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Twitter Caves To Adjusted First Amendment, Blocks "Operation Paybacks" Anon_Operations; Next Up: Twitter Taken Down By Hactivists?
Less than an hour ago we asked (rhetorically, we hoped) how long until Twitter caves to the same gestapo tactics that have caused Wikileaks to be banned virtually everywhere else. The answer turns, is, less than an hour.
But do not despair: @Anon_Operations is already reborn as @AnonOpsNet
And, furthermore, we don't want to be shareholders of twitter right about now.
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Not as long as it is an integral part of the circus. Maybe after Christmas.
As long as they stay away from youporn.com I have no other concerns.
AH Ha. So you do work for the SEC.
nono. You got youporn.com confused with:
-shiteaters.com
-fistmyass.com
-trannytaint.com
Those are the sites visited by the SEC.
ZH needs a "like" button.
http://lat.ms/eTiJhj
Shut down the Internet and you shut down America. Not only are you correct about the "circus", our businesses are utterly dependent on this recent creation.
Shut down the Internet and stocks plunge, with no way to sell (or buy) except by a chance of getting a call through to an overwhelmed brokerage. Amazon, Google, Netflix, etc... etc... would be worthless immediately.
It would result in a complete independent news blackout. Rumors would be rampant and nothing they said on TV would be believed.
Panic would be immeasurable. Violence would be the result. TPTB are not that stupid.
Does anyone else get the feeling that there is no longer any control? Governments running scared of it, companies reliant on it, people free on it.
We are just beginning to understand this creation and use it in ways never imagined.
It's scary, but I wouldn't change it for the world. Something BIG is going to happen soon.
sz-
as mon grandpere (French Canadian) used to tell me "au contraire, meathead."
maybe, well, too much control?
and you say: "Something BIG is going to happen soon."
Worth your while to find Tom Coburn's comments on Senate floor (maybe too early for cspan.org, but can't find it yet) and on Hugh Hewitt's show this afternoon.
paraphrasing with declining memory:
"On this current course, I don't see how we last five years."
"It might be four, three,... it might be next year."
"From what I see, ... well, I don't want to scare your listeners."
"We need to take steps to start reversing course.
"Over my dead body." "yes your question was 'are we going to bail out the states.'"
- Ned
http://www.hughhewitt.com/transcripts.aspx?id=fdc9a8d0-453e-450b-80d1-19...
Sent the senator and my congressman an email today not to go for the deal. Oddly, the website for the other senator from OK was unavailable today.
Agreed. It seems things have been snowballing ever since the Ben Bernank laid an egg on national television (contradictory answers, obviously lying, gulping after evasive answers, shifty eyes....too bad he didn't sweat like Dick Nixon). Howzat 10-year bond yield working out for ya, BB?
Given the current situation here, that would be bad how?
Short term, yes, it will be very bad.
Long term, our descendants will be very grateful that we destroyed the beast.
It would most certainly would put a crimp in my revenue stream, until I brought the modems back online. Terminal and scripts baby. Never lose the dial-tone - screeeeee, boinga boinga.
Shut down the technology? Sure.
I will be digging out the Dietz 76 Oil Lamps and other early 1900's stuff and slow life down a little bit. Electricity optional but not required.
I remember a time growing up when there was no computers in sight. The only ones were either Eniac (Old Army Artillery Computer spelling?) and manual cash registers where you had to punch every number and pull a lever to finish a cash sale.
Vacumn tubes and rotary telephones were our first clue to modern living, we still got the ball game off the am radio back then.
But wait a generation or two, and no one will be able to function without technology and that is what scares me. When all of us old fucks die off excepting perhaps the old Amish.
All JIT would be dead, including food distribution...I know there manual systems in place, but with the 3-5 day average grocery store stock on hand, pretty bare shelves until the manual systems are habit again and the trucks rolling consistently...
I think you are overstating a leetle.
