Internet in Peril

Posted on October 12, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

Got this alarming email from the good folks at SavetheInternet.com and thought I should share it with the rest of you.

Dear dc414,

You’ve heard from me a lot recently about the “resolution of disapproval” (S.J. Res. 6) against Net Neutrality, which extremists plan to push through the Senate.

There’s a reason for all the emails: This dangerous resolution would hand over control of the Internet to companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon while stripping the FCC of any authority to protect users’ online rights.

The vote on this resolution could happen as early as next week. So we need you to be a part of Free Press’ national call-in campaign to make one thing absolutely clear to Congress: “Corporations can’t take the Internet away from us.”

Please pick up the phone now and call Sens. Herb Kohl and Ron Johnson. Tell them: “Don’t sell out our basic right to communicate online. Vote ‘no’ on the resolution of disapproval.”

We’ve created an easy-to-use “whiplist” that helps you make the call. Just enter your zip code, find your senators and click their names. We’ve also provided a sample call script should you need to use some talking points.

Here’s the thing our senators need to know: An overwhelming majority of Americans want an open Internet. Period. We don’t want corporations blocking what we say or do online. We want every website, from the biggies like Amazon and Google to sites operated by millions of small businesses and bloggers, to be treated the same, with no fast lanes for companies with deep pockets.

These are simple, common-sense demands, and it’s time our senators heard them.

So pick up the phone, call your senators and demand they vote “no” on this resolution of disapproval. We’ll follow up on our progress as we get closer to the vote.

Thanks for everything you do,

Josh Levy
Associate Campaign Director
Free Press Action Fund
SavetheInternet.com

So if you like the freedom of the net, call your senator now to preserve it, I already did. 🙂

BarCamp – Post Conference Report

Posted on October 3, 2011 by ngharo

DC414 got a lot of exposure at BarCamp. We were the only peeps that setup in “the commons” where most everyone would pass through while entering the building. This was also the area that lightning talks, introductions, and closing events took place.

Wall of Sheep
The wall was a great success for the most part. Initially, we had to manually sniff and enter sheep onto the wall. This was becoming a pain in the ass. We finally got it automated by taking a log from ettercap and piping it into a ruby script which would post to simple webservice. The source can be found here. In the afternoon we started getting flooded with fake logins to gmail.com from a user on the network. Some nerd had scripted this to create chaos upon us! Unfortunately, we were tapped onto the network at such a point were we would not see local IPs for the source of traffic. I lol’d and set dw5304 on the hunt to track the user down. We knew he was using ruby as that’s what the user-agent string was. dw5304 quickly found him and we all had a laugh. The scripter gave a lightning talk on his mischief later in the evening. We’d like to expand on the current scripts and tweak our filters to automate even more types of insecure communications.

The overall atmosphere was very, very hacker friendly. I had fun listening in to Klaiviel, Vlad, and darkwind troll some unfortunate hotel workers on their radios. We also did a bit of urban exploration in Bucketwork’s basement … with a 1w laser 😉 Klaiviel did an awesome job presenting on lock picking/etc. It was funny how Klaiviel showed up with like 5x as many locks and equipment as the guy who was hosting the lockpicking session. There is safe at Bucketworks that they need assistance opening … Klaiviel did a bunch of research and came to the conclusion that he will need to brute force it. I’m hoping dc414 can come together and make this happen. dw5304 dropped a lot of knowledge to people coming by our setup. Much thanks to all the equipment and dedication he brought to BarCamp.

Some very smart folks were creeping around and while I personally did not see many presentations, I still learned a lot. We gave out a ton of stickers, flyers, window clings (thanks cmoney and Anarchy). With that we should see new peeps start showing up to meetings.

Meeting place change.

Posted on October 2, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

dc414 has just about grown out of our current meeting space so we are going to start testing out a few new venues starting with Bucketworks. So the meeting will still be on the 10.7.11 at 7pm it will just be at a new location.

Location address:
706 S 5th St
Milwaukee, WI. 53204
Click here for directions and such.

If you plan on coming bring at least $5 (or more) or a non-perishable food item to donate.

Stop mandatory data retention

Posted on July 25, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

Got this email from our friends at EFF:

Dear friends,

The U.S. House of Representatives is currently considering H.R. 1981, a bill that would order all of our online service providers to keep new logs about our online activities, logs to help the government identify the web sites we visit and the content we post online. This sweeping new “mandatory data retention” proposal treats every Internet user like a potential criminal and represents a clear and present danger to the online free speech and privacy rights of millions of innocent Americans.

