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.
The chaff can’t perceive the wheat.
I don’t think people who refer to “Anonymous” are referring to “the average 4channer”.
Anonymous basically became a US intelligence front around the Arab Spring.
Is there some individual news story this relates to?
They are waiting for a tangible response, and building.
Kinda figured they got caught and either went to prison or got recruited.
I think their direction has gone astray mixed with losing general interest mixed with aging mixed with getting caught. I think Anonymous now has just turned into a parody of itself thanks for 4chan (yeah I know it was born there) who turned it into a symbol of just shitposting trolling than doing the right things.
They used to have been prominent during the days when SOPA and PIPA had been brought up. Since then, activity has dwindled.
A lot of the actual, serious ones that knew what they were doing got caught. Some went to lulsec to be jerks with no agenda and were caught by the Feds. All that was left were script kiddies that downloaded the Low Orbit Ion Cannon and used scripts they find online. Then they left or were overtaken by alt right idiots.
The original Anonymous are in their 30s and 40s by now. Everyone ages out.
Where did they get the name LOIC from in the first place?
The only place I am aware of, that uses this name, was the Unreal Tournament 2004.
I think you’ve found your answer.
90s script kiddie here - a bunch of the shit you can do as a minor with low/no consequences becomes SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS as an adult with assets. It’s just not worth the risk to keep dicking around with things that might land you in prison or cost you everything you have.
The delicious irony is that they now get to live in the world they helped create.
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As long as they’re able to punch down I don’t think they care
Interesting take.
This is the truest answer thus far.
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It pioneered DDoS attacks so, uh, yeah
IIRC it spammed websites with traffic, didn’t conceal your IP at all, and some people got arrested for using it to make some websites go down for a very brief period. Basically a way to use people who didn’t know what they were doing as cannon fodder
Yep, that’s exactly what it did. Maybe there was a way to do it, say if you had a VPN, but people picked up pretty quick to ban a single IP.
lol your VPN company is going to kick you the instant you turn on LOIC through them. Your packets wont even get to the target site because you are basically attacking your own VPN.
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Omg LOIC… I was trying to think of that name a few weeks ago and just couldn’t remember. That was fun.
I think they prefer to stay without a name.
I think the serious ones that didn’t get caught are now working in red team penetration testing, which is an industry that’s been growing exponentially since the years Anonymous did a lot of their big stuff
What about Kiwi Farms?
What about them? Pffft…dude, they’d rather make fun of lolcows all day and pretend that they’re still in their edgy teenage years where worshiping Hitler and dropping the N word was the coolest thing to do to them.
They shrunk their breakfast sausage product line and focus on grass fed meats.
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.
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
Their parents kicked them out of their basements?
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.
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)
Shutting down porn sites? Is that a thing they wanted to achieve? Like free video sites like PH or production companies like Brazzers?
I ment to type child porn sites.-
You can edit the main post you know.
No, then my question will look stupid!
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.
They got got -> https://archive.org/details/weareanonymousin0000olso_l5h7
Oh, I looked at the back of the book. Yeah I didn’t know they dared trying to mess with the FBI, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, NATO and more.
Yeah, that’s going to paint a lot of targets on you. Wondered what got into their minds to do all of that.
I think that’s a book I have been searching for a long time since I first read it in a library a good time ago
It is a good Cyber-thriller.
Then it must be the book. I remember it as a sort of documentary narrative about events that happened at lulzsec that could be more or less adapted to film
I remember when the owner left and it was all bots overnight
Owner of what?
What’s his name? Moot or something
