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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.
Looks like Anonymous has just leveled up. I wonder about a couple things. Who paid off Virginia state to label Anonymous as a terrorist organization, and how much of Anonymous will be loyal enough to stick around now that they are labeled as a terrorism threat.
.. 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
People who wear glasses are terrorists.
People who read are terrorists.
People who have independent thoughts are terrorists.
Well that means that the anti-terrorist good guys are illtrate ... well my money is on the guys that wear glasses.
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.
Oh no, let's declare war on the internets, I head there's some oil there too
Remember, Virginia, that you yourself may be the Tyrant. Americans today pay far more in taxes than they did under George III - and get very little in return.
Signed,
"Moved with my feet"
Are they talking about anonymity in general or a group that called Anonymous? Confused.
Since when were protests "terrorism"?
So anywhere you can be anonymous must be stamped out. in the name of fighting terrorism.
Open wifi, not keeping weblogs, ISPs not keeping logs forever... you get the idea.
Need a national registrar of mac addresses ( ok, i know they can be spoofed, but has reality ever got in the way before? )
---- Booth was a patriot ----
""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!
How DARE citizens engage in the rights to:
Free speech
Assembly
Petition the government (or government institutions).
Why those subversives who not only wrote it into law, but preceded those rights with the words "Congress shall make no law abridging..." must have been terrorists or something.
No wonder this was marked "not to show to public". How dare we engage in such subversion of the LAW enforcement establishment.
The way I read this is that they are setting up pretexts for "probable cause" to detain and search people who engage in normal, legal behavior. Yet more evidence that the "war on terror" and the PATRIOT act are being used to expand law enforcement power over the law abiding, when instead such energy would be better spent guarding the porous borders or monitoring the FOREIGN FUNDED (Saudi) mosques (which is where most world wide terrorism originates).
Corporatism != Free Market
Government ( followed by religion ) is the biggest terrorist organisation EVER !
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Wasn't the United States kind of founded by terrorism? Stealing other peoples land and making them promises and then later screwing them over. I remember the Anonymous protest against Scientology in Pittsburgh and as far as I can tell it involved no violence.
"Without curiosity and knowledge, the mind is a vast void. Without the mind, curiosity and knowledge are nonexistent."
Here I am, a coward by any name.
I'm not a coward by any name.
You laugh, but Ted Kennedy has already be caught up in this sort of nonsense.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Slashdot is known for being a terrorist hotbed of activity.
Seriously though, is it getting just so utterly bullshit that they list Slashdot as a potential terrorist hangout? I mean, really? Is the government this god damned stupid? I suppose in the back of my mind I always knew it was, but wow.
I don't want to come off as a nutjob here, but this country is falling down hard. A new revolution in the next 100 years appears to be more than possible at this point. Laws are getting absolutely ridiculous.
I realize VA is far from the federal government, but this "OMG EVERY1 IZ TERRORIZT!" stuff is getting really scary.
Terrorist.. This decades Communist.. Make lists and round 'em up, boys!
Fucking scary.
I for one welcome myself as our new tyrannical overlord.
Evil plans spread through /. sigs!
How sneaky!
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...
W.A.S.T.E the secret underground postal box system used by the Illuminati.
On another note: if Anonymous is going after others who are detrimental to society (eg scientologists) I suppose that we should attach the label vigilante - normally not seen as the right way of going about things. However: the authorities have completely failed to protect us from these murdering crooks (by which I mean scientologists) which is why Anonymous is doing something. What they have done is to make a lot of noise, get up the crooks' noses, etc - all legitimate, so why are they listed here ? -- is it because the govt does not like anything that it cannot control ?
GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
I prefer to think of it as a stand alone complex.
No good deed goes unpunished. - Avon, Blake's 7
Actually, why bother? Seriously. My name REALLY IS Ralph Spoilsport. I live in Ukaipah on Rhode Island School of Design Terrace. Every morning I commute to work at Ralph Spoilsport Motors, over in West Gommorah.
And about this "Terrorism" meme floating since 9/11. What these people don't understand is violence. When it flows from the top of the social hierarchy down, it is invisible (like being forced to work to feed yourself) or rationalised (viz. warfare).
When violence flows UP the hierarchy from below, it is condemned (as terrorism, laziness, whatever) and persecuted (with invasions, arrests, assassinations, gitmo, etc.)
I don't see middle eastern terrorists flying planes into towers in Oslo, or the USA invading China to remove its brutal totalitarian government. Why? Because Norway hasn't been an invasive empire since the Vikings called it quits centuries ago, and China has the ability to readily defend itself, unlike Iraq in 2003, or (as it was perceived at the time) Viet Nam in 1964, or Poland in 1939.
If you want to stop terrorism, renounce your Empire and leave people the fuck alone. Eventually you won't be targeted for being a belligerent asshole, and you won't have to worry about scribblings by anonymous douchebags.
It's not a problem WITH civilisation, but more the problem OF civilisation and its inherent unsustainability. If you want a better explanation, read Endgame vol 2 by Derek Jensen.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
Talking is also suspicious, suspicion is also suspicious. You think maybe we could just lock up the guys naming suspicious things and have a safer world?
Anonymous is a coward, so I don't think they have anything to worry about.
In fairness though, we already know that Ted Kennedy is a murderer.
