Anonops. AnonNews.org : Everything Anonymous. AnonNews uses an open-posting concept. Anyone can post to the site, and moderators will approve relevant posts. No censorship takes place! For information, edits, moderator applications, and everything else join the IRC channel or visit info@anonnews.org. Press can contact press@anonnews.org. We are not an official press platform, but we'd gladly answer questions about AnonNews, or, more broadly, get you in touch with other Anons. Apologies if it takes a while before you get a response, someone felt the urge to send an e-mail bomb. AnonNews will very soon be updated. AnonNews now accepts (anonymous) BitCoin donations. Press release submission is currently on hold. The server is currently undergoing some maintenance. Operation Payback - Against Censorship and the PROTECT IP Bill 13 comments Anonymous declares war on New Zealand's Government 69 comments Operation Blitzkrieg - #opBlitzkrieg 05-01-2011 542 comments Anonymous To Attack U.S.
Anonymous: peering behind the mask - + 8 8 comments. Anonymous (group) Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated international network of activist and hacktivist entities. A website nominally associated with the group describes it as "an internet gathering" with "a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives". The group became known for a series of well-publicized publicity stunts and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government, religious, and corporate websites. Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.[3][4] Anonymous members (known as "Anons") can be distinguished in public by the wearing of stylised Guy Fawkes masks.[5] In its early form, the concept was adopted by a decentralized online community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner, usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal, and primarily focused on entertainment, or "lulz".
Convictions. Unless the sources of the DDoS attacks being carried out by Anonymous are identified and stopped, there seems to be no end in sight for their deluge of operations. These 'AnonOps' are presented as global outreach operations of sorts, aimed at assisting individuals and organizations subjected to persecution by governments and other institutions aiming to silence free expression and dissent. The Tunisian people are perceived by Anonymous to be in need of global support and the same can be said of Wikileaks. In particular, the consensus seems to be that governments and other powerful bodies have chosen to pursue Julian Assange and his collaborators for having exposed crimes committed by those same institutions. Whether the Anonymous group can succeed in its attempts to raise awareness of these issues and to discourage censorship hangs on the question of whether its members can be stopped.
How likely is it that Anonymous members will be identified prosecuted? Etoy.HISTORY. Anonops History. One account. All of Google. Sign in to continue to Blogger Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google.
Operation Leakspin. Operation FaceOff. Blackfax ?=? paperstorm. Operation Bling. Operation1984. Operation Tunesia. Operation Mahatma. OpVenezuela. Hackers Take Down Government Websites in Egypt and Yemen. In a protest against Internet censorship in Egypt, hacker group Anonymous took down the sites of the Ministry of Information and President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party on Wednesday. The National Democratic Party's site is still offline. Anonymous is a scattered "hactivist" group that is best known for its attack last year on payment sites like PayPal and Visa that denied service to WikiLeaks. A spokesperson from the group told The New York Times that Wednesday's attacks are part of a wider campaign to support antigovernment protests.
Anonymous recently shut down government websites in Tunisia, where an uprising forced the country's dictator to flee, and Zimbabwe, which threatened to sue anyone publishing WikiLeaks. Yemen appears to be the group's next target. In anticipation of today's antigovernment rallies, Anonymous took down the Yemeni Ministry of Information's website and the website of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Gawker reports. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, ssuni. WikiLeaks: Anonymous takes down Swedish prosecution website | Media. The Swedish prosecutor's website crashed late yesterday, moments after the authority announced its intention to fight the decision to grant WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange bail in the UK.
The website of the Swedish Prosecution Authority, Aklagare.se, was brought offline for almost 11 hours on Tuesday in the latest online attack by Anonymous, the loose-knit group committed to crippling the websites of companies and governments perceived to be acting against WikiLeaks. The site was back online at the time of publication. At least three hackers linked to the Anonymous attacks, including two Dutch teenagers, have been arrested this week as authorities crack down on the illegal online assaults that have brought down the sites of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal in the past fortnight. Assange this week issued a rallying call to his supporters, urging them to protect the whistleblowers' site from what he called "instruments of US foreign policy" – citing Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. Proposal for a Directive on attacks against information systems, repealing Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA.
Brussels, 30 September 2010 Proposal for a Directive on attacks against information systems, repealing Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA What is the problem to be addressed? In recent years, the number of attacks against information systems (IT systems) – or, in common words, the illegal entering of or tampering with information systems - has risen steadily in Europe.
Moreover, previously unknown large-scale and dangerous attacks against the information systems of companies, such as banks, the public sector and even the military, have been observed in the Member States and other countries. What is a botnet? The term botnet indicates a network of computers that have been infected by malicious software (computer virus). How does it work? Figures and graphics available in PDF and WORD PROCESSED What is the size of the problem? Inside the EU, damages from this botnet were reported in France, the UK and Germany. What is the aim of the cyber attacks? The underlying objectives can be varied. Hunting Anonymous | Anti-Forensics. The FBI has received logs containing IP addresses that took part in the Denial of Service attacks on various corporations including PayPal and Mastercard. Arrests have been made already. Not many, but you’re talking about a bureaucracy here, where they waste a lot of time.
So more may be coming. So, maybe you took part in the attacks and used LOIC from your home computer? What does this mean exactly? I can tell you. This means that with the current version of LOIC, your current IP is sent in each packet header. Here is a general outline of what happened if your IP was reported: If the trail of evidence happened to lead back to your home and the pheds decide to raid your home, they will seize all digital media. If you’re lucky they won’t shoot your dog or mother holding the TV remote when they kick down your door. So what can someone in this situation do?
