RES4 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 megaupload is gone and us officials have arrested two of its founders, neither of which are american citizens, in new zealand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RES4 Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 and anonymous just took down http://www.universalmusic.com and http://www.justice.gov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drue_Down Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I choose to support in a different way. I find an artist i like and i go to their show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inappropriate_Responder Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 and anonymous just took down http://www.universalmusic.com and http://www.justice.gov Counter attack Edit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedicineCabinet Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 relevant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pertplus1 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 some of these sites that wanted to "protest" didnt even stay down for a full day. way to commit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STYLEISKING Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 watch and sign up: Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – fightforthefuture.org/pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.” The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill. According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourgeoisie Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 one of the better articles i've read on the topic http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/internet-regulation-the-economics-of-piracy/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fictionator Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 welp, looks like im going to be watching the exo squad dvd until this sorts itself out. congress ass motherfathers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murderland_bgk Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 They shelved the bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__ __ __ __ Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 this thread must of worked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STYLEISKING Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Hi everyone! A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled. The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard. On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did. This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever. The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’” “'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added." Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause We're indebted to everyone who helped in the beginning of this movement -- you, and all the sites that went out on a limb to protest in November -- Boing Boing and Mozilla Foundation (and thank you Tumblr, 4chan)! And the grassroots groups -- Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, CDT, and many more. #SOPA and #PIPA will likely return in some form. But when they do, we'll be ready. Can you make a donation to Fight for the Future, to help us keep this fire going? We changed the game this fall, and we're not gonna stop. $8, $20, every little bit helps. 13 million strong, Tiffiniy, Holmes, Joshua, Phil, CJ, Donny, Douglas, Nicholas, Dean, David S. and Moore... Fight for the Future! P.S. China's internet censorship system reminds us why the fight for democratic principles is so important: In the New Yorker: "Fittingly, perhaps, the discussion has unfolded on Weibo, the Twitter-like micro-blogging site that has a team of censors on staff to trim posts with sensitive political content. That is the arrangement that opponents of the bill have suggested would be required of American sites if they are compelled to police their users’ content for copyright violations. On Weibo, joking about SOPA’s similarities to Chinese censorship was sensitive enough that some posts on the subject were almost certainly deleted (though it can be hard to know). ... After Chinese Web users got over the strangeness of hearing Americans debate the merits of screening the Web for objectionable content, they marvelled at the American response. Commentator Liu Qingyan wrote: ‘We should learn something from the way these American Internet companies protested against SOPA and PIPA. A free and democratic society depends on every one of us caring about politics and fighting for our rights. We will not achieve it by avoiding talk about politics.’" ####### (press release is here: https://fightfortheftr.wordpress.com/press-releases/) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seph Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Investigate Chris Dodd and the MPAA for bribery after he publicly admited to bribing politicans to pass legislation. Recently on FOX News former Senator Chris Dodd said (as quoted on news site TechDirt), "Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake," This is an open admission of bribery and a threat designed to provoke a specific policy goal. This is a brazen flouting of the "above the law" status people of Dodd's position and wealth enjoy. We demand justice. Investigate this blatant bribery and indict every person, especially government officials and lawmakers, who is involved. Created: Jan 21, 2012 https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/investigate-chris-dodd-and-mpaa-bribery-after-he-publicly-admited-bribing-politicans-pass/DffX0YQv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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metronome Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Lamar Smith is NOT a white man's name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fist 666 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Lamar Smith is NOT a white man's name. but hedley lamar is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 _ _ __ __ __| || |__ _____ _____/ |_|__| ______ ____ ____ #antisec \ __ / \__ \ / \ __\ |/ ___// __ \_/ ___\ #anonops | || | / __ \| | \ | | |\___ \\ ___/\ \___ #laughing /_ ~~ _\ (____ /___| /__| |__/____ \ \___ \ \___ | #at_your |_||_| \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ #security /******************************************************************************* *** MILITARY MELTDOWN MONDAY: MANGLING BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON *** *******************************************************************************/ Hello Thar! Today we want to turn our attention to Booz Allen Hamilton, whose core business is contractual work completed on behalf of the US federal government, foremost on defense and homeland security matters, and limited engagements of foreign governments specific to