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Here is what I find truly amazing. Look how quickly Visa/Mastercard turned against WikiLeaks, but they will do nothing about Malware, all these fake Virus detection programs all get paid with Visa and Mastercard. Seems like they could easily turn the switch off for them, but they don’t, why, because they are getting paid service fees, doesnt matter that there is a victim, Mastercard/Visa is getting paid so the big corporation thinks it’s ok.
As American consumers wake up and spend less and less on credit cards, at least one of these big corps will go belly up.
Are the Hactivists being infiltrated, you betcha, THEY want to make out the Hactivists as the bad guys, ey? hmmmmmmmm and why would the Hactivists hit Sarah Palin's site? hmmmmmmm, that would simply give her the attention that she is trying to get right at the moment.
Palin's daughter being on 'Dancing with the Stars' and then tonight on Barbara Walters 10 most interesting people......... Sarah Palin??? OMG! I tried this morning to watch about 15 seconds of the woman and had to leave the room. She is sooooooooooooo 'commercial (phoney)' and it makes me wanna puke whenever I see her, she isn't real.
Please, don't give the Palin people the satisfaction of hacking her or watching the 'Walters' special tonight. Boycott it. (Remember back in the day Walters worked for the CFR.) Was it CFR's idea that Palin would get one of the 10 most interesting people? OMG, if she is truly that interesting to people this world is indeed in a world of hurt.
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The website and e-mail service of the lawyer representing two Swedish women at the center of sexual assault allegations against Assange were also hacked Tuesday.
A WikiLeaks supporter, calling himself Coldblood, told the BBC on Thursday: "This is a war of data, we are trying to keep the Internet open and free for everyone, just the way the internet has been and always was ... Some of the main targets involve Amazon, Mastercard, Visa and PayPal."
Although Coldblood had said he was a spokesman for Anonymous, the group wrote on Twitter that he was not one of its spokespeople.
http://www.truth-out.org/exclusive-an-inside-look-hacktivist-attack-visacom65804
Exclusive: An Inside Look at the "Hactivist" Takedown of Visa After WikiLeaks Cut Off
Thursday 09 December 2010
Web pirates are waging cyberwarfare in defense of WikiLeaks, and I had a rare glimpse into the hacktivists' hidden world of Internet sabotage in a secret chat room as the faceless hackers orchestrated the attack that temporarily shut down www.Visa.com on Wednesday evening.
Hidden behind screen names like Power2All and Bizzaro, hacktivists involved in the Operation Payback campaign logged into a temporary and remote Internet relay chat (IRC) room to share information on the ongoing Visa attack, swap web addresses, tell jokes and give updates on the international media coverage of their cyberwar against the enemies of WikiLeaks and free information.
An anti-authoritarian organization - if you can call it organized - called Anonymous launched Operation Payback revenge attacks against Mastercard, Visa and PayPal after the companies began blocking donations to WikiLeaks in light of the recent release of thousands of US diplomatic cables.
Amid pornographic images and nasty jokes, I found a link to the Operation Payback IRC on a thread at 4Chan.org, an open source image posting site. Anonymous and its supporters sometimes post announcements and flashy anti-copyright propaganda on 4Chan.org despite complaints from regular users, who seem more interested in naked woman and bathroom humor.
Earlier this week, Anonymous activists temporarily shut down the web sites of a server that dropped the WikiLeaks domain name and a Swiss bank that froze the defense fund for WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange. Anonymous is not affiliated with WikiLeaks.
The Anonymous hacktivists used DDoS attacks, a popular hacking technique that floods web site servers with too many requests, to temporarily shut down the sites.
Mastercard.com went down early Wednesday morning, and by mid-afternoon chat rooms frequented by hackers were buzzing with plans to take down Visa. A now-defunct Operation Payback Twitter feed soon called for an attack on the Visa web site, and by 5:00 p.m. EST the web site went down.
Here's a tweet that called for the attack:
TARGET: WWW.VISA.COM :: FIRE FIRE FIRE!!! WEAPONS http://bit.ly/e6iR3X ::: SET YOUR LOIC TO irc.anonops.net ::: #DDOS #PAYBACK #WIKILEAKS
As the hacktivists attacked Visa, their IRC conversations revealed the chaotic and decentralized nature of Anonymous. Updates on the status of the Visa web site came in from Germany, Korea, the Netherlands and the US. Some users issued orders and codes laced in hacker jargon, and some users seemed confused and in need of direction to a central attack point called "the HIVE."
Others simply made it clear that there is no room for leaders in cyberanarchy.
At one point it was announced that Twitter and Facebook had taken down Operation Payback's profiles, and arguments erupted over whether those sites should become the next targets. The Operation Payback Twitter account was soon replaced, and one tweet claimed the original account was taken down by mistake.
Users also discussed the validity of online rumors claiming thousands of Mastercard numbers had been released on Twitter and other public sites.
In a statement, Mastercard representatives said that, although the company's main site had been shut down for some time, no personal or security information had been compromised.
One hacker in the chat room wondered if any FBI "spooks" were snooping in on the IRC, and another proclaimed that it was a sure thing. Soon after a new chat room was established to discuss future plans and tactics, the IRC was shut down and a Tweet went out indicating the conversation had been moved to a safer location.
A spokesperson for the FBI told Truthout that is was unclear if the FBI was investigating Operation Payback, and the FBI normally does not confirm the existence of current investigations.
The Anonymous Operation Payback campaign has succeeding several times since September in temporarily shutting down a handful of web sites of companies, lobbying firms and organizations promoting tougher internet copyright rules.
Anonymous computer wiz kids and their anti-authoritarian supporters release YouTube videos as communiqués on the liberation of all online information - documents, files, movies, music - basically anything of interest to pirates and the public.
In various online manifestos, Anonymous argues that access to any and all information online is a basic human right and should not be controlled by the government and big corporations.
Anonymous propaganda often depicts a headless man in a suit or activists wearing the mask worn by the anti-government hero in the movie "V for Vendetta," and the group has declared war against "corrupt governments of the world" and anyone who tries to censor and copyright online information.
Operation Payback's confrontation tactics recently drew criticism from more moderate reformists in the Internet piracy movement. The Pirate Party, a political party recognized in the UK, Sweden and most recently in a few states in the US, wrote an open letter to Anonymous last month requesting they halt Operation Payback and consider more legitimate and legal routes to political change.
In a statement to Truthout, a spokesperson for the UK Pirate Party reiterated that Anonymous is not affiliated with WikiLeaks and their actions can be seen as an "an unusually violent expression of the outrage that many online have expressed over the actions of Amazon, EveryDNS, Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal."
Like Anonymous, the Pirate Party opposes proposed legislation and charters in the US and Europe that would bolster anti-piracy and copyright infringement laws.
Anonymous made headlines in 2008 during a campaign against the Church of Scientology. They have also publicly scuffled with Gene Simmons, former member of the band Kiss, over illegal music downloads.
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by: Mike Ludwig, t r u t h o u t | Report
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A screen capture of a controversial new book for sale on Amazon, containing the stolen cables published to WikiLeaks.
NEW YORK – Portions of the diplomatic cables contained in WikiLeaks are available for sale on Amazon's U.K. website, an odd twist after the company ousted the organization from its hosting service.
Excerpts from some of the 250,000 sensitive documents were contained in a Kindle e-book self-published by an author listed as Heinz Duthel. The book isn't available in the U.S.; people in the U.K. can buy it for 7.37 pounds ($11.60).
WikiLeaks has embarrassed Washington in recent weeks for exposing a trove of sensitive diplomatic documents, some of which contain brutally frank assessments of foreign governments. The e-book, viewed by The Associated Press in London, consists of excerpts along with reports on reaction to the releases from media and government officials. It also has a list of the cables by originating embassy.
http://pcu.academia.edu/HeinzDuthel
EXCERPT:
Heinz Duthel, Author, Master in Philosophy
"Heinz Duthel: Literature is the only tool that can beat time; only art can beat death". www.bbc.co.uk
"Heinz Duthel: I feel like a man who goes to the trash can and looks for things that other peoples do not want and gave thrown away". www.tv5.org
"Heinz Duthel : I lived in a neighborhood where transvestites work, and I occasionally see clients arrive arrive in good cars with baby seats in the back. That is to say that these clients of prostitutes are upright fathers by day and sordid men who demand to be penetrated with high heels by night." www.swissinfo.org
http://pcu.academia.edu/HeinzDuthel
EXCERPT:
Heinz Duthel, Author, Master in Philosophy
"Heinz Duthel: Literature is the only tool that can beat time; only art can beat death". www.bbc.co.uk
"Heinz Duthel: I feel like a man who goes to the trash can and looks for things that other peoples do not want and gave thrown away". www.tv5.org
"Heinz Duthel : I lived in a neighborhood where transvestites work, and I occasionally see clients arrive arrive in good cars with baby seats in the back. That is to say that these clients of prostitutes are upright fathers by day and sordid men who demand to be penetrated with high heels by night." www.swissinfo.org