Please, contact your Representative today and ask them to oppose this dangerous bill:
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=497

Thank you for all that you do to help us safeguard online rights,

Rainey R., Richard E., Eva G. and the rest of the team

Help dc414 and the EFF stop mandatory data retention, contact your Representative and spread the word!

Aaron Swartz indicted.

Posted on July 19, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

Got this email from the good group of people at Demand Progress:

Shocking news: Moments ago former Demand Progress Executive Director Aaron Swartz was indicted by the US government. As best as we can tell, he is being charged with allegedly downloading too many journal articles from the Web. The government contends that downloading so many journal articles constitutes felony computer hacking and should be punished with time in prison. We disagree.

Will you click here to sign our petition of support for Aaron?

The charges are made all the more senseless by the fact that the alleged victim has settled any claims against Aaron, explained they’ve suffered no loss or damage, and asked the government not to prosecute.

James Jacobs, the Government Documents Librarian at Stanford University — where Aaron did undergraduate work — denounced the arrest: “Aaron’s prosecution undermines academic inquiry and democratic principles,” Jacobs said. “It’s incredible that the government would try to lock someone up for allegedly looking up articles at a library.”

Will you click here to show your support for Aaron?

Thanks for your support and concern as we help see Aaron through these tough times. We’ll keep you updated.

— The Demand Progress team

This is just unreal and needs to be stopped here! Help Demand Progress and end this kind of crap for good!! Also if you can Demand Progress needs donations to fund their fight. Anything will help im sure, see their site for more details on that.

Know you rights event post…..blog post and news

Posted on July 2, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

The know your rights event was a huge success!! We took a bunch of pictures which we will be uploading later. I big thanks to Candlelight Collective, Waring R. Fincke, M.Peters Trucking, and the dc414 crew for making the event happen!!

And in other news, because most of us will be at DEFCON at the time our normal dc414 meeting takes place we will be moving the date to August 12th. Things will be back to normal in September.

Help 2600 Magazine Compile a List of Dates for their Hacker Calendar!

Posted on June 9, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

2600, the magazine familiar to many as a preeminent hacking quarterly, is publishing a calendar. While, according to the 2600 site, most calendars only mark holidays, 2600 intends to “provide as complete a guide to milestones in the hacker world as humanly possible.” Not an easy task considering that, depending on your definition, hacking could extend to the discovery of fire, or at least the wheel.

2600 gives some examples in which they only list events back to March 3, 1885, when AT&T was founded. If this example is followed, that “only” gives one 126 years to work with, but compiling a full list of hacking dates is still a daunting task. If you can think of any dates worthy of consideration, email them to: calendar@2600.com. We think maybe September 5th, 2004 might be a notable date to include. We’ll leave it up to figure out what that date is, in case it wasn’t painfully obvious.

OP: http://hackaday.com/2011/06/04/help-2600-magazine-compile-a-list-of-dates-for-their-hacker-calendar/

Defend Online Anonymity – Set Up a Tor Relay

Posted on June 7, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

Got this in a email from the good people over at EFF:

Dear Anarchy,
We use Tor to access our website and to publish to our blog, which is blocked inside of our country. — Iranian human rights activist
If you could do something to make the Internet safer and more private for activists, investigative journalists, and humanitarian aid workers around the world, would you?

You can.

Today EFF is launching the Tor Challenge—a campaign to encourage Internet users all over the world to support the Tor network by operating relays.

Tor is a service that helps you to protect your anonymity while using the Internet and allows you to circumvent Internet censorship. When you use the Tor software, your real IP address remains hidden. Activists all over the world depend on Tor to maintain anonymity when communicating and accessing websites that have been blocked by their governments.

The Tor software depends on the Tor network, which is made up of Tor relays operated by individuals like you. The more Tor relays we have running, the faster, more secure and more robust the Tor network becomes.

Are you ready to help Internet activists all over the world?

Click here to see how and learn more.
Defending your digital rights,

The EFF Activism Team

This is a great idea and more ppl should run tor exit relays, but it does not come with out some pains. I kept on getting DMCA notices so i had to employ a few exit policy rules on my relay. Here is the ones im using.