U.S. military assistance programs. So in this line of work you'd expect them to sail the seven proxseas with a state- of-the-art battleship, right? Well you may be as surprised as we were when we found their vessel being a puny wooden barge. We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place. We were able to run our own application, which turned out to be a shell and began plundering some booty. Most shiny is probably a list of roughly 90,000 military emails and password hashes (md5, non-salted of course!). We also added the complete sqldump, compressed ~50mb, for a good measure. We also were able to access their svn, grabbing 4gb of source code. But this was deemed insignificant and a waste of valuable space, so we merely grabbed it, and wiped it from their system. Additionally we found some related datas on different servers we got access to after finding credentials in the Booz Allen System. We added anything which could be interesting. And last but not least we found maps and keys for various other treasure chests buried on the islands of government agencies, federal contractors and shady whitehat companies. This material surely will keep our blackhat friends busy for a while. A shoutout to all friendly vessels: Always remember, let it flow! #AntiSec /******************************************************************************* *** BONUS ROUND: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON KEY FACTS *** *******************************************************************************/ For the Lazy we have assembled some facts about Booz Allen. First let's take a quick look of who these guys are. Some key personnel: * John Michael "Mike" McConnell, Executive Vice President of Booz Allen and former Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and former Director of National Intelligence. * James R. Clapper, Jr., current Director of National Intelligence, former Director of Defense Intelligence. * Robert James Woolsey Jr, former Director of National Intelligence and head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). * Melissa Hathaway, Current Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils Now let's check out what these guys have been doing: * Questionable involvement in the U.S. government's SWIFT surveillance program; acting as auditors of a government program, when that contractor is heavily involved with those same agencies on other contracts. Beyond that, the implication was also made that Booz Allen may be complicit in a program (electronic surveillance of SWIFT) that may be deemed illegal by the EC. http://www.aclu.org/national-security/booz-allens-extensive-ties-government -raise-more-questions-about-swift-surveillanc https://www.privacyinternational.org/article/pi-and-aclu-show-swift-auditor- has-extensive-ties-us-government * Through investigation of Booz Allen employees, Tim Shorrock of Democracy Now! asserts that there is a sort of revolving-door conflict of interest between Booz Allen and the U.S. government, and between multiple other contractors and the U.S. government in general. Regarding Booz Allen, Shorrock referred to such people as John M. McConnell, R. James Woolsey, Jr., and James R. Clapper, all of whom have gone back and forth between government and industry (Booz Allen in particular), and who may present the appearance that certain government contractors receive undue or unlawful business from the government, and that certain government contractors may exert undue or unlawful influence on government. Shorrock further relates that Booz Allen was a sub-contractor with two programs at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), called Trailblazer and Pioneer Groundbreaker. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/151224 If you haven't heard about Pioneer Groundbreaker, we recommend the following Wikipedia article: "The NSA warrantless surveillance controversy (AKA "Warrantless Wiretapping") concerns surveillance of persons within the United States during the collection of foreign intelligence by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the war on terror." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Groundbreaker * A June 28, 2007 Washington Post article related how a U.S. Department of Homeland Security contract with Booz Allen increased from $2 million to more than $70 million through two no-bid contracts, one occurring after the DHS's legal office had advised DHS not to continue the contract until after a review. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the contract characterized it as not well-planned and lacking any measure for assuring valuable work to be completed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/27/ AR2007062702988.html * Known as PISCES (Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluation System), the ΓΓé¼┼ôterrorist interdiction systemΓΓé¼┬¥ matches passengers inbound for the United States against facial images, fingerprints and biographical information at airports in high-risk countries. A high-speed data network permits U.S. authorities to be informed of problems with inbound passengers. Although PISCES was operational in the months prior to September 11, it apparently failed to detect any of the terrorists involved in the attack. Privacy advocates have alleged that the PISCES system is deployed in various countries that are known for human rights abuses (ie Pakistan and Iraq) and that facilitating them with an advanced database system capable of storing biometric details of travelers (often without consent of their own nationals) poses a danger to human rights activists and government opponents. http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2002/02march/march02corp3.html /******************************************************************************* *** BONUS ROUND TWO: ANONYMOUS INTERESTS *** *******************************************************************************/ Back in February, as many may recall, Anonymous was challenged by security company HBGary. One month later - after many grandiose claims and several pages of dox on "members" of Anonymous which were factually accurate in no way whatsoever - HBGary and its leadership were busy ruing the day they ever tangled with Anonymous, and Anonymous was busy toasting another epic trolling. And there was much rejoicing. However, celebration soon gave way to fascination, followed by horror, as scandal after scandal radiated from the company's internal files, scandals spanning the government, corporate and financial spheres. This was no mere trolling. Anonymous had uncovered a monster. One of the more interesting, and sadly overlooked, stories to emerge from HBGary's email server (a fine example to its customers of how NOT to secure their own email systems) was a military project - dubbed Operation Metal Gear by Anonymous for lack of an official title - designed to manipulate