I approached @MilkyCaramel014 and asked if I could take a look at his findings. It was a short paper and I think it was very well put together so in keeping with my policy of support for education, I asked for permission from him to post here on the blog and he kindly agreed. What follows is the paper (verbatim) – written for Mr John Kitzman’s Modern Military History class at Menomonie High School in Wisconsin, by student Dylan Jerald Harmston AKA @MilkyCaramel014

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 Unmasking th3j35t3r – By Dylan Jerald Harmston

‘With great power comes great responsibility’-Uncle Ben.

 Every superhero has a choice to make, to use the gifts and talents they are given for good, sacrificing everything in the process; or using their gifts for personal gain, gaining everything in return. Most of us will have this choice in our life also, but on a much smaller scale. Do we return the 20 dollars we found? Or do you keep it for yourself? Rarely does somebody have the power to alter the future on a grand scale. TH3J35T3R is one of the few. In this paper I will unmask TH3J35T3R, not physically but mentally and emotionally.

First we have to understand who ‘he” is. This is an impossible question because no one knows who ‘he” is. He hides behind a mask in this digital age. His privacy is what makes him powerful, and it’s from his privacy that he fights to protect yours.  January 1, 2010 is a historic day for cyber warfare and the first that we hear of TH3J35T3R. Attacking a taliban website (alemarah.info) he would leave his mark on history. On June 26, 2010 he established his blog (Jester’s Court). One of the main reasons for this was imposters. In his recent letter to twitter, he asks for verification of his account. Not for more ‘followers” or to be popular but for the safety of those dumb enough to pretend to be him. Like all great people, you will have enemies.  TH3J35T3R has a list longer than anybody. These aren’t just internet ‘trolls but high level organization that kill people everyday and want him dead. From the taliban to al qaeda, his “hate sheet” just makes his accomplishments so much more enjoyable. Even though he has some of the most dangerous men and women after him he still remains masked. Hiding in the shadows. In the day and age where people can know anything about anybody this is highly impressive.

Even though TH3J35T3R remains masked we do know some things about him. He is ex-military. On April 10, 2012, The Jester gave a live chat interview to a class of Computer Science students at the University of Southern Maine where he confirmed his military service. This brings up the question is he still working for the government? If you look at his attacks and the websites he has shut down, a majority of them have been terrorist organization. He actually stated “ I am motivated by the fact that previously…  for a bad person to recruit a potential bad person…. teach them to make IEDs…  or vests  they had to meet which was great made them easier to spot  now there is no need for a physical meeting.  I am here to say – no guys – you ain’t gonna use the web to blow up my buds”. TH3J35T3R still working for a government is highly unlikely. I can not see any  modern government flaunting their cyberattacks. I believe that he realized after seeing his friends die in combat that he could help the world better by wearing his mask. He believes in freedom of speech but not if that freedom risks the lives of innocent people.

“A small team of A players can run circles round a giant team of B and C players” (TH3J35T3R quoting Steve Jobs).

This explains why TH3J35T3R works alone. Most “hackers” now a days work in groups. Spend five minutes on TH3J35T3R twitter page and youwill see that he despises groups. It doesn’t mean he won’t work with anyone, it means he chooses not to. Lets take Anonymous for example, Anonymous is probably the most well known hacking group in the world. Their iconic fawkes masks from V for Vendetta are worn at every major protest.  Yet TH3J35T3R despises them. Not for the fact that they take credit for his work, but for the fact that they have no structure, no leader and have permitted terrorists to join their group. TH3J35T3R believes in order. Without order there is chaos, and in chaos is where evil thrives.

Like every human being TH3J35T3R struggles with moral choices. One wrong decision and he can literally start a war, but one right decision and he can save our lives. The weight on his shoulders is tremendous but like every good athlete TH3J35T3R thrives under pressure.  “I do wrestle with whether what I am doing is right. (TH3J35T3R 2010). He is not oblivious to the power he possesses. Which makes you think, what would you do? The thought is tempting that a click of a button could get me $45 million dollars, but I guarantee this thought has never crossed his mind. TH3J35T3R doesn’t even accept donations, all proceeds go to the Wounded Warrior Project. How he is funded is a mystery to me. (I like to think that he works at Mcdonalds and at night turns into a superhero, but this is highly unlikely.) The fact of the matter is, TH3J35T3R is probably a very good investor and invest his money to make maximum profit.

One question that has always been on my mind is “how does he do it”. Taking down a website, even though he makes it look easy is probably one of the toughest things to do. TH3J35T3R since the launching of his campaign has had over two hundred  but probably closer to three hundred successful “tango downs” his trademark catchphrase when he crashes a website. (Every superhero needs a catchphrase). He has been responsible for the arrests of anonymous members. The arrest of lulzsec members. The attacks on Westboro Baptist Church “I draw the line in the sand…when they attempt to get in the face of the mourners of our military”. and probably my two favorites, the temporary shutdown of wikileaks and the cyber attacks on the North Korean government.

To this date the United States Government/Military has recognized TH3J35T3R as the one and only person to successfully take down the website Wikileaks. “TANGO DOWN – INDEFINITELY – for threatening the lives of our troops and ‘other assets’ (TH3J35T3R, 2010) In this press conference the U.S military acknowledged his existence and gives him credit for the “tango down”:

Skip to 28 Minutes 12 Seconds for the good stuff.

On March 29 TH3J35T3R launched an attack on the North Korean government, shutting down missile test sites, North Korea’s official airline and their national computer center. (Random fact: In North Korea there’s no Internet. Kwangmyong is a ‘national internet’ available to common people. It’s sole purpose is to feed propaganda to citizens.) How does TH3J35T3R do this? Normally to take down a website a ‘hacker” uses a “DDoS” (distributed denial-of-service attack) or a DoS attack ( denial-of-service attack). These attacks make the network unavailable to its users. It’s pretty much if a million people press refresh on the same web page over and over again. Hackers though have the ability to do this themselves. They use programs that route the attack through millions of computers leaving it relatively untraceable.

TH3J35T3R is different because unlike most hackers his programs are not open source software to the public. TH3J35T3R programs nicknamed XerXes and Saladin are specially made for his needs and his privacy. Not only can he take down targets fast and secretly but they stay down for long periods of time.To put it simply these are the average hackers programs on steriodes. The Michael Jordan of hacking kits.

If you want to know more about TH3J35T3R and his attacks or way of attacking I would highly recommend checking out, The Jester Dynamic: A Lesson in Asymmetric Unmanaged Cyber Warfare by: Major TJ O’Connor. This paper goes into great detail of his attacks and how he does it.

My conclusion on the TH3J35T3R is one of curiosity. It is weird doing a report on someone that a simple google search won’t bring up their entire life. It also makes me ask questions.

How safe are we?

Cyber attacks are a relatively new threat that the average citizen does not understand. It’s a scary thought that somebody could financially ruin you before breakfast and while they are still in their footy pajamas. It’s even scarier when you look at countries like China that launch cyber warfare on our government.

