Frugal Dad: The Day the Internet Stood Still

Source: frugaldad.com

Rightardia comment: Sometimes Democracy actually works. Online petitions stopped SOPA and PIPA. So did the web site black outs.

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RT: Anonymous declares cyber war on Congress over indefinite detention act

Hacktivists are continuing their mission to take on politicians causing the collapse of constitutional rights in America, with operatives from the online collective Anonymous keeping up a campaign against the signers of controversial legislation.

As Russia Today (RT) reported on Thursday, members of Anonymous began a campaign this week to expose information on the lawmakers who voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, a bill that will allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens, the reinstating of torture methods and the creation of the United States as a battlefield. 

Despite the implications of the act, the Senate allowed for the bill to leave Capitol Hill on Thursday, leaving only the inking of President Barack Obama’s name as the final step for ratification.

President Obama had earlier insisted on vetoing the bill, but the White House retracted that statement in the days before it cleared Congress. Before the final draft left the Senate yesterday, Sen. Carl Levin asked that a statement from the administration be added to the record in which the president’s press secretary, Jay Carney, said that the president will not be advised to strike down the bill.

On Thursday, Anonymous hacktivists launched a campaign against Senator Robert Portman, a Republican from Ohio. Not only did Portland vote in favor of NDAA FY2012, he received $272,853 from special interest groups that also backed the bill.

“Robert J. Portman, we plan to make an example of you,” an Anonymous operative posted to the Internet on Thursday. Along with the warning was personal information pertaining to the senator, including his home address and phone number.

On Friday, Anonymous says that this is just the beginning of the campaign against those that are creating the collapse of the US Constitution. With NDAA FY2012 almost guaranteed to be approved by Obama any moment, a second piece of legislation, the Stop Online Piracy Act, is close to clearing a Congressional committee. Should that bill be brought before the president and signed into law as well, Internet access and content across America and the world will become largely censored.

“We've been watching you systematically destroy the rights of your own people, one law at a time. No longer shall we stand by and watch you enslave our fellow citizens,” writes an Anonymous operative in an open letter to Congress posted Friday: 

You have continued down this path of treason by creating acts such as the National Defense Authorization Act, Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect IP Act, and more. You've tried to conceal the true purpose of these bills, and pass them without the consent of the American people.

As a result of the recent legislation which has managed to make its way through Congress, Anonymous operatives write on Friday:

 We are now here to undo your sordid life's work in its entirety. No longer will your transgressions go unnoticed. No longer will you enslave the people. The world will know of your violations against the rights of the citizens you were elected to represent.

In the memo from the hacktivists, they include a copy of the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the US Constitution that have been crushed in-part by the latest congressional meetings. “Every time you violate these amendments we will ensure the people are aware of your actions,” says Anonymous. “You may have previously succeeded in concealing your actions, but that time has come to an end. You were elected by us, and you can be removed by us.”

Anonymous members are using the trending topic #OpAccountable on Twitter to spread the campaign against the congressman involved in the legislation. On Friday, one hacktivist tweeted that the topic is even being used by known members of the Tea Party movement.

“Goes to show this year’s outrage is far stretching," adds the operative.

Note: IAW RT policy, this article is published verbatim. 

source: http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-congress-ndaa-sopa-013/

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Wikileaks: Are you using iPhone, Gmail, BlackBerry? You're screwed!

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that governments worldwide have been using electronic devices, such as smart-phones and computers, to monitor what people are saying, where they are going and what they are writing.

The controversial journalist spoke at a panel of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism held at the City University in London on Monday. The panel inaugurated WikiLeak’s new project: the Spyfiles.

They provide details on the deals private surveillance companies made with various governments all over the globe to design monitoring software integrated into electronic devices, which could be used to monitor the activities of whoever these governments want to keep track of.

“Who here has a BlackBerry? Who here uses Gmail? Well you are all screwed!

“Who here has a BlackBerry? Who here uses Gmail? Well you are all screwed!” Assange exclaimed. “The reality is intelligence contractors are selling right to countries around the world mass surveillance systems for all of those products.”