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
Anonymous 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 has no leader and is reliant on the collective power of individuals acting in such a way that benefits the movement. Actions attributed to Anonymous include: Habbo raids - Unwanted and prohibited behaviors in the Habbo online community Internet vigilantism reports - Self-identified Anonymous members tracked down and helped authorities capture an online sexual predator Epilepsy Foundation forum invasion - Hackers changed the coding of the website to random flashing patterns in an apparent attempt to induce headaches and seizure. Anonymous denies responsibility for this and has claimed that the Church of Scientology actually staged the attack as Anonymous in an effort to discredit the movement. Project Chanology - an ongoing electronic and physical protest campaign against the Church of Scientology
The US government takes fingerprints, footprints, blood type, and DNA information from people when they are born. Later they take dental prints. Until a few years ago they enforced traceable information to be placed on products that can be used destructively. Now everything has RFID tags. Communicating by phone or mail can easily be monitored, and arguably is. No thing and no body is anonymous in the physical world. Now something existing that tears down that wall, anonymous communication. Ironically, it originated by the US government so they (the government) could be free in case of a power switch. I guess there is nothing more frightening to power than freedom you must share.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
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Death to all who oppose us! Glory to the Sin'dorei!
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]
Hah! Bet when those terrorists were promised 70 virgins, they didn't think of THAT!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"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!"
This raises an interesting question: could I actually create an alternate communication method using A.C. postings alone? Using a cipher symbol alphabet consisting entirely of sensible words or sentences, I could hide inside of the more popular systems that allow anonymous posting and probably not even be noticed (I mean hell, how many people do more than scan the A.C. posting to see if it makes sense?).
--this movement has the potential to inspire lone wolf behavior in the cyber realms.--
I don't think it's even a happening much less a full blown movement. I thought it was all kids being kids and playing pranks.
Looks like the prank is on the State of Virginia. Is everyone of interest?
Slashdot / Anonymous terrorists?
Nah, they are just looking for a scapegoatse.
Mmm. With any luck, this might be recognised as the moment that the terrorism witch-hunt jumped the shark.
[FUCK BETA]
The short version is this:
Anonymous is a group that has grown board of trolling each other and has started trolling people in real life.
When I was in college (Norwich University, a military college) we tried to pay a "friendly visit" to the Coast Guard Academy (our big football rivals, "little Army/little Navy") for a prank. We were all camouflaged up, etc, etc, but despite that we all got caught by their campus security.
I was scared frankly shitless that I was going to be busted, fined, kicked out of school, lose my scholarship & Army career, etc. A couple of us are sitting in the security office in handcuffs, and the one 'rental cop' says on his walkie-talkie "Be advised, judging by their dress they may be hiding out in the bushes." That (intuitive grasp of the obvious) remark was the first hint that I just might survive the experience.
Same thing applies here: High quality tech fora are the kinds of places you'd expect hackers to at least monitor, if not hang out.
dave (who did make it to graduation and commissioning in the Army... All of our guys were caught but one, who spent 6 hours low-crawling from bush to bush to get off campus.)
If you don't like grape jelly on your peanut butting and jelly sandwich, you are a terrorist.
But as a matter of fact, there are anonymous remaillers and other such support for genuinely anonymous internet based communications even set up on servers at universities of law.
Of the reasons for this is that supporting freedom of speech for those who may otherwise be subjected to restricted speech laws in the country they reside.
Where there is wrong doing going on and victims of such, the victims are provided a way to communicate that provides some level of anonymous.
In regards to terrorism, if you were a terrorist, would you not want some verification of who you are communicating with regarding your associates in regards to committing a terrorist act?
So the reality of this connection between anonymous and terrorism is no more valid than claiming anyone with a motor vehicle is a terrorist.
It is actually more an act of showing intent to suppress freedom of speech and supporting terrorism.
Language is a tool that is onl as useful as the two or more parites who use it with an agreed upon meaning of the abstraction used.
With this in mind and knowing a terrorist party could easily devise double talk vocabuilary that could easily slip b y NSA or other security agencies in teh world, we are all suspect of being terrorist simply because we communicate.
Don't like grape jelly on your peanut and jelly sandwich ... who is to know that is NOT a code phrase to initiate acts of terrorism?
But the genuine honesty of the mater is much simpler.
The how to stop terrorism and the ability of those interested in committing terrorism from being able to enlist the help of others, is to remove reason for anyone to commit a terrorist act.
for starters What The World Wants as opposed to what military supporters want.
These people don't understand something. Nobody is 'from' Slashdot, or 4chan, or any other websites. They are just users 'of' Slashdot or 4chan. To say they are 'from Slashdot' shows a pretty basic misunderstanding of the user-website relationship.
"Who the hell their base belong to?"
You've just terrorized my brain.
Groups that exist to deny us basic freedom in the name of their religion are terrorists, aren't they?
Rorschach's Journal. 10 April 2009. Heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says "Treatment is simple. Get on 4chan tonight. Make humorous post mocking others. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says "But, doctor...I am Drew Curtis." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. Fade to black.
Church of Scientology are a bunch of deluded d-bags.
board = bored.
Isn't it easier to list those websites where people are NOT allowed to be anonymous?
If I were in the Virginia govt., I would block all internet, tv, radio, phone. You'll feel much safer if you don't know what's happening in the evil outside world.
There is an Anonymous, AND a Slashdot.
Friends don't let friends line-dance.
Fat, greasy, smelly nerds with mustard stains on their dragon shirts, pot bellies, and techno soundtrack in their car... the new face of terrorism? No wonder law enforcement is up in arms, being as most police officers were the jocks they're desperately afraid of REVENGE OF THE NERDS.
Also, SA as one of their hang out spots? All SA has is shitty photoshops and their own dumb internal memes. They're as irrelevant as genmay is, nowadays.
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.
Accurate intelligence gathering is hard with slashdot.
Slashdot does not have a real leader's server to raid.
There is no focal point for the feds to direct their rage.
There is nothing to infiltrate, entrap and destroy.
The feds hate the thousands of different one liners and links exposing and opposing them.
Slashdot is a thousand posts of resistance.