1) Brokerages did fine before the internet
2) I still phone my orders in. ALL of them.
3) HFT removes need for carbon interface of any kind. Right?
On the other hand, The Beast has grown fat on the extra the internet allows, and woul dbe loath to do without. So perhaps the effect is the same
Loving the new body shoot there Tyler.
Don't worry, Canada isn't far behind. The University of Calgary is being coy about competing with AMZN, V, MA and now Twitter:
http://fedupmontrealer.blogspot.com/2010/12/u-calgary-ignores-ethics-code-no.html
I wonder if we switched the name Assange with Woodward what the reaction would be...
Assange is evidently (well, prosecutorily) heterosexual. - Ned
"looks like i picked the wrong day to quit sniffin' glue!"
-- McCrusky
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Hoist storm sail!
MAN THE HARPOONS!!!
Hey nice avatar just saw One Hour Photo last night
We have a winner.
Just found a picture of Julian's romantic blunder:
http://www.thirdage.com/files/imagecache/350x350/files/lewinsky.jpg
Odd lookin' Swede.
Looks like Marie, but what the hell do I know.
Groupies all look alike.
TAKE ALL THE FUCKERS DOWN . TAKE THE WHOLE BRAINLESS establishment down. take em all down!
Huh? Okay, sounds good. I'll do it right after I finish watching "Samurai Girls". I have a script on my iPad that will launch my l33t botnet of 1.5 million plus rooted Windows boxen in default "shut down the Intarwebz" mode. With IP range hopping and random seeding I can have half the planet nuke the other half, but only for about 5 minutes then the border routers catch on and I get a bunch of stinkmail. Rookiez iz punk'd.
The animation style in "Samurai Girls" is totally like the work of God or something. They would animate Christ Jesus this way. Only he wouldn't have tits. Pass me another IPA there would ya? What were we just talking about?
lol.
Seen "Ghost in the Shell"? In related news, my 24-year-old Daughter is a black belt in Kumdo (Korean martial art of swordsmanship)
Shut them out of Twitter? ROTFLMAO!!!
Trust me, those guys DO NOT need twitter to communicate and coordinate. There are a plethora of global IM services they can subscribe to or create out of thin air to communicate with themselves. There have been discreet IM networks in place since the 70's LOL! So Twitter stops telling the world what the Hackers are up to; Wow way to go guys, you sure showed them! I love how stupid the embedded power base is when it comes to technology. Take away the Hackers toys and they will be back with new ones that they made themselves. Its Revenge Of The Nerds; big time!
Twitter wobbly as we speak.
Twatter is a MSM tool. They close channels to give their lawyers cover. It's like Kabuki Theater for the short-bus riders; double-retarded.
Don't even need established services. You could use the comment section of an unmoderated local newspaper to route messages to a determined group.
Yes. Or even better, Usenet. Being a mesh of interconnected servers with no single choke point, it would impractical to shut it down.
I'm thinking it's time to run another net over Internet protocols in dark mode. Combine store-n-forward technology with packet stuffing to send (for example) junk emails in which you embed the actual message in the packet structure itself, say in the unused flags or padded around the visible content. Use email addresses the way we use TCP ports. If something breaks, a human could manually forward to the listed addresses. A modified TCP stack or a packet sniffing app at the destination machine could strip the stuffed content and do something useful with it and not even touch the original email. It would be slow but really hard to detect.
Hey. I just invented an actual use for spam, just need to trick the spammers into running it for me. Now need to write a malware installer and push that on the net via some porn sites. Instant email-routed darknet.
Okay I just made all that up. Maybe. You don't know for a fact I didn't, do you?
Law School! (US, UK,AZ,NZ, and the rest of the dominion)
What do I win? Can I get $0.15 from a class action suit?Or Atleast let me eat a bullet for my home loan!
get together with 419-eaters and you've got a plan.
It's all ones and zeroes to me -- well, with Quantum-effects anyway. Long live tunneling diodes!