• Is this an act of war?
• What should the punishment be for a 15 year old boy that steals your private information?
• Can we ban people from the internet? (Like the case of cosmo the 15 year old hacker that got banned until he is 21).
• Does freedom of speech apply to the internet? If so can a Government censor it?
• One of the biggest questions and one that TH3J35T3R has to think about everyday, if someone found out who he is, would he be charged with a crime?

Peace comes at a cost. It is the brave men and women that pay this so we do not have to. You can form your own opinion of TH3J35T3R, but this is more than that. This is the future of warfare, where one individual from his laptop can have more effect than soldiers on the ground and planes in the air. Literally one man can change the world for better or worst. Thats some great power. How would you handle the responsibility?

Scary thought.

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Thank you to Mr John Kitzman’s Modern Military History class at Menomonie High School and student Dylan Jerald Harmston AKA @MilkyCaramel014 for allowing me to help in the education and engagement of our up and coming cyber security professionals.

Stay Frosty

J.

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Firstly, I would like to commend you on a first rate micro-blogging platform and assure you I am very pleased with the service as a means to voice my opinions, and also a means to see others’ opinions and breaking news before mainstream media picks up the thread. Excellent stuff! However, I feel I must now write this open letter in good faith that you will at least look into addressing an ongoing issue that I have approached your support team in private about, but for which no solution has been forthcoming to date.

As you are fully aware, I have been using Twitter as my primary means of communication since day one of my conception over 3 years ago. In this time I have somehow gained nearly 50,000 followers, mostly made up of good actors, but the bad guys like to follow too just to keep abreast of goings on. I have spoken to your support team on numerous occasions with a request to be ‘Verified by Twitter’ and given the reasons I shall outline below. I feel that once you understand my reasoning for this modest request, and have facts available, you may be able to make a sounder judgement call on the matter.

I get an awful lot of imposters, who create twitter accounts with names very similar to my handle, who then copy my bio, background, profile picture etc  trying to pass themselves off as me. Here’s a small selection for your perusal:

@th3i3St3r @th3j35t3r_, @_th3j35t3r , @th3j35t3r_Troll, @_th3j35t3r_ , @th3j35t3rddos, @th3j35t3rsArmy, @Mrs_th3j35t3r, @th3j35t3r1, @th3j35t3r9, @th3j35t3r7, @TheJester9, @th3j35t3r6, @th3j35t3r5, @th3j35t3r2, @th3j35t3r4,

…to name but a few.

Now obviously this is not good for me as these fake accounts, and it happens all the time, try to make statements as if they are me and engage in all manner of assholery in pathetic attempts to undermine my work, or make me look less than intelligent. Yes that’s annoying and when a new one gets on my radar it usually takes me less a minute to debunk him. No biggy right? Wrong.

It came to my attention today that a Professor who shall remain unidentified for now, at a University, that shall also remain unidentified for now, who teaches Cyber warfare courses, has tasked his students with what is arguably the dumbest hood-ass assignment ever. The assignment is for his students to create fake ‘jester’ personas online and convince as many people as they can that they are actually me.

Apparently there is an ‘easy A’ up for grabs too. He definitely hasn’t thought this through.

It’s all fun and games until somebody actually gets that ‘A’ and the wrong people believe they are me and then some busted up hippy-van loaded with angry Libyans gets all up in their shit with automatic weapons. Does nobody remember how mortifying it was when Doc got slotted in Back to The Future? Now I don’t know about you Twitter, but I sure as fuck don’t possess a time-machine and in all seriousness, there’s a more sinister side to being me. These are students who are likely ‘less equipped’ shall we say, to fend off the type off targeted attacks I deal with daily.

As I mentioned at the top of this letter, I have garnered considerable support over the years, but with that also comes considerable numbers of enemies, some are plain whack-jobs like John Tiessen and Anonymous and therefore not all that scary at all. But you don’t get to consistently annoy real terrorists for three years, exposing them, and knocking their websites and forums off the web without them wanting to come at you. All they need is a fix on my position so to speak.

Make no mistake it’s a serious business.  Among the more delightful events in my 3 years operating, I have received everything from minor trolls up to and including multiple death threats from whacked out US citizens, a couple of fatwahs from foreign terror organization ‘representatives’ and many failed attempts at ‘doxing’ me have occurred at the hands of Anonymous. I can live with this and do, it’s part of the game, but these imposters may not realize what they are signing up for.

The way I see it, we both have a duty of care to minimize the risk to these imposters, both you and I Twitter.  Whether their intentions are good or bad, they are putting themselves in harms way. We can take this simple step together and easily ensure none of them are ever taken seriously. I have requested for my account to be ‘Verified by Twitter’ numerous times, and you have denied the request because and I quote: I’m not a real ‘person or business entity’ and I won’t give up my actual identity. Incidentally, this is also the reason why any complaints I lodge regarding trolls get disregarded too. It’s disappointing when as a Twitter user I am, (like any other), both a consumer AND content provider but can’t seem to get support on anything because, for obvious reasons I wish to remain incognito.

That’s a bit irresponsible given the potential risk not doing so puts other (albeit dumb) Twitter users in. It can all be fixed and avoided by simply:

‘Verifying’ the persona, not the person.

I notice that these accounts ARE IN FACT ‘VERIFIED’ and can’t help but wonder to myself, how can this be when you deny the same to me?

• @spongebob -who lives in a freakin pineapple under the sea and isn’t even a real sponge.
• @RealCapnCrunch – who is a goddam breakfast cereal, and I am almost certain is not a real Captain.
• @DocPemberton – He’s been DEAD 124 years, no really he has.
• @NBABackboardCam – Really? Not even a person – an inanimate object.

Your argument is they are known brands. Well it appears to some extent I am too, given the amount of fakers out there, no? A ‘brand’ I have built tirelessly over a long period of time, sometimes at great personal risk.

As a supporting sidenote, I’d like to draw your attention to the fact that The International Spy Museum in Washington DC has just accepted my Alienware laptop, and will be exhibiting it for the next FIVE years. That’s not bad going for a person that’s ‘not real’ – More here.

Let’s end the ability of the stupid to walk into fires they can’t handle and ‘verify’ the persona, not the person.

Final thoughts: When somebody does get hurt, because they were mistakenly identified as me, it’s now on public record that I requested verification, and have been denied it numerous times. With great power comes great responsibility Twitter, you have the power to unfuck this situation. Two words: ‘foreseeable consequence’.

I hope this letter finds you in good health, and is received in the spirit with which it was penned. This letter is not meant to cause you problems or force precedence, I’m simply asking for a solution, to an ongoing issue.

Thank you for your time.

Yours Faithfully

Mr The Jester

Another pineaple, Under the Sea, UW 90210

PS: It’s a little know fact that over 87% of people don’t know the opposite words for the following: ‘Always’ ‘Coming’ ‘From’ ‘Take’ ‘Me’ ‘Down’ > TrueStory

THIS:

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Please bear in mind this is just a theory, a hunch. But if it looks like a bus, and drives like a bus, it’s probably a erhhm.. bus. I am simply presenting facts and backing up with evidence. Your conclusions are your own. So, I have kinda had my spidey sensors out and all over this since the atrocity occurred and I started to get a whiff of something very stinky.

