BUSTED: Anonymous Uncovers Corporate Proposal to Take Down Wikileaks

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Wednesday February 09, 2011 · 1:00 PM PST

2011/02/09 · 13:00

Anonymous counter-intelligence operations have uncovered evidence of an effort by Bank Of America (BoA) to disrupt both Wikileaks and Anonymous. Details of BoA's involvement began emerging on February 8th, 2011, during Anonymous' Operation #HBGary.

Operation #HBGary was retribution against (in)security firm HBGary, and its associate company HBGary Federal, for threatening to release innacurate and fallacious information about Anonymous. During the operation, Anonymous double-penetrated HBGary's corporate network, compromised the personal email and social networking accounts of several HBGary employees (evidence of which is still online at the time of this document's creation), retrieved some 50,000 corporate emails, discovered HBGary "product" source code, and wiped Aaron Barr's personal iPad (for shits 'n' giggles).

Among the emails retrieved from HBGary, Anonymous uncovered communications between Bank of America's legal representation, HBGary, Palantir, and BericoTechnologies detailing efforts to weaken Wikileaks through misinformation and targeted cyber attacks.

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Monday January 17, 2011 · 12:12 PM PST

2011/01/17 · 12:12

Matt Hunter:

One of the most frustrating conditions for a human is a feeling of a complete lack of control over his life. In terms of entry into "traditional" politics, the average person is more impotent now than he has been since the signing of the Magna Carta. Modern democracy has deteriorated to the point that instead of worrying only about the next election, leaders now obsess over the next tweet. If traditional parties, institutions and leaders lack the courage to do anything that may be unpopular, or embark on a journey that will last longer than four years, where does that leave the populations they represent?

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BUSTED: Anonymous Uncovers Corporate Proposal to Take Down Wikileaks

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