Anonymous Strikes Back, Hacks "Internet Security" Firm

Torrasque

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Lulz

I'm waiting for what shitstorm will hit the fan next.
Funniest part of this article was how Anon acted
 

Daubster

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When the government decides to start pushing ISPs to police their users activities
Are you aware of the ridiculous amount of funding that would require? Apart from easily doubling what we pay for our connections, it would require massive overhauling of the systems the service providers use. That plus the security measures that would need to be taken to ensure no ISP employees have access to any sensitive user data (bank details, etc.)

It is really nowhere near possible to implement such a system with our current technology.
 

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Therumancer said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

The point here being is that "Total War" is real war, untainted by various attempts to introduce morality and a "Just War" doctrine. It involves limited, or no, distinction between civilian and military targets, and is fought with the intention of eradicating every aspect of an enemy society. As practice in ancient times this was pretty much a matter of "kill or enslave everyone, and wreck everything in the region".
Let me take a page from Socrates. I have a BA in History. I am currently enrolled in a Masters program to get my MA in Military History. My specialty is Early Modern Europe 16th-18th century, roughly, the period that is generally known for rapid increases in the sizes or armies, the permanence of armies, the munitions and money required to support them, and the training necessary to make them efficient combatants - these are aspects identified with "total war". I am not here to disagree with your opinion, I am here to help you understand the definition of total war so that you may be better armed in your future debates.

The definition you have given me through Wikipedia is not the same as what you are typing. Indeed what you are typing is not what historians regard as total war. A "total war" and a "just war" are not mutually exclusive. Nor is the level of brutality or targeting of civilians in any way necessary for a total war. (NB: I use the term 'necessary' with its logical definition.)

From Wiki:
"Total war is a war limitless in its scope in which a belligerent engages in the mobilization of all their available resources, in order to render beyond use their rival's capacity for resistance."

This is the definition that historians use, although the rest of the page is essentially worthless. It is derived from Clausewitz's book Vom Kriege.

Limitless in scope and mobilization of resources = Everything is geared towards the war economy. You conscript soldiers, you raise war taxes, you do away with things like vacation, women go to work in the factories, propaganda runs rampant - it is when all society is consumed with the prosecution of the war. There are *NO* aspects of a total war that require you to be brutal or kill civilians. The direct targeting of non-combatants is outside the scope of the term "war". It is genocide. It is considered a war crime. I am *NOT* arguing the morality of this with you, I am simply here to clarify the definition of the term 'total war'.

Render beyond use rival's capacity for resistance = This is again taken straight from Clausewiz's first book in Vom Kriege. Limited war is war on a smaller scale, and with smaller objectives. Total war is the complete disarmament of the enemy and this comes from two conditions - they lose both their WILL and their MEANS to fight. By that Clausewitz means they no longer see the struggle as worthy and they do not desire to engage in combat, and that they have experienced such losses in money, manpower, or munitions that they cannot feasibly continue. This does not mean that you must kill every soldier, salt their fields, and cast down every stone, and murder their populace.

That is genocide, the definition of which is:
(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and

2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide."
 

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Funnily enough Aaron still didn't bother to change his twitter stuff when he had it back, he still follows moot, Hitler, the Ku Klux Klan, and Justin Beiber, among others.
 

Therumancer

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BVBFanatic said:
Therumancer said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

The point here being is that "Total War" is real war, untainted by various attempts to introduce morality and a "Just War" doctrine. It involves limited, or no, distinction between civilian and military targets, and is fought with the intention of eradicating every aspect of an enemy society. As practice in ancient times this was pretty much a matter of "kill or enslave everyone, and wreck everything in the region".
Let me take a page from Socrates. I have a BA in History. I am currently enrolled in a Masters program to get my MA in Military History. My specialty is Early Modern Europe 16th-18th century, roughly, the period that is generally known for rapid increases in the sizes or armies, the permanence of armies, the munitions and money required to support them, and the training necessary to make them efficient combatants - these are aspects identified with "total war". I am not here to disagree with your opinion, I am here to help you understand the definition of total war so that you may be better armed in your future debates.

