The “HBGary Email Viewer: Portal”. A collection of the emails stolen, probably around 100,000 of them
A searchable database of the emails. The search works, but then the emails themselves can’t be reached.
http://search.hbgary.anonleaks.ch/
Arstechnica article about the work that HBGary did writing rootkits and the like. They were not the good guys.
see it here : http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars/
It has an easy to read, long, account of the hacking of HBGary.
Cryptome says about the article :
Ars Technica descriptions of the how the Anonymous hack are the best technical reading of Internet derring-do yet and far exceeds the much simpler rhetorical version of WikiLeaks security carefully bruited as if invulnerable but is not according to Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s revelations.
Cryptome also has extensive files collected from HBGary
The article starts :
It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot. HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr thought he had unmasked the hacker hordes of Anonymous and was preparing to name and shame those responsible for co-ordinating the group’s actions, including the denial-of-service attacks that hit MasterCard, Visa, and other perceived enemies of WikiLeaks late last year.
When Barr told one of those he believed to be an Anonymous ringleader about his forthcoming exposé, the Anonymous response was swift and humiliating. HBGary’s servers were broken into, its e-mails pillaged and published to the world, its data destroyed, and its website defaced. As an added bonus, a second site owned and operated by Greg Hoglund, owner of HBGary, was taken offline and the user registration database published.
From http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=524 the blog of one Scott Aaronson.
300BC Euclid’s Elements describes nontrivial algorithms (for problems such as Greatest Common Divisor) that are still used today
150-100BC The Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical computer, is built in ancient Greece
1642 Blaise Pascal builds an addition and subtraction machine
1669 Isaac Newton describes Newton’s method, an early numerical algorithm for finding roots of equations
1679 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz develops binary notation; Leibniz’s writings about a “Calculus Ratiocinator” are among the first to envision a general-purpose computer
1737 Jacques de Vaucanson builds a mechanical duck able to flap its wings, eat grain, and “defecate”
1770 Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils the Mechanical Turk, a “chess-playing automaton” secretly operated by a human. The hoax is only revealed 50 years later
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Mohamed Bouazizi: the man who started – whose actions started – the revolt in Tunisia.
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/01/201111684242518839.html
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The officers took away his produce and his scale.
Publically humiliated, Bouazizi tried to seek recourse. He went to the local municipality building and demanded to a meeting with an official.
He was told it would not be possible and that the official was in a meeting.
“It’s the type of lie we’re used to hearing,” said his friend.
With no official wiling to hear his grievances, the young man brought paint fuel, returned to the street outside the building, and set himself on fire.
Click here : http://www.cesmes.fi/pallo.swf
or here: A beautiful simple piece
To make something like this :
From an essay in the spectator about the American mono-thematic class structure of wealth and power, and its responsibility for the current collapse of the USA.
Although the essay is about something else, this interesting paragraph about
each violating, both, what is expected from (what is left of) the legal system, and violating the common standards of behaviour that we expect from our peers. As it points out, these people are morally worse, not better, that you or I.
If, for example, you are Laurence Tribe in 1984, Harvard professor of law, leftist pillar of the establishment, you can “write” your magnum opus by using the products of your student assistant, Ron Klain. A decade later, after Klain admits to having written some parts of the book, and the other parts are found to be verbatim or paraphrases of a book published in 1974, you can claim (perhaps correctly) that your plagiarism was “inadvertent,” and you can count on the Law School’s dean, Elena Kagan, to appoint a committee including former and future Harvard president Derek Bok that issues a secret report that “closes” the incident. Incidentally, Kagan ends up a justice of the Supreme Court. Not one of these people did their jobs: the professor did not write the book himself, the assistant plagiarized instead of researching, the dean and the committee did not hold the professor accountable, and all ended up rewarded. By contrast, for example, learned papers and distinguished careers in climatology at MIT (Richard Lindzen) or UVA (S. Fred Singer) are not enough for their questions about “global warming” to be taken seriously.
She [Angelo M. Codevilla, professor (emeritus) of international relations at Boston University] later adds a most perceptive line about the world today:
Facts and logic matter only insofar as proper authority acknowledges them.
Indeed.
Openleaks, a new, open version of wikileaks.
https://www.openleaks.org/content/index.shtml
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Cablegate, an indexable, searchable interface to the 1% of the wikileaks cables that have been released.
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EnvioLeaks, an environmentally orientated wikileaks
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BalkanLeaks is “dedicated to releasing privileged information relating to Balkan nations”
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The Russian WikiLeaks is predominantly a Russian-orientated mirror of WikiLeaks. It is beginning to publish its own leaks.
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Localleaks, a US media-company orientated site at which one can deposit documents that might be of interest to a US media company. After their feasting on wikileaks, who would blame them ?
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/26/egypt-night-falls-after-day-of-rage/
Earlier today, the Egyptian government blocked Twitter, and also cut mobile phone coverage around Tahrir Square, leaving protesters with no means to communicate with the outside world. This led to a spontaneous act by residents in the neighborhood to remove the passwords from their wireless routers so protesters could go online:
The article has many other, less tech, commentaries on the unfolding (27 Jan 2011) riots in Egypt.
Don’t know the source so can’t reference, independent of the irrelevant legalities.
Click on the image to see the list (as an image) :
There are few things as fetching as a bruised ego on a beautiful angel
- Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike in Quentin Tarantino’s “Deathproof”
The original is better :
The topic really is the depth of corruption in what is left of the Florida legal system.
The short version is that Dr Thomas B. Manton identified the seriousness of the BP Gulf oil spill and their failure to handle the disaster that they had caused.
and was then quickly, successfully killed :
Success all round on this one.
