Anonymous Hacks Eidos, Deus Ex Websites - UPDATED

[infinitystrain]

Guys, the power of google is pretty prevalent here. A quick search of "Chippy1337" lands me hacks from August 2010... Man, totally must be related to that whole PSN thing right? Back in August, Chippy took down Infowars... you know, that site that Anon worked at promoting a bit during the Scientology rallies... So wait, Anon attacked the people they supported, and then troll hacked an LA times article in December 2010.

Guys, There have been hackers LONG BEFORE ANON... and there will continue to be them long after Legion has passed. For the time being, as much as you'd like to take your anger and frustration out on one nameless, faceless target. Be aware that there are hundreds of other groups with thousands of other members committed to making the world a bit more miserable to fit it to their agenda.

Chippy is a hacker, but not a member of the Anon 'collective'. He does not represent them and I'm confident they won't represent him should his identity be made public.

Even a search for "2011 Hacker Groups" finds a quick wiki listing with a near dozen of groups.

Stop hating the one with the most press, start upping security and playing the game right.
Security++, Hacker++, Security++, Hacker++ and the cycle continues, if these companies don't maintain good security practices and personal information is leaked because of one malevolent cracker. It's nearly as responsible to the company that failed to hash and secure everything properly or thoroughly.

TL;DR
Most press != Most Evil; Anon is who they've always been... Internet Superheroes. [By their own right, anyways].

sorry,
/rant

 

[Starke]

Anonymous didn't do this, Chippy1337 did. You can't be anonymous if you have a name.

I would like to know what this douche-bag's motivation was though.

It was anon trying to frame Ryan whatever. He pissed them off, so they try to implicate him... badly. As evidenced by anon members planning the attack and naming members of the 808 schism up on the hacked site.

EDIT: Also evidenced by the IRC log about the members of anon planning this attack in their own IRC server.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

If this really is Anonymous, just go and arrest all the pricks. When they are doing a bunch of harm and no good to anything, they don't deserve to exist.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

"Man, I love being a turtle." No, WAIT! Wrong line. What I meant was

"Anonymous is nothing but a bunch of thugs." Good to see they're branching out into thievery now too. Hopefully they'll keep this up until someone decides to track them down. ALL OF THEM.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

Anonymous tried to create a group of hackers that were out there to take down the man. They never wanted to do this by making the little guy suffer. They also had no leader, and just hoped that everyone was on the same line they were.

Unfortunately, human beings will be human beings, and you will always get some d**k like this chippy who decides that he is better than all the rest and should go ahead and make himself famous.

I still believe in anonymous, but the problem is that as there is no "leader" but rather a group of equals, there is no one to take charge and to tell these rogues off.

Just look back at history, and its been done many times before. Some want all pigs to be equal, but some want some pigs to be more equal than others.

Its a pity that Anonymous is getting the bad press.

chippy - you give hackers a bad name. i spit on your keyboard.

I agree with what your talking about, but can I ask a question?

What hacker ever gave hackers a good name?

 

[Thumper17]

If they hit steam, then I'm fully expecting a massive shitstorm. Involving 4chan and the anon sites possibly being DDoS'd.

Though, leaving a name is not what Anon does. Probably someone trying to set them up.

 

[Darkstar370]

Guys, the power of google is pretty prevalent here. A quick search of "Chippy1337" lands me hacks from August 2010... Man, totally must be related to that whole PSN thing right? Back in August, Chippy took down Infowars... you know, that site that Anon worked at promoting a bit during the Scientology rallies... So wait, Anon attacked the people they supported, and then troll hacked an LA times article in December 2010.

Guys, There have been hackers LONG BEFORE ANON... and there will continue to be them long after Legion has passed. For the time being, as much as you'd like to take your anger and frustration out on one nameless, faceless target. Be aware that there are hundreds of other groups with thousands of other members committed to making the world a bit more miserable to fit it to their agenda.

Chippy is a hacker, but not a member of the Anon 'collective'. He does not represent them and I'm confident they won't represent him should his identity be made public.

Even a search for "2011 Hacker Groups" finds a quick wiki listing with a near dozen of groups.

Stop hating the one with the most press, start upping security and playing the game right.
Security++, Hacker++, Security++, Hacker++ and the cycle continues, if these companies don't maintain good security practices and personal information is leaked because of one malevolent cracker. It's nearly as responsible to the company that failed to hash and secure everything properly or thoroughly.

TL;DR
Most press != Most Evil; Anon is who they've always been... Internet Superheroes. [By their own right, anyways].

sorry,
/rant

Finally someone who knows what he's talking about.

 

[Starke]

Anonymous tried to create a group of hackers that were out there to take down the man. They never wanted to do this by making the little guy suffer. They also had no leader, and just hoped that everyone was on the same line they were.

Unfortunately, human beings will be human beings, and you will always get some d**k like this chippy who decides that he is better than all the rest and should go ahead and make himself famous.