The definition you have given me through Wikipedia is not the same as what you are typing. Indeed what you are typing is not what historians regard as total war. A "total war" and a "just war" are not mutually exclusive. Nor is the level of brutality or targeting of civilians in any way necessary for a total war. (NB: I use the term 'necessary' with its logical definition.)

From Wiki:
"Total war is a war limitless in its scope in which a belligerent engages in the mobilization of all their available resources, in order to render beyond use their rival's capacity for resistance."

This is the definition that historians use, although the rest of the page is essentially worthless. It is derived from Clausewitz's book Vom Kriege.

Limitless in scope and mobilization of resources = Everything is geared towards the war economy. You conscript soldiers, you raise war taxes, you do away with things like vacation, women go to work in the factories, propaganda runs rampant - it is when all society is consumed with the prosecution of the war. There are *NO* aspects of a total war that require you to be brutal or kill civilians. The direct targeting of non-combatants is outside the scope of the term "war". It is genocide. It is considered a war crime. I am *NOT* arguing the morality of this with you, I am simply here to clarify the definition of the term 'total war'.

Render beyond use rival's capacity for resistance = This is again taken straight from Clausewiz's first book in Vom Kriege. Limited war is war on a smaller scale, and with smaller objectives. Total war is the complete disarmament of the enemy and this comes from two conditions - they lose both their WILL and their MEANS to fight. By that Clausewitz means they no longer see the struggle as worthy and they do not desire to engage in combat, and that they have experienced such losses in money, manpower, or munitions that they cannot feasibly continue. This does not mean that you must kill every soldier, salt their fields, and cast down every stone, and murder their populace.

That is genocide, the definition of which is:
(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and

2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide."

Genocide by it's very nature is to wipe out a genotype, an ethnicity. You can only comitt genocide by say wiping out all blacks, arabs, whites, etc. Confusion on the issue is because of the UN which has extended it's definition to be much broader in scope and is definatly in keeping with what you are saying. Everyone under "1)" is pretty much a moral extension.

To be entirely honest it comes down to semantics there, if you want to be honest it simply lessens the impact of the accusation. Fine, you want to say what I'm advocating is Genocide, that's lovely. That doesn't change the reality of the situation or of winning a war in this case. The whole point here is because of "OMG it's Genocide" and the negative connotations of the term, the more you dilute it, the more counter productive making the arguement becomes.

See, the horror of Genocide is the wiping out of people for their intristic state of being. Nobody can help being born black, white, asian, or whatever else. People however CAN choose how to behave, and cultures and societies can change. This is why you try diplomacy and measured responses before engaging in war, especially on the scale I'm discussing. In going after an idealogy your going after it for clear reasons, and over things that can, or could have been changed. Had our diplomacy and measured responses with the cultures in The Middle East met with a better response, it wouldn't be coming to that (and it was possible which is why it was tried), had nations like Afghanistan and Iraq chosen to install the starts of more progressive regimes instead of declaring themselves Islamic nations and continueing things like the oppression of women (not even planting the seeds of change), I myself would dispute the nessecity of the things I'm saying, but none of that happened.

See, an Arab (the ethnicity/genotype) can be anything, if he's not raised under that culture he could be a Christian, an Atheist, or anything else. There is nothing intristic in being an Arab that forces him to behave in this fashion or causes these conflicts. Other than some physical details he's exactly the same as I am. Going after someone for no other reason than being a specific ethnicity is what genocide is, and the pointlessness of it is exactly why it's considered a heinous thing. When you start extending the definition of genocide to include what can be some VERY good reasons for going after a group of people, you also dilute the negative connotations. After all it's nothing but base stupidity to preserve something that wants your destruction. What's more, by a literal UN definition if we ever DID non-violently reform the region, that would be genocide to, because we'd be effectively eliminating the entire point of view that wants us dead, by defintion we should want people to destroy us because it's wrong for us to stop that. It's pretty stupid, being one of those UN definitions developed to encourage a "do nothing" attitude because in the end you can argue that doing anything on a large scale would be tantamount to genocide. Heck, by definition we committed genocide on the Nazi party, even going so far as to hunt them down after the war was over.

