As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before I don’t really think all that much of “anonymous” or at least of their public actions. I can’t help but think they are at best well intentioned idiots – with, much like wikileaks, little concern for the collateral damage they cause as long as they get headlines. Time and again I wonder who they cause more damage to, or course it’s the nature of the “anonymous” movement that anyone can do anything and claim it was an act of “anonymous” – want to blow up a nuclear power station and claim it was the work of anonymous go ahead and do it all you need is a youtube clip and who’s to say you’re not a genuine part of “anonymous”?
Sticking though to real events and an article from earlier in the year, apparently “anonymous” plan to “wreak havoc at Facebook and other social networking web sites” – presumably those would be the same social networks that have been being used to organise and co-ordinates all sorts of protests and direct actions against the state and big business? The may charge the charities for the privilege, and from what I know if you accept too many fraudulent payments you can lose you ability to accept credit card payments. So that’ll all help the charities a bunch won’t it. Of course all of this extra cost gets factored into the interest rates we all pay for using credit cards. So the only people who definitely won’t be out of pocket are the very banks “anonymous” wants to target.
The most recent target of this cunning ruse was a company called Stratfor security and judging by this bit of “anonymous” publicity about it, literacy doesn’t seem to be a strong point of “anonymous” (supporters at least)*. Stratfor Security apparently provide a news letter about security and political issues globally and some of their customers are large corporations so they’re a target, the stolen credit card details of course also belong to private individuals that want to keep abreast of the same issues for themselves. Now who’s going to be more inconvenienced by a credit card problem the evil global company (assuming they’re even paying by credit card) or the private individual? Also is it not at all likely that people fighting against evil global companies might find such a news letter of interest?
Venturebeat has a nice little FAQ about the hack. In the meantime watching these “anonymous” attacks, and considering how easily their previous DDoS attacks led been to their supporters, I do wonder if they aren’t the US army of cyber warfare and the safest place to be is in front of them.
* Yes I realise I may well be a poi calling a kettle black here but…
you are a complete idiot!
i bet you beat off reading your own words…douche
I am extremely happy that there are a lot of idiots in the world such as yourself. All of you will die off first, giving me more time to escape. idiot!
what exactly are you an activist for? stupidity?
Thank you for your concise and erudite deconstruction of my arguments.
You do realise that using different names is more convincing if they’re not on the same IP address?