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MikeD

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And this, kids, is how you play "blackmail the biggest superpower in the world".
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You mean "poorly?"

The info is already as good as released, and regardless of what happens short or long term it'll all get out. His threat rocket left the launch pad in one shot. Hell, it never even got to there; as soon as Manning stole it off the systems, it was all compromised and public.

Maybe a meta-wikileaks site will steal Wikileaks' stolen information and post it.
 
Pesqueeb

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Major LULZ. I approve.

Just hours after MasterCard's website was disabled by WikiLeaks supporters, Visa.com is now down as well.

Via its Twitter account (@Anon_Operation), Anonymous, an activist hacker group, claimed responsibility for the denial of service attack--part of "Operation Payback"--that brought down Visa.com.

"TARGET: WWW.VISA.COM :: FIRE FIRE FIRE!!! WEAPONS http://bit.ly/e6iR3X ::: SET YOUR LOIC TO irc.anonops.net ::: #DDOS #PAYBACK #WIKILEAKS," Anonymous tweeted. Shortly after it posted a tweet that read, " IT'S DOWN! KEEP FIRING!!! #DDOS #PAYBACK #WIKILEAKS."

Anonymous explains that Operation Payback is "an ongoing campaign by Anonymous against major anti-piracy & anti-freedom entities."

MasterCard and Visa are among many sites that have been targeted--and taken down--by "hacktivists." Websites belonging to Swiss bank PostFinance, Senator Joe Lieberman, PayPal, and Sarah Palin have also been disabled.

Like MasterCard, Visa also announced that it would suspend payments to WikiLeaks, a move that has rankled WikiLeaks supporters.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/visa-down-wikileaks-suppo_n_794039.html
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stoney

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ruh roh rorge. They've unleased the horde; and a 4chan horde at that. This could get real funny soon.
 
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It's instructive how earlier, literally more explosive dumps were allowed to go through to the keeper with a bare minimum of fuss. However these dumps, which are little more than diplomatic gossip but lay bare what petty, little men we are governed by, have, because they were embarrassing, aroused the full fury of the beast. Where did it all go so wrong?
 
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Pesqueeb

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For the LULZ? :confused:
Bank of America just fired the preemptive escalation shot in its duel with Wikileaks. Late on Friday, America's biggest mortgage lender, and the firm that is now getting sued left and right for various mortgage transgressions, announced it is joining MasterCard, Paypal and Visa in ceasing transactions for Wikileaks. While this decision will certainly not improve Operation Anonymous' empathy toward the North Carolina bank, it may just precipitate overt retaliation by Assange, who is now rumored to be in possession of data that could provie harmful to BAC. Which is why this sudden escalation out of left field by the bank strikes as surprisingly odd: BofA's upside is very limited while its downside could be 100% - even if Wikileaks is bluffing, why provoke them. And as expected, Wikileaks has already retaliated: in two sequential tweets it advised its 568,117 (and very rapidly growing) subscribers to pull their money out of Bank of America, and also to close all their accounts with the firm, urging them to put their money "somewhere safer." What is curious is to see whether this sudden escalation, in what has now become synonymous with a quest for preserving the first amendment for a substantial deal of people (and freedom of speech globally), will have a far broader impact than the comparable "Pull Your Money" out of the Big Banks venture that was attempted by Huffington Post over a year ago, with unsatisfactory results. If people suddenly personify Bank of America with a First Amendment threat, arguably the one freedom most cherished in America, which is precisely what Assange is trying to do, all bets for the Countrywide acquirer may soon be off.

Below is Bank of America's statement released on Friday night:

"Bank of America joins in the actions previously announced by MasterCard, PayPal, Visa Europe and others and will not process transactions of any type that we have reason to believe are intended for WikiLeaks," the bank said in a statement.

"This decision is based upon our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments."

Concurrently the bank was declined to comment whether it would be Wikileaks' next target.

This press release by Bank of America provoked the following two tweets out of @wikileas' twitter account:



Obviously it is the conditional "safer" keyword that will get everyone's attention. Especially since it is now known that Wikileaks will release it bank data trove as soon as January.

In retaliation to BofA's provocation, it appears that Assange just fired the preliminary shot in the massive run on Bank of America... and possible soon other US banks?
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Related to my earlier post in the Housing thread. :tinfoil: :panic:
 
MikeD

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Aw, man, I am leaving B of A because their service and their website suck. Am I going to be counted as a Wikileaks departure?
 
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Aw, man, I am leaving B of A because their service and their website suck. Am I going to be counted as a Wikileaks departure?
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I've had 3 friends work for BofA.

All three left in disgust over their business practices and general sketchiness.
 
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God, I would laugh if this is what initiates the run on BAC, similar to the run that escalated WaMu's collapse.
 
Pesqueeb

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An upcoming data dump by WikiLeaks will be damaging enough that an executive at a major American bank will resign, the organization's founder Julian Assange told the U.K.'s Times in a recent interview.

