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We are Anonymous. We are Legion.
We do not forgive. We do not forget.
Expect us.

http://www.anonops.eu/
http://www.anonops.info/
http://twitter.com/AnonOps

"Got a Gawker acct that shares a PW w/your Twitter acct? Change your Twitter PW. A current attack appears to be due to the Gawker compromise." http://twitter.com/delbius/status/14235293116792833

Acai Berry Twitter Worm Spreading Like Wildfire [WARNING]

http://mashable.com/2010/12/13/acai-berry-twitter-worm-warning/

Bruno Borges said it the most succinctly...

"There is no point helping to write specifications that you aren't allowed to implement"

http://twitter.com/#!/brunoborges/status/13058930657730560

And Brian McCallister explained the full ramifications most clearly...

http://skife.org/java/jcp/2010/12/07/the-tck-trap.html

Here's some info.

If you want to participate, you want to download hivemind LOIC or javaloic if you're not on windows.

rs.4chan.org will have links to both.

You can also use the regular LOIC in manual mode and select your own targets.

The best way to find out what's going on is via twitter. Various twitter accounts for operation payback have popped up since the first was killed off. Which is real? Probably all of them.
Here's a current one that's real - https://twitter.com/#!/Op_Payback

The channel to join if youw ant to use hivemind mode is #loic . The server to connect to is loic.anonops.net (down now) or irc.anonops-irc.com .

loic.anonops.net was taken down and the domain name revoked. irc.anonops-irc.com seems to still be up. Any further take downs will invariably be rectified within hours (or minutes) - just watch twitter. And if you can't find anything on twitter, head to /b/ (random) on 4chan.org and just F5, ctrl+f, anon. Reddit and digg and twitter and etc. will have the new details shortly after they hit 4chan, which is typically the first static public place they get posted to.

Update: The Dragon has successfully made a soft landing in the Pacific! This makes it the first-ever commercial spacecraft to return from orbit, and the first American capsule splash-down since 1975. A recovery vessel has already arrived at the capsule and is currently attaching floatation devices to it. NASA and SpaceX are doing a press conference as early as 3:30pm EST, which will presumably be broadcast both on NASA TV and SpaceX's website.

SpaceX has also released a video pointing out a window of the Dragon capsule while in orbit. They apparently also have video of the descent and presumably more video from inside the capsule which will soon be available.

For more updates:

http://twitter.com/SpaceXer
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/002/status.html

http://twitter.com/SpaceXer

"SpaceX is the first commercial company to reenter a spacecraft from space!"

The official SpaceX video (which includes things like a view from the rocket itself) hasn't been released yet, but CNN has posted NASA's video here:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/space.flight/

Ongoing updates will be posted to SpaceX's twitter account. The Dragon capsule is expected to orbit the Earth a few times and then land off the California coast about three hours after the launch, and SpaceX has announced that they're doing a press conference an hour or two after the landing.

Not true!

The http://twitter.com/#!/followfriday is a user and a frequent-trending trend.

The same with: http://twitter.com/TheWalkingDead

Not true!

The http://twitter.com/#!/followfriday is a user and a frequent-trending trend.

The same with: http://twitter.com/TheWalkingDead

Have you tried visiting WikiLeaks recently? The main .org site has been down for the past couple of days as the results of DDoS attacks. It may be the result of this clown http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/, but I've been seeing mirrors picked off for one reason or another all weekend.

This tempest sounds like a few people, with enough connections to news people, are convinced that the rest of the world *must* be as interested in this topic as they are. With that as their premise, they conclude Twitter is 'cheating.'

Wishful thinking that people would be more interested in international corruption than, say, the european music awards.

If there are no non-idiot candidates left, frankly it's time to rebel.

Fortunately there's a few left...
https://twitter.com/#!/repronpaul/status/10716266021003264

@RepRonPaul
Re: Wikileaks- In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.

When I use NoScript to disable JS for a website, at least I have control over it.

Yeah, sure you do... Funny thing about NoScript, it allows you to run JS on sites you trust.

This is just more security theater; Consider cross site scripting attacks. I've seen XSS attacks on Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon, and many more "reputable" sites that you may "trust".

NoScript security comes from not running JS. If you run any JS, you are then no longer secure. How do you know the JS you just allowed to run on a "trusted" site doesn't contain malware delivered via XSS? You Don't.

