Anonymous asked: Can you give us some examples of the “civil liberties violations” you mentioned?
Okay, here’s an abridged list for those of you who (I guess) don’t read the news:
- Reinstating the Patriot Act after vigorously campaigning against it
- Refusing to investigate or prosecute any of the Bush/CIA officials who ordered and committed torture - blocking investigations of war crimes is a violation of international law
- Continuing to use torture by proxy and the extrajudicial transfer of “prisoners” to secret CIA black sites
- Signing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 as it was, which expands Executive authority to include the power to order the U.S. military to arrest and detain U.S. and non-U.S. citizens, and makes it nearly impossible to close GITMO, among other very serious violations
- Assassinating Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son via drone strikes without due process of law and emphasizing the Executive’s “legal right” to convict individuals without judicial review
- Continuing to deny habeus corpus to prisoners outside of Guantanamo
- Continuing to employ State Secret’s Privilege and expanding its use
- Expanding Homeland Security’s authority to lease under a private contractor, media monitoring and data collection, including personally identifiable information and “items of interest”
- Embracing racial profiling as official policy
- Continuing warrantess surveillance of activist groups, particularly religious groups (mostly Muslim), anti-racism groups, leftist groups, etc.
- Criminalizing whistleblowing which does not threaten national security
- Expanding the “War on Terror,” which may be the Obama administration’s most egregious violation of civil liberties - the most blatant policies being drone strikes/military targeting of civilians in non-war zones and indefinite detention programs
You don’t have to take my word for it though. Here’s a link to a report from the ACLU which details the Obama administration’s blatant civil liberties violations. You can also read the Washington Post’s fantastic series “Top Secret America” here.
My favorite one.
AntiSec dumps Monsanto data on the Web
Anonymous continued its ongoing attack on agricultural biotech giant Monsanto today by publishing an outdated database of the company’s material. This is the newest in a barrage of strikes from hackers aligned with Anonymous who operate under the “AntiSec” banner.
In a statement posted with the database on a Pastebin site, the hacktivist group wrote it was aware that exposing the database would not do much harm to Monsanto but warned it would continue to target the company for what it sees as wrong.
“Your continued attack on the worlds food supply, as well as the health of those who eat it, has earned you our full attention,” wrote AntiSec. “Your crimes against humanity are too many to name on one page.”
Anonymous’ battle with Monsanto began last July when the hackers disrupted the company’s Web site and then released data on about 2,500 individuals involved in the agriculture industry. According to Monsanto, 10 percent of this information was related to current and former Monsanto employees.
Monsanto was one of seven companies that supplied the U.S. military with Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and for a while made bovine growth hormones. Now it focuses on making genetically engineered seeds and pesticides.
AntiSec says the reason for the attacks is to protest the company’s lawsuits against organic dairy farmers for stating on labels that their products don’t contain growth hormones.“You have put over 9000 small-time farmers out of business by using your enormous legal team to bury them with your malicious patent lawsuits,” AntiSec wrote in its statement today. “You have continually introduced harmful, even deadly products into our food supply without warning, without care, all for your own profit.”
Besides going after Monsanto, AntiSec has also recently claimed responsibility for attacks on U.S. law enforcement agencies, Vanguard Defense Industries, and private prison companies. In these assaults, the hackers deface the companies’ Web sites as well as release documents, e-mails, and other files.
WikiLeaks Uncovers Homeland Security Report on Occupy Movement
The transparency organization WikiLeaks has published an assessment report from the Homeland Security Department (DHS) on the Occupy movement that was put together in October of last year. The assessment was attached to a Stratfor email, one of five million or so emails the organization obtained and has been releasing since February 27.
The release of the report is timely, as it is being released just as Occupy supporters are mobilizing for demonstrations against the suppression of the Occupy movement by law enforcement and political leaders in the United States.
Put together by the Office of Infrastructure Protection under DHS, the report seems to have put together with the following presumption in mind, which appears in bold at the top of the report:
“Mass gatherings associated with public protest movements can have disruptive effects on transportation, commercial, and government services, especially when staged in major metropolitan areas. Large scale demonstrations also carry the potential for violence, presenting a significant challenge for law enforcement.”
