Anonymous Threatens Internet With "Operation Blackout"

[Gilhelmi]

War, why must they constantly fight. I know the leaders of our nation are not all that good. I just said, in another post today, that I have a great distrust of the government. But, at the same time, I trust them far more then Anonymous.

The Anonymous, anyone who disagrees with them (even mildly) is attacked. Saying, they are wrong gets you their wrath. I fear that if they really did come too power that I would be needing to develop a resistance cell to combat them. I do not feel that way with the current government, I may not trust them with some civil right, but better the devil you know.

I will weep with great Joy when the FBI (and maybe the US military, depending on whether or not they are American) start breaking down their doors.

PS. Taking down the internet, even for one day, will hurt the economy greatly, not too mention other ramifications of the internet being down in our over-connected society.

DEATH TO ANONYMOUS, FOREVER REIGNS THE KING

 

[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.

There is no such thing as "the internet community"

On this scale, there is. Any group of people with something in common can be referred to as a 'community', and in this case the common factor is usage of the internet.

 

[zehydra]

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.

There is no such thing as "the internet community"

On this scale, there is. Any group of people with something in common can be referred to as a 'community', and in this case the common factor is usage of the internet.

People shouldn't just use the word "community" to denote ANY group of people with something in common, since there is more to the idea of community than just that.

 

[mysecondlife]

If I was one of the following: irresponsible leader, sopa supporter, wallstreet banker pricks....

I wouldn't feel threatened. I'd rejoice because the internet is working against them for the most part.

If all they wanted was attention, just sign a deal for reality tv shows or something. As Jon Hamm says, stupidity is something generic Americans love to celebrate...

What is this I don't even...

They are going to shut down the entire internet? Is that even possible?

(Oh wow. something other than that Fry Picture. Pretty refreshing)

 

[DTH1337]

So let me get this straight.

Anonymous have been saying that the internet represents their ideals like freedom of speech and whatnot, and this is also the same group that (along with many other groups and websites) opposed SOPA and PIPA because the bills could potentially destroy the internet.

And now they are going to do the one thing that they have protested against?

You see, this is what I'm talking about. Anonymous have degraded themselves so much because of stupid things like this. They don't care about the people anymore, and quite frankly, I'm not so sure they ever have cared.

Anonymous, please. Stop, just stop. The people have had enough. You just don't represent the people anymore and you're nothing but a complete and utter joke.

Sorry for this rant, but they are just getting on my nerves now.

Note: I'm aware they have said that they are not going to "destroy" or "kill" the internet, but that still doesn't change my opinion of them.

I am sure you never supported anonymous so why the rant about how they NOW doing things you don't approve of?

Well, prepare to be shocked because there was a time when I actually thought Anonymous was cool in a way. I liked how they stood up to cults like Scientology and at the time, I really thought they actually cared about the people they claimed they were fighting for.

I fell out with Anonymous when they went after the wrong people, which in my opinion began with the Wikileaks incident when they decided to go after the credit card companies that stopped funding Wikileaks, and not the government that was trying to cover up the secrets that were being revealed.

My hatred for them went on throughout the course of last year when they went after gaming companies for no reason other than standing up for a single hacker (although much of that was LulzSec), authorities because they had simply tracked them down arrested them (not sure those sort of attacks are doing them any favours), and even being cowards by not standing up to Facebook and Fox News.

While I appreciated their protests on the controversial bills SOPA and PIPA (which I hope stay dead), this internet takedown threat is to me the final straw. Anonymous are just dead to me. They don't represent the people anymore and the fact is they don't care about the people anymore.

 

[Ziggy the wolf]

only real crime: distruption of the flow of information

only thing i will be upset about: i dont have the hub in my cable package and i have to watch the new episode online so i will miss it until the net comes back up. oh well ill be cool. one day not checking my tumblr, i think ill live

 

[deadish]

LOL. This I would like to see.

If they success, we all can look forward to the news cycle covering their arrest and imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay. With luck, it will be the end of them and I don't have to listen to their self-righteous angst ranting and won't have their publicity stunts clog up my news feed.

It will be a good laugh if it turns out one of their "higher ranking" members turned out to be an FBI mole like the LulzSec case.

 

[CapitalistPig]

well. 30 minutes where I'm at til march 31st so we will see soon enough. I'm skeptical but intrigued. Human psyche would be interesting to see in this modern deprivation situation.

On a side note. Anonymous...... U.S congress shelved the SOPA and PIPA acts indefinitely after wikipedia and google went offline for about 12 hours. You are about two months too late for this to seem relevant. They kinda got the hint when they couldn't use google anymore which to 95% of the internet using population is considered "the entire internet." Not to mention the only people you will actually be hurting or effecting are business people who rely on credit internet connections and dedicated connections for other various reasons. I don't see the point of this message other then to announce you are uber trolls of the internet.

But I'll grab the popcorn and watch to see if this really goes down.

 

[CapitalistPig]

Why do this on a Saturday when everything is closed anyways. Wouldn't it make more sense to do this on a Monday?

EDIT
nevermind thought you said sunday. I was gonna call you out for being crazy. my bad.

 

[kaizoman]

Technically this probably isn't possible unless they take down all the ISP's DNS servers. Every corporate DNS server.

The only thing that wouldn't work, IF they successfully took down the ROOT DNS servers would be that new domains wouldn't work. Or domains that don't get a lot of traffic on any ISP and require a ROOT lookup.

If the ROOT DNS servers were processing every single DNS request the Internet would never function as it was right now.

 

[CapitalistPig]

Technically this probably isn't possible unless they take down all the ISP's DNS servers. Every corporate DNS server.

The only thing that wouldn't work, IF they successfully took down the ROOT DNS servers would be that new domains wouldn't work. Or domains that don't get a lot of traffic on any ISP and require a ROOT lookup.

If the ROOT DNS servers were processing every single DNS request the Internet would never function as it was right now.

I kinda thought thats a lot of traffic to mess with. And certainly its not a hardware attack which means another hacker can come behind and fix whatever they messed with. And call me crazy but I feel like the NSA, China, both Koreas, and the EU would have their own techno-zombies on standby to counter attack stunts that would "shut down" the internet. Seems like a pretty big undertaking.

 

[newwiseman]

My home is routed through my own DHCP server that keeps dns records for 1 week unless I do a manual refresh, this coupled with a Firefox plugin designed to fuck sopa means even if it does work I'll still be able to use the net so long as where I go doesn't use http linking to different servers in their page source.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

It's the 31st in 2 American time zones, meaning it's been the 31st in a very good chunk of the world for awhile now. I'm waiting, Anon.

(You can keep my wall from getting a million gesture-less "Happy Birthday" posts on Facebook. I might have a reason to spend my 20th birthday outside)

 

[Comando96]

It's 6:16am here in the UK so that is the 31st March in the USA.


I wonder what will happen. Will the boats Internet blow up or... will there be an uneasy silence...

Meh anon will wait until it's 9am in the USA so people will see the Internet is broken...

Hey even if they miss the deadline they can just wait till it's April 1st and start it then XD

 

[lockgar]

April Fools?

 

[Elberik]

I have research papers to do.

 

[Comando96]

Uhhh....

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Fixed.

Press Preview before you post in future please

 

[Darth_Dude]

Anonymous just trolled everyone.

Just take a look at a calender