BREAKING (UPDATE) # FBI Seizes Server from Progressive Internet Service Provider

CIVIL LIBERTIES IN AMERICA: BIG BROTHER IS GETTING BIGGER
by Jack A. Smith
April 10, 2012
The Activist Newsletter

Government surveillance and attacks on the privacy of American citizens were bad enough under the Bush regime but they are getting even worse during the Obama years.

In addition to retaining President George W. Bush's many excesses, such as the Patriot Act, new information about the erosion of civil liberties emerges repeatedly during the era of President Barack Obama from the federal government, the courts and various police forces.

The Supreme Court added judicial insult to personal injury April 2 when it ruled 5-4 that jail officials may strip-search anyone arrested for any offense, even a trifle, as they are being incarcerated, even if they are awaiting a hearing or trial. The four ultraconservative judges were joined by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.

According to the ACLU's Steven R. Shapiro, the "decision jeopardizes the privacy rights of millions of people who are arrested each year and brought to jail, often for minor offenses. Being forced to strip naked is a humiliating experience that no one should have to endure absent reasonable suspicion."

A day before the strip-search outrage, the New York Times reported that "law enforcement tracking of cellphones... has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show.... One police training manual describes cellphones as 'the virtual biographer of our daily activities,' providing a hunting ground for learning contacts and travels."

Other abuses of civil liberties are taking place with increasing frequency, but the public outcry has mainly been muted, an enticement for the authorities to go even further. On March 23, the American Civil Liberties Union reported:

"The Obama administration has extended the time the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) can collect and hold on to records on U.S. citizens and residents from 180 days to five years, even where those people have no suspected ties to terrorism. The new NCTC guidelines, which were approved by Attorney General Eric Holder, will give the intelligence community much broader access to information about Americans retained in various government databases....

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Is this the tipping point we have been waiting for? If the left is waking up finally and realises the noose around their nexk, will this trigger the crackdown? Havent we been yelling at the left the whole time that by the time they figured it out it would be too late...?

Is it too late to prevent what is coming? Was there ever really a chance anyways?

Well at least now those on the left are starting to see this is a double edged sword that has now come back to cut them as well.

FBI memo: agents can “bend or suspend the law and impinge upon the freedoms of others”
Madison Ruppert, Contributor
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Activist Post

It has now emerged that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formally taught their agents that they were able to “bend or suspend the law and impinge upon the freedoms of others” in their quest to find alleged terrorists and criminals.

It gets even worse when we read that they claim they have “the ability to gather information on individuals which would normally be protected under the US Constitution through the use of FISA, Title 3 monitoring, NSL reports, etc.”

While the FBI’s extrajudicial assaults on the freedoms of Americans is nothing new, along with the federal government’s insane expansion of authority into unthinkable realms including the power to assassinate Americans at will, these discoveries are especially troubling.

According to Wired’s Danger Room, the FBI claims they simply didn’t mean it and since have removed the offending document from their counterterrorism training curriculum, characterizing it as an “imprecise” instruction.

This explanation is hardly surprising given that the Department of Defense made similar claims after it emerged that their training materials explicitly classified protesting as an act of “low-level terrorism.”

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You didn't think they were going to let people communicate through any electronic means without knowing who they and where they were, did you?
Get real. I've been on the internet for 13 years and have always posted and searched with it in the back of my mind that every single word I transmit can be traced back to me and every search I make as well. You'd have to be dummy not realize it with all the information that has been made available.

Yes, but the scary part is that with this media it doesn't matter what you type or post or facebook, because when they want you they pull the files out of their ass that THEY create that clearly indicate that you were a dangerous and threatening son-of-a-bitch bent on mass destruction (WMD?). All it takes is keystrokes, and they have plenty!

Congress renames SOPA to CISPA and hopes no one notices!



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They call it selective prosecution.

damn, I love Riseup

As in killing a 100.000 women & men, with the strike of a pen?