So lovely, if you want to call it Genocide, fine knock yourself out. Of course with the meaning your ascribing there isn't any major problem with that. The whole point of using the term is the shock value and trying to present it as some kind of ultimate evil, which is no longer a connotation it holds. Mainly because what makes "Genocide" so bad is it's pointlessness, yet what I'm advocated very much does have a point, and is directed at very real behaviors and problems as opposed to something that is entirely superficial.

I think the issue is largely that the definition the UN uses has been being written into dictionaries and such, as opposed to the proper meaning of the term. I understand the reasons for it, but I can virtually guarantee that it's going to lose a lot of it's thunder if it's ever accepted in that broad a sense.

The police aren't involved in trying to merely wipe out criminals like the Mafia, they are engaging in GENOCIDE! The two gangs fighting over turf and trying to destroy each others membership are involved in a genocidal conflict! On the new Family Feud, the attempt to defeat the other side and knock them out of the show entirely will be presented as "Family Simulated Genocide!". Yeah, this is great. :p

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As far as "Total War" goes, all I'm going to say is that your wrong. What's more I'll also point out that I presented 3 links, and while it's possible to say "I'm an expert, and Wikipedia is frequently wrong" understand that two of them were not from wikipedia. What's more given time I could doubtlessly dig up more reinforcement, though I don't think it's nessicary.

You might not like the truth of that, any more that you don't like the definition of Genocide, but that doesn't change what it is. To be honest I don't doubt that you have been studying history, and even have a degree. One of the big problems with the educational system right now is how politics have been getting involved so heavily in the educational system, and historical re-inventionism is a big deal. There have been huge arguements over the years on how history should be presented, and situations where differant schools will present historical events in a radically differant way. I'm sure anyone who has studied history to the point of having a degree is going to defend having learned it right, but then again that's the point... it doesn't mean what it used to. You look around and your going to find tons of stuff refuting everything you believe, and probably some guy with degrees just as big (or bigger than yours) who will take the extreme other side and say your wrong about everything. You can both gripe at each other until your blue in the face, and in the end your not going to resolve anything.

In many cases though, like the one we're discussing, I think it comes down to things that are by and large common knowlege type stuff, which is why I was able to find 3 sources so quickly, and with little effort. You should actually take some time to be questioning what you learned here.

Also understand, on these same forums I had a guy trying to tell me that the pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower were a bunch of socialists who practiced communal goverment. Apparently never having heard of either John Carver, or William Bradford (who were elected governors).

With what's going on in our educational system right now, and some rather nutty left wing reinventions, you'll pardon my saying so, but I put little confidence on people claiming historical expertise nowadays, especially on internet forums when you can find a wealth of material saying the opposite with relative ease.
 

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I have no interest in this battle but I do find it hilarious. I demand more news!
If finding it hilarious and demanding more news isn't being at least a little interested in it then what is?
 

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Therumancer said:
As far as "Total War" goes, all I'm going to say is that your wrong. What's more I'll also point out that I presented 3 links, and while it's possible to say "I'm an expert, and Wikipedia is frequently wrong" understand that two of them were not from wikipedia. What's more given time I could doubtlessly dig up more reinforcement, though I don't think it's nessicary.
Yes and neither link would be considered a reputable source in any academic debate. The first of which is an article (hosted on a site that is very clear about it's anti-war, politically charged agenda) from an author that provides no sources for his proposed definition of "total war". The second only cites one source and that is a short excerpt from Romans 13:1-5.

