Anonymous Urges Caution on Chamber Release(dkos)

[karnac]

It might be fake folks....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/30/971631/-UPDATEDx3!!!-Anonymous-Urges-Caution-on-Chamber-Release

Anonymous posted this to their site anonnews.org

On April 29th a person using the twitter account “@septscelles” released a large file to Barrett Brown that purportedly contained secret US Chamber of Commerce documents. This file was later made available via File Dropper as a (strangely truecypted) torrent named "chambersecrets2". It is also reported to have been made available in an unencrypted form on the Pirate Bay.

Despite the promise of secrets and leaks, early research has thus far shown that this information is publicly available through a simple Google search. It's very possible that “@septscelles” is just an attention seeking troll. Despite this, there is a more insidious possibility. We learned from the HB Gary emails that the Chamber of Commerce was advised to “feed the fuel between the feuding groups, disinformation." Specific mention was made of " messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organization submit fake documents and then call out the error…”

The file is very large, and will therefore take some time to fully examine. Nevertheless, we would like to state that this information was provided by an unknown party and may be an attempt to discredit Anonymous through a campaign of misinformation. More information will be coming soon.

We Are Anonymous

We See Through Your Lies

We Do Not Forgive

We Do Not Forget

Expect Us.

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Im going to play with this a bit longer. At least i wrote and got some neat search tools out of it. ;)
here are the threads on this if you want to try anyway. ..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x994100#994527
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4833241

[Kurovski]

1. I wondered why there was no initial press release on anon news.

Thank you for the warning.

[karnac]

2. I got caught up in it too

The info looks interesting and is probably not fake. very likely a siterip of the real chamber's website. ergo, mostly public and intended for the public and those interested in their point of view.

If you are one, who never reads anything from the other side, it definitely could appear like you have hit the jackpot.

I got caught up on the mechanics of downloading it, decrypting and writing software to deal with such a mass of data.

It was fun!

[Kurovski]

3. Op Iran is supposed to start in a few hours.

So there's that. EDIT: Although there's a lot of disagreement about it.

[Kurovski]

4. another article:

"...FOCA project files were included in the document release, adding additional proof that the collected data came from public sources. Additionally, by nature of the FOCA tool itself, some interesting details about the three organizations were also made available.

For example, Windows XP and outdated versions of Adobe and Microsoft Office software are widely adopted. This information isn’t major, but the other details released could be considered sensitive, including network mapping data (server shares and IP addresses), email addresses, and user ID naming conventions.

There are more than 1,500 files in the Torrent published to the Web. Again, based on the FOCA project files, all of them are currently in the public domain on their own.

If anything, this Torrent will offer anyone researching the three organizations a solid starting point with a massive collection of data. Yet, one should still treat the information contained in the re-published documents with a grain of salt."


http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201117/7132/Leaked-documents-from-ALEC-and-U-S-Chamber-are-public-record

[999998th word]

5. K+R

It seems too good to be true,considering the original source ,C.oC.- A.L.E.C. et al.

They may find something+I thank all the tecchies,and Anon for doing things I cant even begin to

comprehend.A ray of hope among all the batshit crazy greed out there.: :applause:

[JohnnyRingo]

6. O'Keefe!

You bastard! I know it's you. Where's the pimp suit? LOL

I hope Kos vets them well and delays the overeaction until we know for sure.

[karnac]

7. You guys realize of course the other thread is still growing.

10,000 views and the recommend count is has grown past 300.

I guess hope can be overwhelming sometimes :D

Wouldn't it be hilarious that this was all a ploy to get those who never would normally read their propaganda to do so?

Make something appear forbidden and now EVERYBODY wants a looksie!

[WillyT]

8. Kick !!!

:kick: