[quote]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[/quote]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaPni5O2YyI[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bAMgFt9z4Q[/media]
[url]http://freze.it/1mT[/url] (Screenshot of hacked USSC website)
[url]https://twitter.com/oplastresort[/url] (Their twitter)
Operation poke the gorrila in the monkey cage is go.
[QUOTE=Persecution;39365884]Operation "who cares" is go.[/QUOTE]
Fixed.
Who the fuck makes those anon videos.
Anonymous stop before you start getting in actual trouble
All you do is set your own arm on fire and pretend the world is burning down
[quote]Derpartment[/quote]
Was that intentional?
[QUOTE=Scrimp;39366237]Who the fuck makes those anon videos.[/QUOTE]
someone
OH no don't ddos our guvment websites.
Well if what they say is true...
Nah, who am I kidding. They'd never release the "warhead"... Oh dear god. Everyone, unplug your ethernet cables in fear of being ddos'd!
[QUOTE=Slacker101;39366614]OH no don't ddos our guvment websites.[/QUOTE]
"HA-HA ! I have temporarily disconnected the website of the government of the United States of America ! Now everything will crumble !
Oh wait no it's back online.
NEXT TIME, USA ! NEXT TIIIME !"
this is funny
they probably meant it as satire anyway
Speaking of terms of service, doesn't iTunes/iPods make you agree not to use the software and hardware in developing nuclear weapons? I know it's off-topic, but it abruptly came to mind. :v:
[QUOTE=Doom14;39366674]Speaking of terms of service, doesn't iTunes/iPods make you agree not to use the software and hardware in developing nuclear weapons? I know it's off-topic, but it abruptly came to mind. :v:[/QUOTE]
Why anyone would try is what I want to know, it's Apple after all... What are you gonna do, make the bomb explode when iTunes inevitably crashes on Windows?
I hope it is truly something damaging and they release it.
Those videos always make me vicariously embarrassed. They feel like a group of badasses feared by the government.
[QUOTE=Judas;39366672]heyyy
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1242653[/url][/QUOTE]
yes, people cannot find it them selves in the same subforum
and then... nothing happened
they set us up the bomb
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;39366656]"HA-HA ! I have temporarily disconnected the website of the government of the United States of America ! Now everything will crumble !
Oh wait no it's back online.
NEXT TIME, USA ! NEXT TIIIME !"[/QUOTE]
Isn't that what everyone said about the PSN attacks? Then non-anon people used the hole made by Anonymous to steal 25 million people's personal information.
I'm just saying that if that happens to the US Government, there's going to be alot of hell. There's a predicted 315,214,000 people living in the US, so yeah...
Even if they seem silly, what they said is true about the broad and insane punishment that people "hacking" systems receive- More time than one gets for a murder. They are going about it in the wrong way but something should be done about such laws.
[QUOTE=InnocentSam;39367012]Isn't that what everyone said about the PSN attacks? Then non-anon people used the hole made by Anonymous to steal 25 million people's personal information.
I'm just saying that if that happens to the US Government, there's going to be alot of hell. There's a predicted 315,214,000 people living in the US, so yeah...[/QUOTE]
It's also what everyone said when they said they'd take down facebook.
And then it wasn't ever a real bomb, it was a bunch of file downloads with bad dirt about the supreme justices and other officials.
I hate the theatrics as much as the next guy, but I'm wondering if anyone read past "citizens of the world" before starting a fit.
Fine if they do things for a good cause, but this just goes too far.
Either get to [B]actual[/B] hacking or piss off anonymous.
[QUOTE=Scrimp;39366237]Who the fuck makes those anon videos.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of Nod propaganda.
Just another thing Anonymous does to make me laugh. It'll be interesting what'll happen this time, no?
It's funny because I doubt all the charges would have held up in court anyway. He killed himself. It's not like they put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Swartz wasn't some sort of internet savior. He dug a hole and didn't see how deep it was. He would have never gotten 30 years in prison for what he did. His suicide was the result of some obsessive person who was bent on getting a promotion out of it.
[QUOTE=Scrimp;39366237]Who the fuck makes those anon videos.[/QUOTE]
Anonymous, genius. It's like they're gonna tell thier real names. Oh I found thier names.
Joe Billybob
Patty McFries
Macca Willy
and more, I can't list all thier names. :p
Nearly shat myself when the SH enhancement plugin directed me directly to the website itself with the note on it.
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