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> The ability of a community to completely self-organize, without central direction, and instantly execute a publicly-visible plan like this (...) I don't see
by tvon 16y ago
> The ability of a community to completely self-organize, without central direction, and instantly execute a publicly-visible plan like this (...)
I don't see any reason to believe it went down that way.
It's probable it was a group who already had much of the ability in-place to execute an attack like this, and who decided to target mastercard.com because it was found to be vulnerable, or because paypal and amazon were out of thier reach.
- danilocampos 16y agoThat group would be Anonymous, in all of its gossamer affiliation. The idea of another group using 4chan/Anonymous as a front for its own goals seems needlessly complicated. "Anonymous" does all of this for Scientologists and cat abusers, why not Mastercard?
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- alanh 16y agoNot a real group so much as whoever wants in, is in, on a per-effort basis; a movement is spearheaded by an individual or two and each so-called member spontaneously decides whether to participate or not. “Anonymous” is hardly a group or organization, any more than the IRC channel for your favorite framework. A weak analogy is whenever Redditors decide to contribute to a certain cause or user. No one decided for the group, and there was no real vote, but nevertheless without the community most individuals would not have contributed. Economist / Babbage: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/more_wikileaks http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/more_wikileak... (I think he gets the definition of OP wrong, but everything else seems to jive with my non-firsthand understanding.)
- steveklabnik 16y agoIt's relatively accurate.