Like a story which moves up the firehose when needed and disappears when not, so the exposure of the Virginia Fusion Center is spread.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
once you've posted anonymously in a thread you cannot moderate the thread anymore and the comments you have moderated lose their score.
sounds a lot like the "post anonymously" option doesn't disclose your name and keeps your karma from getting touched.
otherwise, I'm sure they know every posssible detail there is to know about every AC and non-AC post.
It's not about fate, it's about character.
there be no shelter here, the frontline is everywhere!
But they VERY clearly regard Anonymous as a "terrorist threat." Perhaps more of a potential threat than an actual one, but don't kid yourselves, the way that they wrote about it on pages 45-46 demonstrate that they clearly take it seriously as a trouble-maker with terrorist potential. I was surprise to see Harrisonburg listed as a site of interest for Virginia and Anonymous, but it would make sense. Harrisonburg has James Madison University, one of the largest Virginia state universities, and is on a direct path between Virginia Tech and Northern Virginia, which would make it a perfect meet up point for Anonymous members at both universities and in metro DC.
You had to post logged-in, didn't you?
Actually, I do, since slashdot is doing their part to combat terrorism and blocking me from making more than one AC post every few hours.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
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.
I think the world would be a better place without 99% of those who comment on YouTube. Kill them evil terrorists I say!
which is totally what she said
P: Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?
B: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over, the world!
Couldn't help but notice the url for this pdf link. Do we consider anything from Alex Jones legitimate news now?
What Would Scooby Do?
To have such l33t haX0r at the helm of cybersecurity? Someone who understands and can divine the true identities of the Anonymous, an elite cabal of terrorists bent on flooding the internets machine with p0rn and clogging the tubes. Slashdot, you're blown. Now the whole world will know that all this tech talk is just a veneer of respectability....except without the veneer.
To the Bat Cave!
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
remeber bretheren....
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It all goes down 4/20/09 at 16:20 local time. Tell the others!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
The thing about being a virgin in prison is you won't stay one forever. D:
I'm too scared to be unidentified.
In Soviet Russia meme tires of you!
How can people even really joke or find this funny? Sure 4chan was mentioned, and they are oh so hilarious. But anyplace where people are meeting for active discussion, dissent, countering MSM bias the government can now label "possible terrorist organization" and establish "probable cause"? That is horrifying
only the criminals will be anonymous.
Does this mean channels of information can be used by criminals? Shocking.
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
That is why international monitoring of shark sales is so critical. Should laser-possessing members of Anonymous get their hands on one, then they will finally have everything that they need.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
There might be dozens of other reasons why people would legitimately want to stay anonymous.
Oh, yes, I realize I posted this one while logged in. Let them mark me an enemy of the state if they so desire.
[I hereby raspberry those segments of United States government, or any other agencies for that matter, that conduct such shoddy research and make generalizations based on fear and incomplete information.]
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
.. a group of people who will never be happy until everyone is forced to have a placard draped around their neck listing their name, address, and, perhaps most important, political affiliation. How these people manage to walk down a crowded city street without having an anxiety attack is beyond me: ``I don't know who that person is. I think I should be scared of them. And that person... and that one, too!''
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
You're supposed to post that as AC. Ah crap...
Ah iz en Slashdot postin as ahnonymous coward plotting mai neffarious terrorist plotz.
Frankly, I would sign up to that even if they weren't terrorists. Fukken sheep.
[FUCK BETA]
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.
" 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.
"
Wow.... "THEY" (ie, the "man") really fear us... I was @ DC for Cherry Festival just last week. I didn't understand why they made an announcement on the subway ("Metro" for the knowledgables) about how we were not to have our cell phones and digital music players out on the train, and to report supicious packages. I didn't understand the cell phone / mp3 player part till I reall the above. And as far as supicious packages go, all packages are supicious now-a-days if they are not mine.. How many times do you hear about donuts and flower/chalk being blown up by police because someone dropped a box and didn't get back to it in time...
I thought we would get "Change" but I guess not yet...
--- Relax, that mass muderer is just trying to reduce our carbon footprint, one fetus at a time...
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. If you check out the VA Governor's home page: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/ You will find: April 7 -- Building on a number of recent initiatives designed to take learning beyond the classroom, Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced the official launch of "Virginia on iTunes U,"(direct link, requires iTunes) a dedicated area within Apple's iTunes Store featuring free access to educational content. Through iTunes U for K-12 education, students, teachers, and other interested users can "learn on the go" by downloading audio and video content onto an iPod, iPod touch, or iPhone from any computer with Internet access. Encourage their use and then...bam...label them terrorists... Well played Governor Kaine, well played.
Did anyone actually RTFA? The part about Anonymous and what I read from the rest was pretty much common sense. Didn't try to make terrorists out of kids, and the only obvious "scare tactic" I found was that they had red headers in the pdf. I actually feel better knowing somebody is keeping an eye on things, just in case.
That being said, I think I understand a bit more about why there is a need for active watchdogs to supervise the police. Given their job they cannot sympathize with the organizations they investigate - and if they do it's likely they won't do their job right. Everything they see or hear about say, an animal rights group is through the perspective of possible trouble. And it is as it should be, that's what they are being paid for. But you cannot let the same people also guard personal rights... and the fault for the consequences belongs to whatever politician thought it was possible.
The problem is people are just that stupid. They will really take that crap seriously.
I was once talking with a fellow student at my university on break about what classes he was taking the next semester. He said he wanted to take a course from "Professor Staff". Me and a few other students got a couple of chuckles in before the student went on to say, "I can not believe how many classes that guy teaches".
There was like over 1,000 courses in the schedule all marked "Staff" under the teacher because they did not know who was teaching. He was completely serious, and we continued to talk about it for a good 10 to 15 mins. The guy just did not catch on, or put it together.
