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Thursday 26 December 2013
Asylum for whistleblower
Asylum for whistleblower
Edward Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena shows a copy of a temporary document allowing the whistleblower to cross the border into Russia. Photograph: AP
Source: The Guardian
Edward Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena shows a copy of a temporary document allowing the whistleblower to cross the border into Russia. Photograph: AP
The White House expressed anger and dismay on Thursday after Russiagranted temporary asylum to the American whistleblower Edward Snowden and allowed him to leave the Moscow airport where he had been holed up for over a month.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the US was "extremely disappointed" by the decision, almost certainly taken personally by President Vladimir Putin. He said Moscow should hand Snowden back and hinted that Barack Obama might now boycott a bilateral meeting with Putin in September, due to be held when the US president travels to Russia for a G20 summit.
Carney added that Snowden had arrived in both China and Russia carrying with him thousands of top secret US documents. He said: "Simply the possession of that kind of highly sensitive classified information outside of secure areas is both a huge risk and a violation.
"As we know he's been in Russia now for many weeks. There is a huge risk associated with … removing that information from secure areas. You shouldn't do it, you can't do it, it's wrong."
With US-Russian relations now at a cold war-style low, Snowden slipped out of Sheremetyevo airport on Thursday afternoon. His lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, said Russia's federal migration service had granted him temporary asylum for one year. Snowden had left the airport to stay at an undisclosed location with expatriate Americans, he added.
Putin made no immediate comment. But having weighed Russia's options for some weeks, he appears to have decided that Snowden's propaganda value outweighs any possible US repercussions. Obama's already floundering attempts to "reset", or improve, relations with Moscow are in effect over.
In a statement released by WikiLeaks, Snowden thanked the Russian authorities and accused the US of behaving illegally. He made no explicit mention of the trial of Bradley Manning, who this week was convicted of espionage and faces 136 years in jail.
Snowden said: "Over the past eight weeks we have seen the Obama administration show no respect for international or domestic law, but in the end the law is winning."
He added: "I thank the Russian Federation for granting me asylum in accordance with its laws and international obligations."
Snowden has been given a temporary Russian travel document, with his name in Cyrillic and a fresh passport photo. "This gave him the right to temporary asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation, Kucherena said, holding up a copy of the document. US authorities had cancelled his American passport.
Security officials said Snowden officially crossed the border into Russia from the airport's transit zone at about 3.30pm local time. Russia had apparently not informed the US of the move in advance. The state TV channel Rossiya 24 showed a photograph of Snowden's departure, as he clambered into a grey unmarked car.
Despite being pictured from behind Snowden was instantly recognisable wearing his trademark grey shirt and carrying a black backpack. Next to him was Sarah Harrison, the WikiLeaks representative who accompanied him last month on his flight from Hong Kong.
Kucherena declined to provide details on where Snowden was heading, citing safety concerns. "Since he is the most hunted person in the world, he will address the question of security today," he told journalists.
The former NSA employee will himself choose his place of residence and forms of protection, he added. Previously, some speculated that the Russian government was keeping Snowden hidden, although the whistleblower and his lawyer have denied that, adding that he has had no contact with Russian security services.
The whistleblower's father, Lon Snowden, had reportedly been planning to visit his son. Kucherena said on Wednesday that he was sending an invitation to Snowden's father so he could obtain a Russian visa. Kucherena told Rossiya 24 on Thursday that he would be speaking to the father later in the day to arrange his visit.
US authorities have repeatedly called on Moscow to return the fugitive to face charges in America. Last week America's attorney general, Eric Holder, sent a letter to Russia's justice minister promising that Snowden would not be tortured and that he would not face the death penalty if handed over to the US.
Russian officials previously said they had no jurisdiction to return Snowden, as he was not officially located on Russian territory, and that the US had not filed an official extradition request.
The Kremlin did not immediately comment on Snowden's temporary asylum. Putin has previously said repeatedly that to remain in Russia, Snowden must stop activities harming the United States. His lawyer suggested that fresh revelations published by the Guardian on Wednesday and Thursday had come from documents that Snowden had already given the paper before Putin made his comments.
Russia's decision has emboldened hawkish critics of the White House, who have long dubbed Obama's attempts to improve relations with Putin as naive and inappropriate. In a statement on his website, Senator John McCain said: "Russia's action today is a disgrace and a deliberate effort to embarrass the United States. It is a slap in the face of all Americans. Now is the time to fundamentally rethink our relationship with Putin's Russia."
He proposed in response to expand the Magnitsky Act list of banned Russian officials, push for Georgia's acceptance into Nato and implement US missile defence programmes in Europe.
At the White House, Carney made it clear that President Obama was frustrated by the decision by Russia to allow Snowden to enter the country, and that a planned presidential summit was now in jeopardy.
Obama is scheduled to travel to Russia in September for at meeting of G20 leaders in St Petersburg. He also planned to meet Putin for a bilateral summit during the trip in what would have been a sign of improving relations between the two powers.
That meeting is now under review. "Obviously this is not a positive development," Carney said. "We have a wide range of interests with the Russians. We are evaluating the utility of the summit."
Amnesty International called for the focus to switch from Snowden's asylum plight to the "sweeping nature and unlawfulness" of the US government's surveillance programmes.
