Comments on: Anonymous Releases Very Unanonymous Press Release

By: Anonymous Releases Very Unanonymous Press Release | About Information Security

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:31:25 +0000

[...] Today, December 10th, Anonymous, an Internet gathering, released a press release which you can read below. In it, a description is provided of what Anonymous is about, what Operation Payback is, and where the media is getting it wrong. Also in it, its author forgot to remove his name in the pdf’s Meta information. Praetorian Prefect [...]

By: MANUAL DEL CYBERACTIVISTA | Blog Informatico

MANUAL DEL CYBERACTIVISTA | Blog Informatico — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:30:01 +0000

[...] des datos personalesEsto es de preogrullo ¿o no tanto? pero ni se te ocurra dejar datos personales ¿intentamos ser anónimos o no? Son especialmente [...]

By: Anonymous Releases Very Unanonymous Press Release | About Information Security

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:32:11 +0000

[...] it wrong. Also in it, its author forgot to remove his name in the pdf’s Meta information. Praetorian Prefect Posted in Informationsecurity | Tags: Anonymous, press, Release, Releases, Unanonymous, [...]

By: The Internet Goes to War | DDoS and Security Reports | Arbor Networks Security Blog

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:44:25 +0000

[...] not realize the tools do not anonymize their PC source IP address nor that word processors store incriminating meta-data in revolutionary manifestos. In short, not exactly the work of evil criminal [...]

By: The Internet Goes to War | Data Protection and Recovery Center

The Internet Goes to War | Data Protection and Recovery Center — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:46:36 +0000

[...] PC source IP address nor that word processors store incriminating meta-data in revolutionary manifestos. In short, not exactly [...]

By: error

error — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 03:49:33 +0000

That’s what I was thinking but thought that would be much too easy to discover. Amazing no one took the time to even look at the basic metadata accessible to anyone with a simple right-click… I am dumbfounded.

By: OG

OG — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:33:08 +0000

I see ‘Anonymous’ newfag brigade has landed. Way to fail guys.

By: Prefect

Prefect — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:17:30 +0000

The screenshot above is from our lab machine, but it is just the dialog box when you right click and look at the document's properties in Adobe Reader.

Paul Rankin did the same thing (but using a Mac).

The further analysis was done with Didier Steven's pdf-parser tool.

By: error

error — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:02:57 +0000

Anyone know what program Paul Rankin used to look at the pdf metadata like that?

By: Shirley

Shirley — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:19:43 +0000

That’s a little better…

By: Les attaques des Anonymous grandement exagérées

Les attaques des Anonymous grandement exagérées — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:34:46 +0000

[...] on est pas foutu de retirer des métadonnées d’un document Word, mieux vaut rester sur sa GameBoy [...]

By: Has “Anonymous” (of WikiLeaks fame) been identified? @ AskWoody.com

Has “Anonymous” (of WikiLeaks fame) been identified? @ AskWoody.com — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:15:21 +0000

[...] Initial analysis by Paul Rankin: http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/12/anonymous-releases-very-unanonymous-press-release/ [...]

By: Praetorian Prefect | The Anonymous PR Guy and a Greece Connection

Praetorian Prefect | The Anonymous PR Guy and a Greece Connection — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:39:57 +0000

[...] you write certain blog posts, you expect to receive a lot of comments from the Intertubes. If you can imagine a social mixer [...]

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:17:33 +0000

Timezone stored in metadata is +2. Greece is in TZ +2.

By: Prefect

Prefect — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:52:38 +0000

That’s a stretch. Would have gone with Heywood Jablome.