ExitPolicy accept *:20-23 # FTP, SSH, telnet ExitPolicy accept *:43 # WHOIS ExitPolicy accept *:53 # DNS ExitPolicy accept *:79-81 # finger, HTTP ExitPolicy accept *:88 # kerberos ExitPolicy accept *:110 # POP3 ExitPolicy accept *:143 # IMAP ExitPolicy accept *:194 # IRC ExitPolicy accept *:220 # IMAP3 ExitPolicy accept *:443 # HTTPS ExitPolicy accept *:464-465 # kpasswd, SMTP over SSL ExitPolicy accept *:543-544 ExitPolicy accept *:563 # NNTP over SSL ExitPolicy accept *:587 # SMTP ExitPolicy accept *:706 ExitPolicy accept *:749 # kerberos ExitPolicy accept *:873 # rsync ExitPolicy accept *:902-904 ExitPolicy accept *:981 ExitPolicy accept *:989-995 # FTP over SSL, Netnews Administration System, telnets, IMAP over SSL, ircs, POP3 over SSL ExitPolicy accept *:1194 # openvpn ExitPolicy accept *:1220 # QT Server Admin ExitPolicy accept *:1293 # PKT-KRB-IPSec ExitPolicy accept *:1500 # VLSI License Manager ExitPolicy accept *:1723 # PPTP ExitPolicy accept *:1863 # MSNP ExitPolicy accept *:2082-2083 # Radius ExitPolicy accept *:2086-2087 # GNUnet, ELI ExitPolicy accept *:2095-2096 # NBX ExitPolicy accept *:3128 # SQUID ExitPolicy accept *:3389 # MS WBT ExitPolicy accept *:3690 # SVN ExitPolicy accept *:4321 # RWHOIS ExitPolicy accept *:4643 ExitPolicy accept *:5050 # MMCC ExitPolicy accept *:5190 # ICQ ExitPolicy accept *:5222-5223 # XMPP, XMPP over SSL ExitPolicy accept *:5900 # VNC ExitPolicy accept *:6666-6667 #IRC ExitPolicy accept *:6679 ExitPolicy accept *:6697 ExitPolicy accept *:8000 # iRDMI ExitPolicy accept *:8008 ExitPolicy accept *:8080 # HTTP Proxies ExitPolicy accept *:8087-8088 # Simplify Media SPP Protocol, Radan HTTP ExitPolicy accept *:8443 # PCsync HTTPS ExitPolicy accept *:8888 # HTTP Proxies, NewsEDGE ExitPolicy accept *:9418 # git ExitPolicy accept *:9999 # distinct ExitPolicy accept *:10000 # Network Data Management Protocol ExitPolicy accept *:19638 ExitPolicy reject *:*

So anyway, yes everyone should run a tor relay and should also use the above for your tor relay config. On ubuntu boxes just search for ExitPolicy in /etc/tor/torrc and past it in. Be sure to comment out any pre-existing exit policies. Ok go set up a tor exit relay already!!

Anonymous Press Release: #OpWisconsin

Posted on February 26, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

OP: http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=585

Dear Citizens of the United States of America,

It has come to our attention that the brothers, David and Charles Koch–the billionaire owners of Koch Industries–have long attempted to usurp American Democracy. Their actions to undermine the legitimate political process in Wisconsin are the final straw. Starting today we fight back.

Koch Industries, and oligarchs like them, have most recently started to manipulate the political agenda in Wisconsin. Governor Walker’s union-busting budget plan contains a clause that went nearly un-noticed. This clause would allow the sale of publicly owned utility plants in Wisconsin to private parties (specifically, Koch Industries) at any price, no matter how low, without a public bidding process. The Koch’s have helped to fuel the unrest in Wisconsin and the drive behind the bill to eliminate the collective bargaining power of unions in a bid to gain a monopoly over the state’s power supplies.

The Koch brothers have made a science of fabricating ‘grassroots’ organizations and advertising campaigns to support them in an attempt to sway voters based on their falsehoods. Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth and Citizens United are just a few of these organizations. In a world where corporate money has become the lifeblood of political influence, the labor unions are one of the few ways citizens have to fight against corporate greed. Anonymous cannot ignore the plight of the citizen-workers of Wisconsin, or the opportunity to fight for the people in America’s broken political system. For these reasons, we feel that the Koch brothers threaten the United States democratic system and, by extension, all freedom-loving individuals everywhere. As such, we have no choice but to spread the word of the Koch brothers’ political manipulation, their single-minded intent and the insidious truth of their actions in Wisconsin, for all to witness.