Note to self: Anon it seems are using comments posted in YouTube movies for out-of-band communications. I mean, how hard is this to figure out?
Way back when... there was pennet.fi (?)
Is that still around?
Gotta love it! The Govt(s) are trying to catch eels with their teeth!
This group legit? I've never head of them and it's highly unlikely that a hacker group would make use of these public forums. In my opinion, it's a federal sting.
if you've never heard of them...do some research. Or not. It doesn't matter.
Is their IRC down? Whats the server, I tried loc.anonops.net
nvm its been up and down..
and take that fking LIEBERMAN pig down too.
Obama to shut down Internet access in 3, 2,.....
The Bernank just pulled his hand away from the kill button.. He figures person X will spend a lot more using person Y's credit card.. Then they'll just back stop the banks losses..
Merry fucking Xmas every one.. Have at it.. /sarc
Now if everyone would just close they're cc accounts then we'd be on to something.
People shouldn't fear the government; government should fear the people.
Only one way that happens. Back to the same basic TV problem as noticed above.
This could be bad. Joe Lebowitz could end up with 1000 free dildo of the month club memberships with stolen credit cards.
fuck twitter and the geek ass horse they rode n on....
shit is stupid anyway...a new generation of cowards....
Tyler please do me a favor an hold one interview with someone this year so that the White House cannot claim you are "not a journalist" because that is their stance on Assange and Wikileaks. Obviously since your material is original it would be ludicrous for them to try to make that attempt and Assange merely reposts information but there is nothing wrong with covering your bases.
you can use irc server irc.anonops.net it crashed for 5 mins earlier
but is working now. Join group #wikileaks.
They are discussing whether or not to take down twitter right now.
Also they just posted loic.anonops.net join #loic
Havent used IRC in about 5 years. It's still around?
download mric and use irc.anonops.net for server then join #wikileaks or any of about 10 channels where hackers are talking targets and progress.
hilarious that the US thinks they can stop them .... then again, why am i surprised...theses are the same people that think they can win a war in iraq and afganistan..... hahahaha. fools the lot of them
hey...hey,hey....you can't talk about our "dear leaders" like that; they're the best that money can buy. besides, they're out for my "nat'l security" dammit
Perhaps the most OT topic ever:
Has anyone else seen the Brewbot commercial and become extremely pissed to find out only later that this little dude in fact does not talk, walk around and make you coffees? Talk about false advertising. I may not have been ponying up for an iPad but a robot that makes me coffees would have been my weakness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EPNOhwCNMU
Well I suppose that is one way to start a revolution....trying to clamp down on free speech. Then assembly (though electronic). This can only get uglier. Take em down geeks....fry them all.
yes fry them all. they need to know we hate all of them.
Wasn't it Heartland the credit card processor that was hacked for 40 million account numbers a couple of years ago?
Now, if processessing stops, then we have a ball game.
Somehow taking down the shitty visa and mastercard sites is just a shot across the bow.
Yep. I still get Fossil flyers as a result of the fradulent use of my BofA card. *snort*
The difference between Assange and the hackers is obvious. The hackers use a trojan.
So funny. Good one buzzsaw99! +1000
An essential part of any man's root kit.
OH!
Laughed HARD (and bareback!) +1
OT: Is it me or are the futures going nuts???
it is out of hours so they will manipulate even more because they failed during "real" hours
ok - but I don't remember seeing such a large spread in futures before. When you look at the 5-min charts - they look crazy. Will keep an eye after 8 ET
I never thought I would want hackers to succeed.. but the governments and banksters have changed the rules so the bad guys rip off pensioners and poor people and give it to the rich, so go hackers go... kill the banksters
http://downrightnow.com/twitter#refresh
Here is somethings I posted on the old thread, a bit late.
