Anonymous Launches Operation Last Resort

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  1. skip

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    In response to the Feds overzealous prosecution of hactivist Aaron Swarz, the hacker group Anonymous has launched "Operation Last Resort". They have taken over the server used by the US Sentencing Commission and stolen the encrypted files. The files have been distributed to mirrors and hold the encryption keys and they are going to release the files if the US Government doesn't respond to their demands for legal reforms.

    Anonymous is accusing the government of "bullying" using outdated laws resulting in Aaron Swarz's suicide (some call it murder).

    Read more here:
    http://www.zdnet.com/anonymous-hacks-us-sentencing-commission-distributes-files-7000010369/
     
  2. TheGhost

    TheGhost Auuhhhhmm ...

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    And apparently they found some dirt in those files. Nice one.
     
  3. skip

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    Here's the full transcript from Anonymous, it's a good read!
    Citizens of the world,
    Anonymous has observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the United States with growing concern. We have marked the departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it was born and enshrined. We have seen the erosion of due process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the “discretion” of prosecutors. We have seen how the law is wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control, authority and power in the interests of oppression or personal gain.
    We have been watching, and waiting.
    Two weeks ago today, a line was crossed. Two weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win — a twisted and distorted perversion of justice — a game where the only winning move was not to play.
    Anonymous immediately convened an emergency council to discuss our response to this tragedy. After much heavy-hearted discussion, the decision was upheld to engage the United States Department of Justice and its associated executive branches in a game of a similar nature, a game in which the only winning move is not to play.
    Last year the Federal Bureau of Investigation revelled in porcine glee at its successful infiltration of certain elements of Anonymous. This infiltration was achieved through the use of the *same tactics which lead to Aaron Swartz’ death. It would not have been possible were it not for the power of federal prosecutors to thoroughly destroy the lives of any hacktivists they apprehend through the very real threat of highly disproportionate sentencing.
    As a result of the FBI’s infiltration and entrapment tactics, several more of our brethren now face similar disproportionate persecution, the balance of their lives hanging on the severely skewed scales of a broken justice system.
    We have felt within our hearts a burning rage in reaction to these events, but we have not allowed ourselves to be drawn into a foolish and premature response. We have bidden our time, operating in the shadows, adapting our tactics and honing our abilities. We have allowed the FBI and its masters in government — both the puppet and the shadow government that controls it — to believe they had struck a crippling blow to our infrastructure, that they had demoralized us, paralyzed us with paranoia and fear. We have held our tongue and waited.
    With Aaron’s death we can wait no longer. The time has come to show the United States Department of Justice and its affiliates the true meaning of infiltration. The time has come to give this system a taste of its own medicine. The time has come for them to feel the helplessness and fear that comes with being forced into a game where the odds are stacked against them.
    This website was chosen due to the symbolic nature of its purpose — the federal sentencing guidelines which enable prosecutors to cheat citizens of their constitutionally-guaranteed right to a fair trial, by a jury of their peers — the federal sentencing guidelines which are in clear violation of the 8th amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishments. This website was also chosen due to the nature of its visitors. It is far from the only government asset we control, and we have exercised such control for quite some time…
    There has been a lot of fuss recently in the technological media regarding such operations as Red October, the widespread use of vulnerable browsers and the availability of zero-day exploits for these browsers and their plugins. None of this comes of course as any surprise to us, but it is perhaps good that those within the information security industry are making the extent of these threats more widely understood.
    Still there is nothing quite as educational as a well-conducted demonstration…
    Through this websites and various others that will remain unnamed, we have been conducting our own infiltration. We did not restrict ourselves like the FBI to one high-profile compromise. We are far more ambitious, and far more capable. Over the last two weeks we have wound down this operation, removed all traces of leakware from the compromised systems, and taken down the injection apparatus used to detect and exploit vulnerable machines.
    We have enough fissile material for multiple warheads. Today we are launching the first of these. Operation Last Resort has begun…
    Warhead – U S – D O J – L E A – 2013 . A E E 256 is primed and armed. It has been quietly distributed to numerous mirrors over the last few days and is available for download from this website now. We encourage all Anonymous to syndicate this file as widely as possible.
    The contents are various and we won’t ruin the speculation by revealing them. Suffice it to say, everyone has secrets, and some things are not meant to be public. At a regular interval commencing today, we will choose one media outlet and supply them with heavily redacted partial contents of the file. Any media outlets wishing to be eligible for this program must include within their reporting a means of secure communications.
    We have not taken this action lightly, nor without consideration of the possible consequences. Should we be forced to reveal the trigger-key to this warhead, we understand that there will be collateral damage. We appreciate that many who work within the justice system believe in those principles that it has lost, corrupted, or abandoned, that they do not bear the full responsibility for the damages caused by their occupation.
    It is our hope that this warhead need never be detonated.
    However, in order for there to be a peaceful resolution to this crisis, certain things need to happen. There must be reform of outdated and poorly-envisioned legislation, written to be so broadly applied as to make a felony crime out of violation of terms of service, creating in effect vast swathes of crimes, and allowing for selective punishment. There must be reform of mandatory minimum sentencing. There must be a return to proportionality of punishment with respect to actual harm caused, and consideration of motive and mens rea. The inalienable right to a presumption of innocence and the recourse to trial and possibility of exoneration must be returned to its sacred status, and not gambled away by pre-trial bargaining in the face of overwhelming sentences, unaffordable justice and disfavourable odds. Laws must be upheld unselectively, and not used as a weapon of government to make examples of those it deems threatening to its power.
    For good reason the statue of lady justice is blindfolded. No more should her innocence be besmirked, her scales tipped, nor her swordhand guided. Furthermore there must be a solemn commitment to freedom of the internet, this last great common space of humanity, and to the common ownership of information to further the common good.
    We make this statement do not expect to be negotiated with; we do not desire to be negotiated with. We understand that due to the actions we take we exclude ourselves from the system within which solutions are found. There are others who serve that purpose, people far more respectable than us, people whose voices emerge from the light, and not the shadows. These voices are already making clear the reforms that have been necessary for some time, and are outright required now.
    It is these people that the justice system, the government, and law enforcement must engage with. Their voices are already ringing strong with a chorus of determined resolution. We demand only that this chorus is not ignored. We demand the government does not make the mistake of hoping that time will dampen its ringing, that they can ride out this wave of determination, that business as usual can continue after a sufficient period of lip-service and back-patting.
    Not this time. This time there will be change, or there will be chaos…
    -Anonymous
     
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    To give you an idea of how fucked up this system is, take the case of Eddy Lepp.
    He was singled out by the Feds due to his rising profile in the Cannabis Movement.

    They offered him a plea deal for growing a big crop of marijuana, and he refused. He wanted to defend himself using medical marijuana laws passed in California, but the Federal court refused to let him even bring it up. He tried to use the religious defense as he had a ministry with hundreds of people many of whom helped with the grow (Eddy took the rap for everyone involved). But again, he could not use the religious defense as had native Americans with peyote.

    Now he rots in jail, serving a 10 year sentence. He harmed nobody and helped many.

    That is how the system works, just as described by Anonymous...
     
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    Anonymous - Good on ya!
     
  6. Carlfloydfan

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    If they are legit, really wish they would go after sallie mae, if they want to do a favor for all the young adults of USA. Totally topple the system and records of that company.
     
  7. Aerianne

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    What do you mean, if they're legit?

    You just did a whole damn thread saying that Anonymous is obviously the FBI, lol
     
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    Even though I feel I certainly can do nothing regarding this, I am very grateful to know this...why, I don't know. I've known all along how terribly wrong and biased the system is. It is said knowledge is power. So, for what my opinion is worth, I'm glad you are getting this information out there.

    It would be good if Anon could help Eddy somehow.
     
  9. Jalesto

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    They should just do it instead of employing blackmail. If the justice department backs down, they lose credibility entirely. They will stand fast until the last brick topples over. This waiting game is either an indication that they are not as prepared as they claim or that their decision matrix can't reach parity or compromise. Sort of like congress. Wouldn't it be interesting to learn that even the radicals among us are having a hard time deciding to pull the trigger? We all know it's a huge house of cards and we're all afraid to see it topple.

