Anonymous are at it again...

http://www.ussc.gov(DOWN)- Read the Cached version on Chrome

Anonymous uploaded a video about their 'Attack' of the website and made a big point about having a 'Warhead' which ended up just being a file.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaPni5O2YyI

Quote:Citizens of the world,

Anonymous has observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the United States with growing concern. Wee have marked the departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it was born and enshrined. Wee 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. Wee 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.

Wee 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.

Wee have felt within our hearts a burning rage in reaction to these events, but wee have not allowed ourselves to be drawn into a foolish and premature response. Wee have bidden our time, operating in the shadows, adapting our tactics and honing our abilities. Wee 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. Wee have held our tongue and waited.

With Aaron's death wee 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 wee control, and wee 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, wee have been conducting our own infiltration. Wee did not restrict ourselves like the FBI to one high-profile compromise. Wee are far more ambitious, and far more capable. Over the last two weeks wee 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.

Wee have enough fissile material for multiple warheads. Today wee 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. Wee encourage all Anonymous to syndicate this file as widely as possible.

The contents are various and wee 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, wee 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.

Wee have not taken this action lightly, nor without consideration of the possible consequences. Should wee be forced to reveal the trigger-key to this warhead, wee understand that there will be collateral damage. Wee 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.

Wee make this statement do not expect to be negotiated with; wee do not desire to be negotiated with. Wee understand that due to the actions wee take wee 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. Wee demand only that this chorus is not ignored. Wee 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

So, they defaced it and are now DDoSing it. Yawn. Wish Anon would do something interesting for a change. Sure the whole "white knighting for justice" thing seems like a good intention, but what is it accomplishing?

(28/01/2013 09:54 AM)Joom Wrote:  So, they defaced it and are now DDoSing it. Yawn. Wish Anon would do something interesting for a change. Sure the whole "white knighting for justice" thing seems like a good intention, but what is it accomplishing?

It does make me laugh when people think Anon are some amazing hackers.

Those people generally tend to be 14, or entirely computer illiterate. An amazing hacker would be whoever wrote Stuxnet, or the guys that manage to develop ring0 (kernel level) rootkits and bootkits. DDoSing and defacing can be done by anyone with a web based DoS shell or a simple botnet and some kind of vulnerability scanner like Havij or Accunetix.