Anonymous takes credit for blackout of Elon Musk's social media outlet

This is the energy Anonymous is supposed to have. I still fondly recall the work they did on Scientology.

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.
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the energy Anonymous is supposed to have
Obligatory "Anonymous is not your personal army," but yeah, this is Anonymous at its best.
- The energy that Anonymous as a social construct is supposed to have. I'm not here to give notes to any would-be vigilantes.
Mr Robot was great

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.

- Yeah... I'd be real careful getting started by joining a particular irc server known for anything.
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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.
- The ones that didn’t get caught went underground and stopped working together as ‘anonymous’
- Lulzsec comes to mind

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.
- if you were in the scientology cult, yea they want to keep thier secrets within the cult.
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

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
I'm not sure what launching a DDoS would have accomplished... Twitter will be back soon enough
Before the election, they had to look out for the CSRB and CISA. Now… not so much.

I fucking HATE that there is a typo. 😡

Those things always have at least one typo. That's how you can tell they're legit.
- I guess it fits the bill for hackers not to be concerned with things like proof reading lmfao
Elon Musks' social media outlet*.

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

Anonymous

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while

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"
- Take out X when it was spewing disinformation about the election? Hit Facebook for the same reason? Do it when it would have mattered

Yes more more more!!

Every inch is important.

I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition, but I'll allow it.

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.

Dirty little secret they don't want to admit is 2A was for the military. Not meal team six.

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

How do you join a DDoS these days?

Is LOIC and HOIC still a thing?

Or what are the cool kids doing

Haha I ran the LOIC. I also wonder what the kids are up to.

I love every sentence they have in the first picture

Probably what the Democrats should’ve said

Wow it's been a little while since I've heard Anonymous taking credit

Honestly, even if it isn't doing much, it's making a statement which is more than enough.

Wow, I haven't heard anything from those guys in a hot minute.

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.

I applaud the blocking of social media as a form of activism and yet peaceful protest.

I'm shocked it wasn't Ukraine I tell you positively shocked now let's watch everyone who reported as such reverse it...

It was about as obvious of a lie as when people tried to say that Russia blew up their own pipeline.

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

Nice. I love anonymous.

Could they challenge DOGE?

Where does it say on the website that they are taking credit for the blackout?

Good on them, I guess. But Twitter is only a small part of the problem.

Finally, someone is stepping up!

Even if they did they are still the feds