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Hackbloc Stands in Solidarity Against Pacific Northwest Grand Jury

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:18:59 +0000

Hackbloc has signed this statement of solidarity against the Grand Jury currently convening in Seattle, WA that is targeting the radical community in the pacific northwest. To sign this letter, please visit No Political Repression. For more information about how Grand Juries are used to infiltrate, intimidate, and repress social movements see the Grand Jury Resistance Project. Fuck the police!

On Wednesday July 25th, the FBI conducted a series of coordinated raids against activists in Portland, Olympia, and Seattle. They subpoenaed several people to a special federal grand jury, and seized computers, black clothing and anarchist literature. This comes after similar raids in Seattle in July and earlier raids of squats in Portland.

Though the FBI has said that the raids are part of a violent crime investigation, the truth is that the federal authorities are conducting a political witch-hunt against anarchists and others working toward a more just, free, and equal society. The warrants served specifically listed anarchist literature as evidence to be seized, pointing to the fact that the FBI and police are targeting this group of people because of their political ideas. Pure and simple, these raids and the grand jury hearings are being used to intimidate people whose politics oppose the state’s agenda. During a time of growing economic and ecological crises that are broadly affecting people across the world, it is an attempt to push back any movement towards creating a world that is humane, one that meets every person’s needs rather than serving only the interests of the rich.

This attack does not occur in a vacuum. Around the country and around the world, people have been rising up and resisting an economic system that puts the endless pursuit of profit ahead of the basic needs of humanity and the Earth. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to now Anaheim, people are taking to the streets. In each of these cases, the state has responded with brutal political repression. This is not a coincidence. It is a long-term strategy by state agencies to stop legitimate political challenges to a status quo that exploits most of the world’s people.

We, the undersigned, condemn this and all other political repression. While we may have differences in ideology or chose to use different tactics, we understand that we are in a shared struggle to create a just, free, and liberated world, and that we can only do this if we stand together. We will not let scare tactics or smear campaigns divide us, intimidate us, or stop us from organizing and working for a better world.

No more witch-hunts! An injury to one is an injury to all.