Widney Brown, senior director for international law and policy at Amnesty, said in a statement: "Now that Edward Snowden has left the airport and has protected status in Russia, the focus really needs to be on the US government's surveillance programs. Snowden would not have needed temporary asylum but for revealing the sweeping nature and unlawfulness of a massive system of domestic and international surveillance by the United States government."
A survey showed that 43% of Russians supported granting Snowden asylum and 51% approved of his whistleblowing activities. Kucherena said he had received numerous letters from Russians offering Snowden lodging, protection and money, as well as from women interested in Snowden romantically.
Pavel Durov, the founder of Russia's most popular social network, VKontakte, invited Snowden to come work as a programmer at the network, in a post on his VKontakte page on Thursday.
Source: The Guardian
Saturday 30 November 2013
Anonymous hackers leak mafia and corruption documents from Italian Government
Anonymous hackers leak mafia and corruption documents from Italian Government
Anonymous hackers claim to have breached the personal computer and mobile devices of Giuseppe Scopelliti, an Italian politician and a member of The People of Freedom party, currently the elected president of Calabria. This is allegedly only the first in a series of leaks targeting Italian regional governments.
The leak is part of a campaign called Operation Italy. The approximately 1,000 documents leaked on this occasion are related to the mafia, drugs and corruption, according to the hackers. The files include emails allegedly belonging to Scopelliti and members of his staff.
Anonymous accuses Scopelliti of not doing anything to stop the mafia’s activities in Calabria.
“This is just a beginning. People of Italia do have the right to know what the government is involved in, especially when it comes to mafia wars and corruption in the region,” the hacktivsts wrote oncyberguerilla.org.
The hackers say that the president of Calabria is only their first target. The leaders of regions such as Lombardia, Sicilia, Toscana, Campania and Puglia are next.
“While we are not that happy with the politics of many governors, especially when it comes to protecting mafia, corruption and economic downfall, it has come to this – we managed to infect most of the personal computers in regional administrations, mainly presidents of Calabria, Lombardia, Sicilia, Toscana, Campania and Puglia,” the hacktivists stated.
The leak is part of a campaign called Operation Italy. The approximately 1,000 documents leaked on this occasion are related to the mafia, drugs and corruption, according to the hackers. The files include emails allegedly belonging to Scopelliti and members of his staff.
Anonymous accuses Scopelliti of not doing anything to stop the mafia’s activities in Calabria.
“This is just a beginning. People of Italia do have the right to know what the government is involved in, especially when it comes to mafia wars and corruption in the region,” the hacktivsts wrote oncyberguerilla.org.
The hackers say that the president of Calabria is only their first target. The leaders of regions such as Lombardia, Sicilia, Toscana, Campania and Puglia are next.
“While we are not that happy with the politics of many governors, especially when it comes to protecting mafia, corruption and economic downfall, it has come to this – we managed to infect most of the personal computers in regional administrations, mainly presidents of Calabria, Lombardia, Sicilia, Toscana, Campania and Puglia,” the hacktivists stated.
#Anonymous Leaked Account Data for 4,000 Bank Executives on a Government Website
#Anonymous Leaked Account Data for 4,000 Bank Executives on a Government Website
After hacking up government websites last week, and the week before, Anonymous has pulled off another hack to push their agenda of reforming computer crime law in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide. This time, they've leaked names, addresses, and other information about over 4,000 bank executives. And they did it all on a government site.
The leak which is still posted on the official Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center website as of this writing is another another arm of Operation Last Resort. Until now the project has involved plenty of threats but no actual leaks. The leaked info includes titles, addresses, phone numbers, emails, ID numbers, and hashed passwords of the affected bank executives, and while that may seem sort of tangentially related to computer crime reform, that's how Anonymous has been spinning it.
So far there's been no official response to the leak from the parties affected, but there's little reason to believe that all that information is fabricated. Anonymous has been on a pretty successful run of defacing government websites, and it looks like it isn't going to end any time soon. Sure, this hack isn't quite as happy-go-lucky as their last, but it's definitely a pretty serious accomplishment. And you can bet this isn't the end of it.
The leak which is still posted on the official Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center website as of this writing is another another arm of Operation Last Resort. Until now the project has involved plenty of threats but no actual leaks. The leaked info includes titles, addresses, phone numbers, emails, ID numbers, and hashed passwords of the affected bank executives, and while that may seem sort of tangentially related to computer crime reform, that's how Anonymous has been spinning it.
So far there's been no official response to the leak from the parties affected, but there's little reason to believe that all that information is fabricated. Anonymous has been on a pretty successful run of defacing government websites, and it looks like it isn't going to end any time soon. Sure, this hack isn't quite as happy-go-lucky as their last, but it's definitely a pretty serious accomplishment. And you can bet this isn't the end of it.
From trusted source
Leaked document of 5000 Israeli Officials - #Anonymous #OpIsrael
Leaked document of 5000 Israeli Officials - #Anonymous #OpIsrael
Greetings Citizens of the world, This is Anonymous. It has come to our attention that the Israeli government has ignored repeated warnings about the abuse of human rights, shutting down the internet in Israel and mistreating its own citizens and those of its neighboring countries. November 2012 will be a month to remember for the Israeli defense forces and internet security forces. Israeli Gov. this is/will turn into a cyberwar.
We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We will not forgive.
We will not forget.
