lacktheknack said:
dyre said:
So, is anonymous a group with central leadership, or just a mob of wannabe hacktavists?
Neither. They're everyone that interacts on the internet (and elsewhere) without giving any key details.
Do you have access to Microsoft Sam and some basic editing skills? Congrats, you can make official announcements on behalf of Anonymous! Of course, that results in stories like this one.
An "operation" becomes "official" only when enough people get behind you on your cause, otherwise it sputters out and dies.
Actually, that whole "We are anonymous" thing is mostly a front; the real anonymous (by which I mean the few tens of people at most who actually know what the heck they're doing) kind of allow the channers and various other hangers on to believe they're really a part of it, when in truth, they're just a bunch of bodies hiding the people who actually have the ability to hack systems and wield the low orbit ion cannon, or whatever the heck it is they call their botnet. I've seen chatlogs of actual high level anonymous members talking; Topiary, of Lulzsec fame, was one of them. Incidentally, the chatlogs in question explained what the whole HB Gary thing was really about. It wasn't just that they worked for the government in a manner highly inconsistent with the anti-sec movement; one of their employees started trying to infiltrate anonymous, on his own time, but with the intention of selling his methods as a security tool. The attack was aimed at least as much at him as it was at the company.
OT: You guys didn't know this already? It's been common knowledge for months that the whole thing was caused by a bunch of (self censoring this) Summer-friends who didn't actually have the ability to carry out any of the threats. From what I've heard, it came about because originally the guys who were working on that Anonymous-run social network were planning a mass voluntary account deletion on Facebook for November the Fifth. They dropped the idea, but somebody who didn't know about the original plan found some references to something involving Facebook and November 5th, assumed that the plan was to DDOS the site, and ran with it. Anonymous
never actually planned to attack Facebook.