The report proceeds to break down the risks and threats the Occupy movement poses to “critical infrastructure” by looking at their “impacts” on financial services, commercial facilities, transportation, emergency services and government facilities. The breakdown relied on news reports from sources like the New York Daily News, CBS, Associated Press, CNN, Chicago Tribune, Reuters, New York Times, Boston Globe, etc.
In the report’s summary, DHS concluded:
“The growing support for the OWS movement has expanded the protests’ impact and increased the potential for violence. While the peaceful nature of the protests has served so far to mitigate their impact, larger numbers and support from groups such as Anonymous substantially increase the risk for potential incidents and enhance the potential security risk to critical infrastructure (CI). The continued expansion of these protests also places an increasingly heavy burden on law enforcement and movement organizers to control protesters. As the primary target of the demonstrations, financial services stands the sector most impacted by the OWS protests. Due to the location of the protests in major metropolitan areas, heightened and continuous situational awareness for security personnel across all CI sectors is encouraged.”
Much like the threat government officials might allege WikiLeaks releases pose to national security, the threat is, for the most part, hype. Though the protests had been “peaceful,” Homeland Security determined that the fact that more and more citizens were turning out to support the cause of Occupy posed a possible threat to critical infrastructure and public order. The presence of supporters of Anonymous, which the FBI has been investigating, led Homeland Security to believe “potential incidents” or “potential security risks” could transpire. But, while Anonymous has claimed responsibility for cyber attacks, it has absolutely no history of violence in the world of non-virtual reality.
Massive information dump by Anonymous on hundreds of cops
Anonymous has been extremely active over the last few weeks; for one, disclosing the inept state of Alabama’s privacy of 40,000 of its residents, after hacking into their site in just minutes. In addition to a mountain of website’s defaced and hacked, the group has surpassed themselves. Again. Imagine what you would expect to find after hacking into the databases of the Los Angeles Police Canine Association‘s website — certainly not disturbing images from an ‘alleged’ pedo cop of unclothed children with adults – the police officer in question, Jesse Flores, should have ‘expected them.’
Included in the trove of information obtained by Anons @CabinCr3w and @ItsKahuna are names, addresses and phone numbers of hundreds of police officers and their membership rosters which were taken upon login.
Disturbing images in the database were provided by this officer:
Jesse Flores
Address: 11630 Oklahoma Ave,
South Gate, CA 90280
Cell Phone: 562-396-237
(His Contacts And Google Data/Other Emails Are Attached In The Release File)The information obtained includes emails, “We now have all of their emails, and you do as well. The ones that were not just spam are attached to download below as well, including their email attachments.”
Quote in full:
Over the past three weeks, we in the cabin have been targeting law enforcement sites across the United States, be it for injustices they have allowed through ignorance or naivety, taken part in, or to point out the fact that their insecurity failed to protect the safety of those they took an oath to serve. In this venture we have obtained the names and addresses of over 1000 officers, over fifteen thousand police warrants, hundreds of thousands of court summons, over forty thousand social security numbers of citizens proving the police lack of care for the security of the citizens, anonymous tips of criminal informants pertaining to narcotics, criminal informant information and thousands of online police reports. In all of this information, the large amount we have seen none of it has been as disturbing as what we found in this most recent target.
As you will see below, we accessed the databases for http://www.lacpca.com the Los Angelas Police Canine Association. Including names, addresses, and phone numbers of hundreds of officers and their membership rosters which were taken upon login.
After obtaining this information, due to the stupidity of many in reusing passwords we went through and checked the passwords from the site against the emails used to register. To be one of the two unfortunate who did reuse them meant we now have all of their emails, and you do as well. The ones that were not just spam are attached to download below as well, including their email attachments.
