p2pnet ain’t Speaker’s Corner
p2pnet view P2P | Freedom:- At Speaker’s Corner in London, England, anyone can say virtually anything s/he wants.
p2pnet is not, however, an online version of that — a place in cyberspace where anything and everything goes.
Some people think I’m under an obligation to allow them to post whatever they want, making personal threats against me and my family, and waving nut-case ‘lawsuits’ in my face, if I delete their junk comments.
I don’t moderate p2pnet per se. However, when I notice some half-vast idea about alien beings, ‘laws’ to live by, messages from ancient cultures, posts promoting hate, and so on, I delete them.
Below is a clip from a Q&A I did with the guy who runs Anon News >>>
Newton: For the first time in history, people aren’t only making more and more choices, they’re making their choices stick, I say here – http://www.p2pnet.net/story/46415. Would you agree?
Joe: I think this is not the first time this happens. There have been many revolutions in the past, and some of these choices have stuck. Only this time, there’s the internet; a global communication mechanism that enables people around the world to communicate in real-time, even those in censored countries like China. The internet enables people around the world to see the bigger picture, and make choices on a larger scale. A “global revolution” is really possible now. It’s not just one right we fight for now, it’s humanity as a whole, the entire spectrum of rights. This entire affair with Wikileaks and Julian Assange isn’t the cause for this massive change you can see on a global scale, it’s just a catalyst. While even ‘civilized Western countries’ are starting to look more and more like police states (camera surveillance, central databases of biometric data, arresting protestants through the use of police provocation, etc.), the “resistance” amongst people is growing as well. At one point, as we’ve seen in for example Greece, it just blows up. And I believe that’s a good thing, as it reminds those in power why they were supposed to have power.
As someone (I can’t recall who) said, “governments should be afraid of their people, not the other way around”.
I whole-heartedly agree.
Providing a free soap box for anyone who turns up isn’t part of the deal.
Cheers!
Jon
March, 2011
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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March 13th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
I agree whole heartedly with you Jon, I’ve a fairly new reader only been here for a little over a year now and I like what I see. But as you say there are those who seem to think that you and others who don’t value the corporate message and who don’t believe for one minute that what they espouse is the truth are only here to be attacked verbally, or by lawsuit. Look at Wayne Crookes and his stunt, the man lost twice to you in court and still is trying to get the Supreme Court, who should have told him to pound sand due to his earlier losses in court in regards to linking being the same as publishing.
Here’s hoping that the court decides that he’s just a nut with an agenda or as you say the net will never be the same again.
March 13th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Persoanlly I would not mind if I had to register and if you DID monitor.
March 13th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/03/gift-from-anonymous-to-egyptian-people.html
A gift from Anonymous to the Egyptian people
Share34
Egypt Officers 3/12/2011
Summary:
State Security Police headquarters in Nasr City, which hosted one of Mubarak’s largest torture facilities. On Saturday I found two DVDs in one of the offices, both titled “ أرشيف السادة ضباط الجهاز ” The Agency Officers’ Archive. The DVDs included profile pictures of State Security officers, organized in folders. Each folder had the officers’ name. Some however did not have the names. There were also sub folders that included pictures of those officers in social events like weddings.
Quote:
“Each member of SS has to be brought to justice. This was an agency devoted to spying, surveillance, torture and murder. Every member of this organization from the informer all the way up to the generals should be prosecuted. SS has to be dissolved. It cannot be “restructured” like what the current PM is calling for.” -3arabawy
Goal: Dox these individuals for the knowlege of the people of egypt
There is a list and also a photo gallery http://anonymiss.imgur.com/
March 13th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
You keep monitoring the comments the way you see fit. Your site is a daily supplier of factual and important info and I, for one, am not interested in reading useless comments.
March 13th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
On my site I allow anyone to comment, like Jon does, but I moderate all comments. You have to. If you don’t, you get hate speech, turf wars, and all sorts of unacceptable things. Things got so bad that I went back and deleted every single post by one user, and most of the posts by another, in which they carried out a rabid war against each other. For that, and for posting one paragraph off an email which stated “I hope you die of cancer” I was then threatened with a DMCA notice.
When I pointed out that I was hosted in Canada, and that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act wasn’t legal up here, they finally went away.
If you own and operate a site, you get to run that site as you see fit. If someone doesn’t like that, they are perfectly free to start up their own site. They aren’t free to attempt to take over your site, and use it for their own purposes. Which is why I moderate.
