TwitLonger: Operation Clueless Announcement - Join the protest! #Anonymous, It’s no secret anymore that the US

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On Tuesday 1st February 2011, said:

Operation Clueless Announcement - Join the protest!
#Anonymous,

It’s no secret anymore that the US and UK governments are prosecuting several people that helped Anonymous in our previous anti-censorship efforts - namely our retaliation to PayPal, Mastercard and VISA that was started in response to them terminating services to WikiLeaks. Forty people from US have been apprehended and questioned by the FBI and later subpoenad. Five UK-based anons were also questioned but we have yet to hear from them for any details. For now, we know what the US government plans to do. And we will act upon that.
The fact that the US anons are to appear before a grand jury points to the fact that the US government has no idea how to “handle” this new form of protest. (see http://www.grandjuryresistance.org/ ).

These are the requests from the Grand Jury:
Any and all records, documents and materials that relate to the Internet activist groups, “4chan,” and “Anonymous.”
Any and all records, documents, and materials that relate to malicious software, code, or other programs associated with Trojans, botnets, denial of service attacks, to include but not limited to Low Orbit Ion Cannon and/or High Orbit Ion Cannon.
Any and all records, documents, and materials that relate to interactions between any computers of those who were raided and those who are untouchable.
Any and all records, documents, and materials that relate to the identification and locaitons of person(s) using or controlling or disseminating denial of service software.
Any and all records, documents, and materials that relate to administration, maintenance, operation, use or propagation of the Denial Of Service tools, including but not limited to Low Orbit Ion Cannon/High Orbit Ion Cannon.
Any and all records, documents, and materials that relate to the identification and location of other computers comprising part of the Denial Of Service attack and/or botnet.
Any and all computer logs maintained in relation to computers found at home of the people raided.
Any and all records, documents, and materials that relate to names, handles, email accounts or IP addresses of the occupants of the AnonOps IRC network.
It is evident from these bulletpoints and the very nature of Grand Jurys that the government has no idea how to handle this. Nor does it have any idea of the tools we were using, i.e. completely lacking technical knowledge of them. The “DDoS” attacks we carried out work in essentially the same way an Internet Browser does, simply utilizing what is open to anyone on the Internet. Also, they are likely to overlook the fact that the TCP/IP protocol was invented in 70’s and is now essentially an outdated infrastructure, allowing for these kinds of “attacks” to be carried out trivially.
For example, the same kind of attack that LOIC does can be carried out using just an Out-Of-The-Box Windows Operating System with no additional tools. None of the people apprehended by the police were involved in any “hacks”, “defacing” or any other kinds of intrusions to private computer networks. These “attacks” were public, open to anyone (and advertised as such) as their very purpose is to attract attention, to protest.
We are all aware that we have started a new form of protest - a so-called digital sit-in. It’s now time to defend this new and evidently efficient form of protest, as people all over the world have done before with other ways of protest.
Not only do we want you to join a physical protest, we need your help - specifically the help of those familiar with law practice - to help defend our fellow anons in any way they can.
This is what we ask from the FBI / Police:
That they stop raiding houses and seizing private property such as computers, phones, storage media and other electronic devices, and to stop subpoenaing protesters.
That all property that was seized or subpoenad in these raids, is returned to the owners.
That the current subpoenas issued to anons are rendered invalid.
This will be an IRL protest that is set to occur at the following places and times:

We want you to appear at these locations at the specified times, wearing Anonymous masks, to show support for our anon friends.

United States District Court
United States Courthouse
280 South First Street
San Jose, California 95113
February 10, 2011 9:30 AM

New York protests have also been announced.
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/national_world&id=7924826

Also, a major protest is planned for April 7th, on the steps of The City Hall with speakers from Anonymous, executive director of National Lawyers Guild, Gregg Housh, Barry Eisler, Glenn Greenwald, Barret Brown and other… special guests. Don’t miss it!

References/Links
http://www.glennbecktoday.com/raidz/?p=209
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/national_world&id=7924826
http://www.grandjuryresistance.org/
http://glennbecktoday.com/raidz/
http://www.anonnews.org

Also join us on IRC: irc.anonops.in / irc.anonops.ru #OpClueless

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Another Indictment in a Leak Case | Secrecy News

The Obama Administration yesterday announced an unprecedented fifth prosecution in a case involving unauthorized disclosures of classified information.

Former Central Intelligence Agency officer Jeffrey A. Sterling was arrested on charges of disclosing classified intelligence information concerning a foreign nuclear weapons program to an unnamed author.  From the context, it is evident that the alleged recipient [referred to as Author A] is New York Times reporter James Risen and the foreign nuclear program is that of Iran.

A copy of the indictment, dated December 22, 2010 and unsealed January 6, 2011, is here (pdf).

Aside from the intrinsic interest of the allegations, the indictment includes numerous incidental details worthy of note.  For example:

**  “In or about early May 2003, senior management from Author A’s employer informed a senior United States government official that the newspaper article would not be published.”  That is, the New York Times decided not to publish the classified information at issue after the U.S. government argued that its revelation would damage national security.  But Mr. Risen reached a different conclusion and went on to write about the material in his 2006 book State of War.  In a contest of this sort, the party that is willing to publish naturally determines the outcome.

**  “Between on or about February 9, 2004, and on or about April 24, 2004, Author A placed fourteen interstate telephone calls from Author A’s personal residence to the temporary residence of defendant STERLING and sent one interstate email.”  This indicates that Mr. Risen or Mr. Sterling or both were under close surveillance at that time.

**  The indictment shows some prosecutorial creativity in adding charges such as “mail fraud,” along with alleged violations of the espionage statutes.  This is based on the allegation that Mr. Sterling “did knowingly cause to be delivered by the United States Postal Service … a shipment of Author A’s published books for sale at a commercial retail bookstore,” thereby somehow defrauding the CIA.  Also citing the distribution of Mr. Risen’s book, the indictment additionally charges Mr. Sterling with “unauthorized conveyance of government property.”

The record number of leak prosecutions in the Obama Administration now include Mr. Sterling, former FBI linguist Shamai Leibowitz, former NSA official Thomas A. Drake, Army private Bradley Manning, and former State Department contractor Stephen Kim.

See further coverage in Former CIA officer Jeffrey A. Sterling charged in leak probe by Greg Miller, Washington Post, January 7, and Ex-C.I.A. Officer Named in Disclosure Indictment by Charlie Savage, New York Times,” January 7.

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Swiss banker who helped WikiLeaks faces trial - Yahoo! News

GENEVA – A Swiss banker whose actions caused a U.S. judge to briefly shut down WikiLeaks three years ago goes on trial next week for distributing confidential documents.

Rudolf Elmer has been ordered to appear before a Zurich regional court on Jan. 19 to answer charges of coercion and violating Switzerland’s strict banking secrecy laws. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to three years in prison and fined.

Elmer’s release of files from the Swiss-based bank Julius Baer’s offshore operations in the Cayman Islands prompted a U.S. judge to temporarily shut down WikiLeaks in 2008. The order was lifted following complaints from free speech groups and media organizations.

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