You have probably heard a great deal about the attacks on corporations who follow the orders, we must follow orders, of your government in relation to Wikileaks. Now, a group of hackers calling themselves “Anonymous” have started to assert themselves. What has happened so far, and is finally getting covered a bit, is that it is not nice to fool with mother internet, especially its messiah, Julian Assange.
Now, he has experienced many death threats. The companies such as Mastercard and Visa as well as Paypal that have followed orders, orders that must be obeyed, to screw Wikileaks have experienced retaliation, but here is the point: So far it is just a shot across the bow. All they did is distribute a “bot,” a program, that would keep logging onto a site over and over again until it got overloaded. A simple attack no more sophisticated than those of the last century. Just to let people know, they did release the numbers of several Mastercard accounts. Nothing destructive — I think they were all expired — or they better be PDQ!
This should also let corporations know what might happen if they go up against net-neutrality, an entirely different matter.
Well, let’s get a general idea of what is going on. Those of you who know all this stuff can skip it. 1 gigabyte is 1000000000bytes. Now, to get an idea, when that spaceship sent back the photos in the early 80s from
Saturn or Jupiter, the size of the computer’s memory was 16,000 bytes. Today, you can carry that 1.48 Gigabyte file
that Assange has ready to be released on a keychain. However, it is much larger than several Dicken’s novels. (Just to
round off, let’s say about 10 of his novels.
The file is Encrypted, locked, needs a password that will be sent out if anything happens to Assange. The encyption
was approved by the NSA, a government agency, which many people think has a back door in it. A back door
is another entrance that nobody knows about. If it uses it, it confirms those people’s suspicions. An ISO is a kind of
solid file type — kinda a fancy jpg or something like that.
Now, one of the most fun things they did is to mess with Sarah who expressed a hope for all sorts of unpleasant
things to happen to Assange. They did not stop any expression of speech, just her fund-raising.
Therefore: It appears that our authorities have put themselves into what psychologists might call a “double-bind”, or catch-22.
In short, the “Nuclear Option” is a NSA approved AES encrypted ISO file of 1.4 gigabytes.
Noah said “Right!”
Keep in mind that what is going on right now is simply a shot against the bow, and a mere indication of what COULD happen if the don’t let up on Assange.
“Yeah, but…?”
OK, I’m not very hip to it either.
This was quoted in the New York Times:
Mr. Fink explained:
After discussions with our lawyers, we have decided that we can not honor such requests based on the pure simple fact of untrue and unverified accusations.
Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak freely without censorship and/or limitation. The right to freedom of speech is recognized as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized in international human rights law. Furthermore freedom of speech is recognized in European, inter-American and African regional human rights law.
It is simply ridiculous to even think WikiLeaks has done anything criminal. If WikiLeaks is criminal, then CNN, and BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and many others would have to be considered criminals too as they publish the same information. Nobody even tries to touch them though. You can still buy a New York Times subscription and pay with your credit card I guess.
One of the best things here is the link to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Check it out.
Then, there is this which is just a capture of about 35 seconds on Twitter. I can’t check it all out. I can’t imagine those who can follow hours of this stuff. One problem, of course, is that Twitter took down one account. You can see that below. It was replaced with another almost immediately, but Twitter had better behave. BTW: Somewhere in there I noticed that Wikileaks said something about payforward, doing random acts of kindness. I don’t know if this was actually Wikileaks or someone “spoofing” (counterfeiting) their account.
Siguiendo paso a paso los ataques (ayer a Visa y Master) hoy comenzando con Amazon. Es ideal para poder RATM como banda sonora . #Payback 2 minutes ago via TweetDeck
I have NOT checked all of this out, nor do I intend to, but I thought it should be available to those who are not that hip to the internet and social networks. People who have their own lives, in other words.
Lost in all of this, of course, is what we have been doing on Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world. All of it done in our name — your name.