Signed:
Committee Against Political Repression
Freedom Archives
Sacramento Prisoner Support
Committee to Stop FBI Repression
Critical Resistance
Stop the Injunctions Coalition
National Jericho Movement for Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War
Civil Liberties Defense Center
We Are Oregon
Portland Jobs with Justice
Rose City Cop Watch
Bayan-USA Pacific Northwest Region
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC)
Red Spark (Kasama)
Earth First! Journal collective
Repeal Coalition
1st of May Anarchist Alliance
Black Unity Movement
The Institute for Anarchist Studies
Connect the Dots
Oregon Jericho
Parasol Climate Collective
Portland Anarchist Black Cross
Right to Survive
Right to Dream 2
Rosehips Medic Collective
Communities United Against Police Brutality
The Radical Anti-Capitalist Caucus, of Occupy Portland
Students on Strike Organizing Committee
Autonomous Workers’ Group
Occupy Oakland Anti Repression Committee
Oakland Occupy Patriarchy
Oakland Occupy Legal
East Bay Solidarity Network
Portland Animal Defense League
Cascadians Against War
PDX Bike Swarm
Northbay Movement for a Democratic Society
Solano Peace and Justice Coalition
Solano Peace and Freedom Party
Northbay Uprising Radio Collective
MN Anti-War Committee
Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community
Redwood Curtain CopWatch
Occupy Eureka
Arizona Prison Watch
All Power to the Positive podcast
Justice for Palestinians, San Jose, CA
OccupyLV
Culture of Resistance
Family & Friends of Daniel McGowan
Blazing Arrow Organization
Portland International Socialist Organization
Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror
The Portland World Citizens’ United Front
The Wild Poppies Collective
Everglades Earth First!
The Center For A Stateless Society
Black Orchid Collective
Hella503 Collective
Portland Rising Tide
Laughing Horse Book and Film Collective
Occupy 4 Prisoners, Oakland
Night Heron Grassroots Activist Center
Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition
New York Taskforce for Political Prisoners
The North American Anarchist Studies Network
submedia.tv
Cleveland 4 Support Group
Freedom Socialist Party
Socialist Action
Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County
Justice for Randy L. Dixon Rivera & Family
Peace Resource Center
Occupy Washington DC
Occupy Peace House DC
BDS LA for Justice in Palestine
The American Iranian Friendship Committee
NYC Jericho Movement
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, NYC Chapter
New Direction Fest
Socialist Viewpoint Magazine
Bay Area United Against War Newsletter
Al-Nakba Awareness Project
Social Democrats
USA-Socialist Party, USA
The Young Social Democrats-Young Peoples’ Socialist League
Alliance for Global Justice
Nicaragua Network
Campaign for Labor Rights
New York City Labor Against the War
Labor for Palestine
Libertalia Autonomous Space
Community Futures Collective
The International Coalition to Free the Angola 3
Workers World Party
International Action Center
East Bay Saturday Dialogues
Soa Watch South Florida
Socialist Viewpoint
#OPDX
WORKERS ACTION
Occupy Kalamazoo
Good Morning Revolution
Wandering Llama Press
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee
Occupy Denver
Citizens Against Corruption
Mutant Legal Collective NYC
The Northampton (MA) Committee to Stop the Wars
South Chicago ABC Zine Distro
Defending Dissent Foundation
Occupy Seattle Street Medics
Vashon Women In Black
Veterans For Peace, Linus Pauling Chapter 132
Organic Consumers Association
World Can’t Wait
Internationalist Prison Books Collective
Collective A-GoGo
Alliance of the Libertarian Left of New England
Earth First! Prisoner Support Project
The Mineapolis Autonomous Radical Space (MARS) Collective
Wensday Media Distro
The Alice Committee
Liberty Tree Foundation
Grand Jury Resistance Project
Alliance for Peace and Justice of Western Massachusetts
Welfare Rights Committee (Mpls/St. Paul, MN)
Socialist Organizer
Occupy LCC (Lane Community College)
Phoenix Class War Council
The Wingnut Anarchist Collective
Richmond Copwatch
the ART lab
The People’s Tribunal (SF Bay Area)
San Jose Peace & Justice Center
Citizens for Legitimate Government
New York Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
Unite Left Review
Anarchy-1 radio
Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement
Queers Without Borders
Olympia Coalition for a Fair Budget
Charm City Anarchist Black Cross
Blue Heron Infoshop
Portland Books to Prisoners
Moveon Desert Council
Progressive Democrats Of America Desert Chapter
Ocv
Occupy Colorado Springs
Support Vegans in the Prison System
Denver Anarchist Black Cross
Twin Cities IWW General Defense Committee Local 14
Decolonize PDX
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Animal Defense League of Salt Lake City
Seattle Communist Study Group
Our World In Depth
Grupo El Heraldo
The Portland Solidarity Network
Portland IWW
Workers Solidarity Alliance
Occupy New Haven
NYC Anarchist Black Cross
Pilipino Association of Workers and Immigrants
CODEPINK LI, Women for Peace
OccupyWallSt.org
News and Letters Committees
MN Peace Action Coalition
Progressive Global Commons
Communities For Justice And Peace
Peace Action of San Mateo County
Fighting Union Caucus-Iowa
No Biomass Burn (Washington State)
Girl Army Self Defense
People of Faith CT
The Phoenix Commune
Modesto Anarcho Crew
May 1st Coalition 4 Worker & Immigrant Rights
occupy syracuse
Oakland Occubus Committee
Oakland Assembly of Unemployed
NATO 5 Support Committee
South Bay Committee Against Political Repression
CEO Pipe Organs/Golden Ponds Farm
our developing world
American Muslims for Palestine
People’s Community Medics
Responsible Marijuana Project
Austin Prisoner Support
CT-ABC
Teamster Defense Guard
Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights
Prison Activist Resource Center
Cascadia Earth First
The Purple Thistle Centre
SOAW-LA
Burning Books
The MOVE Organization
Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Chicago Committee Against Political Repression
International Action Center
Olympia Students for a Democratic Society