Speculation has swirled that WikiLeaks may be targeting Bank of America in its next leak, which Assange said in a Forbes interview will target at least one major bank. In a 2009 Computer World interview, Assange said that he had 5 GB hard drive from a Bank of America executive. The bank recently stopped processing WikiLeaks payments.

In an interview with the Times, Assange said: "We don't want the bank to suffer unless it's called for. But if its management is operating in a responsive way there will be resignations."

New York Times scribe Andrew Ross Sorkin, for his part, says it's not Wall Street executives who are worried about WikiLeaks' next bombshell, it's Wall Street regulators. Here's Sorkin:

It seems the prospect of gigabytes of e-mail and other documents from financial institutions can be viewed one of two ways: as a treasure trove for regulators to scrutinize -- or as an embarrassment for the United States government, which has spent millions of dollars investigating Wall Street in the last two years without a scalp to show for it.
Inside the Securities and Exchange Commission, the organization is bracing for a public outcry, according to people who have recently spoken with some high-ranking officials about the prospect of a WikiLeaks release of bank documents.

If WikiLeaks reveals truly damaging information, Wall Street regulators may in a particularly awkward situation: they'll end up being scooped by an organization that has been branded as a terrorist group.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/21/wikileaks-founder-we-have_n_799555.html
 
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New York Times scribe Andrew Ross Sorkin, for his part, says it's not Wall Street executives who are worried about WikiLeaks' next bombshell, it's Wall Street regulators. Here's Sorkin:

It seems the prospect of gigabytes of e-mail and other documents from financial institutions can be viewed one of two ways: as a treasure trove for regulators to scrutinize -- or as an embarrassment for the United States government, which has spent millions of dollars investigating Wall Street in the last two years without a scalp to show for it.
Inside the Securities and Exchange Commission, the organization is bracing for a public outcry, according to people who have recently spoken with some high-ranking officials about the prospect of a WikiLeaks release of bank documents.

If WikiLeaks reveals truly damaging information, Wall Street regulators may in a particularly awkward situation: they'll end up being scooped by an organization that has been branded as a terrorist group.
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<<puts on tinfoil>>.... ahem. so, if the above pans out, and WL has info that the SEC couldn't get, or otherwise failed to act on, I would take it as a sign that they are either ineffective, or getting kickbacks from wall street. neither would be a shocker, but would provide solid evidence that the gov't can't be trusted. If the SEC falls, it could snowball into a total collapse.
 
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jonKranked said:
<<puts on tinfoil>>.... ahem. so, if the above pans out, and WL has info that the SEC couldn't get, or otherwise failed to act on, I would take it as a sign that they are either ineffective, or getting kickbacks from wall street. neither would be a shocker, but would provide solid evidence that the gov't can't be trusted. If the SEC falls, it could snowball into a total collapse.
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Thats the way I've been reading all this. :tinfoil:
 
dante

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Oh god... So it would literally piss EVERYONE off. Obviously it would be embarrassing to the current administration and SEC. However, it would also piss off all of the right-wing tea party nutjubs who claim that businesses can regulate themselves. It would show government ineptitude at such an extent that Ron Paul should giggle like a 12 year old girl, but the end result would be additional (and more effective) regulation instead.

I think I just came.
 
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Oh god... So it would literally piss EVERYONE off. Obviously it would be embarrassing to the current administration and SEC. However, it would also piss off all of the right-wing tea party nutjubs who claim that businesses can regulate themselves. It would show government ineptitude at such an extent that Ron Paul should giggle like a 12 year old girl, but the end result would be additional (and more effective) regulation instead.

I think I just came.
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I've said this before. Something something, Great Depression, something, something.
 
MikeD

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They can't do that to our pledges! Only WE can do that to our pledges!
 
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Umm... Ass-hinge is not a US citizen.

The only reason this is an issue is to have an excuse to lock down the internet. Just like everything else is being locked up.

Because there's scary monsters wearing turbans coming to get us right? But most people are too dumb to see this. Most people are too dumb to read because of the lackluster education system in the United States.

Yeah, we'r fvcking dumb. Real fvcking dumb.

Otherwise, I'd recommend to them to get a few books about Nazi Germany and ask them if they see any parallels between Nazi Germany and the changes taking place in the USA. But nah....... that could.....would..... never happen in the USA right?

Remember kids, history ALWAYS repeats itself. And when the chips are down in the USA, we'll be out blowing up some other countries starting wars.

Why? Because the universe is not plentiful enough. The Earth is not plentiful enough. So we must live in fear, operate out of greed and live under the illusion that we're in power and have control.

GREED, POWER, CONTROL. The 3 things that will kill the human race. All because of a few fvckign idiots. God Bless the USA.
 
jonKranked

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wow, if there was ever a need for a tin foil meme, this would be the time.....jon?
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as crazy as it sounds, i kinda agree with reynolds wrap over there, in principle at least.

fear is pretty much the most powerful weapon on earth.

"money and greed fvcks everything up"

~jay adams
 
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