    Maybe it is long overdue and they need to just pull the trigger instead of playing coy games with political demons. Many American lives have been ruined by the "justice" department. Many have a big F on their record that renders them into a fixed sub-class forever. America does NOT forgive. Your debt is never paid.
    Jal
     
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    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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    Heston died, NRA's Mandatory Minimum Didn't
    Their campaign for longer sentences...

    C.C.A. Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students in Arizona
    The NRA version of selling more guns, to CCA/Koch Rentacops, in schools, groceries, portajohns? Tax paid. Slave Labor at the NRA's Mandatory Minimum profits, in a Kochroach hotel housing mostly non violent drug offenders. tsk tsk tsk...

    Koch Roaches A.L.E.C. Drug Detention Centers

    Once the religious, the hunted and weary
    Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
    Came to this country to build a new vision
    Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
    Like good Christians, some would burn witches
    Later some got slaves to gather riches... k~

    Slavery: Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA!
    Which western country never fully abolished slavery?

    SLAVERY IS STILL LEGAL in the USA. Contrary to what we may learn in school, the American Civil War did not see the complete abolition of slavery in 1865. The 13th Amendment to their constitution reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime..."

    Great numbers of newly freed blacks were quickly 'convicted' and forced to work without pay in state prisons. For those unfortunates all that happened was that ownership of slaves transferred from private parties to the state. Today, with the advent of private, profit-making prisons and prison factories slavery still exists and is moving back to the private sector.

    Private Prisons and Prison Labor google

    Slave Labor, Prison Privatization, Prison Industry
    ALEC Conservatives push this agenda nationwide!
    Privatize, privatize, privatization of anything owned or controlled by the public or taxpayers is again being applied by Conservatives from coast to coast. Sadly through the manipulations of ALEC and their thousands of legislative and corporate members, this agenda that began way back in the 80's is once again being used to usurp more public assets. These assets include publicly built prisons, work-release centers, medical care facilities, schools and a myriad assortment of other buildings, programs and initiatives that now exists due to public funding.

    The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?
    Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance.

    Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations
    Great numbers of newly freed blacks were quickly 'convicted' and forced to work without pay in state prisons. For those unfortunates all that happened was that ownership of slaves transferred from private parties to the state. Today, with the advent of private, profit-making prisons and prison factories slavery still exists and is moving back to the private sector.

    Prejedice Marujuana and the Jim Crow Laws
    Bigotry and Aparteid
    Self Perpetuating Lies
    A Roundup of Hearsts Hysterical Headlines

    UNICOR operates 90 prison factories and is rapidly expanding. San Quentin inmates enter computer data for the Bank of America. Prisoners in New Mexico take hotel reservations by phone. Hawaiian convicts pack golf balls and at Folsom they manufacture stainless steel vats for beer brewers. The list goes on and on.

    Thank you Miss Rosa
    The Racist Ganjawar
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and MMJ Prohibition

    "One may well ask: How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others? The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
    - Martin Luther King, Jr

    "Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue...that we couldn't resist it."
    - John Ehrlichman,
    White House counsel to President Nixon
    on the rationale of the War on Drugs.

    Quote: "[Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks" Haldeman, his Chief of Staff wrote, "The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."

    And then he came up with the War On Drugs and the Southern Strategy.

    Nixon's Drug War
    Re-Inventing Jim Crow, Targeting The Counter Culture
    JIM CROW 2012
    Using the drug war to keep blacks from voting

    Businesses all over the USA are jumping at the chance to hire prisoners. And why wouldn't any greedy boss? They can hire a workforce from the prison for a fraction of what they would have to pay their regular workers. And there is no unemployment insurance to pay, no health benefits, no sick pay and no holidays. It is estimated that total US prison sales will reach $8.9 billion by 1999.

