Hacker group declares cyber war on US police
August 7, 2011 by Glenn Chapman
A hacker group on Saturday claimed it has "defaced and destroyed" websites at scores of US police agencies in retaliation for the arrest of suspected peers accused of hacking into the CIA, British crime agency SOCA, and Sony.
The group called AntiSec -- in reference to "anti-security" -- said in an online post that it is backing its claim by releasing information it looted more than 70 local police agencies during cyber attacks.
"We are releasing a massive amount of confidential information that is sure to embarrass, discredit and incriminate police officers across the US," the group said in a message.
"We are doing this in solidarity with Topiary and the Anonymous PayPal LOIC defendants as well as all other political prisoners who are facing the gun of the crooked court system."
Early this week, 18-year-old British man Jack Davis, believed to be a hacker who went by the online name "Topiary" was granted bail in a London court.
Davis is suspected of being a spokesman for hacking groups Lulz Security (LulzSec) and Anonymous.
He was charged with hacking into websites, including that of Britain's SOCA, which was out of service for several hours on June 20 after apparently being targeted.
LulzSec has claimed responsibility for a 50-day rampage earlier this year against international businesses and government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the US Senate, and electronics giant Sony.
Anonymous and LulzSec have denounced the arrests in the United States last month of 14 people suspected of taking part in an online attack on the PayPal website organized by Anonymous.
PayPal, Visa and MasterCard stopped accepting donations for WikiLeaks in December after the website began releasing thousands of sensitive State Department cables.
AntiSec said that it was leaking 10 gigabytes of data including private email exchanges, passwords, credit card numbers, addresses of officers and information about informants.
"You may bust a few of us, but we greatly outnumber you and you can never stop us from continuing to destroy your systems and leak your data," the hacker group's message said.
"We have no sympathy for any of the officers or informants who may be endangered by the release of their personal information," it continued.
An AFP sampling of police department websites puportedly hacked by AntiSec revealed they were not accessible online. Information posted by AntiSec appeared to include names, addresses, and credit card numbers.
AntiSec said it had used some swiped credit card information to make donations to groups defending civil liberties, Internet rights, and the US soldier accused of giving sensitive military data to WikiLeaks.
Cyberattacks on police departments in an array of US states began about a week ago, according to the group. Local news reports surfaced regarding hacks of police websites, but agencies downplayed damage.
AntiSec expressed offense at being referred to in a recent US Department of Homeland Security bulletin as "script kiddies" incapable of inflicting damage to critical national infrastructure.
Script kiddies is a term used when referring to young hackers that wield software skills mischievously for status or attention.
"You are losing the cyberwar, and the attacks against the governments, militaries, and corporations of the world will continue to escalate," AntiSec said.
(c) 2011 AFP
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These organized hackers are also serving as irresistable quarry for law enforcement to be able to develop increasingly effective ways of finding internet perps. New levels of security are needed as the world enters an era of heightened conflict.
In order to get combatants to perform at their best in any engagement, one must be able to elicit the proper emotions in either side. Antisec is very good at doing this.
By the way they are so busted
Aug 07, 2011
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Anonymous does not have spokesmen, that is kind of the point of being anonymous. anyone identifying themselves as Anonymous is blowing smoke. a real anon prefers to stay anon.
anyone linking them selves to Anonymous is angsty script kiddie(doesn't write programs, just downloads them pre-built and runs them. no skill required, and thus of little threat.) who has nothing better to do but get laughs messing up peoples websites.
'Anonymous' supposedly getting into police records is a flaw in the police side(probably a bad password, like 'password'), not a foreshadow of some large internet group waiting destroy the internet(hint: an impossible concept).
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This is of course where it begins to get real ugly. Once someone gets hurt physically as a result of hacking at will, these guys will become public enemy number one.
Besides which, the cliche will operate - power in the hackers hands will corrupt them to the point of complete disregard for law or reason. This is coming.
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Their main problem is their execs. are incompetent regarding IT in general and consequently they don't have the ability to hire technically competent IT people. I even know software companies with execs. that can't do much more than turn on their computers. With complex technology you have to be one to know one.
Aug 07, 2011
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The attacker always has the advantage when time is on his side, when he can wait like a lion in the grass, watching the herd for weakness, and attacking at a time of his own choosing.
Better if the herd develops the ability to hunt HIM. This was the breakout strategy of the primate species which became US.
Aug 07, 2011
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HELLO
A STRANGE GAME.
THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.
HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF CHESS?
~ WOPR
oO
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"The only way to win is not to play."
Aug 07, 2011
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What a spineless jellyfish you are to respond with fear of losing an illusion of internet freedom should you rock the boat. Everytime you log on to this site or any other, you're making them money- your habits are hawked to information salesmen. Wake up, will you, you have no real freedom, and if you get close to really pissing off the authorities, they'll give you what for. The only hope for any nation, society, or culture is TRANSPARENCY, otherwise we're sitting ducks for authoritarianism.
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Someone has been killed already: Mark Duggan.
Those who shot him are enemies of the public and they can be sure not to be punished. As none of the police killers of Jean Charles de Menezes has been punished.
But that doesn't seem to concern you.
Aug 07, 2011
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Their efforts only serve to harden the governments and generate new restrictions on freedom.
The activities of such groups generate results which are the precise opposite of what the groups purport to want. This causes use to wonder, what do they really want?
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I think the idea is that when a movement reaches a critical mass it will change the way people think and live. Changing things from inside the system no longer works effectively in our favor.
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Apparently mr duggan was a gang banger? Who fired at officers first and the only reason an officer isnt dead is because the bullet hit his radio?
Of course these are allegations which need to be proven out in an investigation. But starry-eyed ideologues like you think its ok to burn the neighborhood first, possibly roasting inhabitants in their beds, rather than wait for an investigation.
Hurrah. Anywhere but YOUR neighborhood eh? Your selfish dogma gets people killed.
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Off with their heads eh mon bourreau?
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I'm all for it.
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Just don't F??? with my bandwidth!
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With that, they should be considered international terrorists.
This brings up the question, with miniaturization continuing and eventually graphene and photonic computers in 5 to 10 years as well, what the hell are security companies going to do when a Hacker can buy a 64-core, portable hand-held photonic super-computer for 200 dollars from Nokia?
or a 128 core photonic desktop PC?
They'll be able to break almost any security system by some sort of brute force approach.
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The police claim that they came under fire from Duggan and that the man died after officers shot back. It was claimed that a police officer was hit in the chest by Duggans shots, but that the officers radio stopped the bullet. The revelation that the bullet that struck the officer was apparently a police issue bullet means that the story now has to be reconsidered.- from The Guardian
Poor research on your part, Ghost, shamefully poor.
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I guess real security will be a paper file, they seem much less susceptible these days, lol.
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Shame on those who try to justify this unpunished murderous killing by not mentioning it.
Shame on anyone trying to justify any unpunished murderous killing of any unarmed innocent child or adult explicitly or implicitly.
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Just one more excuse pretending BigBrothers can not put forward any "reason" their marketing agencies generate. Remember the Iraqi incubators.
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So there's no sympathy or regard for these peoples' lives because they support an institution that AntiSec is against...
Classic "death to the infidels" reasoning. I'm not saying they're trying to kill people, but that's a pretty sociopathic.
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Neighborhoods continue to burn. Innocent people continue to suffer because of ideologues such as frajo.
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"The results of the police watchdog's ballistics report in connection with the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham last Thursday are expected within 24 hours."
"But marksmen involved in the incident in Tottenham believe that the bullet was home-made, a source close to the officers has told Channel 4 News."
-STFU. Youre fomenting violence. Haters like you and frajo enable rioters and looters to victimize and burn innocents in their flats. You realize that?
Revolutionaries sitting on their fat asses in their underwear, typing with righteous indignation while real people suffer. Hey - you smell smoke???
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Ralph Livock, a commuter who was sitting opposite Mr de Menezes on a tube train before he was killed, said he had at first thought armed police pursuing the 27-year-old Brazilian were just lads having a laugh.
He said officers did not say anything to Mr de Menezes before he was shot seven times in the head on July 22, 2005 directly contradicting testimony given by a Met marksman.
Asked by Nicholas Hilliard QC, counsel to the inquest, Did you hear him saying anything to Mr de Menezes? Mr Livock said: Absolutely not.- London Telegraph
Now, how about you shutting your hole, you disseminator of disinformation?
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It has to do with the pattern of lies emanating from your reactionary, fear-mongering, chest-thumping, diseased brain that makes you imagine you'd be perceived as a real man, but in actuality everyone knows, except yourself of course, that you are a cowardly fool. The neighborhoods that you feign interest in are rioting because of systemic police brutality and poverty, and this recent killing has sent them over the edge. But you, Mr. NRA, can't wait to pick them off, even though they're thousands of miles away.
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I asked you what a shooting in 2005 has to do with your condemnation of the duggan shooting? I'll ask your buddy frajo the same thing. Are you 2 saying that that shooting, which was clearly a mistake, mean that those who shot duggan are clearly guilty? Are you really that shallow??
Are you saying that rioters are justified in burning, beating, and looting because police are obviously terrorists when they do their jobs? 120 were injured in the rioting so far.
And how DO you get those sweat stains out of your couch? I would like answers to these questions please.
