Also today, Bay Area Rapid Transit officials were bracing for a second protest scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. PT to highlight the civil liberties concerns raised by silencing mobile devices. Today's protest was organized by the group Anonymous,
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Meanwhile, Joe Weiss,
HP EliteBook 8740w XT908UT, a critical infrastructure security expert, told CNET he was dismayed that people seem more concerned with hackers posting people's personal data than they do with problems that affect BART's operations and which could conceivably harm more than people's privacy. For example,
SONY VAIO VPCF13CGX/B, BART's 28 trains were stopped for more than two hours a week ago due to a communication problem between two routers, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "What led to the router failure remains a mystery," BART spokesman Johnson told the news outlet.
BART created this page with resources for commuters who need transit information today.
To retaliate against BART, the Anonymous group of online activists defaced the MyBART.org site yesterday and released thousands of subscribers' names,
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Anonymous flyer for BART protest.
CNET's Declan McCullagh contributed to this report.
It's unclear whether BART will disable service again. BART spokesman Linton Johnson told CNET this afternoon that he would not reveal his agency's "tactics," and declined to elaborate.
That's what appears to have captured the FCC's attention. "Any time communications services are interrupted,
JVC GS-TD1BUS, we seek to assess the situation,
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A San Francisco Police Department spokesman said there will be officers above ground ready to help BART officers if needed. An FBI spokeswoman, meanwhile, confirmed that BART had contacted the agency for help in investigating the Web site hack.
"The customer data leak was grossly irresponsible. But there is Anonymous and there is Anonymous. Some dumb apples here and there. That's it,
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People are also angry about the January 1, 2009, fatal shooting of Oscar Grant by BART officers. His shooting--while he was restrained, unarmed, and on the ground--became highly publicized after video from cell phones and cameras went viral on the Internet. The officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after claiming he meant to fire his Taser instead of his gun, and he served a two-year sentence.
Participants had created an Operation BART channel on UStream where they would post video and people could chat. Anonymous also released a link to what was billed as a live audio feed from BART.
Preliminary reports on Twitter this afternoon suggested that BART police--the agency maintains a uniformed division,
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AnonyOps and other Anonymous members were urging people to protest peacefully, and to wear red shirts and masks. "Today's protest is about more than just today. Keep it peaceful and we will succeed in increasing the public's appetite for protest,
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The Federal Communications Commission said today that it's investigating a decision by government officials in San Francisco to pull the plug on subway cell service before a protest last week.
Support that Anonymous had last week when it announced "OpBART,
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Apple Pro MC026LL/A, may have diminished when BART users' information was released publicly yesterday. There was dissent even within Anonymous,
Canon XH A1, which lacks a formal structure or hierarchy and seems to attract followers based on the target. (See this list of recent Internet attack activities.)
BART operators angered people when they switched off cell service in four downtown San Francisco stations Thursday in an attempt to prevent people from organizing and holding a protest of the shooting of 45-year-old Charles Blair Hill on July 3 by BART officers in Civic Center station.
And protesters were urged to use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in the event that cell service is cut off. One
Android app,
Canon GL2, Auto-BAHN, is designed to let people communicate via Bluetooth when cell service isn't working. However,
Sony HVR-HD1000E, it's not available in the Android Market and you need the Android software developer's kit to install the application.
"I cannot talk about our tactics tonight because we are obliged by the Constitution to balance everybody's rights,
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"Here you had two cases within a week--one you never heard of and it shut down the entire system,
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The move to shut down a communication channel, while regularly done in the Middle East, including Egypt and other regimes attempting to thwart pro-democracy and human rights demonstrations, is something previously unseen in the United States.
Separately, Anonymous has launched an operation against the city of Fullerton, Calif., to protest the death of Thomas Kelly, who died after being beaten by Fullerton police last month.
The Twitter profile also released this public statement: "Today's protest is about more than just today's actions. We're also trying to grow the public's appetite for protest. We want maximum exposure for this event and for others. We want the public to see that we aren't bad people."
There is, however, no right to safety in the U.S. Constitution,
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"We were forced into a gut wrenching decision" to cut cell service to protect BART users' "constitutional right to safety."
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