Israel, it is too late to expect us.
#OpIsrael #Anonymous
More: Current Internet, telecommunication and death toll situation/status in #Gaza | #OpIsrael:http://tmblr.co/ZNMTdvXOLg0b
Livestream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/operation-pillar-of-cloud
Video: http://youtu.be/O6t9Kr2wWzE
Arabic: http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste2/index.php?89452a7861b4af1d#hFCbUSaOGM+ZBIgJPGEOBwxEjxV0lNNnbdPQnx0uQRw=
Arabic v2.0: http://www.mediafire.com/?hpnne29xvx1ceuv
Care Package: http://bayfiles.com/file/rPjj/a7ehrr/Op_Israel_Care_Package_For_Gaza.zip
From trusted source
We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We will not forgive.
We will not forget.
Israel, it is too late to expect us.
#OpIsrael #Anonymous
More: Current Internet, telecommunication and death toll situation/status in #Gaza | #OpIsrael:http://tmblr.co/ZNMTdvXOLg0b
Livestream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/operation-pillar-of-cloud
Video: http://youtu.be/O6t9Kr2wWzE
Arabic: http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste2/index.php?89452a7861b4af1d#hFCbUSaOGM+ZBIgJPGEOBwxEjxV0lNNnbdPQnx0uQRw=
Arabic v2.0: http://www.mediafire.com/?hpnne29xvx1ceuv
Care Package: http://bayfiles.com/file/rPjj/a7ehrr/Op_Israel_Care_Package_For_Gaza.zip
From trusted source
#Anonymous hacker Christopher Weatherhead jailed for 18 months
#Anonymous hacker Christopher Weatherhead jailed for 18 months
Anonymous hacker Christopher Weatherhead has been handed an 18-month jail sentence for carrying out a series of high-profile distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
The 22-year-old was previously convicted of hacking into the websites of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal, costing the latter an estimated £3.5 million, Sky News reports.
Fellow Anonymous members Ashley Rhodes and Peter Gibson were tried alongside Weatherhead at Southwark Crown Court, receiving seven months in jail and a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, respectively.
Rhodes, 28, was found guilty of conspiring with Weatherhead to impair the operations of the targeted businesses between 2010 and 2011, while 24-year-old Gibson was deemed to have played a lesser role, which he admitted to. Judge Peter Testar said: "It is intolerable that when an individual or a group disagrees with a particular entity's activities they should be free to curtail that activity by means of attacks such as those which took place in this case."
A fourth man, 18-year-old Jake Birchall, has also admitted to playing a part in the conspiracy and will be sentenced at a later date. DDoS attacks overload computer systems by hitting them with an impossible number of requests simultaneously.
Victims of the Weatherhead-led attacks, referred to as Operation Payback, received the following message: "You've tried to bite the Anonymous hand. You angered the hive and now you are being stung." The ring leader is believed to have targeted Paypal after it refused to process transactions for the Wau Holland Foundation, a group attempting to raise funding for WikiLeaks.
The 22-year-old was previously convicted of hacking into the websites of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal, costing the latter an estimated £3.5 million, Sky News reports.
Fellow Anonymous members Ashley Rhodes and Peter Gibson were tried alongside Weatherhead at Southwark Crown Court, receiving seven months in jail and a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, respectively.
Rhodes, 28, was found guilty of conspiring with Weatherhead to impair the operations of the targeted businesses between 2010 and 2011, while 24-year-old Gibson was deemed to have played a lesser role, which he admitted to. Judge Peter Testar said: "It is intolerable that when an individual or a group disagrees with a particular entity's activities they should be free to curtail that activity by means of attacks such as those which took place in this case."
A fourth man, 18-year-old Jake Birchall, has also admitted to playing a part in the conspiracy and will be sentenced at a later date. DDoS attacks overload computer systems by hitting them with an impossible number of requests simultaneously.
Victims of the Weatherhead-led attacks, referred to as Operation Payback, received the following message: "You've tried to bite the Anonymous hand. You angered the hive and now you are being stung." The ring leader is believed to have targeted Paypal after it refused to process transactions for the Wau Holland Foundation, a group attempting to raise funding for WikiLeaks.
From trusted source
#OpMaryville
Greetings, citizens of the internet, we are Anonymous - #OpMaryville
#OpMaryville script,Click here to view
"On October 14, we demanded that Daisy's case be reopened and justice be brought to the boys. And even though our press release has been removed by YouTube for spam and other supposed 'community violations,' fear us as the Hydra; cut off one head, and two more will rise up to take its place. Our demands will be met. It's time for the 'good old boys club' to come to an end in Maryville."
