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Hacker Group Anonymous Brings Peaceful Revolution To America: Will Engage In Civil Disobedience Until Bernanke Steps Down
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/12/2011 21:30 -0500


The world's most (in)famous hacker group - Anonymous - known for effectively shutting down their hacking nemesis security firm (with clients such as Morgan Stanley and, unfortunately for them, Bank of America)- HBGary, advocating the cause of Wikileaks, and the threat made by one of its members that evidence of fraud by Bank of America will be released on Monday, has just launched communication #1 in its Operation "Empire State Rebellion." The goal - engage in "a relentless campaign of non-violent, peaceful, civil disobedience" until Ben Bernanke steps down and the "Primary Dealers within the Federal Reserve banking system be broken up and held accountable for rigging markets and destroying the global economy effective immediately."

The Anonymous manifesto:

•We are a decentralized non-violent resistance movement, which seeks to restore the rule of law and fight back against the organized criminal class.
•One-tenth of one percent of the population has consolidated wealth in unprecedented fashion and launched an all-out economic war against 99.9% of the population.
•We are not affiliated with either wing of the two-party oligarchy. We seek an end to the corrupted two-party system by ending the campaign finance and lobbying racket.
•Above all, we aim to break up the global banking cartel centered at the Federal Reserve, International Monetary Fund, Bank of International Settlement and World Bank.
•We demand that the primary dealers within the Federal Reserve banking system be broken up and held accountable for rigging markets and destroying the global economy, effective immediately.
•As a first sign of good faith we demand Ben Bernanke step down as Federal Reserve chairman.
•Until our demands are met and a rule of law is restored, we will engage in a relentless campaign of non-violent, peaceful, civil disobedience.
•In our next communication we will announce Operation Empire State Rebellion.
Glorious Chairman Ben - our free advice to you: change your e-mail password stat...



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Glorious Chairman Ben - our free advice to you: change your e-mail password stat...

Ha! It's like a reverse "Bill Hicks moment" without the violence and death. Which in the end, isn't that it? Innocents get killed due to annoyances in what the elite deem theirs. I hope it's like the 21st century version of the "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."

Mario Savio

I don't know what to think about Anonymous. Is it just an artist collective that makes YouTube videos promoting ghost campaigns that don't really exist? Is it some sort of intelligence gathering operation run by the feds to try and find hackers and subversives? You can't put out a video like that and not expect to be in jail on trumped up terrorism charges. Its getting fishy. Why does YouTube (google/CIA/NSA or whatever) keep their videos up?

I really like the idea of Anonymous, but it seems to good too be true. I look forward to seeing news of their first attack on Bernanke. Good luck to 'em.

SHOCK AND AWE, BABY

anytime I read something about anonymous these days it brings a smile to my face.

WakeUpAndLive wrote:anytime I read something about anonymous these days it brings a smile to my face.

hava1 wrote:

WakeUpAndLive wrote:anytime I read something about anonymous these days it brings a smile to my face.

Same. i'm no kind of hacker but I've been running Tor and wandering around on anon channels on IRC, hopefully distracting the bad guys from whatever is really going on, being an actually useful idiot.

Weren't we all just talking about how the gov't wants to claim 'no expectation of privacy' in email?

This could be very interesting.

Note to self: get Tor
http://www.torproject.org

Operation LeakS Bank Of America Fraud Disclosure To Hit At Midnight Eastern, 5 AM GMT
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/13/2011 16:32 -0500

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# @STOCK_GIRL Lol about to get some sleep now.......
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# Thats nothing new we all know that the #US #Gov soon to be #US #Koch have the Bankers Balls Deep In their throats..... 11:33 AM Mar 12th via web

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# I only have 1 word for you Guys #Winning 11:09 AM Mar 12th via web

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# Watch the short Film at http://bankofamericasuck.com/ #Retweet 10:48 PM Mar 11th via web

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# #WIUnion #Wearwi @GovWalker How much was your bonus from Koch's? 200K now and 200K when you have Sign it? #Retweet 10:16 PM Mar 11th via web

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Tor Project, a Walpole-based company, helps Egyptians avoid Internet censorship during protests - Walpole, MA - Wicked Local Walpole http://www.wickedlocal.com/walpole/arch ... z1GXsc7gnF



WALPOLE — As Egypt was in the throes of a revolution, a small Walpole company played a key role in keeping the country connected to the rest of world – even when that was the last thing its government wanted.

The Tor Project says it offers anonymity online. Egyptians were able to use the free software to hide their physical location while connected to the Internet and circumvent government surveillance and censorship.

“The goal is to basically give people control again,” said Tor Executive Director Andrew Lewman.

Tor software was downloaded 36 million times last year worldwide, Lewman said, with about 500,000 on and off users of the privacy portal each day. Before protests began in Egypt, however, people in the country didn’t utilize the software as much as other activists around the world.

