In Case You Missed This... Hacker Collective Anonymous Hits US Government Site - PCWolrd
Hacker collective Anonymous hits US government siteMartyn Williams - PCWorld
Jan 27, 2013 3:36
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Hackers working under the name of the Anonymous hacktivist collective hit a U.S. government website on Saturday, replacing its home page with a 1,340 word text detailing its frustrations with the way the American legal system works and a threat to release "secrets" gathered from U.S. government websites. The website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which establishes sentencing policies for the federal court system, was offline for much of Saturday as a result of the attack.
"This mornings cyber attack on the Commissions website www.ussc.gov brought it down temporarily, but the site now has been restored," the commission said in a brief statement issued on Saturday evening. "The Commissions publications, training materials, and federal sentencing statistics are again readily accessible to visitors to the site."
The site and timing of the attack was not random, according to the message that replaced the home page before it was taken offline. "Two weeks ago today, a line was crossed," the message read. "Two weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win -- a twisted and distorted perversion of justice -- a game where the only winning move was not to play."
Swartz committed suicide in New York on Jan. 11, apparently over an upcoming trial on computer intrusion, wire fraud and data theft charges that carried a maximum penalty of 35 years in jail. The charges stem from allegations that Swartz stole millions of scholarly articles and documents from the JSTOR database with the intention of making them available online at no charge. His suicide sparked outrage among the hacktivist community, much of which blamed the prosecution of the case and potential penalties he faced as directly contributing to his death.
"This website was chosen due to the symbolic nature of its purpose -- the federal sentencing guidelines which enable prosecutors to cheat citizens of their constitutionally guaranteed right to a fair trial, by a jury of their peers -- the federal sentencing guidelines which are in clear violation of the 8th amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishments," the message on the hacked website read.
The message went on to say that the group had infiltrated numerous U.S. government websites and gathered material it judged would be embarrassing if released. "We have enough fissile material for multiple warheads. Today we are launching the first of these. Operation Last Resort has begun..."
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The timeline that ensued is below, with other significant dates included...
December 27, 2010: Swartz FOIAs the recording of House’s visit to Manning, which would have captured Manning describing in his own words how he was being treated.
December 29, 2010: Initial response on Manning brig FOIA.
January 4, 2011: MIT finds Swartz’ computer. Secret Service takes over the investigation.
January 6, 2011: Swartz arrested.
January 7, 2011: Twitter administrative subpoena to several WikiLeaks team members revealed.
January 17, 2011: Protest outside of Quantico for Manning.
January 18, 2011: Manning placed on suicide risk.
January 20, 2011: Swartz’ Manning brig FOIA transfered to Quantico CO.
February 1, 2011: Quantico tells Swartz Manning brig FOIA needs to go to Army Criminal Investigative Service.
February 9, 2011: Swartz FOIAs ACIS for Manning brig information.
February 9, 2011: Secret Service obtains warrant to search Swartz’ hardware and apartment, followed by a warrant to search his office.
February 9, 2011: WSJ reports WikiLeaks investigation cannot prove Assange induced Manning to leak documents.
February 11, 2011: Secret Service searches Swartz’ house and office, but not the hardware primarily implicated in the crime purportedly being investigated.
February 22, 2011: Warrants on Swartz’ hardware expire.
February 24, 2011: Secret Service obtains new warrant for hardware. Initial response from ACIS to Manning brig FOIA.
February 28, 2011: ACIS responds to Swartz’ Manning FOIA, stating,
… the requested documents are part of an ongoing Army court-martial litigation and are not releasable to the public at this time. This request will be closed. Please submit your request at a later time.
March 2, 2011: Swartz responds to this rejection:
On the 28th of February, the US Army’s Freedom of Information Act Officer declined to release documents I requested under FOIA/PA because they “are part of an ongoing Army court-martial litigation.”
Being part of ongoing litigation is not a valid exemption to the FOIA or the Privacy Act.
There are narrow exemptions for certain types of release that interfere with law enforcement activities, but the Army has not claimed these exemptions nor explained why they apply. Furthermore, the normal procedure is to collect the documents and then evaluate them to see whether any portions of them qualify for the exemption. It appears the Army did not collect documents in response to my request at all, so I do not see how it could have evaluated them.
I therefore appeal my request in its entirety.
March 3, 2011: ACIS admits Swartz is correct:
You are absolutely correct and I want to apologize for sending you the wrong information. This request is being sent to the Initial Denial Office (IDA) today. Please give them a couple of days to receive it.
March 4, 2011; ACIS sends another letter:
Because this request has been denied this request is being sent to the Initial Denial Office (IDA).
March 11, 2011: PJ Crowley criticizes Manning’s “ridiculous, counterproductive, and stupid” treatment at event at MIT. Jake Tapper asks Obama about Crowley’s comment at press conference.
March 13, 2011: White House forces PJ Crowley to resign for criticizing treatment of Manning.
March 18, 2011: ACIS rejects his request, citing an ongoing investigation.
April 19, 2011: DOD announces Manning will be moved to Leavenworth.
From: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022262127
There THIS thread... the one you are in... and then there is THIS thread... the one with the Franklin quote: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022270514
Are you gonna be alright ???
But... you must be talking about some other form of discussion...
Because I'm pretty sure the Internet was not around in those days...
but I know what you are saying.
I am sure most would agree, Adam West would defeat Christian Bale in a one on one match.
even today.
While the current one is contemplating the one and only Batman is going
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but actually George Reeves as Superman was the best.
George Reeves' Superman was a good parable for the racism that was rampant at the times
and his fight
Superman worked on the same side as Inspector Henderson, and btw, the Dark Knight worked in tandem with Commissioner Gordon and was not a vigillante, though he was just human and had no extra super powers as any other super hero did)
They both were not doing anything but helping.
Have the people who put down the last Dark Knight movie, actually seen the movie?
The comments seem like the ones who never saw the great Zero Dark Thirty and thought that movie was pro-torture, when 100% it was anti-torture and it showed it.
People should see the movies.
I know though, that it is scary going to a movie theatre anymore after what happened, but then download it or whatever one can do without going. I myself like the big screen, as the artists intent was for it to be shown on a big screen in a theatre as a communal experience.
being that you mentioned it.
Otherwise would not have brought it up here.
Now independent.
He's not a "liberal democratic person" He's just another jackass that goes whichever way the wind blows.
