#Anonymous - Operation Blackout (by AnonymousNews1)

The New Zealand Government has made it a priority to crack down on copyright laws, stating that if accused with copyright infringement, you are guilty until proven innocent. Also, the initial fee is 15,000 dollars and 6 months of internet suspension. Anonymous will not stand for this.

Join us in the IRC: #OperationPayback

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#Anonymous Takes Down U.S. Chamber Of Commerce for PROTECT IP Act ~ THN : The Hackers News



Anonymous collective launches DDoS attack against the business lobbying group over it’s support for the legislation to fight online infringement that many fear will great expand the govt’s ability to filter the Internet. Anonymous began targeting the US Chamber of Commerce for its support of the controversial “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011.”

The US Chamber of Commerce has been outspoken about its support for the “PROTECT IP Act.” It believes the legislation is necessary to “cut of rogue sites” and protect US jobs.

Anonymous managed to take the site – uschamber.com – down.

‘Anonymous’ takes down UK Copyright Service website

The decentralized community of hacktivists known as “Anonymous” knocked the website of the UK Copyright Service offline on Thursday.

The copyright protection agency, known internationally as Copyright Witness, was targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack as part of an online campaign named “Operation Payback.”

DDoS attacks flood websites with meaningless web traffic to slow them down and can sometimes knock websites offline entirely.

UK Copyright Service supports international copyright protection by providing independent evidence of originality and ownership in the event of any claims or disputes.

Using a piece of old server stress-testing software called “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” (or “LOIC,” a name taken from PC strategy game Command and Conquer), participants in “Operation Payback” point their Internet connections at a server and begin sending requests. If enough people join in, the servers can ultimately be overwhelmed by traffic, resulting in a denial of service to other users.

“Operation Payback” has targeted the websites of a number of governments, including Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Yemen and Italy. In December 2010, those participating in the operation were successful in taking down Visa, Mastercard and other websites of organizations that refused to do business with secrets outlet WikiLeaks.

The chief technology officer of the data security firm HBGary, Greg Hoglund, described “Anonymous” as a small group of criminal hackers and “pseudo-journalists” in an interview on Tuesday. His company’s website was defaced by “Anonymous” in February after former CEO Aaron Barr told the Financial Times that he’d identified the “core leaders” of the group and had information that could lead to their arrest.

MOAR #ANONYMOUS OPS: DO WANT - #Revolution #BradleyManning #OperationPayback

So I havn’t posted in a few days, that means there’s a lot more to talk about concerning the internet activist group anonymous, their operations, and of course the corresponding real life issues… To begin we have the introduction a new op, I’ll let the picture speak for itself

Operation Emma_A (#opemmaa)

A simple one here, the concerted effort to, according to the channel topic in channel #opemmaa to “Recruit awesome Girls!”. The topic also encouraging users tofollow user Emma_A on twitter. Looks like she’s been tweeting about anonymous and is also a friend of Barret Brown it seems. Emma A and this op going against one of the most longstanding rules of the internet. For those unfamiliar…

Point your attention to rule 30, “there are no women on the internet”. Rules were made to be broken?

Introducing Operation Twitterstorm (#optwitterstorm)

An important feature of twitter is the ability for users to post or “tweet” using specific hashtags (# plus any phrase). Different hashtags for different topics become popular and the most popular topics are listed on the front page as trending. Some hashtags that have become popular recently are #Jan25 for tweets relating to egypt, #Feb17, #Libya and the like. There has been a concerted effort in the past to introduce new hashtags to twitter to bring attention to topics, i.e. #freemanning.
Anonymous has started Operation Twitterstorm (in channel #optwitterstorm) to make a concerted twitter effort. Some instructions being given to participants in #optwitterstorm:

Welcome to @OpTwitterStorm
For obvious reasons, @Libya is a very popular topic on Twitter atm.
Twitter is an amazing tool for a lot of things, one of which is recruiting.
If we can get @Anonymous and @OpLibya to trend alongside @Libya, it will lead to more people becoming aware of what Anonymous is, what we do, and why we do it.
Twitter is something we should utilize as much as possible.

The objective for Operation TwitterStorm is simple, recruit as many people as possible by flooding Twitter as much as possible.
No spamming, tweet useful information which is going to be of use to people, make sure you include #Anonymous #OpLibya and #Libya in your tweets.
If each and every Anon tweets a message, and we retweet each others messages, we can create a never-ending “chain” of thousands of Tweets.

