Yeah, you all were rooting for the hackers when they were taking down a company you hated, but now they're targeting things you like, so it isn't so funny anymore, is it?
Hypocrites, all of you.
Hypocrites, all of you.
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How long until people just bite the bullet and start calling them the FailSec?
The only reason I and many others tolerate Anonymous is because they actually have some form of restraint in their deeds, which I respect. When you're just hacking peoples twitters for the hell of it, that's just being a dick human being.
The only reason I and many others tolerate Anonymous is because they actually have some form of restraint in their deeds, which I respect. When you're just hacking peoples twitters for the hell of it, that's just being a dick human being.
Yeah check out the wikipedia page on Anonymous,Luthir Fontaine said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)
their hacking is generally good for everyone, as they try to help free speech where ever they can, some people might see it as immature but personally the proper Anonymous that goes after corruption, wikileaks and freespeech and so on seems good to me.
The problem is alot of people will just say their anonymous to sound cool, which is technically correct because they are a formless organization hence the name, but I'm sure theres some sort of top dog shadow cabal that are the proper anonymous that never let anyone know who they are.
LulzSec on the other hand, are just a massive pain in the arse, as they just keep taking out services and things that everyone enjoys.
Mind you, I'm sort of expecting Anonymous to step in at some point and start some sort of internet Civil War, that could interesting.
I don't think anyone supported the Sony takedown, it was universally agreed to be a massive dick move, besides LulzSec =/= Anonymous, just because they both happen to be hackers, that doesn't mean supporting one means we support all hacker groups.Pendragon9 said:
Well Sony was the first one hit majorly. It's possible the other companies learned from their mistake.Madara said:
First, Anonymous is not an organization at all. They are more like a bunch of strangers that just happen to hang out in the same public room.elvor0 said:
Next, there was, and is, no "Sony takedown", but just an attack against Sony. And if you think no one was rooting for the hackers when they were attacking Sony then I'm afraid that you're badly mistaken. When Sony was first attacked everyone who didn't like Sony for any reason was having a field day.
Well you know what I mean by Sony takedown; it's semantics, that was just the words I happen to used for it, they took PSN down, which is sort of what I meant, then took all the customer details. Granted there were some people that supported it, but we can pretty much just label them as dicks, I don't even have a PS3, but I'll be damned if I supported the attack and most people didn't. There was pretty much no reason to support it unless you're some sort of massive anti sony fanboi.A1 said:
On the Anonymous front, I know Anonymous isn't an organization, but I'm sure there is some sect of it that Organizes the Free Speech movements; the top hacktivists as it were. I know it is a formless entity and anyone can be a part of it, but proper Anonymous must have some sort of organization hidden with in it in order to organize their Free Speech attacks. Like they use the formlessness of it to move around undetected, using the chaos of it to do their stuff
I'll sort of steal from Extra Credits here, Anonymous has Ideals, just like Punk did, just dressing up punk doesn't make you punk, same as just saying you're Anonymous doesn't make you Anon unless you genuinely hold those ideals.
To answer your question, remember how we all laughed at the kid whining that hacking Counter Strike and CoD should be illegal?TheCommie12 said:
Guess what, this was the hacker's next step up. They got tired of dedicated servers kicking them out with admin bans. Now they're not 12 anymore, they're around 17, and all those years of ego-maniac hacking have given them a fantasy E-Peen big enough that when companies made it harder to hack, they got their ego bruised and are lashing out.
Fortunately, I have my Blizzard Authenticator and I'm using Steam Guard, this means the games I play are virtually un-hackable and the things that aren't so well protected (even my bank has a 24 hour watch for account theft) I really don't care about. If someone is really desperate enough to try and hack my Nexon account, they can have it, not exactly a die hard fan of DFO.
Its not the hackers' faults. Security updates for server software costs money. So they take the easy way out by not securing it properly.
analogy: If a bank decided to not upgrade its vault with paper walls to metal walls and some thief came by and stole all your savings..... would you really blame the thief as much as the banking company?
Companies should just delete account data that they dont plan on using anymore once they stop supporting the games.
If this keeps up, I see two possible outcomes:
paid internet security that leaves room for privacy goes up
or
pair internet security that does not leave room for privacy goes up (the easy way out for security firms... yet it would cause protests... I hope)
analogy: If a bank decided to not upgrade its vault with paper walls to metal walls and some thief came by and stole all your savings..... would you really blame the thief as much as the banking company?
Companies should just delete account data that they dont plan on using anymore once they stop supporting the games.
If this keeps up, I see two possible outcomes:
paid internet security that leaves room for privacy goes up
or
pair internet security that does not leave room for privacy goes up (the easy way out for security firms... yet it would cause protests... I hope)
I wish you would be more precise and accurate with regard to your wording. To say "all customer details" would imply that stuff like how many freckles each customers has and the like. A more accurate way of saying it is that the hackers stole personal information. And they didn't take PSN down. Sony did that to stop them, and it worked. And they stole personal info before Sony shut them down, not after.elvor0 said:
By "most people" I assume you mean the vast majority of the human race, and I suppose you would be right in that sense. But I think it's possible that you may be at least slightly underestimating the number of people rooting for the hackers when Sony was attacked.
And as for the possibility of a sect within Anonymous, that's possible but it would seem to be at least somewhat doubtful. One reason for this is because that offline protest that they attempted not too long ago turned out to be a huge failure.
As my old man would say...'Back in my day somebody would've hit someone by now'Ilikemilkshake said:
I'm quite sure these dumbasses are enjoying themselves right now, but in the end they're the same sought of person who wold be the first to cry out if it ever happened to them.