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Protest Warrior Hacked???
From Email | Some Hacker Person

Posted on 08/22/2004 3:23:41 PM PDT by sc2_ct

X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jGFBukigP7pto9WwRgU8avv Received: from dedicated.protestwarrior.com ([207.234.145.250]) by mc10-f20.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:26:57 -0700 Received: (qmail 29117 invoked by uid 48); 22 Aug 2004 23:20:57 -0000 Date: 22 Aug 2004 23:20:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20040822232057.29116.qmail@dedicated.protestwarrior.com> To: Subject: Protest Warrior Hacked: Operation Right-wing Circle Jerk From: kfir@protestwarrior.com Return-Path: anonymous@dedicated.protestwarrior.com X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Aug 2004 21:26:58.0054 (UTC) FILETIME=[C1277A60:01C4888E]

Modern day nazis pledging their obedience to the State and the platform of state-sponsored terrorism - neo-fascist ProtestWarriors, you have been HACKED by your friendly neighborhood hacker anarchist =)

Right-wing extremists are modern-day brown shirts who abuse and harass activists who are fighting for social justice while claiming to be in the moral right. By infiltrating and crashing legal, peaceful assemblies, the ProtestWarriors are fighting against the democratic process while claiming to uphold the \'core values of this country\'. It is unpatriotic to blindly accept and obey the dogma of the ruling classes, and to lash out at peace activists who are trying to build a better world is intolerable. We\'re shutting you down.

Operation Liberty Rising is right. The Republicans think that they can rape NYC and the 9/11 attacks to further their political agenda of endless war and breaks for the rich upper classes and multinational corporations. The people of New York are rising up to let them know that they won\'t be getting away with it. Millions of people in the streets will be shutting the convention down, and your extremist right-wing minority can do nothing to stop it.

We\'re not fighting to put Kerry in office, and we\'re certainly not fighting for a socialist dictatorship. We are building a society free from all parasitic ruling classes... Democrats, Republicans, they\'re all on the same party of capitalism and the state. We dream of a world free from presidents and politicians who exploit us enslave us and do everything except represent us. We\'ve had enough, and we will settle for nothing short of total world liberation for one and all. And we\'re willing to do whatever it takes to achieve these visions of a free society.

On our way to discovering what we love, we will discover everything we hate, everything that stands in the way of freedom and justice for all.

ProtestWarriors, give up! We have you surrounded and outnumbered. See you on the streets,

Before I go, some fun facts for the whole family: personal details of the head organizers of ProtestWarrior, complete with password information(works with at least the the ProtestWarrior HQ and the ProtestWarrior Forums!)

: username: kfir password: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
home phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx cell phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx
address:



: username: alan password: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
home phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx cell phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx
address:



(Yes, they live together...)

Some cool links:

Electronic Civil Disobedience against the Republican National Convention

ProtestWarrior EXPOSED!
RNCNotWelcome
CounterConvention
Infoshop
CrimethInc
Erowid

DISTRIBUTE WIDELY - DISTRIBUTE WIDELY - DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

ECD - ALL HACKERS OUT TO DISRUPT THE RNC - BATTLE LOGISTICS ENCLOSED

Campaign Website: http://phil.ist-backup.de/rncelectronic/

Hackers are organizing for a massive electronic civil disobedience campaign against the Republican party to coincide with the massive protests in New York City for the Republican National Convention. This document contains logistical information on how people can participate in this campaign.

We won\'t stand idly by while the Republican Party exploits the democratic city of New York to further their agenda of endless war, attacks on our freedoms and and breaks for corporations. We demand an end to the so-called \"war on terrorism\", which is nothing more than a pretext for empire and the erosion of our civil rights. As long as Amerikkka continues to further their war on the poor for the benefit of the rich, we will use all weapons at our disposal to disrupt the RNC - on the streets, and on the net.

