BREAKING: Anonymous Hits Chamber of Commerce! --Daily Kos

[Kurovski]

"As we speak I'm sitting on a mile high pile of, I guess, unauthorized data released about the US Chamber of Commerce. Thousands and thousands of docs released a few hours ago. Wanna help read through the docs and see what horrific secret things the Chamber is up to? There's thousands of these docs.

This evening I came across a reference to a torrent on Twitter that caught my eyeball -- A "torrent" in this case is basically a document dump. Basically. The message intrigued me not only because it mentioned secret documents from the US Chamber of Commerce, but also....

A. It's a document dump from Anonymous

and

B. It contains documents from an organization that particularly makes my teeth curl, the Michigan based Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Those are the dudes who brought us the Overton Window. They're kind of nuts..."

More, more, moar...


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/30/971631/-BREAKING:-Anonymous-Hits-Chamber

[malaise]

1. Are they promoting slavery again?

They got rich and powerful selling my ancestors. They are the worst of the scumbags.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. How so? The US CoC is only 100 years old.

[SpiralHawk]

12. C of C (R) comes from the same Genetic Cesspool as the SlaveMasters

as scyunce has proved beyond the shadow of a dowt.

[malaise]

13. Ours is way older

1700s

[DavidDvorkin]

17. Oh, of course

I didn't think about local Chambers. That makes sense.

If the US Chamber had existed before the Civil War, perhaps (probably?) they would have supported slavery and the South.

Still, this particular organization can't really be saddled with supporting slavery.

[Hannah Bell]

28. had to look that up. hadn't realized it was yet another taft creation.

[Kurovski]

14. They promote slavery in China, or am i putting too fine a point on it.

Whatever hotbed of human failure the Chamber arose from, I'm sure they were the same mental midgets and emotional blank slates that sold your ancestors, malaise. The same families, the same mindset.

[Kurovski]

2. Is any one having luck with the links?

Not me.

[DCKit]

3. I tried to download the file... 0 kilobytes.

I'll keep looking for it.

[joshcryer]

5. It's a .torrent file and I see currently 60 seeds.

[DCKit]

7. Do you have a link? nt

[joshcryer]

9. It's on the Kos journal:

http://www.filedropper.com/chambersecrets2

Click "Download This File"

[DCKit]

20. Stupid me... too much browser security. Totally my fault. nt

[Kurovski]

30. DCkit, and others: all the action is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4833241#4833516

Some folks have already completed downloads and are ready to sift through the material.

[blogslut]

32. Not even gonna try

As of right now, anonnews is linking to the KOS entry as an external news story but there's no "official" PR from "anon".

I wish that chick hadn't killed ED for 10 minutes. I used to go there to dip my toes in the murky waters of anonymous. I realize somebody revived ED but it's just. not. the. same.

[Kurovski]

34. I saw right away that there was no press release.

This will be interesting. things are really cooking on Kpete's thread.

[Kurovski]

4. I'm reading through comments to see what the deal is...(nt)

[joshcryer]

6. a comment on that thread:

Nothing new (0+ / 0-)

skimmed through them. GOOD STUFF, but mostly public already. still the general public needs to realize the US chamber and ALEC are not on your side.

the US chamber is the GOP's hit squad and ALEC is their ADVISERS.

that's fucking important.

I dunno what to make of it, but I don't know if I want to download over a gig to see the files.

[Kurovski]

11. Yeah.

I'm also not seeing anything on anon news about this, either. I might have missed something.

For now, I'd just watch the comments there and Kos in general and see if anything develops. :shrug:

[annabanana]

10. Plumbing the depths of evil. . .k&r. . . n/t

[Kurovski]

15. Link to same article, more comments in Latest Breaking News Forum.

I just saw it...

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

[elocs]

16. Yeah, this story is at the top of the Home Page now with over 90 Recs:

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

[Kurovski]

18. In Latest breaking news Yes, did a search and didn't find it.

(see 15, above you.) The more the merrier, sometimes. :)

Kpete's update:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4833241&mesg_id=4833318

[kpete]

21. you are right Kurovski

and i like the company,

"The more the merrier"

peace, kpete

[Kurovski]

22. Thanks, Kpete!

:hi: Especially for the update links. :thumbsup:

[Zorra]

19. _^_

[lonestarnot]

23. kick

[Kurovski]

24. Kick. (nt)

[Ellipsis]

25. Delish...

[bobthedrummer]

26. K&R n/t

[karnac]

27. WARNING!! do NOT download! possible virus/worm.

This is a possible setup for a virus/worm. check my posting on this thread.

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

If i have SUCCESSFULLY downloaded AND decrypted, i will correct this post.

Of course, if you KNOW what you are doing ignore me. but please do post where and how i am wrong.

[Kurovski]

29. See this post on Kpete's thread...

Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-30-11 10:46 AM
Response to Original message
29. The Chamber is salting the peer network with malware-containing fake files...
Peerblock is going nuts with hosts identified as "malware infested" trying to connect to people downloading this torrent.

Nice try, shitheads. Ain't gonna work, but nice try, nonetheless.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4833241&mesg_id=4833323

[karnac]

35. downloaded. but *I* cant install TRUECRYPT

I run linux and it won't install under linux OR XP emulation.

one of you fewlz with a native XP will have to decode.

do it and report!

[karnac]

37. Successful decryption

the password Barrett Brown only works on the large truecrypt file. my bad.

What you get is a mass of PDF files. mostly public. some of the private ones deserve scrutiny.

[AsahinaKimi]

31. Anyone have a theory as to why the major networks

Are not covering this yet? Are they too slow? Or do you think editors are telling reporters to hold off on this story till they get the word to go with it..

[Kurovski]

33. maybe they're waiting for the downloads to be complete and...

there is a huge amount of info to sift through. I'm sure we'll hear from some outlets. Hell, even DUers can write about it if they can download the info themselves. Definitely when it gets placed hither, tither and yon.

ABC? I dunno. Thye'd probably call it illegal downloads or some such. Does it really matter anymore? they've got royal weddings to cover, y'know. :evilgrin:

[xchrom]

36. Recommend

[autorank]

38. roflmao k*r n/t

[Kurovski]

39. Yipes! Anon news released a CAUTION ALERT. release may be a hoax...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x997821

see the problems you cause me?

[Firebrand Gary]

40. K&R