social media. The main aims of the project were two fold: Firstly, to allow a lone operator to control multiple false virtual identities, or "sockpuppets". This would allow them to infiltrate discussions groups, online polls, activist forums, etc and attempt to influence discussions or paint a false representation of public opinion using the highly sophisticated sockpuppet software. The second aspect of the project was to destroy the concept of online anonymity, essentially attempting to match various personas and accounts to a single person through recognition shared of writing styles, timing of online posts, and other factors. This, again, would be used presumably against any perceived online opponent or activist. HBGary Federal was just one of several companies involved in proposing software solutions for this project. Another company involved was Booz Allen Hamilton. Anonymous has been investigating them for some time, and has uncovered all sorts of other shady practices by the company, including potentially illegal surveillance systems, corruption between company and government officials, warrantless wiretapping, and several other questionable surveillance projects. All of this, of course, taking place behind closed doors, free from any public knowledge or scrutiny. You would think the words "Expect Us" would have been enough to prevent another epic security fail, wouldn't you? Well, you'd be wrong. And thanks to the gross incompetence at Booz Allen Hamilton probably all military mersonnel of the U.S. will now have to change their passwords. Let it flow! /******************************************************************************* *** INVOICE *** *******************************************************************************/ Enclosed is the invoice for our audit of your security systems, as well as the auditor's conclusion. 4 hours of man power: $40.00 Network auditing: $35.00 Web-app auditing: $35.00 Network infiltration*: $0.00 Password and SQL dumping**: $200.00 Decryption of data***: $0.00 Media and press****: $0.00 Total bill: $310.00 *Price is based on the amount of effort required. **Price is based on the amount of badly secured data to be dumped, which in this case was a substantial figure. ***No security in place, no effort for intrusion needed. ****Trolling is our specialty, we provide this service free of charge. Auditor's closing remarks: Pwned. U mad, bro? We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We are Antisec. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. 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MOOGLE? Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 DeSopa for Firefox Bypasses SOPA DNS Blocking Today, 18:29 Firefox: DeSopa is the latest Firefox add-on that can counter the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)'s DNS blocking if the bill passes. The extension gets you through sites censored by DNS and lets you browse them by IP address. To use the extension, you just need to click the DeSopa button to switch to accessing sites by their IP addresses. Click again to go back to standard DNS resolution. Some sites may not be directly accessible by IP because they're on virtual hosts, and DeSopa also doesn't resolve subdomains. If you can't get through with DeSopa, previously mentioned The Pirate Bay Dancing from MAFFIAFire should do the trick. Developer T Rizk offers this add-on as proof of concept that SOPA will not help prevent privacy and will only do major harm: The program, implemented as a Firefox extension, simply contacts offshore domain name resolution services to obtain the IP address for any desired website, and accesses those websites directly via IP. Similar offshore resolution services will eventually maintain their own cache of websites, without blacklisting, in order to meet the demand created by SOPA. If SOPA is implemented, thousands of similar and more innovative programs and services will sprout up to provide access to the websites that people frequent. SOPA is a mistake. It does not even technically help solve the underlying problem, as this software illustrates. What it will do is give undue leverage to predatory organizations, cripple innocent third party websites, severely dampen digital innovation and negatively impact the integrity and security of the Internet. It's questionable whether this extension or others like it will help Congress members "err on the side of reason and vote SOPA down" as T Rizk hopes, but at least we have countermeasures if the bill passes. Link DeSOPA Firefox Addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/desopa/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 24d. TY tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 very nice moogle.. i've wondered what the hell booz allen does exactly. i'm sure everyone's seen all the new terms of use of google as well between that and their continued support of the COC i'm utterly disgusted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STYLEISKING Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share Posted April 24, 2014 this won't ever go away. The FCC is now moving to end net neutrality. Three months ago, Demand Progress and RootsAction joined with allied groups to deliver a petition with a million signatures to the FCC in support of net neutrality -- to keep the whole Internet available to everyone. The news just broke that the FCC intends to blow us off and betray the principle of equal access to the Internet. http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9726&track=DP20140424&tag=DP20140424 http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 12oz is going to be dial up speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injury Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 when the revolving door between lobbying groups, government, and industry is as strong as it is, this shouldn't surprise any of us. government by the rich, for the rich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted April 25, 2014 Author Share Posted April 25, 2014 like i said, it'll never go away. it's only how long can we enjoy it as a good thing. and fighting it by calling congresspeople, for the moment, may still make a difference i agree though, we're basically now living in an oligarchy/corporatocracy and we will be at speeds so slow, it won't be worth it anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 I was talking to someone yesterday day about this. I think that it will get really bad, and then something new will come out. Something no one is even thinking about right now. Someone will come up with something. I hate capitalism, because of stuff like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injury Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 christ, that was depressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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