Daily Archives: 12 July 2011

I write this before hearing today’s news. It is all becoming too hilarious to cope with. Last time the thieving Tory bastards were in power, we were on the back foot. All the state’s forces conspired against us. This time around, they aren’t just on the back foot, they’ve been knocked off their feet.

David Cameron’s been stopped from suckling at Rupert Murdoch’s tits, the worst of the gutter press has been closed down and a radical international organisation of hacktivists, who have probably never met each other, towers above every intelligence agency on the globe. They appear invincible. Groups like them make politics interesting again. Keeping secrets appears impossible with them around. More than that, they are witty and amusing. Quite a change from the Old Left!

This morning they have promised to attack the computer systems of the UK police and judiciary to thank them for their connivance with the fraud, privacy invasion and criminality of Murdoch’s crew. This is the expected news which I can’t face just yet. I need a break from this ride. I want to get off the rollercoaster. There’s been noises that they have probed Murdoch’s servers, which would be handy in the light of Murdoch’s crew apparently having attempted to delete incriminating data.

Yesterday they turned their attention to Booz Allen Hamilton, whose core business is apparently contractual work completed on behalf of the US federal government, foremost on defense and homeland security matters, and limited engagements of foreign governments specific to U.S. military assistance programs. Anonymous use a naval vessel metaphor to describe Booz’s security: they say they only had a puny wooden barge. They claim to have infiltrated Booz’s server and grabbed roughly 90,000 military emails and password hashes. They say they also got hold of Booz’s svn (a software versioning and a revision control system founded and sponsored in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. Developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation.) and grabbed 4GB of source code, which they also wiped off Booz’s system. They say that Booz’s key staff are:

• John Michael “Mike” McConnell, Executive Vice President of Booz Allen and former Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and former Director of National Intelligence.
• James R. Clapper, Jr., current Director of National Intelligence, former Director of Defense Intelligence.
• Robert James Woolsey Jr, former Director of National Intelligence and head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
• Melissa Hathaway, Current Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils.

Anonymous accuse Booz of being involved in illegal surveillance, questionable auditing practices and having a revolving door conflict with the US government. You can read more details and find links here.

The bit I really like is that they present an invoice to Booz for $310! This is how they break down this ‘bill’:

4 hours of man power: $40.00
Network auditing: $35.00
Web-app auditing: $35.00
Network infiltration*: $0.00
Password and SQL dumping**: $200.00
Decryption of data***: $0.00
Media and press****: $0.00

Total bill: $310.00

*Price is based on the amount of effort required.
**Price is based on the amount of badly secured data to be dumped, which in this case was a substantial figure.
***No security in place, no effort for intrusion needed.
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