I remember when the owner left and it was all bots overnight
Owner of what?
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.
A meme that comes quickly goes quickly.
It’s not an actual organised group, if you didn’t know. Anyone can hack something and then say “Done by Anonymous”.
I think they were around for over a decade. Like 4 chan anonymous guy Fawkes mask loose collective
Probably comparable to rage comics.
And anyone that performs any successful hack, can also declare themselves as part of Anonymous.
all of the people who were part of Anonymous who were worth a damn at hacking back in the day work for the state department now. The movement could very likely have been a psyop, given how many high-level hackers from that era there are on government payroll.
I stand in solidarity with the gay furry hackers.
They fizzled out, members probably moved on to various other groups and projects, while the rest simply went on with their lives. A danger of being decentralized is losing all of your momentum.
A danger of being decentralized is losing all of your momentum.
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The other commenter is more right, anyway. A lot of the dudes got arrested. I think the chances of that are low here, for now.
Trust me bro.
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.
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
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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.
Omg LOIC… I was trying to think of that name a few weeks ago and just couldn’t remember. That was fun.
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?
They shrunk their breakfast sausage product line and focus on grass fed meats.
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 if sad lonely people that found acceptance in intolerance and hatred.
I don’t think people who refer to “Anonymous” are referring to “the average 4channer”.
Well that is kind of depressing.
But its backed by real hard facts and sourced from one of the smallest neckbeards ever.
The chaff can’t perceive the wheat.
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.
Hacking got harder, and the enforced penalties for getting caught became a lot more severe (in the west at least). This meant that most hackers aren’t doing it for luls but for serious business.
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.
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!
They got got -> https://archive.org/details/weareanonymousin0000olso_l5h7
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.
They’re still around; dormant. A sleeping giant.
They will come when we call.
Anonymous basically became a US intelligence front around the Arab Spring.
Is there some individual news story this relates to?
