Anonymous Leaks New Batch of Data

Orome1 writes "Anonymous has made available for download another batch of data, including those belonging to the Zimbabwean government, Mosman Municipal Council, Universal Music Group Partners (umusic.com's usernames/passwords and other data), Viacom (internal mapping of Viacom and its servers) and Brazilian Government (dumps and passwords)."

Good for them

[tmosley]

I enjoy seeing nasty people like record executives and genocidal maniacs having their dirty laundry aired. I wish we had more detail, though.

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[carpenoctem63141]

Now that they've dealt with Zimbabwe, maybe they can find out what's going on with all those Nigerian princes.

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[the linux geek]

I had no idea that the people of Mosman (population 26000) elected genocidal maniacs to their Council, and for some reason I had thought that Brazil was a functioning democracy.

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[PC and Sony Fanboy]

I had no idea that the people of Mosman (population 26000) elected genocidal maniacs to their Council, and for some reason I had thought that Brazil was a functioning democracy.

Eh, it's because you use linux. Don't worry too much about it, no one pays attention to what you think anyways.

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[EEPROMS]

They have elections and councils in Prisons? (remember this is Australia)

That old chestnut, the only reason they sent convicts to Australia is the English couldn't send them to the USA any more. FYI more convicts were sent to the USA than Australia, we only had a few ships before the english gave up as we released them when they arrived.

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[Mongoose Disciple]

FWIW, that Australia was once the English prison colony is pretty much the only thing they teach American kids about Australia, at least when I was in school.

Which, silly, but if you're wondering why you hear that one so much that's probably why.

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[FatdogHaiku]

They don't want the little ones to know about the "Hand of Faith" [goldennugget.com]... lest everyone run off down under.

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[lennier]

and for some reason I had thought that Brazil was a functioning democracy.

Heh. Yes, Brazilian democracy functions exactly as designed if you're rich and know the right people. If you live in a favela... maybe not so much.

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[Opportunist]

You had me until you said "both sides". Next time, try "all sides". Try to notice that there are other options besides shooting or hanging before the execution.

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[BuckaBooBob]

Its soo rare that there is actually someone that you want to vote for on a ballot.. Most of the time your trying to figure out who will do less evil..

They should just change how voting is done... you might as well go in and vote against someone.. It would make figuring out who your gonna mark on the ballot alot easier..

That or add in a No Viable Candidate(Aka they all suck)..

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[Anonymous Coward]

We need a rank vote system-- but the establishment will not like actual democracy so this will likely take a revolution before democracy returns to many of the hacked former democracies.

That also means we must limit the corporations. Somehow the concept behind the separation of powers was completely lost outside of government. Any over concentration of power in one group of individuals is going to become a threat to all -- it doesn't literally only exist within government and that is how the system was ri

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[Opportunist]

So, essentially, like most other democracies today?

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[hitmark]

And across history...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Grain_supply_to_the_city_of_Rome#Politics_and_the_grain_supply [wikimedia.org]

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[scubamage]

Brazil is a democracy, but not functioning very well. In Rio gang warfare is bad enough that it was considered worse than a warzone, and there is a hell of a lot of corruption. The only reason you don't hear a lot about it is because they depend on tourism. Source: best friend lived there 3 years as an inner city teacher. Also told me to stay in tourist areas if visiting, the population in general doesn't like Americans/Europeans.

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[scubamage]

Awesome! She was there teaching high school, and had some stories to tell (she was in Rio). Also...

English is not my first language. Corrections and suggestions are welcome.

Your English as a second language is better than many people who speak it as a first language. You should be very proud. :)

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[drinkypoo]

the population in general doesn't like Americans/Europeans.

No, they love white people in Brazil. They have the same cultural self-hate for dark skin as everyone else. If you're white and fair and tall expect to be called a German all the time though.

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[Urza9814]

I wish we had more detail, though.