I have one for you - Carl von Clausewitz, Vom Kriege. The book is, I believe, free on Google Books. In my copy, he starts talking about the definition of war on page 18 (Chapter 1).

Here are a few good others:
-Baron de Jomini's excellent work that is often contrasted with Clausewitz's On War.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-War-Baron...5807/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297288861&sr=8-1

-A collection of essays about the rise of total war policies in Europe during the 16th/17th centuries.
http://www.amazon.com/Military-Revo...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297288895&sr=1-1

-Voltaire comments on Louis XIV and Louvois - the man responsible for the military reformations.
http://www.amazon.com/age-Louis-XIV...4A/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1297288900&sr=8-12

http://www.amazon.com/maréchal-Luxe...6738/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1297289018&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Napoleons-War...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297289118&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Gustavus-Adol...IN7U/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1297289148&sr=8-3

-The man who helped spawn the term "total war". To understand the idea you must read von Moltke.
http://www.amazon.com/Moltke-Art-Wa...1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1297289215&sr=1-1-spell

There is a mix of primary and secondary sources in there. Again you can probably find a few of these free on Google Books.

Also, the correct spelling is "necessary". Or would you like to argue that as well?
 

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Therumancer said:
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Someone's just BEGGING for a Godwin call. Seriously, I know that referencing Nazism is an automatic loss, but there must be some exceptions - like when the speaker is holding out their own economic strength as a justification for why they could slaughter MILLIONS of people, and claiming that genocide has gotten a bad rap from the UN. I'm curious, Therumancer, are you expecting the world at large to thank the United States for every day you guys DON'T kill us all? Because it sounds like you are. You simply cannot make the claim that America has been the world's good guys and that all reasonable people will welcome dealings with you (implying that anyone who will not deal with you is clearly in the wrong) while simultaneously claiming legitimacy for black ops where you have inserted paramilitaries into other nations to foment chaos and install/support authoritarian regimes. Does not compute.

The neoconservative worldview that opposes any form of democracy that doesn't specifically suit the needs of your country is blinkered and retrograde, and responsible for the depth of anger you feel flowing your way from the international community. I for one am thoroughly thrilled that you live in a secular democracy, because hopefully it means that you and your ideas will never come to power - as with any culture, America is not a monoculture and your ideas are far too fringe to sway everyone to your cause. (See what I did there? I acknowledged that different people in a culture can have different ideas, and judged their culture accordingly. You should try it some time...)

EDIT: Therumancer, why don't you make your own thread for this junk instead of inhabiting the deep pages of an unrelated issue? Or does this sort of argument do better when it's not seen by all that many people? And can we get that h.264 guy back? He was relevant, informative and interesting.
 

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Governments are trying to control us hardcore heres a group that is fighting back nonviolently. Meeh im supporting them, considering what they did I tip my hat to the irony of it I mean jeeze it is annon there pretty good at what they do, whether that be trickery or otherwise Mr.Previous post
 

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Jeffro Tull said:
Anonymous... Are they still focused on protesting Scientology or have the branched out into other issues?
There are still people doing what they can with Scientology.

A big focus of the AnonOps side of Anonymous is now with Wikileaks and helping out with censorship in countries like Tunasia, Egypt, Italy etc.

I will be doing what I can to have an AnonOps (group) page created on wikipedia or have the Anonymous (group) page updated. Sure there is a bleed over but these are largely separate groups.

A lot of people research Anonymous on Wikipedia, just understand that is an Ok place to start your research, but its not really an OK place to draw conclusions from.