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Your ignorant attitudes toward the people sworn to protect us are deeply offensive and I responded in kind. Holeboy.
And I will continue to do so. Anarchy is foul as are the people who participate in it, even if only in spirit. Watch the news.
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It sounds to me that you and frajo conclude that any time someone riots it's because their mommies and daddies made them go to bed too early when they were kids? Too bad. They should expect more than a spanking if they burn someones house down or stone a police officer.
Criminals should know that crime can be a very dangerous business indeed.
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And finally, you're desperate and it shows. The only sweating is your own, because you realize your arguments are only the flailing of a trapped mind.
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Case in point:Criminals DO rape and murder. People who do these things ARE garbage. Right now they're burning down London. Doesn't that bother you? Where is your HEART you pinhead?
Cont
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http://www.chicag...ogallery
Go ahead. Leaf through there. Try not to feel sorry for these psychopaths but instead picture one of them standing over you in the dark while you sleep.
-Cops are for keeping people like these from breaking into my home and hurting my family. So are guns. Right now cops are doing their best to keep gutless hooligans from burning innocent people out of their homes in London.
Anyone who would favor criminals over The people charged with protecting us from them, HAS NO HEART.
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http://en.wikiped..._Pressly
Her mother found her like that, the next morning, bones sticking out of her face. READ IT gutless.
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Well, that is what happens when you vote for a war criminal and traitor like George Bush who is stoned on Ritalin.
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Number 85 would freak me out. Seriously, anybody who smiles like that is touched in the head.
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VendiTard is the guy on the left
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No trial, no appeal? I guess we can wave the two witness requirement for the treason charge too, right? Have you ever read the Constitution?
Article III, Section 3: "No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
Amendment V: "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..."
Amendment VI: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed..."
Amendment VII: "...the right of trial by jury shall be preserved..."
How about we charge you?
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and i have no reason to worry about such things....i have my own gang, and an arsenal...yet i highly doubt I'll have to use any of it.
remember that statement the next time you are falsely arrested, or falsely accused to a detrimental point where it doesnt matter if you were guilty or innocent because you're viewed as guilty.
innocent before proven guilty yet you go to jail before you see the judge don't you.
and yea, the 35mph over the speed limit you were doing at 3am with nobody else on the road really consitutes a jail term right.
the cops arent really the problem, the system making the laws is, but if you take down the pawns (aka cops), that same system has nothing left to stand on.
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There's always a gang bigger than yours out there, and better armed. And you're guilty of being in their way and having stuff they want, both capital offenses. I'm pretty sure you would be eaten or hung from a bridge by a heel, and your women appropriated, as usual.
Law and order can be abusive and they do make mistakes, but I would much prefer them to none at all.
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All politicians are elected to represent the people in their electorate.
And that is what they promise to do in order to gain our vote.
When those people get into power and then decide to govern in secrecy from their electorate they are committing a crime against the entire nation and all of its people.
Why do they do this?
Because they choose to govern in the interests of those who give them personally and their party the most money.
IN OTHER WORDS THEY PROSTITUTE THEMSELVES AND THEIR OFFICE.
If we had open government we wouldn't have half the international problems that we presently have to endure.
Open government is honest, secrecy in government is dishonest.
Then the defence loonies will cry "we need secrecy so our enemies don't know our capabilities"
The truth is that any nation with any attack capabilities already know their potential enemies capabilities, right down to the last degree.
So let us cut all this crap.
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"Eighty per cent of children grow up in "intolerable" poverty in London's most deprived areas, the Evening Standard has learned. The highest levels of all are found in Tottenham with 80.3 per cent of children living in low-income homes, according to research by Barnardo's." - London Evening Standard
You may live in Buckingham Palace for all I know, but you don't know, don't care, or don't want to admit to the dire conditions of your neighbors. But that's fitting considering the brutal colonialism of your forebears in Hong Kong, India, Africa, etc., that plays out now in your own backyard. The sins of the father shall be visited upon the son? You'll defend your system first; a beloved monarchy (in this day and age) with the Queen Mother being one of the richest individuals in the world, rigidly divided economic classes, and a legacy of exploitation of the underclasses. After all, it's tradition. By the way, your spelling is atrocious, about as proficient as a skinhead's.
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Your house is full of stray cats isn't it?
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In the end I'm on the Ghost's side on this issue. We need them protecting us.
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So by gang, I meant one's family. I think you missed the point...the cops are the ones who's job it is to enforce laws on us, so if you cripple their systems, not one of them gets hurt by it. i wasnt saying cops are the bad thing, just the first step to eliminate an system of law based on a concept of "freedom" that isn't really true freedom. fix the system, then enforce only the truly immoral actions (ie murder, etc).