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About CyberArmy

About CyberArmy

Statement of Purpose

CyberArmy is a group of netizens who believe in a deregulated Internet, which is free from external control. We believe in providing tools to assist others who believe in a free Internet - we support Open Source. We campaign against those who abuse the free nature of the Internet. We believe that spammers, child pornographers, web based scammers, and malicious hackers are enemies of the Internet. We believe that the Internet can be self-regulated, and that we, as equipped and knowledgeable netizens, can control and suppress abusers of the Internet, with legal methods, by consolidating together as a united CyberArmy.

The CyberArmy Vision

CyberArmy is the largest and most effective Internet Freedom organization in the Cyber World. It organises people with devastating efficiency. Any threat to the freedom of the Cyber World is met with our irresistable force. Every month, we recruit more people than the previous month. These people are easily integrated and expertly trained into the CyberArmy, where their skills and ability are focussed by a clear command structure to the best effect. The World knows who we are - as we protect, build, and control the Internet.

What We Do

The Internet was formed without government help, and has survived quite well without interference. The CyberArmy believes that we don't need hundreds of Internet censorship, control, and administration laws. Do you know that in many countries (USA included), your long distance telephone calls, and email are filtered through government computer labs (the 'Echelon' organisation in the US, Canada, Australia, NZ, and UK), which checks your communication for subversive content? And not just governments. Big business is constantly trying to throw its weight around on the net - bullying small companies on domain name issues, the Music and Motion Picture industries. Recently, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has tried to ban Linux software which plays DVD movies. They don't have much legal or moral authority to ban a piece of software, but unless small individuals comply, we are forced to concede, or face costly litigation.

So what about internet abusers? We don't believe in complete deregulation of the Internet - that's anarchy and we would be hit with tons of spam email each day and no one with power to stop it. But do sick kiddie porn websites, spammers, and scammers justify the government getting involved in the Net? That's always the argument they give. Yes, we monitor all your email in case someone is using email to send kiddie porn. Really, what use have any governments been in stopping kiddie porn, or spam in your e-mailbox? They've been useless. It's always funny to see governments trying to track down a hacker, they're useless. The Net isn't a national thing that can be controlled by national governments.

What our idea is that the Internet users can regulate these people ourselves. In just the last few months (early 2000), we have shut down three spammers, got over 1000 faxes sent to the US congress about Echelon, got about 500 people to complain at once to the MPAA about DeCSS. And so on. Recently, our child protection division under Marshal Yoshi has been also been very effective lately. Not that this will solve the problems of net. But its a more effective way of handling things than any idiot governments have been able to manage.

The CyberArmy Website

CyberArmy.com started out as a free webpage hosted on xoom.com, in mid 1998! It was basically a page which had a pile of web tools on it which I used every day (now portal.cyberarmy.com). No one else had that sort of page yet, and all my friends on the Midnight BBS started using it quickly as their start page. I think it took about a week until it was getting 1000 hits a day. What is strange is that it only took about 12 hours for xoom.com to delete the site. We were then donated space by arctik.com and electronicarmy.com. Name 'cyberarmy.com' was registered about a month later (late 1998), and bought some hosting space at hosting2000.com. I asked permission of the visitors then whether I could put an ad banner at the top of the pages to pay for the hosting, and they thought it was cool. The discussion forum, top 50, and search engines were added. Hosting2000 were excellent, and even though we were getting near 10,000 hits a day, they didn't kill the account.

In early / mid 1999, we leased a RedHat Linux server, and co-located it at Digital Nation. In the picture is the rack of servers co-located there. CyberArmy is one of the RAQ servers. We added free homepages. We also added the 'Zebulun Challenge' (see below). The visitors to CyberArmy.Com now all had different rankings according to skill, and higher ranks got more power over the site. In a sense, the site became self-regulating. CyberArmy also switched a lot from being more of a 'hacker' related site to being much more of an internet support group.

As of mid 2000, and following articles on MSNBC, CNN, and ZDNet, CyberArmy is getting 100,000 hits per day just on the main pages. We also host around 3,000 free homepages which generate about 20,000 hits a day. We have been discussed on CNN and ZDNET. CyberArmy was listed in January as being around the 2600th most visited site on the Internet (cant remember exactly).