In one of these emails, that of Jesse Flores, we found the disturbing content stated earlier. Images of children in an email with the subject “Men In Training” which were of questionable material. The pictures being those such as 1) A small boy looking down the bathing suit of a small girl 2) A small child fully nude 3) A Small boy pulling on the nipple of a grown woman
Obviously, we will not be including the photos from the email in this release but we will be making contact with the appropriate organizations protecting children from exploitation online.
This unethical, and illegal content in the possession of those who are sworn to uphold the law, makes you really question where they stand on their own follow of the law. Here are the dox of pedocop, feel free to tell him how you feel about the abhorrent content of his email.
Feel free to browse around.
(Source: mediaofthemovement)
Anonymous launches 'Operation Global Blackout', aims to DDoS the Root Internet servers
According to a note left by members of the Anonymous hacktivist movement on Pastebin.com, the group is planning to launch a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on the Internet’s root DNS servers, using a Reflective DNS Amplification DDoS tool specifically created for ‘Operation Global Blackout’.
More details:
We have compiled a Reflective DNS Amplification DDoS tool to be used for this attack. It is based on AntiSec’s DHN, contains a few bug fix, a different dns list/target support and is a bit stripped down for speed.
The principle is simple; a flaw that uses forged UDP packets is to be used to trigger a rush of DNS queries all redirected and reflected to those 13 IPs. The flaw is as follow; since the UDP protocol allows it,we can change the source IP of the sender to our target, thus spoofing the source of the DNS query.The DNS server will then respond to that query by sending the answer to the spoofed IP. Since the answer is always bigger than the query, the DNS answers will then flood the target ip. It is called an amplified because we can use small packets to generate large traffic. It is called reflective because we will not send the queries to the root name servers,instead, we will use a list of known vulnerable DNS servers which will attack the root servers for us.
Since the attack will be using static IP addresses, it will not rely on name server resolution, thus enabling us to keep the attack up even while the Internet is down. The very fact that nobody will be able to make new requests to use the Internet will slow down those who will try to stop the attack. It may only lasts one hour, maybe more, maybe even a few days. No matter what, it will be global. It will be known.
Based on a message update issued by Anonymous, the group has said that it still has the capability to target the Root Internet Servers.
Despite the fact that current Internet infrastructure allows the execution of DNS amplification attacks, the Anonymous hacktivist movement is surely lacking the capabilities to execute such an attack, despite the high number of recruited users that may be participating in the attack.
For the time being, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) ICMP flooder, and the RefRef web scriptremain the primary attack tools used by the Anonymous hacktivist collective.
Learn more about DNS Amplification attacks, what they are, how they work, and how can Internet Service Providers mitigate the threat posed by them.
Hello Everybody
This is a message from Anonymous
My dear brothers and sisters. It is high time to keep your eyes open. It is high time to demand for the justice.
Internet should be a platform where ideas are told unhampered. Internet should be a platform which is far from authority’s interference.
Internet is everyone’s right.
It is time to fight for free internet while dominations are getting consistent. Digiturk, who is responsible for blocking Blogger.com, inci.sozlukspot.com and over 10000 websites, has become a internet terrorist. The victims were not warned and did not even have the right of defense.
Digiturk has removed Anonymous’s message video on youtube.com because of the copy rights.
here is the censored video link
Here’s a mirror of that video
I’m sure you’ve heard from March 1st 2012 till March 31st 2012 people everywhere will be taking part in ”Black March”, this is a movement against the likes of SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA. The movement will be that, the people who take part will NOT buy magazines, books, films(movies), CDs, DVDs or even go to the Movies/Cinema, this will leave a gaping hole where it hurts the big companies; their profit margins. During ”Black March”, Anonymous will be working tirelessly, petitioning, protesting, and bringing attention to the ever growing problems of SOPA, ACTA and/or PIPA. Anonymous does not stand for censorship, and along with the rest of the internet are appalled that the American Government think it’s acceptable to censor what isn’t theirs.
We are Anonymous,
We are legion,
We do not forgive,
We do not forget,
Expect us.
