The hacker cabal known as Anonymous has been very busy lately. A few weeks ago they launched a high-profile attack on the IMF, and now they're aiming their cyber weapons at Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. The group released a video on Monday (posted after the jump) calling for protests against the Fed and indicating their campaign would escalate. The group is demanding Bernanke's resignation or else:
Here's the Anonymous video released earlier this week:
These guys are definitely the real deal, and it will be interesting to see what they do. Some of the ideas Henry and Aaron were throwing out in the first video had me cracking up, because if Anonymous was trying to figure out what to attack next those two guys just pointed them in the right direction.
So what do you think? Can a collective of misanthropic hackers force the resignation of a Fed chairman?
You could sooner get the Pope to resign than the Federal Reserve Chairman.
I remember hearing about Anonymous back when those nuts at the Westboro Baptist Church were making noise at the military funeral. They've talked a tough game; now we have to see what they can do.
You guys are joking, right? Anonymous is a bunch of schmucks from 4chan who use downloadable programs that have point/click interfaces to ddos sites. They dont hack. Theyre a bunch of noobs who spend all their time talking about pictures of cats and hentai.
Neckbeards on unsecured Wifi /= overthrow of the Illuminati's golden boy
From my brief research, anonymous is a bunch of hackers who use only the most basic of techniques to launch attacks. Most of their stuff is denial of service, where they use a program to get information from a site's server many times per second, causing it to crash. I think they try to hack all kinds of stuff and have a very small success rate - we just hear about the few successes with their silly videos.
Bunch of tough talking emo script kiddies. Their social message will cause more damage than their actual hacking skills.
What I don't understand is that the video is saying they're going to protest in person? Wouldn't this mean they are a. no longer anonymous and b. not using the tool that gained them some notoriety (i.e., the computer)?
I've also never heard them spout such baseless conspiracy bullshit until now...makes me wonder if the decentralized model of running a protest group is no longer working.
They wear Guy Fawkes masks when in public to answer your first question.
Anonymous won't do anything. Like seabird said, it's just a bunch of 14 year olds who have the summer off and spend it on 4chan acting like they're part of some super secret society.
CIA is probably all over them already
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read in a French newspaper today that officials claim to have arrested several members of the group anonymous. seems like a big circle jerk to me.
Lulz sec took down the CIA website down today apparently
This was just a ddos attack- nothing remarkable and no gain of information. People are joking that by just announcing you've taken down the CIA website this would cause enough traffic by everyone curious enough to see the result that this alone would cause a ddos.
Lulz sec took down the CIA website down today apparently
As I mentioned in another thread, the lone wolf Jester would hopefully (likely) intervene on any attempts Anon made against an American institution.
He's the Batman of the internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jester_(hacktivist)
[quote=ThaVanBurenBoyz]As I mentioned in another thread, the lone wolf Jester would hopefully (likely) intervene on any attempts Anon made against an American institution.
He's the Batman of the internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jester_(hacktivist)[/quote] Dude is former SOCOM and is probably a moniker for an NSA op
They've got bigger problems to throw the firepower at. Anonymous LULZsEC Al Quada Iran Tie between [Russia / China]
[quote=ThaVanBurenBoyz]As I mentioned in another thread, the lone wolf Jester would hopefully (likely) intervene on any attempts Anon made against an American institution.
He's the Batman of the internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jester_(hacktivist)[/quote]
He has a pretty interesting blog:
http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/
[quote=thrifty_thirst_year][quote=ThaVanBurenBoyz]As I mentioned in another thread, the lone wolf Jester would hopefully (likely) intervene on any attempts Anon made against an American institution.
He's the Batman of the internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jester_(hacktivist)[/quote]
He has a pretty interesting blog:
http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/[/quote] Nice Pull
Everyone just got more serious: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/major-internet-service-providers…
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