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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
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.
Since when were protests "terrorism"?
""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
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.
They're talking about the group Anonymous, mostly from 4chan. They were responsible for some reasonably large and well-organized protests against Scientology not too long ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)
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.
"Ethnic cleansing" would be a better description of what the founding of America was based on.
Terrorism is something else and a term that gets abused to the point of making it meaningless.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
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 ?
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.
You know there is one down side to the internet.
On the internet no matter how totally whacked out your idea maybe odds are you will find at least 100 people that will agree with you.
Once you find people that agree with you all of a sudden you can believe that your idea has merit.
Some where their is a discussion board about how it is to have orgies dressed up as giant stuffed animals. And the people on it will be convinced that they are perfectly normal people.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
In fairness though, we already know that Ted Kennedy is a murderer.
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
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.
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!"
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?).
"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?
Church of Scientology are a bunch of deluded d-bags.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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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...
Yes! We are Anonymous, we are legion, we do not...
May the Maths Be with you!
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.
"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.
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'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."
"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.
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.
I Groovy'd it:
println str.tokenize().collect({(char) Integer.parseInt(it, 16)})
Not as good (it returns a list), but quick...
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms!
ruby
str.split(/\s/).map { |c| c.hex.chr }.join