Wayne
March 13th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
… now any fool can see this site practices tyranny and “I’m God syndrome”
March 13th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
” … now any fool can see this site practices tyranny and “I’m God syndrome”
Yes, a fool would in fact see that.
You’re absolutely right.
March 13th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Good one, Dreddsnik!
March 13th, 2011 at 8:11 pm
At this point in time, only one person is giving me grief by trying to hijack p2pnet comment posts, so this is to him –
I don’t understand why you’re so determined that I have to give you space on p2pnet. According to you, you have your own sites everywhere and, if that’s so, why do you want to post on a crummy site run by an “anally retentive narrow minded asshole” and “prick” who’s a “laughing stock” everywhere and who “wouldn’t last long” on “reddit, truthdig, liveleak and millions of others”.
You’ll only blotch your own thoughts, such as they are, by posting them here. Right?
Give me a reasonably intelligent response and I’ll leave it up.
Cheers!
March 13th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
I don’t know why you bother. The simplest thing would be for you to simply monitor all comments before they go up. That way, you wouldn’t have to worry about hijackers OR trolls.
I wouldn’t mind and I doubt if doing that would make much difference. I’ve seen tons of things posted here that would be banned on other sites.
March 13th, 2011 at 8:45 pm
My concern, Jon, is that one of these people will get so angry that they will do something really stupid.
March 13th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
@ Golden Oldie:
I really don’t understand any of this. It really worries and upsets me that people can generate so much hatred within themselves. It’s a small world and getting smaller all the time and with all that’s going on in it, there shouldn’t be any space for senseless rage.
At Jazz, moderating posts wouldn’t make any difference. They’d still get deleted and the posters would still get angry. But it would get in the way of (almost) real-time discussion.
I’ll tell you this — I’m sick and tired of having to waste my time with this kind of thing. I really am.
But then I see other comment posts such as this, from Maroan. Its a response to Louis Vuitton Darfur scandal, a story about how the incredibly, obscenely rich French ‘fashion’ house is plaguing Nadia Plesner, a young Danish artist, because she used an image in a painting she created to illustrate bad things which are going on in the world, includingDarfur. Now in an exhibition, it includes a starving boy holding a hand-bag.
Nadia says on her web page, among other things, “They claim again that I infringe their design rights on the pattern used in their “audra” bag and they had the court in Hague put 5000 euro penalties for each day I continue to show this painting on my website or in galleries or anywhere else. They have been counting since January 28, so at the moment the amount is higher than 220.000 euros …”
Says Maroan in a Reader’s Write, “I live in Denmark and ill make sure my friends in Copenhagen will go and visit your exibition… And support you in every way we can.”
That helps put things back into perspective. Thanks Maroan, and thanks Nadia.
Cheers!
[This comment has been revised.]
March 13th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Somehow, being faceless on the net encourages people to do and act as they never would in person.
I’ve known of several instances where some a$$hole showed himself on the net and was tracked down through co-operation with others on the net. Right down to photographing the persons house. Once he was emailed these photos all of a sudden, the person didn’t want to create waves. Am I a fan of such usage of the net? No. It does show that those who want to be problem children decide ducking the head is the better part of valor when they are identified.
How it was done, I don’t know. Wasn’t part of this process and don’t want to be.
There are enough fools on the net without becoming one yourself to prove a point.
I fully support Jon in his editing of comments. If you don’t, your site is taken away by spammers who have no interest in your community beyond being annoying. There are also those that somehow feel they have the right to intrude on everyone’s elses space because they have some perceived axe to grind. Someone’s right to grind an axe ends when it becomes others problems. If they don’t like that they are always welcome to go develop their own site where they make the rules. I would bet that once those with the feelings demonstrated above find others counter to their feelings that they are quite willing to edit or delete the dissenters when they become a problem to the site community.
I’ve said it before, nothing on the net is written in stone. There is nothing that can not be changed, be it a deletion of a problem child’s rant or be it the annoying spammer.
Now last time this came up, I made mention that I had never had Jon delete one of my posts (other than by request). That one got deleted. That’s ok, it wasn’t what I would consider a quality post. But it does remove the right to say I’ve never been deleted here. Are there hard feelings over such a minor act? No. I’m here like the rest of the members at Jon’s good graces. That’s the way it is. Jon owns the site, he gets to make the rules. If it chaffs me or someone else with the way it is run, we have the option to go elsewhere. There was no umbridge at the removal of the post, for what ever reason or no reason at all.
I followed Jon here from his old haunt, years ago. Since then I’ve moved, lost the net, and returned to the net after another move. Crap happens.
