Anonymous and others start leaking

  On 12/8/2010 at 1:24 AM, karmakramer said:

I don't think Time did, I think people are linking to some other list or something...

 

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_2029036_2029037,00.html

yeah, i checked back and gordo linked to the "2010 TIME 100 Poll" and not the "TIME's 2010 Person of the Year" poll. doh!

on a related note, for anyone who says that the cables didn't release anything important or interesting, check this one out: http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/06/09KABUL1651.html

apparently, the united states actively tried to cover up an incident where a us company, dyncorp, facilitated the purchase of young children for sex in afganistan. i had no idea that this happened, let alone that the united states tried to cover it up. dyncorp has done the same in other countries too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynCorp#Involvement_in_child_sex_slave_traffic

fucked up, man.

  On 12/8/2010 at 1:29 AM, chenGOD said:

It's well known that the FBI monitors 4chan, especially the /b/ board.

of that I'm sure, but I mean, I bet they have spies deep inside anon. How would anon be able to background check all of their hackers anyway?

Aren't they all anonymous though? Isn't that the point? It's not like a member registration thing... you are in it, if you say you are.

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  On 12/8/2010 at 2:46 AM, Kcinsu said:

Aren't they all anonymous though? Isn't that the point? It's not like a member registration thing... you are in it, if you say you are.

 

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moot has handed over ip addresses in the past to law enforcement, so your identity isn't really protected.

however, i think the major implication of the fbi monitoring 4chan is that they know where all those pesky ddos attacks are coming from.

  On 12/8/2010 at 2:38 AM, Hoodie said:

on a related note, for anyone who says that the cables didn't release anything important or interesting, check this one out: http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/06/09KABUL1651.html

 

apparently, the united states actively tried to cover up an incident where a us company, dyncorp, facilitated the purchase of young children for sex in afganistan. i had no idea that this happened, let alone that the united states tried to cover it up. dyncorp has done the same in other countries too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DynCorp#Involvement_in_child_sex_slave_traffic

 

fucked up, man.

The FRONTLINE facebook page brought that to my attention yesterday, they've done a episode on the practice before. Though it's not specific to this incident.

well one would assume that the hackers in anon, would be hiding their true IP, no?

  On 12/8/2010 at 2:57 AM, Kcinsu said:

well one would assume that the hackers in anon, would be hiding their true IP, no?

when conducting a ddos attack? yes. to simply post on 4chan? i don't think so.

lol, cheer up xxx

  On 12/8/2010 at 2:41 AM, lumpenprol said:

  On 12/8/2010 at 1:29 AM, chenGOD said:

It's well known that the FBI monitors 4chan, especially the /b/ board.

 

of that I'm sure, but I mean, I bet they have spies deep inside anon. How would anon be able to background check all of their hackers anyway?

Having a spy/spies deep inside anon wouldn't make a lick of difference, they make their goals pretty well known.

  On 12/8/2010 at 2:59 AM, Hoodie said:

  On 12/8/2010 at 2:57 AM, Kcinsu said:

well one would assume that the hackers in anon, would be hiding their true IP, no?

 

when conducting a ddos attack? yes. to simply post on 4chan? i don't think so.

Lots of people post to /b using tor

'chaos' at wikileaks following arrest: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/wikileaks-reels/

i wish when people would write articles alleging things like that they wouldn't rely so much on anonymous sources

regardless, i find that story very worrying. this could be where the decentralised nature of the organisation comes back to bite them in the ass.

notice watmm administrators upping the # of files leaked so far in the thread title alone

  On 12/8/2010 at 10:38 AM, ET said:

notice watmm administrators upping the # of files leaked so far in the thread title alone

I did just edit it

100 new files have been released since yesterday and they continue to do so (the counter on the left: http://wikileaks.ch/cablegate.html )

  On 12/8/2010 at 9:17 AM, kaini said:

regardless, i find that story very worrying. this could be where the decentralised nature of the organisation comes back to bite them in the ass.

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Specifically, midlevel WikiLeaks staffers have been mostly cut off from communicating with hundreds of volunteers whose contact information was stored in Assange’s private online-messaging accounts, and never shared with others.

On the contrary, it is the centralized model that is biting them in the ass now.

yeah the latest twitter postings have been decreasing and sound a bit more undecided than before. But that could also be a subjective impression

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Wikileaks Cable Shows US Involvement in Swedish Anti-Piracy Efforts

 

A yet to be released cable from the US Embassy in Stockholm will reveal that the United States Government was very concerned about file-sharing related issues in Sweden. The US Embassy actively worked with the Swedish authorities to reduce file-sharing related threats, which included The Pirate Bay which was raided in 2006 following US pressure.

http://torrentfreak.com/wikileaks-cable-shows-us-involvement-in-swedish-anti-piracy-efforts-101207/

  On 12/8/2010 at 11:39 AM, o00o said:

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Wikileaks Cable Shows US Involvement in Swedish Anti-Piracy Efforts

 

A yet to be released cable from the US Embassy in Stockholm will reveal that the United States Government was very concerned about file-sharing related issues in Sweden. The US Embassy actively worked with the Swedish authorities to reduce file-sharing related threats, which included The Pirate Bay which was raided in 2006 following US pressure.

 

http://torrentfreak.com/wikileaks-cable-shows-us-involvement-in-swedish-anti-piracy-efforts-101207/

lol, how emberrassing for the swedes.

haha, mastercard.com is down.

  On 12/8/2010 at 1:07 PM, Gocab said:

haha, mastercard.com is down.