Living in Chile
A while back I took it upon myself to try to expose this creep for what he is, so I took all the normal hacking tools I could gather up and went at it. The only trouble is this guy is a genius of disguise. Not one password cracking tool could guess this 'Anonymous' users SlashDot password! No matter how hard I tried I just couldn't manage to get it. So, I tried the brute force method, starting with 'a', then 'b', then 'c', all the way out to the length of twenty characters and not one got me into his 'Anonymous' account! This guy is obviously good at making uncrackable passwords. In fact almost every site I tried I just could not get in. Now I finally understand why this 'war against terror' takes so much time, money, and resources.
They got caught on The MIAC Report only a few weeks ago.
...and why the fuck do i have to wait over 11 minutes between posting commnents, wtf!!
~ awaiting spiritual enlightenment ~
I'm a man of wealth and taste.
Criminals and terrorists use breathing to assist in their nefarious activities! Anyone who breaths should be considered suspicious and immediately reported to proper authorities!
Fargh! Who in the heck put these half-witted imbeciles in charge of our security? Oh, it was us... I guess we get what we deserve because of our short-sighted quest for "absolute security". Of course, there is no such thing, and to paraphrase one of our founding fathers, "Those who eschew freedom for security are neither free nor secure". Living has its risks, and living in a Nanny State will not change that. So, I suppose if I clicked on the "Post Anonymously" check box above, it could be considered suspicious by the State of Virginia? What morons! Will someone please take away their secret decoder rings from these idiots?
Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real-time.
I think the mind control rays aren't being focused properly.
Best Slashdot Co
Yes! We are Anonymous, we are legion, we do not...
May the Maths Be with you!
. . . that Bush/Cheney are still in power.
That chill which went down all of your spines when you first read the article just got chillier, didn't it?
I'm no Obama fan, but given the choice between soft and hard fascism. . . The Bush legacy is going to keep on giving for a while, I think.
It's because of stuff like this that people who know their history got all worked up over the Neo-con rise to power and the Iraqi war D-Day which half of the ignorant folks here were practically ejaculating over with little visions of 'command & conquer' tanks dancing before their eyes. Sorry, guys, but you got skunked, and now the law enforcement in Virginia and other strong-holds of armed and brain damaged, "Is it a W or an M," people have their list criteria compiled. And if the Virginian state police can think it, then you can be 100% certain that Fatherland Security got there first, probably in the first six months. And the scary thing about such people is that they don't think. --Once you're labeled, that's it for you. The assault-rifle wielding black-armor task-force orcs with "POLICE" or "ATF" or whatever printed in white upon their backs who surge through apartment building hallways in that half-crouched war zone walk. . . You can't say, "Hey, let's talk about this. You've got the wrong guy! I voted for McCain!"
No. They don't listen. It's been programmed out of them, Mister Buttle. You'll have plastic cutting into your wrists, because some infantile W or M person has made a brain-damaged decision which they don't have the emotional maturity to admit might have been the result of a personal error.
The ironic part is that I suspect more than half the AC posts around here are keyed in exactly by the 'command & conquer' people.
That's how it works. Even those who salute the flag have a fair chance of ending up crucified.
-FL
Do your contacts know how is babby formed and how girl get pregnant?
--I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield.-
As a member of Virginia Anti-terrorists Anonymous, I've already cracked this code and alerted the proper authorities about this dangerous "Anonymous" group Slashdot.
However, sometimes I really think that only stupid paranoids think that there is a secret society trying to get them. I mean, people in general are too lazy to act en-masse' to disrupt things if they are comfortable. Of course, if you are creating misery and death for a group, then by all means worry. But these people are simply clutching at straws...
Fortunately, I spend so much time infiltrating these Anonymous groups and cracking their secret codes, that I can usually suppress these sort of thoughts to the back of my mind. Well, now it's time for me to go back to investigating the 4chan terrorist network.
Systemd: the PulseAudio of init systems
It's NOT a joke. It's VERY serious. They are extraordinarily ignorant, yes. But they believe in doing damage as a way to solve what they perceive as problems. (1,000,000 Iraqis and those of their families who are still living can verify that.)
This is nonsense: "Slashdot gets a mention on page 45 - not as a terrorist organization itself, but as one of the places that member of Anonymous may hang out". In the minds of extremely ignorant angry people, providing a place for terrorists is the same as being a terrorist.
However, let's not get too extreme. If Slashdot editors are sent to prison, it will probably be for bad editing, not for helping terrorists and therefore being terrorists themselves. For example, "that member of Anonymous may hang out" is bad English. It could be "that members of an Anonymous group may hang out".
When the violent dictatorial regime gains complete control, Cowboy Neal will post (heavily censored) stories like this from his prison cell: "DRM is a wonderful way to assure order in the world." "Let's praise the brilliant insights of those who wrote the DMCA." Essentially the same old stuff, just moved several thousand miles to the west.
Would they kill YOU? Would they kill members of your family? Yes, they would. Your safety comes only from the fact that they are not likely to focus on you.
Shit, I forgot to post anonymously.
Systemd: the PulseAudio of init systems
Cars have been used to transport terrorists and guns. If you're driving a car, you might be a terrorist
"Only really stupid paranoids think that there is a secret society trying to get them. People in general are too lazy to act en-masse' to disrupt things if they are comfortable. If you are creating misery and death for a group, then by all means worry.\n\nBut these people are simply clutching at straws..\n"
(Python: ''.join(map(chr, map(lambda x: int(x, 16), s.split()))))
Is Coward the only member of Anonymous? That's not much of a threat.
Views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the author.
Classic case of a GIGO system (Garbage In Garbage Out). The fusion center (would that be cold fusion?) decided that any reference to Anonymous is terrorist related because some group calls themselves Anonymous. Okay. Got it. So if Slashdot used "Incognito" instead of "Anonymous" that would be fine and dandy. Yep, that's the ticket. Gee, maybe Slashdot should sue the fusion center citing the Monster Cable precedent.
