Anonymous Strikes Back, Hacks "Internet Security" Firm

[Loonerinoes]

I am sure the security firm's people have a plan of action that will surely work against these vile hoodlums.

 

[Iron Lightning]

"They didn't just pick on any company, but we try and utterly fail to protect the US government from hackers. They couldn't have chosen a worse company to pick on."

Fixed^

If these fools are the guys protecting the government from hackers than the government desperately need new protectors. I think it's about time for these data-mining cretins to get out of the game.

 

[Phyroxis]

Does anyone else feel a movie adaptation coming up?

In all honesty, I think the FBI should just hire Anonymous.

You can't hire an idea. Anon aren't all hackers. Anon is a collection of like-minded people tied solely around an ideology. Even then its loosely based. Some are hackers, many are not.

I know that. Doesn't mean they couldn't come to an agreement with the part of Anonymous that is hacker.

Isn't the whole point of this news story the fact that they can't find Anon? Or the Anon who are hacking? =P

Besides, this isn't an example of hacking, honestly. Aside from the entry, its mostly just social engineering.

 

[Ewyx]

So, I have a question - if Anonymous is this amorphous blob with no organization...who decides what to put in the open letter?

It's pretty easy, whoever feels like writing it. Since anonymous has no structure, it just adheres to some sort of 'hive mind' if you will. The ideals of anonymous are usually laid out before the campaign even starts, usually a person will set it into motion via a picture that'll get passed around, and people will jump on board with the plan, assuming the plan is worthy.. i.e. /b/ is not your personal army.

Think of it as a collective where ideas get passed around, if an idea that the majority can get on board is passed around, everyone will kinda adopt it and it will be put into action.

 

[BoogieManFL]

Tricking someone into giving you passwords isn't hacking.

 

[Low Key]

How the hell did they get that guys Social Security number? And come to think of it, what are you supposed to do once your social security number has been compromised?

And didn't the Pirate Bay get taken down?

They got his SSN probably by doing a skip trace after they got enough information. It's a technique debt collectors use to follow where you go and to see what you own. And if a SSN is compromised, the IRS can issue you a new number (I think it's the IRS anyways). Also, no, TPB is still very much up.

 

[El Poncho]

There is no point in what they are doing since no one is going to listen to a 'silly little group on the internet'.

 

[Kelethor]

I am, Entertained.

 

[GodofCider]

Agreed, and while I dont care for their actions, and in no way support them, I have to applaud them.

I can't agree with the manner in which the group goes about some of it's 'retaliations'; but then again, an anonymous group being able to account for the actions of it's anonymous members is a bit of a challenge.

Overall though, I'm not opposed to what they are doing.

 

[KidTheFat]

Unless The Escapist is being admin'd by moonlighting members of this testament to Planned Parenthood, may I humbly request that you stop posting stories about these children? It seems like we are seeing weekly updates on what 4year old Chan is up to, and all it seems to be doing is legitimizing their actions. Anonymous is neither news, nor interesting, nor relevant to the internet. Unless we make them.

Whiskey Echo!!
Mythgraven

Judging by the amount of responses to this thread, and how much people are enjoying it and reading it, I'd say it's both News AND Interesting. If you don't like it, stop reading it.

 

[Sennz0r]

Does anyone else feel a movie adaptation coming up?

In all honesty, I think the FBI should just hire Anonymous.

You can't hire an idea. Anon aren't all hackers. Anon is a collection of like-minded people tied solely around an ideology. Even then its loosely based. Some are hackers, many are not.

I know that. Doesn't mean they couldn't come to an agreement with the part of Anonymous that is hacker.

Isn't the whole point of this news story the fact that they can't find Anon? Or the Anon who are hacking? =P

Besides, this isn't an example of hacking, honestly. Aside from the entry, its mostly just social engineering.

Why would they have to find them? All they need to do is get the word out. The right guys will hear it through the channels.
It's all hypothetical though, fairly sure most of them wouldn't do it anyway.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Professional trolls at their finest.

 

[Danpascooch]

I respect the skill of this, THIS is real hacking.

DDOS attacks are not hacking, but this, this is something I can respect the execution of.

 

[Phyroxis]

Does anyone else feel a movie adaptation coming up?

In all honesty, I think the FBI should just hire Anonymous.

You can't hire an idea. Anon aren't all hackers. Anon is a collection of like-minded people tied solely around an ideology. Even then its loosely based. Some are hackers, many are not.

I know that. Doesn't mean they couldn't come to an agreement with the part of Anonymous that is hacker.

Isn't the whole point of this news story the fact that they can't find Anon? Or the Anon who are hacking? =P

Besides, this isn't an example of hacking, honestly. Aside from the entry, its mostly just social engineering.

Why would they have to find them? All they need to do is get the word out. The right guys will hear it through the channels.
It's all hypothetical though, fairly sure most of them wouldn't do it anyway.

Good point. Then again, if they're doing it for the "lulz" I'd guess that few of them would want to seriously work for the fibbers.

 

[Danpascooch]

Does anyone else feel a movie adaptation coming up?

In all honesty, I think the FBI should just hire Anonymous.

You can't hire an idea. Anon aren't all hackers. Anon is a collection of like-minded people tied solely around an ideology. Even then its loosely based. Some are hackers, many are not.

I know that. Doesn't mean they couldn't come to an agreement with the part of Anonymous that is hacker.

Isn't the whole point of this news story the fact that they can't find Anon? Or the Anon who are hacking? =P

Besides, this isn't an example of hacking, honestly. Aside from the entry, its mostly just social engineering.

Well let's see, they broke into their website, replaced it with their own, and infiltrated and published all of the private emails of the company.

What part of this is "not hacking"?

 

[Danpascooch]

The FBI is THRILLED about this I mean in times when layoffs are happening they can hire even more agents to track down the "dangerous members of anonymous" I mean they could say that the only way to stop them is to catch all of them, that could take years meanwhile the deficit gets bigger a bin laden's corpse has not been found yet.

I like how you think hunting down these hackers is a waste of time, while also saying we should expend resources searching for a corpse.

 

[HT_Black]

So, I have a question - if Anonymous is this amorphous blob with no organization...who decides what to put in the open letter?

It's the best "first post" ever, I guess.

 

[KidTheFat]

Tricking someone into giving you passwords isn't hacking.

It's called Social Engineering and it's still considered a form of "hacking." Hacking is too broad a term to really lock it down as one thing.

 

[TheArma]

Dont this people have anything better to do? If they used all that time and energy on legal things they could make lots of money.

wow anonymous really needs to be taken out there too dangerous and too good at what they do

Agreed. 'Anonymous' are really just criminals who use ID theft to fund their crimes. Calling themselves 'heroes' is insulting to anybody who works for a living.

And calling people (like me) who just work for a living heroes is insulting to people who are, y'know, actually heroes. That's a word that gets thrown around far too much. It seems every soldier who set foot in Iraq/Afghanistan is automatically a hero. Now you are calling me a hero because I hold down a job as an IT tech...

And on your specific point who says Anon don't work for a living. I suspect many of their number are working IT professionals. Who says anon makes money from ID theft. Can you explain just how Anon could possibly make money in any cohesive way? I am sure there are Anon's who are criminals of various types, some work, some are kids, some have kids, some are students - your family doctor could be an anon. Want to talk heroes... for all we know a real, genuine one like L/Cpl Beharry (Victoria Cross Recipient) could be an anon.

 

[Sicram]

It's probably skynet.