Source: Anonymous member
#OpNorthkorea
#OpNorthKorea
Anonymous Hackers started their #OpNorthKorea and websites are going down and after a recheck many of the websites still down and the major websites down, they are mostly related with the Media websites of Korea.
http://country.zbjcy.gov.cn/index.html
chosonsinbo.com (The Choson Sinbo (Chosun Shinbo) is a newspaper based in Japan, published in both Korean and Japanese)
http://ryomyong.com
http://ksf.com.kp ( Korea Sports Fund)
http://www.airkoryo.com.kp (state-owned national flag carrier airline of North Korea)
http://www.kcna.kp (Korean Central News Agency)
http://procp.tok2.com/
http://www.rodong.rep.kp (Digital edition of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper)
http://www.nosotek.com
http://www.store.zbjcy.gov.cn/index.html
http://www.pust.kr) Pyongyang University of Science and Technology
http://korea-dpr.com (The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
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*http://www.qygt.gov.cn/home.html
*http://rencai.dongying.gov.cn/home.html
*http://ggfw.leiyang.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.stzsj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.stjgbz.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.newxns.gov.cn/home.html
*http://jsj.jinchuan.gov.cn/home.html
*http://fgj.zjjcl.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.xcxjsj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.kuiwen.gov.cn/home.html
*http://kwzs.gov.cn/home.html
*http://msfw.yzx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.tjztb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://hxtyj.hx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://scblh6.hx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fxhuanbao.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.xsxzfw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://xj.dzgtj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://gsl.cznq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://cps.dalang.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.pyfzw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.rzguotu.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.yzland.gov.cn/home.html
*http://rzdm.gov.cn/home.html
*http://hxfda.hx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://nvxingshouji.qdwater.gov.cn/home.html
*http://flyz.qzsfj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fxrbj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://old.hsrk.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fxcz.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fjnh.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.baotou-epb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.jxcgzf.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.nxforestry.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.mudu.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.tspop.gov.cn/home.html
*http://glga.gao-ling.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyjsw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyls.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dylk.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyzfw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dywjj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyxcb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.xsjjkfq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dydzj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dygxzs.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyjgswj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyfzb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyfgw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://eport.my.gov.cn/home.html
*http://zhc.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://zztjj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://jgbz.shaoxing.gov.cn/home.html
*http://ga.10.gov.cn/home.html
LEAKS Disclosure of some uriminzokkiri charge members, Rest will be on Wiki-leaks:
Anonymous Hackers started their #OpNorthKorea and websites are going down and after a recheck many of the websites still down and the major websites down, they are mostly related with the Media websites of Korea.
http://country.zbjcy.gov.cn/index.html
chosonsinbo.com (The Choson Sinbo (Chosun Shinbo) is a newspaper based in Japan, published in both Korean and Japanese)
http://ryomyong.com
http://ksf.com.kp ( Korea Sports Fund)
http://www.airkoryo.com.kp (state-owned national flag carrier airline of North Korea)
http://www.kcna.kp (Korean Central News Agency)
http://procp.tok2.com/
http://www.rodong.rep.kp (Digital edition of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper)
http://www.nosotek.com
http://www.store.zbjcy.gov.cn/index.html
http://www.pust.kr) Pyongyang University of Science and Technology
http://korea-dpr.com (The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
*http://hypn0s1s.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.hblyw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://dafuk-banget.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://country.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://dhdfsfh.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://yfmubik.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://jkggkgkf.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://fekiyynet7854.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://yiangzhoun.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.cn.academic.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.de.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.question.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.faqs.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.en.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.job.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.media.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.security.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.mobile.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.consult.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.store.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.admin.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.manager.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.host.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.medic.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://jgj.nc.gov.cn/home.html *http://21a.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://21a45.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://21a4.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://68a5.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://58a7.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://57a4.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://12a33.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://12a2.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://12a1.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://sasd.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://hafd.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://hafdsd.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://gath.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://cdad.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://22a4.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://noate.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://asae.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://iika11.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://naah2.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://bisaa.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://anaux.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://catr23.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://axyz.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://21.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://2145.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://214.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://587.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://574.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://1233.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://224.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://note.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://ase.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://iik11.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://nah2.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://bisa.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://anux.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://ctr23.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html*http://www.data.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.invest.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.play.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.shop.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.headmaster.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.accounting.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.academic.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.secretary.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.agendas.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.news.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.zhc.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.zd.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://marikath2.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://sites52.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.lz.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.zc.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://woodborough.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.bs.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://edu.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://ballsport.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://cd.whlib.gov.cn/home.html *http://antoonantoon.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://xzzf.cgjsw.gov.cn/home.html *http://ww2.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.xfj.suzhou.gov.cn/home.html *http://source.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://cia.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.yz110.gov.cn/home.html *http://www.hrbcb.gov.cn/home.html *http://arp.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://the.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://mr-x.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://ts11-c4.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://plntm.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://sm.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://v007.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://kirua.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://rbs.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://dasilva.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html *http://kc.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://fenix.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://pk007.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://garuda.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://wen.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://cimy.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.qhdhb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.kuiwen.gov.cn/home.html