I agree!
Kill all the mindless followers! Let's get a good old lynch mob organised on 4chan.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
I just saw someone with an iPod AND a cellphone. Definitely must be a terrorist. Better call their hotline. 877- 4VA-TIPS
Seriously, like WHAT is our world coming to? Makes me mad!
I like the way you put spaces between the hex values so I start debug.exe, enter e 100 and paste it in.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
I don't see the threat from Anonynmous COWARD.
Then again, they should fear the 4-digit /.'rs lurking behind some ACs. A bit of code in the right place, and *poof*...
Of cou&**&^uuuuuuuNO CARRIER
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
70666674
Exception Duck - may or may not contain chicken.
Notice how police and security organizations fit this description so well...
Why do so many cops have those cheesy 'cop mustaches'? Is there some cultish religious significance or just bad grooming?
Seems like the Virginia state police has painted a picture of the average terrorist that describes themselves much more accurately than it describes anyone on Slashdot.
In other news, anything that you don't understand is scary and could be used for bad stuff.
It's kinda like how when riding around with a much older friend, and he went off on skateboarders (while driving by a municipal park with facilities for skateboarders) I pointed out that not all skateboarders are in gangs, or destructive towards property, and that practicing in a park may be a more constructive activity than their alternatives.
He had never thought of skateboarding like that before, as he had only heard it mentioned in other contexts and had not considered the alternative I put forth. Like virtual everything in life, there are good guys that take part, and bad guys.
Ignorance and apathy are the two most dangerous diseases of our time, and very difficult to cure.
~ awaiting spiritual enlightenment ~
Somewhat correct. Checking the post anonymously box winds up just not showing your name or affecting your karma, but if you don't log in, I think you can still post anonymously in a thread you moderated, and all they have is your IP address and timestamp.
A sufficiently paranoid person could go check out slashcode and try to figure it out if they wanted to. Or use a different browser from what they do their usual activity on and connect via proxy, and then they're safe.
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.
Perl hint: s/([a-fA-F0-9]{2})/chr(hex $1)/eg;
df -h
I don't usually rant, but when I see the ham-fisted arm of the Old World lashing out, my blood boils.
Authority doesn't understand group consciousness on the 'net, how it can group people together. They glom it with the 60's protest groups or terrorist cells, not seeing them as concerned groups of people protesting within the laws of the U.S.
They fear it because they don't understand it, they can't stop it or control it. They're the Old World, and can't understand the New one, so they fear it, try to find some way to control it or mitigate it.
Soon things will grow beyond their ability to control, the protests will expand beyond Scientology and attack other memes that we cannot tolerate. THAT will be when the Old world will lash out at us, when they are wounded and their ultra-conservative way of life ebbs.
We have a leader who understands that, who is aware of the internetworked world, but a conservative Republican party that is writhing as it dies and becomes confused old men. I worry about how they shall lash out when their death-knell comes, when the Young supplant the Old more drastically than ever before.
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."
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...translates to: "Only really stupid paranoids think that there is a secret society trying to get them. People in general are too lazy to act en-masse' to disrupt things if they are comfortable. If you are creating misery and death for a group, then by all means worry. But these people are simply clutching at straws.."
Wow... Having access to debug.exe in 2009.
I am both awed and frightened.
Correlation implies causation! Science agrees.
*"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"*
This is like saying *Terrorists may use the bus as a mode of transportation*
or perhaps they even *own a phone*.
What is it about the internet that is presumed any more dangerous than a citizens band radio,
telephone, fax machine,....etc., pictures?
Locally based communications are far more dangerous due to the consolidation of physical
ability of groups in one locale. Therefore, technically speaking, citizens band radio, FRS
hand held units and cellphones are far more dangerous. (if at all)
Unfortunately, Infowars is not a reliable source of information.
Is it attached to the head of a shark? If not I don't believe that it is a true threat.
"You are under attack and in imminent danger, surrounded by enemies and saboteurs. Give us power and we'll keep you safe."
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Exactly like
To mention groups like anonymous in a report on terrorism detracts from the gravity that should be attributed to the term terror -- especially since, once you are a terrorist, you have no more rights in this country.
This just affirms by belief that some of the worst conspiracy theorists are often in law enforcement and the Military. The amount of doublethink involved in calling something a terrorist organization because it 1) has no defined goal or purpose and 2) isn't organized is mind boggling. The justification is antithetical to the label! And if Anonymous isn't a terrorist organization, why am I paying someone to investigate it using money that should be allocated to fighting real terrorism? If anything, the largest threat anonymous poses is distracting us from real threats -- just like any troll.
I have a question for the authors of the report: what ISN'T terrorism? If reading other people's email (which they legally shouldn't be using anyway) justifies investigating someone as a terrorist threat, what isn't justified in the name of national security? If I break the law, am I a terrorist?
I don't belong to Anonymous, but if things get any worse I might want to join. How do I get in?
Don't mess with The Phone Company. Piss them off and you'll be using two tin cans and a piece of string.
You're ruining the fun now the stupid paranoids will actually know what was said... (because it's unlikely with the level of intelligence they have shown previously they would figure it out)
So, like, does that mean I am a terrorist because I am a slashdotter?
Let's see, where is the checklist. OK here we go:
I am/I do:
* a Ron Paul supporter
* carry a copy of the Constitution with me (in my PDA)
* carry controversial religious texts with me (the CJB and NASB translations of the Bible in my PDA and on my laptop)
* carry texts written in a middle-eastern language on my laptop (the tenach, or "Jewish Bible," or "old testament" if you wish)
* am a libertarian
* I have watched America: Freedom to Fascism and have read both Gary Kah's and William Cooper's books
* believe the second amendment means what it says: the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and am mystified as to why "shall not be infringed" is so fucking hard for politicians to comprehend (although I do not own a gun. I've fired guns though, and had a lot of fun doing it. Even shot apart a junk car one time!)
