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Anonymous Spoofs Stratfor Head George Friedman, Sends Blast Email To All Clients
Looks like the Anonymous hackers continue having fun at the expense of Stratfor's George Friedman... and its clients. In an mass email sent out earlier spoofing the account of Friedman and blasted to all the Stratfor clients, the hacked account stated that going forward all Stratfor premium content would be free, and further, would "like to hear from our loyal client base as to our handling of the recent intrusion by those deranged, sexually deviant criminal hacker terrorist masterminds." Unfortunately, now that the email addresses of thousands of highly placed individuals are out in the open, we believe this is merely the start of comparable spoofing, which will likely end up with disturbing results. In the meantime, Stratfor's website continues to be down.
Full email below:
From: <george.friedman@stratfor.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:49 AM
Subject: Rate Stratfor's Incident Response
For the video announcement, please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
Read full press release: http://bolt.thexfil.es/84e9h!t
Rate Stratfor's incident response: http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/9055/butthurtreportform.jpg
Hello loyal Stratfor clients,
We are still working to get our website secure and back up and running again as soon as possible.
To show our appreciation for your continued support, we will be making available all of our premium content *as a free service* from now on.
We would like to hear from our loyal client base as to our handling of the recent intrusion by those deranged, sexually deviant criminal hacker terrorist masterminds. Please fill out the following form and return it to me
My mobile: [redacted]
My home phone: [redacted]
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SOPA, bitchez
Can they do the White House next and the Democratic party? It will make Nixon look like Lincoln...........
It's funny now, but soon it won't be funny at all. Not since enactment of the NDAA.
These guys probably voted for Obummer in mass. Notice how they're laying off Big F.I.R.E? Where's the BAC documents? They'll have to worry about NDAA if a Red hued fascist unseats the current blue hued fascist.
"Not since enactment of the NDAA."
They got you. You are policing yourself (and others), saving them time and money (yours, btw).
Isn't it wonderful that the anti-terror bill terrorizes the law abiding citizens? That is one great demonic achievement against a (mostly) judeo-christian nation.
I got your point, but why would you think I'm 'policing' myself? My point is that all these draconian encroachments are being put in place in pusuit of agendas, not because they just happen to match the curtains.
You wrote in a way that does not imply a persona... I could read it equally as from a joking friend or a coaxed one or even a union harasser. Try it. I chose the second to make my point clearer.
It's not misreading you when it can be read in many ways.
nonclaim
your method of response with those two eyes strangely reminds me of an online persona I haven't heard from in about 15 years
GD, I can assure you it was a different person as my style then would be unrecognizable.
Assuredly noted NC - although I must say the wit displayed apparently precedes you.
And they will retaliate on small populations. Even if they CAN beat everybody it doesn't get them anything. The fear response provides the same fractional leveraging as the banking industry uses. The same underlying rules apply everywhere because the same underlying rules are used to create the world.
People want to get the psycho's out of their lives and not be connected to them. They want them gone so they try to set up barriers to keep the out. The psycho's want to connected to everybody so they don't set up barriers. This results in a group of people want to use the entire population and an entire population that want to create and exist without them in their lives. It's an apartheid form of government. You are "inclusive" now because the terrorist threat worked on you and you are member of the governing body and acting as a police force. You just aren't benefiting from it and won't be rewarded for it beause you won't use force on the governing body that is including you but you will use reason on the body the governing body is trying to rule over.
i'm with you iggy. a lot of people on this board who obviously spend an inordinate amount of time being entertained by the likes of John "Stewart" Liebovitz apparently find the distinction between their television screens and the real world indistinguishably blurred. while so enthralled with this Punch and Judy show and immersed in the comedic antics they fail to discern the invisible hands inside the sock puppets much less the smoldering fires behind the theater curtains about to erupt into a full scale conflagration.
It's good to be the King.
I'm still waiting for the BAC docs
My BAC was .11 this morning, but I can't back this up with any documentation.
