hacktivists pranksters or cyber
terrorists regardless of what you think
of the organization it has certainly
been influential not everyone wants to
put up a wall on the Internet let’s put
this ball have a good night and the
anonymous who left the note wasn’t
revela welcome to watchmojo.com it will
be counting down the five most
interesting things we could learn about
anonymous those cyber vigilantes who
have hacked everything from countries to
corporations to cults and others so
let’s get started it was too surreal it
was not believable
number five Anonymous began as a joke on
4chan four Chan’s layout makes it look
like posts are uploaded by a single user
named anonymous eventually a small group
of people from the site’s /be section
took up the moniker and started to troll
the internet with the motto none of us
are as cruel as all of us their first
pranks typically involve trolling
internet forums and some famous habbo
hotel raids arguably the group didn’t
become political until late 2006 when it
picked the neo-nazi radio host Hal
Turner as the target for a series of
pranks
for some reason or other all these lower
cultures and lower races are are more
important and I find that disgusting
outsider political hackers saw the
attack and flocked to join the effort
effectively taking him off the air sign
him up for escorts on Craigslist
we sent a bunch of pallets of industrial
materials to his house which he
ultimately had to put the bill for and
basically we destroyed his ability to
pay for his radio show this started a
major conflict in Anonymous between old
members who wanted to cause chaos for
the walls and new members who wanted to
use hacking for the greater good why
they wanted to expose government
surveillance the prism program
embezzlement abuse number 4 even Visa
isn’t safe from hacktivists
back in 2010 when WikiLeaks was making
headlines Visa MasterCard and PayPal all
decided that they would cut off service
to the website for the average citizen
it was basically impossible to donate to
WikiLeaks which made it difficult for
the website to function some members of
anonymous saw this as an attack on
freedom of speech and mobilized
Operation Payback they attacked the
websites of financial institutions and
web hosting companies who were aligning
against WikiLeaks disrupting the sites
of Visa MasterCard PayPal and others
they didn’t exactly bring the financial
world to its knees but they certainly
sent a message number three
Batman was almost the face of anonymous
I’m Batman the million mask March has
become an annual event today’s March is
meant to bring attention to what
Anonymous has described as everything
evil and corrupt in our world before
organizing their first live
demonstration though anons wanted a face
covering for safety and the iconic Guy
Fawkes mask was settled on who is but
the form following the function of what
and what I am is a man in a mask but
this was near the beginning when they
were mostly known for extreme practical
jokes and online harassment so some
weren’t sure of Guy Fawkes the infamous
British trader turned folk hero was a
good fit for the organisation beneath
his mask others more than flesh
beneath this mask there is an idea mr.
Treaty and ideas would masquerade masks
and Batman masks were two of the other
contenders for the official disguise of
anonymous dresses up like a bat clearly
as issues but the forces of consumerism
settled the dilemma die Fox masts were
the cheapest and most widely available
option
number two anonymous exposed 1,500 child
pornographers regardless of your feeling
towards anonymous I think we can all get
behind their war on child pornography in
2011 they announced Operation darknet an
action that would eventually lead to the
shutting down of over 40 websites that
produced and shared child pornography
they released the names and addresses of
the users of these sites and encouraged
the police to get involved in total they
doxed over 1,500 viewers and producers
of child porn number one most anons have
little to no hacking skills and you
didn’t select me because I’m good at
coding no well no I mean you’re okay
even pretty good
it’s hard to know anything for certain
about a movement as nebulous as
anonymous some of its members claim it
isn’t even a group just a bunch of
random internet people according to
various reddit AMA s from actual and ons
most members are not the cyber ninjas
that hyperbolic media reports would have
you believe most are noobs script
kitties who couldn’t hack their way out
of a paper bag and that’s just fine
it seems that all that is really
required to be part of anonymous is to
agree with its philosophy of
unrestricted free speech claim
allegiance to the collective become
invisible online and participate in
anonymous as IRC chats so what do you
think is anonymous a force for good in
the world or troubling form of
vigilantism political correctness in
America today is a fanatical ideology
and it requires fanatical ways of
punching through it more righteous top
tens and for the lulz top fives be sure
to subscribe to watchmojo.com
they say I’m a criminal damn well then I
will be one
you