Here is the cable showing the relationship between Swedish and US authorities
(s) Swedish military and civilian intelligence
organizations are strong and reliable partners on a range of
key issues, particularly making a significant contribution to
our understanding of events inside the Russian military and
STOCKHOLM 00000506 002 OF 003
in Iran's nuclear ambitions. The good cooperation on
counterterrorism, both domestically and internationally, has
helped Swedish authorities carry out their mandate to protect
Swedish citizens and national interests. Due to domestic
political considerations, the extent of this cooperation in
not widely known within the Swedish government and it would
be useful to acknowledge this cooperation privately, as
public mention of the cooperation would open up the
government to domestic criticism.
http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2007/05/07STOCKHOLM506.html
(s) secret ain't snot.
Secret means that the Ambassador's wife might snif if she found out about it.
- Ned
This is the interview with CIA analyst McGovern
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/newsradio/audio/20101208-mcgover...
Basically he says that the charges were a set up, that this was a honey pot trap and that Assagne had been warned by Aussie officers that he could be subjected to a honey pot set up.
What a fucking idiot--keep it in the pants, revolutionaries.
AYBABTU
Did I mention, AYBABTU
And for anybody interested in the politics of this in Australia.
There are some things that need to be considered about Australian politics and where Assagne sits at the moment, and it is getting interesting.
The negative Cables about Kevin Rudd from the US Embassy here were sourced from local anti-govt media and a guy call Senator Arbib, a junior Minister in the Australian Govt under Rudd but also a behind the scenes power broker.
It has been revealed in another Wikileak today that he was/is basically a spy for the US on the Australian govt and the Labor Party inside workings.
This Arbib guy told the Americans that there would be a change in Prime Minister about 8 months before it happened. So this person reveals that was a long time plot to change the PM with Gillard, with himself as the prime mover of a late night attack and challenge on PM Rudd. This makes a lie of the stories about the change at the time.
Rudd has in all his press conferences on the Wikileaks issues has avoided mentioning them in a negative way or suggesting anything illegal has happened. This is in contrast to PM gillard who immediately went on the attack so much so she almost left herself open to charges of corrupting the office of the Federal Police and perverting the course of justice...by indicating this person was guilty of a crime even though there was no known crime under Australian law....and then having the Police search through and try and find a crime. Gillard in her statements since has avoided making such comments.
In the Australian media the on line polls heavily favour Assagne, often to the tune of 90%.
So the govt treating Assagne in an improper way will causes them to lose a great many votes. It may be political suicide to do so.
Rudd is a curious guy. When a young Aussie got caught in signapore with drugs and sentenced to death Rudd sent him his personal bible given to him by his father. So there is a bit of compansion with him, he also used to visit and help out at homeless shelters at night before becoming PM.
The Australian government has to rely on independents to remain in power and one of them Andrew Wilkie was a whistle blower from within Intelligence against the previous government, and was himself harassed by authorities. So he will have some sympathies here and make the govt careful how it treats this issue. They only need one member to abandon them to make govt impossible.
So at this stage I would imagine Assagne's passport is safe, if not only for the voter backlash against the govt.
But we will see what pressure the US brings to bear on Aust. This thing is a moving feast.
A former CIA analyst interviewed on radio yesterday said the charges against Assagne were a set up with CIA and Swedish authorities and is an effort to get him to Sweden. A leaked cable shows that the Swedes and US agencies have close ties, and the cable notes that it should not be mentioned as many Swedish politicians are unaware of the relationship.
Dyncorp is reportedly a pimp of young boys:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/00221812176/so-wikileaks-is-ev...
How can we get in on this as average joes? Must be something we can do here in the ZH community. Can we help crash the next site or something?
yeah lets fucking crash lieberman's site.
and obama's too. not to mention hillary and rove and gingrich all the scumbags.
i hope they take down twitter. and please please please - take down the facebook too. take them down, and keep them down!
Yeah, could be a big fuck you from the boys at zerohedge. Wish I had some skills at hacking. Could make Napolean Dynomite proud. Shit, best I can do is visit a site and click around, hit refresh a few hundred times if needed. Wish I had some skills man.
Twitter? Real terrorists use facebook, especially those farmtown games, hint, hint.
Who's first ammendment is caving? Wiki assholes decide the first amendment rights of all the web sites they take down? These guys have crossed over the line and I hope they serve large prison terms. I'm not a fan of repressing anyones free speach including blocking of web sites by the denial of service attacks.
So what do you do when someone blocks your access to your bank account and you have no legal recourse?
Thats what happened to the folks at wikileaks (among other things) to include having their speach silenced, and arrest.
The only difference between them and a normal guy on main street is that they have the tools to fight back....and they are.
When governments and corporations take away your right to speak than it is your obligation to fight back for your right(s). If you read the works of our founding fathers, you will see they would agree. Don't forget they aren't attacking entities arbitarily. They are attacking entities that have (forcefully) suppressed their basic inalienable rights.
dude, which guys crossed over which line?
- Ned
I smell bacon!
Update: Twitter says now that nuking Anon on Twitter as "an accident" so they brought that account back.
If so, mad props to Twitter. Or someone over there. Maybe just their support people rock hard.
Mad props? more like good kick in the nuts to bring them to their $senses$.
That too. But I still give props when people do the right thing.
Yup.
It's never too late to do the right thing.
That has to be terrifying when the government rolls up heavy on you. Can you imagine the terror you feel, all those assets coming at you, with a fake smile, asking you to be a patriot and shut this down, with the silent, implied "or else." I'd love to think I'd just say "FUCK OFF," but the truth is I would tell them what they want to hear, until I can get to safety and regroup, talk to friends, get a defense strategy in place, and then do the right thing.
That could be what happened here. Before all else, we are human.
War on the people is over (if you want it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb2YSAVHmIE
If John were alive today, he be shot as a terrorist
If you know you're right. Telling those in the wrong, government or otherwise to FUCK OFF is both empowering and liberating.
Yes, you may get hurt. You may even die. But you'll probably be just fine and better off.
Don't live in Fear... ever...
@cougar -- have been enjoying your work on madscienceunlimited. Thank you for sharing, and major props on the writing. It is a welcome (if diverting) treat. I hope to be able to read the full work when finished.
I hope they do not hack into the Name servers held in a secret location,then nobody will be able to shop.
I would simply switch to money order at the US Post office and continue to recieve delivery by various means if necessary. No Visa or any card needed. Just cash and alot of it.
If they find a way to stop the US Mail dead where I cannot send anything to the seller in another state for goods then we are really in trouble.
You did hear about the new international postal restrictions. Apparently, if you are sending a pa package over 1 lb (personal), you need to supply the SSN of the person you are sending it too. I have only read about a few people trying to mail some stuff from Asia but it is worth looking into.
That was the United Parcel Service I think if you physically hand deliver a package to ship at thier shipping store or at a warehouse office.
SSN? Yea I heard something about it and for the life of me I think it will only serve to snarl shipping with a great big half hitch. What SSN? I don't know no SSN.
If my Ammunition supply shipper starts to ask for my ssn to ship, I hate for that to happen. Mine is one state down in Texas. I might have to start driving down there and pick it up in person. The gasoline and time will be a bitch but *Shrugs.
I wonder if it was like this for the average person sitting back and listening to the election results in 1932 Berlin, and going WTF?
What are any of these people thinking? The gov, the wikis, the websites. Is any rational thinking going on here?
BHO is sitting at his desk right now, his finger poised over the internet kill switch.
It would be easier at this point to build an Electricity, or Water kill switch
...and fuck twitter.
what he said...
"we sent all the doggies to come to Tulagi,
But Douglas MacArthur said, 'No!'
When asked for the reason, 'It isn't the season,
besides you have no U.S.O.'
chorus:
f... 'em all
- Ned
@Anon_Operations is back at twitter. And twitter they are like soooo sorry.