Propose a talk at Hackmeet 3.0

flatline — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:40:19 +0000

Propose a Talk

Hackmeet 3.0

October 19-21, 2012
at Noisebridge in San Francisco, CA

Hackmeet is a free unconference that brings together hackers and activists to teach tech skills, discuss security and privacy, and explore use of technology by radical movements. As an entirely free and open event, we invite any and all activists and hackers to present their work or host a skillshare or workshop. Members of hackbloc are involved in planning hackmeet.

Workshop and skillshare topics will include: privacy ∙ radical media ∙ tools for activists ∙ know your digital rights ∙ security culture ∙ social networking for radicals ∙ open hardware ∙ cellphone security ∙ p2p/anonymous networks ∙ pirate radio ∙ gender, race and technology ∙ technology and resistance ∙ and much, much more . . .

Your Cell Phone is Covered in Spiders

flatline — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:16:41 +0000

Hackbloc's very own flatline was in attendance at Hope9 in NYC recently and gave a talk called 'Your Cell Phone is Covered in Spiders: Pragmatic Android Security'

In case you missed it the video is online here: http://vimeo.com/46044290

The presentation is also open source and source/slides can be found here:
https://github.com/cooperq/spiders

Workshop Series Presentations Now Online

david — Sun, 27 May 2012 07:42:31 +0000

If you attended the Hackbloc/SDS Workshop Series this weekend (or missed it), you can grab copies of the presentation materials here. If you have any questions, contact olympiasds{at}riseup.net or staff{at}hackbloc.org.

Note that the original presentations require OpenOffice (openoffice.org) or LibreOffice to open. If you don't have those installed, you can download the PDF version which contains all the same information but is not editable.

Please do not use any information contained in these presentations or the programs we link to towards illegal ends. Doing so would be stupid and is not what we intend by giving these workshops.

FOIA/Public Records Workshop

Presentation:
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/foia.pdf

Sample Request:
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/request.doc

Audio Recording:
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/recordsFINAL.mp3

Communications Security Workshop

(Tor + Pidgin/Web Chat Encryption + Cryptocat)

Communications Security Workshop (Original Presentation):
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/computersecurity.odp
Commuications Security Workshop (PDF Formatted):
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/computersecurity.pdf

Links:
https://torproject.org
http://www.cryptocat.org
http://www.getfirefox.com
http://www.download.com (for AVG Anti-Virus + Malwarebytes Anti-malware)

Encryption Workshop

Original presentation file:
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/cryptoworkshop.odp
Presentation PDF:
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/cryptoworkshop.pdf
Audio Recording:
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/cryptoFINAL.mp3

Links:
Windows GPG http://www.gpg4win.org
Mac GPG http://www.gpgtools.org
Thunderbird http://www.getthunderbird.org
TrueCrypt http://www.truecrypt.org

DDoS Workshop

Please do not use any information contained in these presentations or the programs we link to towards illegal ends. Doing so would be stupid and is not what we intend by giving these workshops. Only run these tools to attack systems you own or control (such as a web server on your local network). To visualize and see your attacks, check out programs like Etherape and Wireshark.

Audio Recording:
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/DDoSFINAL.mp3

Presentation PDF
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/DDOS.pdf
Original Presentation File
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/DDOS.odp

ECD Zine for reference (as stated in the presentation, we do not endorse everything in this zine but it does contain good information about the tools and how they work):
http://zinelibrary.info/how-plan-and-execute-act-electronic-civil-disobe...