Granted, NoScript does increase your security because you're running less JS code, but it does not make you invulnerable to JS exploits unless you never allow JS to run.

The "control" you think you have can be ripped away from you by one XSS attack; So, what control do you actually have?

I recommend that all of you, your children, your grandmothers and your mothers download the "history insurance" file that was tweeted 3 days ago.

I sense that they will soon give up trying to go about this in a diplomatic fashion and just leak the key for the AES256 encryption. Then BOOM! Thousands of people will have the entire cable archive (or at least a large part of it) on their home computers.

As I stated on my recent tweet: "Do we really need DNS afterwards? Give me an IP and I'll give them a shortened URL through Social Nets" - http://twitter.com/#!/brunoborges/statuses/10682824059256832 I don't think DNS is needed anymore, at least for websites. With the advent of URL shorteners, we all can publish websites online, without DNS, and through Social Networks show it to the world, easily through some link like http://bit.ly/myFooWebsite. DNS is, IMO, the last hope for Internet control. I have no idea how E-Mail or other protocols could deal with an Internet without DNS, but surely there's a way. Maybe, not invented yet.

WikiLeaks will never be shut down http://bit.ly/WiKiLeaks

As I stated on my recent tweet: "Do we really need DNS afterwards? Give me an IP and I'll give them a shortened URL through Social Nets" - http://twitter.com/#!/brunoborges/statuses/10682824059256832 I don't think DNS is needed anymore, at least for websites. With the advent of URL shorteners, we all can publish websites online, without DNS, and through Social Networks show it to the world, easily through some link like http://bit.ly/myFooWebsite. DNS is, IMO, the last hope for Internet control. I have no idea how E-Mail or other protocols could deal with an Internet without DNS, but surely there's a way. Maybe, not invented yet.

wikileaks.ch is actually registered by the Swiss Pirate Party. They just happen to have it pointed to the right server anyway. Tweet from the Swiss PP president (in German, sorry): http://twitter.com/#!/SciF0r/status/10641251581829120

The relevant bit starts at 43:55. Basically, they think that a Linux version would mean it would have to be open source, which obviously it doesn't. To quote one of the developers: "Linux can fuck off as far as I'm concerned." Gee, thanks. I don't mind if you're not going to bother making a port to Linux, but to not even bother to understand what people are asking and instead resorting to profanity shows these guys are a bunch of closed-minded dicks.

My first post! Please be gentle.

It looks like that podcast took place almost a year ago... as of "about 12 hours ago" on twitter it was twoth that a linux version is in the cards for us: http://twitter.com/SuperMeatBoy/status/10377369512583168 I'd imagine the world of linux was either made more clear to them, or they were simply being inflammatory previously as a joke. Their reaction to the PETA thing would indicate the latter, I'd say. Hopefully you're not completely soured on the game, it really is something else (the only reason I restart into Windows). It'll probably be a while before the port happens, as there's only one programmer between the two of them, but probably early next year we'll have some fresh native meat to play with... what?

It is widely known that the powers that be really, really want to destroy Wikileaks, and primary way to do that would be to release misinformation and tarnish Wikileaks and Assange's name. If all of the leaks were done completely anonymously, it would be trivial for the CIA (or anyone, for that matter) to flood the internet with fake leaks so much so that you have no idea what the real leaks are and what the fake leaks are. With Wikileaks as the central leak dispersion authority, any attempt at releasing fake leaks could just be called on on their twitter page, for instance.

That said, Julian Assange's name doesn't need to be known for Wikileaks to have been successful. Ideally, Wikileaks would be the trusted organization, and Assange would just be the leader of it. Instead, Assange is the organization (or seems to be), and the destruction of either would likely cause the destruction of both.

It looks like someone enlightened him, and they've since changed their minds:

http://twitter.com/#!/SuperMeatBoy/status/10377369512583168

According to Alexis Madrigal, the answer is no. http://twitter.com/alexismadrigal

I got sent this on twitter today:
How many Peta members does it take to change a lightbulb?.... None, Peta can't change anything.

http://twitter.com/#!/SuperMeatBoy

Apparently people are saying that Super Tofu boy cost more to make than super meat boy.

