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Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#161

> OFFICIAL ANONYMOUS (not to be confused with 'Anonymous Official' grifters) I find it ironic that this is the first line of a “press release” from a group that was always defined by its nebulous nature.

Hello, I am an OFFICIAL representative of Anonymous and neither OFFICIAL ANONYMOUS and Anonymous Officials are not official Anonymous representative. Officially. I think.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#162

I don't get it, didn't anonymous start on 4chan? Why are they attacking this company which is hosting similar content? I thought anonymous used to only attack megacorps

Just because they're on 4chan doesn't mean they agree with it.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#163

> Time to find out who in your family secretly ran an Ivermectin horse porn fetish site, disinfo publishing outfit, or yet another QAnon hellhole. > Decloak origin IPs of nazi websites for further investigation, poking, prodding! > Map out a decade of online fash with a level of clarity nobody has been able to UNTIL NOW! > Support your starving hacktivists, and they will bless you in turn. > So long, for now! Support…

There is no one Anonymous, just like there is no one "antifa" or one "black lives matter"; it's a movement, a conviction, not an organized entity.

I mean who is the leader of anonymous? Who is the leader of "antifa"? BLM?

TL;DR you don't really get internet trolls / anarchists / unorganized entities operating under a shared name.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the saddest and most effective media coups of the last decade has been the far right convincing the public that 4chan was always theirs. It started as an anonymous image board, one that an incredible number of people left when it became apparent that neo-Nazis had Poe’s Lawed themselves into the dominant user base. > I thought anonymous used to only attack megacorps Various individuals or groups labeling thems…

They aren't that far off. 4chan was always about counter culture.

Sure. But the site took a distinctly reactionary turn around 2010, and the community that’s on there now bears little resemblance to the one that occupied it from 2003 to 2013[1].

Put another way: it’s always been a cesspit, but it was a cesspit of a community. What passes for conversation on 4chan in 2021 appears to be neo-Nazis riling each other up.

[1]: On the bigger boards. The smaller ones are basically what they’ve always been, which lends further evidence to the point about the overwhelming majority of hate content coming from opportunistic reactionaries.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#166
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Lest anyone be confused, this is Epik the web hosting company[1], not Epic Games the videogame company[2], or Epic Systems the healthcare software company[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems

> Epik was founded in 2009 by Rob Monster The founder's name is like from The Onion article.

The whole site looks like it's parody information ("epic" with a K, "Rob Monster", nazi stuff, etc) but it becomes weirder when you realize they aren't parodying anything and all of it is accurate.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#167
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One step closer to anarcho-tyranny. Anonymous has become the Antifa of the Internet. Basically a far-left strike force, cloaked but public, with enough plausible deniability that the 3 letter agencies allow to exist because they can do things beyond the law - as long as they dont go after the gov... One has to wonder why they are so focused on [Combating far right extremism and misinformation] when it's clearly desig…

Is being anti-fascist a bad thing now? Wasn't there a bloody war fought over that? I thought the default was to be against fascism? It's the kind of thing where you approve of it if you're not explicitly against it. Also, are you implying Epik is fascist? I mean you're not wrong.

What's the difference between an anti-fascist and a fascist if they use the same tactics? Two weeks ago "anti-fascists" opened fire into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in my state's capitol.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#168
While I think people should have good security and hash the passwords I honestly think the guys behind this are real scumbags.

Probably not going to happen, but it would be interesting with an arrest.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

#169

> OFFICIAL ANONYMOUS (not to be confused with 'Anonymous Official' grifters) I find it ironic that this is the first line of a “press release” from a group that was always defined by its nebulous nature.

It's a meme/reference to something, I just can't remember where it came from right now. Basically everything that isn't about the hack is a meme.
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