Anonymous Hits Chamber!

[mzteris]

As we speak I'm sitting on a mile high pile of 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 crazy things the Chamber is up to? There's thousands of these docs. It's a 1.2 GIGABYTE download. My computer is choking on it. Looks like a lot of docs scraped from their sites.

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 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.

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

The torrent contains information about:
- The US Chamber of Commerce
- The ultraconservative think tank the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan
- The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)

[Electric Monk]

1. 175 recs and counting, and #3 on the Greatest Page, as I write this post

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

[mzteris]

3. sorry -

maybe "latests posts" shouldn't be restricted to the forum one is posting in?

[Electric Monk]

8. I found another one here in GD as well, with 33 recs and counting

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x993165

Not that I'm complaining, just pointing it out. Everyone should see this, imho.

[karnac]

2. I bet the Koch's are now planning to fund their own "Anonymous" group

anonymously of course. :D

Right wingers always appropriate the tactics of the left But with more cash.

They would be stupid not to do this.

[karnac]

4. Downloading now..... WARNING will robinson!

The download link takes me to a program not the actual FILE(s) first. will do BUT since am operating under linux and not windows, I will be safe. will use a windows emulator.

this might be a setup for a virus/worm.

Personally, i don't see WHY they think they have to do this. the encryption with a supplied PW should be enough.

[AlabamaLibrul]

5. Your warning is for TrueCrypt? nt

[karnac]

7. No. the download manager.

apparently it requires one.

Im confused. the Dkos post says u only need a torrent downloader AND a truecrypt decrypter. all generic TRUECRYPT decrypters should work.

so be WARY.

[karnac]

6. PROBLEM WARNING!

won't run under emulation. this means(to me) it is trying to do something that should be unnecessary.

WHY!?!?


don't run unless u are willing to get your system trashed. If you are willing, do it. so we KNOW.

But i won't. I only run Win7/vista/xp under WINE/Linux emulation. sorry.

[karnac]

9. CORRECT torrent link.

http://torrage.com/torrent/F0AB74AC8FC94A6F8AB70156EB365E98C348E895.torrent

it's kinda slow but it should work. this was derived from a comment on DKOS.

My guess is that some "hacker"/other_person_that_could_benefit noticed there was a demand for this file and it exists. He created a link where you had to go through him first to get it and posted on DKOS.

NO problemo. avoid the middleman.

find a generic TRUECRYPT program and it should work. the password supposedly is "Barrett Brown" DON"T depend on me(OR HIM). get it yourself.

If you are not a GEEK, don't even try this. If *I* succeed, I'll post a DECODED link to the files in question.

[karnac]

10. downloaded but can't install truecrypt

Either under ubuntu/linux or XP emulation. one of you goobers has to do it. not I

password supposedly is "Barrett Brown"

[karnac]

11. Successful decryption

all PDF files. the vast majority look public. I apply the password to the large *.tc file ONLY. it doesn't work on the tiny one.