    Smackdown: ACLU Calls Out Private Prison Giant
    The American Civil Liberties Union has invited the leader of the nations largest private prison enterprise, Corrections Corporation of America, to a public debate on the merits of prison privatization. ... of the ACLU regarding for-profit incarceration.

    Debt To Society The real price of prisons
    There are more people behind bars in the United States today than ever before.
    Since 1980, the inmate population has more than quadrupled to two million --
    An unprecedented explosion that is incurring unprecedented costs to all Americans.

    Making The Walls Transparent

    The Ganjawar Comes to the The Rez
    The cannabis prohibition laws illustrate again this institutional intolerance of racial minorities and show how prejudice is concealed behind rhetoric and laws which seem to have an entirely different purpose.

    Potential Prohibition Profits Outweigh Citizens Benefits
    Religious drug treatment in Texas
    'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'

    Kochroach & Aleech
    Today many have had their eyes opened regarding the huge profits made off of what is commonly called the "Prison Industrial Complex." Suddenly awareness has turned from disbelief to anger as taxpayers realize the screwing private prison companies, their lobbyists and elected Legislators have been giving them for more than three decades now.

    “More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?”
    —Fred Oerther, M.D.,
    Portland Oregon, September, 1986.

    Cops Against the Drug War

    Filling statistics with ditchweed and
    Koch private prisons with growers.
    Hemp Products...Schedule#1 Narcotics
    Saving the kids from food, fuel and fiiber...

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  14. RooRshack

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    Sigh.

    Typical anonymous:

    Totally awesome premise and rightious work, and a press release that almost matches....

    But that I could have seriously revised the grammar and spelling in, when I was 12 years old.

    They spend ALL THAT TIME doing ALL THAT SHIT that could send them to prison FOR EVER, and don't give their press release a finial proof-read.
     
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    "The brilliant mind, righteous heart of Aaron Swartz will be missed"
    ...progressive activist, founder of Demand Progress
    Chris Hayes remembers Aaron Swartz, the hacker, programmer, writer and activist, who took his own life in his home this week. Swartz, who suffered from depression, was found Friday. He was facing a trial on federal hacking charges ...

    You should also know that at the time of his death Aaron was being prosecuted by the federal government and threatened with up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines for the crime of — and I’m not exaggerating here — downloading too many free articles from the online database of scholarly work JSTOR.

    In a statement about his death Aaron’s family and partner wrote:

    “Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death.”

    The case of Aaron Swartz was the subject of a few segments with the panel on today's Up with Chris Hayes. The discussion went beyond the immediate scope of the Swartz case to points about the governments handling of internet access and copyrights in court cases and in legislation that has been proposed in the past such as SOPA.

    Transcript: Thom Hartmann talks to Aaron Swartz about the Arkansas primary runoff and progressives vs. conservadems. 07 Jun '10.
    This afternoon Thom played a clip from the radio show of a conversation he had with Aaron Swartz on an earlier show. Wow, I heard that show, and at least one or two others when he called in or was a guest. I did not remember those until Thom played the tape ... I recognized Aaron's voice.

    Aaron Swartz - Thom Hartmann - SISPA - YouTube
    Published on Apr 30, 2012

    Despite a massive public outcry that defeated SOPA and PIPA, a new, similar bill is being proposed called SISPA. Aaron Swartz joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about the new bill. Instead of the entertainment industry, this new bill comes from the pentagon. The bill allows the government to not only censor the internet, but spy on the internet.

    1-12-13

    Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS,
    Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide
    “Aaron built surprising new things that changed the flow of information around the world,” said Susan Crawford, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law in New York who served in the Obama administration as a technology adviser. She called Mr. Swartz “a complicated prodigy” and said “graybeards approached him with awe.”

    Internet prodigy, activist Aaron Swartz commits suicide
    The end of this article from CNN contains some of Aaron's writings about depression:

    "There is a moment, immediately before life becomes no longer worth living, when the world appears to slow down and all its myriad details suddenly become brightly, achingly apparent," he wrote in a 2007 post titled "A Moment Before Dying."

    Remembering Aaron Swartz
    Rick Perlstein of The Nation magazine writes about the loss of his friend.