Here is an Anonymous manifesto: http://truthisrevolutionary.org/news/message-anonymous

These pages may be of interest if you are interested in wikileaks:
Operation Cablewiki: http://cablewiki.net/index.php?title=Main_Page
Leakspin Sauce: http://leakspinsauce.ownu.net/
 

Therumancer

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FluxCapacitor said:
Therumancer said:
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Someone's just BEGGING for a Godwin call. Seriously, I know that referencing Nazism is an automatic loss, but there must be some exceptions - like when the speaker is holding out their own economic strength as a justification for why they could slaughter MILLIONS of people, and claiming that genocide has gotten a bad rap from the UN. I'm curious, Therumancer, are you expecting the world at large to thank the United States for every day you guys DON'T kill us all? Because it sounds like you are. You simply cannot make the claim that America has been the world's good guys and that all reasonable people will welcome dealings with you (implying that anyone who will not deal with you is clearly in the wrong) while simultaneously claiming legitimacy for black ops where you have inserted paramilitaries into other nations to foment chaos and install/support authoritarian regimes. Does not compute.

The neoconservative worldview that opposes any form of democracy that doesn't specifically suit the needs of your country is blinkered and retrograde, and responsible for the depth of anger you feel flowing your way from the international community. I for one am thoroughly thrilled that you live in a secular democracy, because hopefully it means that you and your ideas will never come to power - as with any culture, America is not a monoculture and your ideas are far too fringe to sway everyone to your cause. (See what I did there? I acknowledged that different people in a culture can have different ideas, and judged their culture accordingly. You should try it some time...)

EDIT: Therumancer, why don't you make your own thread for this junk instead of inhabiting the deep pages of an unrelated issue? Or does this sort of argument do better when it's not seen by all that many people? And can we get that h.264 guy back? He was relevant, informative and interesting.
Oh trust me, I've spoken my piece in a lot of places, and it's hardly low profile. As one of the only right wing militants on these forums, whenever I express my opinions I tend to wind up with people questioning me on it, then I have to explain myself, and soon we've derailed the thread.

In this paticular case it all started with me making a point about how we COULD go after something like Anonymous globally but we won't. This lead to people questioning that, me responding, and then people wanting to discuss wartime morality. I mean I could be a troll about it and not bother to answer at all, but I generally don't do that. Even if people disagree with me, I think it's not a bad thing for them to hear alternative points of view, and occasionally even if I disagree with them I get some insightful answers.

I'm not always that good a writer, so perhaps I wrote something badly, however I will say that I think you might be misunderstanding some things, given not having followed the entire discussion. That seems to be a frequent problem when people respond to one post that gets their attention without following the entire sequence of events.

Economics have not really entered into this discussion, military power has. The central discussion having beem more about whether we COULD do something, rather than me saying we should actually do it, or that it would be a good idea. People talking about the reactions of the rest of the world were off topic to the discussion, but I've generally responded by saying that I don't think people would react the way that they think. In part because belligerant nations like Russia have hardly seen the kind of reaction they are proposing, with only a fraction of the potential damage the US could inflict, and partially because I very much doubt that the world would wind up rallying behind a group of troublemakers and nations trying to protect them other than talking a lot of crap. This for a number of reasons, both because any kind of "united offensive against the US" would destroy the world and kill everyone involved including us and I doubt they would opt for suicide over something like Anonymous if we DID overreact in that fashion, and partially because they would benefit more from cooperating and then throwing our own actions back in our face next time we tried the whole "world police" thing. In the end though that's all hypothetical, and based over a ridiculous series of events that nobody including me thinks would ever happen. It's entirely an offshoot of me pointing out that there is a differance between "can't do something" and "won't do something because it's idiotic".

Now, as far as economics go, in OTHER threads which were more dedicated to the subject, I have spoken about military action for economic reasons. Typically pointing out that if the US economy collapses, causes rampant poverty, and reduces our importants in the world community that's just like someone doing it to us militarily. The bottom line is the USA as we know it is destroyed, and we fall... and yes like most dominant world powrs the rest of the world will be overjoyed (few outside of it were exactly sad to see the British empire fall for example). I have said that I personally believe MAD applies to such situations, if we're going to be destroyed we should take everyone else out with us. I'm sure if your on the receiving end of it you don't like that idea, nor are you especially fond of what this means of dreams of other countries who hope to one day see us go down and replace us, when the US could just fire off it's entire nuclear stockpile while waving goodbye. Trade wars being another form of war, and the military allmost always having played a key role in the economic fortunes of a country, leading to the old maxim "free trade means he with the biggest guns trades freely". I simply think that instead of being such nice guys we should be a bit more ruthless about things, and simply make it clear that if we go down, the rest of the world is coming with us. That's really unpleasant and "crazy" when your outside, but if it's you and you have the capability your liable to wind up thinking the same way, and if you claim otherwise your lying.