SlowLoris Tool (linux only):
http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/slowloris.pl

To get SlowLoris running from an Ubuntu Live/Install CD (download at Ubuntu.com), you need to do the following:
-Download the slowloris tool to somewhere, by default it goes to the home folder/ubuntu
-Open the terminal by going to the applications button on the top left and searching for it
-Run the command sudo chmod +x slowloris.pl (hit enter to execute the command) to make it executable
-Run the command sudo apt-get install libnet-ssleay-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl to install the dependencies for slowloris
-Run the command ./slowloris.pl -dns targetserver.com To stop slowloris, hold Control+C or close the terminal.

Greek ECD Tool (cross-platform) (this is added to a ZIP archive so you can download it. If you open the html file in a web browser, it will automatically start attacking your machine):
https://hackbloc.org/sites/hackbloc.org/files/GREEKECD.html.zip

LOIC Tool (Windows only, click on downloads):
https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC
Also requires the .net installer. If you have trouble opening LOIC, install this package first:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab99342f-5d1...

Hackbloc Hosts Computer Security Workshop Series in Olympia

david — Wed, 09 May 2012 05:21:15 +0000

Are you interested in learning how to beef up your computer security, encrypt your hard drive, or maintain your privacy online? Maybe you want to learn how to browse the web anonymously, fight government surveillance, or get around web filters?

Learn computer security from the people who know it best: hackers. Not the ski-mask donning figures who furiously type away at keyboards with an evil green glow that the media portrays, but the hackers who make and break technology for the thrill of learning while upholding strong ethics of free speech and the right to personal privacy.

While you'd normally have to pay hundreds of dollars to learn these skills from a computer security firm, we're offering them to you for absolutely nothing. All these workshops are free and open to the public. Whether you are an activist looking to combat government surveillance and repression, a journalist looking to protect their sources, or just somebody looking to gain a better understanding of computer security principles, these are workshops you can't miss. This is a one time opportunity and if you find some weak excuse to not come, you'll never get this chance again!

On Saturday May 26th, join Students for a Democratic Society and Hackbloc (http://www.hackbloc.org) for a workshop series on communications security and online privacy. If you can use Facebook and are willing to learn something new, you already have everything you need to understand the skills we will be presenting in these workshops. These events are designed to be accessible, so please don't let tech phobia prevent you from learning these important skills.

These workshops are hands-on so bring a laptop or you will feel very lost. Mac (OS X) and PC (Windows/Linux) are supported.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/167814623347679
Flyer at: http://olyblog.net/sites/default/files/security-training_1.png

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Basic Computer and Communications Security

Learn how to browse the web anonymously, send encrypted instant messages, and send anonymous email! We will also cover (depending on time) installing anti-virus and firewall software.

When: Saturday May 26th, 2012 10AM-12PM
Where: Room B1105, Seminar II Building, Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505

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Disk and Email Encryption

Learn what encryption is, how it works, and what it can protect you from. Learn how to encrypt files/folders, flash drives, emails, and even your entire hard disk!

When: Saturday May 26th, 2012 3-5PM
Where: Room B1105, Seminar II Building, Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505

These workshops are sponsored by SDS olympiasds{at}riseup.net. Feel free to send along any questions you may have.

To get texts about our upcoming events, text "follow olysds" (without quotes) to 40404.
To get announcements in your email (low traffic) go to https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/olympiasdsannounce
SDS on Twitter: twitter.com/olysds
SDS on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/olysds

This event is wheelchair accessible. If other accommodation is required for this event, please contact Student Activities with reasonable advance notice by emailing studentactivities{at}evergreen.edu or by calling 360-867-6220 or 360-867-6834 (TTY).

FBI seizes server providing anonymous remailer and many other services from colocation facility.