It is inconceivable that those with power and wealth would not band together with a common bond, a common interest, and a long-range plan to decide and direct the future of the world. For those with the resources, to do otherwise would be totally irresponsible. I know that I would be the first to organize a conspiracy to control the outcome of the future, if I were such a person and a conspiracy did not yet exist. I would do it in an attempt to ensure the survival of the principles in which I believe, the survival of my family, my survival, and the survival of the human race, if for no other reason.
— William Cooper in “Behold a pale horse”
US Constitution, Section 8 : Powers of Congress:
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof,
Well, that’s another piece of the US Constitiution that is ignored.
This article list 10 pretty straight forward thing that would not have happened if the Private “Federal” Reserve (Bank) had not been created.
1 - debt free money, and a tiny or non-existant national debt 2 - little or no interest payments 3 - no debates about 'the debt ceiling' 4 - no income tax, like before the national reserve 5 - the USA would not be insolvent, or only pretend-ly solvent 6 - no free trillions for major banks, to then lend out at interest 7 - greatly reduced inflation, via little or no underlying interest payments 8 - no 95% devaluation of the US dollar compared to the founding of the (private) Fed. 9 - no power of financiers, compared to elected and representative officials 10 - the USA would not be controlled by financial entities
Bitcoin is a trading system based on encrypted tokens, P2P system with no central server, though it does rely on the maintenance of “usedness” lists.
Bitcoins can be traded for many things, including cash on credit cards, yen or roubles, books and dollars.
Bitcoin is supported by the expected user forum collecting togehter around 34,000 posts at the time of writing.
Mildly interesting essay on the development and main strands of the free software movement, with some “Marx said so” throw in for good measure. Not sure why Marx is relevant, one could dig up old testament quotes to match [insert arbitrary subject] if one wanted to.
http://www.libertyandsolidarity.org/node/104
Still, good as an overview.
This was an early appearance of the new contradiction in capitalism – a conflict between the path of greatest production (infinite copying) and the existing source of profits (artificial scarcity).
According to sources used by the Belfast times, the USA and its terrorist army has used 250,000 bullets for each Iraqi and Afghani freedom fighter they have managed to kill.
A good way to spread the depleted uranium around.
He looks nervous, and he isn’t really even saying that much – for those of us used to, and able to find, independent thought.
Originally from here, with sound samples.
Edward R. Murrow’s 1958 speech to a grand meeting of the Radio and Television News Directors Association.
It this speech he calls for some, some public responsibility, accountablity and even truth from the public, irresponsible and unaccountable mainstream media (was there alternative media in 1958? – ccccommunists !).
I understand his CBS career was terminated shortly later, one of the most illustrious media careers of the day.
This just might do nobody any good. At the end of this discourse a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own comfortable nest, and your organization may be accused of having given hospitality to heretical and even dangerous thoughts. But the elaborate structure of networks, advertising agencies and sponsors will not be shaken or altered. It is my desire, if not my duty, to try to talk to you journeymen with some candor about what is happening to radio and television.
This comes from http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/01/i-would-very-much-like-an-alternative-explanation-of-this.html
Can any one suggest a sane (non-CNN fantasy) reason why hits on Gabrielle Giffords’ wikipedia page rose to 300% of their previous level – that is, in comparison to the previous days and the previous weeks – on the two days before her shooting.
So, no one has been able to.
For those who understand controlled studies, this is also in comparison to the hits on a matching congress member.
Delong has also provided the raw data.
The domains seized before christmas by the FBI. A good practice run.
2009jerseys.com
51607.com
amoyhy.com
b2corder.com
bishoe.com
borntrade.com
borntrade.net
boxedtvseries.com
Early enough that this is, probably, before the fake bin Laden speeches and tapes began being produced and then quickly forgotten .
A remarkable reasonable piece that boils down to
However :
It is like 3000 words, readable.
source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
“Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory” [Quran 22:39]
“Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan.”[Quran 4:76]
Some American writers have published articles under the title ‘On what basis are we fighting?’ These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth – as an explanation and warning – hoping for Allah’s reward, seeking success and support from Him.
This is a practical version of the themes of “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance”.
source http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/12/16/132050207/this-is-for-the-i-hate-math-crowd-not-after-this-you-won-t?sc=fb&cc=fp
originally from http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory. “We are helping our students become more competitive in an increasingly sound-filled world.” Educators, school systems, and the state are put in charge of this vital project. Studies are commissioned, committees are formed, and decisions are made — all without the advice or participation of a single working musician or composer.
The random slashdot story generator. Yup. Reload your page to get a new story (Ctrl-R).
http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.html
Man, I remember, before reddit, whatreallyhappened.com, even before theregister, when I used to read slashdot. The crimes of youth, well one of my youths. What, 15 stories per day ? Any the comments (!) quickly came to avoid those; exclusively written by hate-addled intelligent design pretend database administrators pretending, pretending to be once slightly independent.
well, one of them.
http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/hello/index.php
Many cool things about the pieces here, one of which is that the work is so “immediate”, generally physically simple things – that literally thousands of people have contributed to.
I especially like, liked feel the news , photograph a significant outfit which are all, it seems, about life changing moments of love, and record five significant events from 1984 which are Husker Du (the game) like dioramas of strangers’ important, unknown lives.
There is also selections, where people (sorry, guest curators) are invited to choose (sorry, “curate”) the ones (from the thousands). The 21st century salon.
Some cool, innovative at least works made from rubiks cubes.
http://www.space-invaders.com/rubikubism.html
Choose from the pieces along the top of the screen.
A beautiful, clever, interactive artpiece by Seung Yul
http://www.screens.org.nz/seung-yul-oh-rain/
push your keyboard keys, more the better, to make it work.
... you have traded for baubles your ... Long live...
Beautifully presented essay, but not a read for those with sexual or social or political hangups. For you there is nothing to see here, move right along.