How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
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How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
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Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
#2Based on my own minimal experience, the majority of these IRC channels are just a small group of "Anonymous" doing whatever they want, different channels will get publicised at different times through different means, "Anonymous" doesn't exist in any way beyond being a label people use, I guess it could be compared to "emo" or "jock" in high school; they have no "leadership" but people join these groups and label themselves as such.
> The show was run by a couple of admins he identified as "Q," "Owen," and "CommanderX"—and Barr had used social media data and subterfuge to map those names to three real people, two in California and one in New York.
isn't Q the bot that runs on quakenet as a proxy admin?
Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
#3Type cookie you idiot!
Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
#4Isn't anonymous less an organized group with leaders and more a bunch of people who hang out and occasionally someone says "hey, it would be cool if we all did " and whoever is listening joins in?
Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
#5Isn't anonymous less an organized group with leaders and more a bunch of people who hang out and occasionally someone says "hey, it would be cool if we all did " and whoever is listening joins in?
Yes, but traditional media has a hard time grasping the concept. It's just a lot of directionless guys that latch onto whatever cause seems palatable at the time and requires no more effort than running LOIC/other simple DDOS programs. Basically the definition of script kiddies, there's just a large concentration of them on one message board system.
Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
#6couldnt you call that slender?
Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
#7Why is it so hard for some people to grasp that Anonymous are just what they claim to be - everyone and yet no one person? There is no roster, no voting, but they are still organized.
Maybe one could call it a mob mentality?
Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
#8I think someone needs to read "The Starfish and the Spider"
Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
#9The log where the CEO of the parent company joins the IRC chat room is great reading. http://pastebin.com/x69Akp5L -- search for "HI it's me"
Re: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
#10He thought that Anonymous was affiliated ("strongly linked") with Wikileaks, as if there was some secret backdoor agreement between them. Nutcase. There doesn't _need_ to be any agreement or promise between Anonymous and other parties.