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:42:12 +0000

Read the full press release here

On Wednesday, April 18, at approximately 16:00 Eastern Time, U.S. Federal authorities removed a server from a colocation facility shared by Riseup Networks and May First/People Link in New York City. The seized server was operated by the European Counter Network (“ECN”), the oldest independent internet service provider in Europe, who, among many other things, provided an anonymous remailer service, Mixmaster, that was the target of an FBI investigation into the bomb threats against the University of Pittsburgh.

“The company running the facility has confirmed that the server was removed in conjunction with a search warrant issued by the FBI,” said May First/People Link director Jamie McClelland. “The server seizure is not only an attack against us, but an attack against all users of the Internet who depend on anonymous communication.”

Disrupted in this seizure were academics, artists, historians, feminist groups, gay rights groups, community centers, documentation and software archives and free speech groups. The server included the mailing list “cyber rights” (the oldest discussion list in Italy to discuss this topic), a Mexican migrant solidarity group, and other groups working to support indigenous groups and workers in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. In total, over 300 email accounts, between 50-80 email lists, and several other websites have been taken off the Internet by this action. None are alleged to be involved in the anonymous bomb threats.

“The FBI is using a sledgehammer approach, shutting down service to hundreds of users due to the actions of one anonymous person,” said Devin Theriot-Orr, a spokesperson for Riseup. “This is particularly misguided because there is unlikely to be any information on the server regarding the source of the threatening emails.”

“We sympathize with the University of Pittsburgh community who have had to deal with this frightening disruption for weeks. We oppose such threatening actions. However, taking this server won’t stop these bomb threats. The only effect it has is to also disrupt e-mail and websites for thousands of unrelated people,” continues Mr. Theriot-Orr. “Furthermore, the network of anonymous remailers that exists is not harmed by taking this machine. So we cannot help but wonder why such drastic action was taken when authorities knew that the server contained no useful information that would help in their investigation.”

Computer Equipment Available for Anarchists and their Projects

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:03:43 +0000

Olympia Hackbloc is closing up shop after several years of operation, but before we do, we'd love to get all of our spare equipment and computer parts to loving homes and projects. We have fully working laptops and desktops (mainly windows XP era), phones, chargers, USB cables, laptop/desktop memory, hard drives, and more! We do not have any cameras (sorry copwatch!)

If you're part of a project that could use some of these resources, please get in contact ASAP. Everything is given away on the basis of need and first come, first serve. Best of all, it's all available only for the price it costs to ship it. If you don't have money for shipping and the item isn't too big or heavy, we'll ship it to you for free. If you live nearby, feel free to arrange a pick-up of some of the heavier items.

Get in touch at parts{at}olyhackbloc.org. Let us know what you're looking for and why you need it. We'll take shipping money via paypal, bitcoin, cash, or check.

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Hackbloc is an organization composed primarily of anarchists that supports radical social movements with technical knowledge and tools. For years, we have researched, created and disseminated information, tools, and tactics that have empowered people to use technology in liberating ways. We also publish HackThisZine, the longest-runnning hacktivist zine in the world. Copies available at http://hackbloc.org/zine.

We support and strengthen our local communities through education and action. We strive to learn from each other and focus our skills toward creative goals, to explore and research positive hacktivism, and to defend a free internet and free society!

Hackmeet 2011 Report Back

evoltech — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:47:32 +0000

Hackmeet 2011 took place October 15th - 16th in San Francisco at Noisebridge and a grip of the HB crew made it out to take part in the event. Hackmeet started a few years back in response to the closed and oppressive environment of the Adobe conference that was happening in San Diego. This was the third year of the conference which focused on creating space for discussions amongst radical tech folk. Below are some of my takes on the talks that were given along with a few notes from the two presentations I participated in that I said I would post.

