Anonymous of Tomarrow

There have been a rash of arrests and lately, along with many of our brother’s and sister’s going underground and dark for fear of arrest. While I can’t say that I blame anyone for going dark when the heat is on, (I did it myself for almost six months), we are starting to lose the core of our actual hackers. As the year winds on, we have had some successes, and some failures, but we as a whole, are not where we were this time last year. Our progress has declined and our former glory of exposing corruption has faded somewhat.

The entire idea of Anonymous is decentralization, and therefore there is no leader or Lt’s to motivate or plan and what not, these things happen on the fly from various people within the collective.  Those newer to the collective have not had the experience of dealing with some of the most talented hackers that I have ever had the pleasure to work with, but whom are now either in prison, facing charges, or cooperating with the feds because they were being threatened.

For us to move forward into the future we require not leadership, but some of the older and most technically skilled members to step up and show the entire collective how it’s done. We need to stop with the bullshit, and start doing more basically. Lulz are great, i’m a huge fan of them, but it isn’t the only reason why we’re doing what we’re doing. Good luck in the future to us all, and here’s to a brighter tomorrow.

-Bree

@Anon_Bree 

Anonymous: The PR Machine & The Evolution of the Collective

Anonymous: The PR Machine & The Evolution of the Collective.

Proposal of a Council (NOT LEADERS) of Anonymous

Here is how Anonymous breaks down from bottom to top: (keep in mind, the bottom is no less important than the top) We have our activists on the ground in support of operations, risking limb, arrests, and literally their lifes to do so. Than you have our hacktivists that create graphix and pressreports for operations, both underway, and for future ones. Next up we have the Skiddies: The onles who DDoS wepages which results in a kind of digital sit in against some form of corruption or wrongdoing a company or organization has done. Nearer to the top, are hackers who come up with plans of attacks, organize how said attacks should go down, and why. Basically they create a plan of attack for each of the subgroups i have previously mentioned. Than at the top of the list is the classic black hat hacker, who can do everything from break into your encrypted emails, webdefacments, and break into pretty much any box possible and make it their own. Together, we make up something the world has never seen in such numbers: Anonymous.

While i know that there will be more than a few that will imediately dismiss what i am about to propose, i would hope that there will be others that will understand why this idea could be extremely benifical to the group. To be put simply, my propsal is this:
Let me start by saying these people would not be LEADERS of Anonymous. But, i suggest that we round up the best in our feilds, such as graphix design, idea people, tactic planning, people with the best ddos ability due to botnet or unique programs they have made or whatever, the best actuall hackers, and some older hackers who have seen the entire picture of hacktivism because they have been around since its inception. What i propose is a small pannel of these people, who, together, would be more apt to coordinate the bigger Anonymous operations. These people would have power only in the group, and as usual, anyone under said group of, lets say, coucilors, can accept their plans or not. My hope is that if we can get the best of the best at the top to formulate, design, and come up with an execution plan, the people outside of this little coucil would see a well made plan, for a good reason, and want to join on their own. Or course others are free to no participate as they wish, like i said this coucil is by no means a leadership aspect to Anonymous. It’s just good organizing. We all have diff skill sets, ideas, implimentations, and have diff opinions about how things should be done.
This council should be kept private from the authorities for as long as possible, because any attention could bring a new wave of fanatic searching for them by the feds. The council names should be known only to the counsil. This council would only be needed for conducting large scale operations that require by definition leaks, dumps, and box pwning. Obviously Anonymous can do any other type of operations (some badly hence being caught). The idea of the council are the best of the best doing 100% damage to the target on all aspects of the front. and already bein on the ready before the op happens with a very elequint press release as to why and bring anyone who reads it to our side,thus gaining more anon’s in a half assed round-a-bouted way like OpNewBlood minus the feds in that op.
The identies of the council would be kept as secret as possible, but even if all somehow get arrested, we still will go back to the previous mode without a council until another can be formed. no real damage there. The problem i know will be in selecting these people because we all think that we are the best of everything we do, until we take our egos out of the picture. It will have to be done that way, otherwise it will not work. All this effectivly does is take the best minds in their particular fields and throw them into an IRC to brainstorm and come up with a plan for an OP that one or two or even three of them alone could not have. It’s the next logical step to Anonymous imo.
Give me many coments on what everyone things of this please. or tweet them to me @Anon_bree

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The council has power only in itself.hey would come up with the best plan target nd execution of said plan. This will th an trickle down to  other Anons to either accept and execute the plan, or not. The council would have ZERO power to tell anyone what to do, they are , for lack of a better word, a think tank)

 

 

-Bree
@Anon_Bree
#LulzTeam

Everything you wanted to know about Anonymous and Hacktivsm, but were too afraid to ask

    As most people in the cyber community have noticed, there has been a lull in activity from Anonymous in recent months. There have still been Ops successfully executed, although usually on a smaller scale than in the last year. Many have equated this diminished activity to the recent string of high profile arrests of many prominent hackers within the group, along with other sub-groups, such as TeaMp0sioN in explicably and effectively going dark after the arrest of TriCk. While this would seem to be a logical conclusion from an outsider point of view, such is not the case.
    To understand why this is not the case, you have to understand the history behind hacktivism. Hacktivism has been around for a long time now, over 20 years, but it is only within the last five or six years that it has gotten enough mainstream media attention to have been recognized on a global scale. This attention is almost exclusively because of the new hacktivism model of Anonymous. While Anonymous has changed the form of a hacktivist collective, it has not changed how hacktivsm effectively works. In years gone by, groups that took up the fight did so with an actual roster. Groups like Cult of the Dead Cow, Electronic Disturbence Theater, People’s Liberation Front, and the l0pht to name a few, all had a limited member list. New members were inducted into said groups at the discretion of the groups themselves or forced to fight on their own. When members were arrested or went dark for fear of arrest, it would take time for new groups to rise up and take their place. With the new Anonymous model, anyone and everyone who wants to sail their ship under the Anonymous banner is free to do so, effectively making the collective immortal as long as hacktivsm lives on in the hearts of the people. Like i said before however, the model of Anonymous has changed, but they way we conduct hactivsm has not.
     To put it simply, we react to threats against freedom, privacy, and anonminity. Operations such as OpPayback, OpBART, all of the arab spring operations, operations against SOPA, ACTA, and pretty much 90% of operations to date have all be responses to a threat. When there are fewer real threats, or rather known threats, operations shift to smaller ones of people’s choosing, rather than wide spread uprising like with OpMegaUpload for instance. While injustices still exist, there is not always a cyber solution to the problem, and Anonymous has risen to this particular challenge by taking to the streets in protest with operations such as OpBART, paperstorm, feed the homeless, and most notably suppport of occupy wall st. The media doesn’t consider those operations as hacktivsm persay, and thus do not report them as such, leading mainstream media, and even hackers and activists within Anonymous to think this lull in activity to mean that we are in some way no longer as active as ‘normal’.
    Recently there has been a call from more than a few hackers within Anonymous to ‘step up’, or ‘get organized’. People that have risen up to take the place of those that have been arrested have been called ‘wanna-be lulzsec hackers’. This is particularly annoying in that, while lulzsec grabbed much media attention with their 50 days of lulz, and high profile hacks, they did not do much for the movement. Their main motivation was for the lulz. Don’t get me wrong, there was contribution to the cause, and some very high profile hacks that contributed to it by the group, Sabu in particular, but as a whole their main contribution to Anonymous has to allow the media to portray us as anarchists only hacking for laughs. While i know that many actually joined Anonymous because of the media attention that LulzSec grabbed, and my position is probably not a popular one with many who will read this, if you step back and really look at everything they did last year i don’t know how anyone could come to any other conclusion.
    The truth of the matter is that with any activsm, a great injustice or corruption is needed for everyone to join together, organize, and do something about it. Anonymous is not declining, nor is is dying. Quite the opposite actually; with the new and quite frankly revolutionary mode that Anonymous has established, we will be around for a very long time.

