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Re: Anonymous targets police and Trump administration

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After LulzSec was broken up they have had no teeth. Just a bunch of script kiddies these days :P

Even during the LulzSec saga Anonymous mostly did DDOSs and website defacing, with sporadic high-level hacks, but not all has to be hacking. Given the amorphous nature of the movement, even a lowly clerk/technician/etc. could leak evidence if they sympathize.

That being said, following the antics of LulzSec was my favorite part of 2011 by far.

Re: Anonymous targets police and Trump administration

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After LulzSec was broken up they have had no teeth. Just a bunch of script kiddies these days :P

I wouldn't be so sure. I know a lot of people that do have quite some skills but just weren't really motivated.

Definitely. If anything was true of Anonymous it was that it's membership was purely self-selected based on the specific 'op' being carried out.

The current climate is ripe for exploitation by nation states who may revel in the US' woes.

Re: Anonymous targets police and Trump administration

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I wonder if there would be any overlap with the DOJ considering antifa as a terrorist org? If that happens and there was overlap, there oils be more resources put at unmasking NSA intercepts.

In any case, the DOJ considering Antifa as well as a potential consideration of Anonymous as a terrorist organization is pretty ridiculous and toothless, as they are both anarchist affiliations/ideas and not organizations in any way I know of, really.

So I think they're gonna have a pretty hard time proving that anyone is part of "The Antifa Organization" just like it's impossible to prove that someone is part of "The Anonymous Organization". There is no hierarchy, no organized structure. The only way it could ever be applied would be to consider people with a given set of ideas and aesthetics terrorists.

Which would mean that there is a lot of overlap, as Anonymous is essentially based upon the idea of violent antifascism as far it's aesthetics and there is a ton of overlap between the dominant ideologies of Anonymous and Antifa (against state power, direct action, decentralized action, anti-censorship, violence against those you believe are a threat including organic censorship, etc...)

In any case, it's very bad for everyone.

Re: Anonymous targets police and Trump administration

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I wonder if there would be any overlap with the DOJ considering antifa as a terrorist org? If that happens and there was overlap, there oils be more resources put at unmasking NSA intercepts.

In any case, the DOJ considering Antifa as well as a potential consideration of Anonymous as a terrorist organization is pretty ridiculous and toothless, as they are both anarchist affiliations/ideas and not organizations in any way I know of, really. So I think they're gonna have a pretty hard time proving that anyone is part of "The Antifa Organization" just like it's impossible to prove that someone is part of "Th…

> In any case, the DOJ considering Antifa as well as a potential consideration of Anonymous as a terrorist organization is pretty ridiculous and toothless, as they are both anarchist affiliations/ideas and not organizations in any way I know of, really.

So was the El Caeda

Re: Anonymous targets police and Trump administration

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I wonder if there would be any overlap with the DOJ considering antifa as a terrorist org? If that happens and there was overlap, there oils be more resources put at unmasking NSA intercepts.

In any case, the DOJ considering Antifa as well as a potential consideration of Anonymous as a terrorist organization is pretty ridiculous and toothless, as they are both anarchist affiliations/ideas and not organizations in any way I know of, really. So I think they're gonna have a pretty hard time proving that anyone is part of "The Antifa Organization" just like it's impossible to prove that someone is part of "Th…

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