1. 2. 3. Personally, I like the wiping approach. 4. Have a blank CD? Download: Download: Urizenus Sklar: Generation W: WikiLeaks Ignites a New Generation of Hacktivists. While the traditional media and the United States government continue to fixate on the individual Julian Assange, a not so subtle cultural shift is taking root worldwide: Hacktivist culture is rapidly morphing from a small underground subculture into mainstream culture for a younger generation, not just in the United States, but worldwide. Julian Assange and WikiLeaks did not start this cultural movement, but they have served as a catalyst for its robust growth and worldwide propagation.
And while the new generation of hacktivists has Wikileaks as its model, they also grew up in the era of George W. Bush's neo-imperialism and its attendant war against transparency. WikiLeaks is the answer to the age of W, and it has given rise to what I call Generation W. Once the Wrong Hands infiltrated the JLU, they leaked the contents of the JLU database, posting it in many locations online. Assange may eventually be incarcerated or worse, but the genie is definitely out of the bottle at this point.
Social Dynamics of the LOIC. Yesterday’s post about group behavior when faced with changing conditions elicited some response. Despite my not having mentioned the ongoing attacks anywhere in the entire text, my comment field filled with people defending Anonymous. No, not so much defending Anonymous, actually, as… maybe feeling uneasy over my post as such. Apparently, something in the text stepped on a toe. Thankfully, a bit later, more people stepped in and understood what I was trying to say; that things aren’t always as easy as good and evil. I think those comments were among the most thoughtful and worthwhile I’ve had in quite a while.
Let there be no mistake: I strongly criticize any and all attacks on infrastructure (like other Pirate Party leaders do internationally, as well as others). We are here to defend the Internet. Anyway, things are not black and white. Finally getting to the point, here. When you install LOIC on your computer, you become a soldier in an ongoing war. Anonymous Plans To Hack And Deface More Government Web Sites - Parmy Olson - Tea & Tech. Wikileaks Official Anthem. Anonymous, WikiLeaks and The Matrix Generation. The Wachowski brothers’ 1999-2003 film series, The Matrix gained worldwide popularity and since its release has been very influential. It is not simply a film, but has become a cultural phenomenon. In past ages, it was philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Immanuel Kant that engaged youth with deep questions and the search for meaning in their lives. Yet Neo’s conundrum “What is real?” Has become the question of our age.
Throughout history, each new generation has questioned and rebelled against what had come before. Generations X and Y grew up with the dot-com bubble and ubiquitous digital technology. This group of teens and young adults today has largely been viewed as tamed, apathetic, and glued to their screens. Each age has had a literary imagination that guided it. Image Credit - Riversstream blogspot.com This generation is unique in that it is comprised of many ages and is inherently transnational. Image Credit - bigpicturebigsound.com Anonymous: Neo vs. References: Chris Hedges' Empire of Illusion | The New School. Chris Hedges. Christopher Lynn "Chris" Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist specializing in American politics and society. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction—Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010) and his most recent New York Times best seller, written with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012).
Hedges is currently a columnist for news website Truthdig and a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City.[1] He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism.
Biography[edit] Personal life[edit] New York Times[edit] Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (9781568584379): Chris Hedges. New Humanist (Rationalist Association) - discussing humanism, rationalism, atheism and free thought. It's interesting to see that a group of hackers calling themselves "Anonymous" have launched attacks on Visa and Mastercard, in what they say is an act of revenge for the companies' refusal to take payments on behalf of the controversial Wikileaks site.
The hackers, as part of what they are calling "Operation Payback", launched DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks against the sites and succeeded in disrupting some of their online services, although a statement from Mastercard said "There is no impact on our cardholders' ability to use their cards for secure transactions globally. " Anonymous have threatened to target other companies that have withheld their services from Wikileaks – the payment service Paypal stopped transactions for the site last week and has experienced DDoS attacks – and have suggested they might attack Twitter, alleging that it has censored the hashtag #WikiLeaks, although this has been denied by the social networking site.
"This is an interesting question. Les Anonymes. Anon. Police arrest five over Anonymous WikiLeaks attacks | Technology. Five people were arrested yesterday in connection with a spate of online attacks last month in support of WikiLeaks. Police said the five males, aged 15, 16, 19, 20 and 26, were arrested in a series of raids at 7am in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London. All five are being held in custody at local police stations. The five were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the group of "hacktivists" known as Anonymous, who temporarily crippled the websites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal after those companies cut off financial services to WikiLeaks. The attacks followed the whistleblowing site's release of US diplomatic cables. The distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks, which bring down sites by bombarding them with repeated requests to load webpages, are illegal in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act and carry a maximum fine of £5,000.
"You can easily arrest individuals, but you cannot arrest an ideology. Anonymous | Technology | guardian dossier. Anonymous Begins Announcing Legal Team. Press Release For Immediate Distribution Anonymous 1/31/2011 You are now breathing manually. The world and its media should make no mistake about it; this is a David and Goliath situation. Or, rather, it would be such a thing were it not for the fact that that Anonymous has assembled a team of legal advisors including representatives from the National Lawyers Guild, a certain private practice attorney whose hobbies include arguing on cable, and several other parties that will be named in the coming days; that this nascent network has been assembled in less than 24 hours and will soon be joined by other parties possessing similar expertise; and that meanwhile we shall take the opportunity to turn this grand jury investigation into a media circus the likes of which the U.S. has not seen in days, if not four or five of them.
We look forward to charming members of our world's sexually attractive press corp at irc.anonops.ru, #reporter. Anonymous. WikiLeaks Backers ‘Anonymous’ to Be Probed by U.S. Grand Jury - Businessweek - WikiLeaks Tsunami.