Still all in all for the time I’ve come to this site, Jon has always been fair. Fair is a relative term and I am sure the fool won’t agree. Myself, I have no issues with how Jon runs his site nor how he determines what will or will not stay up.
I’m sure there will be another fool at sometime and it will be necessary to once again visit this topic as it has many times in the past come up.
March 13th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
” According to you, you have your own sites everywhere ”
I would be happy to visit some of his sites.
Please, readers write, volunteer the links to YOUR site
Here is what I will find ……
1. the sound of crickets. or ….
2. the sycophantic sounds of the site op posting as several different ‘visitors’ to give the impression of traffic.
3. absolutely NO dissenting posts ( indicating an iron hand when it comes to his OWN site ).
Please link us to your masterpieces. I GUARANTEE I will take a peek.
March 13th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
“Please, readers write, volunteer the links to YOUR site”
++++++++ !!
@Dredd:
Your evil genious is worthy of the Devil himself!
(And, *I* would certainly know!)
March 13th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
I do not envy the downsides that come with running a quality site like this one. If this person gets too out of hand, (i.e. threats of physical violence), track his IP address and turn it over to the authorities. That is what they are there for.
March 13th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
@EE – I don’t log IP addresses. p2pnet posts really are anonymous.
Cheers!
March 14th, 2011 at 8:49 am
Someone threatened you again? Never ends eh.
March 14th, 2011 at 9:37 am
#BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1
http://www.it-networks.org/2011/03/14/anonymous-releases-boa-documents-online/
Anonymous Releases BOA Emails Online
Hacker group Anonymous (aka OperationLeaks on Twitter) just released what they say is a trove of damning documents on Bank of America.
You can find them here: bankofamericasuck.com
Remember, at this point, we can’t verify whether they are legitimate or not, but Gawker’s Adrien Chen, who has sources within Anonymous, suggest there’s something real to the leaks.
Anonymous says the emails deal with BofA’s mortgage practices, but the source is not an employee of Bank of America proper — the source is a former employee from Balboa Insurance, a firm which used to be owned by BofA.
As you will see below, we believe that the evidence that is supposed to be so damning is a series of emails showing that employees of Balboa asked for certain loan identifying numbers to be deleted, and they were.
Anonymous said late Sunday evening, however, “this is part 1 of the Emails.” So perhaps more incriminating correspondence is to come. And to be honest, these messages could be incredibly damaging, but we’re not mortgage specialists and don’t know if this is or isn’t common in the field. The beauty is, you can see and decide for yourself at bankofamericasuck.com.
…
My name is (Anonymous). For the last 7 years, I worked in the Insurance/Mortgage industry for a company called Balboa Insurance. Many of you do not know who Balboa Insurance Group is, but if you’ve ever had a loan for an automobile, farm equipment, mobile home, or residential or commercial property, we knew you. In fact, we probably charged you money…a lot of money…for insurance you didn’t even need.
Balboa Insurance Group, and it’s largest competitor, the market leader Assurant, is in the business of insurance tracking and Force Placed Insurance… What this means is that when you sign your name on the dotted line for your loan, the lienholder has certain insurance requirements that must be met for the life of the lien. Your lender (including, amongst others, GMAC… IndyMac… HSBC… Wells Fargo/Wachovia… Bank of America) then outsources the tracking of your loan with them to a company like Balboa Insurance.
The Emails
Next comes the emails that are supposed to be so damaging. The set of emails just released shows conversational exchanges between Balboa employees.
The following codes pertain to the emails, so use as reference:
SOR = System of Record
Rembrandt/Tracksource = Insurance tracking systems
DTN = Document Tracking Number. A number assigned to all incoming/outgoing documents (letters, insurance documents, etc)
The first email asks for a group of GMAC DTN’s to have their “images removed from Tracksource/Rembrandt.” The relevant DTNs are included in the email — there’s between 50-100 of them.
In reply, a Balboa employee says that the DTN’s cannot be removed from the Rembrandt, but that the loan numbers can be removed so “the documents will not show as matched to those loans.” But she adds that she needs upper management approval before she moves forward, since it’s an unusual request.
Then it gets approved. And then, one of the Balboa employees voices their concern. He says,
“I’m just a little concerned about the impact this has on the department and the company. Why are we removing all record of this error? We have told Denise Cahen, and there is always going to be the paper trail when one of these sent documents come back. this to me seems to be a huge red flag for the auditors… when the auditor sees the erroneous letter but no SOR trail or scanned doc on the corrected letter… What am I missing? This just doesn’t seem right to me.