All are encouraged to help out this campaign in any way they can. Deface websites, flood email servers, cause financial disruption, change electronic billboards. Turn the system over and put the people on top. Hacktivists of the world, unite!

What will be happening?

August 22nd - Day of online direct action a week before the convention begins. All are encouraged to attack as many right-wing, corporate, government or military sites as possible. Web defacements, email attacks, financial disruption, anything and everything. These attacks will be used to stir discussion of the RNC, encourage people to participate in the protests in NYC itself, and to build for the mainstream electronic sit-in on the 29th.

August 29 - September 2nd - Mainstream electronic sit-in while the RNC is in session. The actions will commence on noon of each day. The protests will utilize a wide diversity of tactics including email, web, fax and phone disruption. The logistical details of this campaign are included in this document below.

Who are we flooding?
The email addresses, fax numbers, and phone numbers listed below are various contacts of the Republican National Committee and the official George W. Bush re-election staff.

Isn\'t this cyber terrorism?
It is important to make a distinction between electronic civil disobedience and terrorism. Civil disobedience is a fundamental part of the democratic process which our country was founded upon. Like Henry David Thoreau and our revolutionary forefathers who shot up the pigs at Lexington and Concord, electronic civil disobedience is the logical continuation of these theories applied towards the internet as a medium for disruption. ECD is a legitimate protest act.

Terrorism tries to instill fear into people through violence and destruction. Terrorism is not an act of liberation or unity but of division fear and conquer. A bitter act of desperation that solves no problems, makes no statement, and disempowers many. Electronic civil disobedience causes no harm to people or property. Instead of disempowering, ECD tries to bring people together to realize and exercise their power over oppressive governments and corporations using hacking as a means of fighting for social justice.

Who are we?
There is no \'us\'. This is a decentralized campaign - there are no leaders or orders or hierarchy. Most of us don\'t know the other people working on this project. None of us know what sorts of attacks are being planned. This is an autonomous call out, anyone who agrees with what we\'ve said and wants to participate in this campaign is welcome to resist the RNC in any way they can.

This call out is issued by the CrimethInc Black Hat Hacker\'s Bloc. We are not participating in any of the actions or any illegal activities ourselves. We recognize the political significance of the RNC and realize that one way or another there is going to be some sort of cyber attack. We are simply serving as a press tool to communicate with the media about different electronic methods people are employing to protest the RNC.

Contact Us:
CrimethInc Black Hat Hacker\'s Bloc
Campaign Website: http://phil.ist-backup.de/rncelectronic/

DISCLAIMER:
This is an autonomous call out for electronic direct action against the RNC. This document contains a number of resources that can help people who choose to participate in such actions. If you decide to help out, you do so on your own terms and accept responsibility for what might happen. However, there is safety in numbers and there are a number of people who plan on a number of actions and there is a very low risk. So hack on!

If you participate... Let us know what you\'re up to! We are communicating with the media on this project and we want to post on our website what sorts of attacks are being made. Feel free to rip bits of text from our website, this document, or any other press release we have made and use it in your messages. Make sure to link to our page!

Fellow citizens, PARTICIPATE!
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You do not need to be an experienced hacker to help this campaign: we\'ve made it easy for people to help out through a variety of different ways. The mainstream electronic sit-in is composed of several methods of disruption: flooding RNC websites, email addresses, fax and phone numbers. Listed below are the targets and explanations / tools you can use to help this campaign.

WEB SITE FLOODING
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We are asking people to use all tools at their disposal to bombard the given servers with so much traffic that it will become unable to serve any more web requests. People can participate in the actions by using the given floodnet scripts on the campaign website or by launching your own distributed denial of service attacks.

The Republican National Convention: http://www.2004nycgop.org/
The Republican National Committee: http://www.rnc.org/
George W. Bush official re-election site: http://www.georgewbush.com/

You can help flood these servers by going to our website and running the FloodNet tools on our website. There is a web-based tool and several perl scripts that you can use to flood the targets. You can also download and run several denial of service applications on your home machine and point them to the above servers.

