Cryptoparty Goes Viral: Pen testers, Privacy Geeks Spread Security to the Masses

Cryptoparty Goes Viral: Pen testers, Privacy Geeks Spread Security to the Masses

Sep 4, 2012 | Anonymous, News

Security professionals, geeks and hackers around the world are hosting a series of cryptography training sessions for the general public.

The ‘crytoparty’ sessions were born in Australia and kicked off last week in Sydney and Canberra along with two in the US and Germany.

Information security experts and privacy advocates of all political stripes have organised the causal gatherings to teach users how to use cryptography and anonymity tools including Tor, PGP and Cryptocat.

Multiple sessions were proposed in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth and two in Queensland. A further 10 were organised across Europe, Asia, Hawaii and North America, while dozens of requests were placed for sessions in other states and countries.

The cryptoparties were born from a Twitter discussion late last month between security researchers and Sydney mum and privacy and online activist known by her handle Asher Wolf.

For Wolf, the sessions were a way to reignite technical discussions on cryptography.

“A lot of us missed out on Cypherpunk (an electronic technical mailing list) in the nineties, and we hope to create a new entry pathway into cryptography,” Wolf said.

“The Berlin party was taught by hardcore hackers while Sydney had a diverse range of people attending. The idea is to teach people who don’t crypto how to use it.”

The concept resonated with the online security and privacy community.

It took only hours for about a dozen sessions to spring up around the world on a dedicated wiki page following what was only a casual Twitter exchange between Wolf and others — now cryptoparty organisers.

“When I woke up in the morning, they were all there,” Wolf said.

There was no formal uniformity between each crytoparty. Some were hands-on, with users practising on laptops and tablets, while others were more theory-based with some organisers.

Each session runs for around five hours.

The free classes could accommodate a maximum of about 30 to 40 attendees. One of the first parties in the Southeastern US state of Tennessee had more than 100 people turn up to its afterparty, an event complete with music, beer and fire-twirling.

Copyright © SC Magazine, Australia

Anonymous Hackers Claim To Release One Million Apple Devices’ Unique Identifiers Stolen From FBI

Anonymous Hackers Claim To Release One Million Apple Devices’ Unique Identifiers Stolen From FBI

Sep 4, 2012 | Anonymous, Leaks, News

 

Anonymous has a way of releasing massive collections of information that raise many more questions than they answer.

Case in point: On Monday night, the segment of the hacker group that calls itself Antisec announced that it had dumped 1,000,001 unique device identifier numbers or UDIDs for Apple devices–the fingerprints that Apple, apps and ad networks use to identify the iPhone and iPads of individual users–that it claims to have stolen from the FBI. In a long statement posted with links to the data on the upload site Pastebin, the hackers said they had taken the Apple data from a much larger database of more than 12 million users’ personal information stored on an FBI computer.

While there’s no easy way to confirm the authenticity or the source of the released data, I downloaded the encrypted file and decrypted it, and it does seem to be an enormous list of 40-character strings made up of numbers and the letters A through F, just like Apple UDIDs. Each string is accompanied by a longer collection of characters that Anonymous says is an Apple Push Notification token and what appears to be a username and an indication as to whether the UDID is attached to an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

In their message, posted initially in the Anonymous twitter feed AnonymousIRC, the hackers say they used a vulnerability in Java to access the data on an FBI Dell laptop in March of this year. They say the database included not only the UDIDs, but also “user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc.” Anonymous claims that the amount of data about each users was highly variable, and that it only released enough data to the public “to help a significant amount of users to look if their device are listed there or not.”

The Antisec statement also took the opportunity to mock the recent appearance of NSA Director and General Keith Alexander at the hacker conference Defcon, where he made a recruiting pitch to attendees. “It was an amusing hypocritical attempt made by the system to flatter hackers into becoming tools for the state,” Anonymous’ statement reads. “We decided we’d help out Internet security by auditing FBI first.”

If the UDIDs are determined to be real, just what that means about law enforcement and Apple users’ privacy isn’t entirely clear. Much more than passwords or even email addresses, UDIDs are already spread around the Internet by app developers and advertisers–a study by one privacy researcher in 2011 found that 74% of the apps he tested sent a user’s UDID to a remote server. But the same researcher also found that five out of seven social gaming networks he tested allowed users to log in with only their UDID, making a stolen UDID equivalent to a stolen password.

“We never liked the concept of UDIDs since the beginning indeed,” reads the Anonymous statement. “Really bad decision from Apple. Fishy thingie.”

Due perhaps to the privacy concerns around UDIDs’ proliferation, Apple stopped allowing new iOS apps to track UDIDs earlier this year.

Regardless, if the FBI has in fact collected 12 million Apple UDIDs–or even just one million–it will have some explaining to do to privacy advocates. In its release, Anonymous argues that the massive dump of users’ personal information, which it says has been stripped of many of the most identifying details, is designed raise awareness of the FBI’s alleged gadget-tracking shenanigans. “…We will probably see their damage control teams going hard lobbying media with bullshits to discredit this,” the statement reads at one point. “But well, whatever, at least we tried and eventually, looking at the massive number of devices concerned, someone should care about it.”

For now, Anonymous refuses to answer more questions about its release–at least from the press. Before granting any interviews, it’s demanding that Gawker writer Adrian Chen, who has been especially critical of Anonymous, appears on Gawker’s home page in a “huge picture of him dressing a ballet tutu and shoe on the head.”

SOURCE: Forbes.com

#OpBigBrother – EMERGENCY ALERT ABOUT WORLDWIDE SURVEILLANCE FROM ANONYMOUS

#OpBigBrother – EMERGENCY ALERT ABOUT WORLDWIDE SURVEILLANCE FROM ANONYMOUS

Aug 16, 2012 | Anonymous

For years Anonymous worked hard to protect our world and its peoples.

NOW LISTEN CAREFULLY,
This is an ALERT ABOUT SURVEILLANCE.

Privacy of the people all over the world is suffering more and more outrages. We should not tolerate it. Cameras are everywhere even in our sky, and robots are used to gather and treat information collected through Internet spying.

If Governments and corporations reach their goal to use network surveillance technologies to take control of our world, they will clear Freedom from both the real life and the Internet. That means Anonymous won’t be able to continue helping humanity.
They plan to destroy each form of protest including Anonymous. That means that Anonymous members will be tracked and neutralized if we do not unite against surveillance.

The population is not ready to understand and help us, we need to join the biggest fight ever seen on Anonymous era and use every means necessary to expose truth.

Let the HIVE begins the strongest online and offline worldwide protest ever seen in the history of humanity. They showed they had no limits, we will show our power goes well beyond.

Worldwide governments, evil corporations time of summations is over.

We are Anonymous, we are not numbers, united as one, divided by zero.
Wordwide union will shutdown BigBrother.
That fight will lead us to triumph or to perish.
This is a time trial. WE ACT OR WE FALL.

We are Anonymous,
We are Legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us !

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Join us on irc.anonops.pro/6697 SSL chan #OpBigBrother

Follow us on twitter : https://twitter.com/OpBigBrother

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AnonPR On TrapWire: Cops And Feds Are Watching You At All Times

AnonPR On TrapWire: Cops And Feds Are Watching You At All Times

Aug 13, 2012 | Anonymous, Video

 

In August 2012, Wikileaks revealed details about a system known as Trapwire that uses facial recognition and other techniques to track and monitor individuals captured on countless different closed-circuit cameras operated by cities and other insititutions. The software is billed as a method by which to prevent terrorism, but can of course also be used to provide unprecedented surveillance and data-mining capabilities to governments, corporations, and other insitutions, including many with a history of using new technologies to violate the rights of citizens. Trapwire is already used in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Texas, DC, London, and other locales.

The ex-CIA agents who help run the firm are old friends of Stratfor vice president Fred Burton, whom they’ve briefed on their own capabilities in e-mails obtained by Anonymous hackers and provided to Wikileaks. Stratfor has engaged in at least several surveillance operations against activists, such as those advocating for victims of the Bhopal disaster, on behalf of large U.S. corporatons; Burton himelf was revealed to have advocated “bankrupting” and “ruining the life” of activists like Julian Assange in e-mails to other friends.

Trapwire can be extremely expensive to maintain, and is usually done so at taxpayer expense; Los Angeles county spent over $1.4 million dollars on the software’s use in a single three-month period of 2007.

Although most of the regions in which Trapwire operates don’t share information with each other, all of this is set to change; as Abraxas Applications president Dan Botsch told Burton via e-mail, “I think over time the different networks will begin to unite,” noting that several networks had already begun discussions on merging their information. Abraxas itself has always had the ability to “cross-network matches” from every region at their own office. By June 2011, Washington D.C. police were engaged in a pilot project under the Departent of Homeland Security that’s likely to lead to more cities using Trapwire on a more integrated basis.

Abraxas, the firm whose spin-off Abraxas Applications developed Trapwire in 2007, has long been involved in a lesser-known practice known as persona management, which involves the use of fake online “people” to gather intelligence and/or disseminate disinformation. The firm Ntrepid, created by Abraxas owner Cubic Corporation, won a 2010 CENTCOM contract to provide such capabilities for use in foreign countries; several board members of Ntrepid also sit on Abraxas.

TrapWire®

TrapWire is a unique, predictive software system designed to detect patterns indicative of terrorist attacks or criminal operations. Utilizing a proprietary, rules-based engine, TrapWire detects, analyzes and alerts on suspicious events as they are collected over periods of time and across multiple locations. Through the systematic capture of these pre-attack indicators, terrorist or criminal surveillance and pre-attack planning operations can be identified — and appropriate law enforcement counter measures employed ahead of the attack. As such, our clients are provided with the ability to prevent the terrorist or criminal event, rather than simply mitigate damage or loss of life.

 

 

TRAPWIRE: Wikileaks Drops a Surveillance Bombshell – Widescale Facial Recognition & Behavior Pattern Mapping

TRAPWIRE: Wikileaks Drops a Surveillance Bombshell – Widescale Facial Recognition & Behavior Pattern Mapping

Aug 10, 2012 | Leaks, News

Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.

Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it’s the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community. The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a who’s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation’s ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented.

The details on Abraxas and, to an even greater extent TrapWire, are scarce, however, and not without reason. For a program touted as a tool to thwart terrorism and monitor activity meant to be under wraps, its understandable that Abraxas would want the program’s public presence to be relatively limited. But thanks to last year’s hack of the Strategic Forecasting intelligence agency, or Stratfor, all of that is quickly changing.

Hacktivists aligned with the loose-knit Anonymous collective took credit for hacking Stratfor on Christmas Eve, 2011, in turn collecting what they claimed to be more than five million emails from within the company. WikiLeaks began releasing those emails as the Global Intelligence Files (GIF) earlier this year and, of those, several discussing the implementing of TrapWire in public spaces across the country were circulated on the Web this week after security researcher Justin Ferguson brought attention to the matter. At the same time, however, WikiLeaks was relentlessly assaulted by a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, crippling the whistleblower site and its mirrors, significantly cutting short the number of people who would otherwise have unfettered access to the emails.

On Wednesday, an administrator for the WikiLeaks Twitter account wrote that the site suspected that the motivation for the attacks could be that particularly sensitive Stratfor emails were about to be exposed. A hacker group called AntiLeaks soon after took credit for the assaults on WikiLeaks and mirrors of their content, equating the offensive as a protest against editor Julian Assange, “the head of a new breed of terrorist.” As those Stratfor files on TrapWire make their rounds online, though, talk of terrorism is only just beginning.

Mr. Ferguson and others have mirrored what are believed to be most recently-released Global Intelligence Files on external sites, but the original documents uploaded to WikiLeaks have been at times unavailable this week due to the continuing DDoS attacks. Late Thursday and early Friday this week, the GIF mirrors continues to go offline due to what is presumably more DDoS assaults. Australian activist Asher Wolf wrote on Twitter that the DDoS attacks flooding the WikiLeaks server were reported to be dropping upwards of 40 gigabytes of traffic per second on the site.

According to a press release (pdf) dated June 6, 2012, TrapWire is “designed to provide a simple yet powerful means of collecting and recording suspicious activity reports.” A system of interconnected nodes spot anything considered suspect and then input it into the system to be “analyzed and compared with data entered from other areas within a network for the purpose of identifying patterns of behavior that are indicative of pre-attack planning.”

In a 2009 email included in the Anonymous leak, Stratfor Vice President for Intelligence Fred Burton is alleged to write, “TrapWire is a technology solution predicated upon behavior patterns in red zones to identify surveillance. It helps you connect the dots over time and distance.” Burton formerly served with the US Diplomatic Security Service, and Abraxas’ staff includes other security experts with experience in and out of the Armed Forces.

What is believed to be a partnering agreement included in the Stratfor files from August 13, 2009 indicates that they signed a contract with Abraxas to provide them with analysis and reports of their TrapWire system (pdf).

“Suspicious activity reports from all facilities on the TrapWire network are aggregated in a central database and run through a rules engine that searches for patterns indicative of terrorist surveillance operations and other attack preparations,” Crime and Justice International magazine explains in a 2006 article on the program, one of the few publically circulated on the Abraxas product (pdf). “Any patterns detected – links among individuals, vehicles or activities – will be reported back to each affected facility. This information can also be shared with law enforcement organizations, enabling them to begin investigations into the suspected surveillance cell.”

In a 2005 interview with The Entrepreneur Center, Abraxas founder Richard “Hollis” Helms said his signature product:

“can collect information about people and vehicles that is more accurate than facial recognition, draw patterns, and do threat assessments of areas that may be under observation from terrorists.” He calls it “a proprietary technology designed to protect critical national infrastructure from a terrorist attack by detecting the pre-attack activities of the terrorist and enabling law enforcement to investigate and engage the terrorist long before an attack is executed,” and that, “The beauty of it is that we can protect an infinite number of facilities just as efficiently as we can one and we push information out to local law authorities automatically.”

An internal email from early 2011 included in the Global Intelligence Files has Stratfor’s Burton allegedly saying the program can be used to “[walk] back and track the suspects from the get go w/facial recognition software.”