And it goes a little something like this.

Suspect Number #2′s twitter account is by now very well known, in case you have been living on the moon -  it’s @J_Tsar – So first thing to take note is a tweet sent from Tsarnaev to an as yet unidentified twitter user, who deleted his account immediately after Tsarnaev’s identity was released which was sent SIX MONTHS BEFORE the April 15th Boston Marathon, on August 10th 2012. The tweet indicates that there was at least 6 months planning went into this, and multiple personalities where at least aware of ‘shit about to go down’.

Three weeks before the attack on the 15th the surviving Boston Bomber, Tsarnaev had the following conversation with some of his buddies. They all live in and around Boston MA and study together. Things to take away from this exchange is the timing along with the fact that they were talking about ‘fireworks’ that ‘can do some damage’ and (sic) ‘fuk shit up’ it’s also worth noting that from the conversation we can deduce that there had been some previous ‘tests’ from the phrase ‘I got some more left’.

Here it is

On it’s own that’s pretty sketchy right?

So fast forward 6 days after this conversation happened a report came out regarding an incident not 30 minutes away from UMass where these kids ‘study’ involving unidentified explosions. The location sits between Dartmouth and Boston.

Exerpted from Wicked Local, Hanover, MA

” The first incident was reported at 8:34 p.m. on March 12. Police and fire personnel responded to the area of Pine Street and Tower Hill Drive. Witnesses at the nearby Target store on Washington Street reported seeing a bright flash and hearing two explosions from that area. Several unexploded devices were found at the scene and later detonated under secure conditions by the State Police Bomb Squad.”

Full Article here

Still pretty weak right?

Okay lets look at the people in the original exchange. Three main players:

• @J_Tsar – Tsarnaev – Well we know who he is, he’s the brainiac that is currently unable to talk because he unsuccessfully suicided himself, and is lying in hospital, after trying to escape on a boat with no water.
• @TroyCrossley - played by himself – strangely he’s the leader of the Boston Truther campaign that’s trying to prove that Tsarnaev was setup and it’s all a government conspiracy. Hmmmm.
• @XxJungaxX – Junes Umarov – I’m getting to that part.

It’s all still rather sketchy right?

Okay – finally lets take a look at @XxJungaxX – Well on the 7th April, a week before the bombing this guy tweeted the following:

And this is where it gets very interesting.

You see I posted the following tweet out, drawing attention to these unfortunate coincidences:

It took @XxJungaxX only a few minutes after I pushed this tweet out to delete his entire twitter account! Hmmm

Not to mention a shit load of other accounts too.

I know…. its still nothing right?

Well here’s where I get all Lemony Snickett:

By total happen-chance @XxJungaxX, whose full name is “Junes Umarov‘ happens to share his surname with none other that ‘Dokku Umarov‘ who by total chance also happens to be the leader of the Causcus Emirate Terror organization. I mentioned him back on the 20th April:

Also it’s pretty clear that these two recognized their buddy on TV BEFORE the MIT Police officer was shot to death and yet failed to notify the authorities. Thus complicity at least.

And perhaps the most telling is a conversation that occurred on twitter immediately after the bombing on the 15th April. Here it is:

Update: Predictably @Adballa_35 has now deleted the ‘It was Junes’ Tweet, but here’s a link to his previous one

I wouldn’t want to jump to any conclusions or anything. But am just merely pointing out some observations.

Obviously this is all just a series of unfortunate circumstantial coincidences. It’s probably nothing. Right?

Peace.

J

UPDATE 04/22/2013 @ 1450pm:

Upon deleting / deactivating your account, Twitter gives you 30 days in which to reactivate it, incase you change your mind or suddenly realize that deleting your account makes you look suspicious.  @XxJungaxX  has just re-activated his twitter account and is continuing the totally insane ‘#FreeJahar’ campaign alongside @TroyCrossley, in an attempt to prove that the brothers were framed by the government/US Navy SEALs.

Because that’s highly probable. Not.

UPDATE 04/22/2013 @ 1615pm:

@XxJungaxX << And he’s deleted it again. Ftw. And it looks like ol’ @TroyCrossley is limbering up, getting ready to delete his twitter account too, and then predictably blame it on the government too:

UPDATE 04/22/2013 @ 1641pm:

And there goes @TroyCrossley’s Facebook account as mentioned above. ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Troy-Crossley-MP )

See how they run. Like cockroaches when the light goes on.

UPDATE 04/22/2013 @ 1735pm:

@TroyCrossley is desperately trying to point the finger at some dudes that look like they may be Mil/PMA/SEALs. We have to ask ourselves only two questions. Given the rest of this blog post, why exactly is he trying so hard to deflect the attention away, and also:

Riddle me fucking this @TroyCrossley, if as you say  the two mil guys blew up their rucks, and they were responsible, how in the name of Zeus’ butt-hole are they holding them immediately after the blasts:

Click here to see full resolution>>

 BTW They are National Guard and it’s perfectly common for guard troops to get activated to support a public event. The guard belongs to the state governors. But it seems to me, given the FACTS as I have outlined in this blog post, that @TroyCrossley and his buddies have every reason to try and get everyone thinking it was anybody BUT his friend, Tsarnaev.

UPDATE 04/22/2013 @ 2122pm:

@XxJungaxX << And he’s reactivated his account again. He’s so indecisive. Just in case he or in-fact any of his buddies decides to delete tweets or accounts again here’s a link to all their respective historical tweets, because on the interweb, you can’t delete, only hide. For example here’s an interesting tweet:

“@SalamAlacomOsam:@xXjungaXx Ill wire the money to you, When we going to Russia though?lol”

• @XxJungaxX << All his tweets. Right Here.
• @TroyCrossley << All his tweets. Right Here.
• @J_Tsar << All his tweets. Right Here.

UPDATE 04/23/2013 @ 1744pm:

We have to ask ourselves WHY these two terrorist sympathizers are so intent on ‘proving’ Tsarnaev’s innocence, even though he already confessed and evidence against him is overwhelming. They are willing to just make shit up in their little crusade. Below we see Troy, having to ask who Chris Kyle is, and then miraculously 6 minutes later, Chief Kyle is now implicated in their crazy fucking bullshit. You are going to hell for that one Troy boy.

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THIS:

Facebook Graph Search is one of the newest features of Facebook. It allows you to data-mine every person and page on the entire social network. You can get an introduction at this page.

It’s not available for everyone yet…but you can sign up for early access if you’d like.  It is extremely powerful as an OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) tool.

So, I decided to give it a try myself.  The results are eye opening. You may or may not be aware that I have repeatedly warned that Anonymous has been infiltrated by terror organizations such as Hamas/AQ etc.  Well, as they say…the proof is in the pudding.

One of the first searches I performed was “People who like Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and like Anonymous”.  For those not familiar…Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades is the military branch of the terrorist organization Hamas. I only bring this up again because now there’s a way for me to more effectively make the connections between potential players, at least with facebook users anyway.

Be advised – I have not included the full result sets, only redacted samples.

Lets give it a try eh?