While widely disagreed with because it's a frightening thought to many, that isn't quite the same thing as saying that the world should be grateful every day that we don't conquer them.

Nor is it even close to that when I say in general that the US should be more assertive militarily in standing up for it's own interests. This does lead to discussions with people (especially from the international community) trying to say what the US *can't* do, which leads to me again explaining the differance between *can't* do and *won't* do. Typically leading to hypothetical discussions that end with me pointing out that even in the event of some unlikely consensus of all nations teaming up to come after the US (when the international community has trouble dealing with what's left of Russia), it ends with everyone on the planet dying, not with the US going down and everyone else living happily ever after. Pointing out that we have the firepower to destroy the entire globe 10x over, or engaging in discussions about military force, does not acually mean that I think any of the things in those discussions are likely to occur, or that I want them to happen. When I actually talk about being assertive militarily, sometimes it's rather extreme (like in the case of a total war doctrine being used in conflict with The Middle East) but mostly it's on a far more limited and reasonable scale, even if still unpopular given the political leanings here. Acting more militant DOES mean attacking more people, and using more muscle, but it does not mean conquering the world, or being totally indiscriminate with the use of force. I won't go into specifics because this would make the post even longer and cause even more arguements about totally irrelvent things.

Now this is long, but I WILL also say that I think it's dead wrong to argue the attitude that the US should not ever stand up for it's own interests, which is pretty much what most arguements from the international community come down to (and I am guessing your not from the US though I'm not sure). Any time it comes down to the US supporting it's own agenda, especially if it means someone else losing out on something, we always get a ton of crying about it. I do indeed get that as the dominant world power (for the moment) we're hardly popular, as dominant powers rarely are, but it is unreasonable to expect the US to quietly and passively die off, which is more or less what this typically comes down to. There will ALWAYS be a depth of anger towards a dominant world power from the rest of the world community, that is an unchanging fact, and it will not end until there is a world unity (which is a whole differant discussion). This is one of the big reasons why it neither surprises or bothers me. It would be one thing if the world community wasn't always in a frothing, anti-American rage nowadays, but it is, and it was like that for previous dominant world powers, so really I consider that the normal state of affairs. Especially since that frothing anger lasts up until a nation needs something from us.

As far as the issue with democratic regimes and who we support goes, there is such a thing as common sense involved here. Obviously we'd be complete idiots to prop up someone who wants to blow our heads off. Given control over the situation, I doubt most of the nations making the criticism would do the same thing. Not being stupid is hardly a valid reason to complain.

What's more, just because someone claims they are supporting, or building a democratic regime, does not mean it's true. We got involved in Veitnam largely by taking the word of the goverment that it wanted to embrace democracy and become a progressive society. It had no intention of this and was a corrupt mess that did not represent those principles, and was not worth defending. By the time we go there though, it was too late, and much idiocy I won't get into ensured. Don't think for a second though that the US hasn't gotten a little bit more wary about claims of democracy and started taking a slightly better look at who is involved.

