Anonymous Threatens Internet With "Operation Blackout"

[Havoc Himself]

Kind of makes the wannabe hacker in me go squee but seriously!? Fuck you Anonymous! How do you guys expect me to go without YouTube for a day!? Oh wait I'll just right down a few IP Addresses to long videos that I enjoy which doesn't go through HTTP in theory it should work.

 

[Havoc Himself]

I know that this likely won't work and we will still be browsing the internet at the end of the month, but I just in case I have a list of the ip addresses of common sites for anyone that wants a backup plan.

tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201

Now that's emergency preparedness! Well assuming there is actually going to be a internet wide state of emergency.

 

[lacktheknack]

>government, banks, etc. screw over the public
>Anonymous screws over the public

The public just can not win anymore.

 

[PinkiePyro]

umm...
excuse me anon

could you please possibly hold off the blackout till Sunday.. please?..
because new pony episodes come out on saturday and ... well I'd like to stream them

 

[Rikomag132]

Lol, I'll just be playing LAN with my friend anyways so I don't really care.

 

[Akytalusia]

eh whatever. i won't get my hopes up. i'll just give my usual 'good luck with that'.

 

[Hatchet90]

I have big exam that I have to take online on Saturday. I swear to God if these dumb mother fuckers try to mess the Internet up, it will be my personal goal in life to find them and kill them.

Also, how is this any better than SOPA? Anonymous' logic is, "we are going to prove the error of SOPA's potential Internet breaking ways by breaking the Internet!"

 

[Taunta]

But Anon, I have homework to do!

Seriously? I am extremely skeptical of any of this. Also I don't think they've thought their master plan all the way through.

We're going to protest legislation that breaks the internet, by breaking the internet. How exactly is pissing on everyone's shoes supposed to enamor people to them?

And if this goes go through...well, I needed to get some writing done anyways.

 

[tharglet]

Lol, couple of years ago I used to work for a company where their ISP *did* have a backup DNS server... only it was in the same data center....

Power went down, DNS died. Rang up the ISP to confirm the DNS was dead, asked them about backup, only to find the backup was in the same center ><. Ended up dredging IPs from my cache for half the day. Wasn't anything serious tbh. Nowadays I know some IPs of the public DNSes as well. May or may not help, depending on how some of the public ones behave to the outage.

 

[Ogargd]

Protest taking fascist like control of the internet by taking fascist like control over the internet, good work guys.

 

[Paragon Fury]

Yes Anon, this is how you win friends and supporters. By pissing everyone off, placing yourself quite neatly into the "cyber terrorist" catagory, and convincing most, if not every, major government that its time to break out the big toys to jail/kidnap/assassinate you (depending on who is doing the action).

You want to be told how bad an idea this is before or after you do it?

 

[0p3rati0n]

Anonymous has promised to blow up the entire internet at the end of the month.

Aaaaaaand that's where I stopped reading. Whatever level of ridiculousness goes higher than ludicrous, that's what this is.

 

[Shiftygiant]

This doesn't seem like anonymous. Usually they paint troll faces into the grounds of a football pitch or replace each 'He' on Wikipedia with 'Flamingo'. You know, generally just for the lulz. And what strategic value would locking the internet have anyway? If anything It would cut them off from each other. Anonymous, how 'bout you hack a bankers computer and fill it porn? Just a suggestion instead of preventing me from speaking to my friend in Utah.

 

[godofallu]

They couldn't wait 'til AFTER Game of Thrones Season 2 could they!?

Isn't that a TV show though? Why would you need the internet to watch that?

Oh wait, i'll be watching it online too. Or at least I had better be.

 

[romanator0]

Wait... Didn't these guys threaten to do the same thing sometime last year?

 

[Randomeaninglessword]

Yes, because the one way to get a message across to people who are in favour of harming the internet community, is to harm the internet community.

 

[Gmans uncle]

Anonymus: We're gonna shut down the worlds internet for an entire day 'cause we're bad asses like that!
Me:

 

[Triality]

If this really happens I'll... I'll... resent them silently and not do a thing about it!

 

[zehydra]

I am seriously doubting the authenticity of this threat. Seeing as how ANYONE can claim to be anonymous, it doesn't mean the entire collective is for shutting THEMSELVES down. Why in the hell would you attempt to shut down the collective's ability to communicate with one another? How would they know when Operation Blackout is over if there is no set date?

Not only that, but anonymous usually has a habit of claiming credit for an attack *after they've already done it.*

No they'll be able to operate it with it "shut down"

They're not shutting down the internet. They're attempting to shut down the DNS servers which coordinate most of the DNS lookups. It just means that if they were to go down for some reason. You would have to manually enter in the IP address in the web address bar for any website you wanted to go visit, instead of just typing "webaddress".com