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This article by Global Voices' Caucasus editor was originally published on 9 March 2011 by Transitions Online and is used by permission. http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2011/03/10/azerbaijan-blowing-up-in-their-facebook/

Azerbaijan: Blowing Up in Their Facebook - Global Voices Advocacy

A number of media outlets as well as some security firms that will remain nameless, or at least become so within two years, have speculated on the nature of Anonymous over the past couple of months in particular. http://www.seismologik.com/journal/2011/3/6/a-short-assessment-of-anonymous-for-the-benefit-of-various-p.html

A Short Assessment Of Anonymous For The Benefit Of Various Parties - Home - Seismologik

The HBGary Federal breach conducted by the rogue movement Anonymous, and the subsequent release of tens-of-thousands of company emails, revealed multiple instances of ethically questionable proposals for covert operations. HBGary Federal, Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies were involved in developing WikiLeaks counter-operations strategies for Bank of America and proposed disinformation campaigns, cyber attacks against network systems, and strong-arming journalists. https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/12250-HBGary-Federal-Document-on-Manipulating-Social-Media.html

HBGary Federal Document on Manipulating Social Media

Before End of the Year! Email Polly at p.adams@shieldsecurity.org to make an appointment or for prices . If you have not yet applied for full access to this restricted Government and Law Enforcement Catalog site please complete the online form at: http://www.shieldsecurity.org . http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/greg_hbgary_com/4h.html

WiFi Interception System - Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:25:26 +0000

http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/aaron_hbgary_com/2000.html

RE: [Themis] Revisions to Palantir/Berico TA and proposals - Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:18:57 -0800

Apologies for taking this long to get back to you. Eli and I had to run this way up the chain (as you can imagine).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022805810.html A group of House Democrats is calling on Republican leaders to investigate a prominent Washington law firm and three federal technology contractors, who have been shown in hacked e-mails discussing a "disinformation campaign " against foes of the U.S.

Democrats call for an investigation of law firm, 3 tech companies

Daily Kos: Help Anonymous stop Palantir. Do it now.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/01/951314/-Help-Anonymous-stop-Palantir-Do-it-now- Overview The following emails clearly establish Matthew Steckman's (Foward Deployed Engineer at Planatir) involvement in the creation of the leaked presentation/proposal entitled, "The Wikileaks Threat," including content allegedly considered unethical by the Internet security firm, Palantir, and possibly illegal under U.S. law. According to emails sent and received by Steckman, Matthew Steckman: Was the first to correspond with Bank of America's legal representation, Hunton & Williams regarding Wikileaks, a publisher allegedly holding leaked documents from Bank of America;
http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCATRE7200KY20110301 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley experienced a "very sensitive" break-in to its network by the same China-based hackers who attacked Google Inc's computers more than a year ago, Bloomberg reported, citing leaked emails from an Internet security company. The emails from the Sacramento, California-based computer security firm HBGary Inc said that Morgan Stanley -- the first financial institution identified in the series of attacks -- considered details of the intrusion a closely guarded secret, the report said. Bloomberg quoted Phil Wallisch, a senior security engineer at HBGary, as saying that he read an internal Morgan Stanley report detailing the so-called Aurora attacks.

Morgan Stanley hit by China-based hackers: report | Technology | Reuters

So you still think the internet is free...

http://open.youyuxi.com/ Some of the most commonly censored contents include Pornography, Social Networks, Wikipedia, Wikileaks, Political Blogs, Religious Websites and Video Streaming.

Cryptome

The Brazilian government is controlling the ccTLD .br and all the revenue is being used by Lula's workers party. http://cryptome.org/
February 16, 2011, 9:39 AM — Benjamin Spock de Vries would like the world to know he is not a cyber terrorist.

Who is Anonymous' Commander X? Not this guy | ITworld

Anonymous and the global correction - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

No corporate or government-owned cyberspace is immune from attack by the vast nebula of Anonymous, the non-hierarchichal online activist network bent on disrupting the websites and communication facilities of oppressive regimes, the hackers' group claims.

BBC News - Anonymous victim HBGary goes to ground

HBGary's website was replaced with a logo and statement from Anonymous

Session Start: Mon Feb 07 03:17:59 2011 Session

07[03:17] * Topic is 'tl;dr HBGary pwned.

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack

It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot. HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr thought he had unmasked the hacker hordes of Anonymous and was preparing to name and shame those responsible for co-ordinating the group's actions, including the denial-of-service attacks that hit MasterCard, Visa, and other perceived enemies of WikiLeaks late last year. When Barr told one of those he believed to be an Anonymous ringleader about his forthcoming exposé, the Anonymous response was swift and humiliating.