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‘Anonymous’ hacker quits; calls members hypocrites, efforts fruitless

12 points by zacharye 15y ago

redthrowaway 15y ago
People come and go in Anonymous all the time; that's just the nature of the beast. The fact that this one chose to reveal his identity and post some bizarre rant with The Worst Capitalization I Have Ever Seen isn't really newsworthy.
- mc32 15y ago
  The capitalization was bizarre; the 'rant' seemed reasonable, actually.
  - redthrowaway 15y ago
    The rant really displayed a lack of understanding of what Anonymous is. Anonymous is not Topiary and Samu, and they are not its leaders. They're just by far the most active members as far as hacking is concerned, and they own the twitter accounts that, thanks to said hacking, are the most followed. Had this guy, whose name I don't recognize, simply said, "the actions of Topiary and Sabu are casting us in a bad light and I don't want to be associated with them", that'd be fine. Instead, he seems to think that the "leaders" of Anonymous are selling out the masses and taking Anonymous in a bad direction. Topiary and Sabu are only involved in AnonOPs, the @AnonymousIRC and @AnonymousSabu twitter accounts, and Lulz/AntiSec. There's a ton of other Anonymous forums and operations that have nothing to do with those activities. His rant displayed an outsider's understanding of how Anon works. Even back in the trolling days, there were Anonymous factions on all of the various /i/ boards operating mostly independently, as well as the WhyWeProtest crowd continuing with their chanology stuff. 420chan launched the raid on the Epilepsy Foundation [1] while the Scientology stuff was going on. There was much wringing of hands and kvetching about how "this makes us look bad", etc, but the fact is they are two distinct groups. Similarly, there isn't a whole lot of overlap between the AntiSec guys and those who DDoSed PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard, or prepared aid packages for Tunisians. The claims that this guy made don't reflect an understanding of that reality. [1] http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Epilepsy_Foundation http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Epilepsy_Foundation

12 points by zacharye 15y ago

People come and go in Anonymous all the time; that's just the nature of the beast. The fact that this one chose to reveal his identity and post some bizarre rant with The Worst Capitalization I Have Ever Seen isn't really newsworthy.

mc32 15y ago
The capitalization was bizarre; the 'rant' seemed reasonable, actually.
- redthrowaway 15y ago
  The rant really displayed a lack of understanding of what Anonymous is. Anonymous is not Topiary and Samu, and they are not its leaders. They're just by far the most active members as far as hacking is concerned, and they own the twitter accounts that, thanks to said hacking, are the most followed. Had this guy, whose name I don't recognize, simply said, "the actions of Topiary and Sabu are casting us in a bad light and I don't want to be associated with them", that'd be fine. Instead, he seems to think that the "leaders" of Anonymous are selling out the masses and taking Anonymous in a bad direction. Topiary and Sabu are only involved in AnonOPs, the @AnonymousIRC and @AnonymousSabu twitter accounts, and Lulz/AntiSec. There's a ton of other Anonymous forums and operations that have nothing to do with those activities. His rant displayed an outsider's understanding of how Anon works. Even back in the trolling days, there were Anonymous factions on all of the various /i/ boards operating mostly independently, as well as the WhyWeProtest crowd continuing with their chanology stuff. 420chan launched the raid on the Epilepsy Foundation [1] while the Scientology stuff was going on. There was much wringing of hands and kvetching about how "this makes us look bad", etc, but the fact is they are two distinct groups. Similarly, there isn't a whole lot of overlap between the AntiSec guys and those who DDoSed PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard, or prepared aid packages for Tunisians. The claims that this guy made don't reflect an understanding of that reality. [1] http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Epilepsy_Foundation http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Epilepsy_Foundation