You can click the screenshot below to view the results for the search term “People who like Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and like Anonymous” it in all it’s facebooky glory. And that’s just the start some people really are stoopid. What they are doing here is actually helping me find links between online ‘personas’ and real online people.

“People who like Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and like Anonymous”  MORE HERE

These results really do speak for themselves.  It’s clear that there are many who associate themselves with both Anonymous and Hamas.

Now I know what you are thinking, if Facebook is logging and retaining all this kind of real world link analysis, they are also watching who is searching for what terms and keywords, and you would be right. That’s why when doing these searches personal OPSEC is also recommended, as there can’t be too many people searching for these types of queries and keywords, if you know what I mean.

So what else interesting can you find with Facebook Graph Search?

Okay folks, lets up the game a little. What happens if we throw into the Graph Search tool a phrase like, ooooh, I don’t know, what about something like: “Current Iran residents who work at Nuclear Power Plants”

“Current Iran residents who work at Nuclear Power Plants”  MORE HERE

Above you can see that this returns a lovely list of, well errr, current residents of Iran who well, errr work at nuclear facilities. Scary isn’t it. One of the things I really like is the free form natural language type queries you can plug into it. You can literally just ‘say who you want’ to find. The result sets I am displaying here are not complete, but you get the picture.

It’s already known that nuclear scientists in Iran have been meeting with untimely deaths. Despite this…many Iranians who work at Iran’s nuclear power plants have listed their employment location…opening themselves up to possible assassination.

When you accept Facebook terms of service you sign up for this, then you get busy populating your profile, making connections and forgetting to adjust privacy settings, and next thing you know, BOOM all your shit is just hanging out there.

Graph search can also provide some interesting political and employer affiliations…

Here’s some of my faves:

 ”People who like Communism and work at MSNBC”

or how about…..

 ”People who like Marxism and work at CNN”

or maybe even….

“People who like National Rifle Association” and work at Fox News”

Note that Facebook automatically replaced MSNBC with alternatives – such as NBC TV shows.  It also includes previous employers in the search, but I think you get the idea.

Thanks Zuckerberg.

Remember kids. The internet is forever.

Tick Tock.

J.

THIS:

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In the past few weeks, there’s been a spike in chatter about the House of Kim’s Web presence. First came speculation about what North Korean netizens were being told about the botched missile launch, then came self-satisfied mockery of the $15 page template the regime bought for its English-language site. The takeaway might seem pretty simple: the DPRK’s network is censored and silly, like a dime-store version of China’s. But the reality is much weirder. Maybe only one-tenth of the online freedom you see in China is present in North Korea.

That’s not because the censors are tougher. It’s because North Korea built its own internet, and we’re not invited.

The vast majority of North Korean surfers have never actually seen the Web. At libraries and educational facilities, they log on to something called Kwangmyong (roughly translated as “bright”). It’s been around since the early 2000s and it’s a completely closed intranet system, operating via fiber optic cable. It most likely has no more than a few dozen sites, most of them for education or propaganda.

Cuba has a similar system and Iran is contemplating one, but Kwangmyong is more tightly controlled than either of those. Think of it as the global Internet’s pocket-sized, dystopian reflection. “I haven’t heard of Internet sites being made available on the domestic intranet,” said Martyn Williams, a longtime technology analyst and head of North Korea Tech. “Some content is taken from the Internet, but I’ve only heard of technical documents, books and educational material.”

Even the experts only know about Kwangmyong in bits and pieces. After all, that’s part of the network’s totalitarian genius: in addition to preventing users from gazing beyond it, you have to physically enter North Korea to see inside it. But of course, any trip to the Hermit Kingdom is so tightly choreographed that you can’t fully trust what an outside observer gets to see. For example, the AP’s Jean H. Lee witnessed North Korean students using flat-screen monitors and Photoshop last year. But Williams says the latest images from domestic DPRK television (which he sees via satellite) tell a very different story.

“All the PCs appear to be running Windows Explorer and the websites look relatively basic,” he said. “Although it’s difficult to figure out if that’s because the code is stuck in mid-nineties HTML or due to the lack of ads, Flash boxes, fancy navigation and the like.”

None of this is to say the global Internet has no presence in North Korea. Earlier this month, the DPRK got its second-ever hookup to the Internet, thanks to a link through Intelstat, a Washington-based satellite operator. That comes on top of an existing connection via a Chinese telecom company, established in 2010.

Before 2010, the country had no full-fledged online link to the rest of the planet. In a uniquely North Korean bit of absurdity, the government most likely maintained its foreign-facing official website by telling subordinates in Japan or China what to put on it.

It was a nuclear nation with no stable Internet access.

Also believed to have relatively free rein is the DPRK’s growing army of hackers. To a large extent, it’s a child army. According to a prominent defector, there’s a “pyramid-like prodigy recruiting system” that plucks bright students for the regime’s “cyberwarrior” program. They allegedly train for years (with stints in Russia or China for cyberwarfare master classes) before joining the ominously named “Unit 121” hacker squad in Pyongyang. Other than that, the only suspected users of the global Web are a very small number of government bureaucrats. After all, someone has to keep up the DPRK’s social media presence. The Uriminzokkiri (“our nation”) Twitter and YouTube accounts sprouted up in 2010 and have been a resource for propaganda and odd online curios ever since. There’s no agreed-upon explanation for North Korean online tech’s expansion since 2010. Brian Myers, an expert on North Korean propaganda, has speculated that it’s been part of a propaganda effort to promote Kim Jong-un as a tech-forward thinker. But Kongdan Oh doubts that. “It’s just undeniable, 21st century trickle-down change,” she said. Things have progressed in the past two years, but if you’re inside the DPRK and want to get on the global Web, you have to fall into one of three categories.

Foreign journalists have been known to get access – great access, in fact. In October 2010, when 80 or so reporters were there for the 65th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s founding, unrestricted connections abounded at the hotel where they were housed. And the change is still coming very slowly. Although exact numbers aren’t available, the vast majority of the North Korean populace has never actually used a computer. Indeed, after years of reporting on the DPRK, journalist Barbara Demick concluded that “most North Koreans are unaware of the existence of the Internet.”

Williams is slightly more optimistic. “The evening news regularly mentions when foreign web sites say something nice about the country,” he says. “So people are probably familiar with the words ‘Internet’ and ‘website,’ but they might not know what they mean. They certainly wouldn’t have an appreciation for the scale and complexity of the Internet.”

To put that last statement in context, think of it this way: Imagine finding out you’ve only ever had access to 0.0000001% of the total Internet. That most of the planet is downloading things 60 times faster than you ever have. That, in addition to the 366 million sites you’ve ever been able to visit from your MacBook, there are more than 2 quadrillion that have been hidden from you.

That’s roughly how it would feel for even the most seasoned Kwangmyong user to use Google for the first time.

At least these little Norks ‘think’ they are having a great old time doing their best impression of Walk off the Earth:

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Source Motherboard.