*http://msfw.yzx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.tianzhushan.gov.cn/home.html
*http://jcj.zhumadian.gov.cn/home.html
*http://bmj.zhumadian.gov.cn/home.html
*http://gsl.cznq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://kwzs.gov.cn/home.html
*http://zw.zfxxgk.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.jmzjj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.pyfzw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.yzland.gov.cn/home.html
*http://rzdm.gov.cn/home.html
*http://nvxingshouji.qdwater.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fjnh.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.baotou-epb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.ydqcz.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.shangri-la.gov.cn/home.html
*http://fg.zfxxgk.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.czmsgc.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.nxforestry.gov.cn/home.html
*http://jgbz.shaoxing.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.tongcheng.jcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://ga.10.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.czkx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://wjj.nc.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.pccm.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.qnczj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.tmlr.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.zgcz.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.sxjxga.gov.cn/home.html
*http://gg.zigui.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dywater.gov.cn/home.html
*http://wbxq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://zztjj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://fgj.zjjcl.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.hncz93.gov.cn/home.html
*http://cyxh.anhua.gov.cn/home.html
*http://lyj.anhua.gov.cn/home.html
*http://wsj.anhua.gov.cn/home.html
*http://daj.anhua.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.ahrdxx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://syjd.anhua.gov.cn/home.html
*http://cl.anhua.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.ahzxw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://ggfw.leiyang.gov.cn/home.html
*http://nyp.aqny.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.wgjsj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.sxrsrc.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fxrbj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://gzzw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.ahstfl.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.czzdj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dcjsw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://rfb.kyqq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://lgbj.kyqq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://keqz.kyqq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://etz.kyqq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://aldesm.kyqq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://lszxc.kyqq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://rencai.dongying.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.stjgbz.gov.cn/home.html
*http://kfq.tslr.gov.cn/home.html
*http://xxb.leiyang.gov.cn/home.html
*http://oa.nbxsws.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.hljms.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.jzgh.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dt.smesx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.xhgaj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fxhuanbao.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fxcz.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.tjztb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.ahjzmz.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.newxns.gov.cn/home.html
*http://old.hsrk.gov.cn/home.html
*http://jsj.jinchuan.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.stzsj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.hnlyrd.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.scnc.lss.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.hblyw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://scnc.lss.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.wenanga.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.qhdhb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://jgj.nc.gov.cn/home.html
*http://zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.yz110.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.jmzjj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://xzzf.cgjsw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.wgjsj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.hncz93.gov.cn/home.html
*http://xxb.leiyang.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.ftp.hbfgw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.abcd.hbfgw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.user.hbfgw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.qygt.gov.cn/home.html
*http://rencai.dongying.gov.cn/home.html
*http://ggfw.leiyang.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.stzsj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.stjgbz.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.newxns.gov.cn/home.html
*http://jsj.jinchuan.gov.cn/home.html
*http://fgj.zjjcl.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.xcxjsj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.kuiwen.gov.cn/home.html
*http://kwzs.gov.cn/home.html
*http://msfw.yzx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.tjztb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://hxtyj.hx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://scblh6.hx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fxhuanbao.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.xsxzfw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://xj.dzgtj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://gsl.cznq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://cps.dalang.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.pyfzw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.rzguotu.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.yzland.gov.cn/home.html
*http://rzdm.gov.cn/home.html
*http://hxfda.hx.gov.cn/home.html
*http://nvxingshouji.qdwater.gov.cn/home.html
*http://flyz.qzsfj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fxrbj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://old.hsrk.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fxcz.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.fjnh.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.baotou-epb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.jxcgzf.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.nxforestry.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.mudu.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.tspop.gov.cn/home.html
*http://glga.gao-ling.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyjsw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyls.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dylk.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyzfw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dywjj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyxcb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.xsjjkfq.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dydzj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dygxzs.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyjgswj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyfzb.gov.cn/home.html
*http://www.dyfgw.gov.cn/home.html
*http://eport.my.gov.cn/home.html
*http://zhc.zbjcy.gov.cn/home.html
*http://zztjj.gov.cn/home.html
*http://jgbz.shaoxing.gov.cn/home.html
*http://ga.10.gov.cn/home.html
LEAKS Disclosure of some uriminzokkiri charge members, Rest will be on Wiki-leaks:
UPDATE:
- 1 More Govt. website hacked by Joker Cracker - http://xzzf.cgjsw.gov.cn/index.htm
UPDATE: 28-06-2013
- Lanzhou Jiaotong University Website hacked by Joker Cracker - http://tmgcxy.lzjtu.edu.cn
- 1 More Education Website hacked by Joker Cracker - http://rsc.xupt.edu.cn/
- http://gc.mau.edu.cn/
- http://biolab.fjnu.edu.cn/
- http://law.zjgsu.edu.cn/
- http://hljei.hrbcu.edu.cn/
- http://www.ltx.cdut.edu.cn/index.html
NOTE:
- Above websites may be recovered in the meantime
Wednesday 27 November 2013
'Anonymous' hacks Singapore Prime Minister's website
'Anonymous' hacks Singapore Prime Minister's website
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's official website has been hacked by people claiming to be members of the hacking group Anonymous.
The attack comes a day after Mr Lee said he would track down the group.
He made the comments after a person claiming to be part of the group posted an online video in which he threatened to hack government websites.
Singapore's internet and phone regulator said part of the website had been "compromised" late on Thursday.
"The PMO main website is still working, and we are working to restore the page that has been compromised," the Infocomm Development Authority said in a statement.
The hackers had posted an image of a Guy Fawkes mask - the symbol of the Anonymous group - on the PM's website with the words: "It's great to be Singaporean today."
Media rules Under new rules, unveiled by the Media Development Authority earlier this year, sites "that report regularly on issues relating to Singapore and have significant reach among readers" require individual licences.
The video, which was posted last month, had protested against the government's new rules for news websites.
Earlier this week, Mr Lee said his government would "spare no effort to try and track down the culprits".
"If we can find him, we will bring him to justice and he will be dealt with severely. You may think you're anonymous but we will make that extra effort to find out who you are," he added.