terrorists regardless of what you think
of the organization it has certainly
been influential not everyone wants to
put up a wall on the Internet let’s put
this ball have a good night and the
anonymous who left the note wasn’t
revela welcome to watchmojo.com it will
be counting down the five most
interesting things we could learn about
anonymous those cyber vigilantes who
have hacked everything from countries to
corporations to cults and others so
let’s get started it was too surreal it
was not believable
number five Anonymous began as a joke on
4chan four Chan’s layout makes it look
like posts are uploaded by a single user
named anonymous eventually a small group
of people from the site’s /be section
took up the moniker and started to troll
the internet with the motto none of us
are as cruel as all of us their first
pranks typically involve trolling
internet forums and some famous habbo
hotel raids arguably the group didn’t
become political until late 2006 when it
picked the neo-nazi radio host Hal
Turner as the target for a series of
pranks
for some reason or other all these lower
cultures and lower races are are more
important and I find that disgusting
outsider political hackers saw the
attack and flocked to join the effort
effectively taking him off the air sign
him up for escorts on Craigslist
we sent a bunch of pallets of industrial
materials to his house which he
ultimately had to put the bill for and
basically we destroyed his ability to
pay for his radio show this started a
major conflict in Anonymous between old
members who wanted to cause chaos for
the walls and new members who wanted to
use hacking for the greater good why
they wanted to expose government
surveillance the prism program
embezzlement abuse number 4 even Visa
isn’t safe from hacktivists
back in 2010 when WikiLeaks was making
headlines Visa MasterCard and PayPal all
decided that they would cut off service
to the website for the average citizen
it was basically impossible to donate to
WikiLeaks which made it difficult for
the website to function some members of
anonymous saw this as an attack on
freedom of speech and mobilized
Operation Payback they attacked the
websites of financial institutions and
web hosting companies who were aligning
against WikiLeaks disrupting the sites
of Visa MasterCard PayPal and others
they didn’t exactly bring the financial
world to its knees but they certainly
sent a message number three
Batman was almost the face of anonymous
I’m Batman the million mask March has
become an annual event today’s March is
meant to bring attention to what
Anonymous has described as everything
evil and corrupt in our world before
organizing their first live
demonstration though anons wanted a face
covering for safety and the iconic Guy
Fawkes mask was settled on who is but
the form following the function of what
and what I am is a man in a mask but
this was near the beginning when they
were mostly known for extreme practical
jokes and online harassment so some
weren’t sure of Guy Fawkes the infamous
British trader turned folk hero was a
good fit for the organisation beneath
his mask others more than flesh
beneath this mask there is an idea mr.
Treaty and ideas would masquerade masks
and Batman masks were two of the other
contenders for the official disguise of
anonymous dresses up like a bat clearly
as issues but the forces of consumerism
settled the dilemma die Fox masts were
the cheapest and most widely available
option
number two anonymous exposed 1,500 child
pornographers regardless of your feeling
towards anonymous I think we can all get
behind their war on child pornography in
2011 they announced Operation darknet an
action that would eventually lead to the
shutting down of over 40 websites that
produced and shared child pornography
they released the names and addresses of
the users of these sites and encouraged
the police to get involved in total they
doxed over 1,500 viewers and producers
of child porn number one most anons have
little to no hacking skills and you
didn’t select me because I’m good at
coding no well no I mean you’re okay
even pretty good
it’s hard to know anything for certain
about a movement as nebulous as
anonymous some of its members claim it
isn’t even a group just a bunch of
random internet people according to
various reddit AMA s from actual and ons
most members are not the cyber ninjas
that hyperbolic media reports would have
you believe most are noobs script
kitties who couldn’t hack their way out
of a paper bag and that’s just fine
it seems that all that is really
required to be part of anonymous is to
agree with its philosophy of
unrestricted free speech claim
allegiance to the collective become
invisible online and participate in
anonymous as IRC chats so what do you
think is anonymous a force for good in
the world or troubling form of
vigilantism political correctness in
America today is a fanatical ideology
and it requires fanatical ways of
punching through it more righteous top
tens and for the lulz top fives be sure
to subscribe to watchmojo.com
they say I’m a criminal damn well then I
will be one
you
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