Now there’s something to be said for spreading your operation out, so if ‘they’ (whoever your ‘they’ is) get one thing they don’t get it all. But there’s also something to be said for keeping your attack surface as small as possible. Its two schools of thought, I prefer the latter. It makes things manageable and easier to monitor. This is why EVERYTHING I do, whether offensive, defensive or passive, as ‘Jester’ is done on a single laptop. There is zero cross pollination between that and my actual identity. This ensures that even if the laptop somehow leaves my possession, all they got was ‘Jesters’ laptop. This blog post will concentrate on how to secure that laptop and the information on it from physical or coerced infiltration, so even if they get a hold of it in your absence, it’s a case of fuggit, no harm done.

What to buy

We’ve all been there. In the store. Pesky sales guy honey-badgering the shit out of us. There’s all kinds of shiny objects begging for our money. The hybrid lapTab, the gargantuan power house laptop that takes 3 thick-set fully grown fighting age males to move from A to B, it’s a minefield. Here’s my advice for what it’s worth.

Don’t buy anything other than business or enterprise class machines. They are easier to upgrade later or sooner if you are the same as me with gigabytes of DDR3 Sodimms floating round the place along with a bunch of SSD MSata’s. My point here is simple, enterprise class machines are uglier yes, but they are built to easily be ripped apart so you can get inside and upgrade, and they come with things like TPM chips and extended BIOS which we will get to later in this post. I won’t be mentioning any actual laptop brand names so don’t ask folks.

Upgrade Path

Sooner or later you are gonna want to upgrade, bear this in mind when you buy. Me personally, I like at least 16Gb Ram and a system drive (or a internal disk that boots the OS) that is MSATA SSD for speedy boots and a secondary internal SATA that I use for storage. All this can be fitted into a very small enterprise class form-factor, that’s what they are built for, and good luck finding consumer models that allow the same level of flexibility, power and form-factor.

BIOS 101

First thing you will want to do is secure your BIOS, set individual passwords for BIOS modification, system boot, boot drive selection and anything else your particular BIOS version allows. Mix it up a little. Also enable any biometric options and your TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip. When you do this you also need to ‘own’ your TPM so it is not the same chip config as when it left the factory.

Full Disk Encryption

I am fully aware that most readers are running Windows, so I would advise for the sake of argument, utilizing Bitlocker which ships with the Pro versions of Windows as standard.

• System Drive (SSD) I would advise for this drive to use Bitlocker and allow 2-factor authentication, you can use the group policies within windows by running ‘gpedit.msc’ to force you to have to insert a USB stick into your laptop in order for it to even boot, even though you have previously enabled your TPM chip. This combined with your BIOS password means someone needs ‘something you know’ as well as ‘something you have’ to get the laptop to boot.
• Storage Drive (SATA) For this disk on a Windows laptop, my advice would be to use Bitlocker again, but this time, just make it TPM based only IE: you don’t need a USB stick to access it, decryption is transparent, but it does however need to be physically present in your particular laptop. No other will do.

Caveat: I know I know, Bitlocker is MS but this combined with the 3rd  ‘plausible deniability’ solution below covers you pretty nicely.

Biometric Authentication

A lot of enterprise class laptops these days come with Biometric Fingerprint scanning hardware, drivers and software to prevent logging into your OS of choice without your finger being present at the time of login or unlock. Enable this too. When you enable it you can select which finger you use as your key. If you are right-handed use your left pinky, and vice versa. That way when ‘they’ cut your digit off to access your machine you are not completely fucked.

Important sidenote: Never, ever, under any circumstances nominate your thumb for fingerprint scanners, humans are the only creatures blessed with opposing thumbs, you’ll miss not being able to use scissors without mom’s supervision.

Proximity Lockdown

Ever walk away from your machine and forget to lock it? Yeah, it happens right? There’s software out there available for free that allows you to associate any bluetooth device with your laptop. The most obvious device to utilize here is your cell as it’s most likely to leave your workstation when you do. This software causes your laptop to ‘ping’ your cell over bluetooth every few seconds, if your cell is out of range, your laptop locks down and requires your 2 or 3 factor authentication in order to let you back in.

Push Out Decoy Wifi Access Points

Add an external USB wifi adapter in addition to your regular internal one. You can then configure this (if you are clever) to throw out hundreds of fake wireless AP SSID’s. You can even randomize the names of them based on a wordlist. Why would you do this? Well security through obscurity is by no means sensible I agree, but anyone looking to sniff your wifi traffic is not going to be able to see the forest for the trees, and you get to log all the intrusion attempts. If you use a micro-USB wifi adapter you never need to take it out and your forest will follow you wherever you roam.

Plausible Deniabilty

Worst case scenario. You and your laptop are compromised together. Nobody wants to lose a digit here right? This is where we get really tricky. There’s software that will allow you to encrypt your system drive as a hidden ‘partition’ and have another decoy system drive, such that one boot password will boot the decoy partition and the other password will boot the real one. That way if you really are in the shit, you can appear to be giving up your machine when in actual fact you are merely giving up the decoy, which obviously contains dummy/fake information.

For those interested it looks a little like this:

Now that’s what I’m talking about. All these mechanisms are available cross-platform (well Linux and Windows at least) I have not gone into full details of individual specifics for obvious reasons. Google is your friend. Seek and ye shall find.

Disclaimer: All information here is my humble opinion and theoretically explaining what I would do if I was an international man of mystery hacker type super-geek. Nothing more. Peace.

Staying Frosty

J.

Precursor: This is not a play, this is not a ruse. I’ve been around (somehow) for over 3 years, now I’d like to give something back, to my loyal and awesome followers on twitter. Over the years as ‘Jester’, one thing that I’ve noticed is the high volume of questions from young people wanting to know ‘how can I do what you do?’  and ‘I joined Anonymous because I thought they would make a difference, now I feel betrayed. How can I go it alone?’ etc etc. I get scores of questions a day from all kinds of people, and don’t get around to answering all of them, so I have decided to meet these young people on their own turf, so to speak.

Traditionally, it’s been standard protocol, for me to ONLY SPEAK IN 3 PLACES. Those places were here on this blog, my IRC Channel, and my Twitter account. That’s all about to change. I have ‘aquired’ a Minecraft server and have been busy setting it up,  it’s a brave new world. One that I know very little about but it’s been fun learning. Which brings me to my next point….

But….Umm Why?

As I said, many young people ask me many questions, I wanted to connect on their own turf. So I decided it might be a helluva idea,  if I were to create an in-game ‘Psuedo-University’ where at a given time every week I’ll  meet on the ‘campus’  and give little lessons on all kinds of Jester-related topics, it’s a bit more interesting that IRC right? So far I have created a few city blocks, and will be building the ‘campus’ in due course. But I wanted to give those who are interested some ahead-of-time access to ‘JesterLand’.

 What else is happening there?

That’s up to you guys. The initial spawn point and most of the city is protected real-estate, you can venture further out past the city limits (1-2 miles approx) and do whatever you like build, blow shit up or whatever. Inside the protected city limits, time permitting I plan on doing the following:

• Turning the top floor of one of the high-rises into a Penthouse Suite, guests by invite only!
• Setting up some ‘offices’ including a secure conference room facility.
• Allowing players to claim premium downtown apartments in one of the high-rise buildings to make their own.
• Creating a large underground Research Lab for Experimental Redstone Application Development.
• and some other stuff.

