Anonymous Threatens Internet With "Operation Blackout"

[Jyggalag]

April Fools, anyone?

 

[viranimus]

Damn it Anon.. I didnt want to have to do homework this weekend. Why couldnt you have given me an extra day for crying out loud.. Whatgoodareya?

 

[Atmos Duality]

I would like to think they fooled nobody, but I know better by now...

 

[KeyMaster45]

*checks watch* I can't help but notice that not a god damn thing happened.

 

[AdmiralCheez]

Yup, looks like everything's fine. Now back to your regularly scheduled activities.

 

[Montezuma's Lawyer]

My internet did go out for a time, due to a storm passing by, clearly Anonymous caused that storm.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

No internet blackout?

Cool.

 

[xplay3r]

Come on now, Anonymous, that's just silly. Everyone knows that if you want to shut down the internet you'd have to fetch it down from Big Ben first. They're either going to need security clearance or a few dozen ladders.

just be careful that it doesn't get smashed in a fight between a post-op tranny and her lover...

EDIT: totally quoted the wrong person, my bad lol

 

[Hat Man]

This clearly wasn't Anon, this was one guy or a small group trying to get this thing started, hoping to get the massive numbers that they'd need from Anonymous.

If it was Anonymous I would have at least heard about it from someplace other then a news article.

 

[Felgy76]

I was pretty sure this wasn't a true Anon plot, never in the past have I seen them say "Here's several days warning on exactly what we intend to do so the targets have time to counteract our intentions, derp!"

Anonymous warnings never detail what they plan to do, only what they want to achieve.

 

[Endocrom]

Couldn't help but think of that scene from The Day The Earth Stood Still where the professor is marveling at the titular "stillness" and how he's enjoying the peace and quiet.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Oh Anon, you'll never be nothing more than a massive joke of an "organization" in my eyes.

Keep up the good work.

 

[MorganL4]

For my part, I didn't even access the internet on Saturday so....

 

[Erttheking]

"Looks at video online and realizes that anon bailed at the last second"

Just throwing this out there, when was the last time anon actually followed through on a threat that actually did something of actual impact?

 

[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.

If you had read a bit further, this is actually doable.

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

My opinion still stands.

 

[DugMachine]

Well dang, I don't agree with going this extreme to make a point but had they pulled this off, my respect points for Anon would have been like.. over 9000 or some shit.

 

[zehydra]

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.

If you had read a bit further, this is actually doable.

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

My opinion still stands.

lol, well it didn't happen anyway.

 

[CarlMin]

Well dang, I don't agree with going this extreme to make a point but had they pulled this off, my respect points for Anon would have been like.. over 9000 or some shit.

Why? It's a stupid and immature thing to do to begin with. (in my opinion at least)

 

[Davroth]

April's fools day joke anyone?