The new servers:  In May of 2001 the cyberarmy.com website was relocated to a private LAN hosted on donated servers and dedicated 4 Mbps SDSL.  Thanks to the new hardware and the continued hard work of those that have already put so much time and effort into making CyberArmy what it is today, we can look forward to building it into the self-sufficient, independent, open-source community that we are meant to be.  The CyberArmy administration now has direct physical control over the phoenix server and the CA network  With the DIY mentality we are building our own infrastructure based on open-source operating systems and software, free from corporate ties.  Donations are always welcome to help continue the cause but  CyberArmy will never charge for it's basic services.

The Zebulun Command Structure

The CyberArmy is set up as a regular physical army, just really because that was the name for the site we registered and people wanted it. At last count we were approaching 75,000 registered troops. If you want to make a difference for the web, you can join the CyberArmy. Troopers must agree to complete all the missions - thousands of troopers all writing to congress, or all getting involved in a specific mission, is pretty powerful! If you enjoy being a Cyber trooper, you may also like to undertake missions to gain rank in the CyberArmy. Set before you are a series of Zebulun challenges. By defeating the Zebulun challenges, you increase your rank. Higher ranks have almost complete control over this website. The first few challenges can be beaten in a few minutes, higher levels can take months to defeat - but most of this website is hidden deep within the Zebulun levels. Higher levels also get more say in the choosing and running of CyberArmy campaigns. So take the challenge now! Some of these challenges are, like, breaking javascript locks to the next level, talking a password for the next level out of a bot, beating the server in a game of blackjack, etc. Higher ranks can suggest missions which the cyberarmy should undertake that fit in with our statement of purpose. Then, the whole officer core of the Zebulun cyberarmy can vote on whether we do that mission or not. Higher ranks have more say, and if the mission proposal is passes, all troopers have committed themselves to complete the mission.

The acting Webmasters

CyberArmy is run by me, the Commander in Chief, Pengo. In the real world, Im a student and also run some university servers and do some coding, etc. For more info about me, read about my beliefs.

As of Mid 2000, I've stopped trying to run this whole site myself. It's way too large now. I've delegated a lot of power to CyberArmy Marshals/ Vice Commander in Chiefs. The current Commander in Chief is MrYowler :

 

The retired and inactive Webmasters

In this section are the retired and inactive Webmasters listed. Those people are honoured for their devotion and work they did for CyberArmy while their acting period:

 

Marshal (Ret.) A1B4
Location: unknown
E-mail: a1b4@cyberarmy.com
PGP Key: none Personal homepage: none
Area of his work: General Assistance
General information: A1B4 is a Perl coder and a really old visitor - since 1998

CinC (Ret.) Chawmp
Location: United Kingdom
E-mail: chawmp@cyberarmy.com
PGP Key: here Personal homepage: none
Area of his work: CinC of CyberArmy and Network Admin of CyberArmy IRC
General information: Was one of the CyberArmy Engineers. C and Perl programmer, hacked his way to General in October, 2000 and was awarded for Marshal after writing the brigade scripts. He has put more effort into the brigades etc. than can be imagined. He was really one of the biggest talents here. He also put in alot of work on the IRCD we use on CyberArmy's IRC Network. He was also a NetAdmin on CyberArmy's IRC Network and now the CinC of CyberArmy.

Marshal (Ret.) 11thangel
Location: unknown
E-mail: none
PGP Key: none Personal homepage: none
Area of his work: General Assistance
General information: 11th Angel was one of the first Marshals of the CyberArmy. He was creating scripts to improve the site and the Zebulun Challenges.

CinC (Ret.) pengo
Location: Australia
E-mail: vidra@usa.net
PGP Key: none Personal homepage: Cyber Army
Area of his work: Pengo was the founder of this CyberArmy and the first webmaster of this site. Work commitments caught up with him in mid 2001 which forced him to hand the reigns to Chawmp and then to MrYowler.

Marshal (Ret.) TheGame
Location: unknown
E-mail: thegame@cyberarmy.com
PGP Key: none Personal homepage: none
Area of his work: General Assistance/ Coding for CyberArmy
General information: We aren't really sure if this CyberArmy plumb0r deserves the rank of a retired Marshal. TheGame is still active in the CyberArmy, especially in several important projects. Before his retirement, he was improving the datafile sturcture of the CyberArmy website, helped a lot with the Zebulun Challenges and in was creating loads of scripts (wwwboards etc.)