* had a chemistry set and also built electronic devices from scratch, including timer devices (see next point)
* built pipe bombs (well, honestly, my brother and dad (and a few police officer friends of my dad) made them. I improved my brother's designs because he wanted a bigger boom) and model rockets with my brother and blew up mounds of dirt on my parents' property back in the 80s. (that would get me and my brother arrested nowadays. Back then the cops would come over and make and set off those homemade fireworks with us!)
* am patriotic/nationalist and believe we have a responsibility to put our own national interests (and those of our allies/friends) ahead of the "global community"
and now:
* am a slashdotter
And yet, I'm not a criminal. I have never shot anyone, engaged in conspiracy to blow any buildings up, or blow anyone up. I'm not an illegal alien.
I just believe I have the right to engage in academic interests and hobbies, have the right to own any weapon which could be used to hold tyranny at bay or to protect myself, and an am "American citzen" not a member nor supporter of the "global community" in the sense that one-world-government types would like to consider me.
Also:
* I believe tolerance is being mature enough to agree to disagree, not thinking that all "truths"/"opions"/"facts" are equally valid and true.
* I support the right to believe in Jesus (like I do), Allah (which is bullshit but believe it if you like), Shiva, ceiling cat, or flying spaghetti monster. I won't try to force you to believe what I belive, I certainly won't threaten to kill you if you won't believe what I believe, but if you want to kill me and/or destroy my country and destroy Israel and actually intend to do it, I want you dead. You have no business going around killing people just because they disagree with you, but deserve nothing better than being dragged through city streets then covered in salt if your goal is to kill innocent people.
I am fed up with criminals being treated as victims, and people who stand up for TRUTH (not "truths"), Justice, and the American Way (TM) being labeled terrorists and being harassed at airports and in government buildings. I'm SICK of criminals being raised up and given special protection, and being allowed to sue the real victims (their targets for burglary, armed robbery, etc.) if they're injured in the process, or shot in the process. If you're a scumbag burglar, terrorist, thief, etc. you deserve to be shot, or you deserve to slip and fall and cut yourself and bleed to death, or, if the person gets their bare hands on you and takes your weapon from you, that person should be able to beat the living crap out of you and you should NOT be able to sue.
I am sick of preferential treatment being given to illegal ALIENS. Note: I do not refer to those assholes as illegal "immigrants" or even "crimigrants" because using the term "immigrant" in any context with regard to those thieving bastard
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
"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.
If you log out and clear your cache you can anonymously comment on pages you've already modded with no side effects.
Do you hear that? it is the sound of a SHOOP DA WHOOP!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, you were supposed to post this as our Anonymous Coward cover-user. You've really blown it blown it for the secret movement... THEY know who to focus their MoonBeams and Photons on now!
Right. No, your other right. No, the other other right.
Lumpy!! What are you doing!! That message was supposed to only go out on the 'secure' sites not this public site!! You idiot.. Better get out your place before you get VANNED!!!! HURRY!!!!
ok, someone else do the hex for me on that one. I'm too lazy to find out for myself if he said anything there.
The statement to the effect that people acting in concert (as a pack) can "lead to lone wolf behavior in the cyber realms" is on the same level as "I CAN HAZ CHEEZEBURGER?". That is it's bound to become a meme mocking the stupidity of governement.
We believe they are in close contact with Chuck Norris and Rick Astley, and they identify one another with a code recognized as 'asl'.
I Groovy'd it:
println str.tokenize().collect({(char) Integer.parseInt(it, 16)})
Not as good (it returns a list), but quick...
49 20 64 6F 20 77 69 74 68 20 65 76 65 72 79 20 70 6F 73 74 21 20 3A 6E 6F 65 73 3A
from 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
to 45 2F 6E 40 3C DF 10 71 4E 41 DF AA 25 7D 31 3F
They should've commented on how poor Slashdotters' reading comprehension is.
Note:
They're talking about "Anonymous" the "organization", not the act of posting anonymously or the Slashdot Anonymous Coward. Free speech has nothing to do with it. They're included in the report because they're a large-scale "organizaiton" connected with threats and vandalism.
The only people dumb enough to make the association that "since terrorists can use cell phones and digital music players, owning one makes you suspicious" are those on Slashdot who will stretch to make a criticism. The reason they're listed is that they should be considered by investigators as a potential source of information or evidence.
These sort of reports are quite common and are written at a fairly low level, so that law enforcement has a degree of familiarity with these topics.
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*
In the days when I surfed 4chan, we would always say that ebaumsworld was doing all that stuff and we were just an imageboard that would critique one another's work. Then people started saying that the first rules of 4chan were just to make it "Fight Club Wannabes" and suddenly it became the stinkhole of the internet where you could post if you wanted to become internet-famous. You attract drama and attention-whores that way. Pull enough of those into one place and you have a terrorist threat. Obviously.
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms!
Geez, this is the tenth already. Fortunately all the Anonymous members of Sloshdat are cowards and will never do anything remotely dangerous.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Just make sure you don't legally change your name to Anonymous Coward and I think you'll be fine.
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
Murderer? The dude got in a drunk driving accident, and the passenger died.
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
So which of you guys has just registered as "Lone Wolf" before I could do so?!
We could show you the "Anonymous Coward" secret handshake. Its sort of limp, with sweaty palms......
Have gnu, will travel.
It's easy, just click the checkbox above the text field!
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
That'd be great. But you need to get the other websites; facebook, google, etc onboard too, to make sure "OMG Ponies" gets in the report. This could be sold as a "rebranding" by the Anonymous Overlords, sorta like with Media Sentry or Blackwater.