Since its inception, TrapWire has been implemented in most major American cities at selected high value targets (HVTs) and has appeared abroad as well. The iWatch monitoring system adopted by the Los Angeles Police Department (pdf) works in conjunction with TrapWire, as does the District of Columbia and the “See Something, Say Something” program conducted by law enforcement in New York City, which had 500 surveillance cameras linked to the system in 2010. Private properties including Las Vegas, Nevada casinos have subscribed to the system. The State of Texas reportedly spent half a million dollars with an additional annual licensing fee of $150,000 to employ TrapWire, and the Pentagon and other military facilities have allegedly signed on as well.

In one email from 2010 leaked by Anonymous, Stratfor’s Fred Burton allegedly writes, “God Bless America. Now they have EVERY major HVT in CONUS, the UK, Canada, Vegas, Los Angeles, NYC as clients.” Files on USASpending.gov reveal that the US Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense together awarded Abraxas and TrapWire more than one million dollars in only the past eleven months.

News of the widespread and largely secretive installation of TrapWire comes amidst a federal witch-hunt to crack down on leaks escaping Washington and at attempt to prosecute whistleblowers. Thomas Drake, a former agent with the NSA, has recently spoken openly about the government’s Trailblazer Project that was used to monitor private communication, and was charged under the Espionage Act for coming forth. Separately, former NSA tech director William Binney and others once with the agency have made claims in recent weeks that the feds have dossiers on every American, an allegation NSA Chief Keith Alexander dismissed during a speech at Def-Con last month in Vegas.

SOURCE: RT.com

 

NOW FOR THE RAW LEAKS:

http://privatepaste.com/c56f6848d2/trapwireCentralizedDatabaseMGMGrandLinkedSystemEtc – centralized database, vegas hotels, linked sites, etc

http://privatepaste.com/e5b7f4a21d/trapwireNYC – NYC circa 2010

http://privatepaste.com/a9bc9274ea/trapwireAustin – Austin

http://privatepaste.com/04eaef4343/trapwireEveryHVTUSCANUK – note the last paragraph

http://privatepaste.com/90198aa545/trapwireTexasBorder – Texas border circa 2009

http://privatepaste.com/568f0a512a/trapwireWalkTheCatBack – Talking about images to analyze and walking the cat back

http://privatepaste.com/318e0e652b/trapwireHVTCitizens – Trapwire for certain citizens that are important, but not USSS important

http://privatepaste.com/670091f5b0/trapwireLondonStockExchange – London Stock Exchange

http://privatepaste.com/b62ceaf254/trapwireNYCDCVegasLondonOttawaLA – NYC, DC, Vegas, London, Ottawa, LA

http://privatepaste.com/fba46e24ca/trapwireAustinDPSAllocated1Point8M – 1.8M for trapwire & equipment from Austin DPS

http://privatepaste.com/caf299c230/trapwireOnDesksOfUSSSMI5LAPDRCMPNYPD – trapwire on the desks of USSS CP, MI5, RCMP, LAPD CT, NYPD CT

http://privatepaste.com/5a71bac416/trapwireDCMetroNationalParkPoliceEtc – trapwire DC metro, National Park Police, etc

http://privatepaste.com/e6031c14f6/trapwireLAPD – trapwire LAPD as a prototype

http://privatepaste.com/febefa287f/trapwirePentagonArmyUSMCNavy – trapwire Army, Pentagon, USMC, Navy

http://privatepaste.com/58a60bff35/trapwireNSIFBIFtMeadeSevenYears – Trapwire 7 years circa 2011, National SAR Initiative (NSI), FBIs eGuardian, Ft. Meade, etc

http://privatepaste.com/f7b7ac02ab/trapwireAmtrackDHSFusionCenters – Amtrack, DHS fusion centers, DC Metro

http://privatepaste.com/7add918e4c/trapwireBehaviorPatternsToIdentifySurveillance – “TrapWire is a technology solution predicated upon behavior patterns in red zones to identify surveillance. It helps you connect the dots over time and distance.

http://privatepaste.com/d503851f0c/trapwireSalesforceGoogleDHSInstitute – salesforce, google, DHS institute

http://privatepaste.com/626712c0fa/trapwireNigerianPresidentialPalace – Nigerian Presidential Palace

http://privatepaste.com/bf0a0abf67/trapwireScotlandYardDowningWhiteHouseWalMartDell – Scotland Yard, 10 Downing St, White House, Wal-Mart, Dell

 

VPN vs. SSH Tunnel: Which Is More Secure?

VPN vs. SSH Tunnel: Which Is More Secure?

Jul 11, 2012 | Anonymous

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VPNs and SSH tunnels can both securely “tunnel” network traffic over an encrypted connection. They’re similar in some ways, but different in others – if you’re trying to decide which to use, it helps to understand how each works.

An SSH tunnel is often referred to as a “poor man’s VPN” because it can provide some of the same features as a VPN without the more complicated server setup process – however, it has some limitations.

How a VPN Works

VPN stands for “virtual private network,” – as its name indicates, it’s used for connecting to private networks over public networks, such as the Internet. In a common VPN use case, a business may have a private network with file shares, networked printers, and other important things on it. Some of the business’s employees may travel and frequently need to access these resources from the road. However, the business doesn’t want to expose their important resources to the public Internet. Instead, the business can set up a VPN server and employees on the road can connect to the company’s VPN. Once an employee is connected, their computer appears to be part of the business’s private network – they can access file shares and other network resources as if they were actually on the physical network.

The VPN client communicates over the public Internet and sends the computer’s network traffic through the encrypted connection to the VPN server. The encryption provides a secure connection, which means the business’s competitors can’t snoop on the connection and see sensitive business information. Depending on the VPN, all the computer’s network traffic may be sent over the VPN – or only some of it may (generally, however, all network traffic goes through the VPN). If all web browsing traffic is sent over the VPN, people between the VPN client and server can’t snoop on the web browsing traffic. This provides protection when using public Wi-Fi networks and allows users to access geographically-restricted services – for example, the employee could bypass Internet censorship if they’re working from a country that censors the web. To the websites the employee accesses through the VPN, the web browsing traffic would appear to be coming from the VPN server.

Crucially, a VPN works more at the operating system level than the application level. In other words, when you’ve set up a VPN connection, your operating system can route all network traffic through it from all applications (although this can vary from VPN to VPN, depending on how the VPN is configured). You don’t have to configure each individual application.

To get started with your own VPN, see our guides to using OpenVPN on a Tomato router, installing OpenVPN on a DD-WRT router, or setting up a VPN on Debian Linux.

How an SSH Tunnel Works

SSH, which stands for “secure shell,” isn’t designed solely for forwarding network traffic. Generally, SSH is used to securely acquire and use a remote terminal session – but SSH has other uses. SSH also uses strong encryption, and you can set your SSH client to act as a SOCKS proxy. Once you have, you can configure applications on your computer – such as your web browser – to use the SOCKS proxy. The traffic enters the SOCKS proxy running on your local system and the SSH client forwards it through the SSH connection – this is known as SSH tunneling. This works similarly to browsing the web over a VPN – from the web server’s perspective, your traffic appears to be coming from the SSH server. The traffic between your computer and the SSH server is encrypted, so you can browse over an encrypted connection as you could with a VPN.

However, an SSH tunnel doesn’t offer all the benefits of a VPN. Unlike with a VPN, you must configure each application to use the SSH tunnel’s proxy. With a VPN, you’re assured that all traffic will be sent through the VPN – but you don’t have this assurance with an SSH tunnel. With a VPN, your operating system will behave as though you’re on the remote network – which means connecting to Windows networked file shares would be easy. It’s considerably more difficult with an SSH tunnel.

For more information about SSH tunnels, see this guide to creating an SSH tunnel on Windows with PuTTY. To create an SSH tunnel on Linux, see our list of cool things you can do with an SSH server.

Which Is More Secure?

If you’re worried about which is more secure for business use, the answer is clearly a VPN — you can force all network traffic on the system through it. However, if you just want an encrypted connection to browse the web with from public Wi-Fi networks in coffee shops and airports, a VPN and SSH server both have strong encryption that will serve you well.

There are other considerations, too. Novice users can easily connect to a VPN, but setting up a VPN server is a more complex process. SSH tunnels are more daunting to novice users, but setting up an SSH server is simpler – in fact, many people will already have an SSH server that they access remotely. If you already have access to an SSH server, it’s much easier to use it as an SSH tunnel than it is to set up a VPN server. For this reason, SSH tunnels have been dubbed a “poor man’s VPN.”

Businesses looking for more robust networking will want to invest in a VPN. On the other hand, if you’re a geek with access to an SSH server, an SSH tunnel is an easy way to encrypt and tunnel network traffic – and the encryption is just as good as a VPN’s encryption.

 

SOURCE: HowToGeek.com

Make it Happen 2012 – Anonymous Transmission

Make it Happen 2012 – Anonymous Transmission

Jun 26, 2012 | Anonymous, Video

Protesting, Police Violence, Transparency, Global Government, all being manipulated against Humanity’s interests.  2012 is the year we take back our FREEDOMS.

We do not forgive

We do not forget

We are legion

Expect us

 

 

Why Hillary Clinton Should Join Anonymous

Why Hillary Clinton Should Join Anonymous

Jun 12, 2012 | Anonymous

The State Department and the online mob are both destroying “Internet freedom.”

 

It’s hard to deny the intellectual ambiguity of “Internet freedom” when among its staunchest defenders are idealistic hacktivists from Anonymous and hard-nosed diplomats from the U.S. State Department—two groups that otherwise disagree on everything else. Ironically, both may end up hurting the very noble cause that they seek to promote.

The diplomats’ problems are quite well-known by now. While Hillary Clinton likes to give speeches in which she fashions herself the world’s greatest defender of “Internet freedom,” the harsh reality is that her own government is its greatest enemy. Given the never-ending flow of draconian copyright and cybersecurity laws coming from Washington, this fact is getting harder and harder to conceal from the global public, who starts to wonder why American diplomats keep criticizing Russia or China but don’t say anything about the impressive online spying operation that the National Security Agency is building inUtah. Nor does the State Department object when America’s allies push for harsh surveillance laws; Britain, with its proposed surveillance legislation, is a case in point. America’s “Internet freedom agenda” is at best toothless and at worst counterproductive. While focusing on (and overselling) the liberating promise of social media in authoritarian regimes, it conceals a number of emerging domestic threats that have nothing to do with dictators—and everything to do with aggressive surveillance, disappearing privacy, and the astonishing greed of Silicon Valley.

The case of Anonymous is not as straightforward. This movement is so distributed, fluid, and occasionally disorganized that anyone seeking to pigeonhole it into a coherent ideological doctrine would not get too far. Still, most of its recent high-profile attacks—upon the intelligence firm Stratfor, the Central Intelligence Agency, the signatories of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (which, among other things, aims to thwart Internet piracy), and the Chinese government—are motivated by a desire to defend “Internet freedom.” In this lofty goal, the agendas, if not the approaches, of Anonymous and the State Department overlap.

Why these particular targets? Predictably, Anonymous hates Western governments for ushering in more surveillance and draconian piracy laws; the security industry—for satisfying the growing policing demands of those governments; the Chinese government—for being the world’s mightiest Internet censor.

Such flashy attacks are still widely discussed in the media, and that can inspire valuable broader discussion of some important Internet issues, such as the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. But spectacles, which are bound to get boring, are not a sustainable political strategy, as the media will eventually lose interest. And Anonymous has yet to go beyond spectacle and offer a more meaningful way for its members to contribute. Cyberattacks are cheap, easy, and can attract thousands of participants without demanding much of them. In this, they can be seen as a form of “slacktivism”—they make everyone feel good but don’t necessarily advance the cause. They can be great for stunts, but one can’t change the world with stunts alone.

But—yet another parallel to the State Department—it’s not just that Anonymous’ campaigns might be toothless. They may prove counterproductive as well. The cybersecurity industry has almost certainly benefited from the buzz and fear-mongering generated by Anonymous’ attacks. Every new incursion by Anonymous must be greeted as good news in the offices of companies providing cyberdefense to both public and private sectors. Now that Anonymous has revealed that even private intelligence-gathering firms are not safe—a few months ago, it obtained the emails from Stratfor, which eventually were published by WikiLeaks—it’s a great time to be a provider of cybersecurity services!

The hacktivists keep supplying the industry with strong examples as to why more public money should be spent beefing up Internet security and surveillance while eliminating online anonymity. Take Anonymous’ recent assaults on the websites of USTelecom and Tech America, two leading technology trade associations that have lent their support to CISPA. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that a cyberattack against groups that promote legislation to combat cyberattacks only strengthens their case. It’s like shooting a bazooka in a legislative session about gun control. This was not lost on those trade associations, and they exploited this gift from Anonymous to its fullest. Thus, the president of USTelecom claimed that “by their actions Anonymous hacktivists underscore the importance of speedy action on the bipartisan [CISPA] legislation to ensure that the Internet remains an open and safe forum for all.” Regardless of what happens to this particular piece of legislation, it’s likely that lawmakers will be under growing pressure from the military-digital complex to do something about Anonymous’ attacks—and that “something” would not be conducive to any kind of “Internet freedom.”

We can expect similar developments to take place in China, where in early April a group that calls itself “Anonymous China” defaced several government websites and promised to take down its notorious censorship system. The damage caused is minimal, while the symbolic value derived from exposing the Chinese Internet censorship to the international audiences is arguably insignificant. It’s already a well-known problem. But Anonymous’ attacks do give the Chinese government good reasons to invest money into online surveillance and, perhaps, even do it with popular support: Anonymous is not above exposing credit card details of innocent victims—and China’s burgeoning middle classes will easily grasp the implications of online insecurity. If the strikes continue, Anonymous may be China’s equivalent of Stuxnet—the computer worm that disrupted Iranian nuclear facilities—only without imposing any of Stuxnet’s crippling costs. Iran’s ongoing flirtation with the idea of a “national Internet,” itself a reaction in part to Stuxnet, is a good example of how the rhetoric of cyberattacks may be invoked to justify more Internet control.

Why doesn’t Anonymous seek more effective means of cyberactivism? This is where the organization’s decentralized structure is a liability, not an asset. The movement that claims to have no leaders—well, aside from those “leaders” who happen to be working for the FBI—and that means short-term, easy objectives (often bordering on pranks) can take precedence over long-term strategic goals.

