Most often, when the media/pr announces a "sophisticated cyber attack" has happened, what actually has happened is that the password was "123456" or the site ran an old WordPress version, etc
Example?
Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”
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#12Great analysis on uncovering a credential stuffing attack (using passwords found from a previous breach) disguised as a "MPD hack" by "Anonymous" which Troy also discussed here. [0] > But anger shouldn't mean throwing logic and reason out the window and I cannot think of a time where fact-checking has ever been more important than now, not just because of the Minneapolis situation, but because so much of what we see…
My heuristics is, By default, Anything controversial I see on the internet is fake until it's proven to be true. I've been advocating this to my parents and a few others for quite a while. Especially from a country like India where there are people being lynched and killed just based on WhatsApp videos (mostly fake), Skepticism is required more than ever.
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#13The other thing I keep seeing is a "leak" of a court filing by "Anonymous" alleging that Trump and Epstein committed various sexual offenses. I think it's unfortunate that the disinformation attributing this to Anonymous is spreading because the court filing has been publicly available since 2016. It seems that two Twitter accounts are parroting this around under the guises on Anonymous which really discredits the ac…
Has Anonymous ever been an actual group or more of a loose collection of people claiming the name?
Read the wikipedia page, its pretty accurate. There have been arrests for 'Anonymous' hacks but it's not really a group, more so an idea.
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#14somebody with a twitter handle "Antifa Bunny #BlackLivesMatter #ACAB ️ ️" doesn't need this analysis to discover that he/she is dumb.
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#15My take: I don't think the government understands how must distrust there is for public institutions. The fact that they keep going on these pressers and lying to the public, only to be discredited after the fact, shows how tone deaf and disconnected from reality the politicians are. What's even more bizarre is all the people who are cheering on the police brutality, and encouraging more violence against unarmed prot…
The government isn't a single person or even consistent entity. Different people and groups are vying for control via control of the government. Some people distrusting the current government and others supporting it is pretty much what politicians want (it's also the natural result of politics).
I don't think this will change much when it comes to governing. Hopefully there will be change with how the police work in the US, but the political play is going to stay the same. Some people might just end up being switched out.
Just think of it this way: almost all of the rioting/protesting is happening in blue areas. They have a Democratic mayor, police chief, state representatives etc. The police are under the control of these local officials, not federal officials. At the same time, many of protestors are angry at Trump and other Republicans on a federal level. So who do they vote for to enact change? Voting for those same Democrats in local ejections keeps the status quo, but at the same time they don't like the opposition (Republicans). They can elect a different federal president, but that isn't going to change the police issue as long as the local status quo remains.
All in all, I would say that politically not much is going to change.
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#16What is the point of fabricating this attack?
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#17What is the point of fabricating this attack?
I can't decide whether this was done for the lulz or to make the police look incompetent. Maybe both?
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#18What is the point of fabricating this attack?
Consider whose voice, opinion, or stance stands to gain by making the police look incompetent or incapable of managing their own affairs.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has Anonymous ever been an actual group or more of a loose collection of people claiming the name?
Read the wikipedia page, its pretty accurate. There have been arrests for 'Anonymous' hacks but it's not really a group, more so an idea.
You're totally right and I shouldn't have referred to them as one entity. Even so, I think that Twitter accounts "representing" Anonymous spreading misinformation really discredits the work other Anonymous members do.