We suspect this is the type of email that Anonymous believes shows BofA fraud
Wikileaks, Anonymous and Bank of America
Up until now, everyone assumed that whatever secret document drop, dropped on BofA, would come from Wikileaks. But that threat seems to have fizzled, at least temporarily
March 14th, 2011 at 11:47 am
^^^^
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March 14th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
The internet – crazy making at its best.
March 14th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
re: @EE – I don’t log IP addresses. p2pnet posts really are anonymous.
Unless logging is specifically disabled at the server, there may be logs kept unknown to the webmasters or hosting provider. (computers can log a lot of things by default that we don’t know about)
March 15th, 2011 at 12:11 am
“making personal threats against me and my family, and waving nut-case ‘lawsuits’ in my face”
sorry to learn about that. Personal threats made over the internet are easy to dismiss, but nutcase lawsuits can be filed from anywhere across the globe.
March 15th, 2011 at 3:48 am
The entire time AFACT was trying to sue the pants of of iiNet (and not in a sexy way), the ISP was telling them they needed to make accessing their content easier and more affordable if they wanted to reduce piracy. Now that the court case is out of the way, iiNet is taking the proactive route and has released a paper entitled, Encouraging Legitimate use of On-line Content. It makes for some interesting reading.
The crux of iiNet’s argument is that at present, the Hollywood marketing machine does a fantastic job at creating demand for their product, often spending hundreds of millions of dollars to do so, but then limits availability, which creates a frustrated and unsatisfied market.
When it comes to piracy, iiNet is quick to point out that the current approach to finding and stopping pirates by Hollywood doesn’t include any independent body verifying the accusations, let alone being responsible for determining the appropriate punishment. As a result, they have come up with a model, which they summed up rather nicely in this illustration:
http://media.lifehacker.com.au/wp//2011/03/2011-03-encouraging-legitimate-use-of-on-line-content.pdf
March 15th, 2011 at 4:03 am
A major new report from a consortium of academic researchers concludes that media piracy can’t be stopped through “three strikes” Internet disconnections, Web censorship, more police powers, higher statutory damages, or tougher criminal penalties. That’s because the piracy of movies, music, video games, and software is “better described as a global pricing problem.” And the only way to solve it is by changing the price.
Over the last three years, 35 researchers contributed to the Media Piracy Project, released last week by the Social Science Research Council. Their mission was to examine media piracy in emerging economies, which account for most of the world’s population, and to find out just how and why piracy operates in places like Russia, Mexico, and India.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/report-piracy-a-global-pricing-problem-with-only-one-solution.ars
March 15th, 2011 at 5:17 am
EMI Hopes The Future Of Music Sales Is Battling Space Chickens
Music is cheaper than ever before in the digital age, but we still don’t want to buy it in the same quantities. Music retailer EMI has taken an unusual approach to trying to sell more music, launching an HTML5-based game where you have to identify performers to stop flying chickens coming to earth to steal all the music (I am NOT making this up). Your reward for success? Discounts if you decide to buy any of the tracks featured in the game.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/03/emi-hopes-the-future-of-music-sales-is-battling-space-chickens/
March 15th, 2011 at 6:20 am
Jon, why bother giving nutcases attention? Why do you dance with them like this?
Delete annoying comments from psychopaths and be done with it. DON’T give them this attention (aka “supply”) because it feeds into the sickness. It’s all about attention (which is why some people are compelled to create an online comment “persona” to attach their ego to).
Feeding a psycho/narc is like feeding a stray cat in that they will ALWAYS come back for more and it will get very difficult to get them to go away. It is a very sad illness, often from abuse at the hands of one’s parents at a very early age.
March 15th, 2011 at 11:52 am
off topic:
The disaster in Japan was predicted, and localized in a scientific evaluation linking sunspots to potential earthquake activity on earth with eerie precision.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yubH7KT9TQ
March 15th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
So whats up P2Pnet? Nothing yesterday and nothing today?
March 15th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
@ RW above,
Last I heard Jon was arrested for something an Anon posted about Bank of America on this website. So far my sources have said that he’s been in a detention cell in B.C. w/o representation since yesterday while the American fed’s are reviewing both this site and questioning him. I suspect that due to the server being in Belgium is the only reason this site has stayed up, for now. My guess is that they are trying to get the IP of the Anon person, but Jon’s servers are setup in a way to point all IP’s to 127.0.0.1 (Local Host).
