What happened to Anonymous? Why at this time they are not doxxing websites, leaking stuff, or shutting down porn websites?
What happened to Anonymous? Why at this time they are not doxxing websites, leaking stuff, or shutting down porn websites?
They fizzled out, members probably moved on to various other groups and projects, while the rest simply went on with their lives. A danger of being decentralized is losing all of your momentum.
A danger of being decentralized is losing all of your momentum.
fediverse growth nervously sweats
The other commenter is more right, anyway. A lot of the dudes got arrested. I think the chances of that are low here, for now.
Trust me bro.
Not gonna dig through their Twitter feed, but I saw someone a couple months ago ask them this exact question on one of their posts, and they wrote a pretty interesting response. They basically said, we're still here, trying to fuck the system up, but, with all the information we've provided and ported out there to the world, y'all haven't done dick with it. Laws haven't been passed, politicians haven't been ousted, corporations are still abusing the systems. So they were basically saying, what good is them leaking and hacking if the public doesn't take a more activist approach towards change themselves and hold the people they expose accountable.
Well if I knew how to take down sites and child porn site I totally would. Just don't know what to study and probably don't want to be another computer cracker using programs found online.
If you're serious, study cyber security to start.
Then move towards devops.
Worse case scenario, you'll end up in a 6-figure job making complaints into the void as you write bash scripts to speed up a pipeline by 0.1 second.
Best case scenario, you take down a massive criminal ring that sprouts back up like a weed a few days later.
Hacking got harder, and the enforced penalties for getting caught became a lot more severe (in the west at least). This meant that most hackers aren't doing it for luls but for serious business.
“They” got over it, as most people do, and moved on. Remnants still remain, but they were unified due to a critical mass of dissent.
Don’t expect to see anything like it again until another critical inflection point. Just know that, if you do, shit’s prolly in a bad place…so…
Yes, things are pretty peachy in the world right now.
That’s the spirit.
Anonymous basically became a US intelligence front around the Arab Spring.
Is there some individual news story this relates to?
A meme that comes quickly, goes quickly.
It's not an actual organised group, if you didn't know. Anyone can hack something and then say "Done by Anonymous".
I think they were around for over a decade. Like 4 chan anonymous guy Fawkes mask loose collective
Probably comparable to rage comics.
They (I use that term to mean the average 4channer) were co-opted by alt right propaganda.
Most neckbeard, incel, Andrew Tate followers are what Anon originally was. We just lied to ourselves that it wasn't really racist and that we were fighting a good fight.
Now, its a bunch of sad lonely people that found acceptance in intolerance and hatred.
Well that is kind of depressing.
But its backed by real hard facts and sourced from one of the smallest neckbeards ever.
If you only look at it from that angle, yeah. I bet the next generation of Anonymous is growing right now, though.
I don't think people who refer to "Anonymous" are referring to "the average 4channer".
They got got -> https://archive.org/details/weareanonymousin0000olso_l5h7
they basically got put out of business by cloudflare
The loic nerds yeah. There's still a few anons who can actually do shit, probably.
doxing work is very boring. much of it is thousands of hours sifting through the lamest social media content you can imagine.
it's also important to keep in mind that the cybersecurity field has adbanced tremendously, with cloidfare, EDRs, and in general it is now way harder to do anything anonymously without getting caught, quickly. This also males the field of hacking way more difficult to get in, which combined with reduced attention span of younger generations probably means there's not that many bored teens willing to put the time in, and as an adult you have way much more to loose, so for hose who had the skills it would be a lot greater risk.
Curious to know what answers you were looking for here OP. What makes you think they aren't doing these things but stopped identifying themselves as such? Also some dialogue is required about the myriad of things 'Anonymous' took responsibility for but were never adequately confirmed as objectively true--and more importantly, what is accomplished with this last feat? I believe the answer you seek lies in these depths
If you're interested in detail, I can recommend this book: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ncGVPtoZPHcC.
archive.org link for those who try to avoid Google services
(courtesy of xylogx@lemmy.world who also posted this)
I remember when the owner left and it was all bots overnight
Owner of what?
What's his name? Moot or something
Kinda figured they got caught and either went to prison or got recruited.
They’re still around; dormant. A sleeping giant.