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Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report
megamerican alerted us to a leaked document (PDF) from a Virginia Fusion Center titled "2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment." The document is marked as "Law Enforcement Sensitive," not to be shown to public. Citizens for Legitimate Government has a write-up. Slashdot gets a mention on page 45 — not as a terrorist organization itself, but as one of the places that members of Anonymous may hang out: "A 'loose coalition of Internet denizens,' Anonymous consists largely of users from multiple internet sites such as 4chan, 711chan, 420chan, Something Awful, Fark, Encyclopedia Dramatica, Slashdot, IRC channels, and YouTube. Other social networking sites are also utilized to mobilize physical protests. ... Anonymous is of interest not only because of the sentiments expressed by affiliates and their potential for physical protest, but because they have innovated the use of e-protests and mobilization. Given the lack of a unifying creed, this movement has the potential to inspire lone wolf behavior in the cyber realms." According to the report, cell phones and digital music players have been used to transfer plans related to criminal activity, and therefore presumably could be grounds for suspicion. Podcasting is also suspicious.
"Lone wolf" sound MUCH better than anonymous coward!
All your base are belong to us.
.. and what can we do to stop him!!!
or her
or it
or them
or they
or ... no wait. It's me AAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhh
"TV, a medium as it is neither rare nor well done." Ernie Kovacs
I'm Anonymous.
Points in favor
* It hijacks internet bandwidth that could be used more productively
* It performs DDOS attacks on an hourly basis.
* Millions of hours diverted from productive programming to non-productive uses
* CSS that makes site look like someone vomited on your monitor.
* The Idle section
Points against
* Millions of anti-social, hormone filled misfits are kept off the streets where they could do real harm.
We report the facts. YOU decide.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
It is well known that Commander Taco is actually a commander in the Judean Peoples' Front terrorist organization. Titles like "Cmdr" just aren't given out to anyone. He's their #2 man.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
""A 'loose coalition of Internet denizens,' Anonymous consists largely of users from multiple internet sites such as 4chan, 711chan, 420chan, Something Awful, Fark, Encyclopedia Dramatica, Slashdot, IRC channels, and YouTube. "
In your face, Digg! Yeah!
Xbox Live Achievement Unlocked: You are now a terrorist!
gotta do so much posting. Could tell you more, but i have more important things to do. Someone is wrong on the internet... again! And i have to prove it to him over and over...
Snakeoil, mostly.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Anonymous is a coward, so I don't think they have anything to worry about.
I seriously wonder who the hell their base belong to when they come up with idiocy like this. 4chan? Terrorists? Yeah, they terrorise people with pictures of cats with bad grammar skills. Sometimes they post foolish people's personal details. Clearly a threat to the free world as we know it. *shakes head*
[FUCK BETA]
"Our report on the terrorist group is complete."
"What did you find?"
"Well, for one thing, we think they have been using the web to visit popular websites."
"Okay... what else?"
"Our findings indicate they have been eating food, possibly sourced from restaurants. Also, we think they've been engaging in verbal communication."
"That doesn't exactly narrow it down, does it? Based on that, almost anyone could be a susp... oh! I get it. Nice work!"
"Who the hell their base belong to?"
You've just terrorized my brain.
According to the report, cell phones and digital music players have been used to transfer plans related to criminal activity, and therefore presumably could be grounds for suspicion. Podcasting is also suspicious.
I am told that terrorists now have access to a medium that can't be wiretapped, can be folded or rolled up for ease of concealment, and can be destroyed in seconds with an ordinary match. I'm hoping that the authorities don't paper over this threat. This stuff is so cheap it practically grows on trees.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Do I get a free T-shirt?
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
You may say that, but I have contacts within the inner circle of Anonymous, and I'm given to understand that they have a laser. And they're charging it. And they don't afraid of anything.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Well, we all know that counterculture role-playing games are just training grounds for crime. The obvious solution is raids on all their "publishers" (as the terror cells call themselves) and arrests of all their active trainees.
Please stand by. Agents of the DHS will be there shortly.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
As for numbers, I doubt any individual protest ever got more than a couple of hundred at a time, but worldwide at peak it's estimated that there were over 9000 out on the streets.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Tell that to GameStop.
I'm sure the mere mention of "battletoads" will immediately put you on a watch list sometime soon.
Yeah, they got me last year...
Mind the frickin' laser...
Phew. For a moment I thought you were going to say "09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0". We would have been doomed.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Yes! We are Anonymous, we are legion, we do not...
May the Maths Be with you!
Is Coward the only member of Anonymous? That's not much of a threat.
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Anonymous's ideology sounds intriguing. How does one go about joining them? I would like to subscribe to their newsletter.
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
I'm betting it goes something like this:
People who blow shit up are likely to be antisocial.
People on slashdot, 4chan, etc., are likely to be antisocial.
Therefore people who read slashdot are likely to blow shit up.
Can't blame them, really, given the quality of education we as a society have decided to give our citizens. Makes me so angry I want to blow some shit up. Who's with me?
"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
If it means KDawson gets locked up, then I welcome our new Governmental overlords.
Let's stop dilly-dallying and just change "-1: Overrated" to "-1: Disagree" or "-1: Doesn't Subscribe to Groupthink".
"Who the hell their base belong to?"
Us.
Don't you worry about the details there, Sparky.
Right. No, your other right. No, the other other right.
What did you think slashdot memes were?
All your base reference == mission accomplished.
Natalie Portman reference == target acquired
Beowulf Cluster reference == Law enforcement involved
You didn't think people actually beat those dead horses for humor, did you?
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms!