Cyberattack Against WikiLeaks Was Weak

[BGModder]

O noez! Where will I get my old information from now?!

[Moonshield]

This sort of thing is literally the only good thing to come out of 4chan. Taking down Mastercard online transaction sites though, that's big even for them.

Sure, plus strengthening the argument against net neutrality. You realize that, right?

[Theodoro]

I see this website as counterproductive in any case. They are supposedly wanting freedom of information and transparency when, ironically, their activities will simply cause people/countries to keep their cards closer to their chests, think twice before speaking and vastly tighten up security.

[Robinski]

 

This sort of thing is literally the only good thing to come out of 4chan. Taking down Mastercard online transaction sites though, that's big even for them.

Sure, plus strengthening the argument against net neutrality. You realize that, right?

Yeah I realise that stuff like this (that is, pissing off and embarrassing governments and massive multinationals) will likely lead to an attempted clamp down on the internet and a lot of regulation being enforced, in certain countries at least. That said, I wouldn't advise a well off family in a country like North Korea not to be part of a revolution just because they have something to lose.

 

The Uk media outlets are taking last night's antics pretty seriously. Pretty much all the newspaper have it as a lead story, even including tabloids like the Daily Mail. Anonymous even got an interviewee on the Today Programme (Alternative link for outside UK). For once the media doesn't seem to be running with the "OMG EVIL HACKERS!" line.

 

Edit: Heh, it seems "ColdBlood", as he calls himself, is basically being the media front for Anonymous in the UK. He's getting quoted in numerous articles both by the BBC and other outlets. Looks like he's setting himself up to be prosecuted as a ringleader later on.

 

2nd Edit: Somebody in Anon Ops cooked this up. Quite how much it reflects the actual feelings of people in the group is up for argument.

Anon Ops Manifesto

Edited December 9, 2010 by Robinski

[[SM]CJZera]

This just keeps getting better and better, actually makes me wish I were part of anon in the first place... never though I'd say that... It is also true the internet is the only place anon can actually win a war

 

I do wonder how much of this information will reach my country's news

 

 

 

I also just noticed how everybody forgot about Korea's situation That attention whore must be so angry right now

Edited December 9, 2010 by [SM]CJZera

[860]

So guess who just got trolled big time? Sarah Palin.

 

 

10.40pm: Sarah Palin claims her website and credit card details have been attacked by Operation Payback, according to an email she sent to ABC News's Jake Tapper:

 

    The website and personal credit card information of former Gov. Sarah Palin were cyber-attacked today by Wikileaks supporters, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate tells ABC News in an email.

 

    Hackers in London apparently affiliated with "Operation Payback" – a group of supporters of Julian Assange and Wikileaks – have tried to shut down SarahPac and have disrupted Sarah and Todd Palin's personal credit card accounts.

 

    "No wonder others are keeping silent about Assange's antics," Palin emailed. "This is what happens when you exercise the First Amendment and speak against his sick, un-American espionage efforts."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/d...es-live-updates

So everyone's cards get jammed, which means her and her husband's card got jammed too, and then she thinks that she was a spesific target.

 

This is what happens when you exercise the First Amendment and speak against his sick, un-American espionage efforts.

Oh man the irony.. and some extra points for the word un-American.

 

And to those wondering why they would attack her site, she actually suggested that the U.S. should assassinate Assange.

Edited December 9, 2010 by 860

[[SM]CJZera]

Am I the only finding all this fuss amusing? I seriously will be rofling for a week now...

 

btw, I'll be damned but, is there any way we, the average internet dweller, can help the good fight?

[Creed Bratton]

Someone should really shoot that whore Palin in the face with a 12 gauge for being so stupid. It's no wonder she has a retarded kid, just look at her.

[[SM]CJZera]

Actually, you didn't look too well, taking into account her mother, the kid is actually gifted

 

Honestly, if she gets shot I wouldn't make a fuss over it... seriously...

[Typhus]

Wow, 'Un-American'. I thought that word died with Joe McCarthy.

For a start, of course he's Un-American. He's a BLOODY AUSTRALIAN!

And even if he was an American, questioning authority is a very patriotic thing to do, given that nations history. Sic Semper Tyrannis and all that.

[Tyler]

Indeed Typhus. Our number two policy is that we are ready to reboot our country if the government f*cks up. Apparently that got lost in translation, and turned into 'let us own five assault rifles in Texas' law, sadly enough. I just don't think people nowadays in America are good enough to start a revolution. Many of us are just too content to actually rebel against the government and overthrow the powers that be.

 

I blame the Greatest Generation.

[Waddy]

Its just coming out that the guy behind the attacks yesterday on Mastercard is a 16 year old Dutch boy. Crazy sh*t.

[Robinski]

First real-world protests over the arrest of Julian Assange held in his home country.

 

No, I am Spartacus Julian Assange.

 

 

Its just coming out that the guy behind the attacks yesterday on Mastercard is a 16 year old Dutch boy. Crazy sh*t.

Wow, wonder what the ramifications will be, considering he's so young.

[Tyler]

 

As well as releasing the attack tool, the Anonymous group has also been active in helping to create mirror sites. To date there are over one thousand sites offering exact copies of the content on Wikileaks.

 

Reading an article today on this 'Coldblood' guy trying to DDoS Amazon and failing. The sit had been selling 'kindle' versions of the Wikileaks documents (Kindle is an E-book for you folks living under a rock). Crazy sh*t going on here. Apparently Anonymous also published a manifesto concerning their role in the midst of things.

 

[Theodoro]

The Uk media outlets are taking last night's antics pretty seriously. Pretty much all the newspaper have it as a lead story, even including tabloids like the Daily Mail. Anonymous even got an interviewee on the Today Programme (Alternative link for outside UK). For once the media doesn't seem to be running with the "OMG EVIL HACKERS!" line.

 

Edit: Heh, it seems "ColdBlood", as he calls himself, is basically being the media front for Anonymous in the UK. He's getting quoted in numerous articles both by the BBC and other outlets. Looks like he's setting himself up to be prosecuted as a ringleader later on.

 

2nd Edit: Somebody in Anon Ops cooked this up. Quite how much it reflects the actual feelings of people in the group is up for argument.

Anon Ops Manifesto

The Germans aren't.

[860]

Reading an article today on this 'Coldblood' guy trying to DDoS Amazon and failing.

That emo isn't the one in charge of the voluntary LOIC botnet. He's just an attention whore who thinks Anonymous is somekind of necceccary evil, super secret tree house club. He said in an interview that "Anonymous wants to be the force for Chaotic Good". He propably jerks off while wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.

[Finn 7 five 11]

 

Yeah I realise that stuff like this (that is, pissing off and embarrassing governments and massive multinationals) will likely lead to an attempted clamp down on the internet and a lot of regulation being enforced, in certain countries at least. That said, I wouldn't advise a well off family in a country like North Korea not to be part of a revolution just because they have something to lose.

 

Stupid governments, there wouldn't be a problem if they didn't do immoral or try to hide immoral acts from the general public, if they actually did the right things there would be no big bad bombshells that get dropped onto the net via wikileaks.

[Moonshield]

It's no wonder she has a retarded kid, just look at her.

I don't think being a terrible person plays any role in chromosome mutations, dude.

 

 

I found this p interesting.

 

BIG PICTURE COMING UP!

 

[[SM]CJZera]

Wait what... What unit is that anyways? I mean, 100(%?) 100 searches per second?

 

 

Protip for war: Use Google's most searched function to locate your enemie's intel offices

[Creed Bratton]

It's no wonder she has a retarded kid, just look at her.

I don't think being a terrible person plays any role in chromosome mutations, dude.

I meant she's almost retarded herself. Nothing smart could possibly come out of her.

[Moonshield]

I knew what you meant, it was just an idiotic thing to say.

 

This actually seems like a more productive operation:

[Robinski]

That's a much more productive, and not to mention legal, method of getting the word out there. It seems that at the moment a lot of the US Media's spin on it is simply vilifying Assange for security-compromising "leaks" which the public will probably interpret as stuff like troop movements, potential terrorist targets and military security. Actually posting the leaks and what is in them will get the public's attention.

 

Stuff like when American companies and the US government respectively sponsor and try to cover up child prostitution. Link to the actual published cable. Link to another news source, a bit more explicit.

 

The fact that this particular cable has been under-reported worldwide is particularly scary. It's f*cking disgusting.

 

On a lighter note, someone in Anonymous/on 4chan had bit of time on their hands:

[Tyler]

Rob, off topic - your sig is supposed to be Lady Gaga blazed out of her mind in a Rastafari spectrum, whilst wearing a Santa, right?

 

 

Anyway, when are the Bank leaks supposed to come out? I'm looking forward to seeing some of the things going on there.

[[SM]CJZera]

@Robinski... Not that much time, just grabbing one of the Soldier vs Demo TF2 posters and pasting Guy Fawkes masks on faces and wikileaks on rockets...

 

Oh well, at least now this will get quite the attention to the media... I hope tabloids make their way to some of the cables... just imagine what would happen if the press would be on the good side...

[Creed Bratton]

Ron Paul rocks. Seriously, I'm starting to like this dude.

 

[[SM]CJZera]

Give that man a medal... seriously, if he doesn't win with that arguments, all the guys are bribed

[860]

Assange released on bail. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11989216

[Robinski]

Assange released on bail. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11989216

Just as he should have been at his initial hearing. The bail conditions he's got are pretty restrictive though:

 

More on the bail conditions.

 

• Surety of £240,000, according to BBC News

• Curfew from 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am

• Assange must report to the police station at 6pm every day

It's pretty restrictive in that it'll be difficult for him to participate in too many media events, though I'm sure journalists will be willing to come to him.

 

He's got a good legal team working with him though, in particularGeoffery Robertson who's worked on a sh*tload of high profile and controversial cases. The dude's a heavyweight in court.

 

It should be noted that the Swedish government still have an hour (ish) to make an appeal against the granting of bail, so he might not be in the clear just yet.

[E.A.B.]

I hate Guy Fawkes

 

I really do

 

edit- and people need to stop referring to 'Anonymous' as some cohesive sort of group. They aren't. 4chan isn't even the main pusher of this sh*t. It never is. It's usually a group of people that probably go to 4chan and have a gripe about something.

 

Some people follow, most don't. Just because you found the image on 4chan doesn't mean that the 'community' agrees or anything. You simply post something, if enough people agree they'll spam. A forum might get set up to discuss, people will do what they're told, then it's over.

 

'4CHAN DID IT'; no, there were just enough people interested to take part, recruited through 4chan.

 

There's no such thing as 'Anonymous' or a 'manifesto'. You can't be part of 'Anonymous' because it doesn't exist. sh*t, I've been on the damn site for well over 4 years. No one agrees on anything. I can understand why news organizations would wonder what it's all about, but only because an image of cohesion is brought about.

 

IT

DOESN'T

EXIST

 

It's just this generation, in its sarcasm, irony, and sardonic attitude pretending to be something grand.

 

saw a comment on youtube saying something like 'lol how do i join epic'. You don't f*cking join. It isn't a group. It's just the image of the userbase as a whole. Other than that, to take part in the 'attacks' you simply...do so. It's like asking 'lol Gamers are cool they can do neat combos in SFIV how do I join?'.

 

edit numero dos-I'm not gonna read the entire topic, but I see the word 'revolution' dropped a lot. LOL; word? REVOLUTION? It's as hopeless as those queers over on Revolution Muslim. Nothing will happen.

 

and last but not least; f*ck you Sarah Palin. It's a globalized world and no one gives a f*ck about being 'un-American'. No one gives a damn about a stretch of land. f*ck Alaska, too.

Edited December 14, 2010 by E.A.B.

[Typhus]

It's a globalized world and no one gives a f*ck about being 'un-American'. No one gives a damn about a stretch of land.

Actually, they do. I'm English. I don't want to be anything else. Certainly not a part of some lifeless, bland wider world.

This globalist bullsh*t has got to stop. It's like we can't even be proud of where we come from. If our nationalism is measured, sane and not veering towards extremism, then who is harmed?

I give a sh*t about my country and I don't like being made to feel like a dinosaur because of it.

 

I understand your anger at Palin-esque super-patriots though. I grant you that they cause a lot of trouble and seem as happy in their ignorance as a pig in sh*t. But please don't confuse all of us who value our heritage with narrow-minded neo-fascists.

 

Oh, did anyone else read Michael Moore's e-mail on this subject?

 

 

Friends,

 

Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.

 

Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars.

 

We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now dead. Just imagine if the men who planned this war crime back in 2002 had had a WikiLeaks to deal with. They might not have been able to pull it off. The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy. That guarantee has now been ripped from them, and I hope they are never able to operate in secret again.

 

So why is WikiLeaks, after performing such an important public service, under such vicious attack? Because they have outed and embarrassed those who have covered up the truth. The assault on them has been over the top:

 

**Sen. Joe Lieberman says WikiLeaks "has violated the Espionage Act."

 

**The New Yorker's George Packer calls Assange "super-secretive, thin-skinned, [and] megalomaniacal."

 

**Sarah Palin claims he's "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands" whom we should pursue "with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders."

 

**Democrat Bob Beckel (Walter Mondale's 1984 campaign manager) said about Assange on Fox: "A dead man can't leak stuff ... there's only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch."

 

**Republican Mary Matalin says "he's a psychopath, a sociopath ... He's a terrorist."

 

**Rep. Peter A. King calls WikiLeaks a "terrorist organization."

 

And indeed they are! They exist to terrorize the liars and warmongers who have brought ruin to our nation and to others. Perhaps the next war won't be so easy because the tables have been turned -- and now it's Big Brother who's being watched ... by us!

 

WikiLeaks deserves our thanks for shining a huge spotlight on all this. But some in the corporate-owned press have dismissed the importance of WikiLeaks ("they've released little that's new!") or have painted them as simple anarchists ("WikiLeaks just releases everything without any editorial control!"). WikiLeaks exists, in part, because the mainstream media has failed to live up to its responsibility. The corporate owners have decimated newsrooms, making it impossible for good journalists to do their job. There's no time or money anymore for investigative journalism. Simply put, investors don't want those stories exposed. They like their secrets kept ... as secrets.

 

I ask you to imagine how much different our world would be if WikiLeaks had existed 10 years ago. Take a look at this photo. That's Mr. Bush about to be handed a "secret" document on August 6th, 2001. Its heading read: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US." And on those pages it said the FBI had discovered "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings." Mr. Bush decided to ignore it and went fishing for the next four weeks.

 

But if that document had been leaked, how would you or I have reacted? What would Congress or the FAA have done? Was there not a greater chance that someone, somewhere would have done something if all of us knew about bin Laden's impending attack using hijacked planes?

 

But back then only a few people had access to that document. Because the secret was kept, a flight school instructor in San Diego who noticed that two Saudi students took no interest in takeoffs or landings, did nothing. Had he read about the bin Laden threat in the paper, might he have called the FBI? (Please read this essay by former FBI Agent Coleen Rowley, Time's 2002 co-Person of the Year, about her belief that had WikiLeaks been around in 2001, 9/11 might have been prevented.)

 

Or what if the public in 2003 had been able to read "secret" memos from Dick Cheney as he pressured the CIA to give him the "facts" he wanted in order to build his false case for war? If a WikiLeaks had revealed at that time that there were, in fact, no weapons of mass destruction, do you think that the war would have been launched -- or rather, wouldn't there have been calls for Cheney's arrest?

 

Openness, transparency -- these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt. What if within days of August 4th, 1964 -- after the Pentagon had made up the lie that our ship was attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin -- there had been a WikiLeaks to tell the American people that the whole thing was made up? I guess 58,000 of our soldiers (and 2 million Vietnamese) might be alive today.

 

Instead, secrets killed them.

 

For those of you who think it's wrong to support Julian Assange because of the sexual assault allegations he's being held for, all I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. Please -- never, ever believe the "official story." And regardless of Assange's guilt or innocence (see the strange nature of the allegations here), this man has the right to have bail posted and to defend himself. I have joined with filmmakers Ken Loach and John Pilger and writer Jemima Khan in putting up the bail money -- and we hope the judge will accept this and grant his release today.

 

Might WikiLeaks cause some unintended harm to diplomatic negotiations and U.S. interests around the world? Perhaps. But that's the price you pay when you and your government take us into a war based on a lie. Your punishment for misbehaving is that someone has to turn on all the lights in the room so that we can see what you're up to. You simply can't be trusted. So every cable, every email you write is now fair game. Sorry, but you brought this upon yourself. No one can hide from the truth now. No one can plot the next Big Lie if they know that they might be exposed.

 

And that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions. And any of you who join me in supporting them are committing a true act of patriotism. Period.

 

I stand today in absentia with Julian Assange in London and I ask the judge to grant him his release. I am willing to guarantee his return to court with the bail money I have wired to said court. I will not allow this injustice to continue unchallenged.