The Security firm Anon hacked also Sabotaged Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents
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[URL]http://thinkprogress.org/?p=143419[/URL]
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ThinkProgress has learned that a law firm representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the big business trade association representing ExxonMobil, AIG, and other major international corporations, is working with set of “private security” companies and lobbying firms to undermine their political opponents, including ThinkProgress, with a surreptitious sabotage campaign.
According to e-mails obtained by ThinkProgress, the Chamber hired the lobbying firm Hunton and Williams. Hunton And Williams’ attorney Richard Wyatt, who [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/19/chamber-of-commerce-still_n_768076.html"]once[/URL] represented Food Lion in its infamous lawsuit against ABC News, was [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/19/chamber-of-commerce-still_n_768076.html"]hired[/URL] by the Chamber in October of last year. To assist the Chamber, Wyatt and his [URL="http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/johnwoodsagreeingthemis.PNG"]associates[/URL], John Woods and Bob Quackenboss, solicited a set of private security firms — HB Gary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (collectively called Team Themis) — to develop tactics for damaging progressive groups and labor unions, in particular ThinkProgress, the labor coalition called Change to Win, the SEIU, US Chamber Watch, and StopTheChamber.com.
According to one [URL="http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/ProposalForTheChamber.pdf"]document[/URL] prepared by Team Themis, the campaign included an entrapment project. The proposal called for first creating a “false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information,” to give to a progressive group opposing the Chamber, and then to subsequently expose the document as a fake to undermine the credibility of the Chamber’s opponents. In addition, the group proposed creating a “fake insider persona” to “generate communications” with Change to Win.
The security firms hoped to obtain [URL="http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/themisplan.pdf"]$200,000[/URL] for initial background research, then charge up to [URL="http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/themisplan.pdf"]$2 million[/URL] for a larger disinformation campaign against progressives. We don’t know if the proposal was accepted after Phase 1 was completed.
The e-mails ThinkProgress acquired are available widely on the web. They were posted by members of “[URL="http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6798/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks"]Anonymous[/URL],” the hactivist community responsible for taking down websites for oppressive regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and American corporations that have censored WikiLeaks. Anonymous published the emails from HB Gary Federal because an executive at the firm, Aaron Barr, was trying to take Anonymous down. Barr [URL="http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Cyberactivists-warned-arrest-ftimes-3487898538.html?x=0"]claimed[/URL] that he had penetrated Anonymous and was hoping to sell the data to Bank of America and to federal authorities in the United States. In response, members of Anonymous hacked into Barr’s email and published some [URL="http://gawker.com/#%215753570/anonymous-hackers-pay-back-fbi-snitch-with-50000-leaked-emails"]40,000[/URL] company e-mails.
It is widely believed that Wikileaks has sensitive information about Bank of America, and plans to expose it later this year. This revelation prompted Bank of America to hire the law/lobbying firm Hunton and Williams, which in turn, according to the e-mails posted online by Anonymous, hired HB Gary Federal and other firms to go after Anonymous and supporters of Wikileaks. For instance, one proposal from HB Gary Federal and its associates proposed targeting Salon reporter and Wikileaks-supporter Glenn Greenwald with “[URL="http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/02/09/the-disinformation-campaign-bank-of-america-considered/"]actions to sabotage[/URL] or discredit” him.
ThinkProgress has published a series of articles investigating the Chamber and its activities. We [URL="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/24/stealth-chamber-banks/"]exposed[/URL] the Chamber’s efforts to coordinate a lobbying campaign on behalf of large banks, including JP Morgan, to kill significant portions of financial reform. In October, we [URL="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/13/chamber-foreign-funded-media/"]published[/URL] a [URL="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/05/foreign-chamber-commerce/"]series[/URL] looking into the Chamber’s efforts to solicit donations from foreign corporations for the same account the Chamber used to run partisan attack ads during the midterm campaign, as well as the Chamber’s [URL="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/"]participation[/URL] in secret fundraising meetings convened by the billionaire plutocrats David and Charles Koch.
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Anon is about to step over the line and get caught I think.
[QUOTE=Fatman55;27985535]get caught I think.[/QUOTE]
uhh
[QUOTE=Fatman55;27985535][b]Anon[/b] is about to step over the line and [b]get caught[/b] I think.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Fatman55;27985535]Anon is about to step over the line and get caught I think.[/QUOTE]
They can't exactly put a warrant out for Anonymous.
They can in face get caught guys. Remember when the DDOS'd those websites. They caught a few of them. Nobody is anonymous, they just think they are until the cops show up.
[QUOTE=Aw_Hell;27985901]They can in face get caught guys. Remember when the DDOS'd those websites. They caught a few of them. Nobody is anonymous, they just think they are until the cops show up.[/QUOTE]
They don't have resources to bust all of them.