Maybe because he wasn't actually arrested... Isn't this the Twitter account in question? http://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r

• www.wikileaks.org - TANGO DOWN - for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations #wikileaks #fail
• th3j35t3r For sake IMPOSTER >> (@th3j3st3r (www.th3j35t3r.net)) I plead you to STFU and vanish.'He knows not what he does.' Heed me now.
• << PS FOR the record I have not been lifted, and do not require any finances or donations - dont be sucked in by @th3j3st3r <<< imposter.OUT
• << requires no cash. I will not have blood of a money-grabbin opportunist (@th3j35tsr) on my hands. Consider urself dusted. (thankyou).
• <<< really wanted to TANGO DOWN - www.th3j35t3r.net The raid story = fabricated by the imposter (@th3j3st3r - www.th3j35t3r.net) to facilitate him capitalizing on the name, or to draw me out.
• <<< the real Jester thanks all with common sense and the ability to research, while at the same time never begging for money. (EVER). OUT.

Real Jester twitter: http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r
Fake Jester twitter: http://twitter.com/th3j3st3r

The real Jester uses a 5 in place of an 's', the fake one does not.

Check the follower counts and earliest tweets on each. Earliest message on the newer account is about WikiLeaks.
The fake Jester's twitter used to have a fake Jester website with a graphic saying "Sorry! This website is unavailable" (Google cache of site), but it now redirects to the real Jester's wordpress blog.
Hoax.

Real Jester twitter: http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r
Fake Jester twitter: http://twitter.com/th3j3st3r

The real Jester uses a 5 in place of an 's', the fake one does not.

Check the follower counts and earliest tweets on each. Earliest message on the newer account is about WikiLeaks.
The fake Jester's twitter used to have a fake Jester website with a graphic saying "Sorry! This website is unavailable" (Google cache of site), but it now redirects to the real Jester's wordpress blog.
Hoax.

further update from his twitter:
( http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r )

# the real Jester thanks all with common sense and the ability to research, while at the same time never begging for money. (EVER). OUT. about 3 hours ago via web

# The raid story = fabricated by the imposter (@th3j3st3r - www.th3j35t3r.net) to facilitate him capitalizing on the name, or to draw me out. about 3 hours ago via web

# really wanted to TANGO DOWN - www.th3j35t3r.net IMPOSTER - today but I appear to have bigger stuff to deal with. Shit happens. about 3 hours ago via web

# requires no cash. I will not have blood of a money-grabbin opportunist (@th3j35tsr) on my hands. Consider urself dusted. (thankyou). about 3 hours ago via web

# PS FOR the record I have not been lifted, and do not require any finances or donations - dont be sucked in by @th3j3st3r imposter.OUT about 4 hours ago via web

# th3j35t3r For sake IMPOSTER (@th3j3st3r (www.th3j35t3r.net)) I plead you to STFU and vanish.'He knows not what he does.' Heed me now. about 4 hours ago via web

Here's the guy's twitter. He claims he's not arrested.

Weird story...

The Wikileaks twitter account is reporting/complaining that Amazon booted them from using their servers. Others are saying it was due to pressure from the US.

I wonder what impact that has on services like their EC2 cloud. I mean if your company does something the US government doesn't like and they can put pressure on Amazon to just cut off your services then all the supposed benefits of 'cloud computing' are bullshit.

PHP advent 2010 (Or on twitter)

Angry Birds (Seasons) features an advent calendar with a new level released every day.

More?

He's even gone so far as to develop his own pretty DoS tool with green fonts on black background with twitter integration that exploits uber-secret knowledge, like opening many connections that slowly feed http headers to apache, thereby using up all available children.

What will be interesting, though, is his own encrypted insurance file, that supposedly contains various information about the people behind wikileaks, although - like the wikileaks insurance file - you can't really prove it contains anything but random garbage. I rather choose to believe that the guy is a bored, stupid teen who read too many articles about the fantasy anarcho-hacking world of the 90s...

The Wikileaks twitter account is reporting/complaining that Amazon booted them from using their servers. Others are saying it was due to pressure from the US.

Actually, the Kennedy's in general and JFK in particular DESERVE to be ripped apart--but not for the vapid reasons that Sarah Palin's ghost writer came up with.