I assume your referring to the situation in Egypt right now specifically, and why the US hasn't come running in to help the protestors who are screaming democracy at times, and why a lot of people want to back the dictator. The thing to consider here is that those protestors moving against the goverment have almost no leadership at all, or any real plan on how to run the goverment. Their only point of unity is in getting rid of the dictator. The closest thing to an acknowledged leader seems to be a 30 year old google executive, whose major qualification was providing meeting information to help get things going, and talking smack about the goverment online. The biggest coordinated "block" of people that could conceivably come in and create any kind of goverment in a timely fashion are the islamics and they are hardly waving a "democracy" flag. They will try and turn Egypt into an Islamic nation going by the same agenda that makes them a block to begin with. They aren't a huge majority or anything either, and would liable spark a lot of resistance. See, right now the Dictator provides stability, we pull him out of power, or support it, and the replacement is something far worse, or an endless series of civil wars because nobody can agree who should be in charge, and that would become our fault. I also guarantee if we made that mess we'd be called on it, and the international community would quickly forget about all the pressure it put on us to create the situation to begin with. Like many things with the international community we're going to be the bad guys no matter what we do in all likelyhood, which is part of why I have such trouble taking it too seriously. My basic attitude is that the world just needs to chill out and let us try and do the right thing, and if it fails, we can ar least say we didn't run in half cocked due to pressure. Or heck, why the heck is everyone turning their eyes to us on this one? I mean everyone hates us anyway, arbitrarly elect China or France or someone... Hey Haiti hasn't made amy major world desicians, maybe we should let them decide what the rest of the world should be doing here... but oh wait, we're evil yet when something happens guess who the leadership/scapegoat falls to.

As far as being the good guys go, my point is typically that we don't really support ourselves all that well which is why I suggest being a lot more assertive of our own interests. It's also that as I point out we typically wind up not doing a lot of things that would benefit us for moral reasons, whether anyone wants to accept that or not.

One of the points that comes up in the "could" vs. "won't" discussions that annoys people is the fact that us not doing things relies more on us not doing it because it would be wrong, or stupid, as frequently the former as the latter. This as opposed to it being because of any real fear of some kind of global unity rising to stop the US. It makes the rest of the world seem more valid and confident to think that they could stop us, even together, but again, all they could do is choose to die in the end even unified. That's just a statement of fact, nothing really malevolent about it, and typically pointed out in response to some rather ridiculous hypothetical situations to begin with.

Now if you've READ this far, I'll be blunt about something. If the entire world could actually UNIFY under one voice, I would say go for it, and suggest the US disbanding and joining right in. See, that's like my personal "endgame" wet dream goal for saving humanity as a whole. If it can be done without cost from bloodshed, that's great. But you know, it's not happening which is why the idea is stupid. Yes, I get right back in people's faces about alliances against the US if we were to dare to represent our own interests (or in some purely hypothetical context that has no basis in reality to begin with), but you know by that point any pretext of common sense is usually out of the equasion. Typically when I'm being more reasonable about it, I kind of point out that Russia has been far worse than I actually suggest the US being (usually, there are exceptions). Russia tried to influance an election in Ukraine throug assasination, it invaded Georgia, threatened Poland over a defensive missle base, cut off the gas in the EU, and all kinds of things over the last few years. It hasn't even been able to get the supposed "union" of European nations to do anything united in response when it was sitting there with an army on it's border, cutting off the gas, threatening to nuke member nations, and pretty much saying "hey go for it if you can". Russia is a mere shadow of what it used to be, a world power sure, but not a super power or anything to boot. Yet I'm supposed to believe that if the US uses it's military to leverage some country for it's own interests, the entire globe is going to unite hand in hand sing "we are the world" and come after us, dude if it's that easy to bring the globe together then I am seriously going to suggest going after Anonymous in the most insane fashions possible (or something similarly stupid), because that right there would make it 100% worthwhile. Heck, if that REALLY ever happened, I'll be the first one to say the US should surrender because, hot damn, we just achieved world peace.

Hopefully this clarified some things, I doubt you'll agree with me, but I think your off base on some of it. This is going to be my last post in this thread since we're wait off topic, and I can't think of much else to say, and I've explained anything that should probably need clarification about what I think.
 

