NATO report threatens to 'persecute' Anonymous
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NATO leaders have been warned that Wikileaks-loving 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security, following recent attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce and defence contractor HBGary - and promise to 'persecute' its members.
Read more: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/6/1/nato...#ixzz1O5b4p0e5
NATO report threatens to 'persecute' Anonymous ?
The title intrigued me and I looked at the original source - IMHO a very low profile component of NATO:
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The NATO Parliamentary Assembly is the inter-parliamentary organisation of legislators from the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance as well as 14 associate members. The Assembly provides a critical forum for international parliamentary dialogue on an array of security, political and economic matters. Its principal objective is to foster mutual understanding among Alliance parliamentarians of the key security challenges facing the transatlantic partnership. Assembly discussions and debates make an important contribution to the development of the consensus that must underpin Alliance policies.
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The Assembly is directly funded by member parliaments and governments, and is financially and administratively (my emphasis) separate from NATO itself.
Link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Pa...ntary_Assembly
Sounds like a 'quango' to me, or simply a "jolly" for low profile MPs. Take for example the Vice President from the UK, Hugh Bayley; his own website makes no mention of his NATO PA role and he has only once been a very junior minister for state benefits.
The report itself opens with:
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Until this document has been approved by the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security, it represents only the views of the Rapporteur.
The author, Lord Jopling, was a Chief Whip and junior farming minister in the 1980's. Hardly a political "heavyweight".
This is not a NATO report and would be rather different if titled 'Draft report by unknown body using prefix NATO to boost itself'.
ANONYMOUS vs Booz Allen Hamilton
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Hacker group Anonymous continued an assault on government contractors Monday as it released 90,0000 military email addresses, passwords and some other data from military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.
The group released a 190MB torrent, which eWEEK said includes "login information of personnel from US CENTCOM, SOCOM, the Marine Corps, Air Force facilities, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State and other private sector contractors."
Anonymous, which got a little clever with its seafaring references, said it was shocked at the lack of security on one of the company's servers.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/23545...ntractors.html
Anonymous attacks (Catch All)
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Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.
In response to today’s federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA, Motion Picture Association of America and Warner Music Group.
“It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the concurrent attack on Justice.org,” Anonymous operative Barrett Brown tells RT on Thursday afternoon.
http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj...rsal-sopa-235/
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"The government takes down Megaupload? 15 minutes later Anonymous takes down government and record label sites," the Anonymous Twitter feed read.
That note was followed shortly by this one: "Megaupload was taken down w/out SOPA being law. Now imagine what will happen if it passes. The Internet as we know it will end. FIGHT BACK." The tweet referred to the Stop Online Piracy Act, an Internet piracy bill being considered in the U.S. Congress.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...oj_others.html