Marshal (Ret.) bansh33
Location: unknown
E-mail: none
PGP Key: none Personal homepage: r00tabega
Area of his work: General Assistance.
General information: Bansh33 was a great Perl and C coder. He was founding SiegeSoft, a privacy and security related website which he sold for 300K $.

Marshal (Ret.) Yoshi
Location: unknown
E-mail: none
PGP Key: none Personal homepage: none
Area of his work: Commander of the CAPF (CyberArmy Paedophilia Fighters)
General information: Yoshi was the C/O of the highly productive CAPF, and gained high recognition for his work. He was a highly rated staff member, which was shown when he was chosen for the rank of Vice CinC in late 2001. Will be missed.

Marshal (Ret.) craytonic
Location: United Kingdom
E-mail: none
PGP Key: none Area of his work: Coding for CyberArmy
General Information: Craytonic created the Ban Booth script. He never showed up again after the brigade scripts were created.

Marshal (Ret.) Kaladis
Location: Germany
E-mail: kaladis@cyberarmy.com
PGP Key: none Personal homepage: Kaladix
Area of his work: Ex-Commander of CyberArmy Propaganda  
General information: He was doing especially organisative work during his active time in the CyberArmy.

Marshal (Ret.) trapper
Location: unknown
E-mail: trapper@arcanum.co.nz
PGP Key: none Personal homepage: Arcanum
Area of his work: Coding for CyberArmy
General information: Works as a mechanical Engineer and is a very good Perl coder. He was doing coding work and helped the site in general.

Marshal (Ret.) SunDevil
Location: USA
E-mail: none
PGP Key: none Personal homepage: none
Area of his work: General Assistance
General information: He doing a lot of administrative work on CyberArmy. From time to time he hangs out in the CyberArmy IRC Channel.

Merchandise

Cyberarmy t-shirts, mugs, and mouse mats are available from the Cyberarmy Store. All this stuff is handled by an outside company. Get this cool stuff now!

Contact CyberArmy

There are several ways you can contact CyberArmy. Please choose what type of comment or question you have. We get thousands of emails - 90% of them are junk. We get way too many stupid / annoying emails to bother answering them all. So please make sure your message is about the website, and is important.

PGP Key

General Computing Question

Homeland Support Question

Zebulun Questions

Bug Report / Security Problem

Abuse Report

Send a Compliment / Compliment

Want to Assist with the site?

Want to give a constructive feedback?

Other Webmasters

Postal Addresses

central command:
PO Box 319
Rundle Mall
SA 5000
Australia

usa office (server):
PO Box 3132
Iowa City
IA 52240
USA

 

Current Cyberarmy Time: Monday, 01-Apr-2002 06:04:00 GMT    
31 Mar 2002:Class canceled
Becuase of troubles with the teahcers isp we have been forced to cancel the The IIS 5.0 setup class, we will move the class to another time. We deeply apologize for this

- By Ker. elektroz


31 Mar 2002:Brigade Tool
Some of you may noticed the new
tool of Marshal TheGame. You can use it to find free jobs in our brigades.
If you have suggestions for the improvment then please post in the Brigades Forum
about it. Feedback is welcome.

- By Mar. CHi


30 Mar 2002:Brigade Recruiting Post
In the future please post all recruiting post to
www.cyberarmy.com/wwwboard/bri/
Recruitings Posted on other boards will be deleted.

- By Ker. digitaldemon


29 Mar 2002:CAU IIS 5.0 Class
The University's IIS 5.0 Administration class is being held on Saturday and Sunday, 7 PM and 12 AM GMT in #class. For those who cannot make it, logs will be posted.

- By Ker. elektroz


 quote of the minute:

Anybody who doesn't cut his speed at the sight of a police car is probably parked.

mission (red division):

Proposition #2102 - Internet Freedom / Privacy: The US government wants laws so that all software and hardware needs a "bug" inside it. This will not make life easy for software writers and people that want to share anything over the net. I reccommend then people read this and if you decide to take action, then mail this address and tell the government what you think. Proposed for sh4rp of RR communications.
(proposed by CinC. Wang)

(mission completed 168 times)
NB: click here to suggest and vote on future missions. If you have an idea that needs more research, please visit Red Communications.
Poll: "Why don't you join a CyberArmy Brigade" (Mar. CHi)
Brigades don't make sense to me. 35 or 7%
I'm only interested in Zebulun Games. 32 or 6%
Bad experiences with my former C/O. 31 or 6%
Got no time for brigades. 172 or 34%
What are Brigades 240 or 47%
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