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God Bless anonymous and

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:20:07 +0000

In reply to Although, as hacking goes,

God Bless anonymous and wikileaks

How can I help?

As well as the RSA

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:02:29 +0000

In reply to HB Gary Federal, Anonymous and Wikileaks.

As well as the RSA conference, Aaron Baar was scheduled to appear in front of all the
security brass from DOJ, FBI, State Dept, DHS, etc. etc. in Washington:

"U.S. Department of Justice Cybersecurity Conference. February 8-9, 2011"
http://www.fbcinc.com/dojcyber/speakers.aspx

Social Media: A New Age in Information Exploitation
Aaron Barr, CEO, HBGary Federal
http://www.fbcinc.com/dojcyber/agendagrid.aspx

Great timing..... Any reports on how it went?

Those "birds of a feather" must have been quite ruffled. :-)

One is tempted to say "we are

jollyroger — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:20:17 +0000

In reply to "Anonymous" is planning

One is tempted to say "we are all anonymous", which under present circumstances may have content beyond the context...or the other way round, I'm not sure.

"Anonymous" is planning

artappraiser — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:09:07 +0000

In reply to HB Gary Federal, Anonymous and Wikileaks.

"Anonymous" is planning something in support of the Greens in Iran tomorrow.

via Al Jazeera (see illustration at right with "V for Vendetta mask")

Cyberactivist Anonymous posted a Youtube video telling anti-government groups to 'expect' their support

BTW, that damned arstechnica

jollyroger — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:34:55 +0000

In reply to My understanding is that the

BTW, that damned arstechnica link is overwhelming my bookmarks...thanks for nuttin' I needed another distraction...I have currently opened no fewer than 8 stories, and I bet they are all fascinatin'

I fixin' to get nostalgic

jollyroger — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:26:10 +0000

In reply to No, it's millions.

I fixin' to get nostalgic about my codewriting days, which are seriously long ago and far away..I haven't even done the due diligence to learn how to use the delivered package of linux (Knoppix is as close as I've gotten) I have a friend who (forelornly) received a onelaptopperchild netbook as a gift and he is forever begging for linux driver help, etc., and all I ever do is refer him to craigslist for the local linux users group. Everyone says it's a mere day and a half of effort to master the linux basics--undoubtably worth it considering the power that virtually glows when you boot knoppix.

Parenthetically, one wonders

jollyroger — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:16:05 +0000

In reply to No, it's millions.

Parenthetically, one wonders (well, I do...)if Linus is ever going to be as famous as Bill Gates, considering how little code Bill ever actually authored. And you can practically hear his shit groaning as it tries to wake up and perform...Dr. Kluge, white courtesy phone please...

I shudder to think The

jollyroger — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:10:20 +0000

In reply to A bit too subtle for for

I shudder to think The funny thing is, they can't actually review more than the tiniest fraction of what they sweep up...talk about the chaff driving out the wheat.

No, it's millions. avast &

jollyroger — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:06:12 +0000

In reply to No, it's millions.

No, it's millions. avast & ahoy & keelhaul me for a boy.... Should have gone w/my instincts. thirteen million lines? that is positively tiresome...didn't know that my (treasured) android phone runs linux..you learn something everyday

I like the fact that you pity

Pseudonyous Revolution — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:45:23 +0000

In reply to Yeah. It's a pretty good

I like the fact that you pity Greg Hoglund; it speaks well of your humanity. But the hard and simple fact is that Greg and Penny (who she refers to as the "power twins" in her 11 Sept 2010 email to him: http://anonleaks.ru/email8.html) were about to profit from Aaron Barr's activities. How many other such projects had the Hoglunds been involved in through either of the HB Gary incarnations? (It seems we may soon know). Was Barr some kind of rogue digi-terror hobbiest that Greg and Penny naively trusted to run HB Gary Federal; a company that, according to Anonymous, Greg says "was created to do all of our classified work for the U.S. government"?

The game is over. As you pointed out "people are going on watch lists and people not in America are getting flat-out snatched off the streets. Those lists have the ability to impact lives very negatively - it's modern era McCarthyism." People IN AMERICA have also been snatched off of the streets (Maher Arar, for example, http://tinyurl.com/renderUS ). Not only that, but the USG has an acknowledged assassination program which already targets U.S. citizens ( http://tinyurl.com/murderUS ). Thousands of people are helping with these nefarious projects...and many many others.

Are we supposed to wait for other generations to sort this stuff out after the tortured and imprisoned innocents and their tormenters are long dead? Are we - an admittedly sophisticated populace in spite of much evidence to the contrary - really going to feign being ignorant of what is happening?

Greg Hoglund and Penny Leavy-Hoglund are two of many venal, crypto-fascist tools providing the "intelligence" and infrastructure for corporatist/politico control of the United States. I don't give a hoot about rootkit or Greg's headshot or the fact that he and Penny are animal lovers. You know, I hate to bring up the Nazi's...I really really do because it undermines most arguments...but people like Greg and Penny are what Hannah Arendt was referring to when she wrote about "the banality of evil." But maybe I'm wrong; perhaps we now need a new term. How about "the inadvertancy of evil" or "the circumstantiality of evil" or "the understandability of evil among the business class"?

Also, I haven't heard report of the Hoglund's coming out to condemn the plot to destroy Glenn Greenwald and other pundits supporting Wikileaks...or Wikileaks for that matter.

To my mind, Anonymous and Wikileaks and organizations like it are the only hope for reform in developed, capitalist Western societies. And to quote an Anonymous Twitter post from yesterday:

"@PalantirTech welcome to the Jedis. @HBGaryPR Burn in hell."