Earlier this month, a hacker - dubbed The Messiah and claiming to be a part of Anonymous - hacked the website of Singapore's main paper, The Straits Times.
He had left a message saying the paper's report on the video was misleading.
According to reports, The Messiah also claimed responsibility for hacking the website of the Ang Mo Kio Town Council last week, the municipal branch of the prime minister's district.
Hackers linked to Anonymous have defaced dozens of websites belonging to Australian businesses and Philippine government agencies during the past week.
Anonymous Indonesia hacker claims to have shut down RBA, AFP websites
Anonymous Indonesia hacker claims to have shut down RBA, AFP websites
A member of hacking group Anonymous Indonesia has claimed responsibility for cyber attacks on the websites of the Australian Federal Police and the Reserve Bank.
The AFP and the Reserve Bank have confirmed their sites were attacked overnight, though both say the hacker did not gain access to any sensitive information.
The attack comes amid a diplomatic row between Australia and Indonesia, sparked by revelations spies tried to tap the phones of president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and inner circle.
The AFP website was still down about 10.30am AEDT but is now running again, and Commissioner Tony Negus says the agency is investigating the attack.
"We have had an attack on the open source website, not connected to secret networks, but there has been an attempt on our website this morning which is being dealt with," he told reporters.
"I am not sure who is the perpetrator but we are investigating that."
An AFP spokesperson had earlier told the ABC the agency takes any attack "very seriously" and warned hacking is a criminal activity, not "harmless fun".
"All information on the AFP website is publically available. No sensitive information is hosted on the AFP website," the spokesperson added.
The Reserve Bank has also confirmed its website was "the subject of a denial of service attack" about 2.00am.
"There has been no outage, but the bank's website may have been slow for some users," a spokesman said.
The spokesman says protective measures were "effectively deployed" and that the bank's systems remain secure.
The hacker used a series of Twitter posts to claim the sites were successfully shut down, adding: "I'm ready for this war."
Anonymous Indonesia has previously claimed to have hacked more than 150 Australian sites to protest against allegations that Australia used its Jakarta embassy as a spy base.
Tuesday 26 November 2013
Microsoft rushes out fix to prevent attacks on Office PCs
Microsoft rushes out fix to prevent attacks on Office PCs
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp released an emergency software
fix on Tuesday after it learned that hackers had exploited a previously
undiscovered security flaw in its widely used Office software to infect
the PCs of its customers with tainted Word documents.
The software
maker said on its website that it had released the software, known as a
"Fix It," as a temporary measure until it provides an update that will
automatically patch computers to protect against the new threat.
Microsoft
said that it had learned of a "very limited" number of attacks that
exploited the newly discovered vulnerability, mainly in the Middle East
and South Asia. The company did not identify the victims, who received
emails asking them to open the tainted Word documents.
The
vulnerability affects customers using Office 2003 and Office 2007 as
well as those running Office 2010 on Windows XP and Server 2003.
The
attacks took advantage of an undiscovered flaw, or "zero day"
vulnerability in industry parlance, which is usually only used on a
limited number of high-value targets in a bid to keep the flaws a
secret.
Typically, when makers of
widely used software programs issue a warning about a zero-day bug,
groups of hackers rush to reverse-engineer the Fix Its so they can build
computer viruses that also exploit the same vulnerabilities.
Stuart
McClure, chief executive officer of the cybersecurity firm Cylance Inc,
said that businesses using vulnerable versions of Office should install
the Fix It to prevent attacks.
"I definitely think it is something that needs to be patched," he said.
Fix
Its are pieces of software for remediating security flaws that must be
manually downloaded and installed on PCs. They are designed to protect
customers while Microsoft prepares official updates, automatically delivered via the Internet to be installed on computers.
The new Fix It is available at this link: here
Jailed Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond: 'My days of hacking are done'
Jailed Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond: 'My days of hacking are done'
Hammond calls his 10-year sentence a 'vengeful, spiteful act' by US authorities eager to put a chill on political hacking
Jeremy Hammond, the Anonymous hacktivist who released millions of emails relating to the private intelligence firm Stratfor, has denounced his prosecution and lengthy prison sentence as a “vengeful, spiteful act” designed to put a chill on politically-motivated hacking.
Hammond was sentenced on Friday at federal court in Manhattan to the maximum 10 years in jail, plus three years supervised release. He had pleaded guilty to one count under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) flowing from his 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting, Inc, known as Stratfor. In an interview with the Guardian in the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York, conducted on Thursday, he said he was resigned to a long prison term which he sees as a conscious attempt by the US authorities to put a chill on political hacking.
He had no doubt that his sentence would be long, describing it as a "vengeful, spiteful act". He said of his prosecutors: "They have made it clear they are trying to send a message to others who come after me. A lot of it is because they got slapped around, they were embarrassed by Anonymous and they feel that they need to save face.”
Most pointedly, Hammond suggested that the FBI may have manipulated him to carry out hacking attacks on “dozens” of foreign government websites. During his time with Anonymous, the loose collective of hackers working alongside WikiLeaks and other anti-secrecy groups, he was often directed by a individual known pseudonomously on the web as “Sabu”, the leader of the Anonymous-affiliated group Lulzsec, who turned out to be an FBI informant.