Hackers should blast E-Mails to all the Primary Dealers from Bernanke:
Sorry my masters, Obama said no to QE3. Accordingly, we are increasing our rates effective tommorow. Too much political risk right now.
Sincerely,
Your Helicopter Pilot,
the Bernanke
LOL.
http://www.amazon.com/Next-100-Years-Forecast-Century/dp/0767923057/ref=...
Nothing about server protection in there... strangely.
The Cloud doenst need servers!
The Cloud doenst need security!
In the Name of Kyle! Let us Pray!
http://fora.tv/landing/Kyle_Bass_From_Hayman_Capital_Hedge_Fund_Talks_At_The_2011_Buttonwood_Gathering?gclid=CN7d8pPqu60CFdGR7QodpWp7BA
here is another guy, talking.
http://fora.tv/landing/Kyle_Bass_From_Hayman_Capital_Hedge_Fund_Talks_At_The_2011_Buttonwood_Gathering?gclid=CN7d8pPqu60CFdGR7QodpWp7BA#Pagliuca_Politicians_Care_About_Sound_Bites_Not_Economy
for $$$'s you can watch this content NOW! or YouTube Later! or maybe they keep it off of YouTube to NOT Poromote thier Brand??? you never can tell how stupid people are,
They left off with the key (IMO) takeaway:
"I think we are at the world's limit."
What else is there to say?
Hard to imagine Bass having that much more to say than he already has. But, who knows.
All you really have to know is: He took delivery on gold from the COMEX after finding out they were levered 40:1 (80:1?), and said they would just settle in cash if everyone stood for delivery, AND he changed $1MM in paper for a pallet of nickles. Because he really, really likes nickles.
Find those bits somewhere in here http://www.zerohedge.com/news/kyle-bass-explains-new-world-order
that's all well and good but the stream of housing stimulus talk (spoof or not) continues to flow from the fed and media shills - so little doubt it's coming - taxpayer loses (what else is new) but who wins? homebuilders, banks, gold?
Agency REITs, if they were clever, and also Bill Gross.
http://www.cfr.org/ <----- NO! Say it Aint So!!
The embedded http links are hilarious !
RickRoll'd dammit.
Yeah, the first one I received this morning was funny. The next 100+ seemed to lose their punch although the butthurt form is always good for a laugh.
Looks like HBGary, Inc will fall again as well...the shame for offensive hacking of the general public!
Well, if they can shut down the entire US aviation transportation system then put it under federal lock and key, establish dozens of federal agencies and few hundred thousand new federal jobs and put the USA under house arrest for a 10 sigma event by a few dozen fanatics, then flipping a switch to kill the Internet for a common web hack seems appropriate.
Why don't they hack something meaningful. Like the Jamie Dimon's bank account?
Dimon is a walking bank account. I suggest we collectively close him before the fees really start adding up...
Pssst....because his account isn't meaningful. Its only 1's and 0's.
Then they would be "MF" Anonymous
Epic troll.
STRATFOR hacked? You know what this means--WAR IS ABOUT TO START WITH IRAN!
OH NOEZ!
LULZY!
I got this in my junk mail five times last night...I'm glad to see the provenance.
Five? You got lucky. I've received 100s.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/01/anonymouss-war-against...
http://thecyndicate.com/Communication/content.php?155-National-Security-...
The Assange/WikiLeaks/NSA Connection
Largely due to the indefatigable investigations of Wayne Madsen published last March and receiving the attentions of several cut and paste artists on certain sites and blogs with varying and mostly limited commentary, Assange and WikiLeaks have been treated to a more thorough kind of exposure than the folderol accorded to them by the corporate media and a handful of the more credulous and sympathetic bloggers across the net.The most thorough treatment of the Madsen material was generously dispensed athttp://arthurzbygniew.blogspot.com/2010/03/soros-co-back-wikileaks-kosher-mob-oval.html-wikileaks-kosher-mob-oval.html and at an Infowars forum, http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=175998.0 although not to my knowledge on the main page. Madsen did not mention anything concerning the NSA and Assange/WikiLeaks and instead attempted to establish a CIA connection.As Madsen notes, John Young who cofounded WikiLeaks with Assange, quit the organization alleging CIA involvement, going on to found Cryptome, an organization which has encountered significant harassment and intimidation from government investigators as opposed to the apparent hands off approach to WikiLeaks. Prior to finding the above documents, we had discovered Assange's association with Ben Laurie a former intel/security specialist with Google who later became one of the principals of the Apache Software Foundation.
