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It's hilarious after all these years shitty journalists still believe Anonymous is a hacker group rather than just some kids trolling. I mean imagine if Facebo
by andrewmcwatters 6y ago
It's hilarious after all these years shitty journalists still believe Anonymous is a hacker group rather than just some kids trolling.
I mean imagine if Facebook had the option to be anonymous somehow on their platform and called everyone Unnamed who hadn't finished their registration or didn't want to.
You'd see Unnamed responsible for nation-state sponsored terrorism and manipulating the votes of other countries. What a joke.
- cl0ne 6y ago"the hacker known as 4chan"
- cygx 6y agoCurious definition of 'kids trolling', I have to say. DDoS attacks as well as actual hacks were performed in the name of 'Anonymous', and at the time of the Stratfor hack, various LulzSec members were already in their late twenties...
- ergot_vacation 6y agoThey were indeed a hacker group at one point. The "everyone is Anonymous" thing worked as an effective smokescreen for a while, and a pool for recruiting. It's like gaming, or sports: tons of people do it casually on the edges, and a handful at the top do it at a very high level for high stakes. Eventually they moved beyond fun, simple little social causes to more seriously disruptive and economically/politically dangerous stuff, and at that point, not surprisingly, the alphabet agencies slipped in and broke up the party.