Anonymous Strikes Back, Hacks "Internet Security" Firm

[Dogstile]

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.

Constructive post. Ive honestly never seen the "If you dont like X, Don't Y" before. I see where it addresses the fact that posting articles about fools and morons makes it seem like being a fool and a moron are a good thing, worthy of being lauded and/or followed.

Its good that you didnt choose to attack what I typed, and kept your focus on what my over-arching point was. Sometimes it seems as though people lose track of whats really important so that they can focus on things like their ego, or e-go as it would be.

Keep up the good work!
Whiskey Echo!!
Mythgraven

Fine then

"It seems like we are seeing weekly updates on what 4year old Chan is up to"

We pretty much are, and we seem to be enjoying it.

" and all it seems to be doing is legitimizing their actions. "

Realizing crime is happening doesn't mean you approve.

"Anonymous is neither news, nor interesting, nor relevant to the internet. Unless we make them."

Your opinion. Because that's an opinion, it's not a valid point.

 

[kjh242]

There's a book on this... it's a teenage read at best, but it's relevant and pretty good. Despite the fact that it takes place in San Fran *cough*. Or that it's rather... excessive. eh, read it anyways. First thing i thought of when i read this.

The Book: Little Brother by Cory Doctrow

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Yeah! Anon #1 thaAH....*ahem*
I mean, thats terrible, we should have predicted such an ingenious scheme, how dare they! Lock them up, do it I say! *cough*

 

[Volafortis]

Regardless of everyone's views of Anonymous, you need to respect how fluidly it can conduct it's operations with no "command structure"

 

[Tenky]

I want Anonymous to be the global internet authority... they are fair, reasonable, and take no sides, just equality.

Best of all... they're not governed or goverment... they are everyday joes!

I'm not even sure if this is supposed to be a real thing...Did you mean this for sarcasm? Because honestly that sounds like the very worst possibility I can conceive of...Well, maybe not the very worst, but so close as to be a non-issue. And the very worst is hardly a possibility.

No good can come of Anonymous. Whatever good they could have done was canceled out long ago by their extreme willingness to hack into anybody and everybody's websites, do whatever they want, and call it "justice." Justice would be a fine and some jail-time for these people who believe themselves above the law. They ain't helping anybody, quite the opposite in fact, and I simply cannot support their methods, not in the least. There was a time, before I became a mature, responsible human being with some basic sense of right and wrong, when I would have been all for Anonymous. That time is long gone.

I'm sorry if I misled you in any ways... but the way things are right now, WE the PEOPLE have no decent representation in the world that is meaningful... Plus everyone is too much of a pussy to bring up the pitchforks and torches up to their government to be heard...

So anonymous has it right, it inflicts fear of a collective, which is the common people of this world, agains't corporate bullshit and injustice. You'll be glad to see anonymous scare the shit outta whoever decides to lock you up for this one mp3 you illegaly downloaded years ago.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

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

They aren't too good at what they do if they were too good they wouldn't of had to trick someone into giving them the password they would have been able to get it only through their programs.

It's kind of funny when I hear people talk about things they know little to nothing about like they know a lot about it.

 

[remorsless]

It's good to see them doing some real hacking instead of this denial of service crap. Well... Maybe "good" isn't the word I'd use for something illegal... Actually it was more a fishing fishing scam than a hack, hey? Still, more impressive than the denial of service attacks.

 

[thedeathscythe]

that's pretty pathetic dont these people know what every steam users knows NEVER GIVE YOU PASSWORDS TO ANYONE ON THE INTERNET gees you think they would have at least given the man a phone call before just sending the admit passwords whille nilly

I think "Jussi" is getting fired. Also, I find this pretty amusing, especially how they put everything on thepiratebay. Sure, they leaked a bunch of secret emails, as well as the members that they "found", but I would love it if the FBI decided not to buy the information from them but just get it for free after all.

