cowards who are simply attention seekers latching on to Occupy Wall Street late in the game to garner publicity.

Some have said Anonymous is just now jumping on a suddenly popular movement to gain approval or legitimacy, or are just showing up in their masks for the lulz.

Others have described Anonymous as a bunch of kiddy hackers who lack legitimacy, or simple pranksters, or conversely, a dangerous flash mob who only want to cause trouble, steal your identity, and refuse to work within the system.

NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH!

Back in the dim, scarcely remembered days of yore (June 3, 2011) Anonymous released a video and a call to arms. It was a clarion call to physically protest, in meat space (real life, as opposed to ‘cyber space’.)

It was a hint of what was to come.

But first, this Anonymous video/announcement was made, which shows that Anonymous was willing to try to work within the system:
Anonymous sought to bring a RICO lawsuit against the Fed for defrauding the American people.

Then came OpESR 2

(portions of the transcribed text below video)

… We are issuing a calling,
to all cyber warriors to join with us as we turn the tables on the regimes who are oppressing their people across the globe. At this very moment, courses of action are being taken to restrict the voice of the net. The net is the last bastian of true freedom for the human race.
We have begun sharing our stories and all the gritty details with one another no matter where we may be on this planet.This is worrysome for those who seek to control us.

They want us silenced and this is the final straw. Digital supremecy will be the selective targeting of all organizations guilty of treason against the people, guilty of restraint from freedom. Any party who has violated and continues to violate the will of the people and the voice of true freedom will become a priorty for a cyber assault unlike anything this world has witnessed.

It is the duty of the rest of the people to continue their pursuits for these freedoms by any means necessary.
It is time to escalate your actions of spreading the word and reaching out to our neighbors and communities.
Protest must become more frequent and grow in strength and size. Peace is our priorty, but resistance will be met
with a fierce and sharp defensive.
Our voice and cause is our weapon.
Our vigilance is our offensive.
Begin your flyer campaigns, protests, art, music, literature and video campaigns now. Paint the walls in every city. Banksy, this means you, my friend.
Gather the street artists as a new canvas has been layed out before you.
The time for evolved tactics has begun.
The resistance is here.

As the voices are attempted to be silenced by the oppressors, the guardians will be here to shut down these priorities and turn the tables on the digital landscape. Through this physical resistance we will grow stronger as our friends maintain
the defensive on the digital realm.
We are one.
We are many…we are the resistance.

Freedom begins now.

Translate and spread.

In this new video release (#OpESR 2), “as a first step,” Anonymous has called for public protests beginning on June 14th, continuing “until Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke steps down.”

To make their case, they have presented a list of recent scandalous Federal Reserve actions.

06/11/2011

Anonymous <3 Occupy

Occupy Wall Street was not an Anonymous plan, but Anonymous came out in support of it in late August, and drew more media attention to it. When people descended on Lower Manhattan on Sept. 17 and wound up in Zuccotti Park, it was often the people wearing Guy Fawkes masks that were most swamped by the press. Anonymous was using the techniques it had learned over the course of OpBART to create media buzz.

As occupations spread, anons were there at each step, encouraging. “I think it was some Anonymous people who saw my tweets, said I should start Occupy Boston,” said Occupy Boston founder Robin Jacks, “and I thought, I think I will.”

During the early days of the Occupy movement, the ebullient spirit that was lighting up parks was contagious; the normally cynical hive mind began to sound a little more happy — even hippie-like — in their support.

“Everyone, everywhere, will be occupying their towns, their capitols, and other public spaces,” intoned a popular Anonymous video. “Already we have made tremendous progress… this is now bigger than you, or me. It is about us, a collective 99 percent.”

Not all anons support OWS. But many anons said to me when I would talk about Anonymous and OWS: “Same thing.” — not paraphrasing a shared idea — but those exact two words — “Same thing.” After September most of the activist energy of Anonymous seemed to be swallowed by Occupy.

But why was Occupy so important to Anonymous? In part it was that many anons hail from the United States and United Kingdom, and could culturally connect with the local Occupys than with the Arab Spring movement.

But it was more than that. In the Occupy movement, Anonymous seemed to find a body its peripatetic spirit could inhabit.

