Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report 779
megamerican alerted us to a leaked document (PDF) from a Virginia Fusion Center titled "2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment." The document is marked as "Law Enforcement Sensitive," not to be shown to public. Citizens for Legitimate Government has a write-up. Slashdot gets a mention on page 45 — not as a terrorist organization itself, but as one of the places that members of Anonymous may hang out: "A 'loose coalition of Internet denizens,' Anonymous consists largely of users from multiple internet sites such as 4chan, 711chan, 420chan, Something Awful, Fark, Encyclopedia Dramatica, Slashdot, IRC channels, and YouTube. Other social networking sites are also utilized to mobilize physical protests. ... Anonymous is of interest not only because of the sentiments expressed by affiliates and their potential for physical protest, but because they have innovated the use of e-protests and mobilization. Given the lack of a unifying creed, this movement has the potential to inspire lone wolf behavior in the cyber realms." According to the report, cell phones and digital music players have been used to transfer plans related to criminal activity, and therefore presumably could be grounds for suspicion. Podcasting is also suspicious.
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Re:Q: anonymous in an organization? (Score:5, Informative)
They're talking about the group Anonymous, mostly from 4chan. They were responsible for some reasonably large and well-organized protests against Scientology not too long ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group) [wikipedia.org]
Well at least they don't know about (Score:1, Informative)
W.A.S.T.E the secret underground postal box system used by the Illuminati.
Re:Me too (Score:5, Informative)
I am David
Re:Anon (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Anonymous defined (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Who is this anonymous? (Score:1, Informative)
INCONCEIVABLE!
Re:Message to Virginia Fusion Center, from Anonymo (Score:5, Informative)
"Only really stupid paranoids think that there is a secret society trying to get them. People in general are too lazy to act en-masse' to disrupt things if they are comfortable. If you are creating misery and death for a group, then by all means worry.\n\nBut these people are simply clutching at straws..\n"
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Re:Message to Virginia Fusion Center, from Anonymo (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Who is this anonymous? (Score:2, Informative)
I cannot lie either. [jonathancoulton.com] If you haven't heard this version, click the "Play the song" button.
Re:Message to Virginia Fusion Center, from Anonymo (Score:2, Informative)
The statement to the effect that people acting in concert (as a pack) can "lead to lone wolf behavior in the cyber realms" is on the same level as "I CAN HAZ CHEEZEBURGER?". That is it's bound to become a meme mocking the stupidity of governement.
Re:cell phones and music players (Score:2, Informative)
You most likely misunderstood. As a daily Metro rider I can tell you that they have announcements requesting the use of headphones with portable electronic devices so as to not disturb fellow riders.
Re:A.C. (Score:4, Informative)
i think what they are trying to imply is that the group coalesces around the named sites for communication and organization.
also, im somewhat skeptical of them naming fark, and /.
*chan on the other hand...
Re:A.C. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:That silly Constitution (Score:1, Informative)
You seem to have forgotten the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, the attacks on Russia, the concentration camps, and the continuous indiscriminate shelling of London (which went on for YEARS).
Japan and Germany deserved everything that happened as a result of their viciousness. They worked really hard to earn those counterattacks, and it would have been selfish of us not to supply them. We are nothing if not generous...