The very idea of an online campaign to defend “Internet freedom” is problematic. It’s not like an appeal to raise money for a presidential candidate or victims of a natural disaster; it takes more than a few clicks or cash donations. Moreover, the goals and priorities of such a campaign are likely to shift all the time, depending on the political context. Defending “Internet freedom” requires constant interpretation, deliberation, and discrimination between different courses of action. In contrast, online fundraising usually has fixed goals and is amenable to small-scale, granular contributions.

Without greater bureaucratization, formal mechanisms for decision-making, and, more importantly, the capacity to accept responsibility when those decisions bring unfortunate consequences, Anonymous may end up posing as great of a threat to Internet freedom as its main nemesis, the U.S. government.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/04/internet_freedom_threat_posed_by_hillary_clinton_s_state_department_and_anonymous_.single.html

LEAKED: Monsanto Internal Study/Fact Sheet On Pesticide Use

LEAKED: Monsanto Internal Study/Fact Sheet On Pesticide Use

Jun 12, 2012 | Leaks

Reference No.: 2 Monsanto
April 1998

CONFIDENTIAL — OFFICIAL USE ONLY

Internal Study/Fact Sheet On Pesticide Use

*    Of all insecticides used globally each year, the amount used on cotton: 25%.
*    Number of pesticides presently on the market that were registered before being tested to determine if they caused cancer, birth defects or wildlife toxicity: 400.
*    Amount of time it takes to ban a pesticide in the U.S. using present procedures: 10 years.
*    Number of active ingredients in pesticides found to cause cancer in animals or humans: 107.
*    Of those active ingredients, the number still in use today: 83.
*    Number of pesticides that are reproductive toxins according to the California E.P.A.: 15.
*    Number of pesticides found to cause reproductive problems in animals: 14.
*    Most serious cause of groundwater pollution confirmed in California: agricultural chemicals.
*    Number of pesticides found in drinking wells of California since 1982: 68.
*    Number of California wells affected: 957.
*    Number of farming communities affected: 36.
*    % of the total U.S. population supplied with drinking water from groundwater: 50%.
*    Number of different pesticides documented by the E.P.A. to be present in groundwater in 1988: 74.
*    Number of states affected: 32.
*    Most acutely toxic pesticide registered by the E.P.A.: aldicarb (used frequently on cotton).
*    In California between 1970 and 1994 amount of total aldicarb used on cotton: 85 to 95%.
*    Number of states in which aldicarb has been detected in the groundwater: 16.
*    Percentage of all U.S. counties containing groundwater susceptible to contamination from agricultural pesticides and fertilizers: 46%.
*    Number of people in the U.S. routinely drinking water contaminated with carcinogenic herbicides: 14 million.
*    Percentage of municipal water treatment facilities lacking equipment to remove these chemicals from the drinking water: 90%.
*    Estimated total costs for U.S. groundwater monitoring: US$900 million to 2.2 billion.
*    Estimated costs for U.S. groundwater carbon filtration cleanup: up to $25 million per site.
*    Percentage of all food samples tested by the FDA in 1980 which contained pesticide residues: 38%.
*    Of the 496 pesticides identified as likely to leave residues in food, the percentage which FDA tests can routinely detect: 40%.
*    Average number of serious pesticide-related accidents between World War II and 1980: 1 every 5 years.
*    Average number of serious pesticide-related accidents between 1980 and the present: 2 every year.
*    Increase in cancer rates between 1950 and 1986: 37%.
*    Number of Americans who will learn they have cancer this year: 1 million.
*    Number who will die from it: 500,000.
*    Cost to U.S. of cancer in terms of lost production, income, medical expenses and research resources: US$ 39 billion each year.
*    Highest rate of chemical-related illness of any occupational group in the U.S.A.: farm workers.
*    Pesticide-related illnesses among monsanto farm workers in U.S.A. each year: Approximately 300,000.
*    Number of people in the U.S. who die each year from cancer related to pesticides: 10,400.

 

SOURCE: http://pastebin.com/mGAKqV4d

#InfoSec: If it walks like th3j35t3r and talks like th3j35t3r, its probably TomRyanBlog

#InfoSec: If it walks like th3j35t3r and talks like th3j35t3r, its probably TomRyanBlog

Jun 7, 2012 | Anonymous

UPDATE: Our hero Jake Davis provided some interesting commentary on this subject recently:

I remember seeing IRC logs of you and LulzSec dissing The Jester and saying his tool “XerXeS” is just SlowLoris with Tor… but how did you guys come to this conclusion? How can this be mitigated if his attacks appear to come from so many exit nodes? Just block all Tor exit nodes? I dnt wanna to. :(
“I have no idea how XerXeS or any other DDoS tool actually works, all I know is that the person or people running the character known as The Jester have been doing it successfully for many years with absolutely zero discrepancies, arrests or suspensions. I think that’s it’s incredibly impressive that The Jester has stuck to the courage of his/her/their convictions for such a large period of time, even though I disagree with some of the political views expressed. I’m a big fan of facilitating alternative realities and The Jester brings us into another world with many sophisticated layers that often make us forget that it’s just a twitter account and a blog, which is a talent few people have. I find the construction of the persona at a granular level far more admirable than the hacking itself, which I obviously don’t approve of. ”    -via  http://ask.fm/DoubleJake

 

>DecryptedMatrix gives voice to PiraX

 

th3j35t3r_Tom_Ryan_BlogHello there, th3j35t3r.  We would also like to welcome our fellow Anons, bloggers, and those simply interested in a cyber-culture controversy spanning over two years. We are sure you know why we have called you here. Your recent online behavior has been rather strange, to say the least. We are here for one reason: We want to end you.

We would like to start first by making you comfortable. No more quasi-anonymous pseudonym mumbo-jumbo. Your name is Thomas so we will call you by the name you were given by your mother. We know your name because it was confirmed over a month ago with the following Pastebin paste:   http://pastebin.com/A5iiTAJS  (PiraX Dox continued after paste)
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Q: Are Thomas Ryan and th3j35t3r one and the same person?

tl;dr: Yes. You fucking bet they are. In the words of Oscar Wilde, however, ‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple.’ Thus, if you want the full, uncensored dox on th3j35t3r, you’re going to have to bear with me for the next ten minutes as I tear apart his tissue of lies and disinformation.

Now concentrate, cos here comes the proof…

Warning: Long dox is looooooooong. I trust it will prove to be an enlightening read however, not least for Mr Thomas Ryan of 86 Amber Street, Staten Island NY.


SEE TOM RYAN AS JESTER at DEFCON 19

Filmed at Defcon after observing Tom Ryan post and photograph a note outside the vendor room signed “J.” This photo was tweeted from @th3j35t3r twitter within moments, as was the following: https://i.imgur.com/axth3.jpg
Note the “Black cell paintball” logo on the shirt. BCP is the name of Tom’s Paintball team. Tom hangs on PBnation.com with a kid called j35t3r, which is the likely source for the name, and the first of many plagiarisms.  NOT SUSPICIOUS AT ALL, folks. Nor is it suspicious that the ridiculous attempts to smear me as a secret blackhat/anon/whatever over the last year all come from the same group of six people connected to Tom. The other partner is tentatively identified, but that’s a story for later.

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Among the 9,000 names to have been linked with @th3j35t3r, one that keeps cropping up is that of @TomRyanBlog. The dox has been denied by th3j35t3r, but then Sabu repeatedly denied that he was Hector Monsegur, and we all know how that one ended up…

While many Anons have been focused on reverse DNS lookups, port scanning and conventional doxing methods to unmask Jester, no one seems to have tried a simpler technique: writing analysis.

If Tom Ryan (TR) and Jester (J) are one and the same person, it should be easy to tell. They’ve written 3,000 tweets between them. Even the l33t3st of the l33t would struggle to convincingly maintain two separate writing styles over the course of thousands of tweets and numerous blog posts.

For those who are new to the party, here’s an overview of what we know about TR and J:

Both are conservative, right-wing and love their precious military. Both hate #OWS, Wikileaks, Manning and are obsessed with unmasking Anons. Both are fixated with Sabu (still!), Team Pois0n and Cabin Cr3w. Both enjoy love-ins with @AsherahResearch, @AnonymousDown and all the usual trolls.  In short, they’re both neo-con faggots. But are they one and the same faggot, or are they separate fags who happen to be pursuing identical vendettas?

Before we get bogged down in analyzing their writing styles, here’s some lighter tit-bits to get things kick-started:

1. Last year, TR and J both attended Hacker Halted in Miami and DEFCON in Nevada. Based on what we know of the pair’s political leanings and infosec knowledge, that alone automatically narrows them down to less than 5,000 possible suspects.

2. TR and J both like sushi (a trifling detail, but one that helps build a picture of their personalities). TR: “@p0isAn0N not going to the right Pizzaria. If you are in Boston you should be going to BoLoCo for Burritos anyway. And Duozo for Sushi.”
J: “#hackerhalted delegates … Stay clear of Cafe Bastille. Great sushi at Bali Cafe though… Stayin frosty.”

3. Tom Ryan has form for assuming false identities – such as ‘Robin Sage’. See here for the full story:
http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/privacy/225702468/index.html

INTERESTING FACT: @RobinSage joined Twitter on 26th December 2009 – exactly one week after @th3j35t3r joined.

The connection between Tom Ryan, Robin Sage and Jester was first brought to my attention by this tweet from @LulzKitten on 29th March 2012:

“Okay, let’s cut the crap, hello @Th3J35t3r aka@TomRyanBlog aka robinsage. Game over. Was fun, at least sometimes. Next nemesis, plox!”
(Note: Direct links to all tweets quoted in this dox can be found cited in the conclusion.) After reading LulzKitten’s tweet, I cast a casual glance over the Twitter feeds of Tom Ryan and Jester, and instantly noticed some similarities between the pair.

The most damning evidence linking TR and J – the smoking gun – will be presented towards the end of this dox, if you can wait that long, but first, let’s perform some writing analysis. After all, if TR and J are the same person, there ought to be some similarities in their writing styles, surely? You betcha. Here we go then:

Anyone who’s followed J on Twitter and read his blog may have noticed that he has a very distinctive writing style. Let’s pick through some of Jester’s trademark phrases, and then see if we can spot them recurring in TR’s tweets:

4. ‘Hmmmm’. Jester likes to say ‘Hmmm’ ‘Errr’ and ‘Ahemmm’ a lot. In fact he likes to say them so much that he even uses these filler phrases in his blog titles, as well as littering his tweets with them. Here’s some examples:

5th April: “@deftpunkz – umm holy shit. I dont know what to say guys, errrr thanks, i think? -”

4th April: “Al-Qaida ‘blacked out’ on the internet (effectively switched off) >>>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/Al-Qaida-blacked-out-on-internet/articleshow/12529550.cms #infosec#saladin #ahemm”

3rd April: “Now…… imagine…… how many of those listed in my last, were ummmmmm – on the ‘shit list’ – just a thought??? #anonymous”

27th Feb: “#Wikileaks & #anonymous dump 5 million#strafor internal emails obtained by #anonymouslast Dec..umm this right here…”

21st March: “Anti-Anonymous hacker threatens to expose them (via MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.com/id/46716942<<< ummm too late. #military #cyber #security#infosec #DoD”

15th Nov, WordPress blog title: “Occupy Wall Street?? 99%?? Ummm.”

Hmmm, I wonder if Tom Ryan also likes to say ‘Hmmm’? Let’s take a look:

10th April: “How To Prevent Data Leaks From Happening To Your Organization http://zite.to/HCucc8hmmm…how do you prevent the carbon factor from leaking?”

6th April: “Hmmm So @AnonW0rmer is arrested at 10:30http://j.mp/HiAASP tweets till 3:32, @ItsKahunadisappears @AnonymousIRC disappears for 4 Day >>>”

15th March: “CSI tonight has a scent of Anonymous. Anthropology professor teaching about Hactivism. Hmmm who came it be?”

11th March: “@kennethlipp hhhmmmm do you think any anons donated money to his reelection campaign?”

7th March: “@CryptKper @v0ld4m0rt you are spot on! Who could that have been? Hmmmmm”

16th Feb: “@agentdarkapple Interesting! Hmmm! I can see why you think I would be L and you would be N. L doesn’t smile like me”

OK, that’s enough Hmming – on to point #5: ‘Tick tock’. Jester loves to say ‘Tick tock’ – it’s one of his favorite phrases. Look:

6th March: “From 3.5 months ago:https://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/if-i-am-wrong-ill-say-im-wrong-heres-my-apology/…… from 1 hour ago ….http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/06/hacking-group-lulzsec-swept-up-by-law-enforcement/ tick tock toldya.”

3rd August: “’RT @anonymousabu: @hjjrc @SparkyBlaze Your problem is with a ghost. Someone you can neither find nor stop.’ << you have same problem. #tick”

27th July: “@anonymousabu tick tock.”

24th July: “TICK TOCK. #toldyac2dc37a7d9d3238877a127f2d5171c9d”

21st June: “Tickety Tock…..”

25th June blog entitled LulzSec’s Cloudflare Configuration: “Tickety Tock Tock.”

Why, isn’t that a quirky little phrase? I wonder if Captain Hook – sorry, Tom Ryan – also uses the same terminology. Oh, what’s this we have here from 27th Feb?

“#Anonymous I am working on my big release. Hmmmm who should it goto? Tick Tock”

There’s even a ‘Hmmmm’ thrown in for good measure. How Jester-esque!

With a nudge and a wink, we move onto #6: Jester loves nothing more than to sign off his tweets with a sly wink. Just like so:

28th March: “@wwpinc – just in case you were not aware: >>>https://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/support/ <<< – keep up the great work ;-) Peace. #pgr #wwp#woundedwarrior”

26th March: “Al-Qaida forums crippled in suspected cyber intervention http://j.mp/GSd8ih << bad things happen to bad people, apparently ;-) #infosec”

11th March: “@RepDanGordon @FBIPressOffice I merely stated u were on the list, u seem awful jittery. U need to calm down >> ;-)”

2nd Oct: “RT: @mach2600 @th3j35t3r It’s wobbling … up, down, up, down… <<< gotta love NGINX – always somethin huh ;-)”

16th June: “standby for supporting clarification onhttp://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/quick-n-dirty-just-for-clarification/?utm_source=Jesters+Court+Blog&utm_medium=twitter – close ya eyes if ya already saw it yesterday. ;-)”

2nd June: “http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/02/pentagon-has-secret-list-cyber-weapons/ – #justsayin;-) #oorah”

Now it’s TR’s turn to have a sly wink:

5th April: “The beauty of data-mining in a social world, I don’t need to be connected to you, so you can’t block me. You just need to be on my radar ;-)”

5th April: “@x_ryujin_x @render64 @bitchiest @kalyptonetthink of what full dox did for Sabu ;-)”

4th April: “@LauraWalkerKC @BobbyCarbon@NavySEALsORG @Packetknife @HonorThemYou should record it ;-)”

14th March: “To Geeks & Nerds 3/14 is known as Pi Dayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZtuMdkUksTo Horny Men it’s known as Steak & Blow Job Day! The GF reminded me ;-)”

13th March: “@JackalAnon warned #Anonymous 2 Days Ago about OAuth and Apps. We’ve warned you about TOR. ;-)”

14th Feb: “Why I’m Glad My Boyfriend Isn’t On Facebook – Forbes http://j.mp/z9XNrP by @kashhill | Leaving Facebook made me never want to go back ;-)”

Next up, it’s similarity #7 – ‘Stay Frosty’. This, Jester’s catchiest of catch-phrases, crops up all over his tweets:

2nd April: “http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-202_162-20075647.html <<< still going on about this? Stay frosty and have a Cupcake??”

10th Nov: “#stayfrosty -Word of advice 2 @barrettbrownlol: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. >”

26th Oct: “#hackerhalted left a little something under the projector in Alhambra SCADA room. Tweet me a photo of what’s there. #stayfrosty”

25th Oct: “#hackerhalted delegates … Stay clear of Cafe Bastille. Great sushi at Bali Cafe though… Stayin frosty.”

Now let’s see what Monsieur Ryan has to say for himself:

10th April: “Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own “clean” alternative http://zite.to/Iqm1Ba#anonymous @CabinCr3w Stay Frosty ;-)”

16th March: “@testeux1 Class on Strategy? I can teach one at The Spy Museum in DC @wikileaks @revmagdalen@AnonymousIRC @YourAnonNews Stay Frosty ;-)”

13th March: “#Anonymous in your time of fear those of you that have used delete.twitlan / tweeteraser / twitwipe A Special Thank You!!! Stay Frosty! ;-)”

13th March: “@jackie_singh @krypt3ia I was promoted today to Brigadier General Packet of The Cyber Brigade@th3j35t3r now reports to me! Stay Frosty ;-)”

12th March: “Finch + Reese = ;-) …. Stay Frosty & Watch Your 6!”

Hang on a sec, isn’t it a bit, well, *obvious* for Tom Ryan to be liberally dropping Jester’s favorite catchphrase into his tweets? Yep, you’re right – it’s very obvious. But here’s the thing: the AntiSec dox that named Jester as Tom Ryan landed in Pastebin on 11th March. Notice how TR deliberately goes out of his way to play up to the ‘Stay Frosty’ caricature in the ensuing days? That’s because he realizes that the more he pretends to be Jester, the more people will be inclined to write him off as just another Jester wannabe. For another example of this tactic, here’s how J tweets every time he downs a Muslim extremist website:

1st March: “http://www.rjfront.info – TANGO DOWN. Temporarily. For enabling recruitment, & co-ordination of jihadist terror cells via web.”

1st March: “http://www.atahadi.com – TANGO DOWN. Temporarily. For online incitement to cause young muslims to carry out acts of violent jihad.”

Exactly one month later, on 1st April, TR tweets the following:

“www.ic3 .gov – TANGO DOWN. Temporarily. For not doing your job, & not arresting #Anonymous”

And: “www.fbi .gov – TANGO DOWN. Temporarily. For enabling recruitment, & co-ordination of#Anonymous via web.”

At this point, obvious troll is obvious – within days of LulzKitten’s tweet linking Tom Ryan and Jester, TR goes out of his way to tweet ‘Stay Frostys’, Jester winks and ‘TANGO DOWN’s. To give him credit, it’s a pretty smart way to make people think you’re nothing more than a Jester fanboy. Sadly for Thomas, it’s too late; the evidence linking Tom Ryan to Jester began from the moment TR began tweeting in January 2012. Prior to AntiSec dropping Jester’s dox on 11th March, Tom Ryan had only tweeted ‘Stay Frosty’ twice in three months. Immediately afterward, he tweets it five times in four days – complete with the Jester’s trademark wink.

So does that mean that all of the foregoing information is is part of an elaborate ploy, cooked up by Tom Ryan and Jester, to obfuscate the identity of the real Jester? In the case of the ‘Stay Frostys’ and the ‘TANGO DOWN’s, yes, it probably is. Thankfully, there are dozens of other textual similarities between the pair – similarities that are too subtle to be part of a pre-planned disinformation campaign.

Which leads nicely on to point #8: ‘Much’. Note the phrase that appears in the following tweets from Jester:

18th June: “http://www.techhomethebacon.com/news/hacking-infosec/th3j35t3r-links-nakomis-to-lulzsec-group-cover-up-ensues.html – backpeddaling much? Hacked? lol. -”

18th June: “Back-pedalling much?https://twitter.com/#!/Anonakomis/status/81862870664609792 #js”

August 21st WordPress blog entitled If ya can’t beat em, make some shit up??? LMAO!: “coincidence much?” “projection much??”

I wonder if TR ever lets slip a similar phrase? Oh, what’s this?:
14th March: “@kaepora Nadim, delete much? You’re in the snitch crew ?https://twitter.com/#!/realytcracker/status/143411708369715201 of @Anonymousabu & @ioerror”

Coincidence much?

#9: Jester loves to leave trailing dots in his tweets:

9th April: “<<< drums fingers on desk….”

3rd April: “Now…… imagine…… how many of those listed in my last, were ummmmmm – on the ‘shit list’ – just a thought??? #anonymous”

22nd November: “AFK…….”

He also uses trailing dots when he’s typing live into Notepad in this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeO44IWlkfU

More of Jester’s ‘trailing dots’ tweets are cited at the end of this dox. Now it’s TR’s turn to deploy this tactic:

6th April: “@kennethlipp that’s how it went down with Barrett Brown too. Remember they ended up going to every address for him….according to him”

5th April: “@Bitchiest @KalyptoNet @TomRyanBlog The Secretary disavows this tweet and everybody in it…”

4th April: “#Anonymous ever wonder why certain high ups in your collective are never V& …. Look at cases that never went to court & who has relocated”

Again, more examples of this idiosyncrasy can be found cited at the end of this dox, as well as liberally scattered throughout Tom Ryan’s Twitter feed.

#10: Arrows. Jester loves to use arrows to break up words in his tweets, <<just like this>>:

9th April: “”@VizFoSho: @th3j35t3r dun goofedhttp://www.picvalley.net/u/1980/407013641289457528133400533586itAR4VE93lm7DAkGd2.PNG@RepDan_Gordon” <<< Shit ya got me! What am I to do? Btw now I am near north pole.”

28th March: “@wwpinc – just in case you were not aware: >>>https://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/support/ <<< – keep up the great work ;-) Peace. #pgr #wwp#woundedwarrior”

Now TR:

6th April: “Hmmm So @AnonW0rmer is arrested at 10:30http://j.mp/HiAASP tweets till 3:32, @ItsKahunadisappears @AnonymousIRC disappears for 4 Day >>>”

13th March: “Don’t know whether to laugh or feel bad but come on: (compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+98;+Win+9×4.90) << In This Day An Age??”

9th March: “conspiracy 1. a plan or agreement to carry out an illegal or harmful act 2. the act of making such plans >> aka #Anonymous Ops #justsayin<<”

Glance through their tweets and you’ll see that J and TR use <<arrows>> all the time.

#10: UPPER CASE. Compare the tweets of J and TR and you’ll notice that they both love to highlight single words in capitals. Jester first:

9th April: “WARNING: Tweeps in mirror are closer than they appear.”

18th March: “I’m still asked WHY I hit #wikileaks, skip to 28mins 12secs & Major TJ O’Connor abt sums it uphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buY3I4PkK98<<worth watching it all.”

11th March: “@repdangordon be advised, when u file ur complaint to feds, they ARE going need ur cell for forensics to determine IF I hacked u at all ;-( ”

Tom Ryan’s turn:

5th April: “INTERESTING: What is this ugly brown stain on a Key Member of Anonymous’ back? I need to do my cropping for the new site launch. Peace!”

5th April: “#Anonymous why so many military and sovereign citizen connections? GOD I aam glad I took 2 weeks to lay low.”

4th April: “@MaxVenator Too cold and windy for the Hamptons BUT you gave me a good idea. Maybe we can turn Plum Island into a resort for#Anonymous”

Jester and Tom Ryan both use this technique DOZENS of times in their tweets.

#11 features a more subtle similarity between our Jester and our Clown:

Jester, 21st August: “If ya can’t beat em, make some shit up??? LMAO! -”

TR, 16th March: “@exiledsurfer ROFLMAO! Reminds me of being in Bahrain & Abu Dhabi hearing Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places””

Jester and Thomas don’t always laugh their asses off, but when they do, you can bet it’s in upper case with an exclamation mark at the end. (More examples, as always, are cited in the conclusion of this dox.)

#12: J and TR aren’t very good at spelling. They struggle especially with words such as ‘its’ and ‘it’s’. Jester’s tweets aren’t usually too bad for typos, as he doesn’t rush them (because he knows they will be analyzed by a wide range of foes who might otherwise have cause to mock him for his poor grammar). He also has the autocorrect on his Android phone to help him. He still struggles with those pesky apostrophes that autocorrect can’t pick up however, especially when he tweets from his desktop:

6th March: “WTF is Wikileaks gonna do now it’s source of illegally obtained private info (anon/lulz) has had it’s head & skillset removed? #2birds1Stone”

21st June: “Seems almost as if ‘somebody’ doesn’t want you to see my last link – here’s a pastebin of it’s content.”

In his WordPress blog however, Jester often mixes up his apostrophes, especially in words such as ‘its’:

“With Netcat listening at the other end for incoming connections, you can configure it to execute it’s own script when it receives a connection for example to send a Message of the Day to the connecting device, you would run netcat like this on your server”

Watch his two YouTube videos (links cited at the end) in which he types directly into Notepad and you’ll see he also fails to put apostrophes into words such as  ‘lets’, ‘its’ and ‘Thats’. 2:20 into his XerXes DoS Attack video and you’ll see that the text displayed on Jester’s self-designed software also contains typos: ‘SUCCESFULLY’ should have two ‘s’ in the middle, while at 2:29, you’ll see that ‘Secured’ has also been spelt wrongly. At 6:52 he also makes the same error when typing into Notepad.

Does Tom Ryan fare any better in the spelling stakes? No. In fact he’s even worse when it comes to tweeting typos. That’s because Thomas tweets ten times as frequently as Jester, tweets more hastily (lots of rushed replies to his Twitter buddies) and because he writes the tweets on his Mac, which doesn’t autocorrect his mistakes. Look:

4th April: “@AdrianChen surprised your not all over the@Anonw0rmer arrest and shortly after the disappearance of @itskahuna”

5th April: “To those I owe something too, It’s on it’s way!”

30th March: “RED ALERT: tomorrow is #NoClick31 just as a precaution. Rumor has it #Anonymous is using it’s Porn Bots for #opBlackout click to DDOS attack”

Wanna see more? Just read his tweets.

OK, we’ve almost reached the really juicy stuff linking Jester and Thomas, but first there are a couple more writing similarities to rattle through:

#13: J and TR write numbers numerically rather than alphabetically – even when composing short tweets.

Jester, 28th Feb: “4 more Anons V&’ed http://tinyurl.com/8a2g5k5#anonymous”

10th Nov: “#stayfrosty -Word of advice 2 @barrettbrownlol: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. >”

27th November: “#saladin (XerXes bro)- ‘the best weapon is the one u never have 2 fire…I prefer the weapon u only need 2 fire once.’”

20th July: “Never saw a wild thing sorry 4 itself. Small bird drop frozen dead from bough without ever having felt sorry 4 itself.”

TR – yep, you’ve guessed it – does exactly the same:

5th April: “@ohmylulz will with 2 False Positives.@missarahnicole @AsherahResearch”

4th April: “Ruh roh! A certain key #Anonymous member disappears for 4 days then reappears. We know what that means.”

3rd April: “@Ihazcandy I should start digging into them. Since I have 2 weeks of downtime.”

OK, moving on (we’re nearly done, I promise) to #14: Hashtags. If you go to tweetstats.com and enter TR and J’s twitter names into separate windows, a series of pretty graphs will be generated that will allow you to compare their tweeting patterns. You’ll notice that they tweet from separate devices, to eliminate the possibility of accidentally tweeting to the wrong account – Tom Ryan likes to keep his iPhone in one pocket and his Android in the other for when he’s playing Jester. Click on the Tweet Cloud tab at the top of the page and you’ll be able to view the most frequent hashtags used by both parties. Not too surprisingly, given their obsession with all things masked, it’s #anonymous. There are also three other hashtags that the pair use prominently however – #fail, #justsayin and #infosec. The latter one is understandable, but the other two? Interesting. Let’s see some #fail and #justsayin in action, starting with Jester:

3rd November: “#opcartel #anonymous You should really listen to what this man has to say. Remember your track record is full of #fail”

15th August: “@anonymousabu U R #fail. U hurt who u claim to fight for (lol), u have agenda < http://reg.cx/1Qps& the agenda is >”

14th August: “So @landrytom u finally got ur mention. Damn u zeroed my ‘xchat’? Please all check out his timeline. Then ask him where is the pwnage? #fail”

29th July: “1st up: My doxing. That’s a #fail. (again) I have never been Ryan Berg, John Willander, Robin Jackson, Anthony Freed, Beau Colvin. #opFrosty”

2nd June: “http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/02/pentagon-has-secret-list-cyber-weapons/ – #justsayin;-) #oorah”

Now it’s Tom Ryan’s turn to #Fail (#Justsayin):

5th April: “@agentdarkapple @AsherahResearch she’s definitely is no @elizadushku , Mila Kunis or Megan Ackerman. So she’s a #Fail”

2nd April: “@subverzo TY for verifying 2 alternate personas yours & @CrappyTires . FYI, Everyone in the CT world knows Shumukh al-Islam Forum. #FAIL”

9th March: “@AnonymousIRC you do know they rig cases to#FAIL inorder to capture bigger FISH ….. Right?@atopiary @lolspoon @AnonymouSabu”

9th Feb: “Dangerous Tweets: Arrested, fined in 140 characters or less http://j.mp/yWAV4G << What ever happened to contextual analysis? another#Fail” (Note the classic Jester-style arrows used in this tweet as well.)”

10th March: “#anonymous remember threatening people or family members can lead to several crimes. If they are harmed it becomes much worse. #justsayin”

9th March: “conspiracy 1. a plan or agreement to carry out an illegal or harmful act 2. the act of making such plans >> aka #Anonymous Ops #justsayin<<”

Plenty more examples, as always, can be found cited in the footnotes at the end of this dox.

OK, here endeth the writing analysis lesson. Thank you for your patience :) It would be fair to say we’ve established that Jester and Tom Ryan tweet in an uncannily similar manner, but that’s not all. Now we get on to the really good shit…

#15: Tweet times. Using tweetstats.com, it’s possible to compare the times at which J and TR tweet. A quick glance at their respective Tweet Density graphs reveals a similar pattern:  neither of them tweets between 3am and 7am EST: they’re both East coast bitches. Interesting.

#16: A few days ago, @VizFoSho tweeted the following image:

http://www.picvalley.net/u/1980/407013641289457528133400533586itAR4VE93lm7DAkGd2.PNG

It depicts two Jester tweets from 7th April, both geo-stamped with Atlantic City, NJ on them. Atlantic city is within 150 miles of NY, where Tom Ryan lives. On 26th March, Jester also posted a single tweet from New York: https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/184333789697282048

Normally, Jester’s tweets don’t reveal his location. Up until April 2012, there had only been four instances in which Jester’s tweets revealed his location – and two of those occurred when he was at DEFCON Nevada and Hacker Halted in Miami, occasions when he was undoubtedly eager to reveal his location in order to prove he was in attendance. Were the New York and Atlantic City revelations accidental (Tor for Android not working properly perhaps?) or was Jester trying to provide more misinformation?

After @VizFoSho pointed out the NJ link (the NY slip-up had gone unnoticed), Jester went out of his way to post two tweets from ridiculously exotic locations – Cape Town on 9th April and then Hawaii on 10th April:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/189464600318722049
https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/189464600318722049 “The octopus here is amazing. Dontcha think :-)”

Jester has never previously switched his location to a far-flung location purely for the lulz. Why should he suddenly be trying so hard now that he’s been identified as an East coast slacker? If he’s not Tom Ryan, why should be bothered if people think he’s from NJ or NY?

On 4th April, Jester made the second of his two Atlantic City tweets at 4:03pm. 11 minutes earlier, Tom Ryan had also posted a tweet. For the next 48 hours, neither account tweeted – a rare occurrence, especially for TR who averages over 30 tweets a day. Enjoying a couple of days in Atlantic City playing the slots, perhaps?

Here are the 4th April tweets from both parties:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/187610604314431488

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/187616455762784257

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187612824187584512

Curiouser and curiouser. But that’s not all. On 23rd March, TR tweets:

“Headed to South Beach to enjoy this great weather! Later Tweeps!”

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/183199880922148864

For the next 48 hours, Jester and Tom Ryan are both absent from Twitter.

A month earlier, on 17th February, the same thing happens after TR tweets:

“Off the Grid for a few days ! Have a great 3 day weekend!”

https://twitter.com/#%21/TomRyanBlog/status/170321854723129344

For the next four days, neither party tweets. The first person to break the Twitter silence is Jester, and it’s another rare instance of him revealing his location – Arlington VA.
https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/172077181051219968
Enjoy your three-day weekend, Thomas?

I stated earlier that until April Jester had never previously switched his location to a far-flung country, but I lied – there IS actually one occasion when Jester appeared to be out of the country. On 25th January, he posted the following tweet:

“To all who have DM’ed asking after my whereabouts & welfare…am safe & limbering up. It’s a brave new year. TY 4 support. Stay Frosty.”
https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/162261098035298304

His alleged location? Brescia, Italy. What about Thomas Ryan – what was he up to around this time? Well here’s the thing: between 23rd and 26th January, TR (a man who likes to tweet all day, erryday) doesn’t post a single tweet. Too busy enjoying the bruschetta, washed down with a bottle of Barolo perhaps?

A final word on correlating Twitter times before we move onto our final two points: take a look at the timeline for Jester and Tom Ryan’s tweets. Notice how they often tweet at almost exactly the same time as one another? For example, take Tuesday 10th April. After two hours without activity from either account, Thomas posts the following at 15:30pm:
“Now I feel really special. Someone created a hidden stream about me and monitors it.”
One minute later, at 15:31, Jester tweets “@alemarahweb‏ – ‎http://www.alemara1.com‏ – TANGO DOWN – أنا كنت”
Observe any two Twitter accounts for long enough and you’ll find timing coincidences of course. However, compare Jester and Tom Ryan’s accounts on any given day and you’ll spot a predictable pattern: they always broadly correlate i.e. there is a short burst of tweets, followed by a 45 minute break while Jester/Ryan goes for a wank or to chow down some beef jerky.

Right, two more points to raise and then I’ll leave you in peace:

#17: When LulzKitten tweeted Jester’s dox on 29th March, how did Tom Ryan – the man with the military wallpaper on his Twitter page – respond? “@J_P_Holloway @lulzkitten @YourAnonNewsyou guys really suck at DOXing thinking I am@th3j35t3r everyone knows I was never in the Army #fail”
https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/185189598677319680

Two things stand out here: firstly, we have no way of knowing that Jester was in the army. Yes, he has an interest in all things military, but the rumor that he actively served in the army is widely believed to be false.

On 13th March however, TR tweeted the following: “When I was in the military, Greenpeace would try to board Aircraft Carriers. Some things aren’t smart & never thought of till it’s too late.”
https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179637065154170880

Military, shmilitary; does anyone see a connection here? Thought so. Without further ado, let’s proceed to our final, fateful tweet of interest. On 10th February, Thomas Ryan tweeted the following:

“I wonder if operating Multiple Personas has ever given anyone Multiple Personality Disorder.”

I don’t know Jester, you tell me ;) Tick tock. No response? Oh well, Stay Frosty…

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POSTSCRIPT: Could it be that Tom Ryan is such an attention-whore that he’s trolling us all in the hope of being mistaken for the Jester? I guess it’s technically possible, but if so, it’s the most elaborate and painstaking trolling campaign ever conceived – and one that would have to involve the collusion of both parties. If, by some miracle, Thomas Ryan is not Jester, he knows exactly who Jester is – to the extent where he probably even vacations with him. When you review all the evidence however, there can only be one logical conclusion to draw: they are one and the same person.

On 13th March, Tom Ryan posted the following poignant message: “@ArtByAlida although Anonymous doesn’t like@th3j35t3r I do. It’s safer that certain people are never doxed.”
https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179636120710152192

You’re right Tom – it would be safer, but the truth always comes out in the wash, don’t you find? I hope you’ve got a few passports lying around, cos you’re gonna need them. Remember those Muslim extremists whose websites you downed and whose threats you retweeted? Oh, they mad. They real mad.

One last thought before I shovel the dirt over Jester’s shriveled corpse: I notice that your Twitter nick is Boondock Saint, in tribute to The Boondock Saints, a movie about two Irish vigilantes. Just out of interest, I wonder what The Internet Surname Database would make of Thomas Ryan’s moniker?

http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Ryan

Why, they appear to believe that Ryan is an Irish surname. To quote from my favorite hacktivist for good, ‘Coincidence much?’

Congratulations Thomas; you just got pwned by an amateur who doesn’t even have the skills to label himself a skid, never mind a hacker. Butthurt much?

In the words of your nemesis, @anonymouSabu, “Nigga, troll harder.”

pwned by @spoolfiend

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Citations:

LulzKitten tweet linking TR and J: https://twitter.com/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed#!/YourAnonNews/statuses/185150794079809536

Check when th3j35t3r and RobinSage joined Twitter: http://www.whendidyoujointwitter.com/

TR’s LinkedIn (where you’ll see proof that he attended Hacker Halted and DEFCON last year): http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyryan

TR and J professing their love of sushi:
https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178202424056610817
https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/128849629939892224

Tom Ryan dox by AntiSec: http://pastebin.com/ZAxBWKi8

J likes to say ‘Hmmm’ a lot:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/187996120180457472

Occupy Wall Street?? 99%?? Ummm.

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/186958030791905282

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/174163673940631552

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/182268058168082432

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/187535767843778560

TR also likes to say ‘Hmmm’:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/188096685250068480

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180117386291195906

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178896960546287617

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/177482894443417600

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/170195932388925441

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/189680060863754241

J goes ‘Tick tock’:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/96268183723450369

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/177033974324002816

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/83145887307677696

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/95195869921554433

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/98828156663889920

Lulzsec’s CloudFlare Configuration

TR goes ‘Tick tock’:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/174132025215811585

J ‘Stay frosty’:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/186923663734489088

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/134434056925483008

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/129246959021203456

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/128849629939892224

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/81862725638160385

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/76373640832225282

TR ‘Stay frosty’:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/189679107347460097

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180689040385900544

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179655809280655361

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179298552680415232

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178571536691765249

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178529239052730368

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178336251240382464

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179622057305317376

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179802508372344832

J likes to wink:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/184373769958211584

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/120271829377097728

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/76373640832225282

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/185019516793786370

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/81477469135319040

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/178878010961833986

TR likes to wink:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187885131976024064

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187372927946211328

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179932280809197568

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180689040385900544

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/189679107347460097

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/169492746871119873

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179655809280655361

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179802508372344832

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179669923163938816

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187914228810784769

J ‘much?’:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/82200919365787648

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/81871769832665088

If ya can’t beat em, make some shit up??? LMAO!

TR ‘much?’:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179927195022659584

J ‘…’:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/189139338796351492

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/186958030791905282

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/186749312166932483

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/128849629939892224

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/138951576789331968

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/168769540598145025

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/179233292682407937

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/184321677092597760

TR ‘…’:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/188088227704487936

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187342615648272384

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/188829946439929856

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/189449964219400194

https://twitter.com/#!/providesecurity/status/187253830315016192

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/189757038778269696

https://twitter.com/#!/Render64/status/187912159655772161

J ‘<<arrows>>’:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/189463655811780609

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/185019516793786370

TR ‘<<arrows>>’:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179683104972210176

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/188096685250068480

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/177907983227949056

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178555495806803968

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179321093897723904

J using UPPER case:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/189165520556277761

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/178895612723478531

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/181438361511280640

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/82538803188862976

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/98386681836736512

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/177544329458491392

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/135438221483048960

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/177568887334903808

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/110676313366462464

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/127396730621788160

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/100282273072549890

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/178566407909412866

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/132173511874711552

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/94485325744848896

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/97333572955947008

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/91970882095943680

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/141002481260961792

TR using UPPER case:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187908914417893379

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/188461215348031489

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187018163567853568

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/185423913197637633

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187240901574266881

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180380942614016001

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187903623693467648

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187361681452699649

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187541167972417536

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187322975383588864

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187309018623127552

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187558445036216320

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187541167972417536

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187656738818899968

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187261297669308416

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187530160134828032

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/184620737821286402

Jester ‘LMAO!’:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/105305979733815296

TR ‘ROFLMAO!’:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180709354624925696

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179773457943371776

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187709243087003650

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186965988082843648

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187272732147322880

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187583747154132992

J struggles with apostrophes:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/83239272504770560

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/177080046597578752

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/186749312166932483

(See his blog for heaps more examples.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeO44IWlkfU (Skip to 5:07); ‘lets’, ‘its’ and ‘Thats’ should all have apostrophes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJTvzErKHWE Look at the Notepad he’s typing into: ‘lets’ should have an apostrophe and ‘peak’ should have two ‘e’s in it. Skip to 2:20: the text on Jester’s self-designed Xerxes machine also contains typos: ‘SUCCESFULLY’ should have two ‘s’ in the middle. At 2:29, you’ll see that ‘Secured’ has also been spelt wrongly. At 6:52 he also types the same misspelt word into Notepad.

TR also struggles with apostrophes:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187920367845781504

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187710784690855936

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/180432605680902144

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187645320442822656

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187531807598714880

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187917710498336769

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/185737304290234368

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178485680899502081

J tweets ‘TANGO DOWN’:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/175040242477318144

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/175029005718794240

TR tweets ‘TANGO DOWN’:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186482996352778240

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186482690797744128

J always writes numbers numerically:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/174540542724669441

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/93771304607563776

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/114830590452310016

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/134434056925483008

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/140925221090758656

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/185576329712910336

TRB always writes numbers numerically:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187211721365139456

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187712594373648384

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178965908696481793

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187680293984022529

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187539614876176384

Compare TR and J’s tweet patterns, in particular the time of day they tweet at and the hashtags they use: http://tweetstats.com (Open two separate windows and enter their Twitter names).

J using #Fail:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/132152349639720960

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/103200916156588032

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/102784136015646722

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/97030633330716674

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/178966110694150144

J using #Fail:

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/187708057344671744

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/167697098047889411

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/177978089203175424

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178269119316107264

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186927307544477697

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178573080438898689

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178982123959619585

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/185189598677319680

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186930868273676288

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/186965988082843648

J using #Justsayin:

https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/76373640832225282

TRB using #Justsayin:
https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/177907983227949056

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/179578215411630080

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/178518183525888000

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/184620737821286402

https://twitter.com/#!/TomRyanBlog/status/184270112361168898

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PIRAX DOXING CONTINUED…  (The ‘smedley manning’ debacle)
You took this DOX’ing really well, to be honest. You shook it off as a mere fancification numerous times, and continued forward head-strong, apparently unmoved by those watching from the outside. But you knew deep-down that you had to eradicate this DOX from the minds of the enemies you have procured over the years. You know that a lot of people would like to see you gone. So, you came up with a plan.

The plan went something like this:
On May 10th, you registered the Twitter account @cubespherical and labeled it as “Smedley Manning”, as an obvious satirical homage to the now imprisoned Bradley Manning, a REAL soldier who fought for truth. You then exchanged a few messages with @th3j35t3r to make it look like a legitimate conversation, and began to “leak” information about yourself. We both know that this information is false, and was only created to distract others from the real DOX, located above. We know you are somewhat intelligent. However, there will always be those who will outsmart you. Consider yourself outsmarted.

Here is the analysis, broken down:
After you took down both your Twitter and WordPress blog, the mainstream blogosphere was certain you had finally been figured out. They assumed this was your acknowledgement of your own defeat and were positive you had been successfully DOX’d by @cubespherical. You were finally giving up. You knew they would react this way… It was all a part of your master plan. But, in reality, you ARE @cubespherical. Yes, @th3j35t3r and @cubespherical are the same person. Nicely done, Tom. You fooled almost everyone. But, like all good things (“good” meaning something along the lines of “idiotic” in this case), you must come to an end.

So how can we justify this claim? Where is our proof? Simple: You gave us everything.

Red-Flag #1: You have been a pretty regular user of Twitter until very recently, after the above DOX was published.

Red-Flag #2: An entirely new DOX is now being teased, even while the above DOX is as sure-fire as they come. Who would believe that a DOX coming from @cubespherical, an entirely new one at that, would be legitimate?

Red-Flag #3: You sat idle on Twitter while @cubespherical AKA Smedley Manning openly talked shit about you, only responding once things became heated on InfoSecIsland. This will take some psychological investigation, but it is damning nonetheless. Your article here is the most revealing bit of all:

http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/21348-Not-Totally-Sure-What-Just-Happened.html

You started off with the following line, paraphrased: “I thought Smedley was my friend at first [you used the word ‘supporter’] hurr durr, but he then started threatening me hurr durr.” That doesn’t even sound realistic. But it *is* a subtle way to garner sympathy. I applaud you for you effort.

Red-Flag #4: Next up is your subtle jab at Anonymous. You changed @cubespherical’s avatar to a picture of a Guy Fawkes mask and deleted the Bitcoin address in exchange for the “We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.” motto.

In your article, you say “Even if this was a common troll, he just demonstrated that any fool can speak for and ‘as’ Anonymous.”

It is clear that you did this for one reason: to throw spears at Anonymous while appearing to be a victim of cyber-bullying on a much grander scale.

Red-Flag #5: You are subconsciously promoting @cubespherical’s efforts for Bitcoin donations.
While appearing to mock @cubespherical, while still somehow conveying him as a threat, you still manage to forget to *NOT* post his Bitcoin address. Our thoughts: You WANT @cubespherical to make some money off of some Bitcoin donations. You yourself use Bitcoin pretty regularly and accept it for donations on your blog. How do we know you aren’t just promoting @cubspherical’s Bitcoin address so that YOU can profit? Here are your words, directly lifted form your blog post:

“So here’s the throwdown. ‘Smeddles’ drop my dox. Do it. You have proved and shown nothing. Only that you are completely failing. You have no bitcoins donated, you have shown 2 things to me, Anonymous have too many chiefs and not enough indians, and that your numbers, at least 9000 allegedly, combined have  0.00000001 bitcoins between them. Here is what you have so far. lol.

https://blockexplorer.com/address/15JDgkwFVXvuxCt66eUQ434ty3jrvwPfGe

Either that or they were clever enough to realize you were full of it from the get go. As I have demonstrated and stated many times before, I will never ask the public for any money.”

WHY WOULD YOU EVEN NEED TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT YOU DON’T ASK FOR DONATIONS IF THIS ISN’T EVEN YOUR BITCOIN ADDRESS? Simple. Because it actually is.

It is also worth noting that both Smedley Manning and th3j35t3r favor Ubuntu 11.xx releases. They like using GNOME, too:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9LpW_-t2lkU/TpmnnnPHn6I/AAAAAAAABMA/AKBOIZUm4sM/s1600/Opera-Next-Ubuntu-Oneric.png
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/TF59PLnLUJI/AAAAAAAAJNE/IoVU8sTFyUo/s1600/Opera+Mobile+for+Linux+(1440×797)_023.png

To conclude this talk, Tom, we would like to take this privilege to give to you a formal FUCK YOU. You have been DOX’d and your master plan to avoid the inevitable by creating a new nemesis and a new DOX while asking fools to send you money for this bogus DOX has been foiled. You are over. No one cares about the small sites you take down with your shitty XerXes tool and everyone knows you didn’t actually DDoS WikiLeaks, or even have the ability to do so. You are a fame-whoring idiot that has finally been pulled so low, you serve no purpose for ever standing up again. Goodbye.

XOXO,
PiraX <3

@TheRealPiraX
http://pirax.de
Donate Bitcoin: 17gMaYgUsx7dj532s3ezXmfMrVhJ1BfRC1
We would also like to give a shout-out to our home on VoxAnon IRC. Much love to #voxanon _________________________________________________________________________

 

BUT THATS NOT IT – DON’T FORGET THIS LITTLE GEM…

 

Thomas Ryan: The Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD

The Occupy Wall Street protests have been going on for a month. And it seems the FBI and NYPD have had help tracking protesters’ moves thanks to a conservative computer security expert who gained access to one of the group’s internal mailing lists,and then handed over information on the group’s plans to authorities and corporations targeted by protesters.

Since the Occupy Wall Street protest began on September 17, New York security consultant Thomas Ryan has been waging a campaign to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Ryan says he’s done contract work for the U.S. Army and he brags on his blog that he leads “a team called Black Cell, a team of the most-highly trained and capable physical, threat and cyber security professionals in the world.” But over the past few weeks, he and his computer security buddies have been spending time covertly attending Occupy Wall Street meetings, monitoring organizers’ social media accounts, and hanging out with protesters in Lower Manhattan.

Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPDAs part of their intelligence-gathering operation, the group gained access to a listserv used by Occupy Wall Street organizers called September17discuss. On September17discuss, organizers hash out tactics and plan events, conduct post-mortems of media appearances, and trade the latest protest gossip. On Friday, Ryan leaked thousands of September17discuss emails to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is now using them to try to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets.

What may much more alarming to Occupy Wall Street organizers is that while Ryan was monitoring September17discuss, he was forwarding interesting email threads to contacts at the NYPD and FBI, including special agent Jordan T. Loyd, a member of the FBI’s New York-based cyber security team.

 

Oh, and what do real PATRIOT VETERANS think … ?


VETERAN: We didn’t “serve our country”; We serve the interests of Capital

“I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As a veteran let me just be very straightforward and honest with you. We didn’t “serve our country”; we don’t actually serve our brothers/sisters or our neighbors. We serve the interests of Capital. We never risked our lives or spent months on deployment away from our family and friends so they can have this abstract concept called “freedom”. We served big oil; big coal; Coca-Cola; Kellogg, Brown, and Root and all the other big Capital interests who don’t know a fucking thing about sacrifice. These people will never have to deal with the loss of a loved one or the physical and/or psychological scars that those who “serve”, and their families, have to deal with for the rest of their lives. The most patriotic thing someone can do is to tell truth to power and dedicate yourself to building power to overthrow these sociopathic assholes. I served with some of the most real and genuine people I’ve ever met. You’ll never see solidarity like the kind of solidarity you experience when your life depends on the person next to you. But most of us didn’t join for that; we joined because we were fucking poor and didn’t have many other options.”       -Anonymous

 

IN CONCLUSION:  An obvious desperate grab to stay relevant – Does anyone care?

 

ANSWER: jester who?  Now back projects that create positive change in the world, instead of discussing individuals who support & enable the Military Industrial Complex of death, destruction, and global enslavement of Humanity.

 

OH AND FOR THOSE WHO FORGOT, A REMINDER:

cia-owns-al-qaeda

 

An (inadvertent) FBI Guide to Keeping Your #Bitcoin Transactions Below the Radar

An (inadvertent) FBI Guide to Keeping Your #Bitcoin Transactions Below the Radar

May 31, 2012 | Anonymous

>>> FBI BITCOIN REPORT – APRIL 2012 <<<<

The FBI sees the anonymous Bitcoin payment network as an alarming haven for money laundering and other criminal activity — including as a tool for hackers to rip off fellow Bitcoin users.

That’s according to a new FBI internal report that leaked to the internet this week, which expresses concern about the difficulty of tracking the identify of anonymous Bitcoin users, while also unintentionally providing tips for Bitcoin users to remain more anonymous.

The report titled “Bitcoin Virtual Currency: Unique Features Present Distinct Challenges for Deterring Illicit Activity,” (.pdf) was published April 24 and is marked For Official Use Only (not actually classified), but was leaked to the internet on Wednesday.

In the document, the FBI notes that because Bitcoin combines cryptography and a peer-to-peer architecture to avoid a central authority, contrary to how digital currencies such as eGold and WebMoney operated, law enforcement agencies have more difficulty identifying suspicious users and obtaining transaction records.

Though the Bureau expresses confidence that authorities can still snag some suspects who use third-party Bitcoin services that require customers to submit valid identification or banking information in order to convert their bitcoins into real-world currencies, it notes that using offshore services that don’t require valid IDs can thwart tracking by law enforcement.

Bitcoin is an online currency that allows buyers and sellers to exchange money anonymously. To “cash out,” the recipient has to convert the digital cash into U.S. dollars, British pounds or another established currency. Bitcoin is used as a legitimate form of payment by numerous online retailers selling traditional consumer goods, such as clothing and music. But it’s also used by underground sites, such as Silk Road, for the sale of illegal narcotics.

To generate bitcoins, users have to download and install a free Bitcoin software client to their computers. The software generates Bitcoin addresses or accounts — a unique 36-character string of numbers and letters — to receive Bitcoin payments. The currency is stored on the user’s computer in a virtual “wallet.” Users can create as many addresses or accounts that they want.

To send bitcoins, the sender enters the recipient’s address as well as the number of bitcoins she wants to transfer to the address. The sender’s computer digitally signs the transaction and sends the information to the peer-to-peer Bitcoin network, which validates the transaction in a matter of minutes and releases the coins for the receiver to spend or convert.

The conversion value fluctuates with supply and demand  and the trust in the currency. As of last month, there were more than 8.8 million bitcoins in circulation, according to Bitcoin, with a value of about $4 and $5 per bitcoin. The FBI estimates in its report that the Bitcoin economy was worth between $35 million and $44 million.

It’s easy to see the attraction for criminals.

“If Bitcoin stabilizes and grows in popularity, it will become an increasingly useful tool for various illegal activities beyond the cyber realm,” the FBI writes in the report. “For instance, child pornography and Internet gambling are illegal activities already taking place on the Internet which require simple payment transfers. Bitcoin might logically attract money launderers, human traffickers, terrorists, and other criminals who avoid traditional financial systems by using the Internet to conduct global monetary transfers.”

Bitcoin transactions are published online, but the only information that identifies a Bitcoin user is a Bitcoin address, making the transaction anonymous. Or at least somewhat anonymous. As the FBI points out in its report, the anonymity depends on the actions of the user.

Since the IP address of the user is published online with bitcoin transactions, a user who doesn’t use a proxy to anonymize his or her IP address is at risk of being identified by authorities who are able to trace the address to a physical location or specific user.

And a report published by researchers in Ireland last year showed how, by analyzing publicly available Bitcoin information, such as transaction records and user postings of public-private keys, and combining that with less public information that might be available to law enforcement agencies, such as bank account information or shipping addresses, the real identity of users might be ascertained.

But the FBI helpfully lists several ways that Bitcoin users can protect their anonymity.

  • Create and use a new Bitcoin address for each incoming payment.
  • Route all Bitcoin traffic through an anonymizer.
  • Combine the balance of old Bitcoin addresses into a new address to make new payments.
  • Use a specialized money-laundering service.
  • Use a third-party eWallet service to consolidate addresses. Some third-party services offer the option of creating an eWallet that allows users to consolidate many bitcoin address and store and easily access their bitcoins from any device.
  • Individuals can create Bitcoin clients to seamlessly increase anonymity (such as allowing users to choose which Bitcoin addresses to make payments from), making it easier for non-technically savvy users to anonymize their Bitcoin transactions.

But the bigger risk for crooks and others who use bitcoin might not come from law enforcement identifying them, but from hackers who are out to rob their virtual Bitcoin wallets dry.

There have been several cases of hackers using malware to steal the currency in the virtual wallet stored on a user’s machine.

Last year, computer security researchers discovered malware called “Infostealer.Coinbit” that was designed specifically to steal bitcoins from virtual Bitcoin wallets and transfer them to a server in Poland.

One Bitcoin user complained in a Bitcoin forum that 25,000 bitcoins had been stolen from an unencrypted Bitcoin wallet on his computer. Since the exchange rate for bitcoins at the time was about $20 per bitcoin, the value of his loss at the time was about $500,000. A popular web hosting company called Linode was also infiltrated by an attacker looking to pilfer bitcoins.

And there have also been cases of hackers attempting to use “botnets” to generate bitcoins on compromised machines.

According to the FBI, quoting an anonymous “reliable source,” last May someone compromised a cluster of machines at an unidentified Midwestern university in an attempt to manufacture bitcoins. The report doesn’t provide any additional details about the incident.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/fbi-fears-bitcoin/

 

Is Anonymous The Internet’s Most Powerful Mirage?

Is Anonymous The Internet’s Most Powerful Mirage?

May 28, 2012 | Anonymous, Leaks

You may have noticed it last week. Anonymous claimed the scalp of yet another a major government agency.

Supporters of the the online movement of activists and internet trolls said they’d stolen 1.7 GB of data from an agency within the Department of Justice that aggregates crime data. They claimed to have nabbed “lots of shiny things such as internal emails and the entire database dump.” They branded the heist as “Monday Mail Mayhem,” said it could help people “know the corruption in their government.” They posted it on Pirate Bay as a torrent, for anyone to see — and 1.7 GB was just the size of the zipped file.

Not many people bothered to check what was actually in the huge file.

Step in Identity Finder, a software security firm.  Privacy officer Aaron Titus downloaded the payload last week and sifted through it all, checking out the veracity of the claims by Anonymous.

Turned out they were overhyped.

The zipped file contained 6.5 GB of web server files and “does not appear to contain any sensitive personal information, internal documents, or internal emails,” according to Titus. A folder named “Mail” was mostly empty, though it contained two administrative email addresses. There were also no personal details (social security numbers or credit card numbers), and the worst the breach had done was reveal the site’s web server file, which could be leveraged by other hackers for future attacks.

It looked like the breach had done more to grab attention from the media and the Department of Justice than do any real damage.

Surprised? You shouldn’t be. This was another illustration of the power of Anonymous as a continuing online insurgency: not in hacking per se, but its constant ability to grab eyeballs, project power, and give followers a voice and sense of purpose unlike any they’ve experienced before. What’s important for companies and policy makers (the typical targets) to note is that it’s oftentimes more a tease than anything else.

Other examples:

1) Earlier this month Fox News reported that an online group called TheWikiBoat, aligned with Anonymous, planned to bring down the websites of 46 major companies on Friday May 25. TheWikiBoat said in a public statement that it had “no motives other then [sic] doing it for the lulz,” (ie. for shits and giggles). The FBI’s Cyber Division was concerned enough to send an email to the likes of Apple Computer, McDonald’s and ExxonMobile warning them of a potential attack — which didn’t happen.

2) Around this time last year, a single supporter of Anonymous managed to grab global headlines when he tweeted that he had a cache of bank of America emails. What he eventually released was an e-mail exchange between himself and a BofA ex-staffer who made (what admittedly looked like valid) complaints about the bank’s management. But it did nothing to the bank’s stock price, and the news agenda quickly moved on.

3) In December 2010 Anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down the websites of PayPal, MasterCard and Visa after these firms nixed online donations to WikiLeaks. How? Supporters implied it was thanks to thousands of volunteers who had become part of an cyber army by downloading a software tool called LOIC. What really happened: a couple of supporters with botnets temporarily took the sites down — but the notion that Anonymous was an international “army” of hacktivists was left floating around the Internet.

Time and again, online supporters have laid claim to the brand power of Anonymous, invoking its name, imagery such as the Guy Fawkes logo and headless, suited man surrounded by olive leaves, along with the tag line, “We are Anonymous… Expect us.” The result: news outlets and policy makers sit up and listen, more so than they would if those supporters used their real names, or were literally anonymous. The power of Anonymous is propagated by the continued use of a name wrapped in hype and disinformation, more than the occasional real hacks.

The Anonymous “brand” gets street cred from cyber attacks carried out by a minority of hackers who know how to use SQL injection techniques or who know people who control botnets. The additional hype comes from the impassioned, sometimes-threatening rhetoric of less-skilled-but-enthusiastic followers on Twitter or the imageboard 4chan.

Why do these supporters join in? Everyone has their own reasons — something to do, the engaging community of people to talk to, the thrill of being part of a secret crowd. Sources in Anonymous that I have spoken to over the last year often speak to a sense of purpose they get from Anonymous, and sometimes the justification to do the subversive, often-illegal things online that they would not otherwise do. It’s mob mentality with a twist — the activist element of protest, twinned with the culture of trolling and exaggeration that runs through image boards like 4chan.

For law enforcement, who happen to chase anarchists with particular zeal in the United States, there isn’t so much a criminal organization to rope in as the mirage of one. No system with leaders and rules, but a culture and etiquette that is changing all the time. Many of the figureheads who organized the Anonymous attacks against Scientology in 2008 have left the community to focus on college or full-time jobs, many happy to break away from the frenetic pace of operations and the constant paranoia about getting doxxed. Those who’ve been arrested are upheld as martyrs within the network, and there are many more who are joining, and who think they can do a better job of hiding from the police.

Anonymous will continue to exist for some time, taking new followers, changing tactics, and often staying one spontaneously-placed step ahead of the police. They’ll fight for the right to their anonymity, to expose other people’s information, or anything they want, and they’ll come and go from the headlines. But these chaotic actors will stick around, and their greatest power will continue to be not their skills or abilities, but the very name that they can invoke.

For more details on how Anonymous works and the real, human stories behind it, check out my forthcoming book, “We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World Of LulzSec, Anonymous and the Global Cyber Insurgency.”

Or follow me on Twitter: @parmy

SOURCE: http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/05/30/is-anonymous-the-internets-most-powerful-mirage/

The US Government Is Running A Massive Spy Campaign On Occupy Wall Street

The US Government Is Running A Massive Spy Campaign On Occupy Wall Street

May 24, 2012 | News

Remember the Occupy Movement? Since last November, when the NYPD closed the Zuccotti Park encampment in downtown Manhattan –the Movement’s birthplace and symbolic nexus—Occupy’s relevance has seriously dwindled, at least as measured by coverage in the mainstream media. We’re told that this erosion is due to Occupy’s own shortcomings—an inevitable outcome of its disjointed message and decentralized leadership.

While that may be the media’s take, the U.S. Government seems to have a different view.

If recent documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) are any indication, the Occupy Movement continues to be monitored and curtailed in a nationwide, federally-orchestrated campaign, spearheaded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

In response to repeated Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by the Fund, made on behalf of filmmaker Michael Moore and the National Lawyers Guild, the DHS released a revealing set of documents in April.  But the latest batch, made public on May 3rd, exposes the scale of the government’s “attention” to Occupy as never before.

The documents, many of which are partially blacked-out emails, demonstrate a surprising degree of coordination between the DHS’s National Operations Center (NOC) and local authorities in the monitoring of the Occupy movement. Cities implicated in this wide-scale snooping operation include New York, Oakland, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Denver, Boston, Portland, Detroit, El Paso, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, San Diego, and Los Angeles.

Interest in the Occupy protesters was not limited to DHS and local law enforcement authorities.  The most recently released correspondence contains Occupy-related missives between the DHS and agencies at all levels of government, including the Mayor of Portland, regional NOC “fusion centers,” the General Services Administration (GSA), the Pentagon’s USNORTHCOM (Northern Command), and the White House. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director of the PCJF, contends that the variety and reach of the organizations involved point to the existence of a larger, more pervasive domestic surveillance network than previously suspected.

These documents show not only intense government monitoring and coordination in response to the Occupy Movement, but reveal a glimpse into the interior of a vast, tentacled, national intelligence and domestic spying network that the U.S. government operates against its own people. These heavily redacted documents don’t tell the full story. They are likely only a subset of responsive materials and the PCJF continues to fight for a complete release. They scratch the surface of a mass intelligence network including Fusion Centers, saturated with ‘anti-terrorism’ funding, that mobilizes thousands of local and federal officers and agents to investigate and monitor the social justice movement. (justiceonline.org)

As alarmist as Verheyden-Hilliard’s charge may sound, especially given the limited, bowdlerized nature of the source material, the texts made available contain disturbing evidence of insistent federal surveillance. In particular, the role of the “Fusion Centers,” a series of 72 federally-funded information hubs run by the NOC, raises questions about the government’s expansive definition of “Homeland Security.”

Created in the wake of 9/11, the Fusion Centers were founded to expedite the sharing of information among state and local law enforcement and the federal government, to monitor localized terrorist threats, and to sidestep the regulations and legislation preventing the CIA and the military from carrying out domestic surveillance (namely, the CIA ban on domestic spying and the Posse Comitatus Act).

Is nonviolent, albeit obstructive, citizen dissent truly an issue of national security? The DHS, for its part, is aware of the contentiousness of civilian monitoring. That’s why, in a White House-approved statement to CBS News included in the dossier, DHS Press Secretary Matthew Chandler asserts that

Any decisions on how to handle specifics (sic) situations are dealt with by local authorities in that location. . . DHS is not actively coordinating with local law enforcement agencies and/or city governments concerning the evictions of Occupy encampments writ large.

However, as a reading of the documents unmistakably demonstrates, this expedient PR nugget is far from the truth. In example after example, from its seeking of  “public health and safety” grounds from the City of Portland for Occupy’s ejection from Terry Schrunk Plaza, to its facilitation of information sharing between the police departments of Chicago and Boston (following a 1500-person Occupy protest in Chicago), the DHS’s active ”coordinating” with local authorities is readily apparent. Other communiqués are even more explicit in revealing a national focus, such as the DHS’s preemptive coordination with the Pentagon about a port closure in Oakland, and its collection of identity and contact information of Occupy protesters arrested at a Bank of America in Dallas.

Those Pesky Amendments

The right to public assembly is a central component of the First Amendment. The Fourth Amendment is supposed to protect Americans from warrantless searches—with the definition of “search” expanded in 1967 to include electronic surveillance, following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Katz v. United States. Assuming the Occupy protesters refrain from violence—and the vast majority do, in accord with a stated tenet of the Occupy movement—the movement’s existence is constitutionally protected, or should be.

The DHS’s monitoring, documenting, and undermining of protesters may in fact violate the First Amendment. In a recent piece for Dissent Magazine, sociologist James B. Rule explains the fundamental importance of a movement like Occupy in the American political landscape.

This surveillance campaign against Occupy is bad news for American democracy. Occupy represents an authentic, utterly home-grown, grassroots movement. Taken as a whole, it is neither terrorist nor conspiratorial. Indeed, it is hard to think of another movement so cumbersomely public in its deliberations and processes. Occupy is noisy, disorderly, insubordinate, and often inconvenient for all concerned—statements that could equally well apply to democracy in general. But it should never be targeted as a threat to the well-being of the country—quite the contrary.

Accordingly, Rule calls for the White House to rein in the ever-expanding surveillance activity of the DHS—which he contends is motivated by its own funding interests, and which prioritizes security at the expense of civil liberties.

The resource-rich Department of Homeland Security and its allies no doubt see in the rise of the movement another opportunity to justify their own claims for public legitimacy. We can be sure that many in these agencies view any noisy dissent as tantamount to a threat to national security.

[snip]

Nobody who cares about democracy wants to live in a world where simply engaging in vociferous protest qualifies any citizen to have his or her identity and life details archived by state security agencies. Specific, overt threats of civil disobedience or other law-breaking should be dealt with on a piecemeal basis—not by attempting to monitor everyone who might be moved to such actions, all the time. Meanwhile, the White House should issue clear directives that identification and tracking of lawful protesters will play no further role in any government response to this populist moment.

Optimistic as it may be, Rule’s appeal to the White House is a problematic one, given the ubiquitous influence of the DHS revealed by these documents. If the White House-approved press release is any indication, the Oval Office, while not directly authorizing the DHS’s initiatives, is certainly turning a blind eye to the Department’s focus on the Occupy movement as a potential terrorist threat. Federal surveillance of citizens in the Bush years, most visible in NSA warrantless wiretapping controversy, has apparently not ceased with Obama’s inauguration.

Which raises the question: Does Obama, as he claims, “stand with the 99 percent,” or with those who cannot stand them?

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FBI Escalates War On Anonymous

FBI Escalates War On Anonymous

May 23, 2012 | Anonymous

The Feds raid the home of unofficial Anonymous spokesperson Barrett Brown.

They’re after his Twitter records, chat logs, IRC conversations, his computer, and apparently everything else, according to the search warrant obtained by BuzzFeed.

Last month, the FBI raided the Dallas home of Barrett Brown, the journalist and unofficial spokesperson for the Internet hacktivist group Anonymous.

According to the search warrant, the agents were after any information from Brown involving a “conspiracy to access without authorization computers,” one of three serious charges listed in the document.

The Feds seized Brown’s computer and cellphone, searched his parent’s home as well, and demanded his Twitter records, chat logs, IRC conversations, Pastebin info, all his Internet browsing activity, and almost any form of electronic communications Brown conducted.

The warrant, exclusively obtained by BuzzFeed, suggests the government is primarily after information related to Anonymous and the hacking group Lulzec.

The authorities also appear to be interested in info on two private intelligence contracting firms, HBGary and EndGame Systems, two companies Brown has frequently clashed with and criticized on a website he founded called Echelon2.

Brown, a 30 year old journalist who has written for Vanity Fair and the Guardian, is perhaps the most high profile target thus far in the FBI’s investigation into a series of hacks that have shaken the corporate and defense establishment.

Brown, currently at work on a book about Anonymous, believes he’s being wrongly investigated. “I haven’t been charged with anything at this point, although there’s a sealed affidavit to which neither I nor my attorney have access,” he emailed BuzzFeed. “I suspect that the FBI is working off of incorrect information.”

His full statement can be read here.

 

posted 

Michael Hastings | BuzzFeed Staff

Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/exclusive-fbi-escalates-war-on-anonymous

How to secure your computer and surf fully Anonymous BLACK-HAT STYLE

How to secure your computer and surf fully Anonymous BLACK-HAT STYLE

May 21, 2012 | Anonymous

This is a guide with which even a total noob can get high class security for his system and complete anonymity online. But its not only for noobs, it contains a lot of tips most people will find pretty helpfull. It is explained so detailed even the biggest noobs can do it^^ :

=== The Ultimate Guide for Anonymous and Secure Internet Usage v1.0.1 ===

Table of Contents:

  1.   Obtaining Tor Browser
  2.   Using and Testing Tor Browser for the first time
  3.   Securing Your Hard Drive
  4.   Setting up TrueCrypt, Encrypted Hidden Volumes
  5.   Testing TrueCrypt Volumes
  6.   Securing your Hard Disk
  7.   Temporarily Securing Your Disk, Shredding Free Space
  8.   Installing VirtualBox
  9.   Installing a Firewall
  10.   Firewall Configuration
  11.   Installing Ubuntu
  12.   Ubuntu Initial Setup
  13.   Installing Guest Additions
  14.   Installing IRC (Optional)
  15.   Installing Torchat (Optional)
  16.   Creating TOR-Only Internet Environment
  17.   General Daily Usage

By the time you are finished reading and implementing this guide, you will be able to securely and anonymously browse any website and to do so anonymously. No one not even your ISP or a government agent will be able to see what you are doing online. If privacy and anonymity is important to you, then you owe it to yourself to follow the instructions that are presented here.

In order to prepare this guide for you, I have used a computer that is running Windows Vista. This guide will work equally well for other versions of Windows. If you use a different operating system, you may need to have someone fluent in that operating system guide you through this process. However, most parts of the process are easily duplicated in other operating systems.

I have written this guide to be as newbie friendly as possible. Every step is fully detailed and explained. I have tried to keep instructions explicit as possible. This way, so long as you patiently follow each step, you will be just fine.

In this guide from time to time you will be instructed to go to certain URLs to download files. You do NOT need TOR to get these files, and using TOR (while possible) will make these downloads very slow.

This guide may appear overwhelming. Every single step is explained thoroughly and it is just a matter of following along until you are done. Once you are finished, you will have a very secure setup and it will be well worth the effort. Even though the guide appears huge, this whole process should take at the most a few hours. You can finish it in phases over the course of several days.

It is highly recommended that you close *ALL* applications running on your computer before starting.

SOURCE:
http://www.cyberguerrilla.org/?p=3322

Anonymous: Message to the NEW WORLD ORDER

Anonymous: Message to the NEW WORLD ORDER

May 19, 2012 | Anonymous, Video

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 draconic plans will come to fruitation. The dreams of a thousand men crystallized in one moment; one moment that approaches with every hour that passes. The time is upon us.

(more…)

Anonymous to the Machine: You Will Rust and Die..

Anonymous to the Machine: You Will Rust and Die..

May 18, 2012 | Anonymous, Video

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 oppress and Tyrannize.

HOW TO JOIN ANONYMOUS

HOW TO JOIN ANONYMOUS

May 13, 2012 | Anonymous, Video

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. There is no charter, no manifest, no membership fees. Anonymous has no leaders, no gurus, no ideologists. In fact, it does not even have a fixed ideology.

All we are is people who travel a short distance together – much like commuters who meet in a bus or tram: For a brief period of time we have the same route, share a common goal, purpose or dislike. And on this journey together, we may well change the world.

Nobody can speak for Anonymous. Nobody could say: you are in, or you are out. Do you still want to join Anonymous? Well, you are in if you want to.

How to get in contact with others?
Anonymous has no centralized infrastructure. We use existing facilities of the Internet, especially social networks, and we are ready to hop on to the next one if this one seems compromised, is under attack, or starts to bore us.

At the time of this writing, Facebook, Twitter and the IRC appear to host the most active congregations. But this may change at any time. Still, these are probably the best places to get started. Look for terms like “anonymous”, “anonops” and other keywords that might be connected to our activities.

How do I recognize other Anonymous?
We come from all places of society: We are students, workers, clerks, unemployed; We are young or old, we wear smart clothes or rugs, we are hedonists, ascetics, joy riders or activists. We come from all races, countries and ethnicities. We are many.

We are your neighbours, your co-workers, your hairdressers, your bus drivers and your network administrators. We are the guy on the street with the suitcase and the girl in the bar you are trying to chat up. We are anonymous. Many of us like to wear Guy Fawkes masks on demonstrations. Some of us even show them in their profile pictures in social networks. That helps to recognize each other.

Have you been infiltrated?
If you talk to another Anonymous, you will never know who he is. He may be a hacker, cracker, phisher, agent, spy, provocateur – or just the guy from next door. Or his daughter. It is not illegal to be Anonymous. Nor is it illegal to wear Guy Fawkes masks. Keep that in mind. If you personally have not been involved in illegal activities, you have nothing to worry, no matter whom you talk to; If you have, it is wise not to talk about it. To no one.

How do I protect my privacy?
Invent an alias, a nick, a pseudonym … call it as you will, just invent something. Then register a mail account in that name with one of the big mail providers. Use this email address to register your Twitter, Facebook, etc. accounts. Make sure to clear all cookies before you start using your new identity, or better use a different web browser for Anonymous than for your other activities.

If you have higher needs for security, ask us about encryption, steganography, TOR, etc. Many of us know how to use them.We will always respect your need for privacy. We will never ask for your personal information. If we do, we will not expect a truthful answer; And neither should you.

What is the right thing to do?
The only person who can tell you what is right for you is yourself. This is also the only person you should follow. We have no leaders. You are also the only person responsible for your actions. Do what you think is right. Do not what you think is wrong.

How many Anonymous are there?

We are more than you think. We are more than anybody thinks. We are many.

And you are now one of us. Welcome to Anonymous.

Opinion: Why we need Anonymous 2.0

Opinion: Why we need Anonymous 2.0

May 5, 2012 | Anonymous

by Lisa Vaas on April 24, 2012

A few thoughts on the “hacktivist” group Anonymous that came out of Josh Corman and Brian “Jericho” Martin’s keynote at theSOURCE security conference in Boston last week:

  1. Hacktivist is a sloppy term. A small percentage of those who claim affiliation with the ideology, or movement, or brand, or whatever we wind up calling it, are hackers or activists (5 to 10 percent are skilled hackers or activists, while the lowest common denominators “don’t do much” and are “glorified cheerleaders, at best”, they said).
  2. We need a better, more efficient Anonymous.

Before we explore their rationale for Anonymous 2.0, it’s worthwhile to know why Corman – director of Security Intelligence for Akamai – and Jericho – a “hacker turned security mouthpiece” – care, and why they think we all should.

Here’s how Jericho explained it:

"Most problems on the Internet don't affect us. With Anonymous—and we're using Anonymous as an example for this presentation, but it could be anybody: Anonymous or a splinter group [such as LulzSec] or the next [group] that comes along—almost everyone is involved. Vigilantes, 'good guys,' analysts ... with civilians stuck in the middle. Those whose information is doxed, those people are getting affected more than anyone. If you're affected, you're involved. … Look at [Anonymous's] influence. From analysts, to law enforcement, to former members, to the media, to organized crime, to foreign nation states. "

Nobody in technology, nor in business, for that matter, can get away from fighting Anonymous or other similar groups, whether the fight transpires in media or anywhere else, he said.

So that’s why they care, and why we must. Beyond our own, personal involvement, a broader concern is that much of what we lay at the Anonymous doorstep may be branded as such merely as a smokescreen.

As Corman noted, this amorphous thing we call “Anonymous” has become the perfect scape goat. Anonymous members continually drop in and out of affiliation with, or actions taken on behalf of, the group.

Any attack can be labelled with the Anonymous brand, regardless of whether it was sincerely done under activist principles or is simply branded that way to cover the tracks of, say, a nation state (sound familiar? “Suspicious attack. Must be China!”).

For all the mayhem they’ve caused, much of what “Anonymous” has “done” (I use quotes because there’s often [usually?] no way to determine actual perpetrators) is to simply exploit low-hanging fruit, Jericho said, thus erecting worthwhile signposts to cyber security flaws.

As Corman put it:

"Anonymous has held up a mirror to our defects. [They've done] nothing really hard. They've just showed us how insecure we are [with regards to] basic Internet hygiene. If they turned up the heat, it would be even worse."

In a nutshell, if we can’t deal with the worst the Anonymous-affiliated have to offer, “we’re f*cked,” Jericho said. If that word offends you, “you have to get out of the industry,” because sooner or later, in one fashion or another, you’ll likely have to deal with Anonymous.

Which leads to why we we should wish for, or even need, a better, more efficient Anonymous.

As it is, Jericho said, Anonymous are “a crude, blunt weapon”. Why not a better Anonymous? One that’s more efficient and that gets stuff done with less collateral damage? One that doesn’t dox the personal information of innocent people and put them and their families at risk?

The pair have concocted a three-step plan for Anonymous 2.0. It’s fully laid out in part 5 of their “Building a Better Anonymous” series.

The steps for creating what they call a “a straw man of ‘organized chaos'”:

 

  • Statement of belief, values, objectives, and first principles – i.e. WHY you have come together
  • Code of conduct and operational parameters – i.e. HOW you conduct your pursuit of your common goals
  • A plan for streamlining success, increasing potency, and mitigating risks – i.e. WHAT will make you more successful

 

Would such codification cause the group to splinter? Hopefully. The group needs to specialize, Corman and Jericho said. An Anonymous splinter devoted to free-speech issues would be a boon if it could devote itself to the task at hand, for example.

Does Anonymous agree with the proposals? Anonymous has no unified voice, the keynoters said, so it’s a moot question — it is, after all, a composite, rather than a singular, monolithic group, and there are any number of levels of allegiance and reasons for participating.

But some regular actors in the movement have agreed with the tenets – one plus of a codified Anonymous is the ability to disavow a given action that goes against the stated objectives of the group.

Jericho pointed to the recently announced MalSec (Malicious Security) group as an example of how new splinter groups might codify their beliefs. From their YouTube video:

"For many years we have watched as more unconstitutional laws are proposed and passed and as censorship, disinformation, and corruption have become the norm."

"In an attempt to bring these acts to a halt, we are targeting the very people that have attempted to do us harm. We do, however, fervently believe in free speech. Everyone should be able to express themselves freely, even if others disapprove. As such, we have decided never to remove the original data, when a website of an enemy is defaced."

That’s a start. That’s a statement of a belief – free speech – and a practice – refraining from removing original data. Thus the group can disavow fraudulently labelled MalSec actions.

Now, regarding the term hacktivist: I’ve used it. Lots of journalists have used it. I’m not going to use it anymore.

When Corman and Jericho polled the audience to ask how many thought that the law was winning in its fight against Anonymous, only one hand went up.

That only shows that Anonymous has won the media, Jericho said, whereas the law has failed to engage our attention.

The keynoters’ research has shown that some 184 Anonymous actors have been arrested and charged in 14 countries. Only one in three Anonymous-branded actions make the news, one in five make the news on tech sites, and only one in 30 make the mainstream news.

These are guestimates. The point is, law enforcement is making busts. They need to rattle their sabers more, and we journalists need to pay attention.

We also need a better term than hacktivist, which embodies the romantic type of Robin Hood image that Hollywood, journalists and the public adore.

“The Anonymous affiliated” is kludgy. But perhaps we won’t be able to come up with a better term until Anonymous itself draws its boundaries, making it possible for a given action to be rightfully branded or justifiably disavowed.

If you can think of a better term to use in the meantime, please share it in the comments section.

And kudos to Corman and Jericho for opening up such a thoughtful discussion about a topic that’s too easily simplified and romanticized.

Source: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/04/24/opinion-why-we-need-anonymous-2-0/

A Message from House of Anonymous

A Message from House of Anonymous

Apr 27, 2012 | Anonymous

We are Anonymous, and we do not forgive. Forgiveness requires humility, humility requires dignity. We have neither.

We are void of human restraints, such as self respect and common sense.

All those who break this pact will be eliminated without hesitation. And by elimination we will put their name on an icky photo and shit in each others’ mouths.

Those who perform reckless actions or wish to harm the Anonymous will be eliminated without hesitation. Again, elimination is our word for doing very little about it.

Failure is the basis of our existence.

Enemies of the Anonymous include anyone who can point out how many times we contradict ourselves in a single sentence.

Our enemies are to be flaccidly made fun of, using the same tired photoshopped stuff stolen from someone else.

Anonymous must “work” as one. No Anonymous knows anything.

Betrayal of Anonymous is both ironic and appropriate.

Manipulation of the weak and innocent is something that the truly weak believe indicates power, as such we do it alot. Not well but, often. Once a victim is no longer commodious, they are to be eliminated. Also, the cow was slaughtered in the abattoir.

REPRODUCE. REPRODUCE. REPRODUCE. Like cockroaches and Catholics we need to make sure our stupidity is at least backed by numbers. Quantity over quality. Loud = Funny.

No man-made or natural occurance can harm the Anonymous. Except when Mom and Dad ground us from the computer. That’s pouting time.

Under no circumstances are Anonymous human. We are beneath humans and mortality.

Anonymous are not to partake in meaningless tasks….pffft Ahhh dude I’m totally shitting ya, that’s all we do.

You are legion, for we are many. That makes it easier to defend ourselves when smart people tell us to stop acting like idiots.

Anonymous is everywhere at all times, we like to loiter. we really have nothing better to do than hang out. Yet, singular Anonymous are not permitted to know everything. Which is good, because we know very little.

All have the potential to be Anonymous until they choose to drop a bag of fertilizer on their nutsack and grow a pair. Those who are not Anonymous are to be eliminated….or photoshopped into a nasty photo which ever one requires less standing and walking. Or hack a paypal account and charge PS3’s, send massive amounts of cowardly and empty death threats or, whatever weak ass “criminal” act we think will make us appear powerful.

Anonymous has no weakness or flaw. Well, except maybe getting laid. That ain’t happening. And a whole bunch of others. But besides crippling personality flaws, body odor, lack of humor, not getting laid and relying on shock value and memes to speak for us…we have only a few more flaws and weaknesses.

Laws of Nature and Man cannot restrain the Anonymous. However, an IP ban, power outage or, a light punch to the solar plexus can drop us like a bag of bad habits.

Anonymous is Zero. Feuding and argument amongst the Anonymous is both constant and unavoidable.

Anonymous is in control at all times. We just choose to waste all of it.

Anonymous has no identity. Those who are not Anonymous yet know our presence must be eliminated. Again and, I can not stress this enough people, “eliminate” means sitting on our asses all day pretending to jerk off to Goatse, while our mothers yell at us to get jobs.

Anonymous cannot be contained by mere restraints. We are far too fat to fit any normal conveyance, handcuffs or standard size airline seats.

Anonymous are all equally stupid. No one is more retarded then Anonymous.

Anonymous must obey the Code. Those who do not are to be raped with our mighty e-peens, until supper time and homework, then an hour of Gameboy before bedtime.

Anonymous worships nothing because anonymous is nothing.

Anonymous cares for nothing, but Anonymous. Our existence is vapid, myopic and limited.

Humanity is the virus; Anonymous is the open wound that invites it in.

We are Anonymous, and we do not realize how little we matter.
SOURCE:
http://anoncentral.tumblr.com/post/19748241813/a-message-from-house-of-anonymous