Anonymous refuses all definitions, yet a close look at their actions is all one needs to understand what they are all about. Anonymous is not a group of socially minded and technologically savvy internet users that want to change the world for the better. They are not a group at all. Instead, they are a loose federation of loud mouths and hackers who mostly want to make a buck or achieve the goal of inflating their selfish pride-albeit anonymously. In the most sophisticated achievement to date, Anonymous has managed to cripple and embarrass HBGary, a security firm that insulted Anons everywhere by infiltrating their IRC channel and figuring out the handles of those responsible for deployment of the LOIC. Not only is this attack childish, spiteful, and pointless, but it shows that Anonymous is most willing to use their potential for positive change instead for self-aggrandizing and meaningless pursuits.
As Iran continues to injure and kill protesters as in 2009, Anonymous continues to take down symbolic political targets on the web with their weakest tool, LOIC. The power of a symbol is in the attention it receives from the media and Anonymous has only been truly successful in these kind of attacks on Visa and Mastercard. It is hard to grasp and explain the Anonymous mindset because there are very few things that “Anons” have in common. Firstly, they are all internet users. Secondly, “Anons” choose to remain anonymous, but only in principle. The truth is that “Anons” assume the security of anonymity whether or not it truly applies.
I feel it is a wholly weak and pitiful trait of humankind that we must hide our identities to speak our mind or to take action. I believe anonymous is comprised of weaklings who take action in fear and would not do so if they did not believe they could get away with it anonymously. You are not brothers to protesters in the streets, you are cowards who sit behind computer screens and put your greatest efforts towards selfish pride instead of greater good. Hacktivist is too good of a term for Anons. That implies an ultimate purpose where there is obviously none.
Of all the facets of Anonymous, AnonNews is the most despicable. I’d challenge them to release their financial records but that’s not even necessary. Using PayPal, hated enemy of free speech, the owner takes donations and PayPal gets their dirty little share. Not only that, but they’ve gotten some cash from Military Recruiters. Yet no one seems to care about what amounts to blatant financial exploitation of the Anonymous phenomenon.
Anons are weak and pitiful for not holding AnonNews to account.
Anons are weak and pitiful for attacking HBGary when they could make a change that matters.
Anons are weak and pitiful for remaining anonymous.
We are Anonymous.We are Legion.We do not forgive,We do not forget,Expect usSincerely,Anonymous
Photoshopped to highlight what no one seems to pay attention to. See what I'm doing here?
LUL @ the butthurt, any Anon that can’t take a joke can mount upon themselves.
ANONTARDS ARE NOT INVINCIBLE AND ARE NOT THE MASTER OF THE INTERNETS
SUPPORT YOUR GOVERNEMENT ID RATHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE STUDIES THAN FUCKING JUNKIES LIKE ANDREW AUERNHEIMER
What a fag
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You can tell they’re retarded when they steal ideas off ‘V for vendetta’ and ME
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March 11, 2012 at 5:20 AM · Reply
oh hai jester! i see you think you an ub3r h4ck3r. i wil put that to an end while i leave in in the t0x1c trap! you caught my eye because you think you are a genius. well i guess its time you learn your place, i will devote my time alone when my wife sleeps to construct a plan so elegant and DESTRUCTIVE you shall learn the meaning of “FUCK WITH THE BEST DIE LIKE THE REST” i am done with hex as of now ive gotten a lil kick in thar, but now i haz some new fagz to getz! jester you sir are my first target as i have doxed you and i am planning some fun for you tommorow(; 3/11/12 if you keep talking shit after you receive your punishment i will not stop and i will be relentless, i will destroy your life like i did to richard and i will have you begging for mercy! so after you are owned tommorow admit it and move on because you dont want to have the same fate as richard who beg me for mercy, well as i promised heres your dox
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remember anons and brothers, get trusted TRUST NO ONE. dont trust me or anyother hacker if you want to stay anonymous or you WILL end up like lulzsec
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Ahahahahaha he was just running his mouth all over twitter tonight. Looks good on that stupid fuck. Hope the terrorist come and get his ass #JhadiMOTHERFUCKER$
AHahahaha that this thread still relevant, and how ironic…lol ge0fag! Renting space ppl’s head since 2006 xD
once a bunch of faggots dance around a bunch of signs spouting random shit they are regurgitating from some fat asspie on the internets, WEARING GUY FAWKES MASKS its hard to take that seriously.
cult anonymous ate its own poopy now its breath stinks like poo . and you can’t even look over there anymore
I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD KNOW EACH OTHER. FRANK.
HIT ME UP. UTILIZE MY EMAIL.
i love reading this.
Anons everywhere thank you for the lulz. Now stop
article writer: you do know the iranian revolution was funded and instigated by the CIA right? as was all the middle eastern revolutions…
lol @ that website
“They are not a group at all. Instead, they are a loose federation of loud mouths and hackers who mostly want to make a buck or achieve the goal of inflating their selfish pride-albeit anonymously.”
Don’t we all?
lol anonymous is irrelevant, yet makes up about 96% of the discussions on the site. is it paradoxical, oxymoronical (is that a word..yet?), or just moronic? or all three…
Lol , op is obviously a troll – that or shes a dumbass. Ignore her …
“you are cowards who sit behind computer screens and put your greatest efforts towards selfish pride instead of greater good” …please explain how that doesn’t make you a hypocrite.
