This is the energy Anonymous is supposed to have. I still fondly recall the work they did on Scientology.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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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!
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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.
Voting. Voting could have been done. I know it sounds trite and overly simplistic, but that's the power We The People have, as set up in the founding of our country. We just have to use it...
How many people sat out in 2024, as everyone politically-engaged screamed that a Trump administration would be bad for the economy, bad for Palestinians, bad for Ukrainians, and bad for America (because it might literally elect a fascist dictator who will enact Project 2025 and refuse to give up their power)? Several thousand? That sounds reasonable, right? Maybe up to hundreds of thousands? Maybe even a million people...? No. 90 million people who were eligible to vote in the presidential election didn't vote by mail, ignored the election drop boxes, and sat at home on Election Day.
That's enough to beat any entrenched political coalition opposed to progress. That's not some "pie in the sky" fantasy, we literally had the numbers to accomplish every single political agenda that actually helps working Americans:
#If "Did Not Vote" was a candidate:
I say this all without an ounce of schadenfreude. I genuinely don't want to hurt the faces of the people who voted for the leopards, not least of all because we all suffer along with them. I will keep shouting this point because we have to do better in the future. Voting isn't always fun, but it's the first and most powerful defense against a wannabe dictator like Trump or Musk. I literally don't care how "not excited" you are about the candidate that doesn't want to tear the US apart, you need to vote, and vote against fascism. ~~That's our only hope going forward...~~ EDIT: Okay, maybe it's not our only hope, but it's where we have to start.
Billionaires will never allow you to vote away their power.
Never
I guess we should actually try it first before succumbing to defeatism in advance, no? There's a lot more of us than there is of them... What is it people say about the 4 Boxes to be used in defense of Liberty:
- soap
- ballot
- jury
- ammo
"Please use in that order."
(That's a quote from Frederick Douglas)
Exactly. We've never actually used our voting privileges. Not really.
Whenever I hear the argument that voting doesn't do anything, I cringe.
When people show up (not just for presidential elections), shit gets done.
But Muricans are lazy and expect others to do the work for them
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Every inch is important.
Yes more more more!!
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
where were these fuckers before the election
Shitposting on chan boards, running right wing grifts, spreading QAnon conspiracies…
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Anonymous
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while
I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition, but I'll allow it.
nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
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.
Wow, good for them. Way to roll in to save the day after the fascists took power. Too bad they didn't do something when it could have made a difference.
Looks to me like they’re doing a lot more about the problem than all of the protest voters that caused it are doing.
Like what? I get wishing things never got to the stage they are at, but what do you wish a bunch of unorganized hackers did earlier? Genuinely curious as I'm not good enough at coding to think of any creative "solutions"
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
Honestly, even if it isn't doing much, it's making a statement which is more than enough.
Wow it's been a little while since I've heard Anonymous taking credit
Could they challenge DOGE?
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