Anonymous Threatens Internet With "Operation Blackout"
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If you had read a bit further, this is actually doable.0p3rati0n said:
They're not going to blow up the internet, just attack root DNS servers.
Meaning, to get here, you'd have to type in the escapist's IP address, not just the www.escapistmagazine.com URL
Bah - they could not even take down Facebook and Amazon. Plus there are, what, over a hundred different groups calling themselves anonymous? Just who are these clowns anyway? I'd be surprised if they amounted to little more than 30 teenagers and twenty-something IT students who are looking for something to do on the weekend.
It's almost impossible for them to pull this off. They've made similar grand statements in the past, which all came to nothing. No doubt they might be able to do some damage - inconvenience a couple of thousand people for a couple of hours, at most.
And if they actually manage to, by a miracle, pull this off, say goodbye to internet freedom forever as Uncle Sam and the EU impose new restrictions and safeguards to make sure it never happens again. These anonymous people might seem mysterious and powerful, sitting in their basements, but if they annoy the state enough, real men with real guns will come and get them. That's not necessarily what I want to happen, but it is what will happen. Anonymous and their likes can ANNOY, but they cannot destroy the State. They depend on the state and they depend on the government just as much as anyone, even if they won't admit it. If they got their wish and really did destroy government and order and impose anarchy, it's the computer hackers who will be first up against the wall when the raiders come to their neighbourhood.
It's almost impossible for them to pull this off. They've made similar grand statements in the past, which all came to nothing. No doubt they might be able to do some damage - inconvenience a couple of thousand people for a couple of hours, at most.
And if they actually manage to, by a miracle, pull this off, say goodbye to internet freedom forever as Uncle Sam and the EU impose new restrictions and safeguards to make sure it never happens again. These anonymous people might seem mysterious and powerful, sitting in their basements, but if they annoy the state enough, real men with real guns will come and get them. That's not necessarily what I want to happen, but it is what will happen. Anonymous and their likes can ANNOY, but they cannot destroy the State. They depend on the state and they depend on the government just as much as anyone, even if they won't admit it. If they got their wish and really did destroy government and order and impose anarchy, it's the computer hackers who will be first up against the wall when the raiders come to their neighbourhood.
This. Remember when lulzsec shut down the escapist because we said bad things about them? Crusaders of freedom of speech shutting down dissenting opinions. Thats totally in line and makes perfect sense. Anon is, and will continue to be, massive hypocrits. I care about SOPA anon, and i will write letters to my local politicion to protest it. This doesnt prove anything other than that SOPA is neccessary.Ogargd said:
Lets be honest this is really only one little kid who said it and the media uses it because it sells.
Why would anonymous close down the internet when the whole idea is to open it up seriously that's just idiotic.
Later this will be used to vilify them later on and allow for more government monitoring and blockages.
Seriously they close down websites they have no where near the capabilities to shut-down the web.
Why would anonymous close down the internet when the whole idea is to open it up seriously that's just idiotic.
Later this will be used to vilify them later on and allow for more government monitoring and blockages.
Seriously they close down websites they have no where near the capabilities to shut-down the web.
That falls on a saturday, that's when new pony episodes are posted. This isn't cool anon... Not cool at all 
Worse yet
It's the first day of my spring break and I don't have a cell phone, this pretty much means they are ruining my entire Saturday, that's also incredibly uncool
someone mentioned this already but no porn, that's also incredibly uncool.
I can only imagine how much damage this will do on a world wide scale, especially for people who are 'addicted' to the internet. Lives might be lost, that shits deep.
Ok so this doesn't actually make me want to support anonymous...
It's also a bit scary since it doesn't sound like they entirely understand what they are fucking with but rather just have the basic idea of what they are doing...
I'm not so concerned with the idea that they won't be able to pull it off so much as I am that they won't be able to pull it off 'all the way'
I mean what if they shut it down, but then can't turn it on again?
Worse yet
It's the first day of my spring break and I don't have a cell phone, this pretty much means they are ruining my entire Saturday, that's also incredibly uncool
someone mentioned this already but no porn, that's also incredibly uncool.