I was told that at least two people want him extradited to the U.S.
We will have to wait for more news I guess.
March 15th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
@RW ^^^^
hahahahahaha
Here’s what I think. Jon lives on Vancouver Island in BC, Canada, and I can remember plenty of times when things like power blackouts and ISP problems have kept him offline for long periods. Also, he started up his Awesome Sauce project to earn some money and I’ll bet that’s taking up a lot of his time.
Or maybe he’s just had enough of all the stupid people who don’t like it because he won’t let them post whatever they want and he’s moved to an exotic island with no electricity.
But I bet he’ll be back and I’ll be staying tuned.
March 15th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
I don’t know what Jon is doing, but if he was smart he would be out acquiring potassium iodine since he’s on the west coast.
March 15th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
” Last I heard Jon was arrested for something an Anon posted about Bank of America on this website. So far my sources have said that he’s been in a detention cell in B.C. w/o representation since yesterday while the American fed’s are reviewing both this site and questioning him. I suspect that due to the server being in Belgium is the only reason this site has stayed up, for now. My guess is that they are trying to get the IP of the Anon person, but Jon’s servers are setup in a way to point all IP’s to 127.0.0.1 (Local Host).
I was told that at least two people want him extradited to the U.S. ”
You should write science fiction novels .. or Children’s books.
March 15th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
@RW conspiracy theory above:
i’m pretty sure i (and several other long-time regular contributers)
would have heard directly from someone in the know if
jon had been arrested for something a purported/alleged anonymous member
posted here.
March 15th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
i think it was aliens.
March 15th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Just Checking
March 15th, 2011 at 9:58 pm
“Last I heard Jon was arrested for something”
A sense of humour is needed.
I think this is obviously not to be taken seriously.
March 15th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Jon has been subjected to Extraordinary Rendition for speaking up against the Corporatocracy. He has been kidnapped by the MAFIAA & is now been held in Hollywood. I know for a fact they are torturing him by making him listen to Miley Cyrus, U2, Lilly Allen, & Pussy Monster by Lil’ Wayne endlessly on loop.
March 15th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Harper+attacked+tying+Japan+quake+election+speculation/4445452/story.html
Harper attacked for tying Japan quake to election speculation
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the earthquake that has plunged Japan into chaos is a “wake-up” on how the global economy remains fragile — and that Canada’s parties should be focusing on the economy instead of “political games” that could lead to an election.
His remarks Tuesday were immediately blasted by a senior Liberal MP, who accused the prime minister of using the Japanese tragedy for “cheap, partisan purposes” and that the disaster has nothing to do with the decision Canadian MPs will soon make over whether voters should go to the polls.
Harper made the comments at an event in Vancouver, where he spoke about the earthquake and answered questions on the potential impact of the growing calamity on the Canadian economy.
March 16th, 2011 at 5:07 am
Hope you’re feeling well Jon.
March 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am
Jon has been subjected to Extraordinary Rendition for speaking up against the Corporatocracy. He has been kidnapped by the MAFIAA & is now been held in Hollywood. I know for a fact they are torturing him by making him listen to Miley Cyrus, U2, Lilly Allen, & Pussy Monster by Lil’ Wayne endlessly on loop.
This is true! But as of this morning, Jon’s resistance has been proven stronger than anticipated by his captures. Apparently, according to an inside source, Jon’s torture has been modified to include random episodes of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, the final episode of every season of 24 but in random order, Rosanne Barr singing the American National Anthem, National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation, Ernest Saves Christmas, and the Shirley Temple collection.
Clearly there is no limit to how low they will go. Poor Jon!
March 16th, 2011 at 9:13 am
March 16th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
The word is now out that Jon had an expedited hearing behind closed doors this morning and is now being held under a temporary security certificate. Extradition to the U.S. was granted for him to be brought before a grand jury in Washington in regards to their investigation of wikileaks, Anon, and Bank of America, which is being held on Thursday (tomorrow) & Friday. Apparently evidence from this website will be used during his time of questioning before the grand jury.
He is to be released by American authorities on Friday morning and returned to Canadian authorities. After-which I am not sure what happens.
This is truly frightening when a blog and what people say on your blog can lead you to being held as such due to foreign influence.
I will fill you in when I learn more by Thursday or Friday.
March 16th, 2011 at 12:55 pm
I am writing this, to say that I have setup a Twitter account and Tumblr site to share information to non-Japanese speakers here in Japan, as well as people with relatives in Japan.
