vrijdag 31 december 2010
donderdag 30 december 2010
Ol Skool: 2006 Essay by Julian Assange
December 5, 2006
Of Potholes and Foresight
The Road to Hanoi
By JULIAN ASSANGE
It seems like everyone I meet plans to follow the young Che Guavara, now that seduction of random latinos has been politically sanctified, and take off on their motorbike and adventure through the poverty and pleasures of South and Central America. And who can blame them? But there are other lands to explore.
Last year I rode my motorcycle from Ho Chi Min City (Saigon) to Hanoi, up the highway that borders the South China Sea.
On the road to Hanoi something caught my attention and that of every vehicle near me. We had to watch constantly and take action every few seconds or it would have killed us all. READ ON
Of Potholes and Foresight
The Road to Hanoi
By JULIAN ASSANGE
It seems like everyone I meet plans to follow the young Che Guavara, now that seduction of random latinos has been politically sanctified, and take off on their motorbike and adventure through the poverty and pleasures of South and Central America. And who can blame them? But there are other lands to explore.
Last year I rode my motorcycle from Ho Chi Min City (Saigon) to Hanoi, up the highway that borders the South China Sea.
On the road to Hanoi something caught my attention and that of every vehicle near me. We had to watch constantly and take action every few seconds or it would have killed us all. READ ON
http://rop.gonggri.jp/
...I live next door, in the Netherlands, where the perspective is a little different. For one we have a constitution but no Constitutional Court. Under the dutch system, it is simply assumed that parliament would never introduce laws that would violate the constitution. So our constitution serves as a ‘voluntary guideline for legislators’ if you will. And just in case the constitution might still get in the way, every prohibition ends with ‘unless warranted by law’. I don’t want to be only negative, I guess our constitution does protect us from municipal governments going rogue, as they cannot make laws.
What this means in practice is that in the Netherlands you need a Parliamentary majority to stop anything bad from happening. So in the Netherlands fear-mongering can be more effectively used by the government to pass oppressive laws. And it has been. Against a backdrop of increasing xenophobia the Dutch are databasing everything that involves moving people, money or bits, to be used against us in various ways. We are at the point now where – without any specific suspicion – a dutch homeowner can get a letter announcing a search of their home in order to “make the city safer”. And whatever bits of surveillance state are missing are being built at breakneck speeds... READ ALL HERE
woensdag 29 december 2010
"Be the trouble you want to see in the world" The American Wikileaks Hacker Jacob Appelbaum
On July 29th, returning from a trip to Europe, Jacob Appelbaum, a lanky, unassuming 27-year-old wearing a black T-shirt with the slogan "Be the trouble you want to see in the world," was detained at customs by a posse of federal agents. In an interrogation room at Newark Liberty airport, he was grilled about his role in Wikileaks, the whistle-blower group that has exposed the government's most closely guarded intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan. The agents photocopied his receipts, seized three of his cellphones — he owns more than a dozen — and confiscated his computer. They informed him that he was under government surveillance. They questioned him about the trove of 91,000 classified military documents that Wikileaks had released the week before, a leak that Vietnam-era activist Daniel Ellsberg called "the largest unauthorized disclosure since the Pentagon Papers." They demanded to know where Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, was hiding. They pressed him on his opinions about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Appelbaum refused to answer. Finally, after three hours, he was released.Read MORE
maandag 27 december 2010
2010 In Review - The Year the Internet Went to War
It was a year without parallel. Threat Level’s bread-and-butter themes of censorship, hacking, security, privacy, copyright and cyberwar were all represented in tug-of-war struggles with unprecedented outcomes.