 

[Newbonomicon]

"Anonymous" wants people to post this type of news "story". They are not some shadowy group, organizing big e-heists via IRC. To be a "member" of Anonymous, all a person needs is:

a) Computer knowledge.
b) A dedication to anarchy.
c) A fetish for people being scared of you.

It turns out, there's a surprising number of these people on the Internet, and none of them want to get caught. And if you don't know the identity of someone, all you can call them is "anonymous". Eventually, idiots like the people on Fox News pick up on this "trend", and thanks to the aforementioned fetish these people have in common, they just roll with it.

 

[SkyeNeko]

s-seriously? they did that THAT easily?!! what is this world coming toooooo

[small]go anon[/small]

 

[Shoto Koto]

Haha, the only thing I can really say about this is... Rinsed.

 

[ilion]

It has begun.

 

[samsonguy920]

A predictable next step, but still lame and useless. Not to mention giving the agencies looking for them more breadcrumbs to nail more of their numbers. This would actually be the logical time to go to ground and disappear for a year. I'm not optimistic that all of them will get caught, but I have to wonder for those who do get caught, how many were swindled into doing what they did without better reason?

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.

I highly doubt that any one person in this group is not doing something else with their time.

 

[Denamic]

Can't help but root for anon here.
Net neutrality is important.
Anyone who goes against that needs to get a kick in their balls.

 

[Dfskelleton]

This is just asking for more trouble. Maybe I wasn't aware of how deep the battle between sweet home America's law enforcement and the internet's mysterious self proclaimed vigilantes. It's probably only a matter before one of them says "Screw it." and launches some super attack on the other. I'm vaguely interested to find out how this ends.

 

[Calbeck]

"How exactly do you plan to fight a group that has no organization, Hoglund?"

Considering that you already mentioned that 40 Anons were house-searched by the FBI and 5 others arrested already?

Apparently, by investigating their membership, following the chain as Anon members unable to flee the microscope start giving up their friends, and putting them in jail for committing felonies.

Just a thought, mindja.

 

[Shjade]

On the letter, Anonymous claims to seize the website under section 14 of the rules of the Internet.

Now, the most popular rules of the Internet [http://asset.soup.io/asset/0850/2687_e0ac.jpeg] clearly states that section 14 is "do not argue with trolls - it means that they win", which really doesn't make sense under the context... XD

Two possibilities:

-He's reading from a different rulebook than you are.

-He's saying you shouldn't question his rule citation since doing so means you're arguing with him, which means he wins anyway.

 

[Calbeck]

I think "Jussi" is getting fired. Also, I find this pretty amusing, especially how they put everything on thepiratebay. Sure, they leaked a bunch of secret emails, as well as the members that they "found", but I would love it if the FBI decided not to buy the information from them but just get it for free after all.

Either way, the FBI gets the emails and the member information. The fact that Anon actually made a big deal about most of this being publically available data just underscores how little security THEY use --- their only defense is to attack. And, frankly, all they did was deface a website and crack a few jokes. The worst they did was embarrass an idiot sysop who fell prey to amateur tactics --- and he'll be replaced for that very reason.

Meanwhile, the FBI has a contract with the company. They'll get paid regardless, not to mention the kind of obvious point that the FBI is not likely to trust Anon releasing information on itself. They'll want the HB data if for no other reason than cross-checking.

 

[Krion_Vark]

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

They aren't too good at what they do if they were too good they wouldn't of had to trick someone into giving them the password they would have been able to get it only through their programs.

It's kind of funny when I hear people talk about things they know little to nothing about like they know a lot about it.

Someone quoted me and said something about finding the weakest link which is the people who are part of that area. He used the scenario that what is the point of using a blow torch to get into a safe when you know someone that will give you the key. My question is why the hell would you be using the blowtorch for a safe if I had a blowtorch I would be having so much more fun with it than cutting into a safe.

 

[LogicNProportion]

lolwut?

Did Anonymous just hack the equivalent of a Patriot AI?

La-li-lu-le-lo. La-li-lu-le-lo.