I still believe in anonymous, but the problem is that as there is no "leader" but rather a group of equals, there is no one to take charge and to tell these rogues off.

Just look back at history, and its been done many times before. Some want all pigs to be equal, but some want some pigs to be more equal than others.

Its a pity that Anonymous is getting the bad press.

chippy - you give hackers a bad name. i spit on your keyboard.

I agree with what your talking about, but can I ask a question?

What hacker ever gave hackers a good name?

There's a "free Mitnik" joke here somewhere, I'm just not sure exactly where...

 

[punipunipyo]

wow, it's happening a lot now days... is this a trend? or are all the hackers desperate for money? even the self proclaimed "honorable hackers" are started to do small time criminal stuff to get some cash? guess money CAN drive people mad eh? just surprises me to see these many big budget companies being ***** slapped around by random hackers...

 

[RJ Dalton]

I call bullshit. It's too convenient an explanation.

 

[lacktheknack]

oh come on enough is enough, just shut them down, really. Get a hacker to find out who they all are and just arrest them. This is going too far. Bunch of idiotic kids and teens.

That's not how it works. They have the FREAKING FBI after them, how would some dashing rogue hacker do any better? This isn't Hollywood.

And thats working REALLLY well isn't it?

The dashing young hacker you proposed would go over worse. It would end up with him trapped in his house, receiving a never-ending stream of pizzas and police notifications.

 

[Katana314]

Soon as I get home, I'm deleting my credit card info from Steam...

 

[BoogieManFL]

I'm getting really tired of these fuckers. Someone please shut their asses down. Hard.


So damn pointless. Go hack terrorist assets or something, better yet, set yourselves on fire then jump off a cliff. Screwing over innocent people at random is just so stupid.

 

[MetalGenocide]

I can't say I'm inclined to care this time.
Site goes down and up. Fingers pointed. Blah blah blah.
Deux Ex is awesome, and Anon does not attack awesome things.

 

[blAAAm]

this is getting a little out of hand blaming "anonymous" for everything. Sony blamed them b/c it was a lot easier then actually finding out who really did it. Anon has never taken part in stealing data from people, they are the exact opposite. They look to protect peoples personal information not steal it and use it.

 

[Neonit]

gah, it was stupid to give those kids a name in first place. now every kid with internet access can proclaim that they too are anonymous ....

but i love this piece xD

"...an anonymous Anonymous told..."

 

[Da_Vane]

Oh, FFS! A "splinter group" of Anonymous? Okay, so that means it's not Anonymous anymore if they've splintered away to do their own thing. it's the whole Bogeyman thing. Lock up Anonymous? Here's an idea: Why don't they just shut down the Internet completely and throw everyone in jail? It's not like anyone actually needs it right? It's not like the majority of modern society actually uses the Internet or anything. FFS people - why do you have to drop Anonymous into every bloody thing that happens on the Internet? Is it because it's easy to get a report from Anonymous - it's just somebody saying something without their name posted. No evidence, no viability, no proof - just easy reading to back up baseless reports that might get a few extra readers to take interest.

 

[Do4600]

These guys are a bunch of assholes, one minute they'll inflate their ego by claiming to fight for the oppressed, the next they choose to hack video game companies' online systems and steal their users' information. I almost want to encourage their idiotic behavior, so I can laugh when they inevitably get caught

If you've been following the news on this you'd know that the group that hacked this site is claiming itself independent of the rest of the Anonymous hacking community, they even attacked their online resources.

This is a splinter group from the Anonymous hacking community that doesn't follow the "goals" of the overall group and in that case I don't think Anonymous deserves the headline, or the abuse.

 

[infinitystrain]

I'm getting really tired of these fuckers. Someone please shut their asses down. Hard.


So damn pointless. Go hack terrorist assets or something, better yet, set yourselves on fire then jump off a cliff. Screwing over innocent people at random is just so stupid.

Hackers are Mongolians and the internet is your City Wall. Every time they break it down, you build it back stronger. Had this never happened, security would be a lie, in fact technology as a whole may have slowed down. To allow for faster decryption, processing and encryption/transmission of data, newer tech was developed that could accommodate to "Higher Security Challenges". This technology was then made 'user friendly' which did 2 things; allowed for prior generation of technology to be re purposed for a consumer level use, but it also allowed hackers easier access. It's a big puzzle of sliding pieces, and some people do it as a career, some people do it malevolently, some people allow themselves to be tools in the attacks [DDoS nodes, botnet's] But the thing they all have in common is a goal. One goal, to take down their target. But for no hackers; not in today's society and probably not ever. It's not their goal to permanently remove their target. Because that would end the cat and mouse game.

We have hackers to thank for our technology today, for having this forum to rant about how annoying they are. It gets inconvenient sometimes sure, but I've always just viewed it as an impromptu service update. :/