Re: [pf] attempts to break up "progressive" groups.

At 08:26 16/1/2001 -0800, Kaleopono wrote:
>David, this is an interesting link: http://security.tao.ca/ "Helping
activists stay safe in our oppressive world".  Thanks for pointing it out.
>
>.. I installed the ZoneAlarm firewall (available from
http://www.zonelabs.com/) which blocks a large number of accesses from
other locations on the Internet, mostly commercial sites but some
impossible to determine.
>
>Let me throw out a trial balloon.  Are there members of the
Positive-Futures list who are very knowledgable about these issues?  Might
there be interest among a few to form an adhoc committee that investigates
the matter and reports back to the entire list with policy and procedure
recommendations?
>
>
At 12:31 17/1/2001 +1300, Peter MacClement wrote to me (David Mac):
>
>I've been looking at this (from another angle) for a few years now. The
vast majority of reported computer break ins are opportunists; scanning the
Internet for *any* computer that they have a vulnerability for. As far as
politics goes, big corporate sites (microsoft, nasdaq, ebay, nike, etc.)
are broken with surprising regularity.
>
>The extreme right has suffered more than the extreme left. Nazi apologists
are not even allowed to host their web site on most of the free services. A
judge in France has demanded that Yahoo block all French visitors to their
site from seeing any links to Nazi material.
>
>One problem I do see is a phenomenon wired magazine calls "hactavist".
These are web page defacers who place "save the world" messages on the
defaced page. This could give the centre-left a reputation of being vandals.
>
>(Feel free to pass this along.)

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