Agitkid of kill radio and indymedia (since the WTO days) presented on consensus decision making. One of the main things that I took from this was the idea that for a group to be able to use consensus decision making process it is critical that there is defined points of unity, giving Indymedia's Principles of Unity as an example. The lack of principle's of unity in the various occupations across the states may point to why consensus decision making has been so difficult. Other useful suggestions where:

having regular meetings with a time limit
members should take turn facilitating meetings, taking notes, and keeping track of the non-verbal communication of the group (making sure certain individuals are not dominating conversation, calling breaks
having subcommittees work though topics that are presenting a lot of difficulty to larger group outside of the meeting and bringing back findings to the larger group
Restricting blocking on topics to concerns that directly come in conflict with the points of unity

Our very own Flatline facilitated a discussion of technology and privilege. This discussion focused on ways that some folk are marginalized in tech circles and in regards to access to tech. Some of the issues that were brought up were in regards to making hacker spaces accessible to more then just straight white men, making sure that your websites are designed to be accessible to visually impaired folk, as well as some feedback on how a "apprenticeship" program can work towards having diverse participation in a tech collective. This last bit resulted in a personal discussion with the success that tao.ca had with a mentor-ship program where no white men got root to their systems without taking on a new non-white man to show how to accomplish different sysadmin tasks where eventually the folk they were teaching were able to admin the system on their own. Another point was brought up by an older SDS member who talked about how implicit privilege came implicit responsibility. He talked about how privileged folks had the opportunity and privilege to take actions for change that weren't accessible to less privileged folk. The basics of all this is that if we oppose oppressive institutions but are still replicating the power dynamics of those institutions aren't we missing the point. I would argue that we are and that if your group is predominantly straight white men it is a good time to start asking why. Here is another review and better synopsis of this talk.

Silverfox gave a quick overview of concepts and tools for offensive and defensive security that could have been fleshed out into a 4 year course.

Liz of geekfeminism.org led a interesting discussion on what offensive security campaigns with a feminist perspective might look like. Discussions of what the targets would be and what tactics would be used. Geekfeminism is a rad site that consistently has a radical analysis of patriarchy in tech circles. Watching Liz disarm some bro try and splain what he thought feminism was after coming into the discussion was pretty spectacular. Check more about what Liz thought about all this here.

The next day Evoltech led a brief overview of the work that has been and is currently being done by the March-Hare Communications Collective. The Operator Distribution is still not ready for a beta release but should be in the upcoming months. When the group was posed with the question, "How can communications / offensive security teams assist street action" the responses where:

Communication between working groups
training people to use a specific tool
concerns people have about security as a boundary
sharing information
decentralizing communication infrastructure
more mobile device secure communication tools
secure channels between people in the street
a way to verify that communication is secure
encrypted handhold radios
Voice to text
Building our own networks
Operators monitoring police communication / scanners
trainings on how to be a part of a comms team / trainings
create a wiki to help people design IRL games as trainings
working with homes not jails or other non-violent groups to setup infrastructure
instead of focusing on supporting all mobile devices focus on supporting at least one device so that teams can be assured that if they have that device the application will work

Someone who has game authoring experience stepped up to help design a role play game that will help teach folk to run comms and work the bugs out upcoming March-Hare releases. Expect to see this getting worked out in a wiki on march-hare.org in the upcoming months.

Flatline and Silverfox talked about the progress and future plans of Openwatch - the cross platform cop watching app which provides a way to record and in real-time upload video to an off-site server for safe keeping. Folk from the Copwatch mobile team steped in to share the work they have been doing to support a similar effort but for feature phones that rely on a mms back-end.