Occupy Wall Street was not like Tahrir Square in Egypt, or the summer demonstrations in Spain. Tahrir attracted the young heroes, the educated and cutting edge of Egypt, and its activists. The Spanish protests brought out the full strata of society.

But Occupy, smaller and more distributed than the uprisings elsewhere, welcomed the misfits of society. Many were society’s forgotten and disempowered, not the widely oppressed masses that had demonstrated elsewhere. The people who found their way to the parks around America and set up tent cities in September and through October were the rejects, the fuck-ups, people that had fallen for debt scams and got in over their heads with student loans or meth.

They were the misfit army, unarmed but unwilling to remain silent and invisible. In this they were a perfect fit for Anonymous. Both collectives were bound together by being the kinds of people who never found a comfortable place in society.

When the crackdowns started, all the occupiers had to throw at the police were their own bodies.

And so they did.

Anonymous watched the evictions, arrests, and even beatings and chemical violence over the weeks, some on screens, and some onsite with their local Occupys. As the painful images pileed up, the rhetoric of the hive mind turned darker. Antisec started targeting law enforcement as retribution.

Of the recent hack of Stratfor — a private intelligence firm, one of the participants explained on IRC that “They [Stratfor] promote global market stability, whereas we want financial meltdown” — a meltdown specifically aimed at the 1 percent. “It’s about creating an egalitarian society without bosses or masters, it’s about forcefully redistributing the wealth and power in society.”

The same anon said of the Lulzxmas campaign and the targeting of law enforcement in general, “We thought we had every right to gather in public parks, to speak our demands. And they systematically targeted us for elimination. The 18 cities who coordinated the crackdown against OWS a month ago was a breaking point for many. So we decided it was time for us to coordinate a raid of our own,” the anon told Wired.com.

Last Thursday, an anon revealed on Twitter that Antisec had been able to use the Stratfor logins to compromise many of the top 100 U.S. government contractors. They hinted that they will be attacking them and releasing more material in the coming weeks.

It’s hard to say how the aggressive d0xing helps Occupy, and most of the occupiers don’t understand or even know of the actions of Anonymous. But the year of political strife has irrevocably changed Anonymous. “Before we attacked that first day,” said the OpTunisia anon, “it was like a lost cause. [We thought] nobody will care. But then they inspired me to hope about humanity. I never had that.”

But a little hope can be a dangerous thing.

The existential question that Anonymous still faces is this: Does it matter? And if so, how much does Anonymous matter? Will our way of life someday change because of some part Anonymous plays in history?

2011 posed the question, but didn’t answer it. Instead it showed that Anonymous changed anons. Anonymous became bolder, stranger, more threatening, and more comforting in turns. Last year, Anonymous, like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, picked a fight with the systems of society.

Perhaps in 2012 we’ll see who wins.

4 Now its GAME – ON

Operation SeedBomb

OpGreatWhite

OpSyria

OpBlackMarch

OpBlitzkrieg

OpMegaupload

Hacktivist

A hacktivist is “a computer hacker whose activity is aimed at promoting a social or political cause,” much like a traditional activist. The term isn’t new. (The Oxford English Dictionary dates it to at least 1995.) But a group of hacktivists called Anonymous stole headlines all year, to great approval and simultaneously great criticism. Anonymous released IP addresses of alleged pedophiles and forced child-pornography sites offline. It launched a website called Anonymous Analytics, dedicated to exposing “corrupt companies.” It attacked websites like PayPal in a protest to show support for WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange. It even set its electronic crosshairs on NATO after targeting Sony, CIA, FBI, and the Church of Scientology. In short, the Anonymous hacktivists have been very busy little bees in the bonnets of many, many people.

The Anonymous hacker group uses the mask of British revolutionary Guy Fawkes as a symbol, suggesting that institutions sometimes deserve to be attacked. Like…

CIA Under Cyber Attack. Anonymous Take Down Central Intelligence Agency

FuckFBIFriday

To be continued… Expect us

Sorry not to mention the sources but I truly believe that if its on-line its FREE

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive censorship.
We do not forget the denial of our free rights as human beings.
Expected us to Give An EPiC Fight
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