Wednesday, 4 July 2012
♪♫ Miles Davis - So What
Miles Davis was a man of few words. When he did speak, his words often had a similar effect to a hand grenade being lobbed into the room. In 1987, he was invited to a White House dinner by Ronald Reagan. Few of the guests appeared to know who he was. During dinner, Nancy Reagan turned to him and asked what he'd done with his life to merit an invitation. Straight-faced, Davis replied: "Well, I've changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?"
Julian Assange is way too white and way too good looking to get the death penalty. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/europe/view/20120629wikileaks_julian_assange_gets_extradition_letter_from_british_police/srvc=home&position=recent
How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down
For the next eight months, Sabu continued to rage across the Internet as a core member of AntiSec, a blackhat hacking group within Anonymous. He helped to deface government and corporate websites and even helped bring down the private intelligence firm Stratfor—all, apparently, with the FBI’s blessing as it quietly gathered logs on Monsegur’s fellow “anons.” Law enforcement officials later told Fox News that Monsegur was working out of the FBI offices “almost daily” in the weeks after he pleaded guilty in August and then from his own home thereafter, with an agent watching his activity 24 hours a day. Sometimes agents were even posing as Sabu directly. On Christmas, just after the Stratfor hack, Sabu and I happened to be logged into the same channel on IRC, the chatting protocol that serves as the medium through which most Anonymous members planned large-scale operations. I asked the AntiSec members if they were worried about a law enforcement response to Stratfor. Sabu shot back:
we’re used to that heat
we survived the first rounds of the raids
He was referring to a series of arrests that past summer that had scooped up, worldwide, at least 80 alleged participants in the group. At the time, it was hard to fault his reasoning, since those arrests seemed to have done nothing to slow the group’s terrifying onslaught in 2011. It was a year in which Anonymous burst into the geopolitical consciousness of the world, assisting Arab Spring activists and attacking the security industry, bedeviling law enforcement and intelligence agencies, carrying out countless hacks against Sony and other large corporations. As protest movements spread to the West, Anonymous provided them with crucial logistics (not to mention a great deal of media attention), from the BART protests in San Francisco to the Occupy actions across the US and overseas. Anonymous had figured out how to infiltrate anything, how to mobilize not just machines but physical bodies, all around the globe...
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Tuesday, 3 July 2012
US officials pursue Julian Assange
The evidence that the US is pursuing to have Wikileaks founder Julian
Assange extradited to America is becoming more obvious. Assange still
awaits in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for political asylum to South
America, but while he remains trapped, democratic Senator Dianne
Feinstein has issued a statement to an Australian newspaper demanding
that the whistleblower be prosecuted. Trevor Timm, an activist for the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, joins us with more on the hunt for
Assange
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