-Bree

@Anon_Bree
#LulzTeam

People’s Liberation Front

     Nowadays, with the high profile hacks and exploits from groups like LulzSec, CabinCr3w, and TeaMp0isoN, we tend to overlook other groups more than we used to for not being as high profile. The People’s Liberation Front has been fighting for freedom from censorship, anti-piracy laws, privacy, and just downright shady, illegal, and immortal behavior by corporations and governments since the beginning. I admire them being, not low profile per-say, but more careful about not getting caught than other groups. Which is why we are now mourning the deaths of groups like LulzSec, CabinCr3w, and members of TeaMp0isoN, while still being able to report about brilliant things that the PLF are doing. The fight for freedom is not a one week or even year job, as the PLF long ago realized. Spectacular hacks make for good headlines, but mean little when the talented person who did it is sitting in a federal prison two weeks later.

       While the PLF, and the freedom-fighting community in general, did lose Commander X last year to an arrest, he did manage to escape from the US and prosecution subsequently there after, and hopefully will be back in action at some point. That aside, the PLF continued on, undeterred. In response to the unethical and criminal actions of PasteBin, in reporting not only IP addresses but any information they could get their hands on about their users to the authorities and private security firms, the PLF has opened Anonpaste.tk. AnonPaste is a brilliant idea that allows Anonymous, PLF, and anyone else fighting for the cause, to post anonymously about anything on their site. When you post, the site encrypts the data on the browser level, and decrypts it when someone wants to read what was posted. This means there is nothing on the server except encrypted text, effectively shielding the site from authorities. The design is simple, yet elegant; and the security is top notch, while having zero censorship. PLF has also stated that there isn’t even a way for them to remove anything from the site, making what you put on the site, depending on how long you set the info to stay on the site, there for the ages. And the PLF did all of this inside of two weeks since the leaks of the pastebin emails by TeaMp0isoN, showing what pastebin was doing with the information it collects from the hackers who post there. 

     While i look forward to seeing new exploits from newer crews like MalSec, Ponycr3w, and others, i know that five, or ten years from now, when high profile attacks from newer crews inevitably end with members being arrested or going underground for fear of arrest, the PLF will still be there fighting the good fight in the name of all people around the world. And with the new AnonPaste site, in addition to TalkOpen, the PLF continue to show that they will come up with innovative solutions to censorship and moral corruption by corporations and governments. All that being said, cheers to the PLF.

(quick note: i hope groups like malsec and ponycr3w do not get v8’d, but if history has shown us anything with lulzsec, cabincr3w, ect.., its that high profile hacks and leaks that have a name attached unfortunately tend to end with the talented hackers being arrested. Not to discourage them from doing what they’re doing, because they are doing good work. I just hope they are more careful than LulzSec)

-Bree

@Anon_Bree

#LulzTeam

Current state of affairs in the #BlackHat community

By now most of you should have heard about @ItsKahuna being v&’d. Kahuna is the most recent in a rather lengthy list of blackhat’s being arrested. Some wear Anon’s, other’s CabinCr3w and TeaMp0isoN; and of course we can’t forget about the arrests of  almost all the members of LulzSec. All of these things have one thing in common: Jealousy. Other blackhat’s that were jealous of those they helped to d0x and subsequently arrested. (With the exception of one or two v&’d blackhats who turned informant *cough Sabu cough*)  So what does this mean for the community?

Well that question has two answers. The first being that we, as a whole, have lost quite a few talented hackers needlessly and for no other reason than that they were good and drew attention from both the blackhat scene and the media. Most of the reason they drew attention was because they proceded to brag on twitter about their exploits, picking up media attention, and subsequently jealous blackhat attention. Which brings me to another point: Stop bragging about hax on twitter!

The second answer to my question is simple: They will be replaced by new hackers of equal or better skill, like they always have since the prodigy/compuserve/AOL days when the term ‘hacktivist’ was first coined to the Cult of the Dead Cow (CdC) by Omega. The short answer is there will always be blackhats of great skill, and sadly there will always be idiots who are jealous of them and try to get them arrested.

And with many of the blackhats nowadays supporting the #Occupy movement, myself included, losing said hackers also damages the movement. Maybe someday i will understand why jealousy leads dumb people to do what they do, but that day isn’t today. Thanks for listening to me venting. 🙂

-Bree

@Anon_bree

#LulzTeam