A few interesting titbits from today’s news - Apple, GPL, JP Morgan controversies, beer is the secret to success.

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In the wake and more and more unpleasant things being hosted by WikiLeaks, more and more censorship is attempted and judicial action has ruled that wikileaks.org be removed from DNS. But, thanks to the forethought of the admin, the site already has an extensive list of alternative names. To that list I now add the following redirects:

http://wl.hackd.net
http://wikileaks.hackd.net

The direct address is http://88.80.13.160/
There also exists a comprehensive list of alternate names.

The most recent WikiLeaks content archive is available at The Pirate Bay.

On another note, is there a possibility that the recent fire at PRQ (the hosting company of WikiLeaks and under ownership of Pirate Bay administrators) wasn’t all that accidental?

Information wants to be free, bitches =)

HPR ran a segment on Project Chanology, give it a listen if the subject is of interest to you. It also got me thinking that, while Anon might be a decentralized group, getting some control over their actions could be a huge asset.
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Well, as it is fitting, I’ve spent dinner eating and playing with TrueCrypt 5… coding theory can wait a few minutes longer =) So here’s my first 30 minutes with TC for Mac¹

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1. I’m focused on the Mac version because the others have been around for some time now [↩]

One day later than originally mentioned, the TrueCrypt Mac OS X port has been released, as well as updates for all the other versions. This is TrueCrypt v5, long awaited by terrorists, hacktivists, human rights’ activists, the opressed and the paranoid for about 8 months or so. Since I’m currently wrestling my way through coding theory problems, I will get back to you with some thoughts on the port later on. But if you’re adventurous yourself, check it out at http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php

The Church of Scientology and an Internet group going by the name of Anonymous have been going at ‘war’ in the past few days, with CoS being on the receiving end of quite a few electronic blows.

First round of documents that were retrieved from the CoS are here. I didn’t yet check to see how many of these documents have been previously available and whatnot, but briefly skimming over them, they definitely seem to be internal, ‘for-pay’ material. So if you find this genuine and have off-shore mirrors, you know what to do.

UPDATE: Obviously most of these documents and a whole bunch of other related materials are available at the Bay.

When most of us begin using encryption, the intended goal is to be able to protect certain types of data from certain types of individuals. You might be interested in saving your trade secrets from would-be industrial spies and I may be interested in hiding unfinished novels from prying eyes. But the strength of commonly-available encryption aims at giving governments some trouble in getting to that data. Well, the technology is available, but now they’ll just force us to hand over the keys or face jail time.
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So some Facebook code got leaked in a bunch of places so obviously the guys sent around DMCA notices [I got wind of it when on the BinRev Forums the mods had to edit some parts of a thread to remove some of that code.]

But! The code can still be found in Google’s cache so I got my copy - and made a mirror in .jp  I won’t link to it for various reasons, but it is available for those that want it.

natas of DDP fame just launched a website dedicated to caller ID spoofing. In his original blog post he mentions that every time he has posted information to Wikipedia, it got removed. As a direct result of that, all information on the aforementioned website is clearly protected, by copyright, against copying by Wikipedia.

I understand that not every piece of information deserves to be “out there”. While I tend to subscribe to that whole notion of “information wants to be free”, I do acknowledge the fact that certain kinds of information do not deserve attention¹. But, from quickly browsing his new website, I neither find the information to be inaccurate - mind you, I have yet to test it out extensively - nor in any way bordering on illegality. He actually deals with some of the legal issues that revolve around CID spoofing and what the future - if any - might be. Which begs the question of why did Wikipedia decide to remove it. I know the online encyclopedia does not necessarily aim to be, in and of itself, an activist website. Information is gathered, compiled and presented so as to best reflect what are thought to be facts regarding a given subject matter. In that sense there is already a minor form of activism - trying to filter out disinformation and rumours and keep to the facts is not something everybody, everywhere really wants².

Wikipedia must either go all the way or drop itself completely. Either compile and collect all this information - indeed, be an encyclopedia with all the glory and the responsibility - or blow the smoke screen. I know there have been previous controversies regarding [paid] vanity biographies, deleted users or facts that were deemed too “out there” to be posted publicly. I guess what I’m doing here is - remember to be skeptic in life. Everywhere. Even if 95% of the information on Wikipedia is of good quality - always push to find out more if it really matters. And always push those that would try to censor information that deserves to be public out of society’s way.

I ‘m also plugging natas’ website because I never thought phreaking is dead =)

1. I have discussed hate speech before, both as a free speech issue and otherwise [↩]
2. I have people in China that can attest to that [↩]

The nfo [about] page mentions something from Faithless’ “Weapons of Mass Destruction” : Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction.

Certainly, the ways of action are diverse and extend, across the board, from peaceful talks to violent protests. The way of the anarchist has always been radical in a belief that the only results that society will react to — not governments but the people that the anarchist believes to be serving — are those that shock and scare. Bombings, hijackings, vandalism. Governments have offset this belief by manipulating the media to shed a very negative light on said acts and instill fear in the populace — the theme has been exploited from Conrad’s “The Secret Agent” to Moore’s “V for Vendetta”. As a result, the masses turn to the only authority they know and somewhat trust — not because it’s what they believe in but simply because a change might be for the worse. You might or might not believe those stickers claiming that 9-11 was an inside job; but you have to agree, by looking at present-day United States, that people have happily given up many of their freedoms in search for protection. Approval ratings for Bush sky-rocketed, internal conflicts were paused - all because America was fighting against terrorists and the gruesome facts they perpetrate.

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