As you can see I am gonna be needing help, not least because I am definitley not Minecraft expert.

Where’s this fantastical place at?

Firstly you have to have a Minecraft account. I know many of my followers already do, which is why I chose it. When you have downloaded to Minecraft client, you need to connect to ‘Jesterland’ – which conveniently is called:

jesterland.cc << you can also click this link for a realtime map of Jesterland. As more people spread out and explore, the map will auto-magically and dynamically generate new terrain on the fly.

Just enter that into the multi-player connection dialog. And REMEMBER the Downtown City area is protected, you will need to get out of the city to build your stuff! Here’s a quick tutorial on how to STAKE YOUR LAND CLAIM – Oh and also remember this is something new to me so I am still learning too, lets try and make it a nice place rather than a troll-fest for once?

WARNING: If you join the server with the intention of griefing or trolling, be advised, you’ll be doing it on a pay-per-troll basis. Server bans are permanent, no exceptions, so you’ll need to create a new account to get back in.

Peace.

_th3j35t3r_

PS I had to use the underscores on my in-game username because some dude already took my name. Bummer.

THIS: ‘Not on holy ground’

Down ‘n Dirty

Jennifer Emick AKA @asherahresearch is one example. She’s 40 something years old and sits on the internet all day (and night), and from a house she rents from her parents at a subsidized rate, she never did her drivers ed, and is stuck indoors spewing baseless venom at anyone she subconsciously see’s as a ‘threat’. Let’s not be too hasty in judgement of her though, because she can’t help it, as she has extreme Narcissistic Personality Disorder what’s more, it’s aggressive and it’s authoritarian.  Her projection issues, which just about anyone who has a run in with her comments on, are also classic.  Projection is a classic trait of NPD and it’s not the first time we’ve seen it, remember this fool? Jennifer Emick and John Tiessen should really hook up and get a room, to swap notes, although I fear she’ll be the one doing all the talking as she has a history of trolling and e-fame whoring dating back over 10 years, just google Jennifer+Emick+Troll to see what I mean. That’s right, 10 years no wonder she’s pissed and desperate, and it’s not the first time I have addressed this particular failer, here’s an article on InfosecIsland from 7 months ago.

Projection is a means of  justifying  actions that would normally be found atrocious or heinous. The NarcoTroll projects false accusations, information, etc., onto another for the sole purpose of maintaining a self-created illusion of superiority, moral authority, elite relevance and self-importance.  With Emick it is a constant stream of “you did this that and that” all of which she herself does, and then insisting she is the only one smart enough, elite enough and important enough to see what YOU did.  Anyone who sees that she is the one doing what she accuses others of is attacked viciously, because the one thing the NarcoTroll can never, ever accept is blame for their own failing or faults.

You can test this out anytime you like.  Simply ask @asherahresearch to “prove” her claims about me with concrete evidence and she will rage at you.  You are expected to take her rambling, inconsistent theories about me as proof – no tangible evidence is needed, just the unimpeachable notions of the grand Jennifer Emick.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder traits:  Illusions of Grandeur.

REALLY LOL? You spent over 2 years chasing me and your partner in crime, William Welna @sanguinarious only last night had some kinda epic meltdown and posted on his blog how the authorities are sick of your shit.

Emick has a high school education.  That’s it. She ‘wrote a book’ on Symbolism, but calling it ‘writing a book” is generous. It is a cobbled together catalog of already known, researched information taken from others’ work.  A rehash at best.

However, Emick claims to be:

• the owner of an Intelligence Company,
• a “Director of Intelligence”, (a C-level executive title)
• she claims the FBI are her clients,
• she claims she is an expert on ritual murders (pagan/religious) the police rely upon, despite having zero academic credentials in this field which means she could never be considered/authenticated as an ‘expert witness” in any criminal case (and anything she claims she ‘knows’ can be sourced to another actual expert anyway).
• On her website she offers “Red Team” services, an extremely elite occupation that requires sophisticated computer skillsets, military training and academics she does not possess.

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In short, she claims VERY elite titles in specialized occupations she fantasizes about, all to make herself look important.  She has achieved nothing in these fields.  Again, all she has a high school education, a loud and no doubt smelly mouth, and an unsightly nose-piercing.

The NarcoTroll is hellbent on maintaining an illusion they are superior, and a crippling inability to admit their own errors.  So when they are confronted with their own errors, they go on a rage projecting/accusing others (usually a special target, in her case myself & Kelly Hallisey, but she has a history of this, and will continue with new victims as time goes on) of doing what they do.  In personal relationships this is freaky because the NarcoTroll accuses the “victim” of everything they do, logic be damned.  A typical personal relationship example of this is battered wives who get accused of all kinds of stuff, abused for it, and then accused of being the abuser, i.e. the victim is at fault for MAKING the NarcoTroll do what they do.

“A Narcissist will lie intentionally and feel no remorse because, in their mind, their every action is justified. Their entire focus is to convince everyone around them of their superiority in every aspect of life.”

Are you confused? I am. Contradictary much?

This is a condensed excerpt from Millon:

The Unprincipled Narcissist evidences a rash willingness to risk harm and is notably fearless in the face of threats and punitive action.  Malicious tendencies are projected outward, precipitating frequent personal and family difficulties as well as occasional legal entanglements.  Vengeful gratification is often obtained by humiliating and dominating others.  These Narcissists operate as if they have no principles other than exploiting others for their personal gain.

Lacking a social conscience, they are opportunists and charlatans who enjoy the process of swindling others. Narcissists maintain in thoughts and actions the notion they are the ONLY person who matters or “knows” how things are.

You will notice that Emick speaks to others as if they are idiots.  Often these others are people with extensive career experience in the fields she claims she works.  She speaks disdainfully to them, as if her vast imaginary experience (high school education, remember?) trumps their academic degrees, computer certifications, intelligence careers, real positions in major companies at director level, etc.

Perhaps one of the best classic examples of Emick’s crazy delusions of grandeur is her dismissal of TJ O’Connor, who authored the SANS Report  as a “naive college student” because he admires my work completely contradicts her raging theories about me.

Here is her tweet as @AsherahResearch calling Major TJ  O’Connor a “naive college student”

Major TJ O’Connor Highlights  (click here for an incomplete TJ O’Connor Resume)

• TJ OConnor currently serves in the US Army Special Forces Command as an active duty Signal Officer.
• TJ developed and taught courses on digital forensics, computer exploitation, and information assurance at the US Military Academy
• He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from West Point
• Published research at USENIX workshops, ACM Conferences, the Armed Forces Journal, the Army Magazine, the SANS Reading Room
• Assigned as an advisor for the initial stand-up of the US Cyber Command (USCC)
• TJ twice co-coached the winning team at the National Security Agency’s (NSA) annual cyber defense exercise.
• He holds expert cyber security credentials including the GIAC Security Expert (GSE), Offensive Security OSCP and OSWP, and the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH)
• He is one of only four individuals worldwide that are certified as members of both the SANS Red and Blue Team Cyber Guardians
• In separate competitions, TJ served as a red team aggressor for the Northeast Regional National Cyber Defense Exercise (NECCDC) and personally won the first annual National Defense University (NDU) Cyber Challenge

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Emick has a high school diploma.  But clearly you must accept her random theories as superior to that of the poor, naive Major O’Connor because she knows better than all of us.