Anonymous-related group (CyberForce) hacked the Swedish government
A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government’s website and shut it down by overloading it.
CyberForce used Twitter to claim responsibility for Saturday’s attack on the website, which all departments of Sweden’s government use.
Government spokesman Jacob Lagercranser confirmed the website had “experienced some problems,” but he declined to give further details, saying the government never comments on security issues.
CyberForce describes itself as part of the hacking collective Anonymous, which drew international attention by hacking onto a private conference call by the FBI and Britain’s Scotland Yard, then publishing the roughly 15-minute-long recording of the call on the Internet on Friday.
Anonymous asked: tUMBLR
OH MY GOD UHM.
Well, some of my favorite tumblr people, in no particular order, are sageoflogic, friskk, dionthesocialist, jesteractivist (boyfriend), and sword-meets-rose (best friend).
My OTPs:
- Jesteractivist and me
- Friskk and me
- Dionthesocialist and Yourboobsaredead
Funniest: Oh god. I have quite a few social justice buddies who know how to kick ass and make me laugh in the process. Among them are anticapitalist and afunnyfeminist.
Pretty people I’m jealous of: FRISKK YOU ARE GORGEOUS.
Imjustaboywithadream is this adorable kid. He’s got vitriol I admire, too.
Best friends: jesteractivist, sword-meets-rose, scarlettbrohanson, notabrobro, medical-zombie, friskk, dominoblox
Liferuiner: ALL YOU FANDOM BLOGS THAT MAKE BEAUTIFUL GRAPHICS.
I LOVE YOU.
I’m confused how I’m a social justice buddy, but I love you <3
Anonymous asked: What you are either not or refusing to see is that humanity requires structure. For good or for bad we are a social species that require a status quo to be in place. Without these in place we have nothing but chaos, a power vacuum that someone will eventually fill. In this land the man with the gun rules and will always rule. Without fundamentally changing the way that the human mind works, the majority of us will always be grasping for someone to give the orders.
What you are either not or refusing to see is that humanity requires structure.For good or for bad we are a social species that require a status quo to be in place.
- No. What humanity requires is clean air, clean water, shelter, clothing, healthy relationships and the like. Humanity can, and has, existed without an oppressive state.
Without these in place we have nothing but chaos, a power vacuum that someone will eventually fill.
- Perhaps. However, I am morally obligated to always rebel against this status quo when it is opposed to all ethical and reasonable decency, when it is a destructive force that needs to be eradicated.
In this land the man with the gun rules and will always rule.
- From what I can tell, you’re arguing for a social contract. To some social contract theorists (such as Hobbes, who you seem to be arguing like), social obligations come from a state given power by large groups of people. To other social contract theorists (such as Locke), social obligations basically come from God. I support neither of these positions. If anything, social obligations, and larger global obligations, come from what the natural world demands from us, and how to act in accordance with what is best for the global terran community at large. This does not require the existence of the state, nor the existence of religion, both of which are oppressive both socially and intellectually. What it requires is people having a shared, biocentric morality and social view.
Without fundamentally changing the way that the human mind works, the majority of us will always be grasping for someone to give the orders.
- Rule by force is an illegitimate authority. As an anarchist, I cannot support that. I do believe in legitimate human authorities, based on experience, competence, wisdom and the like. However, authority by force is ALWAYS illegitimate, and should never be heeded to. Ever. I also believe in larger, non-human authorities, that we’ve forgotten how to listen to.
- You’re arguing for human nature. Wonderful. Well, see, I don’t believe in human nature. The human animal is more than willing to adapt to whatever social situation it finds itself in that is meeting its needs. Human nurture, experience, defines human nature. The human animal is not inherently violent, greedy, or as you seem to be suggesting, mere subjects. That is just what this system encourages and demands from us, through social conditioning and structural violence. Change the “system” that a human lives under, and that human will change.
- The existence of indigenous societies, living in balance with the land, cooperation with each other, and altogether sustainable lives, for the past 200,000 years, is evidence to this.
Anonymous destroys the Newark Police website
