Anonymous takes credit for blackout of Elon Musk's social media outlet
Anonymous takes credit for blackout of Elon Musk's social media outlet
I love every sentence they have in the first picture
They're doing what we should all be doing. Particularly those obsessed with the 2nd amendment, since this is literally what it was made for.
Every inch is important.
This is the energy Anonymous is supposed to have. I still fondly recall the work they did on Scientology.
Mr Robot was great
One of the big - but to be expected - problems had always been, that basically every group or individual could don the "Anonymous" label. But yeah, this is in the spirit of the anti-authoritarian hacker identity, that it started out with.
Granted that any time humans wield anonymous power without oversight there will be bad behaviour. When I was younger I took for granted that a key part of the social construct of Anonymous was an ironic awareness of that, hence its suitability for striking back at high-handed enemies of humanity.
I was quite young back then.
Fuck, I wish we heard more about chaotic good hackers like this more often. They're like our modern day super heroes in some regard to me.
I think they caught most of them from back when they were more active (2009-2012) or at least were more in the public eye.
Lulzsec comes to mind
The ones that didn’t get caught went underground and stopped working together as ‘anonymous’
Wow, good for them. Way to roll in to save the day after the fascists took power. Too bad they didn't do something when it could have made a difference.
Like what? I get wishing things never got to the stage they are at, but what do you wish a bunch of unorganized hackers did earlier? Genuinely curious as I'm not good enough at coding to think of any creative "solutions"
Remember that time Anonymous fought Scientology? That's why we don't have Scientology anymore.
Can't tell if sarcastic or not.
Yeah, Scientology is still quite powerful but they were exposed for a lot during that attack.
Plus, this isn't the same group of people. Anonymous was never a set group of hackers or anything, it was a catch all name used back in the day to keep anonymity, and then later on a bunch of edgy dorks decided to pretend they were an actual organization
I spoke out about Scientology and now have unmarked cars/vans outside my house daily (off and on for a year)… I was perma banned from Reddit for speaking my truths… it’s effing terrifying!!! Fuck Reddit and the cesspool they are creating! It’s embarrassing!
I hope that what you’re saying is true and that you aren’t experiencing some kind of breakdown.
I say that from a genuine place of concern AND, it breaks my heart that we live in a world where someone has to worry about such things.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Scientologists were stalking you, but I’ve been making fun of them online for 20+ years and I’ve never had this problem.
Were you born into Scientology? If you were, yeah, they’re probably stalking you. Same if you joined the cult at any point in your life.
Film this shit and ask people to confirm you’re dealing with this.
Instead of facing black pieces of paper to DOGE, we can just sign their emails up for so many spam mailing lists. So many that legit emails get lost in the chaos
Yes more more more!!
There is no way this is the same guys who went after Scientology, however, I do love whoever they are. We need more people fighting fascism.
They're based on the AnonOps IRC so it is, technically, the same sect of Anonymous. Although anyone can join and start an Op there so...
I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition, but I'll allow it.
Anonymous
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while
Where were these fuckers before the election‽ They did a lot of talk in the lead up to Nov 6th but then nothing came of it
Now they actually want to do something lmao
They were probably murdered by the CIA or something. Who would know?
you misspelled suicide
where were these fuckers before the election
Shitposting on chan boards, running right wing grifts, spreading QAnon conspiracies…
I'm not sure what launching a DDoS would have accomplished... Twitter will be back soon enough
They've DDoS'd X/Twitter?
Surely they just clicked the 'X' button and it closed itself down?
Apparently that's what the news is saying
Bunch of anons: DDoS Xitter
Elona: Ukraine did it!
Wait before this dimwit will start screaming of casus belli against an unfriendly Ukraine and the USA will start selling Russia weapons.
Could they challenge DOGE?
Good on them, I guess. But Twitter is only a small part of the problem.
Nice. I love anonymous.
Honestly, even if it isn't doing much, it's making a statement which is more than enough.
Makes me wonder,
Similar to all the peeps 20 years ago in the SETI@home movement, where you could donate your CPU/bandwidth.
Is there any 'safe' way to donate and collectively protest on the internet by signing up to a botnet?
low orbit ion cannon and friends were tools for participating in anon ddos ops back in the day, but it wasn't exactly safe -- without a vpn your isp and other intermediaries can see your traffic, and the host can see your ip address. with a vpn you're in part dosing your vpn, depending on the attack
no idea how anon organizes such things these days
Wow it's been a little while since I've heard Anonymous taking credit
I applaud the blocking of social media as a form of activism and yet peaceful protest.
The conspiracy crowd believe that Anonymous are a wing of the FBI/CIA. I wonder how they'll reconcile known persons openly attacking another piece of the government. Probably “something something deep state”
derp state
Can confirm. As a former network support "staff" member I was paid by the both the CIA and the FBI. Neither paid very well though.
Where does it say on the website that they are taking credit for the blackout?
Finally, someone is stepping up!