#OpNewblood Guide for IRC Chat Setup & Anonymous Interneting

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#OpNewblood Guide for IRC Chat Setup & Anonymous Interneting
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This document is here to hand you the mask, the cloak, and the hat.
Whether you choose to storm parliament is up to you.

First off, welcome to the internet. We are Anonymous, and have been gaining popularity and press as of recent, with stories ranging from Wikileaks, to Protests against Scientology, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report, to Bank of America, to Mastercard and Paypal, to the lawsuit against GeoHotz from Sony, and to the HBGary Scandal (see 1st video below). If you are unfamiliar with Anonymous, the videos below this paragraph sum it up quite well, so watch the super cool moving picture video thingyz directly below this to get an idea of what we do. If you're already familiar with Anonymous, these videos aren't really neccessary.

Wait, wut, ok, anyways: This is the tutorial information for #OpNewblood. We are an operation aimed at helping people interested in Anonymous get started, from computer users who are constantly searching for the 'any key', to users who build and design supercomputers (ie Watson). Anyways, currently we cover helping you get a setup that allows you to stay in regular contact with other Anonymous, and to help you browse and use the internet without exposing your location or any other sensitive information.
And if you need help at any point during this guide, please join in with the #OpNewblood IRC channel via your web browser by visiting here: http://goo.gl/8zxwO. A link to this information will be in the topic in the #OpNewblood channel if you ever need to access this guide again with ease.



IRC Chatting
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- IRC Chatting on a regular basis allows for organization and lets us have lots of lulz. We use a very basic form of chatting that's been around since 1988 called IRC, or Internet Relay Chat. You have not done ANYTHING WRONG by participating in chatting with us. As a human you are entitled to the right to of freedom of speech, and TALKING should not be illegal anywhere. Anyways lets get started:
Hello Newbloods,

Welcome to your introduction to IRC, one of Anonymous' communication mediums of choice. IRC is the oldest used way to chat on a network, even before the internet (LOL). An IRC network has channels where people talk about a topic, so READ the topic! AnonOps, the network that wrote this guide, is currently one of the largest IRC networks for Anonymous.A channel is indicated by a # (hash sign) . Users on the channel with a @, &, %, or ~ in front of their names have elevated privileges, so RESPECT THEM. Check the Wikipedia page on IRC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

First thing you need to do, is download an IRC client for your operating system. An operating system is, for example, Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X. Web-based clients can be a good starting point; these are websites that let you connect to IRC without having to download anything. An example is Mibbit (http://mibbit.com). These webclients are NOT recommended for long-term IRC use. They're simply not secure enough, and they're annoying and cumbersome to use. Find the relevant section below for instructions on how to download, install, and connect to the Anonymous IRC Network with each OS.

Again if you need some extra help and don't quite understand any part of this, join #OpNewblood through your web browser by clicking this link: http://goo.gl/8zxwO

Check links below for help with getting IRC setup for your particular operating system:

Windows

Mac OS X

Linux

And please once you have yourself setup for your operating system, please learn your way around IRC:

How to operate your IRC and Basic Anonymizing

Security
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- After you're able to chat, the next step would be to cover your own butt, or set yourself up to connect Anonymously to the internet. There are various ways to do this, from simple proxies, to darknets (wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_(file_sharing)), to a volunteer supported network called Tor (https://www.torproject.org/), to VPNs or Virtual Private Networks (wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network). While each of these will help you browse anonymously, the best one and almost the easiest to setup is a PAID VPN. There are free versions of VPNs, but we strongly do not recommend these, as they might be selling your internet access information to advertising companies and will most likely be more willing to give up your information in any legal situations.

Again, at any point you find yourself confused and may need a helping hand, join in with #OpNewblood in IRC via this link: http://goo.gl/8zxwO

To get started on setting up your Anonymous Interneting please refer to:

SECURITY HANDBOOK
(warning: very big, so use the table of contents)

Please refer to this link for access to a ongoing list of Paid VPNs:

ANONYMOUS PAID VPNS COLLECTION

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And please, after this guide you feel setup and have a firm grasp on things, stay in the #OpNewblood channel to help newcomers that may enter the channel in the future. Thanks for reading. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome.
You are now Anonymous, but you were already.
We are legion.
Do not forgive.
Do not forget.
We were expecting you.

Special thanks (no particular order):

Effexor, Chuck, g33k, Cogitabundus, Wolfy, Strijela, Trivette, JoePie91, no, crnobela, taru, antivigilante, garrett, nessuno, kyber, Topiary, Anonymiss/Choobear, Denizen, spoonzy, Ryu, nessuno, TarenCapel, muninn/xuminn, AcidBurnTX, astro, dagnos_, VyRy, BarrettBrown, Renegado/itzela, sh4ri4, cred, heyguise, p0ke, and others with knowledge that pop into the channel, help someone, and ride into the sunset.