Anonymous Press Release Feb. 7: HBGary Federal
Date : lundi 07 f�vrier 2011 @ 03:47:20 :: Sujet :
ANONYMOUS PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Distribution
February 7th, 2011
Recently, the head of internet security
firm HBGary Federal, Aaron Barr, sought to elevate his investigation of
the Anonymous movement by providing the Financial Times with what he
claimed to be accurate and useful information about those who allegedly
drive our activities.
In yesterday's release we inferred that the
information presented was easy to undermine by any of the millions of
people around the world with a cursory understanding of internet
culture. Not only was the information provided by HBGary Federal woefully inaccurate, it provided no incriminating evidence against any of the persons named.
Today, Anonymous learned that HBGary Federal intended to sell to the FBI a large document (it can be found at http://hizost.com/d/zjb) that allegedly detailed the identities of dozens of our participants.
Within hours of learning this, Anonymous
infiltrated HBGary Federal's network and websites. Anonymous acquired
the document with supposed personal details of anons, along with 50,000
company e-mails (~4.71GB) - all of which have now been distributed on
the internet. Additionally, his associated websites and social media
accounts were hijacked and manipulated to stress how poorly this
'security expert' handles matters of his own security (http://imagebin.org/136490). Woe to his clients and others who invested in his confidence.
The lack of quality in Aaron Barr's
undertaken research is worth noting. Aaron Barr missed a great deal of
information that has been available online, and in fact failed to
identify some of those whose identities were never intended to be
hidden. People such as DailyKos' diarist blogger Barrett Brown, and the
administrator of anonnews.org, joepie91, whose identities could have
been found in under a minute with a simple Google search.
It is also worth noting that Aaron Barr was
also providing this documentation as an example of investigation
protocol. This would introduce a systematic flaw to the FBI's
investigative woodwork. The risk of institutionalising a flawed
procedure exponentiates a problem, and it does so at the taxpayers
expense in every sense. Had the FBI indeed bought this information from
HBGary Federal, it would have been paid for by taxpayers money, and
many innocent people would have been marked as leaders in actions they
may not even have been associated with.
Unlike you, Aaron, we did our research, we
know who you are, and now, so will everyone else. Although you have
managed to ruin your credibility in an attempt to further it, you did
provide us with entertainment, albeit very briefly.
Anonymous does not have leaders. We are not
a group, we are not an organization. We are just an idea. What we have
done today will appear harsh. It is harsh. We will respond to those who
seek to threaten us. We understand that our participants have been
concerned about recent FBI raids and companies such as HBGary Federal
lurking and logging our chats, so we’ve given all of Anonymous a
message: we will fight back.
We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us - always.
Yours faithfully,
Anonymous.
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Additional notes for republication:
* A transcript of the e-mails that were exchanged to gain root access to www.rootkit.com can be found here: http://pastie.org/1535735
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