Stop Internet Censorship: COICA/SOPA et al

[RES4]

megaupload is gone and us officials have arrested two of its founders, neither of which are american citizens, in new zealand

[RES4]

and anonymous just took down

 

http://www.universalmusic.com and http://www.justice.gov

[Drue_Down]

 

[abcs]

I choose to support in a different way.

I find an artist i like and i go to their show

[Inappropriate_Responder]

and anonymous just took down

 

http://www.universalmusic.com and http://www.justice.gov

 

Counter attack

 

Edit

[MedicineCabinet]

relevant

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc

[pertplus1]

some of these sites that wanted to "protest" didnt even stay down for a full day. way to commit.

[STYLEISKING]

 

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.

[bourgeoisie]

one of the better articles i've read on the topic http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/internet-regulation-the-economics-of-piracy/

[fictionator]

welp, looks like im going to be watching the exo squad dvd until this sorts itself out.

 

 

congress ass motherfathers.

[murderland_bgk]

They shelved the bill

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this thread must of worked!

[STYLEISKING]

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.’"

 

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(press release is here: https://fightfortheftr.wordpress.com/press-releases/)

[Seph]

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

[STYLEISKING]

[metronome]

Lamar Smith is NOT a white man's name.

[!@#$%]

[Fist 666]

Lamar Smith is NOT a white man's name.

 

but hedley lamar is.

[MOOGLE?]

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*** MILITARY MELTDOWN MONDAY: MANGLING BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON ***

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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

 

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*** BONUS ROUND: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON KEY FACTS ***

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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

 

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*** BONUS ROUND TWO: ANONYMOUS INTERESTS ***

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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 ***

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOUND THIS N PIRATEBAY

[MOOGLE?]

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/

[Fist 666]

24d. TY tho.

[!@#$%]

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.

[STYLEISKING]

[!@#$%]

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/

[CILONE/SK]

12oz is going to be dial up speed.

[injury]

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.

[!@#$%]

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.

[CILONE/SK]

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.

[theprotester]

^^

 

 

[injury]

christ, that was depressing.