The WikiLeaks founder went on to say that these international surveillance companies, based mostly in “more technologically sophisticated countries,” often sold their technology to less advanced countries: states that have often been despised by the West for their allegedly authoritarian political regimes.

These include the Gaddafi regime in Libya, to which French company Amesys sold equipment designed to keep track of the then opposition members living abroad. Some of these dissidents are now part of the current ruling elite, but what raises eyebrows is that Gaddafi’s intelligence was able to pry on his opponents in the US, the UK and Finland.

“Today we release over 287 files documenting the reality of the international mass surveillance industry – an industry which now sells equipment to dictators and democracies alike in order to intercept entire populations” Assange told reporters.

But software users in the West are not safe either. Assange and other members of the panel told reporters how Western intelligence services used electronic devices to monitor the activities of its citizens. 

In Britain MI5 apparently used specialized voice recognition software implanted into cell phones that could make out who was speaking to whom. 

Other intelligence agencies had the ability to figure out where exactly the user was located, what they were typing and what they looked like. One of the programs allowed agencies to take photos of unsuspecting victims by using cameras implanted into their phones.

“The user’s physical location can be tracked if they are carrying a mobile phone, even if it is on standby” Assange said.

Who is the biggest beneficiary of this technology.That would be the local and state police departments courtesy of the Patriot Act.

Conservatives. of course,  will look the other way and suggest they aren't doing anything wrong and don't need to worry about the police intrusion into their privacy.

Why? Conservatives like the police state that has been created in the US.

source: http://rt.com/news/assange-london-panel-wikileaks-805/

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Cryptome: TOR Made for US government Open Source Spying Says Maker

Why would any government create something their enemies can easily use against them, then continue funding it once they know it helps the enemy, if a government has absolutely no control over it? It's that simple.

It would seem a very bad idea. Stop looking at it from a conspiracy standpoint and consider it as a common sense question. Because it helps the government as well. An anonymity network thatonly the US government uses is fairly useless.

One that everyone uses is much more useful, and if your enemies use it as well that's very good, because then they can't cut off access without undoing their ownwork.

BINGO, we have a winner! The original *QUESTION* posed that led to the invention of Onion Routing was, "Can we build a system that allows for
bi-directional communications over the Internet where the source and destination cannot be determined by a mid-point?"

The *PURPOSE* was for DoD/Intelligence usage (open source intelligence gathering, covering of forward deployed assets, whatever). Not helping dissidents in repressive countries.

Not assisting criminals in covering their electronic tracks. Not helping bit-torrent users avoid MPAA/RIAA prosecution. Not giving a 10 year old a way to bypass an anti-porn filter.

Of course, we knew those would be other unavoidable uses for the technology, but that was immaterial to the problem at hand we were trying to solve (and if those uses were going to give us more cover traffic to better hide what we wanted to use the network for, all the better...I once told a flag officer that much to his chagrin).

I should know, I was the recipient of that question from David, and Paul was brought into the mix a few days later after I had sketched out a basic (flawed) design for the original Onion Routing.

The short answer to your question of "Why would the government do this?" is because it is in the best interests of some parts of the government to have this capability... Now enough of the conspiracy theories...

-Michael

Rightrdia believes if the US government--probably NSA--developed the Onion Network, there is probably a back door. The Onion Network could be used to undermine a statist or dictatorial government like Libya. Of course, many of these governments like Egypt are US clients, too.

Such a network could also be the outgrowth of the Ntrepid, a US government contractor software that can break into any Internet network with fake Internet personas and IP addresses to promote the US interests in the middle east, Latin, South America and other areas. 

source:

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:57:39 -0400
From: Michael Reed 
To: tor-talk[at]lists.torproject.org

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WIN: We Need To Re-Label Broadband As Telecommunications So FCC Has More Internet Authority

Workers Independent News:  11/22/2010

The wingnut view of Internet regulation

Is it important for a federal agency to have authority over high speed Internet connectivity?