Qwest shut me down for visiting AnonNews. ’nuff said.
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why “killgore trout” is is completely irrelevant
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your satire sucks. it’s not insightful, it’s not funny, and it has nothing to do with eating poor irish babies. BOOO!
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so they are weak and powerless.
1. Even after you mention they took down a leading so called “cyber security firm.”, and further exposed wrong doing. They showed they are better hackers than shady government contractors. They didn’t do this for fun, they only did this after HB Gary went after them for fun, to stroke their egos, next point. HB Gary was planning using their services to discredit and attack people for hire to the highest bidder. They exposed everything. Its available online, for free
2. How do you stroke an ego when you don’t even have a name?? Sense make not I’m affraid.
3. I’d say anonymous has helped the middle east more than any government
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201121321487750509.html
Enough to earn the praise of egyptian protestors. They helped get the message out on egypt. what have you done?
4. cowardice for posting anonymously?? There is no such thing is a fair fight. Subversive advertising campaigns, “well poisoning”, political smear campaign, false flag attackers. Then we have the PR goons who determine what we think of “bad guy” and “good guy”. How brave are a bunch of corporations who pick on teenagers for fun and profit.
5. Anonymous represents the common joe in a world that increasingly doesn’t care about the common joe.
Wow. I can’t belive that you would come after anonymous like that. Do you think that this is a joke? There are so many companies out there doing much worse than anything that anonymous has done. Like in v for vendetta, the only way to make a stand is to stick together to make a greater impact on the world.
anonymous to seems to be comprised of people with both good and bad intentions. but wouldnt expect that from a large group of anonymous individuals? some of them are doing it to push the revolution, while others are just doing it for the lulz. either way both sides are joining together just do destroy greedy entities. GO ANONYMOUS! dont call them pussies for wearing masks, its a dangerous world, and certainly not worth risking death and harassment from psychopaths
anonymous seems to have there $#!+ together. Not sure what this tool is gabbin about.
You just don’t get it. We do it for the lulz.
Ditto.
Your “lulz” are lacking in the laughs these days.
Very well written article and fact filled like the Bible.
What “Anonymous” really is… Depends on the individual anon, not every anon is intrested in politics of the world at the same time. This is the new generations public forum. This is how input and information if given and taken from the common collective. This is the semi-hostile but defensive tactics of the new generations because of such injustices as the Patriot act. Btw, every anon knows, you are never truely anonymous anymore due to electronic footprints, which also have ways of being erased sometimes.
–noun
1.
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2.
a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
Sorry, didn’t see any of that, just some kid making 1/2 correlations in an attempt to make..some..point. I think.
If you had wanted to be critical of their paypal usage, that is a fair issue to address. it would have served you better to simply questions these rather than try to write half assed attempt at satire which held none.
Who told you this article was satire? Move along, Comrade.
You kids are obsessed with definitions and semantics but you’re blind as shit to context. I’m ridiculing you. I’m ridiculing you. I’m ridiculing you. I’m ridiculing you. I’m ridiculing you. I’m ridiculing you. You are being ridiculed. You are being ridiculed. You are being ridiculed.
LOL THEIR BUTTHURT
killgore trout your the man.
old brutus you are wise.
hello i think that you may be either blatantly ignorant and reluctant to do real research on the subject you blog about or you are exceedingly stupid, there is also the chance that you are both of those things,if so you are an unfortunate soul
You leave comments on blogs. What kind of person does that?
Someone telling you you’re doin’ it wrong.
I don’t think you understand this phenomenon at all.
I mean, not a clue.
I think you keep wanting it to be one group with one goal, one unifying idea, and it’s not. Members come and go at will, they aren’t bound by what you want them to do, they don’t have “leaders” that everyone follows.
I think the closes thing to how you’re confusing them is to think of the old Iron Curtain. It seems like one monolithic entity. You’re seeing them as all satellites of an organized entity overseen by a Khrushchev or a Tito, but if you lifted the corner of the curtain a little, there were very separate groups with very separate goals and motivations all through the Eastern bloc, not one monolithic entity.
It’s the same with Anonymous. You have to turn off your idea of a glorious leader shooing everyone in a single direction. There are multiple groups of multiple people, multiple goals, multiple viewpoints, and NOTHING, NOBODY, NOTHING, at any giving time. There is no meaning. There are only LULZ.
And, right now, they’re doing a better job of keeping us informed than the likes of Fox noise ever has.
The Anonymous concept is a very exciting and intriguing concept for action on a small and large scale.
Want to know how to get Anonymous to go in a direction you want? Find an IRC group, present your idea, see how many people agree with it and decide to join in, for whatever reason they have. If nobody joins in, your idea sucks. Simple.
It’s the ultimate marketplace of ideas, without the corporatist’s fat ass plonked on the media scale skewing things to their side of the issue, like our worthless media so aptly demonstrates.
blah blah blah i am another anon who doesn’t understand context or satire blah blah blah blah blah take myself too seriously cause i’m an anonfag blah blah blah blah.
“Anons are weak and pitiful for remaining anonymous.”
posted by Kilgore Trout
have you finished my ironing?
Someone is trying to cash in on Anonymous fame to elevate the level of their shitty blog that no one gives a fuck about.
Oh and all this coming from a guy who is named after a Kurt Vonnegut character because he didn’t want to use his own name. 0/10
you are stupid
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