Bullet. Dodged. Nice move twitter.
visa.com is still under attack. I'm gonna go get a burger paying cash.
EDIT:
It's going to really suck over at PayPal. Amazon, are you paying attention?
Cougar, thanks for the informative posts.
Looks like the target is now Anon_Operation. Banned from Twitter and apparently Facebook (thought I haven't verified the latter.) Thing is, it is very easy to regroup and reform under both these sites. Sounds like Twitter and Facebook are covering their asses from a legal point of view.
*
Cases of Julian Assange masks sent anonymously to various government and elected officials - yeah, that's the ticket.
Remember, remember, the hacks to the server...
Awesome! +100
Remember, remember, the hacker's December.
Excellent!!
So if anyone is interested, and is fluent in german, here is a spiegel video that identifies the women involved with the Assange charges, and checks into whether it was a conspiracy against him. (around 4 min)
http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-1097671.html
and an English take on the charges
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336291/Wikileaks-Julian-Assanges-2-night-stands-spark-worldwide-hunt.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
anyone taking odds on whether Assange is alive one year from now?
here is the twitter.com/anon_opeation cache from Google
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_OP3u3LKyIIJ:twitte...
their website is also down
http://www.anonops.net/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi
Geeks into the breach! Who would have thunk it? Oh well, the first casualty of war is always the battle plan. When you need cavalry lads, give us a shout.
Hanovarians...., to arms.
http://isitup.org
a useful site for determining the status of a site e.g.
http://isitup.org/www.zerohedge.com
or just do a ping
They went after paypal and said they shut it down, but I got right in.
OT: folks - does that look right to you??? what is wrong with the futures?
http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=ES&p=m5
Gaza update: Israel launches air strikes after militants' mortars wound man - Reuters
does that look right to you???
Um...nope.
6 point gap down in the /es probably messed with that chart some. The market has recovered to be green.
Yeah, but... I swear I saw a black cat EXACTLY like that one walk by just seconds ago, in just the same way...
http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=INDICES&p=m5
Damn. Thinkorswim's charts are just fine. DOW gapped down 61 and has not filled gap but is recovering.
From Twitter
#zerohedge - Reason given for AnonOps take down: posting without a condom
Fing classic TD.
Wikileaks is being brought down by concerted financial action against them. Denial of funding... Denials of access to funds they already have...
If wikileaks can no longer afford to take the time to sift the data would they just leak the unredacted contents of that hard drive on the web and let the bloggers do the work of sifting through it for them... even though that might not be the wisest course to take.
IF the claims about their low operating budget by their German accountants (Wau?) are honest, they have years of cash.
Of course, actually fighting the infowar may be like dogfighting with afterburners, so mayne they're eating it faster now. On the other hand, Lots of volunteers.
Distracted us from what the banks are doing elsewhere.
no surprise the banking system is right onto this. false flag or not.
Are we seeing the start of a Black Swan Event?
I just hope the hackers don't take down the SEC's favorite porn sites!
waiting for Black Swan.
www.paypal.com is up/down.
The DDOS is avoiding the critical infrastructure of the targets. Only going after the public face web sites. Seems fair to me (for certain values of "fair")
It is at least entertaining, I am enjoying the events of today.
Maybe it's just a public demonstration or test of organizational muscle. I'm guessing if they wanted to hit more critical targets, they could. Although maybe it takes a little more prep time to do that, I don't know. Hitting a public website is pretty quick and easy work.
You are correct on all points.
The difficulty in taking down a target via DDOS depends on how they are provisioned, what their defensive footprint is, and the l33tness of their admins. A good admin with a large IP block can move assets around and avoid the TCP firehose.
PayPal did fairly well once they got their game on. Visa.com was just blown off the web. Rookiez. Amazon would be hard is my guess. But with enough volunteers you could still blow them away for a while.
I don't approve of anybody releasing information that gets anybody killed.