A new report from Free Press called “Restoring FCC Authority to Make Broadband Policy: A Way forward after Comcast v. FCC” suggests the FCC needs to relabel broadband as telecommunications so the FCC can have clear legal authority.

Tim Wu, University Law School Professor and author of the book Master Switch, explained that the current way the FCC approaches broadband is chaotic. He said there is a historical precedent for reclassifying authority.

Wu: It’s pretty clear to me that the argument that this is somehow going to dampen incentives or prove a problem for Internet innovation given the fact that this has always been the law.

The report finds that the current classification of broadband makes it difficult for the commission to move forward with implementing the national broadband plan and impedes movement toward universal broadband access.

Rightardia agrees. We have been subjected to abuse on the Internet by right wingers who have impersonated our blog, spammed our Usenet messages and also posted spam and obscenities on this blog. We had to discontinue allowing anonymous comments after two years  and enforce Open ID logons to stop the spam and obscenities.


Broadband has been a reality for two decades now. dial-up was replaced with digital ISDN, frame relay and DSL. Optical cable seems to be the choice for homes, but wireless broadband such as 4G and 3G networks also provides the Internet to handheld devices.


All of this should be regulated by a single federal agency. Some people don't belong on the Internet and there access should be suspended when they abuse their Internet privileges. Others should be banned permanently.


Driving on the Internet is not that different form driving a car. There are 'rules to the Internet highway."


We need civil discourse on the Internet. America is no longer the Wild West. If someone can't control themselves on the Net, suspend their Internet privileges for 90-days. Perhaps they will wake up. If they don't , permanently ban them!


Federal cyberstaling statutes are discuseed here. See http://www.cyberguards.com/CyberStalking.html 


All of the 50 states have State Cyberstalking, Cyberharassment and Cyberbullying Laws, but if the stalker is out of state, the federal laws would apply. See http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=13495


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The Internet is running out of IP addresses?

The Internet is running out of IP addresses. They could be gone by the end of this year, and some are predicting another Y2K scenario.

Rightardia would like to point out that IPV6 has been around for many years and some corporations are already useing the 'new Internet protocol. IPv6 was defined in December 1998 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) with the publication of an Internet standard specification, RFC 2460. 

We are surprised that cell phone companies aren't using IPV6 because this is where most of the stress on the older IPV4 system is coming from.   

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Netcraft: How many web sites are on the Intnenet?

How many websites exist? How big is the World Wide Web? Since no one is in charge of the World Wide Web, the question is difficult to answer precisely.

After all, there is no one central "server" that runs all the websites in the world. The DNS registrars have lists of the domain names that exist, but not every domain contains a website, many domains contain more than one, and the registrars are not under any obligation to tell the rest of us exactly how many domains their databases contain.

So what can be done to measure the size of the World Wide Web? Has anyone tried? Yes!

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a widely respected survey that attempts to contact each and every website that is accessible on the Internet.

Netcraft's primary goal is to determine web server market share: what percentage of websites run Microsoft's Internet Information Server, versus the Linux Apache web server?

But fortunately for us, they also count the websites visited by their automatic web-exploring "spider" software.

And in February 2007, the Netcraft Web Server Survey found 108,810,358 distinct websites. This shows how the Internet is growing since 70,392,567 websites were indexed by Netcraft as of August 2005.

Of course, Netcraft's survey isn't perfect - there may be websites in the world that were not discovered by Netcraft's software. So, as of this writing, "there are more than 108 million websites" is the most accurate statement that can be made.

Rightardia's Netcraft ratings change weekly. At one point were rated in the top 5,000 but couldn't keep up the pace with vacations and illnesses of our staff.

Rightardia is presently ranked 15,766 in the world. One of the best progressive web sites, the Daily KOS is ranked 1755.

One of the best conservative blogs, Red State's is ranked 8566. Hannity.com is ranked 80,204.  The Huffington Post is ranked 114 and it started out as a blog and part of it remains a blog.