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writerkitAnonymous is back: https://twitter.com/ASB_Breaking/status/1266939977709084672
As far as I can tell, though, it's mostly just a dramatic video; I see no evidence they've actually *done* very much. And we all know that "genuine" isn't really something you can apply to Anonymous. They have no organizational structure; just a bunch of people in IRC channels some of whom get together and do stuff. It really is just a name and an imagery that people can pick up and put down as they choose. It carries some weight because of past things that have happened under its umbrella, but at its core it's true anarchism.
This is *evidenced* by the fact that so far they've... DDoSed the Minneapolis police department. CloudFlare's protection is already kicking in there; it loaded extremely slowly when I tried it, and I saw the CloudFlare protection screen, but it is up and I was able to access it-- and not just the CloudFlare snapshot; a second try ten minutes later got me the actual page and no more slowness. Besides which, DDoSing something shows you can get access to a botnet, which I gather isn't hard if you're the sort of person who knows how to visit darknet sites. It's not a terribly impressive feat of hacktivism. Certainly it doesn't merit the kind of drama and "YAY ANONYMOUS" that's starting to be all over Twitter, and it's definitely not the kind of "We will expose all your secrets" promised by that video.
Though I do agree with the people on Twitter going "Good job on accessibility for including captions."
As far as I can tell, though, it's mostly just a dramatic video; I see no evidence they've actually *done* very much. And we all know that "genuine" isn't really something you can apply to Anonymous. They have no organizational structure; just a bunch of people in IRC channels some of whom get together and do stuff. It really is just a name and an imagery that people can pick up and put down as they choose. It carries some weight because of past things that have happened under its umbrella, but at its core it's true anarchism.
This is *evidenced* by the fact that so far they've... DDoSed the Minneapolis police department. CloudFlare's protection is already kicking in there; it loaded extremely slowly when I tried it, and I saw the CloudFlare protection screen, but it is up and I was able to access it-- and not just the CloudFlare snapshot; a second try ten minutes later got me the actual page and no more slowness. Besides which, DDoSing something shows you can get access to a botnet, which I gather isn't hard if you're the sort of person who knows how to visit darknet sites. It's not a terribly impressive feat of hacktivism. Certainly it doesn't merit the kind of drama and "YAY ANONYMOUS" that's starting to be all over Twitter, and it's definitely not the kind of "We will expose all your secrets" promised by that video.
Though I do agree with the people on Twitter going "Good job on accessibility for including captions."