Twitter prides itself on free speech. It has been an invaluable tool for movements, e.g. with protesters in places like Egypt and Tunisia using twitter to organize and spread information and with its use as a communications system at protests like the G20. It isn’t all puppies and rainbows on twitter, with the US government requesting information on people who followed the Wikileaks account on the site. Twitter’s response being to fight the gag order on the subpoena and notify user’s of its existence. Something few other companies have done in Twitter’s situation.

How Someone From Anonymous Might Participate in this Operation

This operation seems to be in its early stages. Saw some talk in the channel of a program being developed in python to facilitate this “twitterstorm”. Regardless of whether this materializes, I can assume participants will use the same techniques used in other anonymous twitter operations. That is, getting behind a proxy, and using disposable email sites like this one or this one to register for and use a twitter account relatively anonymously. In the past I have also seen the use of tools like splitweet or tweetdeck to tweet with multiple twitter accounts at one time.

Supporting Accused Wikileaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning with Operation Manning (#opmanning)

To rehash old news, Bradley Manning, the suspect for the huge Wikileak of classified US government documents is still in trouble. His extremely poor treatment in custody has been widely documented. Anonymous participants in #opmanning are doing multiple things at the moment, one of which is encourage people to go to the support rally for Manning on March 20th in Quantico Virginia. More info:

From the Rally Organizers:

In Support Of “Rally for Bradley!”
Quantico VA. Sunday, March 20

On March 20, 2011, there will be a rally at the Quantico Marine Base in Virginia to support accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. Supporters will gather for a 2pm rally at the town of Triangle (intersection of Main Street and Route 1), then march to the gates of Quantico. Bradley has been held at the Quantico brig in solitary-like conditions for six months without any meaningful exercise. We stand for truth, government transparency, and an end to our occupation wars… we stand with Bradley!

Event endorsed by the Bradley Manning Support Network, Veterans for Peace, Courage to Resist, CodePink, and many other groups.

The day before, on Saturday, March 19th, in Washington DC, supporters of Bradley’s will be joining the noon rally at Lafayette Park and march on the White House to “Resist the War Machine!”

Supporters of Bradley Manning and participants in what people are calling “opbradical” have taken to finding and publicizing the personal information of Bradley Manning’s jailers. (This getting more publicity and with it bringing the possibility of mroe repression?) The benefit of this? I’ll let you decide, but it seems to be common sense… How are they doing on this effort? Well at the time of this post here is some information I found that is being distributed to participants in opbradical…

Info on Geoffrey Morrel

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and Press Secretary of the Department of Defense (since ’07)
-Born November 1968 (42)
-Formerly a reporter for the American Broadcasting Company
-Bachelor’s: Georgetown (1991)
-Master’s: Columbia (1992)
Morrell began his reporting career in 1992 at KATV-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas, covering the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton. In 1994, he took a job as a reporter atWSET-TV in Roanoke, Virginia, and in 1995, Morrell joined KSAZ-TV in Phoenix as a TV news reporter. In 1996, Morrell joined WBBM-TV in Chicago in the same capacity.[2]
Morrell left WBBM-TV in early 2000 when his contract expired and joined ABC News, working in both the network’s Chicago and Washington, D.C. bureaus.
In 2007, Morrell resigned from ABC after seven years with the network to be appointed the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.
Pentagon spokesman. Likes to make shit up. Not very good at it. See piece below and then dox. Past, present. Home number. Etc.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/04/morrell/index.html

Info on Denise Barnes

Possible phone number of Commanding Officer Denise Barnes:
Commanding Officer: 3747 (703) 784-2718
(If 703 area code doesn’t work, it may be 540 or 571)
E-Mail: bamessgtdenisev@lejeune.usmc.mil – has been e-mailed, with messaged cc’d to press. Brig Commander. Responsible for stripping Manning of clothing. Absolute priority target.
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/pr/191660.pdf
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_S2NbJIwrsZc/SvwVSPNWHkI/AAAAAAAAH8I/qGA5bwrhqeM

More info on Quantico

COMMANDING OFFICER (703)784-6870
BRIG SUPERVISOR (703)784-6873
BRIG 1ST SGT (703)784-4241
OPERATIONS CHIEF (703)432-6153
SPECIAL QUARTERS (703)432-6156
COMPANY GUNNY (703)432-6154
PROGRAMS CHIEF (703)432-6155
TRAINING CHIEF (703)432-6141
SENIOR COUNSELOR (703)432-6158
COUNSELOR #1 (703)784-6862
ADMIN #1 (703)784-2718/2719
ADMIN #2 (703)432-6152
VALUABLES (703)432-6143
CONTROL CENTER (703)432-6157
WORKSHOP (703)784-2058
MEDICAL (703)432-6151
CCU (703)784-2040
MESSDECK (703)784-6869