Look, I'm not here to turn this into some JFK and RFK and Ted Kennedy did all this horrible crap and killed a woman and got away with it and were womanizing nepotistic rich bastards ... all or or some of these things could be said. But what I was trying to say here was that nobody has ever run on that platform. You can write a book of dirt when you're done with politics but writing such a book before you become president is sort of like asking your future opponent if they'd like to have their way with you right now. I mean JFK, though flawed, was a hero to a lot of Americans. And his martyrdom was just icing on the cake. And to call into question one of his most loved and cherished speeches is more than ballsy, it's downright dangerous.

Sarah Palin is a new kind of political monster, unlike the ones I'm used to watching comfortably from my armchair. She's got a twitter feed that sports so many errors, she might actually be the person running it! From a classic Bush-esque prescriptive versus descriptive linguistics error to making accusations and weird religious remarks. It's a microblogging service! Look at what the rest of the politicians use it for: a paid staff techie is told what to put on it and what goes on it is only tepid words praising safe topics for that candidate to like. And those are usually reviewed seventy times before they go up. She has broken the rules of and committed fouls in politics many times and yet people embrace her.

All I wanted to say in my post was that from what I've seen of Sarah Palin, we should have stuck a fork in her long ago yet she remains. And why is that? Well, she's a dangerously well liked and amicable to a large part of the population that you are not familiar with. If she makes a mistake they seem to forgive her and say "I've made that mistake too." If she uses cracked logic or argument tactics long ago written off by academics, her followers just write off the academics. Trust me, as someone who's tried to reason with a supporter with some fairly simple debate analysis of Glenn Beck's logic, I can tell you that you don't want to approach this as some fancy pants intellectual telling them how dumb they are.

Don't confuse this with praise of Sarah Palin or defense of JFK. This is just me trying to warn people about how I see the situation at present. What happens when she runs for president and her opposition preys on some stupid social gaffe of hers? If it's any less than what she's already done, it's merely going to be ignored by or reinforce her supporter's commitment.

Plz stop saying I'm the guy behind the new DNS-system. I'm just one of lots of people with interest in it. Everyone does their part!

https://twitter.com/#!/brokep/status/9684729515220992

He's now updated his post with a tweet from someone at Nasa that the press conference is not about proof of life:

I'm sad to quell some of the @kottke-induced excitement about possible extraterrestrial life. I've seen the Science paper. It's not that

I'm just complaining, but I tried to publicize this through slashdot back in october and was ignored. http://twitter.com/mootcycle/status/27965429016/ I also made the point that mobile browsers don't display enough of the url. accounts.google.com.evil-lemur.com only shows the first bit of the URL. Oh well. I suppose I should have tried harder to get someone to pay attention.

They always go in threes. First LN, now IK. Who's #3?

Sir Maurice Wilkes - one of the early programming pioneers of the 1940's?

From The National Museum Of Computing, Bletchley Park twitter feed: http://twitter.com/#!/tnmoc/status/9283716039843841

Sad news that today Sir Maurice Wilkes passed away, aged 97. Here he was on a visit last year to #TNMOC http://ow.ly/3gUD2

This may have been a Slowloris DoS attack by some patriotic 2600 guy, not necessarily a massive coordinated multinational assault. That perl script is effective on threading web servers including Apache. I just tested it out, took down my badass 100mbps server (just the web server stalling up until the script is aborted) with a dinky server on a DSL line just by opening up a bunch of TCP sockets really really slowly, using less than 20KB/s. That's Tor friendly.

Then I installed mod_qos, tried to attack myself again, no slowdown, problem solved.

If this attack gets the right amount of attention it could turn a lot of people on (4channers mainly who are yapping up Slowlaris as their replacement for LOIC) to DoSing with this software. So for those of you using Apache, you may want to fire up mod_qos (Apache2 instructions). Actually you may want it regardless for general performance purposes.

There's a guy on twitter claiming to be behind it (as referenced by another poster in the last thread)

He claims to be a general activist going after 'general badguys' but his history seems to suggest that he's just going after anti-US viewpoints (in particular extremist muslims) and ignoring anything else. Cyber-vigilante type.

Andreas Bogk, long-time member of the german Chaos Computer Club and well connected to many people claims that this guy is actually capable of doing such an DoS: http://twitter.com/andreasdotorg/status/8940380875653120

One self proclaimed "Hacktivist for good" claims responsibility for the DoS-Attack: http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r

He threatened before that he would do that when Wikileaks releases, see last comment on http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/wikileaks-insurance-policy-expired/

Wikileaks used to feature leaks from all over the world, big and small. Truth and transparency for their own sake motivated the organization. In this capacity, Wikileaks might have been a force for good.

