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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.
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!
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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.
Scientology. Or Habbo.com. Either could be the culprit.
That's such an illogical conjecture I'm not sure where to start. "Anonymous" isn't some sort of highly organised group. It's just a bunch of people on various websites. Going to those websites doesn't make you a terrorist, or a furry, or a protester, or whatever it is someone else is doing. "Stick around"? Makes no sense.
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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.
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*
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Anonymous is a microcosm of society. There is no formal method for joining. There are no membership lists or membership dues.
There are people doing good things (for whatever you consider good), people doing bad things (for whatever you consider bad), people doing neutral things (for any other action), and people doing nothing.
When someone says "Anonymous will do xyz", they're not charging everyone who associates themselves with the group to do xyz. They are simply invoking the protection of being lost in a crowd and the protection of free association.
All things that, in and of themselves, are perfectly legal in the United States. However, what is done once under the cloak of these protections, on the other hand, may be illegal.
Personally, Anonymous scares me a hell of a lot less than the far right militia groups (which, by the way, all do the same thing and are legal).
"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.
Church of Scientology are a bunch of deluded d-bags.
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.
That's such an illogical conjecture I'm not sure where to start. "Anonymous" isn't some sort of highly organised group. It's just a bunch of people on various websites. Going to those websites doesn't make you a terrorist, or a furry, or a protester, or whatever it is someone else is doing. "Stick around"? Makes no sense.
That's basically what the report actually says about Anonymous. They got a mention and a small write-up in the report because a few individuals identifying with them committed minor acts of vandalism. It says that they aren't really an organized group. The main reason they're even mentioned seems to be to give an example of people coordinating protests or actions online.
The "phones and ipod" section just gives examples of how terrorists and organized criminals were taking advantage of technology-- examples which are already pretty well-known, really.
This isn't alarmism on the part of the Virginia government. The summary is silly.
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.
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...
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!
"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"
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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.
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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".