At the start of January, only about 200 to 300 sessions were originating from Egypt per day, he said. By the time the Egyptian government basically shut down the country’s Internet and blocked cell phones late last month, those numbers increased tenfold.

Sessions from Sweden and France were also up since those countries were able to provide some Egyptians with dial-up Internet service during protests, said Lewman.

Tor statistics are hard to report precisely, he said, because numbers are purposely kept “fuzzy” to protect the identity of users, but it’s not hard to tell that the Egyptian uprising was the direct cause of a significant spike to the system.

Tor representatives held a workshop in Egypt late last year to conduct general training about the positive uses and the risks of the Internet. Although, the trip was educational in nature, it certainly foreshadowed things to come, albeit inadvertently.

“It wasn’t about telling people about Tor. Our intent wasn’t to freak them out and make them paranoid,” Lewman said. It did, however, give Egyptians an idea of what they could do should they need to maintain their privacy – an idea they would need just a month later when they were ousting their president out of office.

He said the software provided protection to activists and people who were simply trying to stay in touch with loved ones and keep up with information from outside of Egypt. Those lucky enough to have access the Internet were able to act as information hubs for others and messengers without fear of governmental surveillance or backlash.

“We know we’re making a difference,” said Lewman.

Tor got its start in the ‘90s when two MIT students were working with the Navy on the onion routing program (the genesis of Tor’s name) – the technique of anonymous communication through computer networks via encrypted connection.

Lewman said the students asked Navy brass if they ever thought of using such a system with the Internet. When the Navy was not interested, the students created Tor.

Originally, the idea was to protect users from marketing devices that take personal information from unsuspecting Web browsers. That has evolved in many ways since then as seen in Egypt, said Lewman. People are now using the service to circumvent their government’s control.

Lewman joined the Tor project as a research and developer in Asia when he witnessed Chinese citizens attempting to bypass their government’s censorship to get news from the BBC or CNN or just stay in-tune with the latest Hollywood gossip.

Internet freedom is a western concept that hasn’t caught on yet throughout the rest of the world, he said.

The Chinese are, not surprisingly, some of the highest users of Tor, said Lewman, due to common censorship. Users from Germany and the United States round out the top three.

Germany was the first European Union nation to implement a data retention directive that allowed the country to record the Internet usage of its citizens. Tech savvy Germans looked to keep their privacy.

“Most of them trust their government, but not that much,” said Lewman.

Americans now know more about how much personal information is given to an outsider just by clicking on a webpage than they did when Tor was starting up and they are looking to block that.

“All this stuff is done by default when you browse a website,” Lewman said about how easy it is to gain knowledge about people online. “People get freaked out.”

Victims of crime also use the software to prevent “cyber stalking,” he said.

Lewman said citizens of Iran are often in Tor sessions and Tunisians also took advantage of the software en masse during protests before their government was recently dissolved.

Citizens don’t revolt because they can’t connect to Facebook, he said, but Internet blockades do upset more people than would otherwise be affected by a particular political movement.

Of course, Tor cannot pick and choose who uses the platform, so there comes some bad with the good.

“Technology is technology,” said Lewman about criminals using Tor to hide from authorities on the Internet. The difference, he said, is criminals have no qualms about stealing an identity to hide themselves while there is little a law-abiding person can do to protect their privacy without onion routing.

Lewman said Tor often gets flack from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency, Interpol and other law enforcement agencies but those same authorities use Tor to hide their affiliation to the law when investigating Internet crime. He also points out authorities that don’t need ISP addresses to catch criminals – there are often a variety of other traditional avenues to catch a criminal.

Prior to 2006, Tor was operated by a group of brainiacs working out of Lewman’s Dedham home. When it became increasingly impractical to hold meetings at an ironing board, the company moved to Walpole where it shares a small office in downtown with a law practice.

Tor is run by 10 paid workers out of Walpole but utilizes contractors from around the globe, Lewman said.

The not-for-profit project does receive donations, but is primarily funded by research and development work done by Tor employees for governmental organizations.

Lewman said he and the others have purposefully kept a low profile in Walpole, but Tor became substantially more recognized as media outlets shined a spotlight on the project when Egyptians flooded the streets in Cairo.

“I don’t know if the press has helped or hurt yet,” he said, adding the company will simply continue to do what they have been doing.

Some national and international political leaders predict the successful protests in Egypt will spark other uprisings in the Middle East. Even if that’s not the case, Lewman predicts Tor usage will continue to rise.

Many people in need of Tor are not technical experts and expect privacy at the push of a button, Lewman said. Although Tor representatives travel extensively to hold workshops regarding Internet circumvention, they strive to do just what it is those people expect of them.


“Our goal is to make it that easy,” he said.

No problem accessing Tor Project here.

Here comes the flood, everybody!!!

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Is Bank of America run like a cult? One of the email answers the question: http://i.imgur.com/GUkHA.png #BOA #BlackMonday #AnonLeaks
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Anonymous to bring down Bernanke and banks

If they can do that, what have they been waiting for?