So they mostly only went after those coordinating the attacks.
[QUOTE=Prismatex;27985675]They can't exactly put a warrant out for Anonymous.[/QUOTE]
But they can put out a warrant for people suspected to be involved.
[editline]11th February 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Death Giver;27985595]:eng99:[/QUOTE]
Just because they call themselves anon doesn't make them good, if my 10 year old brother says he's a member of anon, does that make him untraceable?
[QUOTE=Van-man;27986014]They don't have resources to bust all of them.
So they mostly only went after those coordinating the attacks.[/QUOTE]
But it proved that anonymous isn't really anonymous at all. People will be arrested, there's safety in packs but there's no guarantee.
[QUOTE=Fatman55;27986039]
Just because they call themselves anon doesn't make them good, if my 10 year old brother says he's a member of anon, does that make him untraceable?[/QUOTE]
Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies.
But seriously if they don't use one then they deserve it.
I would love to see what would happen if someone just, you know, shut down 4chan :q: Maybe just for a day?
"The terrorist group known as Anon, has just DDos'd the entire internet!"
[editline]11th February 2011[/editline]
I'm not going to pretend I know how international laws work, concerning the internet; but obviously it would have to some sort of law enforcement, that shut it down.
[b]EDIT:[/b] I guess you can disregard this comment... I thought anon was just a bunch of people from 4chan.
4CHAN =! anon
[QUOTE=Mattk50;27986782]4CHAN =! anon[/QUOTE]
Oh. Really? :S I have been misinformed, I thought anon, was just a bunch of people fom 4chan.
[QUOTE=Mattk50;27986782]4CHAN =! anon[/QUOTE]
It still sucks though.
[QUOTE=mr_fj;27986821]Oh. Really? :S I have been misinformed, I thought anon, was just a bunch of people fom 4chan.[/QUOTE]
4Chan isn't allowed to run invasions or other operations. It's servers are in the US.
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Offtopic, what do you think 4chan would do if someone DDos'd them?
Continue being fat pedophiles.
[QUOTE=-xxsetshotxx-;27987111]Continue being fat pedophiles.[/QUOTE]
That's not really an action though.
[QUOTE=mr_fj;27986860]Offtopic, what do you think 4chan would do if someone DDos'd them?[/QUOTE]
Has already happened, m00t just contacts the police and the scriptkiddies gets busted.
[editline]11th February 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=mr_fj;27987133]That's not really an action though.[/QUOTE]
they are not somekind of fucking army, stop being "HURR HURF 4CHUN=INTRANET H4X0RS" because they are not
[QUOTE=mr_fj;27986860]Offtopic, what do you think 4chan would do if someone DDos'd them?[/QUOTE]
What anybody in their right mind would do. Block the attack and report who you can and then attempt not to provoke people as much.
[QUOTE=Aw_Hell;27985901]They can in face get caught guys. Remember when the DDOS'd those websites. They caught a few of them. Nobody is anonymous, they just think they are until the cops show up.[/QUOTE]
They arrested like 7 people in total, for the amount of damage they did I would say that not a significant number of people were caught.
[QUOTE=mr_fj;27986860]Offtopic, what do you think 4chan would do if someone DDos'd them?[/QUOTE]
They migrate temporarily to other websites. It's happened before - usually the people attacking 4chan get bored, or get DDoSed themselves.
This is all because of Linux
I love all the people in here who think Anonymous is safe. :rolleyes:
Remember that Anonymous guy who threatened to blow up a football stadium?
Yeah, he was charged with domestic terrorism and is in prison.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;27992390]I love all the people in here who think Anonymous is safe. :rolleyes:
Remember that Anonymous guy who threatened to blow up a football stadium?
Yeah, he was charged with domestic terrorism and is in prison.[/QUOTE]
Firstly, this is something different case, possibly much harder to prove.
Secondly, he wasn't covered by rest of the community. I wouldn't be surprised if they gave him out themselves.
Thirdly, there's many many many of them. If some get locked down, it might scare some, but at the same time, increases the will to revolt.
[QUOTE=Prismatex;27985675]They can't exactly put a warrant out for Anonymous.[/QUOTE]
Just look for where sales of Hot Pockets and Monster have spiked.
Despite the bad name /b/ 'activists' give to everyone that uses 4chan, I think quite a lot of the politically motivated stuff they do is a good cause. They have good intentions, but not necessarily a good way to carry them out.
Anyone that's got the balls or resources to expose corporate greed or government malfeasance and then share it with the world is, in my opinion, a good person.
[QUOTE=mr_fj;27986860]Offtopic, what do you think 4chan would do if someone DDos'd them?[/QUOTE]4chan being DDoS'ed is pretty much a weekly activity, they just migrate to other boards or sites temporarily. It's not really a big deal, usually the ones DDoSing get bored after a while.
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