A list of good denial of service tools for the Mac is available at Freaky\'s Mac Archive and Underground Mac

A list of good denial of service tools for Windows is available at elitehackers.com

... but denial of service attacks isn\'t hacking!

DoS attacks are seen as somewhat lame in the hacking community because it does not require any actual skills to perform such attacks - any script kiddie can simply download a few tools and launch attacks against major servers. It can hardly be considered hacking. But it is a method of electronic disruption that can bring the enemy\'s servers to it\'s knees. No reason to overlook tools at our disposal.

E-MAIL BOMBING
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E-mail bomb attacks are done by sending tens of thousands of emails to the enemy\'s contact addresses. This can make it painful to send and receive emails while simultaneously consuming server resources, possibly slowing or shutting it down. There are numerous tools that one can use to perform such attacks.

There are a number of Windows email bombers available for download at Elitehackers.com.

A number of good email bombers for the mac are available at Underground Mac.

Targets:
webmaster@gop. com
Info@gop.com
RNCommunications@gop.com
MemberRelations@gop.com
Administration@gop.com
Counsel@gop.com
Chairman@gop.com
Political@gop.com
Finance@gop.com
NOS@gop.com
BushCheney04@GeorgeWBush.com
Blog@GeorgeWBush.com

FAX BOMBING
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Fax bombing is a method of electronic disruption that clogs the enemy\'s fax communications and wastes their paper and toner resources. Tape together a few sheets of black construction paper and start faxing to the following targets. When the first page goes through, roll it back and tape it to the other end of your sheet to form an infinite loop of black construction paper. Then sit back and watch the mayhem begin. Use any and all fax machines at your availability - the more the merrier!

Targets:
703.647.2993
202.863.8820
202-863-8774
202-863-8609
202-863-8773
202-863-8654
202-863-8808
202-863-8851
202-863-8851

PHONE BOMBING
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Phone bombing is another method of disrupting their communication systems by preventing them from making / receiving calls. You can either call these numbers and tell them what you think about the Bush agenda, or you can beige box into someone else\'s line and set up auto-dialing scripts to flood their lines.

Targets:
703.647.2700
202.863.8500
202-863-8700
202-863-8545
202-863-8560
202-863-8614
202-863-8638
202-863-8743
202-863-8720
202-863-8600
202-863-8670
202-863-8888

That\'s all for today, kids. Stay out of trouble, and don\'t get caught!


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: anarchists; brownshirtsforkerry; computercrime; crime; dirtytricks; hackers; kerrycampaign; protestwarrior; sabotage; socialists
I just recieved this email which appears to show Protest Warrior having been hacked (though their front page doesn't appear to have been changed any). Just thought I'd let people know so that they can change passwords or do whatever they need to protect their own interests if they really were hacked and if they managed to obtain anyones private information.

With the exception of personal information which I removed before posting, this is the email I recieved in it's entirety.

This line from the email seems to be referring to the coming action at the RNC, so for anyone that's going, stay safe and keep your eyes and ears open!

From Email:ProtestWarriors, give up! We have you surrounded and outnumbered. See you on the streets,

1 posted on 08/22/2004 3:23:41 PM PDT by sc2_ct
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To: sc2_ct

Aw. You didn't post the whole thing . . .


2 posted on 08/22/2004 3:25:36 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: sc2_ct

No specific mention of Free Republic?


3 posted on 08/22/2004 3:30:28 PM PDT by Mark (Treason doth never prosper, for if it prosper, NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON.)
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To: sc2_ct
It would seem to me that breaking into an destroying private property is more reminiscent of the Brown shirts than are those who peaceably protest with innovative and informative signs.
4 posted on 08/22/2004 3:34:40 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: sc2_ct

Why would you recieve an e-mail like this?