    1/13/13

    Aaron Swartz obituary

    Remember Aaron Swartz
    Official obituary and funeral notice

    POSTSCRIPT: AARON SWARTZ (1986-2013)

    Aaron Swartz’ Alleged Victim
    ‘Regretted’ Being Drawn Into Hacking Case

    Aaron Swartz’ partner:
    ‘This should be a wakeup call to our country’
    The legacy of Aaron Swartz
    Why hackers freak out those in power

    from Slate.com:
    JSTOR made its peace with Swartz in June 2011 and just last week expanded its online Register & Read program, making more information available for free. But prosecutors pushed on for decades of prison time for the 26-year-old activist—adding nine new felony charges in September and scheduling his trial for April 1. Now he is dead, but the ideas he cared about aren't.

    Will Aaron Swartz’s Suicide Make the Open-Access Movement Mainstream?

    The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz

    1/14/13

    Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz's suicide

    Two segments on the Democracy Now show about Aaron Swartz:

    "An Incredible Soul": Larry Lessig Remembers Aaron Swartz After Cyberactivist’s Suicide Before Trial; Parents Blame Prosecutor

    Today we remember the pioneering computer programmer and cyber activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life Friday at the age of 26. As a teenager, Swartz helped develop RSS, revolutionizing how people use the Internet, going on to co-own Reddit, now one of the world’s most popular sites. He was also a key architect of Creative Commons and an organizer of the grassroots movement to defeat the controversial House Internet censorship bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and the Senate bill, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Swartz hanged himself just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for sneaking into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and downloading millions of articles provided by the subscription-based academic research service JSTOR. We hear Swartz in his own words and speak to Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, a longtime mentor and friend. "There are a thousand things we could have done, a thousand things we could have done, and we have to do, because Aaron Swartz is now an icon, an ideal," Lessig says. "He is what we will be fighting for, all of us, for the rest of our lives." Lessig also echoes the claims of Swartz’s parents that decisions made by prosecutors and MIT contributed to his death, saying: "This was somebody who was pushed to the edge by what I think of as a kind of bullying by our government." [includes rush transcript]

    Freedom to Connect: Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)
    on Victory to Save Open Internet, Fight Online Censors

    Cyber activist and computer programmer Aaron Swartz took his life on Friday at the age of 26. We air an address of Swartz’s from last May where he speaks about the battle to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA — a campaign he helped lead. "[SOPA] will have yet another name, and maybe a different excuse, and probably do its damage in a different way. But make no mistake: The enemies of the freedom to connect have not disappeared," Swartz said. "Next time they might just win. Let’s not let that happen." [includes rush transcript]

    Aaron Swartz’s Suicide Prompts MIT Soul-Searching

    MIT, one of the nation’s most prominent and respected universities, has come under criticism for its handling of the Swartz affair. In July 2011, JSTOR said it would drop any civil claims against Swartz. According to Lawrence Lessig, who runs Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, where Swartz was a fellow in 2011, MIT fell short by not following JSTOR’s lead

    Aaron Swartz Faced A More Severe Prison Term
    Than Killers, Slave Dealers And Bank Robbers

    If Swartz had lived to be convicted of the charges against him, he faced 50 years or more in a federal prison.

    To put these charges in perspective, here are ten examples of federal crimes that carry lesser prison sentences than Swartz’ alleged crime of downloading academic articles in an effort to make knowledge widely available to the public:

    - Manslaughter
    - Bank Robbery
    - Selling Child Pornography
    - Knowingly Spreading AIDS
    - Selling Slaves
    - Genocidal Eugenics
    - Helping al-Qaeda Develop A Nuclear Weapon
    - Violence At International Airports
    - Threatening The President
    - Assaulting A Supreme Court Justice

    Internet trailblazer and activist Aaron Swartz is dead at age 26

    Aaron Swartz' Death Fuels MIT Probe,
    White House Petition to Oust Prosecutor
    "It pains me to think that MIT played any role in a series of events that have ended in tragedy," MIT President L. Rafael Reif said in a statement. "Now is a time for everyone involved to reflect on their actions, and that includes all of us at MIT."