Read HERE
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d0z.me: the evil URL shortener
I, like many people, have been closely following a lot of the chaos happening around the recent Wikileaks dump, and was particularly fascinated by the DDoS attacks by activists on either side. One tool specifically caught my eye in the midst of the attacks, however: the JS LOIC. The tool works simply by constantly altering an image file's source location, so that the browser is forced to continuously hammer the targeted server with HTTP requests. Not a sophisticated or technically interesting tool by any means, but conceptually interesting in that it only requires a browser to execute one's portion of a DoS attack. While the concept itself is not all that new, it got me thinking about the implications of such browser based DoS attacks. Clearly, it opens the door for the creation of a DDoS botnet without ever having to actually exploit the hosts participating in the network; all that is required is to get some Javascript to run in the participants' browsers. (GOON)
zondag 26 december 2010
The Blast Shack
The Wikileaks Cablegate scandal is the most exciting and interesting hacker scandal ever. I rather commonly write about such things, and I’m surrounded by online acquaintances who take a burning interest in every little jot and tittle of this ongoing saga. So it’s going to take me a while to explain why this highly newsworthy event fills me with such a chilly, deadening sense of Edgar Allen Poe melancholia.
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zaterdag 25 december 2010
Celebrate Grav-Mass
Celebration of Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday, created by Richard Matthew Stallman (aka “rms”).Stallman chooses not to celebrate Christmas, instead celebrating on December 25 a holiday of his own invention, “Grav-mass”. The name and date are references to Isaac Newton, whose birthday falls on that day on the old style calendar.(wiki)
vrijdag 24 december 2010
donderdag 23 december 2010
woensdag 22 december 2010
dinsdag 21 december 2010
2010 Report on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks - Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, Ryan McGrady, Jillian York, John Palfrey
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Introduction
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for a brief interval but occasionally for longer. In this paper, we explore the specific phenomenon of DDoS attacks on independent media and human rights organizations, seeking to understand the nature and frequency of these attacks, their efficacy, and the responses available to sites under attack. Our report offers advice to independent media and human rights sites likely to be targeted by DDoS but comes to the uncomfortable conclusion that there is no easy solution to these attacks for many of these sites, particularly for attacks that exhaust network bandwidth.
This paper makes recommendations for how independent sites can best mitigate the impact of DDoS.
VIA
Introduction
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for a brief interval but occasionally for longer. In this paper, we explore the specific phenomenon of DDoS attacks on independent media and human rights organizations, seeking to understand the nature and frequency of these attacks, their efficacy, and the responses available to sites under attack. Our report offers advice to independent media and human rights sites likely to be targeted by DDoS but comes to the uncomfortable conclusion that there is no easy solution to these attacks for many of these sites, particularly for attacks that exhaust network bandwidth.
This paper makes recommendations for how independent sites can best mitigate the impact of DDoS.
VIA
maandag 20 december 2010
zondag 19 december 2010
Freedom by Eva and Franco Mattes aka 01.ORG
Freedom (2010) is a performance we did in the game Counter-Strike, where Eva tries to convince the other players to save her because she is trying to make an artwork. The result is her being endlessly killed and abused.(Turn HD on to read the chat.)
0100101110101101.org Internet cornucopia vs. high art constipation
We wanted to make a work about Internet’s overflowing creativity vs. high art fixation with originality. We found a cat meme collage circulating online, and we ended up making this fake sculpture by art-star Maurizio Cattelan with it. It’s a small yellow taxidermy bird perched atop a birdcage that imprisons an angry-looking taxidermy cat.
The piece has been exhibited at Inman Gallery Annex, in Houston, TX, for a month now as a work by Cattelan, and will be there through January 15, 2011. We thought, let’s wear the mask of a famous artist and see what happens: Will people realize it immediately? Will they say ‘this is his worst work ever?’ Or will they love it?
The reception by the art world has been enthusiastic so far. Who knows what’s going to happen when they find out it’s a prank.
(VIA)
vrijdag 17 december 2010
A Leg Up - Popsci
“It was pretty quickly introducing secondary trauma,” he says. “People are not constructed to walk on their arms.” - Jeff Webber. (body to gravity interface?)
HERE
donderdag 16 december 2010
woensdag 15 december 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange By Michael Moore
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars.
Read Moore
Tord Gustavsen Ensemble: Tears Transforming
My soundtrack for today.Sometimes you need to take a break to think for yourself.Don't resignate but stay in deep skeptics.
dinsdag 14 december 2010
Bob Beckel Wants Julian Assange Assassinated!
"A dead man can't leak stuff," Beckel said. "This guy's a traitor, he's treasonous, and he has broken every law of the United States. And I'm not for the death penalty, so...there's only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch."