Even though Unprincipled NarcoTrolls recognize that “buttering up” others is more effective than hostility, they devolve quickly into direct manipulations and malice, sometimes under a facade of wit or humor, but they will attack viciously and feel entitled to do it.  They believe their self-importance exempts them from social constraints.

With Emick, if you do not agree with her rambling theories about others, then you are simply too stupid, to blind to see what the all-knowing, superior intellect of Emick can see.  If you do not accept her diagnosing you as too stupid to agree with her, she will then slide into calling you disgusting, or insisting you are a “sock” or agent of the person she attacks, because for the NarcoTroll it is intolerable to accept that others disagree with them on merit.  It’s impossible in their world because they cannot ever, ever confront the fact that are just full of shit.  That shit is what keeps them going.

Unprincipled Narcissists display an indifference to truth that, if brought to their attention, is likely to elicit nonchalance, indifference or a refusal to even acknowledge.  They feign an air of justified innocence.  Their principle orientation is that of outwitting others, getting power and exploiting them.  A number of these NarcoTrolls attempt to project an image of cool strength, acting tough, arrogant and fearless.  To prove their courage, they may invite danger and punishment.  But punishment or attacks on them from others merely REINFORCE their sense of importance, that they deserve recognition, that they are a force to be reckoned with.  Instead of deterring them, being attacked makes them feel validated.

Emick loves to spew venomous commentary at others, then claim she is the victim.  She cannot make the connection to her complaints she is attacked by Anonymous (see the laughable Gizmodo article on her) with her own actions against others.  This is because as an Unprincipled NarcoTroll she believes the attacks on HER are proof she is right, but her attacks on OTHERS are, well . . also proof she is right.

Her main attacks on others:  they are fakes (she is the fake), they are attention whores (god, oh god does this woman do everything crazy she can to get attention,  they are idiots, disgusting, crazy, etc.  And the list goes on.  You can take all the accusations Emick makes about others and see them in her own life.  It would be tragic and sad, if there was anything to like about this woman.

Let’s put  it in context. At the time of writing after 10 years in her ‘field’ the woman behind the NarcoTroll account I speak of  has more tweets than I’ve followers, yet less followers as I’ve tweets. Go figure.

I wanted to put more screen captures, of her particular brand of crazy in this blog post, but I really can’t justify the time it takes to upload them so here’s some further reading:

 http://pastebin.com/mz5WhcnJ

FYI this list only goes back 6 weeks, it’s been going on 10 years. And as such, the woman has annoyed more than just me, this post is comprised of information from multiple sources because you can’t spend 10 years pissing people off without them biting back sooner or later, Jen. Stay frosty, and make sure you sanitize your beautiful nose-tack, if infection sets in it might make you look ‘different’ or maybe even ugly?

And here’s a previous article on this ‘woman’.

But this one is my favorite, short and kinda sums it up.

Yay. Ya famous. Rage on.

Public Information Service: Jen Emick also runs the following accounts: @R0bertwest @Fakegregghoush and @SHG_Nackt often you will find her talking to herself and having conversations with these accounts in pathetically transparent  attempts to validate herself.

Dox or GTFO. You ain’t got no pancake mix (obviously).

Peace

J

(The video below was made by one of my twitter followers over nearly 18 months ago)

HERE’S A SPOILER: http://i.imgur.com/8lO7m.png 

UPDATE: AWESOME VIDEO APOLOGY BY TIESSEN AT THE END OF THIS POST.

We all know the amount of trolling and discreditation attempts I get from members of  that group of loosely tied disfunctionals known as  ‘Anonymous’. One guy just won’t give it up, it’s also worth noting that he also won’t back up his crazy claims either.

So this particular Anon AKA @johntiessen started his amazingly well thought out campaign against me, out of the blue 2 YEARS ago, I had originally done a previous version of this post and tagged it on the end of another post here, but he’s back and I decided his persistence now warranted a post all of it’s own.

The latest Development

It was brought to my attention recently that a video was bouncing round the internet claiming I was a child sex offender, now I remember this tactic from a while back and it turned out to be the same Anonymous member that made those baseless claims before, here’s his latest little rant, sidenote – John Tiessen has disabled embedding so you’ll have to press play then watch on youtube below.

I particularly enjoyed the 7:00 minute mark onwards where John Tiessen claims his ‘contacts’ in Law Enforcement told him who I am – fucking hilarious. Also at the 8:15 mark onwards – because that’s a face you can trust lol

@johntiessen made totally unfounded accusations against me to increase views for a political rant he clearly doesn’t understand for a group he can’t pronounce, all while trying not to wake mom.

So 2 Years ago (we’ll get to that in a moment) this social reject and open supporter of Anonymous, decides I am a child molester, then strangely Anonymous launch their Operation Pedo and whodathunkit, my ‘name’ – correction – ‘th3j35t3r’ appears on their dump of usernames quite near the top. You just can’t make this shit up.

What a fucking coincidence.

Because given my propensity to protecting both my actual identity and my persona’s identity very successfully over along period of time, I’m really gonna join an online pedo ring and use the name ‘th3j35t3r’ right? What a bunch of transparent derps. So we see that Anonymous is willing to alter their so-called data dumps and add innocent people into the ranks of fucking rapists and child sex offenders whenever it suits their cause. Classy.

So Lets Break It Down

Below are some tweets I received from @johntiessen – 2 freaking years ago, this guy is fucking genius, but he should be by now because he’s been on the planet for 50 YEARS already. This prime example of why anonymous has become a total farce has been trying to grab my attention for a while now. His latest barrage of shit can be summed up with the following screen grabs which he posted, after getting no response from me to his attacks ‘on my mom’

(remember this dude is 50 years old!)

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Then, after getting no response from me to his attacks ‘on my mom’ (remember, dude is 50 years old!)

You see what he did there? Fucking genius huh?

He has also tried tell media outlets the same bullshit. I know the rule – ‘don’t feed the trolls’ but in this case I will make special dispensation. So @johntiessen and his claims by their nature seem to infer that he knows a lot about me. For him to make such disgusting claims would require him to have access to at least the following:

• My Full Name
• My Marital Status
• My Military Records

NONE OF WHICH HE HAS – So I’d love to know where he is getting this shit from?

Explanation John?

So just in case anyone is stupid enough to listen to these bullshit claims please bear in mind they are unfounded, unsubstantiated and another pathetic attempt by anons/supporters to discredit me. But in doing so they have only suceeded in confirming the joke that they have become.

Here’s a picture of @johntiessen from his >>> MySpace profile <<<<

NICE (ASS)HAT!