Laurie apparently has assumed the status of informal spokesperson and erstwhile "informal board of advisors"member for WikiLeaks.One has to wonder whether Laurie is just freelancing or is acting as an effective colporteur for the NSA. Our subsequent inquiries into Apache revealed an ongoing interface between Laurie's foundation and the NSA as well as the Bureau of Industry and Security /US Department of Commerce. For example, ASF was the hardware provider for the NSA's Red Hat Enterprise Linux S (October 21, 2009) We mention this only in reference to the increasingly blurred boundaries between so-called private sector security companies and their government, military, and corporate proprietary contracts.Yet given Madsen's in depth investigations concerning WikiLeaks and the CIA , such connections can only "add fuel to the fire". Indeed, Apache Webserver, "software of choice of 23 million websites worldwide" and a host of other ASF entities are all provided services by Covalent Technologies which numbers among its clients the major US financial institutions and international pharmaceutical giants as well as the ATF, NASA, and of course the NSA.This is in keeping with Alexander's assertion that "90% of the military's energy is generated and distributed by the private sector ( think BP) and 80% of its logistics are transported by private companies"(how about Halliburton) I think he forgot to mention funding via US treasury bonds gratis the Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs.http://kushmonster.blogspot.com/2010/08/bad-guys-black-hats.html
obvious inference. weareanonymous =NSA
Anonymous=CIA=NSA=STRATFOR....see how easy it makes the "hacking"?
Why? This is kabuki theatre to kill/control the internet!
False flags abound!
so i received one of these today. but in my spam folder ;-)
Apparently your spam filters (or your ISP's spam filters) are working, and detected that the message was spoofed.
Yep, me too. They sent out 4 total, the first of which had a ton of information on the STRATFOR hack, to include that they were intercepting STRATFOR's IT department even as they were trying to fix the breach. Pretty crazy stuff. I mentioned this before but I tried out for STRATFOR's Analyst Development Program just over a year ago. I wasn't selected (maybe thankfully?) but I did email them to let them know that Google cached a page on their server that listed ALL of the their applicants for that cycle and included links to their freaking resumes! I was a bit fumed about that. So STRATFOR has already leaked my personal information, this hack isn't anything new (to me).
During my time studying the company and reading up on George Friedman's geopolitical method I discovered something that I fundamentally disagreed with. If you read his books "The Next Decade" and "The Next 100 Years" you get a sort of overwhelming feeling that Friedman is a bit naive. Not dumb, just naive. His entire forecast model is predicated on countries acting as single, unified entities (autonomous states) like they were individual people. Furthermore, he further posits that countries act in their own rational self-interest. While I don't like painting with a wide brush, it seems pretty obvious that the readership of ZeroHedge immediately understands that those premises are not very sound.
He only takes into account internal fracturing on a specific microscope basis (like his predictions on China and Russia). He doesn't seem to see other countries like Greece (indeed a lot of the Eurozone) giving away their sovereignty even against the will of their people. And he doesn't consider that the US's foreign and economic policy does not really represent the will of total state (ie all of the people). I would admit that adding these complexities would make forecasting nearly impossible, and would drive him out of business, but we obviously live in a completely irrational world.
"I would admit that adding these complexities would make forecasting nearly impossible, and would drive him out of business, but we obviously live in a completely irrational world."
We live in a complex world designed to PROMOTE irrational behavior and irrational responses.