Twitter: @Englishquake
Tumblr: http://japan-quake.tumblr.com
While the earthquake hit hardest in the Miyagi Prefecture, with over 300 people killed, and over 3000 people missing, the Kanto region (Including Tokyo) was also hit hard. Trains stopped, and people were forced to hike across Tokyo, to get home, or stay overnight at their office. I myself walked over 25 km to my apartment, taking 5 and a half hours, only to finally meet all of my family close to midnight.
I am hoping that I will be able to share important information for non-Japanese speakers with the Twitter account and Tumblr site, and try to update it with as much information as possible for those who cannot speak Japanese.
Just my two cents
March 16th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
hmm. Seem this topic, “p2pnet ain’t Speaker’s Corner” has been turned into speakers corner!
How about that!
March 16th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
“The word is now out that Jon had an expedited hearing behind closed doors this morning and is now being held under a temporary security certificate.”
Please wait for April first.
This being said what’s happen to Jon?
March 16th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Another earthquake just hit the ottawa valley.
House shook only once. Was one quick shot and over in 1-second. I was at the door in 1.5-seconds.
Seems like the house just bounced up and then down and it was over.
Shit.
March 16th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Found this link from another website
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-eng.php
I see nothing on the news. But it was very minor. But a very hard bounce to the house.
March 16th, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Just hope he’s ok!
March 16th, 2011 at 5:13 pm
” Just hope he’s ok! ”
As long as they don’t use old ‘Barney’ Reruns.
March 16th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
The South Australian Government wants to make it an offence to post violent or other degrading images on the internet.
Attorney-General John Rau said the state’s proposed legislation, to be introduced this year, would be the first of its kind in Australia. It will make it an offence to knowingly take or publish humiliating, demeaning or degrading images of another person without their consent. Rau said it was designed to tackle thugs who filmed assaults and then posted them on the internet.
The move follows the appearance of a viral video on YouTube showing a student in an Australian school playground tormenting another boy and then being picked up and violently thrown on the ground by the victim.
“The government wants to attack this disgusting fad of thugs engineering and filming violent and humiliating acts and posting the images to websites,” Rau said yesterday.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/sa-seeks-law-against-degrading-net-pics-339311500.htm
March 17th, 2011 at 9:34 am
Mozilla CEO: Firefox Faced Advertiser Backlash Over “Do Not Track” Feature
BY Austin CarrWed Mar 16, 2011
http://www.fastcompany.com/1739058/mozilla-ceo-firefox-faced-advertiser-backlash-for-do-not-track-feature
In January, Mozilla announced plans to add a “Do Not Track” feature to Firefox, a tool that would allow users to opt out from having advertisers and other sites track their web-surfing habits. As Mozilla has readily admitted, the feature is far from perfect: Backwardly, tracking companies would actually have to agree not to monitor a user’s browsing patterns, even once he or she opts out.
However, according to Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs, that hasn’t stopped the feature from ruffling the feathers of advertisers, who, despite serious public concerns over privacy, depend on personal user data to boost the value of their ads.
At a meeting with ad executives after introducing “Do Not Track,” Kovacs says reaction to the feature was wholly negative.
“Their first posture toward us was, ‘You’re breaking the web. It’s an economic model,’” Kovacs recounts. “‘If you do this, you’re single-handedly breaking the web. It’ll be a great place for a non-profit, but you don’t understand the web.’”
Kovacs couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “I said, ‘So you’re telling me your entire business model is based on your users not knowing what you’re doing with them? Is that how it works?’” Kovacs relates. “There was stunned silence in the room. When there was no reaction, I said, ‘I’ll assume that’s a no. So then you’re reaction must be that you don’t think you can create an experience great enough that they’ll actually overtly subscribe to it. Is that true?’”
More silence.
…
March 17th, 2011 at 9:37 am
Operation Metal Gear
This operation stems from a string of leaked HBGary emails wherein a company by the name of Booz Allen Hamilton, in direct contact with Aaron Barr, is believed to have bid on and successfully won the contract to develop an unnamed software from the US Air Force. This software will be known as “Metal Gear” for informational purposes.
We believe that Metal Gear involves an army of fake cyber personalities immersed in social networking websites for the purposes of manipulating the mass population via influence, crawling information from major online communities (such as Facebook), and identifying anonymous personalities via correlating stored information from multiple sources to establish connections between separate online accounts, using this information to arrest dissidents and activists who work anonymously.
The primary goal of this operation is to find out exactly what metal gear is and why they are developing it.
