On March 17 2005, nine Chicago FBI agents raided and seized all electronic equipment in Jeremy Hammond's apartment. Facing intimidation from both the FBI and the Secret Service, he is being accused of hacking into right-wing website ProtestWarrior.com. While the website had not been damaged and no credit cards were billed, the FBI is threatening to charge him with unauthorized access and credit card fraud totalling to millions of dollars in damages and up to thirty years in federal prison for a crime that hasn't even happened.

Jeremy has done no damage to any system and has not charged anything to any credit card numbers. He is being targetted by law enforcement for his political activism and his involvement in running the hacking website HackThisSite.org. If the FBI indicts Jeremy, he faces federal prison and tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Support is desperately needed to fight this FBI indimidation and these ridiculous charges!

Along with several other Hack This Site activists, Jeremy has put together a hacktivist magazine "Notes from the Hacker Underground" documenting their experiences and sharing tips on internet security, becoming anonymous, and online security culture. Electronic copies are available for free on the net as well as well as available via mail order. Everyone is encouraged to use and reuse all the content stored at the following URLs:

TXT form, best for quickly reading on the screen
 http://www.hackthissite.org/zine/underground.txt

PDF form, ideal for printing and copying
 http://www.hackthissite.org/zine/underground.pdf

For more information on Jeremy's legal situation, see FreeJeremy.com or HackThisSite.org or email freejeremynow at gmail.com


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TABLE OF DISCONTENTS

NOTES FROM THE HACKER UNDERGROUND
1. A Hacktivist Manifesto
2. Major Hack This Site Milestones

TURN ON: HAPPENINGS IN THE SCENE
3. Hack This Site Founder Raided by FBI
4. Right-wing Hackers Target Indymedia
5. Directnic Enforces ICANN WHOIS Contact Info
6. Phpbb 2.10 Disclosure Causes Mischief and Mayhem on the Net
7. Nmap Developer Intimidated by FBI By Wyrmkill

ARM YOURSELF: EXPLOITS AND TECHNIQUES
8. The Art of the Cipher By Psyche
9. Finding and Exploiting PHP Script Vulnerabilities
10. Hacking Local Mac OS X
11. C Compilation on a Low Level By Forcemaster
12. Security Access, Backdoors and Gaining Permissions

TAKE ACTION: HACKTIVISM IN PRACTICE
13. Join Revolution, Live Happier by r3d5pik3
14. Security Culture: Hackers Living in an Age of FBI Repression
15. Police State USA and the Politics of Fear
16. Paradise Engineering, Political Change By archaios
17. Communication and Info Gathering at a Protest By alxCIAda
18. Beyond Physical Borders: Hacking and Activism on the Bet By fetus
19. White and Black By shardz@dikline
20. Autonomous Hacktivism With the Internet Liberation Front