[aha] Open letter to Anonymous (please distribute)

Lun 13 Giu 2011 11:35:12 CEST

perdonate ho fatto confusione con gl'indirizzi, ciao!
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> Marco, sei @roma sti giorni?
> mi piacerebbe parlarti....
> ciao! Luigi
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>> please distribute to anyone interested
>> 
>> 
>> <begin quote>
>> 
>> 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
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>> 
>> 
>> <end quote>
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Marco Donnarumma
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>> The University of Edinburgh, UK
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