But a few years ago, Julian Assange (who is as autocratic as the rumors indicate) and his ilk abandoned the original goals of the organization to wage a political war against the United States. Wikileaks launched a massive fundraising effort, then started to ignore documents from the general public. Most telling is that the operators let the submission system stay broken for months at a time: if your leak doesn't harm the United States, Wikileaks isn't interested.

Today's Wikileaks uses methods that the old Wikileaks would have found deplorable: these include a strict internal hierarchy, deceptive video editing, spin-heavy public statements, marketing-driven timing, purity tests, and blackmail. Whereas idealism drove the old Wikileaks, every action taken by its present incarnation is informed by malice aforethought. It's no longer about the truth. Now, it's a vendetta.

Speaking as someone who was formerly involved with the organization, I cannot support today's Wikileaks or its leadership. They've been captured by their vanity and pride[1] and as far as I'm concerned, they can hang, then burn.

Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.

[1] That some prominent members of the organization consider this wretched document the "obvious truth" illuminates their mindset.

...the Fry's sponsored device will be for sale at Fry's

Piracy is illegal. Period. Whether or not they actually condone such actions is wholly superfluous to the fact that by having that term in their name, they implicitly (and strongly) associate themselves with the advocation of illegal activities. Again, whether they mean to do this is quite irrelevant. They must change their name before they have even the slightest *hope* of being taken seriously in Canada. Otherwise it's just the rhino party all over again, as far as most people will be concerned.

If they want to get any real votes, let alone seats in parliament, then they need to change their name to something respectable. If they aren't willing to, it just ends up looking like they just want attention.

We as a society define what is and is not respectable. If a word for pillaging ships on the high seas can mean "sharing information online via computers", then it can mean "getting actively engaged in your country's democratic process" too, a process we are beginning right now. Very few people on doorsteps are stuck on the name--out of a hundred people around 60 don't blink, 30 need an explanation to appreciate it, and 10 are exactly where you are.

Sincerely,
Jeff Coleman
Pirate Party of Canada Candidate for Winnipeg North
1-204-800-0356

Official Twitter: http://twitter.com/PegNorthPirate
Official Facebook: http://fb.me/PegNorthPirate
Official YouTube: http://youtube.ca/PegNorthPirate

Ah, I think that was from days ago. I just checked today using Wireshark again and they fixed it, which means https://twitter.com/ should be safe now.

https://twitter.com/ almost works, but I sniffed the packets using Wireshark and unfortunately they still make one HTTP request, which because the session cookie is not marked secure is sent insecurely along with it. I remember reading that it was made using XMLHTTPRequest.

"...there is always a legal means: getting very wealthy and changing the copyright laws."

FFY

Or, you could approach the political system from the perspective of a hacker. 70% of people in my riding who aren't the least bit interested in anything remotely similar to "politics so far" is a pretty gaping exploit--give them half a chance to send a real message instead of just picking between talking heads, and they might just hand a regular human being root access to the legislative process.

Sincerely,
Jeff Coleman
Pirate Party of Canada candidate for Winnipeg North
1-204-800-0356
jeff at pirateparty dot ca

Official Twitter: http://twitter.com/PegNorthPirate
Official Facebook: http://fb.me/PegNorthPirate
Official Youtube: http://youtube.ca/PegNorthPirate

It's pretty simple, you can often force https simply by typing it in the address bar, if the site has some kind https cert set up, it'll bring you to a secured version of the site. https://twitter.com/ works and brings to twitter securely, as it does for many mail sites. All you have to do is add a character the html string, which isn't that complicated. For it to really be secure, the server administrator has to secure their site.

Heh, I managed to fit FizzBuzz in a tweet, written in JS... :)

November 24, 2010 is National Opt-Out Day.

Remember, the pat-down is without suspicion and a violation of your rights.

Power to the people !

Yours In Osh,
K. Trout

the 911 dispatch could get a swarm of the SMSes and with a visualization tool see how serious the situation is, and where the SMSes are coming from. (For a rough estimate of location, cell-tower identification would probably be sufficient).

Sounds like they should just use Twitter? They already have Geotagging. Personally I've not found any use for Twitter yet, but this sounds like a great use for it!