Snitches Get Online Stitches
 

Holy shit...
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin...us_hacke_1.php

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin...nymouslogo.pngThe anarchic and amorphous hacker group Anonymous unleashed its online fury Sunday on Aaron Barr, a computer security expert with plans to tell the FBI everything he's gathered about the group. They took over his Twitter, covered it with racial slurs, published his social security number and proceeded to expose 50,000 of his company emails, available for download in one convenient file. Anonymous also messed with his company website, which is now down. All because he told the Financial Times that "he had collected information on the core leaders, including many of their real names, and that they could be arrested if law enforcement had the same data." So they took him to online war.

Mr Barr said he penetrated Anonymous as part of a project to demonstrate the security risks to organisations from social media and networking. He is presenting his research later this month at a conference in San Francisco.

Using LinkedIn, Classmates.com, Facebook and other sites, Mr Barr also burrowed deep enough into a US military group and a US nuclear plant that he could trick workers there to click on web links that, if they had been malicious, could have installed spying software on their computers. Such "social engineering" hacks are a major vulnerability for companies targeted in industrial espionage.

To punish him, Anonymous -- an enemy of Scientology and governments in Tunisia, Egypt and so on -- cornered Barr in a chat room to let him know that they had all of his findings about the group and his personal information. As reported by Gawker, from inside the chat:

"All your emails were dropped. Meaning we know you were trying to sell your ****ing research to the FBI. And the sad thing is the names and info in that document//research is all ****ing fake... you could have gotten a lot of random innocent people arrested," wrote one Anonymous member.

"That's an old version of my research.... not trying to sell it... much has changed," Barr wrote.

"I saw your latest data and it's all the same shit," snapped back another Anonymous member.

"They didn't just pick on any company, but we try to protect the US government from hackers," said Greg Hoglund, the founder of HBGary, which employs Barr. "They couldn't have chosen a worse company to pick on."

But on Twitter, the nature of Anonymous persisted: "Today we taught everyone a lesson. When we actually decide to bite back against those who try to bring us down, we bite back hard. #gameover." And: "Anonymous finds the line and then crosses it." Hashtag? #noregrets.

http://twitter.com/aaronbarr

They changed their homepage to this: http://i.imgur.com/em14R.jpg

Freaking vicious. lol

I'm guessing that the author of this is in his mid teens

http://i.imgur.com/em14R.jpg

The grammar is atrocious.

Reminds me of what they did to chris chan

Did you read the twitter account? hahah... damn. http://twitter.com/aaronbarr

Yeah, they sound young... but to do this to an international security business that works with CIA and FBI is insane.

Memo to everyone new on the internet: DO NOT **** with 4chan
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these guys do not **** around

Nerdy white guys in their teens, early 20s will learn a new meaning for penetration in federal prison.

yikes...

why would someone join Anonymous, let those guys know some of your private information, then piss them off? That is just dumb.

lol.


this is amusing.

Not great, to be sure. But did you note the use of the semicolon? They receive extra points for that. It reminds me of The World According To Garp.

Anyhow, who are these Anonymous guys?

FAX

yes they are.

From what I can read, they are a sometimes-mean-spirited online group that includes both clueless bored kids and pretty skilled hackers. Very loosely led (if led by anyone at all) they usually torment people or organizations whom they think deserves it. They are probably best-known for going after Scientology. (who probably deserved it)

They don't steal or do ID theft, and its not like they are some scary criminal gang who will shoot anyone up or anything, I'm pretty sure they only do online crap. But, this is not a group who you give your name and then do something specifically to them that they don't like.

Heh, after reading the thread title, I figured Mike Keck was back.

the internet is a ****ing monster lol

Bobby Bouchers mom told me ..."it's the devil!

Bobby Boucher you mean?

Ya got me before the edit ;)

They aren't really an organization at all. There are no leaders, and they have no structure and no member list.
It's just a random social group that congregates around the /b/ boards of various chans (mainly shhhh, warning do not go there as there is a decently high chance of seeing child porn.)
Stuff like this really shouldn't be attributed to anonymous so much as to an individual or small group of individuals. Imagine if some random person who hangs out on Chiefs planet decided to go deface other football forums and posted "Don't **** with Chiefsplanet, we will own you". It's pretty much exactly like that.

As for the part about them not stealing or doing ID theft... well that's the thing about giant social collectives, they are made up of all types. I'm pretty sure that many of the black hats who associate with anonymous have done those things and continue to do them, and frankly those aren't near the worst of it either.

Heh, now there’s a blast from the past.

Do they have a charter or something. A manifesto?

I might like to join up. Under a different name, of course.

FAX

Do I see a part 3 comming up?

http://www.dl4all.com/movies/18934-t...n-mitnick.html

Yeah, I'm sure at least 90% of the people posting today are saying, "who in the hell is Mike Keck?"

That’s what I was thinking when I read it. Just something all these nOObs wouldn’t know about. ;)

I thought it was really well written. Definitely better than 99% of what you see here and I'm pretty sure CP's membership base is not made up of people in their teens.

Pants, if you only knew.

We ARE Anonymous.

:eek:

These are my people.

what did they do to chris chan?

His name used to be capitalized.

Poor bastard.

FAX

ahh, so he's related to Charlie Chan.

They decapitalitated him?

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What didn't they do to him. There's a quasi-NSFW story about it on Cracked.com.

How would you anonymously be an attention whore though?
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http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Chris-chan


this guy?


EDIT: if it's this guy, then ho lee shit did they **** him up. lol

The entire episode is an excellent representation of the cruelty anonymity can foster. That Chris Chan due is obviously mentally ill, yet he was relentlessly scorned and mocked by people who had nothing better to do?

Do they actually think they score points by taunting a mentally ill person?

Pretty weird behavior on everybody's part, if you ask me.

FAX

In Goatboys world it makes perfect sence :rolleyes:

I've been trying to find it - what exactly did the guy do to them? Or was it just because he was a weird guy.

They usually pick somebody out who's doing something stupid online. Just a few months ago, they completely annihilated a 15 year old girl who was acting a fool on youtube. That's where the internet memes "backtrace your ip" and "cyberpolice" and "you dun goofed" came from. Google Jessie Slaughter.

That's what I thought.

I'm 12 years old and what is this?

is this the same group that caught the girl that was tossing newborn puppies into a river?

I'm assuming it is....

yes it is.

Well then these guys are equally the best and worst things to happen to the internet.

They are like internet vigilantes... they are going after Egypt and Tunisia govts, next they said. lol

Stuff like this will only expedite the US online id card... if you want to get online, you will need to use your real information, soon. That's what Congress has been debating recently.

yeah, that'll workout just fine....:rolleyes:

you already have to use real information to get on the net.

You have to provide your ISP with your specifics. They, in turn, give you an IP address. That IP address leads back to you. You can use proxies or things like the TOR network but even those things aren't fullproof.

The man already knows who you are online, this OLID will only make it easier for them to find you. The Proliteriat should beware. Big Brother is less than 20 years away.

huh .. people are bored .. they need to **** with the top 1% ..

ROFL

OWNED

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...-aftermath.ars

http://static.arstechnica.com/02-24-...n-sign-RSA.jpg

http://static.arstechnica.com/02-24-...bgary_sign.jpg

hahaha, pussies.

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I wonder if the CEO would sell his house if someone put a note like that on his doorstep.

These Anonymous guys should go after PETA.....that would be awesome!

I dunno,
I bet they get "drafted" in to service if the are good enough to hack FBI and CIA

We were going to call ourselves Phobia but it would have been way too easy to track some of us down.

Watch it Greg. He may fly up there and kick your ass. :p