I can only imagine how much damage this will do on a world wide scale, especially for people who are 'addicted' to the internet. Lives might be lost, that shits deep.
Ok so this doesn't actually make me want to support anonymous...
It's also a bit scary since it doesn't sound like they entirely understand what they are fucking with but rather just have the basic idea of what they are doing...
I'm not so concerned with the idea that they won't be able to pull it off so much as I am that they won't be able to pull it off 'all the way'
I mean what if they shut it down, but then can't turn it on again?
Yep. Every couple of months they make similar threats. They've threatened to do stuff like this before, they've threatened to do this to Amazon, Facebook and other websites... and it never comes to pass. They're just crying out for attention.romanator0 said:
I am 95% sure that absolutely NOTHING will come of this. I think there is a 5% probability of them managing to block a few big sites and annoy a couple of thousand people for a hour or two... at most.
Remember internet hackers, the more time you spend annoying people, the higher the chances of you being caught. These hackers act all tough and mighty, but the minute a police officer comes to their door, they turn into quivering lumps of jelly! "Don't hurt me Mr Officer, I'll squeal! I'll squeal really good! Just don't put me in the bad place with all the bad people! I'm sorry, wah, I won't do it again!". It's pathetic how easy it is to get them to turn on each other, because these people have no real courage in real life. They hide behind screens and get their kicks out of inconveniencing people.
Okay, that makes a bit more sense.zehydra said:
Even still, if this were to last for days, it would result in catastrophic loss of business for websites that have nothing to do with (or in some cases even SUPPORT) Anonymous and that just sort of seems like biting the hand etc etc. Anonymous usually has a greater focus on specific entities like a government, business, or person that directly oppose their ideals.
This attack is more like setting fire to an apartment building on behalf of the unfairly treated tenants to teach the landlord a lesson. He probably won't learn his lesson and all you've accomplished is making them all homeless.
If I remember my mcsa materiel properly ISP DNS servers maintain their own databases. I could be wrong. As others have mentioned we can resort to IP addresses. I'll me hacking my hosts file now.
I'm sure the mainstream media will paint this as 'an internet protest against financial inequality' and not "TERRORIST ATTACK, ZOMG!"
Seriously, this will only hurt us more. That's if they can even do it.
Seriously, this will only hurt us more. That's if they can even do it.
I'm confused about what they're trying to achieve with this. Are they trying to show what life would be like without the internet? Because there are worse things, much worse things. Anyway I will be impressed if they can do it but I doubt it'll do any good.
Isn't this like cutting off your arm to protest something? Or like cutting off somebody else's arm at least. The on;y thing they are gonna prove is that hackers are the terrorists of the internet.
This is basically the thought I am having, not to mention giving overzealous legislators the ammunition they need to push overbearing bills like SOPA and such.Jaeke said:
Most likely this is a farce, and someone will pull a big FOOLED YOU the next day. Considering I am not going to be fooled, I will not be amused. Anonymous needs to dry up and blow away before their moronic unorganized and narcissistic sense of rebellion screws all of us over.
I continue to be amused by how people still think Anonymous is a group by the usual definition of such.
It's a leaderless swarm not some organization. Someone proposes an idea like this and either people will latch onto this or they won't. That's how Anonymous makes "decisions", by how many people think an idea is lulzy enough to go along with it. If enough people do it reaches a critical mass where more and more people follow along with the swarm. There is no "group" called Anonymous. It's just a bunch of people occasionally moving in the same direction. It's basically an emergent phenomenon of global communication.
It's a leaderless swarm not some organization. Someone proposes an idea like this and either people will latch onto this or they won't. That's how Anonymous makes "decisions", by how many people think an idea is lulzy enough to go along with it. If enough people do it reaches a critical mass where more and more people follow along with the swarm. There is no "group" called Anonymous. It's just a bunch of people occasionally moving in the same direction. It's basically an emergent phenomenon of global communication.