This one goes in the category humor, no doubt. The reactionary People's Party (PP) in power in Spain with a mere 10 million votes (and quickly declining to a trickle) has reacted to the diffusion by Anonymous of the "Bárcenas papers", which reveal double accountancy, systematic bribes by constructors and illegal over-salaries to ministers, by suing them[es].
The documents mostly reveal the double accountancy practices of the hyper-corrupt party but there are also lists of their affiliates and party workers with all the relevant data (ID number, address, phone numbers, bank accounts, etc.)
Without even a smirk the beleaguered PP attorneys sued Anonymous for a crime of revelation of secrets. By doing this they admit that the papers are real and therefore all them are criminals.
As for Anonymous, you know: "we are legion".
I was recently discussing the issue of NSA surveillance and all that and my argument goes in the sense that, per the unwritten Book of Chaos, total control is impossible no matter how hard they try, what in this case applies in the form of so much information, yet so few brains and computer power to parse it. You can't cage Chaos: you lost before you even tried.
As the besieged ministers repeat once and again: this damages the Spain brand. I hope it does, Mr. Minister, death to Spain!
PS- At the time of posting this I do not know yet where to find the Anonymous leak, but I will update as soon as I have it.
Update (Jul 12): while there is an alleged torrent file at The Pirate Bay, this one is in fact an executable (.exe instead of .torrent) so I don't feel safe downloading it.
However Diagonal newspaper has created a wiki to parse and analyze all the data (excepted the illegal personal data). This seems to me the safest reference so far (h/t to Javier).
Diagonal has also a series of dedicated articles (in Spanish):
Update (Jul 12): while there is an alleged torrent file at The Pirate Bay, this one is in fact an executable (.exe instead of .torrent) so I don't feel safe downloading it.
However Diagonal newspaper has created a wiki to parse and analyze all the data (excepted the illegal personal data). This seems to me the safest reference so far (h/t to Javier).
Diagonal has also a series of dedicated articles (in Spanish):
- Filtrada la contabilidad del PP (PP accountancy leaked)
- La conexión canaria (the Canarian connection)
- Hacia una auditoría popular (towards a popular audit)
- Anonymous publica las cuentas del PP (Anonymous publishes PP accounts)
- Etc. (follow the links within the above articles)
The link I had for these documents is no longer availabe. Try this one:
ReplyDeletehttp://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/8659683/Cables_contabilidad_PP_1990-2011
Es un archivo ejecutable - no me atrevo a bajar eso. Deberían ser documentos o torrent files.
DeleteÉchale un vistazo a este artículo de Público. Tiene un montón de links relacionados con el asunto. Recomiendo principalmente el de Diagonal.
Deletehttp://www.publico.es/458809/la-ciudadania-audita-publicamente-las-cuentas-del-pp-por-internet
Much better: the Diagonal Wiki seems much more manageable. I have no idea why what is announced as a torrent file (extension: .torrent) is in fact an exceutable (.exe) file. Looks suspect to me.
DeleteEn aras de la supervivencia de su OK para burlarse del Bull incluso tirar de su cola mientras se ejecuta rápidamente. Pero si mantienes burlarse de él desde la parte frontal se puede pronto esperar a sentir los cuernos.
ReplyDeletelol Who are they gonna sue. THERE ANONYMOUS. AHAHHAHAHAH
ReplyDeleteNo one on the Internet is Anonymous...TCP/IP guarantees if they want you bad enough they will find you.
DeleteMike: you and I are not anonymous but IF I am using your computer to send my messages via a hack, then I would be pretty much anonymous (and you could get in trouble because of me, I guess).
DeleteAnd then of course wi-fi... which is pretty much as the old good public phone booth, never mind that many Internet providers do not give each customer a distinct IP... It's not that simple.
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