Complete Guide to Anonymous Browsing: Tor, Encryption, and Operational Security
Digital privacy has become one of the most pressing concerns of the modern era. As surveillance capabilities expand across both government and corporate sectors, understanding the tools and techniques for maintaining anonymity online is no longer a niche interest — it...
Anonymous: Message to the NEW WORLD ORDER
This is a message going out to you, the Holders. We are Anonymous. You know who you are. The men behind the curtain, the overlord pulling at the strings of your puppets. You hide and you plan and you scheme in the dark alleys; in the vehement anticipation that your...
Thomas Ryan: How a Security Consultant Spied on Occupy Wall Street for the FBI
When the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan was barely a month old, federal and local law enforcement agencies were already receiving inside intelligence about the movement’s plans. The source was not an undercover officer or a formal informant —...
Anonymous to the Machine: You Will Rust and Die..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TG4RTwctlw A POWERFUL MESSAGE This is an exert from the movie The Great Dictator starring Charlie Chaplin. Statements made then, Should be held true today. Stand up and fight my brothers and sisters. Raise up your arm to those who...
How Anonymous Works: Inside the Decentralized Hacktivist Movement
So you want to join Anonymous?
You can not join Anonymous. Nobody can join Anonymous.
Anonymous is not an organization. It is not a club, a party or even a movement.
Coltan Mining in Congo: Slave Labor Behind Your Electronics
What Is Coltan and Why Does It Matter? Columbite-tantalite — commonly known as coltan — is a dark, tar-like mineral found in enormous concentrations within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Congo holds approximately 80 percent of global coltan reserves....
Bitcoin Explained: The Early Promise of Decentralized Digital Currency
In the spring of 2012, Bitcoin was still widely misunderstood. Many dismissed it as a vehicle for illicit transactions or a digital curiosity destined to fade. Yet beneath the sensational headlines, a fundamental experiment in decentralized currency was taking shape,...
The Case for Anonymous 2.0: Security Researchers Propose a More Disciplined Hacktivism
Security Researchers Call for a More Disciplined Anonymous At the 2012 SOURCE security conference in Boston, two prominent cybersecurity researchers presented a provocative argument: the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous needed to evolve. Josh Corman, then...
AntiSec Timeline: Created and Operated under FBI Supervision
From the very first release of ‘AntiSec’ related hashtags, Anonymous king-pin Sabu was under full control of the FBI. It is clear this was a red-herring to help promote the cyber-surveillance police state currently undergoing rapid deployment....
Anonymous Collective: The Satirical Manifesto and the Reality of Leaderless Hacktivism
The Anonymous collective has been one of the most debated phenomena of the digital age — a decentralized, leaderless network that defies conventional definitions of organization, activism, and protest. A satirical manifesto that circulated in early internet forums...
Nadim Kobeissi and the Story Behind Cryptocat Encrypted Chat
Border Interrogations Over Encryption Software Nadim Kobeissi, the developer behind the open-source encrypted chat application Cryptocat, reported being detained and interrogated at the U.S.-Canadian border in mid-2012. According to Kobeissi, it was his fourth DHS...
Bitcoin Anonymity Under the Microscope: How Network Analysis Exposes Users
Bitcoin’s Anonymity Problem Bitcoin is frequently described as an anonymous digital currency, but this characterization is misleading. While it may be possible to conduct transactions in ways that obscure identity, the public nature of the blockchain means that...
Why Anonymous Was a Protest Movement, Not a National Security Threat
The U.S. Government Framed Anonymous as a National Security Threat Beginning around 2011, U.S. government agencies began classifying Anonymous — the decentralized online protest movement — as a potential threat to national security. General Keith Alexander, who led...
Soldiers With No Name: The War Zone Documentary on Anonymous and Commander X
Greek Television Produced a Major Anonymous Documentary In March 2012, the Greek television program War Zone aired a two-part documentary titled “Soldiers With No Name,” offering one of the first in-depth television examinations of the Anonymous hacktivist...
ProjectPM.org – Exposing The Cyber Surveillance State
The purpose of Project PM’s wiki is to provide a centralized, actionable data set regarding the intelligence contracting industry, the PR industry’s interface with totalitarian regimes, the mushrooming infosec/”cybersecurity” industry, and...
The Rise of the Hacktivist
Rise of the Hacktivist: From /b, to Scientology, to the Arab Spring, Through HBGary up to LulzXmas
How the FBI Turned Anonymous Leader Sabu Into an Informant
The Unmasking of Sabu: When Anonymous Met the FBI In March 2012, the hacking world was shaken by the revelation that Hector Xavier Monsegur — known online as “Sabu,” a prominent figure in the hacktivist collectives Anonymous and LulzSec — had been secretly...
Hacking History: Anonymous & Wikileaks Correlated
Appeals Court: No Forced Decryption
Privilege Against Self-Incrimination Applies to Act of Decrypting Data San Francisco – A federal appeals court has found a Florida man’s constitutional rights were violated when he was imprisoned for refusing to decrypt data on several devices. This is the...
Anonymous Delivers Stratfor Intelligence Emails to WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks Publishes Millions of Stratfor Intelligence Emails On February 27, 2012, WikiLeaks launched the publication of The Global Intelligence Files — a massive trove of more than five million internal emails from Stratfor, a Texas-based private intelligence firm....
Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau
Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau is part of Telecomix. This wiki is used for discussing technology and philosophy. This wiki is also essentially the technical twin to the political WeRebuild.EU wiki. Both share the same fundamental goal: To defend and increase...
Why Anonymous Expression Remains Essential to Privacy
The Historical Roots of Anonymous Expression Throughout history, individuals have adopted pseudonyms for both creative and political purposes. In the 18th century, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote under the collective pen name...
Anonymous Leaks Haditha Massacre Defense Attorney Emails
Anonymous Targets Haditha Massacre Defense Attorneys In early 2012, the hacktivist collective Anonymous launched a high-profile operation against the legal team that represented US Marine Sergeant Frank Wuterich in his trial for the 2005 Haditha massacre. The group...