Well, that's kinda why they release it like this, to crowd-source the digging. Go look for something! ...or just wait a couple days, I'm sure stuff will come out soon, like what happened with LulzSec's dump of the Arizona law enforcement data. I'll admit I haven't heard a whole lot about that, but there were some posts on BoingBoing a day or two later detailing some of the more interesting bits.

This is what we get

[sortius_nod]

When we secure servers with fear and obscurity. Looks like no one is safe, they all have less than ideal set ups.

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[lennier]

When we secure servers with fear and obscurity. Looks like no one is safe, they all have less than ideal set ups.

We secure our servers with fear! Fear and obscurity! Fear, obscurity and 512-bit RSA public-key biometric tokens... I'll come in again.

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[blair1q]

Would you send your data to an organization that is probably residing upside down chained to the wall of a dungeon in Northern Virginia and replaced by online simulacra?

Wikileaks screwed with the wrong people in a way that left them open to legal repercussions and sub-legal interdictions. They're burned.

Luckily, for data theives, their business model is entirely fungible and not protected by any IP restrictions. So everyone with an IP address is, in essence, a Leak server waiting to happen.

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[PC and Sony Fanboy]

What would Michael Weston do?

Same thing jesus would do....

Nothing, since they're both TV stars and have people to do it for them.

Viacom?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm too lazy to look up the internal mapping of viacom, so could someone who looked at it just let me know where Pauly Shore fits into the layout? Thanks.

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[ginbot462]

Turns out, Pauly Shore is actually behind the Bilderbergs, the Federal Reserve, the Illuminati (which isn't as cool anymore), and more ... they gave all that power just so he wouldn't make a new movie. Yahoo Serious is second in command. Steve Guttenberg of course retired..

THIS IS COMPLETELY UN-AMERICAN !!

[Anonymous Coward]

How dare they tarnish the good name of The Unuited States of America !!

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[Opportunist]

Wrong thread. Here [slashdot.org] is where you probably wanted that comment to go.

A new era of security

[Synerg1y]

what's that? Most IT entities i've worked with (small business) don't have dedicated security teams, they have critical personal information that would make identity theft cheezy ez, but not security. The assumption has always been this can't happen to us, and chances are it never will, but NOW the "it may happen to us" mentality is starting to take over. Good time to work in the IT security sector, though some of the people I've met from there make me giggle :)

Useless article

[bsDaemon]

Torrent or it didn't happen ;)

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[biodata]

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6502765/antisec01 [thepiratebay.org] seems to be nonresponsive as of now.

SO wait..

[ideaz]

Is Anonymous trying to support the Wiki-leaks movement but explicitly not sayin it?

Wrong. Or at least probably.

[Jane Q. Public]

The article has it wrong. This is a group calling itself AntiSec (not an "AntiSec release" by Anonymous), which claims that it is a successor to, but different from, LulzSec.

In fact, the announcement of the release was so clear on that point that I do not see how the author of that article could have easily made that mistake.

I suppose it's possible that it's Anonymous claiming to be somebody else, but it is indeed a group claiming to be different from Anonymous, and I have neither seen or heard of any evidence that Anonymous was involved at all.

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[shutdown -p now]

When AntiSec was originally announced, it was as a collaborative project between Anonymous and LulzSec. So yes, this is definitely related to Anonymous.

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[Jane Q. Public]

Interesting, because I thought that WAS the original announcement of AntiSec, and I saw it with my own eyes, and Anonymous was not mentioned.

I'm not saying you are wrong. But if there was some prior announcement, I would be interested to know where/when it was.

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[shutdown -p now]

See this [abc.net.au]. Quote:

Welcome to Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec) - we encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path. We fully endorse the flaunting of the word "AntiSec" on any government website defacement or physical graffiti art. We encourage you to spread the word of AntiSec far and wide, for it will be remembered. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships.

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[Jane Q. Public]

Yes, I see. Thanks for the link.

Zimbabwe?

[haus]

Is this news because they were hacked, or because they had computers to put data onto in the first place?

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[inasity_rules]

You must be American.

viacom?

[hitmark]

Sounds interesting, if only as a look into how they prioritized security of their subsystems...