Anonymous Members Arrested for Performing DDOS Attacks

[arrjay93]

Seems Anonymous needs renaming. That's what made them think that they're so powerful, that internet anonymity put them beyond the reach of the law. These arrests nicely show they're not all they're cracked up to be. (The facts that they've never achieved anything and have lacked the effort to do bugger all recently factor into it too.)

It's not as if losing these guys is going to have any affect on the group. The police are making a few token arrests of people who were dumb enough not to cover their arses - 5 guys who happened to jump on the bandwagon.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

These guys are the pawns of anonymous. Sent into battle to satisfy the authorities by giving them the illusion of success.

A real hacker would never be caught so easily.

 

[LCP]

Hahaha, take em down! :happyface:

 

[Yawwy]

Though I've never posted on 4chan it still kinda irritates me that NO ONE understands what "anonymous" is. It's not a group, or a team of hackers. It's a state of being. And not in some spiritual douchey way. It's in the way that anyone you cannot identify is considered anonymous, like the unknown author of a quote. When people call themselves anonymous, they're using it in the literal term. Of course as soon as people know who you are you loose the "prestige" of being anonymous.

Until they capitalize it, right? I mean, Anonymous is an all volunteer mob, essentially, and like any mob, it has to have organizers or it just mills about destroying indiscriminately.

Whatever else you might say about these DDoS attacks, you can't say they were indiscriminate.

Except, you see, it DOESN'T have organizers. And it DOES just mill about destroying indiscriminately. Anyone who feels like it just logs onto 4chan, posts a "hey we should totally do this, you guys in?" thread, and if they're lucky, Anonymous has just struck again. It's a bunch of almost entirely unrelated events and people using the same name. It seems to follow a pattern because most of the posts end up under the fuck off that's stupid reply, and only the motivated ones go anywhere.

Only,nine times out of ten,if you were to post 'Hey guys,I think we should attack this person',the majority of replies will be a variation of three answers:

1.No
2.Not your personal army
3.Why should we care?Did this girl turn you down when you asked her out?

When they do actually want to get something done,like with the wikileaks related attacks,they do get organised,and set things going.They don't stay organised for long mind.Anonymous is like a big angry bear that just wants to get their honey,and then get back to their cave to sleep for the next seven months.

 

[The Random One]

Looks like these hackers were not on steroids.

 

[Braedan]

Though I've never posted on 4chan it still kinda irritates me that NO ONE understands what "anonymous" is. It's not a group, or a team of hackers. It's a state of being. And not in some spiritual douchey way. It's in the way that anyone you cannot identify is considered anonymous, like the unknown author of a quote. When people call themselves anonymous, they're using it in the literal term. Of course as soon as people know who you are you loose the "prestige" of being anonymous.

Until they capitalize it, right? I mean, Anonymous is an all volunteer mob, essentially, and like any mob, it has to have organizers or it just mills about destroying indiscriminately.

Whatever else you might say about these DDoS attacks, you can't say they were indiscriminate.

While yeah you have a point with them needing direction, I see it less as an organized group, and more like a herd just following each other around. Seeing some of the targets that 4chan has attacked and raided in the long run they are indiscriminate with small points of organization.

I just mean that people see them as a secret group with leaders and membership. Whereas they are much more like a bunch of dudes who don't know each other with masks on looting stores because one of them said it would be fun. I could eat at Mcdonalds, and if I had a mask on I could be "Representing anonymous".

 

[imperialreign]

Well that oughta get a few more script-kiddies off the intrawebz.

If only the rest were as easy to ensnare . . .

 

[Heathrow]

The correct name for these sorts of people has and always will be Script Kiddies. Hacker implies actual knowledge and should therefore be avoided in most cases.

 

[mythgraven]

I posted before that Anonymous is like a group of neighborhood children thinking that they can terrorize me by not delivering my newspaper, or sharing my address with other people.

Who honestly gives a rats ass?

Dressing yourself up as some sort of "revolutionary" and latching onto someone elses idea/image (Guy Fawkes/ V For Vendetta) in the most completely unoriginal manner, does not make you a "fighter for the people", nor does it lend even a tiny shred of credibility to the fact that you are, in actuality, some kid in his parents house.

As for claiming that Anonymous is not random, or indiscriminite, clearly you missed the Anonymous "War On Snow" crap they pulled. Was it a joke? Im sure. But calling on your members to make attacks against weather reporting internet websites? Not so much a joke. Whether or not the attacks were made, that still falls 100% under the catagory of indiscriminate. And stupid.

And this is all without mentioning that in their offtime, our "internet freedom fighters" amuse themselves by defacing Wikipedia articles, bothering Mormons, and apparently, worshipping the ground that Justin Bieber walks on. (What with the attention they give him.)

Anonymous is not interesting.
Anonymous is under 21 years of age.
Expect no one to care.


Whiskey Echo!!
Mythgraven

 

[Death God]

And so the war begins. I can see things getting ugly now that five members have been arrested. Any bets on who is going to win?

 

[Low Key]

I wish we could separate the "LOL look at me doing something I shouldn't be" from the people who are actually out to destroy certain websites. Using a program some dude whipped up in his spare time to ping the hell out of a website does not mean any of these guys were DDoSing for anything more than entertainment value.

The real anonymous knows how not to get caught. LOIC is about as elementary as it gets.

 

[kibayasu]

And so the war begins. I can see things getting ugly now that five members have been arrested. Any bets on who is going to win?

Are you kidding? This is the internet. Everyone who doesn't get caught laughs at those who do.

 

[Ewyx]

You'd expect someone familiar with technology to be able to differ between hacking and DDOS attacks.

 

[Skizle]

What can you even charge someone for a DDOS attack? I'm curious cause its like no more than a slap on the wrist to me

 

[Weaver]

Anonymous is a hacking group now? I like how the entire world seems out of touch with reality. Kind of disappointed in your Escapist, you guys are usually way more up to par on what's what.

If anonymous is a hacking group then by that logic so is everyone at your university if there is even a single hacker in it.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

That is funny as hell. Seriously, that made my day.

 

[Ghengis John]

DDOS? Is that really hacking? I don't really think so.