[hackerspaces] Open letter to Anonymous (please distribute)

Sun Jun 5 00:40:00 CEST 2011

I just pooped a little. But in a good way. 

In all seriousness, this is not the proper way to instigate a "battle cry".  Without being called to action, we as hackers, instigate our own reaction to political wrong doings. One act at a time we break down the walls of protected information. At our leisure of course. 

-Dave    -Agent5-

On Jun 4, 2011, at 6:16 PM, James Arlen <myrcurial at thinkhaus.org> wrote:

> I <3 you. A little too much.
> 
> Additionally,
> 
> Your Mom.
> 
> As well,
> 
> America, fuck yeah.
> 
> With peaceful affection,
> 
> J 
> On 2011-06-04 6:09 PM, "Matt Joyce" <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:
> > Dear crazy person,
> > 
> > Asking the internet at large or in this case a stand alone complex to
> > adhere to your own personal form of morality is both ineffectual in method
> > and ill conceived in purpose. Fuck your desire for a better name for
> > hackers. People are what they are and we should all just learn to accept
> > that. Hackers are people. Just like people they can be as horrible as the
> > smell that emanates from bad chinese food and as wonderful as two girls at
> > the same time. Suggesting that people should try to artificially promote a
> > false outward view is to promote deception. And deception is the road to
> > ruin. I personally abhor your request and will today go out and do
> > something horrible to someone in the name of hackers everywhere just to
> > stand upon my point with full and honest conviction.
> > 
> > Hackers are all we can be. Don't expect more. Don't expect less. And
> > don't expect us.
> > 
> > Additionally,
> > 
> > Your mom.
> > 
> > Love and Peace,
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Jaromil <jaromil at dyne.org> wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> please distribute to anyone interested
> >>
> >> OPEN LETTER TO THE ANONYMOUS LEGIONS
> >>
> >> in reply to
> >>
> >> 074 CDS 11 E - INFORMATION AND NATIONAL SECURITY
> >> http://www.nato-pa.int/default.asp?SHORTCUT=2443
> >>
> >> and to
> >>
> >> LulzSec versus FBI (we challenge you, NATO!)
> >> http://pastebin.com/MQG0a130
> >>
> >> re all
> >>
> >> We all know that cyberspace has come to an intense moment of
> >> confrontation; it will become more and more difficult to focus on the
> >> very reasons of the conflict opening, as the fog of war is
> >> rising. This Open letter is an effort to focus on what is happening.
> >>
> >> Hackers: behind all our actions there is a pulsating will to make
> >> justice and to protect our freedoms. Fighting injustice has long moved
> >> the hearts and souls of many people in history.
> >>
> >> Meanwhile, the state of asymmetric cyber warfare in 2011 is
> >> paradoxical: national defense departments against kids in their
> >> bedrooms, an exaggeration depicting well the deep necessity of reform
> >> faced by all forms of organized intelligence that existed before the
> >> proliferation of digital networks; namely the most populous one, the
> >> Internet, now 18 years old.
> >>
> >> As usual, the reasons why members of an organization like NATO are
> >> moved to fight are related to territorial control and predominance;
> >> likewise, the reasons moving the legions of Anonymous are in their
> >> deepest sense, and behind the lulz, a political stance supported by
> >> natives and, as such, have a huge constituent potential.
> >>
> >> The reasons that invigorate today the courage of the Legions of
> >> Anonymous are also very similar to the political reasons that made the
> >> Legion of Underground declare war to Iraq and China in 1999:
> >>
> >> the reiterated threats to the freedom of the population;
> >>
> >> the state's efforts to censor, monitor and manipulate the natural flow
> >> of information;
> >>
> >> the lies that monopolies, corporations and governments use to hide
> >> failures in the eyes of their citizens and clients;
> >>
> >> the resistance of nations to move out of obsolete forms of governance
> >> engulfed by media-dictatorships;
> >>
> >> the oppression against investigative journalists, hackers and such
> >> liminal figures operating on the edges of semiospheres;
> >>
> >> to name just a few.
> >>
> >> Since this scenario is not new, please consider the war that might be