    1/15/13


    The Death of Aaron Swartz

    Internet Activist Aaron Swartz’
    Prosecutor Linked To Another Hacker’s Death

    Why the Net grieves Aaron Swartz
    Swartz faced tough U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and her assistant Stephen Heymann, who rejected any deal that did not involve a prison sentence—which may have helped drive the cyber programmer to despair.

    Aaron Swartz’s Unbending Prosecutors Insisted on Prison Time

    With his contributions to RSS coding and the Web application framework, Swartz made some of today's more expansive Internet possible.

    But what Swartz also helped create was a philosophy of the Internet, one that remains the subject of great controversy almost 20 years into its life: the libertarian idea that information wants to be free.

    How Aaron Swartz helped build the Internet

    1/16/13

    Aaron Swartz’s Suicide Triggers Response from Top U.S. Lawmakers

    As Swartz’s friends were grieving in Chicago, several Capitol Hill lawmakers expressed sadness, shock and confusion over his death. One prominent U.S. lawmaker, Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), said she would introduce reforms to change the federal law at the heart of the case.

    House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said he has opened an investigation of the Justice Department’s case against Aaron Swartz, according to HuffPost. “I’m not condoning his hacking, but he’s certainly someone who worked very hard,” Issa told the news website.

    “Had he been a journalist and taken that same material that he gained from MIT, he would have been praised for it. It would have been like the Pentagon Papers.” (Not exactly: The Pentagon Papers were classified federal government documents. Swartz was accused of accessing scholarly articles on a university network.)

    Demand Progress: Aaron

    A handful of the myriad tributes to Aaron:

    Cory Doctorow

    Glenn Greenwald

    Lawrence Lessig

    Quinn Norton

    “In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us”. Thich Nhat Hanh

    1/26/13

    Anonymous targets the federal agency responsible for sentencing guidelines, in retaliation for the prosecution which drove Aaron Swartz to suicide.

    Anonymous takes down US Sentencing Commission website

    Anonymous Takes Over Sentencing Commission Website

    from the ABC news link below:
    Anonymous Hijacks Federal Website, Threatens DOJ Document Dump

    Anonymous says Swartz was “killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win — a twisted and distorted perversion of justice — a game where the only winning move was not to play.”

    “There must be a return to proportionality of punishment with respect to actual harm caused,” it reads, also mentioning recent arrests of Anonymous associates by the FBI.

    Anonymous threatens Justice Department over hacktivist death

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  16. Logan 5

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    I wish they'd do far more than just threaten. Come on, grow a pair and get it done like a man- hit'em fast and hit'em hard. They have murdered too many people for no just cause.
     
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    I was wondering how many of thos Anonymous videos on youtube are actually real... Anyone could put the mask on and post it on there...
     
  18. RooRshack

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    What do you mean, "real"?

    Who do you think is "anonymous", anyways?

    That's right, anybody who puts a mask on.

    It's not a group, it's a choice to act anonymously. There's a bit of culture that's evolved around it, but anybody who puts on a mask is anonymous. If your grandmother puts on a mask and protests cuts to social security, she's anonymous. We could even say she's part of the "social sec" portion of the collective ;)

    It's just a collective identity that can be used as needed. If you're pissed off about something and you could be targeted for your views, you can be anonymous.

    You sound like those people bitching about how OWS didn't/doesn't have a clear cut goal or leadership :rolleyes:

    It's really awesome that the justice department has managed to "infiltrate" anonymous :rofl: I can infiltrate them too, all you do is not give your name.
     
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    An interesting thought that Anonymous is the FBI. We can look back to Orwell for an example of the counter-movement actually being a subsidiarity of the primary regime. What better way to discover radicals and dissidents than to wave the flag of.

    That said as being a possibility... Not belief.

    The Juggernaut is careening towards a doom we can only imagine at this point. All talk of change and hope is past. I.M.H.O. We can only hang on for the ride and try to jump off at the last second onto solid ground.
     

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