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This news deserves a new thread

As some of you know. Some Bank of America leaks are soon to be coming out. Anonymous uncovers proposed systematic attacks on Wikileaks. Bank of America attempts to hire firms to attack Wikileaks

This gives more credence to Assanges claim the information might 'bring down a few banks if it were released.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/data-intelligence-firms-proposed-attack-wikileaks/

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/fi9df/firm_hacked_by_anonymous_plotted_against/

http://www.thetechherald.com/articl...-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks?page=1
After a tip from Crowdleaks.org, The Tech Herald has learned that HBGary Federal, as well as two other data intelligence firms, worked to develop a strategic plan of attack against WikiLeaks. The plan included pressing a journalist in order to disrupt his support of the organization, cyber attacks, disinformation, and other potential proactive tactics.
Three data intelligence firms concocted a plan to attack WikiLeaks on behalf of Bank of America, according to a published report.

The three firms, Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies, planned to "disrupt" Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald's support of WikiLeaks, create a disinformation campaign to discredit the secrets outlet, sow discord among WikiLeaks volunteers, and use cyber attacks to target the website's infrastructure.

The proposed assault on WikiLeaks, The Tech Herald reported, was revealed after the "non-group" of hacktivists known as "Anonymous" gained access to more than 44,000 emails from HBGary Federal's COO, Aaron Barr, after he said he had identified "core leaders" of the group. Barr also said he had information that could potentially lead to their arrest. The emails were released to the public in a 4.71 gigabyte Torrent file.

The emails show the proposal was developed at the request of the Hunton and Williams law firm, which had a meeting with Bank of America on December 3 to discuss legal action against WikiLeaks.

"They basically want to sue them to put an injunction on releasing any data," an email between the intelligence firms said. "They want to present to the bank a team capable of doing a comprehensive investigation into the data leak.
There are rumors their network (HBGary) is the home of the J3st3r. J3st3r claimed that his group took down wikileaks. I haven't been able to confirm that it is the home of the J3st3r but anons are saying someone there has been attacking their servers.



http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/grand-jury-to-collect-fbi-evidence-about-anonymous-0501/
The United States government is taking a serious stab at uncovering the identities behind the online hacking collective known as Anonymous.
 

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Anonymous needs to be broken. But untill that happens....this is honestly hillarious. Kind of sad to admit but, it's the truth.
 

AnonOperations

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gamefreakbsp said:
Anonymous needs to be broken. But untill that happens....this is honestly hillarious. Kind of sad to admit but, it's the truth.
This isn't just fun and games. Why are people wanting anonymous destroyed? Its not going to happen.

 

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Simriel said:
Calbeck said:
Simriel said:
Arresting 40 members of anon
Is forty guys willing to squeal like pigs to get out of what their friends got them into. Except, in Anon, there are of course no friends. -:)
Every member is by the nature of the group anonymous. How can you rat out someone who you don't know?
If you think that, you've never met any Anons.

There is no one who has the "list"...there is no "list". But plenty of Anons know each other personally. Many joined as subgroups with similar likes. Others discovered one anothers' identities just by socializing AS Anons on various forums or even in gaming venues like TF2.

Example: a friend of mine is a SomethingAwful Goon. He brags about how many Anons he knows from the SA forums. Several of those game in the same circles as my friend, who games in the same circles I do.

There is no such thing, on the Internet, as someone who is truly anonymous. -;)
 

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h264 said:
gamefreakbsp said:
Anonymous needs to be broken. But untill that happens....this is honestly hillarious. Kind of sad to admit but, it's the truth.
This isn't just fun and games. Why are people wanting anonymous destroyed? Its not going to happen.
Why do people want anonymous destroyed? Well, have you ever been to /b/? A good portion of the people there who participate in this sort of shit only want net neutrality so they can continue to do the same depraved things they have been doing. While I agree the FBI is going about it all wrong, anonymous isn't exactly a beacon of light in the fog.