Hammond, who is under court orders restricting what he says in public, told the Guardian that Sabu presented him with a list of targets, including many foreign government sites, and encouraged him to break into their computer systems. He said he was not sure whether Sabu was in turn acting on behalf of the FBI or other US government agency, but it was even possible that the FBI was using Sabu’s internet handle directly as contact between the two hackers was always made through cyberspace, never face-to-face.
“It is kind of funny that here they are sentencing me for hacking Stratfor, but at the same time as I was doing that an FBI informant was suggesting to me foreign targets to hit. So you have to wonder how much they really care about protecting the security of websites.”
In the interview, conducted in a secure prison meeting room hours before the 28-year-old Chicagoan was sentenced, he was sanguine about his prospects. “I knew when I started out with Anonymous that being put in jail and having a lengthy sentence was a possibility. Given the nature of the targets I was going after I knew I would upset a lot of powerful people.”
Dressed in a brown prison jump suit, and with a long wispy goatee and moustache (he planned to shave both off before the sentencing hearing), Hammond was scathing about the way the CFAA was being twisted in his view for political ends. “They are widening the definition of what is covered by the Act and using it to target specifically political activists,” he said.
He invoked the memory of Aaron Swartz, the open-data crusader who killed himself in January while awaiting trial under the CFAA for releasing documents from behind the subscription-only paywall of an online research group. “The same beast bit us both,” Hammond said. “They went after Aaron because of his involvement in legitimate political causes – they railroaded charges against him, and look what happened.”
Hammond has been in custody since March 2012 having been arrested in Chicago on suspicion of the Stratfor leak of millions of emails that were eventually released by WikiLeaks as the Global Intelligence Files. His sentence is an indication of the aggression with which prosecutors have been pursuing political hackers in the US – other Anonymous members in Britain involved in the breach of Stratfor were sentenced to much shorter jail terms.
Hammond stressed that he had not benefitted personally in any way from the Stratfor email release, that exposed surveillance by private security firms on activists including Anonymous members themselves, Occupy protesters and campaigners in Bhopal, India involved in the push for compensation for victims of the 1984 industrial catastrophe. “Our main purpose in carrying out the Stratfor hack was to find out what private security and intelligence companies were doing, though none of us had any idea of the scale of it.”
Paradoxically, Hammond insists that he would never have carried out the breach of Stratfor’s computer system had he not been led into doing it by Sabu – real name Hector Xavier Monsegur – the fellow hacker who is himself awaiting sentencing having pleaded guilty to 12 hacking-related criminal charges. “I had never heard of Stratfor until Sabu brought in another hacker who told me about it. Practically, I would never have done the Stratfor hack without Sabu’s involvement.”
Hammond discovered that Monsegur was an FBI informant the day after his own arrest. As he was reading the criminal complaint against him, he saw quotes marked CW for “co-operating witness” that contained details that could only have come from Sabu.
“I felt betrayed, obviously. Though I knew these things happen. What surprised me was that Sabu was involved in so much strategic targeting, in actually identifying targets. He gave me the information on targets.”
Part of Sabu’s interest in him, he now believes, was that Hammond had access to advanced tools including one known as PLESK that allowed him to break into web systems used by large numbers of foreign governments. “The FBI and NSA are clearly able to do their own hacking of other countries. But when a new vulnerability emerges in internet security, sometimes hackers have access to tools that are ahead of them that can be very valuable,” he said.
Looking back on his involvement with anonymous, the Chicagoan said that he had been drawn to work with Anonymous, because he saw it as “a model of resistance – it was decentralised, leaderless.” He grew increasingly political in his hacking focus, partly under the influence of the Occupy movement that began in Wall Street in September 2011 and spread across the country.
Chelsea Manning, the US soldier formerly known as Bradley who leaked a massive trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks now serving a 35-year sentence in military jail, was a major influence on him. Manning showed him that “powerful institutions – whether military or private security firms – are involved in unaccountable activities that the public is totally unaware of that can only be exposed by whistleblowers and hackers”.
Hammond has often described himself as an anarchist. He has a tattoo on his left shoulder of the anarchy symbol with the words: “Freedom, equality, anarchy”. Another tattoo on his left forearm shows the Chinese representation of “leader” or “army”, and a third tattoo on his right forearm is a glider signifying the hacking open-source movement that is drawn from the computer simulation Game of Life .
He says he plans to use his time in prison “reading, writing, working out and playing sports – training myself to become more disciplined so I can be more effective on my release”. As to that release, he says he cannot predict how he will be thinking when he emerges from jail, but doubts that he would go back to hacking. “I think my days of hacking are done. That’s a role for somebody else now,” he said.
Hammond calls his 10-year sentence a 'vengeful, spiteful act' by US authorities eager to put a chill on political hacking
Jeremy Hammond, the Anonymous hacktivist who released millions of emails relating to the private intelligence firm Stratfor, has denounced his prosecution and lengthy prison sentence as a “vengeful, spiteful act” designed to put a chill on politically-motivated hacking.
Hammond was sentenced on Friday at federal court in Manhattan to the maximum 10 years in jail, plus three years supervised release. He had pleaded guilty to one count under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) flowing from his 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting, Inc, known as Stratfor. In an interview with the Guardian in the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York, conducted on Thursday, he said he was resigned to a long prison term which he sees as a conscious attempt by the US authorities to put a chill on political hacking.