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junicks whe have nothing to lose – they could lose everything! keep fighting! #anonops #payback #wikileaks #theguydinghand less than 20 seconds ago via web
arthur_read8 You launch my model airplane out a second-story window, I punch you #payback about 11 hours ago via Echofon
arkinet 31,000 + counting RT @AnonoJ: be rdy to fire in 10mins #amazon wil pay, #ddos #wikileaks #fire #payback #news 3 minutes ago via TweetDeck
AnonoJ sharpen your arrows, get ready to fire at amazon 30min til impact. #ddos #anon #freedom #payback 22 minutes ago via Mobile Web
IAMROGUE Bradley Cooper has backed a drug to help relationships last! http://bit.ly/dOy00C Are you serious? #whyrelationshipsdontlast #NZT about 10 hours ago via web
israelyance #payback fire fire fire!!! less than 20 seconds ago via TweetDeck
ivomacsilva Freedom of Speech – priceless. For everything else, there’s MasterCard. #wikileaks #payback less than 20 seconds ago via twidroid
Paty_Rod Y ahora, a atacar a Amazon.com! http://microuri.com/pvb Vamos, saquen la artillería pesada! #Payback less than 20 seconds ago via web
ethibaud #Amazon were not happy to host the cables but they’re happy to sell them, http://is.gd/irf69. Disgusting. #WikiLeaks #cablegate #PayBack half a minute ago via web
skorpio73 Sarah Palin calls Assange “un-American”. He’s Australian, Sarah. #payback #wikileaks #cablegate #reallythickcomments about 14 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
Op_Payback TARGET: WWW.AMAZON.COM !!! INSTRUCTIONS: http://pastehtml.com/view/1c8i33u.html You LOIC will start in 2 hours. #wikileaks #payback #ddos about 2 hours ago via Chromed Bird
MalevoFreedom The War On Christmas Has Started: http://malevolentfreedom.org/WarOnChristmas Pick A Side. #iamthemob #teaparty #ifihadsuperpowers #payback less than a minute ago via web
mbrugard “Hacktivists are the same people who share child porn” http://bit.ly/grmxNu #payback “assange #wikileaks 1 minute ago via TweetDeck
nihillo actualización: los anuncios de ataque a amazon eran fakes. de momento no van a atacarlo. siguen con paypal. #payback #infowar #imwikileaks 1 minute ago via HootSuite
RedHelix It appears Comcast’s Boston DNS servers are preventing lookups to irc.anonops.net. #ddos #Payback #Wikileaks http://twitpic.com/3ed95w 5 minutes ago via web
fgarrobo RT @dokieh: Cuidado Amazon, que te avían #payback 1 minute ago via TweetDeck
jairamnios Te cae que han tumbado Paypal? Y que el siguiente blanco es foxnews ? #freeAssange #payback 2 minutes ago via ÜberTwitter
V1d3c Anons accidentally the whole internet! XD #payback #ddos 2 minutes ago via web
jfoncea Siguiendo paso a paso los ataques (ayer a Visa y Master) hoy comenzando con Amazon. Es ideal para poder RATM como banda sonora . #Payback 2 minutes ago via TweetDeck
anonops The account @Anon_Operation is still closed. That is not Free Speech #Twitter! People must know this! #anonops #payback #Wikileaks about 14 hours ago via web
8VW @suffert hahaha! “Just blame you have a virus, or simply deny any knowledge of it” #Payback 2 minutes ago via Seesmic Web in reply to suffert
RedHelix It appears Comcast’s Boston DNS servers are preventing lookups to irc.anonops.net. #ddos #Payback #Wikileaks http://twitpic.com/3ed95w 5 minutes ago via web
onweedmx rt @anonops: A Letter from Anonymous >> http://goo.gl/cyUMH #payitforward #anonops #payback #Wikileaks 2 minutes ago via web
OperationPaybac Retweet Operation Payback Is Back!! http://twitter.com/#!/OperationPaybac #payback #wikileaks #cablegate #DDOS 20 minutes ago via web
AnonyWatcher Calling Anonymous “hackers” is like calling dishwashers “restaurant utensil sanitation engineers”. Silly media. #payback #wikileaks #DDoS about 11 hours ago via web
WikiLeaksEurope “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” – Abraham Lincoln #PayBack #WikiLeaks #Assange @anonops #Censorship about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck
BlahBlahMonster #payback for everything you said we could be but you decided someone else was better #blah about 11 hours ago via web
C0d3Fr0sty Gather your weapons Operation Payback TARGET: WWW.AMAZON.COM INSTRUCTIONS: http://bit.ly/dM6V2o #wikileaks #payback #ddos #Amazon 8 minutes ago via TweetDeck
infosocke #Zitat der Woche: „Wo Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht“ Bertolt Brecht #wikileaks #assange #usa #payback 35 minutes ago via web
dokieh Cuidado Amazon, que te avían #payback 3 minutes ago via web
J3ll3nl Freedom of Speech – priceless. For everything else, there’s MasterCard. #wikileaks #payback 3 minutes ago via web from Noordereiland, Rotterdam
Egeli Rebellen i meg har lyst til å #ddos ‘e litt med resten av gjengen!
#wikileaks #payback 3 minutes ago via Twitterrific for Mac
raimondiand RT @AnonoJ: be rdy to fire in 10mins #amazon wil pay, #ddos #wikileaks #fire #payback #news 3 minutes ago via Tweetie for Mac
Mensvictrix Hasta la CNN esta anunciando el ataque a Amazon en unos minutos http://bit.ly/gNfTG9 #payback #wikileaks 5 minutes ago via DestroyTwitter
nerve_breakers Continuing pro-Wikileaks DDOS actions, Anonymous takes down PayPal.com – Boing Boing http://t.co/fcDavk4 #wikileaks #payback about 12 hours ago via Tweet Button