Evoltech really bombed the DDOS presentation for beginners presentation after not being able to get the projector up and running in a different room. Meanwhile Silverfox discussed the new Hailstorm node.js tool for load testing websites. Evoltech eventually bailed on the hands on presentation and ended the presentation with a presentation of a phone DOS attack as released by b14ck based on pycall. The attack works by leveraging python with asterisk by creating automated call files for asterisk to process. Feed a simple app a file with a list of phone numbers and it will continually simultaneously dial each one leaving the phone in an unusable state. This attack can be used to consume all of the available trunks of a company's voice service or all of the out of band cell phones of police during a mobilization forcing communication back onto monitor-able police radio. It was pointed out that in a mass mobilization situation if this attack was performed to call all phones serviced by a single station that you would be dosing not just the phones you were targeting but all of the other callers that needed to make calls using that station. The additional benefit of using this tool is that it only uses sip headers to initiate the call which requires a low amount of bandwidth as compared to the high bandwidth demands of RTP once the call is answered, but as soon as the call is answered the call is terminated. As a result a large number of lines can be tied up without buying a lot of minutes from a sip/iax termination service. All that is needed is the ability to anonymously purchase service from a sip terminator. This tool will be weaponized in an upcoming Operator Distribution release. For those that were looking forward to the presentation and at least wanted access to the tools evoltech sends sincere apologies but offers the following download of notes and scripts that were going to be presented on in the talk.

There were a number of other awesome presentations including a very slick presentation
on windows cracking and general techniques for perverting the .NET framework which I will be reviewing in the upcoming weeks.

HackThisZine #13 Released!

david — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:26:06 +0000

Hackbloc is proud to announce the newest release of our zine, HackThisZine. You can grab copies pre-formatted for online reading and printing at https://hackbloc.org/zine. HackThisZine is an online and in-print periodical about hacking, hacktivism, social struggle, computer security, and anarchism. It's got a little content for everybody and a lot of content for that special someone.

Inside:
Making of a female hacktivist: An interview with synch
BitCoin: Dangerous to Surveillance State, Useful to Activists (with a nice how-to for getting started with BitCoin)
How to beat anti-piracy measures and make backups of your CDs/DVDs in Linux.
Communiques, news, and legal support info from anonymous and antisec
... and much much more!

"What we need most to organize in the digital world, the social media that we all use, is controlled once again by 1%. We are the 99% of the internet-age. The same
sociopathic corporations and governments that exploit us in our daily lives are also expanding their digital dominion. For years, internet activism was considered the domain of a vanguard of hackers, waiting for anonymous, lulzsec or other groups to erect the digital barricades. Even if in our political lives we reject vanguardism, we are still waiting on these special few to do battle for us. We need a hacking movement that allows the 99% to get involved and shape the goals tactics and strategy of our digital protest. The hackers need to join the users, not lead them."

Questions? Comments? Article Submissions? Get a hold of us at: staff [at] hackbloc [dot] org. We can get bulk copies for distro and for your infoshop/social center/space.

Thanks to everyone who helps keep our bits flowing securely and to everyone who helped work on this issue of the zine: Ringo, Discordia, Anonymous, The Pirate Bay,
2600, the Tor Project, HackMeet, Bradley Manning, the Wikileaks Crew, anders, flatline, evoltech, sally, sexy hexy, frenzy, postmodern modulus III, RiseUp.net, March-Hare Collective and everyone else who we forgot that is working to protect and support the struggle. Thanks to all of those resisting police violence in their communities, all those facing state oppression, and those engaged in the struggle everywhere.

lulzsec and antisec attack the pigs again!

evoltech — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:38:55 +0000

Released this weekend were dumps of data from servers running services for over 70 police agencies in Missouri by #antisec and dumps from a server hosting information on Brazil federal police. The dumps include Personally identifiable information on officers including emails, SSN, systems information, password hashes, some CC info as well as code to custom (aka vulnerable) web applications.

With the current UK Riots after a police murder, recent shootings of people in Oakland, the violent repression of dissent in Seattle, and violence against peoples everywhere perpetrated by the thugs of the state it is nice to see some support from the hacker underground. From hackbloc and the rest of us fighting against the pigs big thanks and hugs to lulzsec and antisec for the success of the recent attacks. As the members of our own communities get taken out in the struggle in the streets we understand the pain and anger when a comrade gets nabbed.

Solidarity!,
Hackbloc Crew