I also agree. Corruption, cronyism, government overreach, and not abiding by clearly set boundries are the precise driver of the irrational behavior we have to deal with. Slightly off topic, but one of the things that makes me the most incensed with our current election cycle is the general public's acceptance of "the game of politics." It seems it is now generally accepted for politicians (either running for or currently in office) to make purely political plays (pro-forma Senate sessions, recess-appointments, bundling different things into a bill to make it "passable," etc.).
It is not a game, it is the leadership of our country. It is the leadership of the entire world. I know that may sound idealist, but we are long past the ability to squablle over petty differences and irrelevant opinions.
I can't readily attribute the author, and I'm probably paraphrasing, but: Politics is too important to be left to politicians.
That is a great post. You put into words something that I also feel. Note that Friedman literally has a Ph.D. in "Government": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedman
I'm a little disgusted at Stratfor for apparently storing old email addresses that belong to people who sampled their services and moved on years ago.
Agreed, they had my email address as an applicant for their program. They continued to market their service to me even though I only showed interest in actually contributing content. That in and of itself wasn't necessarily an issue with me, I was just surprised to get the hack email after not supposedly being on their mailing list for over a year.
And thanks for your compliment. I've been mildly active on ZeroHedge for a while, and lurking long before that. While knowing how things are actually happening is enlightening, you also have to bear the burden of dealing with those that refuse to accept it, even in part. I don't propose that I know everything, or even a lot about something, but to be willfully ignorant of everything around you, to me, is the worst thing you could ever do to yourself.
Wikipedia supports the 9/11 snow job and other crap, but they do have something to say on this subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor
Citations anyone?
Oh SHI-
Rickrolled again!
The Stratfor Anonymous developments are of major importance at this moment when saber rattling over Iran underscores the danger of war. The Anonymous cyber information can help diffuse the war talk; public information about Stratfor’s private, subscription-based CIA is critical.
It is to Israel’s advantage to continue the saber rattling that identifies Iran as a belligerent. One of the continuing sources of this saber rattling is George Friedman (Stratfor). It was George Friedman in 2010 who called for Obama to bomb Iran before the 2012 election, as a winning re-election strategy.
George Friedman is a front for the pro-war, pro-US-Empire Jewish oligarchs. These oligarchs have played a central role in American finance and politics especially since the 1960s, according to “The Politics of Anti-Semitism” published by CounterPunch. The influence of Jews in America has now become a fair game topic for the mainstream because of the tilt of U.S. policy toward the goals of the Israeli state.
Politics of Anti-Semitism says Jews were among the chief beneficiaries from the 1980s onward of corporate mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations, hostile and otherwise, until today in America they are “in positions of unprecedented influence and have assumed or been given decision-making positions over virtually every segment of our culture and body politic.” Friedman’s every pronouncement carries the underpinnings of this dangerous globalist cabal.
Stratfor has argued that, despite their rhetoric, Arab regimes really support Israel’s punitive invasion of the Gaza strip that began in late 2008 and inflicted many civilian casualties. Israel’s action was condemned by a UN report for war crimes and crimes against humanity; yet Stratfor implies the invasion was not a war crime.
Third World immigration to the United States and Europe, according to Stratfor, is an unavoidable and beneficial fact of life. Among Friedman’s predictions: America’s southwestern states will secede and join Mexico. This move toward a breakup of America will be brought about, according to Friedman, by the large scale Mexican immigration to the region, the rising economic power of Mexico, and Mexico’s festering resentment over the U.S. conquest of its territory.
Stratfor’s Wikipedia entry describes a close working relationship with the U.S. military; his private intelligence corporation is called “The Shadow CIA” by Barron’s.
Hilarious.
there has been so much banter about if anon even took credit for the move. more info on the anon strat hack can be found http://remainanonymous.org/?s=stratfor
Tons of sloppy sys-adminship in that log on the part of the guys who set up those servers.
And to think some people think stratfor.com folks are shills. Or, whom did stratfor tick off?