BRIG MAILING ADDRESS:
3247 Elrod Avenue
Quantico, VA 22134

Quantico Base Commander
Colonel Daniel Choike
3250 Catlin Avenue, Quantico VA 22134
+1-703-432-0289 (Media Officer phone)
Quantico Brig Commanding Officer
CWO2 Denise Barnes
3247 Elrod Avenue, Quantico VA 22134

Bonus Info on Snitch and Manning’s informer Adrian Lamo

http://twitter.com/6 <—— Lamo’s Twitter
http://www.facebook.com/felon <——- Lamo’s (Supposed) Facebook
http://foursquare.com/6 <——- Lamo’s Foursquare
Eamils:

* adrian@aol.com

* adrian@adrian.org

* adrian@2600.com

That’s about it for now. For those who are interested, I’m working on putting together all the interviews I’ve done with members of anonymous into one post/pdf file. I’ll try to put it out in a few days.

P.S. a message to all the cops, haterz, fascists, counter-revolutionaries and the like…

#Anonymous plans defense for #BradleyManning

Anonymous plans defense for Bradley Manning - promises a media war

Anonymous plans defense for Bradley Manning - promises a media war

Given his treatment while in confinement, as well as the list of new charges against him, Bradley Manning has gained another set of champions to his dilemma. Anonymous has promised to avenge Manning, and wage a media war with the U.S. military.

The Tech Herald has spoken to one of those involved for a rundown of current events.

“Manning is an absolute hero. If this means me going to fucking prison, then that’s fine,” said Barrett Brown earlier today in an interview.

Brown, best described as a self-styled spokesperson for Anonymous, who enjoys some support from the loosely associative group, but some detraction as well, is well-known to us in the media.

He comes from a military family, and has a deep respect for the fighting troops he said. Yet, Manning’s treatment while in custody at the Quantico Brig has Brown and others working with him outraged.

Earlier today, Brown said that Manning must be given clothes, sheets, blankets, and access to books within the week, adding that Anonymous’ plans for those responsible for his conditions will play out in the public soon.

On the evenings of March 2 and March 3, Bradley Manning was forced to strip naked, remaining under observation in this condition within his cell for seven hours each night. The following mornings, still without any clothing, Manning was forced to stand at attention outside his cell as the Duty Brig Supervisor (DBS) arrived. Manning was later given his clothes.

“This type of degrading treatment is inexcusable and without justification. It is an embarrassment to our military justice system and should not be tolerated…No other detainee at the Brig is forced to endure this type of isolation and humiliation,” commented David Coombs, the lawyer representing Manning, who was once a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army.

The type of treatment given Manning is something that is a bit of an open secret. It’s used to break the will of the detainee and make them dependent on the interrogator, or the persons holding them. While an effective means of non-lethal coercion, it is frowned upon due to the damaging impact on a detainee’s mental health.

Such acts of isolation and embarrassment, or personal humiliation, have led to suicide attempts and extreme depression. Examples of this type of treatment were well established, as events at Guantanamo Bay prison were made public.

Anonymous’ outrage started after it was learned that Manning was to be charged with 22 additional counts, one of which could carry the death penalty. However, the military has said that the death penalty is off the table.

Manning was initially charged with 12 counts of illegally downloading and sharing a military operations video, as well as diplomatic documents and cables.

The new charges against him, added this week, include aiding the enemy, theft of public property or records, computer fraud, transmitting defense information in violation of the Espionage Act, and wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet knowing it would be accessible to the enemy.

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Evidence Against #Anonymous Heads to Grand Jury

Anonymous

A grand jury will begin looking through mobile phones, computer hard drives, and other items seized by the FBI in connection with Anonymous, the cyber vigilantes accused of launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on companies that had severed ties to WikiLeaks.

According to various reports, the federal grand jury in San Jose, California will examine the evidence on Thursday, February 10.

The items were seized during an FBI raid on January 27, during which five men were arrested in connection with the DDoS attacks on sites that had publicly withdrawn support to WikiLeaks such as Visa, MasterCard, Amazon, and PayPal.

Last Sunday, Anonymous hacked into numerous online accounts tied to HBGary Federal, a security firm that claimed to know the identities of the hackers. Anonymous defaced the CEO’s Twitter account (pictured) and corporate homepage, and posted around 60,000 company e-mails on Pirate Bay.

“The FBI is breaking down people’s doors with guns drawn,” Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a member of the board of the National Lawyers Guild, which is aiding Anonymous members with their legal defense, told Bloomberg. “A group of people are engaged in a modern day electronic sit-in, and the FBI wants to treat that like it’s terrorist activity.”

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