What is ‘Metal Gear’ ?
We codenamed the software that we believe Booz Allen Hamilton and some of their partners are working on.
The nature of the software is partially known, from the documents that we have seen and from what some employees have said it is a software that would allow a single agent to command an ‘army’ of sockpuppet accounts on social networking mediums. It is sophisticated enough to develop a ‘profile’ for each puppet to add a level of ‘realism’ to each. In short, there would be no fesiable way to distinguish between 100 people commenting on a subject, and 100 of these puppets doing the same.
This is nothing new for those of us familiar with how the net works. However, given recent events across the world, the idea behind Metal Gear seems to be ‘weaponizing’ sockpuppets, in order to influence the face of revolutions that are based within social networking sites.
;What you see below is the actual document we used under the investigation (which is still going) so there may be some random notes and other weird things that we haven’t removed yet.
;If there is something you can’t understand, please contact us in #OpMetalGear on IRC.
;For reporters/press, join #reporter
Audio recording of our announcement (16th of March 2011)
http://ge.tt/5tzZlkq (try various browsers if stream does not work)
IBM Patent
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090313274
http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/phil_hbgary_com/14294h.html
Airforce contract
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6tHUDPB03ywJ:https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AMC/6CS/RTB220610/listing.html+https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AMC/6CS/RTB220610/listing.html&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk
The Patent:
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090313274
Inventors:
Li Chen
(Documentation Needed)
Yongcheng Li
(Documentation Needed)
Govndaraj Sampathkumar
IBM Corporation 3901 S. Miami Blvd
Durham, NC 27703-9315, USA
+1-919-224-1190
gsampath@us.ibm.com
Ryan Urquhart
(Documentation Needed)
Agent:
HOLMAN IP LAW / IBM RSW
https://sites.google.com/a/holmaniplaw.com/www/profile
(This is the profile for Holman IP Law. It is no longer active.)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/holman
http://www.techpatents.com/jeff_holman.html
(These are profiles of Jeff Holman, formerly of Holman IP law, now with a firm called WH&H. Same person.)
http://bit.ly/fP0A44
(IBM RSW is believed to be an IBM office near the SW Regional Airport in Florida.)
4037 Del Prado Boulevard South, Cape Coral, FL
(239) 945-1013
Patent application number: 20090313274
http://www.ificlaims.com/ificls/IPC8_Concordance_helpmenu_final.asp
ALSO WORTH LOOKING INTO;
http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/ted_hbgary_com/6555.html
Meeting/training class between NSA, USAF, HBGary, Booz Allen & other various sec companies
Note: Why are the exact same companies that are intrested in Metal Gear have a seminar about a malware analyzing software?
http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/phil_hbgary_com/14294h.html
The purpose of the meeting/thing was to school them in Responder Pro
Phil Wallisch was the instructor.
Dox of guys in the meeting
Parties involved;
http://www.mandiant.com/
NSA
IBM
USAF
HBGary
Booz Allen Hamilton
Here’s the list of folks who will be attending ‘class’:
Protip: call these people, ask them about Metal Gear, ask them about the air force, NSA, USAF, Aaron Barr. Get them worried, get them talking.
Keesok Han USAF Keesook.Han@rl.af.mil
keeseok@kangwon.ac.kr
http://bit.ly/dPFV23 – some document about Keeseok.
DEPARTMENT OF FUCKING HOMELAND SECURITY
http://www.ksea.org/KSEA/Newsletters/FullVersion/Archived/Vol_11_3_1982.pdf <- someone check this out, search for his name
<- whitepages say 3 or less with this name, it may also be Kesook, misspelt on purpose?
Jose Faura NSA NTOC faura2@gmail.com
http://hb.cryptologic.tk/greg_hbgary_com/13095.html
http://orlando.blockshopper.com/property/302317168500110/4277_conway_place/
Zane Lackey iSEC Partners zane@isecpartners.com
http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/phil_hbgary_com/15070.html Scott K. Brown
> Technical Director
> NSA Blue Team
> (410) 854-6529
> sbrown@dewnet.ncsc.mil
George Peslis DISA george.peslis@disa.mil
Jimmy Lloyd DISA James.Lloyd@disa.mil
http://sellingtoarmy.com/uploads/Army_OSBP_Newsletter_Oct2010-Jan2011.pdf
Eric Potter DISA Eric.Potter@disa.mil
Phil Geneste BAH geneste_philip@bah.com
Patrick Upatham Verdasys pupatham@verdasys.com
Security Solutions Manager
Verdasys, Inc.
