MagicMouse said:
t3h br0th3r said:
heres what going to happen: the gov is going to get agents in infiltrate annon (which is really childs play). they are going to figure out which annons have some rank/pull the strings. they are going to arrest these people in mass. they will lather, rinse, repeat a few times and they the group known as annon will disapear for a while to let the heat die.
then in a few years they will come back and we will start form square one. or they will decide to quit while they are ahead/free and go back to attacking targets no one really cares about like scientology and facebook.
They can't do that though. If they start arresting people for this then it is going to show the public that the government REALLY IS abusing its power to hush up its secrets. After that even more people are going to be pissed off.
What Anon has been doing so far is equivalent to a large public protest, and not a lot of people are happy when the government steps in and shuts those down.
You have to remember; all Anon needs to win is massive attention. Once it has this it's goal if half done.
a ddos attack falls under the computer misuse act if im correct (im assuming that's what they did, hell thats what they always do edit: just looked, yes it is.), ergo they are within there right to arrest people for it in any way they see fit, in other words they have made themselves targets, and have gave them the means of detainment morally with the general public, unless there going for the whole fill the jails strategy employed by a lot of protests it makes no sense, you see where this is going here, not a good move and very counterproductive, the only benefit i can see from this is that they get attention, and not of the good kind, the kind of attention that labels them as terrorists.... which is quite debatable (note im not saying they are or not) with there current actions as there attacking a government body, and even if its debatable they will be branded as some if the government actually decides to take action against them.
i do hope they didn't just mindlessly rushed in like ive seen in the past, if they have this is going to be ugly, ugly as hell.
note im not not condemning there actions in anyway here, or agreeing with them. Im just saying this from a strategic standpoint, that this was a very VERY bad move to make.
from what i happen to hypothesize is that there hoping that they will not retaliate.... i dont know if this will happen or not, but this is such a risky strategy to make its well madness.
all i have to say, is good luck to them, if annonomys survive i will be somewhat impressed.
havent they learned from previous protests (if we can call it that anymore) that violence and destruction do not help, they usually make things worse damnit.