WikiLeaks Spending Rises Dramatically to $500,000 - Wired.com
WikiLeaks’ expenditures have risen dramatically from a paltry $38,000 between October 2009 and July 2010 to more than $495,000 in the last five months, according to a foundation that manages most of the organization’s donations.
HERE
Last Delivery of the Day
Libby and Misty deliver the last petitions of the day. 1 million voices for strong Net Neutrality rules, 1 million more to deliver to Chairman Genachowski tomorrow. Thanks to all who made a delivery today, and thanks to those of you who followed our marathon online. See you tomorrow!
NICE (VIDS) HERE
NICE (VIDS) HERE
maandag 13 december 2010
Assange prosecution would be "extremely dangerous" - Salon.com
zondag 12 december 2010
zaterdag 11 december 2010
Videograms of a Revolution - Romania 1989 (English version) Part 1
Found the full version on youtube. Enjoy poverty!
vrijdag 10 december 2010
Wilkie slams PM on WikiLeaks
KEY federal Independent MP Andrew Wilkie (Australian) has blasted Prime Minister Julia Gillard (Australian) over her response to the damaging WikiLeaks diplomatic cables posted online by Australian citizen and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Read HERE
donderdag 9 december 2010
Operation Payback - Anonymous Message About ACTA Laws, Internet Censorship and Copyright
Operation Payback (is a bitch), this is the Internet, we run this. An open message from Anonymous to the governments of the world and their legal leeches regarding the motivation of the cyber protests.
Corrupt governments of the world, we are anonymous. For some time now, voices have been crying out in unison against the new ACTA laws. The gross inadequacies of the new laws being passed internationally have been pointed out repeatedly. Our chief complaint is that such measures would restrict people's access to the internet.
In these modern times access to the internet is fast becoming a basic human right. Just like any other basic human right, we believe that it is wrong to infringe upon it. To threaten to cut people off from the global consciousness as you have is criminal and abhorrent. To move to censor content on the internet based on your own prejudice is at best laughably impossible, at worst, morally reprehensible.
The unjust restrictions you impose on us will meet with disaster and only strengthen our resolve to disobey and rebel against your tyranny. Such actions taken against you, and those you out source your malignant litigation too, are inevitable, unavoidable and unstoppable.
We Are Anonymous,
We Are Legion And Divided By Zero.
We Do Not Forgive Internet Censorship
And We Do Not Forget Free Speech.
We Are Over 9000,
Expect Us!
The Late Leonid
"A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words?
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The quotation has wrongly been translated as: A Picture Is Worth One Thousand Words.
In fact, the literal translation is: A Picture's Meaning Can Express Ten Thousand Words.
Somehow the phony Chinese proverb over the years has been given the literal meaning that a picture is equivalent to a thousand words setting up a clash between words and pictures in the minds of users of the two. With digital hegemony, visual messages have reasserted their position as an important communication medium, but at the cost of not recognizing the combination of words and pictures as vital in communication. With the correct interpretation of the proverb, words and pictures live in harmony as they are both used equally in order to understand the meaning of any work that uses them both."
From HERE
Visa vs. AnonOps
Screenshots of both sites.Visa vs. AnonOps! [2h ago]
Gun down for now...we'll see who's next!
woensdag 8 december 2010
DDoS vs. visa.com down_
...recent HIVEMIND (DDOS) attack on visa.com!
For Julian! For FREEDOM on the Internet! Don't be pussy.Get your weapons HERE!
Mastercard Down
(Reuters) - Hackers have crashed the website of credit card firm MasterCard in apparent retaliation for its blocking of donations to the Wikileaks website, the BBC and other media reported on Wednesday.(VIA)
dinsdag 7 december 2010
Gmail Hackster
"Good News" My gmail account got hacked this afternoon.China? Got strange emails sent?
It wasn't me.
maandag 6 december 2010
Not such wicked leaks - Umberto Eco
The WikiLeaks affair has twofold value. On the one hand, it turns out to be a bogus scandal, a scandal that only appears to be a scandal against the backdrop of the hypocrisy governing relations between the state, the citizenry and the press. On the other hand, it heralds a sea change in international communication – and prefigures a regressive future of “crabwise” progress.
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