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
Look, the people you are after are the people you *depend* on! We design and maintain your hardware. We write your software. We network your systems, and recover your lost passwords. We guard your data while you sleep. Do not FUCK with us!
Can you elaborate how you did the conversion?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
This line is lifted directly from Wikipedia (as of Apr 10, GMT 20:20)in the article about Anonymous(group) under subtitle "Composition":
"A "loose coalition of Internet denizens",[9] the group is banded together by the internet, through sites such as 4chan,[7][9], 711chan,[7] 420chan, Something Awful, Fark, Encyclopedia Dramatica,[10] Slashdot, IRC channels,[7] and YouTube".
Apparently, reading Wikipedia is now "intelligence gathering" or "threat assessment". I mean just insert a couple of words so it would make more sense when yanked from its original context on the Wikipedia page.
Of course, it is true that you have to try to educate the dinosaurs above you in the food chain...
Every problem has a solution that is simple, easy and wrong. Selling our Liberty for a little Security is a much too de
For those of you that don't want to try ten different google results until you find an ascii/hex converter that actually works:
http://home.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
Nah, people who blow shit up with other people inside are antisocial. People who blow shit up while getting drunk with buddies are social.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Just because of the bad grammar. The sentence corrected for you should be:
"Who the hell their base are belong to?"
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
[citation needed]
I have no doubt that more happened that night than what Kennedy claims, but there is no proof and nothing justifies your outright lies.
ruby
str.split(/\s/).map { |c| c.hex.chr }.join
In UK there are posters showing a garbage bin with illegally disposed special waste. Below the poster says: "Fortunately a neighbour reported it otherwise somebody could have used it to build a bomb."
We Slashdot readers shouldn't complain considering how desperate other terrorists are.
The jobs of the people who wrote this report *depend* on there being a serious threat. It's in their interest to make as if there is a major threat. If their report simply said, "things are actually all basically OK, not much really to worry about", they'd be out of a job the next day.
No doubt a report like this also gets used when justifying budget allocation requests, so that entire departments can be set up and allocated taxpayer money to sit around and "solve" the very pretend-threat they trumped up in the first place, and write still more reports about all 'teh scary internetz people'.
You might as well be paying these people to dig holes and fill them in again, over and over.
Another name might be "welfare job".
Government bureaucrats always trump up problems, so that they can justify being given ever money to 'solve' them. I don't even think it's about power; just plain old money.
Then who was base?
Hello,
I'm the president of the Society of Lurkers. Perhaps you've heard of us, or remember us, from days gone by where we were mentioned often in various posts and articles that used words like denizens and netiquette.
These days, one virutally never hears of Lurkers anymore, and that's just how we like it.
But I am writing you today to discuss this shocking turn of events regarding Anonymous. As many know, Anonymous is a splinter group of Lurkers. We Lurkers are highly anxious that investigations into Anonymous will lead upsteam to us and understandably so.
However, let's be clear - just because Lurkers are anonymous, Lurkers are not and never are Anonymous. It's true that Lurkers may on occasion post - but then only under adherence to paragraph 14, subsection iv of our charter, section titled, Pseudonym and Real Name Posting but as everyone here is aware of that, that goes without saying.
That clause may have been forgotten as few netizens even mention us Lurkers anymore.
We admit that from time to time we find someone attempting to maintain membership in both Lurkers and Anonymous. While both groups seem to the outside to abhor that behavior, the Lurkers approach is intervention and counseling, and expulsion only when that fails. Anonymous approach is to publicly deny this, but they will actually encourage newly Anonymous people to also be Lurkers - and the simple sad fact is that they're bitter.
Today, they target Anonymous. We laud Slashdotters everywhere for sticking up for Anonymous, even though as Lurkers we cannot.
I am simply writing to hope and pray in advance that should the time come, Slashdotters will protect Lurkers with equal zeal. After all, when our time comes, we won't be able to stand up for ourselves - we're the Lurkers.
Best regards,
EarlyMon
Pathological kinda promises Path + Logical - but instead, you get stuck with pathetic.
Hmm.
Even better:
''.join(chr(int(i,16)) for i in s.split())
That works occasionally, acquiring a new IP address is required for it to work consistently.
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
"Who the hell their base belong to?"
Us.
Don't you worry about the details there, Sparky.
Who is us and how can we stop them?
Fnord.
Yeah, but then you're only blowing up stuff like computers, washing machines, microwaves, and occasionally a motorcycle or car engine.
You can't fit people inside any of those, (except the car, but not inside the engine) so that's small time stuff. And you're right....very social. :)
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
I'm Lone Wolf. Are you my dad?
OK, April 1 was over a week ago!
I read this, and this was the first thought that came to mind...
WHAT THE FUCK?????
I can only come up with two possible explanations for this:
(1) Somebody at the Fusion Center has a big sense of humor and a REALLY BIG set of cajones to put this in a legitimate report, or
(2) It's computer-generated.
I just can't believe anybody is really stupid enough to associate millions of anonymous posts on Internet forums with a "loose coalition of Internet denizens."
Government's idea of a balanced budget: take money from the right pocket to balance...oh who am I kidding?
I'm just glad this message didn't come from Anonymous... then we'd have all had something to be worried about
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
Nice Haskell, in with Ruby:
str.split(/\s/).map{|b| b.hex.chr}.join
I think the real issue is that people that go to 4chan also tend to go to one of the other dozen websites, but being anonymous it's unpossible to track the 4chan users and thus they are counted as different users when they repost shit on other sites like slashdot and fark.
Ok, time for a vote. Simply reply to this message to cast your vote!
I...
a) like to blow shit up.
b) don't like to blow shit up.
