Every inch is important.
This is the energy Anonymous is supposed to have. I still fondly recall the work they did on Scientology.
Mr Robot was great
One of the big - but to be expected - problems had always been, that basically every group or individual could don the “Anonymous” label. But yeah, this is in the spirit of the anti-authoritarian hacker identity, that it started out with.
Granted that any time humans wield anonymous power without oversight there will be bad behaviour. When I was younger I took for granted that a key part of the social construct of Anonymous was an ironic awareness of that, hence its suitability for striking back at high-handed enemies of humanity.
I was quite young back then.
Obligatory “fuck Graham Linehan”.
Absolutely. It’s actually kind of ironic considering the episode ”the Internet is coming" actually had one of the better portrayals of a trans person in popular media for some time. Better if they actually cast a trans person for the role. But still.
I would never watch anything new with him attached. Though I don’t think that’s a worry now. But I’ll watch the old stuff for the great cast. Moran and Bailey were fantastic in black books. Probably didn’t hurt that Moran had a large hand in writing too. Parkinson, Ayoade, O’dowd, Fielding, and Berry are what made the IT crowd not Linehan. The proof is in the pilot for the version they wanted to foist on us yanks. Even with Ayodae returning, he couldn’t make it funny by himself. And that’s saying something.
the energy Anonymous is supposed to have
Obligatory “Anonymous is not your personal army,” but yeah, this is Anonymous at its best.
The energy that Anonymous as a social construct is supposed to have. I’m not here to give notes to any would-be vigilantes.
My point was more that the notion that Anonymous is “supposed to have” any particular energy is kinda misunderstanding its nature. It’s nice when it does good things, but when that happens it’s only because people who did good things decided to label themselves as Anonymous, not because because there’s some entity with good intent deciding what Anonymous should do.
I fucking HATE that there is a typo. 😡
Those things always have at least one typo. That’s how you can tell they’re legit.
I guess it fits the bill for hackers not to be concerned with things like proof reading lmfao
In the old days, hackers were also fans of lexicology, etymology and other nerdy word stuff. Now that they’re into anime, it has some unexpected drawbacks (but they make cute emojis, I guess).
They’re all too neurodivergent now 😔
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They’re doing what we should all be doing. Particularly those obsessed with the 2nd amendment, since this is literally what it was made for.
Fuck, I wish we heard more about chaotic good hackers like this more often. They’re like our modern day super heroes in some regard to me.
I think they caught most of them from back when they were more active (2009-2012) or at least were more in the public eye.
Lulzsec comes to mind
The ones that didn’t get caught went underground and stopped working together as ‘anonymous’
There is no way this is the same guys who went after Scientology, however, I do love whoever they are. We need more people fighting fascism.
They’re based on the AnonOps IRC so it is, technically, the same sect of Anonymous. Although anyone can join and start an Op there so…
Yeah… I’d be real careful getting started by joining a particular irc server known for anything.
This was YEARS ago. Haven’t been on there in over a decade now ;)
I was part of anon in the mid-2000s hahaha. It was a blast. I met a lot of really cool people!
Remember that time Anonymous fought Scientology? That’s why we don’t have Scientology anymore.
Can’t tell if sarcastic or not.
Yeah, Scientology is still quite powerful but they were exposed for a lot during that attack.
Plus, this isn’t the same group of people. Anonymous was never a set group of hackers or anything, it was a catch all name used back in the day to keep anonymity, and then later on a bunch of edgy dorks decided to pretend they were an actual organization
I spoke out about Scientology and now have unmarked cars/vans outside my house daily (off and on for a year)… I was perma banned from Reddit for speaking my truths… it’s effing terrifying!!! Fuck Reddit and the cesspool they are creating! It’s embarrassing!
I hope that what you’re saying is true and that you aren’t experiencing some kind of breakdown.
I say that from a genuine place of concern AND, it breaks my heart that we live in a world where someone has to worry about such things.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Scientologists were stalking you, but I’ve been making fun of them online for 20+ years and I’ve never had this problem.
Were you born into Scientology? If you were, yeah, they’re probably stalking you. Same if you joined the cult at any point in your life.
Film this shit and ask people to confirm you’re dealing with this.
No breakdown, was never born into it but spoke out against my friends and family in that joke of a church/cult and now it scary! Because they targeted me on social media… I dropped everything but now Lemmy.
I believe you in documenting the encounters I have, I honestly never thought to document because I legit just felt like they were turn on me and make me be the bad guy. But honestly with everything going on… Miscaviage showed how ridiculous the “religion” is with him making shit up! They legit believe in some sort of alien…. Coming to “save them” … I still have friends in the “cult of Scientology”. And levels that don’t exist because their cult is garbage, he’s in it for money!
Instead of facing black pieces of paper to DOGE, we can just sign their emails up for so many spam mailing lists. So many that legit emails get lost in the chaos
Yes more more more!!
I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition, but I’ll allow it.
nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
Oh, you think you’re clever, do you?
THAT’S IT. BRING OUT… THE COMFY CHAIR!
Twitter is working fine, “blackouts” aren’t what they used to be. DDOS attacks aren’t really hacking, and would barely interrupt services at the level today’s “anonymous” has access to.
People claiming to be anonymous hackers very slightly inconvenience whoever’s still on Twitter.
I’m no fan of Musk, but something more powerful needs to be done.
Is it possible to take down the server’s that back Tesla’s? Just hinder voice commands, maps, software updates, telemetry, the mobile app, etc.
That’d be fun.
If the computer exists it can theoretically be compromised, it just depends on the resources of the individual or group attempting to compromise it. For example, the US Government created Stuxnet targetting the completely airgapped computers which operated centrifuges in Iran. They created brand new malware, loaded it onto flashdrive and sprinkled said flashdrives near the target, then sat and waited then observed their nuclear refinement centrifuges fail way more rapidly than they should effectively killing their nuclear program
Anonymous
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while
Where were these fuckers before the election‽ They did a lot of talk in the lead up to Nov 6th but then nothing came of it
Now they actually want to do something lmao
They were probably murdered by the CIA or something. Who would know?
you misspelled suicide
where were these fuckers before the election
Shitposting on chan boards, running right wing grifts, spreading QAnon conspiracies…
I’m not sure what launching a DDoS would have accomplished… Twitter will be back soon enough
They’ve DDoS’d X/Twitter?
Apparently that’s what the news is saying
Surely they just clicked the ‘X’ button and it closed itself down?
Bunch of anons: DDoS Xitter
Elona: Ukraine did it!
Wait before this dimwit will start screaming of casus belli against an unfriendly Ukraine and the USA will start selling Russia weapons.
Makes me wonder,
Similar to all the peeps 20 years ago in the SETI@home movement, where you could donate your CPU/bandwidth.
Is there any ‘safe’ way to donate and collectively protest on the internet by signing up to a botnet?
low orbit ion cannon and friends were tools for participating in anon ddos ops back in the day, but it wasn’t exactly safe – without a vpn your isp and other intermediaries can see your traffic, and the host can see your ip address. with a vpn you’re in part dosing your vpn, depending on the attack
no idea how anon organizes such things these days