One question that immediately springs to mind is what the hell is this 50 YEAR old asshat doing prowling round on a social network that is predominantly occupied by children? And before anyone says he’s not ‘Anonymous’ – anyone can be Anonymous right? He is a well known supporter here’s and here is his google + profile, lovely pics in there: https://plus.google.com/108239566936254573884/photos

I urge Anonymous to quit trying to attack me, and look at working out a way you can jettison the hundreds of insignificant little pricks like @johntiessen that operate under your collective banner, use your name, without having any deep knowledge of what you originally were. Until then you will never be taken seriously. Your business model is flawed and the cracks are showing. Make no mistake Anonymous, you are under threat, not from me as I am very busy, but from those idiots you allow to speak for you. Although I think it could be too late, you have nowhere to go really.

Anonymous broke their own NYPA rule with Sabu, and allowed themselves to be steered, now he is done steering, all you are left with is exactly how you started – mostly trolls and insignificants. Any good you try and do now will be forever tarnished. In short you shot both your own feet.

Wait There’s More and This IS Interesting

If you recall above I put it to him that, For him to make such disgusting bullshit claims would require him to have access to at least the following: My Full Name, My Marital Status and My Military Records

Then later

No such evidence or proof has yet surfaced. Funny that?

So after all this bullshit I decided to to check out Mr Tiessen’s own criminal history with Minneapolis Court Records, well HOLY SHIT!!! It turns out Big John Tiessen HIMSELF is a convicted sex criminal. The screenshot below was found here:  http://www.mncourts.gov/ on search by defendant name.

RUHH ROHH – JOHN TIESSEN’S CRIMINAL HISTORY
INCLUDES SEX A OFFENCE

CLICK FOR LARGE – it’s worth it!

I think at the very least, we have a classic case of something called ‘projection‘ – Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where John Tiessen subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings.

John’s mom needs to wheel him down to get checked out at the mental health clinic, in his favorite stroller and remember John, you persistently attacked me, don’t cry about it now. You asked for the kraken, now embrace the hate. I am sorry I had to do this John. You brought me to your door.

Never spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours - Brian Koslow

Stay Frosty.

J.

UPDATE:

Johnny Tiessen stopped by this blog not long ago so I took the opportunity to spring a chat on him. After I had finished tearing him a new asshole he came to the conclusion that he was in fact a total arse and made the following video saying so:

This is a great summary of events via @superAnomonus:

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Interesting times we live in. We all know about the Gaza/Israel conflict. Anonymous (now dubbed #Anonhamas) as usual took the side of the recognized terror outfit, HAMAS,  and attacked random Israeli websites. There’s more about #Anonhamas  increasing sway towards terrorists here. I responded by shutting off three major HAMAS run propaganda websites, including their TV channel site.

After the ceasefire, I duly halted my own actions too. But as usual #Anonhamas wanted to exact some kind of revenge on me, and just like last time got their pathetic terrorist sympathizing buttholes handed to them. Again.

So it’s the day after Thanksgiving, and this very blog came under yet another ridiculous DDoS attack from #Anonhamas. This time I decided to try a different tactic, while confirming some concepts too. Now, we all know there is a huge link between the ranks of #Anonhamas and the likes of ‘Ralphy’ and his #OWS bums below (you should watch this video):

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FOR A MINUTE THERE I THOUGHT HE  SAID  ‘GOD BLESS YOU’ AT THE END THERE, FURTHERMORE WHY DOESN’T THIS MAGGOT  ‘OCCUPY A JOB’?

So given that #Anonhamas support internationally recognized terrorists and align themselves with ‘people’ and I use the term loosley, like Ralphy above, you can imagine after relentless attacks on this site I need to defend myself.

So here’s the new tactic….

My site is rather well protected by Cloudflare – but I wanted to poke these fuckers in the eye, or more precisely make them poke themselves in their own eye, with their own chubby sweaty turd encrusted fingers. Firstly I will explain what a DNS name is for those that need it. DNS names are just pretty names for IP addresses. For example one of googles IP addresses is 209.85.148.138 but it’s far easier to remember ‘google.com‘ which literally points to the IP address. There’s more control too when you control the Domain Name and or DNS server.

But when using Cloudflare‘s awesome services nobody can see the actual IP address of your webserver. Which means they can only send their DDoS traffic at the server via its domain name, in this case ‘th3j35t3r.wordpress.com’ – and I have full control over this subdomain – and I can point it to anywhere I please in any manner I please. So I simply redirected my domain name to the Occupy ‘movement’s main website. Known as ‘occupytogether.org’. Remember #Anonhamas are big supporters of the Occupy Movement and many of their ‘members’ are also members of the Occupy Movement. Fair game.

Here’s what happened next (Read in reverse order):

So from that we can deduce, they are not totally ‘leaderless’ as they so often claim and have elements of both ‘command and control’, also the link between #Anonhamas and the ‘Occupy’ Movement  is strong. I’d love to have seen exactly how that went down between them. Did Occupy get on the phone to Anonymous and tell them to quit whacking me, because in doing so, they were in fact whacking them(selves)? 44 minutes is all it took to totally halt the attack using nothing more than a DNS redirect.

This is an interesting concept. Like using a mirror to bounce a laser beam right back at the enemy, forcing them to quit the shenanigans, double-time.

I might well look into this as a possiblity for an effective offensive cyber counter-measure, and automate it so the server detects an attack and looks at where it is coming from or it’s characteristics and then auto-redirects the domain a known list of derps, oh sorry I meant to say perps or their known associates, all the while checking if the attack is still ongoing and waiting for an all clear signal to reverse the redirect. Or something.

‘A small team of ‘A’ players can run circles round a giant team of ‘B’ and ‘C’ players. – Steve Jobs.

Stayin Frosty.

J.

UPDATE: Some folks don’t quite get it. It’s not rocket science…

• My site comes under #Anonymous DDoS attack via it’s Domain Name (which you will note is a subdomain of mil.nf) as they cant see the real cloudflare protected IP address, but they can target by domain name instead.
•  I then redirect my own domain name that is under attack to known #anonymous inter-breeders website ‘occupytogether.org’ on 209.234.253.221 and don’t have to wait 24-48 hours for DNS propagation because as stated above th3j35t3r.wordpress.com is infact a subdomain of ‘mil.nf’
• ‘occupytogether.org’ goes down as the #Anonymous initiated DDoS traffic fired at my domain name hits their server and snags it up, so it no longer serves content.
• 44 minutes later ‘occupytogether.org’ comes back up, because #anonymous have finally realized whats going on and halt the attack. And hopefully feel more than a little stupid.
• I reverse my redirect and point my domain name back to my own server and everything is back to normal. No attack, site online. Yay.
• I write this blog post to explain the hilariousness or as they would say ‘lulz’.

GO FIGURE.

UPDATE: 11/28/12: Still the usual career trolls are trying to insinuate that what was described above is ‘technically impossible’ – in the face of this I decided to do a realtime demonstration of the redirect and how fast one can facilitate it on the fly. I conducted the demo live over twitter to eliminate any further doubt or discreditation attempts by the usual nay-sayers. Below is a screenshot over the demo occuring (please read from the bottom up)

MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED OUT THERE

FINALLY THIS:

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