"Anonymous" being just a bunch of people who cares about something, and in coordination with others who equally cares about it, do something about the matter seem to be a too abstract concept for most people.
Believe it or not, there's a certain amount of dissent within this large collective of individual human beings.
You've touched on a point the group is divided on: How much heroism (however defined) should the group engage in? Is it nobler to lulz, or to take up LOIC against a sea of shitheads, and in DDoSing, convince CNN to notice?
That, or some people are sociopaths, some people are zealots, and deciding who's who says more about you than about them.
Did you listen to the end to hear the tacked-on section "blah blah this just in: internet celeb leak was released on a board affiliated with anonymous."
ha. anonymous hasn't been active on 4chan in... 5-8 years.
but what else would you expect from a news site sponsored by the industrial military complex:
I watch PBS regularly (I enjoy news hour and frontline a lot) and occasionally there will be a preroll commercial for BAE Systems and it feels like the kind of commercial you'd see for the malevolent megacorp in cyberpunk movies like OCP in RoboCop.
Tangentially related from my rudimentary analysis, BAE Systems comes out on top from the top line item for each county under the 1033 program, that the nytimes added to their wiki for their data dump of the foia [0]. Interesting that A British multinational defense contractor comes out on top for a US Federal Program.
Anonymous largely has nothing to do with 4chan these days anyway. They had a brief, but important time around 2006-2009 on 4chan but they have no connection these days aside from their shared history.
Huh. More intelligent that most media descriptions. It lacks a description of 4chan or Project Chanology.
Probably should be interviewing Gabriella Coleman[1] for a translator of Anonymous to the world.
> And one of the parts of the story, what I’m reporting on is a few years ago, there were briefings on Capitol Hill about this idea about this threat of Anonymous. Keith Alexander at the time was saying — suggesting that Anonymous had the capability to attack power grids.
Given the right ip address, a telnet session, and a plastic-covered keyboard, I expect a deranged orangutan could take down power stations by throwing poo at the keyboard. Some of those SCADA systems are not designed to be error-tolerant on the control plane in any sense.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 45.8 ms ] threadImpressive.
"Anonymous" being just a bunch of people who cares about something, and in coordination with others who equally cares about it, do something about the matter seem to be a too abstract concept for most people.
You've touched on a point the group is divided on: How much heroism (however defined) should the group engage in? Is it nobler to lulz, or to take up LOIC against a sea of shitheads, and in DDoSing, convince CNN to notice?
That, or some people are sociopaths, some people are zealots, and deciding who's who says more about you than about them.
http://www.gonullyourself.org/ezines/ZF0/zf0%204.txt
:D
ha. anonymous hasn't been active on 4chan in... 5-8 years.
but what else would you expect from a news site sponsored by the industrial military complex:
http://www.baesystems.com/what-we-do-rus/products-&-services...
Rokar’s Silver Bullet transforms standard artillery into precision guided weapons.
A main supplier of explosive materials to the Department of Defense
The U.S. Military’s Primary Propellant Manufacturer
[0] https://github.com/TheUpshot/Military-Surplus-Gear/issues/10
Probably should be interviewing Gabriella Coleman[1] for a translator of Anonymous to the world.
> And one of the parts of the story, what I’m reporting on is a few years ago, there were briefings on Capitol Hill about this idea about this threat of Anonymous. Keith Alexander at the time was saying — suggesting that Anonymous had the capability to attack power grids.
Given the right ip address, a telnet session, and a plastic-covered keyboard, I expect a deranged orangutan could take down power stations by throwing poo at the keyboard. Some of those SCADA systems are not designed to be error-tolerant on the control plane in any sense.
[1] http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Gabriella_Colema...