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Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice
- gee_totes 14y agoUmm... the US Bureau of Justice isn't the name of a federal agency. This dump is actually from the Bureau of Justice Statistics[0]. [0]http://news.yahoo.com/computer-hackers-access-u-justice-department-website-spokeswoman-232535047.html?ugccmtnav=v1%2Fcomments%2Fcontext%2F986642c8-3460-3bff-b4ff-0a040e4ea433%2Fcomments%3Fcount%3D20%26sortBy%3Dlatest http://news.yahoo.com/computer-hackers-access-u-justice-depa...
- cube13 14y agoUnless I'm missing something, most of that data should already be available either through direct US government publications, or FOIA requests. They actually have a website set up for asking for the information: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=daa http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=daa
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- farnsworth 14y agoHalfway through that incredibly overdramatic video, it shows chains around the globe, with each link labeled something like "Police State" ... "Military/Industrial Complex" ... etc. Then there is one labelled "Vaccines". Has anyone, acting as Anonymous, ever taken an anti-Vac stance? I would have expected Anon to be on the scientific side of that issue.
- scarmig 14y agoJust to throw some paranoia on the paranoia, maybe the vaccine link shown is part of a government plot to discredit Anonymous.
- jauer 14y agoBecause somewhere in a Anon marketing meeting the DoJ plant pipes up and says "hey, we should put something about how vaccines are a tool of the 1%", and everyone else thinks it is a good enough idea to include it?
- doyoulikeworms 14y agoYou can't make this shit up! Err, wait.
- scarmig 14y agoDude. The question isn't whether it seems implausible. The question is whether you have any evidence that that's not what's going on. Because otherwise that's obviously just what the government wants you to think.
- jonursenbach 14y agoWhat you're doing is the same type of "reporting" that Fox News does. "Since there's no evidence against my theory, you can't not not prove that it exists."
- scarmig 14y agoMy earlier comment should be read as firmly tongue-in-cheek--like, puncturing the cheek--if people thinking it's serious is what's picking up the downvotes.
- twelvechairs 14y agoI downvoted it because it didn't really contribute anything to the topic, not that I didn't see the humour (something along the lines of that old HN/reddit chestnut). Just to let you know.
- sp332 14y agoMore like some Homeland Security squad is making and posting dumb videos and claiming that they're "Anonymous". This in order to make people think that Anonymous posts dumb videos.
- powellc 14y agoErr, the vast majority of vaccines have a colossal amount of government/corporate push even when a cursory look at the history books shows that the vast majority of catastrophic communicable diseases were in decline before mass vaccination programs. The solution? Proper hygiene, clean water and modern sewage treatment. Seriously. Most of these virulent diseases were at their deadliest before Pasteur convinced everyone that "germs" actually do exist. They peaked in fatal potency with mass-migration to cities during the late 18th and early 19th century. So I can understand the evolution of the thought process that companies like Glaxo-Smith-Kline and Novartis, to say nothing of the well-document link between the WHO and Tamiflu manufacturer during the H1N1 pandemic, have undue influence on whether you take a shot of a polio vaccine for a disease that is literally only spread through contact with infected feces. When's the last time you bathed in shit-filled water?
- dkokelley 14y agoI have no knowledge of Anon being anti-vaccine. If I were to formulate a hypothesis, I would imagine that they view 'vaccines' as synonymous with big health. So, "the big healthcare mafia is selling us 99-percenters vaccines at a huge markup, profiteering from their proprietary knowledge, state-protected monopoly, and our dependency." Then again, Anonymous doesn't exactly have a unified message. It's possible that the individual creator of this video has their own conspiracy theories about vaccinations.
- entropy_ 14y agoThere's another one that says "big pharma" so I doubt that's what's being referred to as "vaccines"
- driverdan 14y agoThe funny part about your comment is that vaccines are one of the least profitable things pharma sells.
- justncase80 14y agoIt's all about the viagra.
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- far-I 14y agoEven if they would find anything incriminating, what are kids going to do with this? It's clear by the messages on the anon news site that a lot of them are teens and not activists. It may be entertaining but I don't get it.
- patdennis 14y agoWell that's nice. I'm glad they stand for freedom of information. There's nothing here I couldn't have gotten with a simple Freedom of Information Act request. But I guess sending them a letter requesting the information isn't dramatic enough for Anon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(Uni...
- Lednakashim 14y agomaybe the data came from a reply?
- patdennis 14y agoIt wouldn't be difficult to find out. You can FOIA all the recent FOIAs.
- lwat 14y agoI'm not convinced you can get a TB of internal emails via a simple FOIA request.
- driverdan 14y agoa TB != 1.7GB
- patdennis 14y agoI've done it. They'll put it on CDs or DVDs for you if you want, or work something else out if its more convenient. I've even hard cartloads of documents printed out for me. You have to pay for the printing, which gets expensive, but they'll do it. They have to.
- lwat 14y agoYes but can you request 'all internal emails for the last 3 months' or something as broad as that?
- fennecfoxen 14y agoJust think of what a service these people are doing to the world and to the government by raising awareness of data security issues :)
- FooBarWidget 14y agoI don't understand why commenters here speak of a "they". There is no "they" and Anonymous is not a group. It's a label that anyone can put on themselves. They may as well call themselves "freedom fighters" (lowercase).
- lawnchair_larry 14y agoIt's frustrating how many people do not get this.
- Natsu 14y agoI mentally replace Anonymous with "protester(s)" making this headline something like "Protesters release 1.7 GB of data" which makes more sense.
- sneak 14y agoA better way of putting it is that "The only reason the A in Anonymous is capitalized is because of 4chan tradition." It's not a proper noun.
- driverdan 14y agoHas anyone analyzed this data? I'm curious what's in it.