He had no doubt that his sentence would be long, describing it as a "vengeful, spiteful act". He said of his prosecutors: "They have made it clear they are trying to send a message to others who come after me. A lot of it is because they got slapped around, they were embarrassed by Anonymous and they feel that they need to save face.”
Most pointedly, Hammond suggested that the FBI may have manipulated him to carry out hacking attacks on “dozens” of foreign government websites. During his time with Anonymous, the loose collective of hackers working alongside WikiLeaks and other anti-secrecy groups, he was often directed by a individual known pseudonomously on the web as “Sabu”, the leader of the Anonymous-affiliated group Lulzsec, who turned out to be an FBI informant.
Hammond, who is under court orders restricting what he says in public, told the Guardian that Sabu presented him with a list of targets, including many foreign government sites, and encouraged him to break into their computer systems. He said he was not sure whether Sabu was in turn acting on behalf of the FBI or other US government agency, but it was even possible that the FBI was using Sabu’s internet handle directly as contact between the two hackers was always made through cyberspace, never face-to-face.
“It is kind of funny that here they are sentencing me for hacking Stratfor, but at the same time as I was doing that an FBI informant was suggesting to me foreign targets to hit. So you have to wonder how much they really care about protecting the security of websites.”
In the interview, conducted in a secure prison meeting room hours before the 28-year-old Chicagoan was sentenced, he was sanguine about his prospects. “I knew when I started out with Anonymous that being put in jail and having a lengthy sentence was a possibility. Given the nature of the targets I was going after I knew I would upset a lot of powerful people.”
Dressed in a brown prison jump suit, and with a long wispy goatee and moustache (he planned to shave both off before the sentencing hearing), Hammond was scathing about the way the CFAA was being twisted in his view for political ends. “They are widening the definition of what is covered by the Act and using it to target specifically political activists,” he said.
He invoked the memory of Aaron Swartz, the open-data crusader who killed himself in January while awaiting trial under the CFAA for releasing documents from behind the subscription-only paywall of an online research group. “The same beast bit us both,” Hammond said. “They went after Aaron because of his involvement in legitimate political causes – they railroaded charges against him, and look what happened.”
Hammond has been in custody since March 2012 having been arrested in Chicago on suspicion of the Stratfor leak of millions of emails that were eventually released by WikiLeaks as the Global Intelligence Files. His sentence is an indication of the aggression with which prosecutors have been pursuing political hackers in the US – other Anonymous members in Britain involved in the breach of Stratfor were sentenced to much shorter jail terms.
Hammond stressed that he had not benefitted personally in any way from the Stratfor email release, that exposed surveillance by private security firms on activists including Anonymous members themselves, Occupy protesters and campaigners in Bhopal, India involved in the push for compensation for victims of the 1984 industrial catastrophe. “Our main purpose in carrying out the Stratfor hack was to find out what private security and intelligence companies were doing, though none of us had any idea of the scale of it.”
Paradoxically, Hammond insists that he would never have carried out the breach of Stratfor’s computer system had he not been led into doing it by Sabu – real name Hector Xavier Monsegur – the fellow hacker who is himself awaiting sentencing having pleaded guilty to 12 hacking-related criminal charges. “I had never heard of Stratfor until Sabu brought in another hacker who told me about it. Practically, I would never have done the Stratfor hack without Sabu’s involvement.”
Hammond discovered that Monsegur was an FBI informant the day after his own arrest. As he was reading the criminal complaint against him, he saw quotes marked CW for “co-operating witness” that contained details that could only have come from Sabu.
“I felt betrayed, obviously. Though I knew these things happen. What surprised me was that Sabu was involved in so much strategic targeting, in actually identifying targets. He gave me the information on targets.”
Part of Sabu’s interest in him, he now believes, was that Hammond had access to advanced tools including one known as PLESK that allowed him to break into web systems used by large numbers of foreign governments. “The FBI and NSA are clearly able to do their own hacking of other countries. But when a new vulnerability emerges in internet security, sometimes hackers have access to tools that are ahead of them that can be very valuable,” he said.
Looking back on his involvement with anonymous, the Chicagoan said that he had been drawn to work with Anonymous, because he saw it as “a model of resistance – it was decentralised, leaderless.” He grew increasingly political in his hacking focus, partly under the influence of the Occupy movement that began in Wall Street in September 2011 and spread across the country.
Chelsea Manning, the US soldier formerly known as Bradley who leaked a massive trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks now serving a 35-year sentence in military jail, was a major influence on him. Manning showed him that “powerful institutions – whether military or private security firms – are involved in unaccountable activities that the public is totally unaware of that can only be exposed by whistleblowers and hackers”.
Hammond has often described himself as an anarchist. He has a tattoo on his left shoulder of the anarchy symbol with the words: “Freedom, equality, anarchy”. Another tattoo on his left forearm shows the Chinese representation of “leader” or “army”, and a third tattoo on his right forearm is a glider signifying the hacking open-source movement that is drawn from the computer simulation Game of Life .
He says he plans to use his time in prison “reading, writing, working out and playing sports – training myself to become more disciplined so I can be more effective on my release”. As to that release, he says he cannot predict how he will be thinking when he emerges from jail, but doubts that he would go back to hacking. “I think my days of hacking are done. That’s a role for somebody else now,” he said.
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