> >> profiling ahead by reading further the statement below.
> >>
> >> Solid.
> >>
> >> LoU STRIKE OUT WITH INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF HACKERS:
> >> A JOINT STATEMENT BY 2600,
> >> THE CHAOS COMPUTER CLUB,
> >> THE CULT OF THE DEAD
> >> COW,
> >> !HISPAHACK,
> >> L0PHT HEAVY INDUSTRIES,
> >> PHRACK AND PULHAS
> >>
> >> Date: 7.1.1999
> >>
> >> An international coalition of hackers strongly condemns the Legion of
> >> the Underground's (LoU) recent "declaration of war" against the
> >> governments of Iraq and the People's Republic of China. Citing human
> >> rights violations and other repressive measures the LoU declared their
> >> intention to disrupt and disable Internet infrastructures in Iraq and
> >> China. In a decision that was more rash than wise, the LoU will do
> >> little to alter existing conditions and much to endanger the rights of
> >> hackers around the world.
> >>
> >> We - the undersigned - strongly oppose any attempt to use the power of
> >> hacking to threaten or destroy the information infrastructure of a
> >> country, for any reason. Declaring "war" against a country is the most
> >> irresponsible thing a hacker group could do. This has nothing to do
> >> with hacktivism or hacker ethics and is nothing a hacker could be
> >> proud of.
> >>
> >> Frank Rieger of the CCC said, "Many hacker groups don't have a problem
> >> with Web hacks that raise public awareness about human rights
> >> violations. But we are very sensitive to people damaging networks and
> >> critical systems in repressive regimes or anywhere else. The police
> >> and intelligence communities regard hacking as seditious. It is quite
> >> possible now that hackers - not only in totalitarian states - could be
> >> jailed or executed as 'cyberterrorists' for the slightest infraction
> >> of the law."
> >>
> >> "It is shortsighted and potentially counterproductive," added Reid
> >> Fleming of the cDc. "One cannot legitimately hope to improve a
> >> nation's free access to information by working to disable its data
> >> networks."
> >>
> >> "Though we may agree with LoU that the atrocities in China and Iraq
> >> have got to stop, we do not agree with the methods they are
> >> advocating," said Space Rogue of the L0pht.
> >>
> >> Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 said: "This kind of threat, even if made
> >> idly, can only serve to further alienate hackers from mainstream
> >> society and help to spread the misperceptions we're constantly
> >> battling. And what happens when someone in another country decides
> >> that the United States needs to be punished for its human rights
> >> record? This is one door that will be very hard to close if we allow
> >> it to be opened."
> >>
> >> Governments worldwide are seeking to establish cyberspace as a new
> >> battleground for their artificial conflicts. The LoU has inadvertently
> >> legitimized this alarmist propoganda. With its dramatic announcement
> >> the LoU played into the hands of policy makers who want complete
> >> control over the Internet and are looking for reasons to seize it. If
> >> hackers solicit recognition as paramilitary factions then hacking in
> >> general will be seen as an act of war. Ergo, hackers will be viewed as
> >> legitimate targets of warring states.
> >>
> >> Strategic combat planning in the United States and among other nations
> >> has reached the point where real-world cases are needed to justify
> >> assigned budgets. The LoU is providing this real-world case now. We
> >> believe that the LoU should carefully investigate the idea of
> >> declaring "war" against China and Iraq. Was it planted with them by
> >> someone with different interests in mind other than advancing human
> >> rights considerations?
> >>
> >> The signatories to this statement are asking hackers to reject all
> >> actions that seek to damage the information infrastructure of any
> >> country. DO NOT support any acts of "Cyberwar." Keep the networks of
> >> communication alive. They are the nervous system for human progress.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org
> >> GPG: B2D9 9376 BFB2 60B7 601F 5B62 F6D3 FBD9 C2B6 8E39
> >> Bitcoin tip jar: 1EJYtvuq39hoWcventcnnvhPXh6i5QDReM
> >>
> >>
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