I would like to count myself as the first vote for a)
Only on slashdot would people bother to decypher that....
.. what should anonymous cowards call themselves ?
1) United Anonymous Cowards
2) Unified Anonymous League
3) All Anonymous Associates
-- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle
To say that the reminants of the previous adminstration have disappeared with the previous president is foolish. There is still more trash to take out. Fusion Centers are just one of things that we still need to get rid of.
BTW, to you Fusion Center nuts, if you are so afraid of people who are different from you, you are part of the problem.
"If you dislike people so much why don't you join the Klan like your parents. Otherwise, what are you rebelling against?" --Jello Biafra
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
He probably converted the hex numbers to integers' created a new string using the corresponding ASCII chars and then performed a simple string rotation cipher. Just a hunch.
Yep, more or less. I took the hex and popped it into a hex to ascii converter (there are plenty online versions). Then I took the result and ran it through a ROT13 cipher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13
You can't fit people inside any of those
Well, not if you forget to chop them up finely enough. Duh.
"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
The people that wrote this report are complete idiots! The logical extension of their argument would mean banning all cell phones and iPods.
I am not a Scientologist, but Anonymous is a bunch of racist, religious bigots. Anonymous, KKK, it's all the same thing. These people are domestic terrorists and should be stopped at all cost.
I'm Rocco. I'm the +5 Funny man.
That anyone wearing a police uniform and a badge is likely to exhibit violent and anti-social behavior. A police officer is much more likely to attack, insult or otherwise harm and unarmed civilian than a person of any single ethnic group, any single religious affiliation or any person involved in any other profession.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
we should ban them. or, tie their usage into daily permission schedules.
Read radical news here
ahahahahaaa. that was really funny ...... ..... not
Read radical news here
Can't blame them, really, given the quality of education we as a society have decided to give our citizens.
Wait, you're saying there's a correlation? So? ;-)
For those too lazy to make the conversion
If anyone knows how to do this on a stock XP without installing anything (such as a new language), please share.
('cause that's where I'm stuck right now...)
d-bags.
Touche ;-)
Hmmm, lessee, the definition of terrorist is bent to conform to individuals acting against a harmful enemy. I suspect this Vagina terrorist report is fueled by Scientologist who have infiltrated our Government. It is no joke that Scientology is considered harmful by those who have lost loved ones or friends to this mock religion/self help cult. Scientology reacts to the attitude that they are a harmful cult by redoubling their cultish efforts and proving themselves to be a wrongdoing organization of criminals on the lowdown. This is general public knowlege.
The fact that Scientology has infiltrated the government for the purposes of furthering Scientologys agenda make them the terrorist criminals. It is easy to see what they are afraid of and what the crimes of scientology are. Their denials of criminal cult activity are the equivalent of a rhinoceros stating that it is not a rhinoceros, but a kitten instead. The infiltration and wielding of monetary power over individuals to destruction make them a legitimate target for any act of war from any individual threatened by them. Lone wolves indeed will probably eventually devise a way to out and destroy Scientology.
Scientologies mistake is not to follow the path of the cults that proceeded them, i.e. Krisna Consciousness, Moonies, etc. Other cults still thrive today as benign and legitimate because of their use of coercion rather than force. Silly, silly Hubbardroids!
Well I suppose once they have converted enough Democrats to their agenda, we will easily be rid of them and socialism of the modern democratic party by a just and bloody revolution.
This is handy because we can have a wholesale clearance of injustice and deviation from our original constitution in one fell swoop. At last we will all be able to live free as we were meant to be and enabled to do so by our original founding fathers.
Just give 'em enough rope.Don't worry be happy. Most importantly, remember the wisdom of Scientologies original nemisis the Subgenius Foundation," if you act like a dumbass, they will treat you as an equal.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
So what happens if all these site with "anonymous" accounts all changed them to "Microsoft". Would we be reading about Microsoft as a terrorist organization? Or how about if Al-Qaeda had actually called themselves "The Catholic Church"?
I actually hope that this is a matter of the analysts fitting the "threat" into a simple model of an organized group with a catchy name so they can feed it to the idiot politicians and general public for some more funding.
Oh no it isn't.
Look, 99% of the time, the people performing the actions on that list are doing perfectly innocent and legal things.
Guess what - law enforcement and security agencies know that. They aren't stupid or paranoid.
But they are also tasked with protecting the public from that 1% (if it is even that high) that really DO have nefarious purposes, and they need to be able to tell the difference between somebody boarding a plane to visit their grandmother and somebody boarding a plane to smash it into a building.
So they study the problem, and they try and find ways to isolate indicators and warnings so they can prevent attacks vice cleaning up after them.
And the big part of the problem is that most activity that facilitates a terrorist attack is completely legal. That's how they hide. The best terrorist never does a single illegal thing (besides conspiracy) right up until he strikes.
The outrage is entirely misplaced. Could Slashdot be used as a tool to help commit a terrorist act? Absolutely it could. So can a cellphone, or a bag of fertilizer, or a shovel.
Studying methods of shovel use in support of terrorist activities does not mean the student of shoveling thinks all shovelers are terrorists. It means they want to understand how a shovel might be incorporated into a terrorist act, so that if they see that, in concert with other indicators, MAYBE you have something worth investigating.
And that isn't outrageous; it is due diligence.
DG
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Maybe so :) Thanks for the check.
Paranoid.
...using incomprehensible technology (ipods) to carry terrorists plots.
In a nutshell; if we can't track who you are and what you say, you must necessarily be up to no good.
"Anonymous Coward"; I wonder how large your FBI portfolio is?
or another Python variation:
binascii.unhexlify( s.replace(' ', '') )
I lol'd.
"In the absence of the ability to establish the attribute of truth they tried to establish the noble attributes."