5 posted on 08/22/2004 3:44:14 PM PDT by apackof2 (Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!)
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To: apackof2

Because their site was hacked and the email was sent through the protestwarrior.com mail server using the protestwarrior administrative login. I am a member of ProtestWarrior, and thus am in their email list. Check their site, both the HQ and the forums have been taken down.


6 posted on 08/22/2004 3:55:21 PM PDT by sc2_ct (This is the way the world ends... not with a bang but a whimper)
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To: sc2_ct

Guess the GOP has been made aware of this.

Too bad they picked New York to have the convention in. When I first heard it, I thought it was a mistake. Maybe not. Seems like anywhere else in the country (except L.A.) would have been better than NY!




7 posted on 08/22/2004 4:14:40 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: sc2_ct
Yep, anything to do with the database is down.

Glad they made all their convention plans public.
8 posted on 08/22/2004 4:29:43 PM PDT by BattleFlag (Yes, Goodnight Chesty, and John Basilone too....)
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To: sc2_ct
online actions designed to disrupt "...government or military sites as possible".

Anarchist=Terroist...no difference between their goals.

9 posted on 08/22/2004 4:51:41 PM PDT by canalabamian (Common sense, unfortunately, is not very common)
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To: sc2_ct

You need to go to www.fbi.gov

On that site you can get the number for their division that deals with cyber crimes (internet crimes).

You should report this if you have not done so already.


10 posted on 08/22/2004 4:52:13 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud
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To: sc2_ct

bump


11 posted on 08/22/2004 4:58:55 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

bump.


12 posted on 08/22/2004 5:02:11 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (http://www.osurepublicans.com)
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To: sc2_ct

I got this as well. Shocking, isn't it? Scary how hateful and anarchist the far left really is. I hope the FBI nails these guys.

:-(


13 posted on 08/22/2004 5:30:38 PM PDT by itslex71 (southern by birth, republican by the grace of my dad)
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To: sc2_ct

Got the same mail when I signed on tonight.

Actually, it can be helpful. Spread the word about which party is truly the party of hate and exclusion!!!


14 posted on 08/22/2004 5:30:49 PM PDT by Hoodlum91
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To: Hoodlum91

I just hope that they have backups. We got a lot of information on there as far as organizing everything.


15 posted on 08/22/2004 6:13:51 PM PDT by YoungHickey ("Ye shall know the truth, and it shall make you mad" --Aldous Huxley)
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To: YoungHickey
It would appear that everything is okay with the site. At least that's what the message said on http://hq.protestwarrior.com

Should be back up and running by tomorrow morning. =)
16 posted on 08/22/2004 10:06:28 PM PDT by YoungHickey ("Ye shall know the truth, and it shall make you mad" --Aldous Huxley)
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To: sc2_ct

Obviously, we should forward this e-mail to
a number of the news sites
(Hannity & Colmes, O'Reilly, CNN, MSNBC, Drudge, etc.)

See if we can get a talking head to ask Terry McAwful
or John F'n Kerry to disavow this and ask these people
to stop; I didn't notice any particular notice in
this email of an invitation to hack MoveOn.org, for
example . . .


17 posted on 08/22/2004 11:19:33 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: sc2_ct

I got this e-mail this morning as well. I find it funny the childish antics the left chooses to use. The more they do this the more they will loose the few normal people left who support them.
My grandmother used to consider herself an 'Yellow Dog' democrat, however, this year she is having a change of heart with all the neo-hippies running the democratic party machiene. She calls them the fleas on the yellow dog..

Antics like this will just alienate more and more traditional democrats as they see their party taken over by the neo-hippies and anarchist fringe.


18 posted on 08/23/2004 12:03:16 PM PDT by mnehring (YP4W)
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To: sc2_ct

what we can do to counter this or at least disable it?


19 posted on 08/25/2004 4:03:41 PM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 ("You're the gayest thing since gay came to gaytown." - Master Shake [resident of NJ, by the way.])
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