Anonymous hears the voice of the downtrodden American people, whose rights and liberties are being systematically removed one by one, even when their own government refuses to listen or worse – is complicit in these attacks. We are actively seeking vulnerabilities, but in the mean time we are calling for all supporters of true Democracy, and Freedom of The People, to boycott all Koch Industries’ paper products. We welcome unions across the globe to join us in this boycott to show that you will not allow big business to dictate your freedom.

U.S. Product Boycott List

Vanity Fair
Quilted Northern
Angel Soft
Sparkle
Brawny
Mardi Gras
Dixie

European Product Boycott List

Demak’Up
Kitten Soft
Lotus / Lotus Soft
Tenderly
Nouvelle Soft
Okay Ktchen Towels
Colhogar
Delica
Inversoft
Tutto

To identify these brands, please look for the following logo anywhere on the packaging:

Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Expect us.

Material related to operation Tunisia

Posted on February 3, 2011 by AnarchyAngel

First the why:

Yeah i hope someone finds the ppl in that van and gives them a slow death!

Anonymous care package for the poor ppl of Egypt – www.bit.ly/hsAjGq

This from – http://typewith.me/optunisia
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I I CENTRAL COLLECTION PAD FOR OPERATION TUNISIA RELATED MATERIAL I I
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If you started a pad about something related to Operation Tunisia, add it to this list.
Please save with Nick!!!

Anonymous Press Declarations
[2011-01-15] Tunisia and its chance… (not completed; need rework!)
http://piratenpad.de/APR20110115

Guide to Protecting the Tunisian Revolution, Part One: Initial Security
http://typewith.me/how-to-protect-tunisian-arabic-french yo
Guide to Protecting the Tunisian Revolution, Part Two: Safety in Confrontation
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/16/936793/-Please-distribute-to-Tunisians:-Safety-in-Confrontation

Guide to Protecting the Tunisian Revolution, Part Three: Transforming National Politics (still in progress, please assist)
http://www.typewith.me/qdjqeFFu8O

Stuff about the families who’re stealing Tunisia: (Arabic->English Translation needed!!)
http://piratepad.net/lMiNqsnZfi
copy at http://typewith.me/MvarLgc6u6

Manifesto from tunisian protesters:
http://typewith.me/stDHppshwJ <

Video footage of Tunisia (add your own!)
http://typewith.me/TunisiaVideoFootage

Tunisians needs FTPs for mirror – #ftp (died?)no #ftp
Info-List: http://piratenpad.de/6V13pN0sxM

Untrusted Twitter accounts spreading false news
http://piratepad.net/GGYVc6RtnA < reverted

Translation pad for Tunisia IRC project
http://typewith.me/TunisiaIRCTranslation

Tunisians, tell your stories here! (need translators)
http://piratepad.net/G9CvOF3dbg
copy at http://typewith.me/wzfsEVIx7B

Manifesto from Anon about Tunisia:
http://piratepad.net/5d891ABcBW

Video ideas and links:
http://piratepad.net/VJhU2KXfMQ

“Video site” zip and mirrors
http://pad.telecomix.org/tnvideos-mirrors

Video about a man put out of his country, and subtitle translation (need an incruster for the subtitle)
http://piratepad.net/7eT1ozHLSN
copy at http://typewith.me/7fc5aYZ2LW

Anon Video to be subtitled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLaBRk9wY0
http://piratepad.net/XZtZlf3acf

French Pdf to be translated: Relating to the familie who Reign over Carthage.
http://i3.makcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/14986/files//2009/11/la-regente-2-carthage.pdf
http://piratepad.net/VyLDOHVMyD

Diary of Tunisia:
http://typewith.me/3koSuMGO8O

Related Stuff:
Anonymous PR Pad
http://piratenpad.de/AnonymousPR

Swift Assist – helpful notes on establishing secure networks for Tunisian revolutionaries
http://typewith.me/owA6rmGfP6

What the fuck is freedom of speech, anyway? – introduction via IHRL
http://piratepad.net/whGudXWEmM

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