And Assange's lawyer also (reported) works for George Soros which makes the whole thing suspect.
Having said that, a lot of the stuff Wiki-leaked is damn interesting.
Let's see where the whole rabbit hole goes. Let's hope it doesn't become an excuse for an internet grab.
You know what gets people killed? Governmental opacity, and the hubris it gives to the power-mad. There would be a lot less people in harm's way right now if we had more transparency to begin with.
I think we're talking at least partly about the inherent dangers of "entangling alliances" that Jefferson warned about.
Entangling Alliances are what cascaded into WW1 !
twitter and trends. just found this. http://blog.twitter.com/2010/12/to-trend-or-not-to-trend.html "This week, people are wondering about WikiLeaks, with some asking if Twitter has blocked #wikileaks, #cablegate or other related topics from appearing in the list of top Trends. The answer: Absolutely not. In fact, some of these terms, including #wikileaks and #cablegate, have previously trended either worldwide or in specific locations." true or not? twittering as stocktradr
This is very interesting. Look at all the posters above, how many of them are clearly not traders or financial geeks. How many of them (us) would have a clue about the USD/Matabeli gumbo bean pair?
Congratulations Tyler, zerohedge is now fully mature. An audience of all the petals in the flower. It takes all of the people, but just some of their time.
Change comin' down the track -change for good.
btw Sinclair QL (u had to do all u could in 10mins before it crashed.)
But I once stroked an Apple Lisa. Does that count?
Hillary Clinton Launches Intimidating New Fragrance Line
Could someone crap out an estimate: how many credit card users are signed up for paperless online accounts?
Just like everyone else, I heard about this when it came out. I thought it was odd that this all did not happen months ago when they released the first leak regarding sensitive info re: US gov't doc's. Yes, the Gov't tried to take their sites down, but they would just appear somewhere else. Then there was another large leak just days ago, which was announced before it happened.
Then yesterday, I heard that wikileaks announced that the next sensitive info to be leaked was going to be re: BofA. Hmmmm.... then all of a sudden their bank account is frozen, their paypal account is frozen and they couldn't find a server to post on, none of which happened when they announced leaks re: gov't docs.
So, I put two and two together and realized that it really was the TBTF banks that took them down, not the government.
The TBTF banks don't care if the gov't looks bad, they probably prefer this because it diverts the publics attention away from them.
Don't get me wrong, I don't approve of leaking information that could put anyone in harms way, but I really don't think that leaking BofA's sensitive info is a national security risk. I, for one, would like to see those. And, if BofA's doc's would cause a national security risk, we are all in trouble. God help us then!
It seems, it is having an affect on business-as-usual.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336806/WikiLeaks-hackers-Operation-Payback-cyber-war-targets-Swedish-Government.html
Including very interesting comments from PayPal....
A PayPal executive admitted the firm stopped processing WikileLeaks' payments after being pressured by the US State Department.
Speaking at a conference in Paris, Osama Bedier said: 'The US State Deptartment told us these were illegal activities. It was straightforward.'
According to the website TechCrunch, the admission was greeted by a chorus of boos from the audience.
Bedier, a PayPal vice president, added: 'We first comply with regulations around the world making sure that we protect our brand.'
He claimed the State Department branded WikiLeaks illegal on November 27.
But in a statement released last night, PayPal's general counsel John Muller insisted the State Department had not been in contact with the firm.
He added that while the WikiLeaks account will remain restricted, 'PayPal will release all remaining funds in the account to the foundation that was raising funds for WikiLeaks'.
The statement continued: 'We understand that PayPal’s decision has become part of a broader story involving political, legal and free speech debates surrounding WikiLeaks’ activities.
'None of these concerns factored into our decision. Our only consideration was whether or not the account associated with WikiLeaks violated our Acceptable Use Policy and regulations required of us as a global payment company.
'Our actions in this matter are consistent with any account found to be in violation of our policies.'
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