Mobile: +1 339.222.4022
David Black IBM david.black@us.ibm.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcblack?goback=.npp_%2Fjerome*5byrne%2F13%2F3B5%2F43B
Engagement Manager
Emergency Response Service
IBM Security Services
Kansas City, Missouri USA
Office: (+001) 816-525-5494
Tim Sherald DISA timothy.sherald@disa.mil
> Tim Sherald
> Computer Scientist
> DISA FSO – IRRT (FS42)
> timothy.sherald@disa.mil
> timothy.sherald@disa.smil.mil
> Comm: 717-267-9370
> DSN: 570-9370
> Cell: 717-414-3450
Christina Smyre NSA clsmyre@nsa.gov
http://www.facebook.com/clsmyre <- real, matches with email
clsmyre@gmail.com
http://n-design.com/EN/other_pubs/Entries/2002/5/9_SANS_Beyond_Firewalls_files/SANSDenver.Sample.pdf <- someone dig in this
John Laliberte NSA
http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Laliberte/13949810 <- not sure
AAPC G-PPE Task Force Members <—-
http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/gppetf_roster.pdf
Eric Potter brought us to that link <- check it out
March 17th, 2011 at 11:10 am
I received an email from Jon’s legal representative. He has confirmed the torture, however it is worse than expected.
They’re making Jon dress up as Pee Wee and act out the episodes of Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Jon is quite terrified as, Chairy the talking chair from the show, is suspiciously dressed as an electric chair.
I’m really worried now.
Jon’s lawyer is really worried because Jon doesn’t know what’s coming up next for him and the lawyer overheard something about a Disney collection on repeat for days on end, in full surround with videos on the walls, ceiling and floor, and speakers everywhere.
They’ve done the Disney method before, that’s how they managed to get confessions from the suspected 9-11 terrorists at several black sites. After watching the re-released versions with ‘extra footage’ of Disney’s classics, detainees were expected to identify the extra footage and changes between each version of the films. Apparently, Snow White was the most difficult because there are extra dwarfs added but they are different in each release of the film. So detainees who can’t answer must watch Steamboat Mickey 10x for every incorrect answer.
Talk about brutal torture.
I hope Jon can hang in there. A friend with the Canadian Government says that Harper has ordered our secret insiders in the US interrogation ring to slip in episodes of Beach Combers to help Jon make it through. How nice of them to think of our citizens and try to help out without stirring up too much political trouble.
March 17th, 2011 at 11:55 am
Latest news.
Jon has now been before the grand Jury in Washington state and is not required to appear on Friday. Jon is currently being escorted under American authority and will be given to the RCMP once they reach Dulles International Airport.
It’s unclear if the security certificate will be revoked once he returns. When I contacted the RCMP they refused to answer many questions citing “privacy”.
Upon arrival he is expected to be placed back into segregation at kent institution in Agassiz, British Columbia, for the remainder of Thursday and possibly Friday. This is all the RCMP would reveal.
When I asked about the connection of p2pnet and the anon poster who posted the Bank of America info they again cited “privacy” and added “this is a national security matter being investigated by a joint Homeland Security-CSIS task force”. I was then given this phone number, 604-528-7400, and told to bring my questions there.
My thoughts and prayers are with Jon.
March 17th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Anyone have any news about Jon?
March 17th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
What’s happen to Jon?
Any news?
March 17th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
US military launches Operation Sock Puppet, pays contractor $2.76m to generate phony Facebook, Twitter psyops accounts
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/17/us-military-launches.html
US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) has awarded a $2.7 million contract to Ntrepid, a newly-formed Los Angeles-based startup, to create fake online “personae” for the purpose of manipulating online conversations and spreading pro-American, pro-military propaganda. In other words, our government is building a multi-million-dollar sock puppet army for Twitter and Facebook. The “online persona management service” called for in the contract would permit one US serviceman or woman to manage up to 10 separate identities.
March 18th, 2011 at 3:30 am
It’s obvious that Jon is taking a break. Comments are being monitored as you’ll
notice when you post something there is a message saying just that. And if you
post a direct link to something Jon won’t allow it until he checks it out first.
So he’s obviously not being help captive against his will. He’s still here monitoring,
but obviously taking a break. Give it a rest and let Jon rest for once. He’ll come back
when he decides to come back.
March 18th, 2011 at 6:01 am
No post from jon for this whole week? i’ve never known such a thing.
Either he’s kidnapped or doing some experiment and i’m sure its not the first one