Common Ground Project. Presentation: Detecting and Taming botnets. User.riseup.net. Anonymous Hacks US Government Site, Threatens Supreme 'Warheads' The hacktivist group Anonymous hacked the U.S. federal sentencing website early Saturday, using the page to make a brazen and boisterous declaration of "war" on the U.S. government.
The group claims mysterious code-based "warheads," named for each of the Supreme Court Justices, are about to be deployed. As of midnight Pacific time, the front page of Ussc.gov — the Federal agency that establishes sentencing policies and practices for the Federal courts — is filled with a long screed in green on black, together with this YouTube video: All areas of ussc.gov other than the front page appear to be functioning normally. In other words, there's no denial of service attack or widespread vandalism. (Update, an hour later: it's getting a little slow and has all the hallmarks of a DDoS.) At the bottom of the page is a series of nine files, mirrored three times. The statement opens with a lament for Aaron Swartz, the Reddit programmer and Internet activist who committed suicide earlier this month. Aaron Swartz's Girlfriend Explains 'Why Aaron Died'
Aaron Swartz, the late digital rights activist and hacker, did not kill himself because he was depressed, according to his girlfriend.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman found Swartz dead in their Brooklyn apartment on Jan. 11, and as she explains, she is the person Swartz spent the most time with in the last 20 months of his life — living together, commuting together and working together. And for her, that person she spent so much time with was not showing symptoms of depression, according to an emotional blog post on Tumblr. At the time of his death, Swartz was facing a potential conviction of 35 years and up to $1 million in fines for allegedly downloading thousands of scholarly articles from the online database JSTOR with a hidden computer connected to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's network. His family and supporters have been repeatedly pointing their finger at overzealous prosecutors to explain his suicide. "I don’t know exactly why Aaron killed himself. Aaron Swartz. Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist.
Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS,[3] the organization Creative Commons,[4] the website framework web.py[5] and the social news site, Reddit, in which he became a partner after its merger with his company, Infogami. [i] Swartz's later work focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism.[6][7] He helped launch the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in 2009 to learn more about effective online activism. In 2010 he became a research fellow at Harvard University's Safra Research Lab on Institutional Corruption, directed by Lawrence Lessig.[8][9] He founded the online group Demand Progress, known for its campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act.
In June 2013, Swartz was posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.[16][17] Life and works[edit] W3C[edit] Markdown[edit] Game Changers. Anonymous – OpBigBrothers IDP13 on August the 31st 2013. Via @AnonAlive IDP13 – Date: 08/31/2013 (31.08.2103) [more info below this Text] Hello world, we are Anonymous!
What we’ve always feared, and also known to be extremely likely, has now become confirmed reality. The U.S. intelligence agencies eavesdrop on not only their domestic communications, they also take the right to listen to the entire global Internet communications. Help to setup a communication infrastructure controlled by the movement and not corporations or the government.
The question is “who controls the internet?”
My reply would be, “nobody”. Just let everybody determine for and control themselves, not others, not the entire internet. We have a couple of administrating offices/registrars for domain names and IP addresses and that’s it. We are Anonymous We are Legion We do not Forgive We do not Forget Expect us! US opens Pandora's Box. Anon Comm. New Humanist Clarify Your Thinking. 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.
Anon_En. Anonymous. SoApboX.
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