Начиная с февраля 2012 года на сайте Wikileaks публикуются почтовые архивы, изъятые у стратегической разведывательной компании Stratfor во время прошлогоднего взлома. Более пяти миллионов писем датируются интервалом с июля 2004-го по декабрь 2011 года. Прочитать и проанализировать такой огромный объём документов — очень сложная задача, но некоторые исследователи всё-таки смогли обнаружить кое-что интересное.
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Судя по документам, TrapWare — это глобальная система слежения с функцией распознавания лиц, которая создана для обнаружения потенциальных террористов, фотографирующих «важные объекты» (high value targets, HVT), такие как станции метро, городские площади и т.д. Для этого на всех HVT в США установлены камеры наружного наблюдения.http://www.bezpeka.com/ru/news/2012/08/13/TrapWire.htmlMorpheus: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are.
JC: Some people just don’t understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance.
Morpheus: The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.
JC: Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.
Morpheus: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.
JC: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.
Morpheus: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.
The WikiLeaks website has been under a major DDoS attack over the last few days and a group calling itself AntiLeaks has claimed responsibility.
"We are young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with Julian Assange and his attempt at asylum in Ecuador," said the group's self-proclaimed leader, who calls himself Diet Pepsi.
"Assange is the head of a new breed of terrorist. We are doing this as a protest against his attempt to escape justice into Ecuador. This would be a catalyst for many more like him to rise up in his place. We will not stop and they will not stop us."
According to the WikiLeaks Twitter feed, the website, and those of its associates and mirrors, have been hit by a massive DDoS attack reaching 10Gbits/s and using a more complex system than a standard bulk UDP or ICMP packet flooding. The range of IP addresses is huge, indicating either thousands of machines taking part or some really good simulation.
The AntiLeaks group hasn't been heard of before and its Twitter feed only started this month. While it's possible they are simply claiming the attacks rather than carrying them out, it's clear the attacks are being taken by WikiLeaks as an attempt to shut down information.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/11/antileaks_attacks_wikileaks/
