Anonymous Threatens Internet With "Operation Blackout"

[Korolev]

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

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.

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.

 

[razer17]

It's possible in theory, I suppose. DNS servers have been shut down before by hackers, but never all at once, and the protection on the DNS servers is probably much better than it used to be. I am sceptical that this would work.

 

[TitanAura]

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

Okay, that makes a bit more sense.

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.

 

[Jeff Loper]

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.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

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.

 

[Smallells]

uuuuuum, I really wish you WOULDN'T....?

 

[Astoria]

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.

 

[WabbitTwacks]

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.

 

[Denamic]

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 isn't hacking.
Hacking is to this as brain surgery is to a guy with a hammer.

 

[samsonguy920]

Okay kiddies, we can see you.
Put your arms down and go back upstairs and sit in your room.

Seriously... just, why?

All this would do is prove that Anonymous are a bunch of douches and they would lose the little support they still have.

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.

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.

 

[Atomic Skull]

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.

 

[Frylock72]

I've got my 360, a drawing tablet, a dog who loves to walk and a decent movie library.

Bring it on, you sorry cunts.

 

[AdamG3691]

hasn't @YourAnonNews and @AnonyOps (pretty much as "official" as Anonymous gets) said that they're NOT going to do that and that it was just a hoax?

*checks*

Anonymous @YourAnonNews

For the billionth time: #Anonymous will not shut down the Internet on 31 March. #OpGlobalBlackout is just another #OpFacebook failop. #yawn

Anonymous @YourAnonNews

Think for a moment: Why would #Anonymous shut down our playground, the Internet? Really, how would that help ANY of us? #NextQuestion

Anonymous @AnonyOps

Tomorrow, a failop. We will not be joining your misguided efforts. Have a nice day

 

[DonTsetsi]

And what about local DNS servers that keep a log of used domains and use them when they can't connect to the main DNS?

 

[mrhappy1489]

Honestly what anonymous are doing is just unnecessary, they are protesting in was that is just going to encourage the States. If the bill passes somehow, then they should take down the internet and see how people feel, then petition the government to amend the bill.

 

[Stalydan]

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.

Quoted for excellence. It's only 9:26 am where I am and this is already a good day xD

OT: Anonymous, you're not going to do it. If you do, what will you do all day?

 

[04whim]

"We're going to protest a couple of people by pissing off the entire world"... I grant you, people got by before the internet, but now that we have it, there's no need for us to do so. I was thinking they'd gone quiet for a while. I guess there's no better cry for attention than this.

And if an Anonymous member reads and takes issue with this: No you can't prove your point by doing anything to me. You're the monarchy of keyboard warriors and you'd only prove my point so kindly get back in your high chair so I can ram a fucking jet engine into your precocious collective faces.

 

[NoBetterName]

this just pisses me off.

my parents both work over the internet, one supplies quilting supplies to people who order over the internet(my mum), the other one runs a global warming consulting service. if this go's for much more that a few days my mother will have intense trouble earning money.

i would also like to mention that most people in "anonymous" are HUUUGE nerds, and the people who agree to help with this mundane and stupid act of attention seeking are extremists and probably will only piss off all the other members of anonymous as they are not organized ,and anyone can be anonymous ,there is no entry requirements.

 

[Titanium Dragon]

1) This is an obvious hoax.

2) What day comes after March 31st? Are you guys really this gullible?

3) Anonymous wouldn't do this; Anonymous LIKES the internet, they wouldn't take it down.

4) Taking down those servers is incredibly difficult. If it was easy to do this sort of thing, someone would have done it long ago. I doubt random script kiddies have the capability of doing so, and I doubt social engineering would work on those servers.

5) This probably wasn't even posted by members of Anonymous, but rather by trolls.

 

[PingoBlack]

4) Taking down those servers is incredibly difficult. If it was easy to do this sort of thing, someone would have done it long ago. I doubt random script kiddies have the capability of doing so, and I doubt social engineering would work on those servers.

So, your argument is it is not possible because it was never done?
Go Google for Pakistani attempts to block YouTube and how it blew up global DNS system, please.

http://gigaom.com/video/pakistan-block-accidentally-takes-youtube-down-globally/

Not being informed about it does not make it any less real. Method proposed for this Annon action is also just as real as the one Pakistan wrongly used.