14 defining characteristics of fascism: The U.S. in 2012
Gregory Patin
Monday, March 26, 2012
Activist Post

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
- Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here. (1935)

In the spring of 2003, ex-corporate executive and political scientist Lawrence W. Britt published an essay in Free Inquiry magazine entitled “Fascism Anyone?” In his work, Britt examined the traits of the two governments that formed the original historical model for fascism, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, and five other protofascist regimes that imitated that model, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. He identified 14 characteristics that were common to all of them.

These traits have since been widely accepted as the 14 defining characteristics of fascism.

Nearly three generations removed from the horrors of Nazi Germany, all of these regimes have been overthrown, but fascism’s principles can still be found in many nations. History tends to repeat itself because many leaders and nations fail to learn from history, or they draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm in the world today.

In the U.S., leaders, teachers, media and citizens proudly claim that America is a democratic society with certain freedoms and rights guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution, Bill of Rights and rule of law. But is that really the case?

A close look at the 14 characteristics of fascism in light of what has changed in America in the past few years may raise some questions as to whether or not Americans truly live in a democratic society.

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It was a DNS botnet server farm.....it needed to be taken down.

FBI did the right thing.

Bert, read before you write...

'The FBI purportedly seized the server because it was hosting an anonymous remailer called Mixmaster. Anonymous remailers are used to send email anonymously, or pseudonymously. Like other anonymizing services such as the Tor network, these remailers are widely used to protect the identity of human rights activists who place themselves and their families in grave danger by reporting information about abuses. Remailers are also important for corporate whistle blowers, democracy activists working under repressive regimes, and others to communicate vital information that would otherwise go un-reported.

The Mixmaster software is specifically designed to make it impossible for anyone to trace the emails. The system does not record logs of connections, details of who sent messages, or how they were routed. This is because the Mixmaster network is specifically designed to resist censorship, and support privacy and anonymity. Unfortunately, some people misuse the network. However, compared to the rate of legitimate use, the abuse rate is very low. There is therefore no legitimate purpose for the FBI to seize this server because they will not be able to obtain any information about the sender. This is plainly extrajudicial punishment and an attack on free speech and anonymity on the internet and serves as a chilling effect on others providers of anonymous remailers or other anonymous services.'

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No need.
It is STILL part of the BOT NETS.

The DNS routers, servers, PC's are all used....
[link to www.dcwg.org]


How do you think they are doing these things anonymously?
...by magic???


Learn the Info Tech world before you chastise me for something you know nothing about....mmm kay???



Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 04/21/2012 01:32 AM

No, Mixmaster is NOT part of any illegal botnets. You seem to have no idea what you are talking about. Mixmaster servers are run on dedicated servers, the vast majority of which are Unix-based systems.

Mixmaster is legal open-source software, and does NOT infect end-users with hijack networking botnet software that sends unsolicited communications. It's anonymity is created by the program stripping ID information off of the email headers and forwarding it on to other Mixmaster remailer servers to move it on to the destination. Mixmaster software communicates to other servers that are running Mixmaster server software on a voluntary Mixmaster server network.

All this information is public domain and easily researched. If you have verifiable accusations proving Mixmaster is utilizing illegal botnets, please present them here.

FBI Surreptitiously Returns Seized Server
By Kim Zetter
May 11, 2012

Remember that server the FBI seized from a hosting company in New York in an effort to uncover the identity of people who were sending bomb threats about the University of Pittsburgh?

Surveillance cameras caught FBI agents returning the hardware, and plugging it in, without telling the owners.

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VMWARE and Veeam backup solution could have brought the stolen server back in a matter of minutes.. in-fact before FBI left the building.

physical servers are quickly becomming obsolete.

Sure, but that's not so much the point here...

People using the net anon will definately be a target. They want control over the net and you cant control people if you dont know who they are.

Actually YOU should learn something about IT before you spout. BTW, WTF is a "DNS router?"
A router has nothing to do with DNS, it simply (as the name implies) routes packets between two disjoined networks. DNS simply translates IP addresses to "names" or services.