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Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it. The international hacker community is preparing to strike against U.S. infrastructure and calls for public awareness against incoming fascism

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[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 37 points 1 day ago

Anonymous, if you are going to do it, PLEASE make sure to leave the innocent people alone and go after the rich assholes that are doing this.

Other than that, here's my axe, go wild

[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Here is my 4 laptops, loaded up loic, give me ip, we roll

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[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Aren’t they kind of notorious for empty promises?

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Its more of a chaos entity. Because anyone can be a part of it with literally no steps other than saying "I am Anonymous", anyone can say or do anything. As a result, one person or group may claim Anonymous while doing a legitimate hack, while another person who is just a script kiddie won't ever actually do anything and you get this hot and cold, will they won't they effect as a result.

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[-] Ozymati@lemmy.nz 120 points 2 days ago

Can they do something useful like destroy the debt infrastructure and delete all student loans and medical bills?

[-] potustheplant@feddit.nl 27 points 2 days ago

SpoilerYou've been watching too much Mr. Robot.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Tap for spoiler

Or fight club

[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago

Anonymous tends to not do useful things. They just talk a lot.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

“Anonymous” isn’t like a formal group. The entire point is that anyone can say that they are anonymous. So yeah, people talk a lot. You can do whatever you like as anonymous.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

mostly they are spending hours scrolling through social media accounts of certain types of people looking for dox materials. that's really about it

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

A more useful thing would be to do as much damage to Twitter as possible. In fact, why they haven't attacked Twitter while Musk has been disarming all of its safety protocols is fucking beyond me.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 14 points 2 days ago

Attacking twitter would be more useful than deleting all debt? I mean go wild, take that shit ass site down but if you had a "delete twitter" button and a "delete all debt" button, mashing the second one would make you the greatest hero who ever lived.

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[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I'm sure backups and redundancies are "inefficient" since "everything is in the cloud, anyway".

[-] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 33 points 2 days ago

Hacker fashion tip: while wearing your guy fox mask, match it with a Luigi hat.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

The Guy Faux mask is so 2005.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago
[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

I don't know if you guys are on purpose but it's Fawkes. It would be amazing if three people really had different spellings of the same Guy..

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[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Anytime I see something about "Anonymous" I just assume it's some kind of fed psyop until proven otherwise.

[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

So you'll go to your grave believing it because all the proof in the world will just be fake news

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

In this case? Yeah, probably. If there was proof of their identity they would no longer be anonymous, would they?

It's a much more reasonable assumption than how your lot assumes anyone who disagrees with you for any reason is a Russian bot, and can't be convinced by any amount of proof otherwise.

[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean at least you're leaning into the conservative conspiracy hole instead of pretending you're not in it, so bonus points for honesty.

I've also never accused random posters of being Russian trolls/bots, so fewer points for that.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lmao, "conservative conspiracy hole." I guess "being suspicious of anonymous sources" makes me a conservative conspiracy theorist, somehow 🤣

This is just basic critical thinking lol.

[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

"This thing I don't understand is a government psyop and I will refuse to believe any evidence to the contrary"

That's literally Maga 101 you can't be surprised I called a spade a spade. Plus I just happe to know you're already conservative from your other posts so it's just more evidence to back it up.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This thing I don’t understand

What don't I understand about it?

I will refuse to believe any evidence to the contrary

There is no evidence to the contrary. The only way there could be would be if they got caught.

Plus I just happe to know you’re already conservative from your other posts so it’s just more evidence to back it up.

Lmao of course you do.

As I always say, "If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying." Please cite any evidence at all that I'm conservative.

I apologize for my mistake earlier, when I said my suspicions about Anonymous were more reasonable than your belief that I'm a Russian bot, what I should've said is that they're more reasonable than your baseless and unfalsifiable belief that I'm secretly a conservative. Huge difference.

[-] drascus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

I will believe it when I see it this is likely just talk.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago
[-] Hackworth@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My final semester in American Sign Language was "Sex, Drugs, and Profanity," and most of the signs are just exactly what you'd guess. (I held on to those textbooks.) Plus, facial expressions are a big part of the grammar of the language. I don't recognize this scene, but assuming it's from a comedy - it's probably also not far off from accurate.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It's from the 1982 film Airplane 2: the Sequel. Nowhere near as funny as the original, but still very funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ9xuvyGiBY

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is kinda what trump wants. If the government cant handle "online stuff" they can pitch privatization. It hurts more if tech megacorps get hacked. Though at this point I wou'd laugh if a bunch of internet nerds got the nuclear codes or locked up a bunch of satellites

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

If the government cant handle "online stuff" they can pitch privatization.

It kind of already is privatized. Most of the government's cyber security efforts are handled by defense contractors.

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

CISA actually monitored Internet traffic and would contact government entities (local, schools, universities, etc) when they were being attacked. I went to a talk once where they said they usually had response times in minutes, and it would take longer to figure out who they needed to alert and convince them that it was real. Now that CISA is gutted I would expect more and worse breaches in the future.

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[-] absquatulate@lemmy.world 159 points 3 days ago

Exploit it you say? Please get in line behind the russians, the chinese snd pretty much all arab countries

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What did we do? As if our governments aren’t US vassals? Yet you still demonize us. If Arab governments had any sway our governments wouldn’t be paying tributes and forced to normalize with Israel and host US troops.

The only foreign country that controls US politics and bought US politicians from both major parties is Israel. https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S

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[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 45 points 2 days ago

By all means do. It's not like much of value is lost at this point.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Tomorrow

Trump: By executive order, I dismantle the computer warfare and defence division

Musk: It doesn't exist anymore!

The day after

Anonymous: They turned off their service that sanitized all inputs. We just stole everything from every department, and put cats on every governments webpage.

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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 122 points 3 days ago

Anything supposedly said by "Anonymous" as a hacker group should always be treated with immense skepticism.

There do exist somewhat legitimate sub-factions that actually take serious actions and do serious ops, and also semi-legitimate "outlets" for their statements... but there's also an overwhelming amount of smokescreen bullshit "anon news outlets" and little script kiddies running around. It's important/intentional that those continue existing as smoke screen for the more "serious" factions.

Beyond that, being an anonymous group with no real methods of confirming membership to outsiders (insiders can just check if you're in the private IRCs and etc) it means that just about anyone and everyone can make some big declaration like this. The proof will be in the results, not some announcement that could be made by a rando.


All that said, there's convincing and considerable evidence (collected by Krebs) that members of Elon's DOGE group have background in the actual hacking ops spaces.

No matter who is really making these threats/warnings, I think things are going to get pretty dire in the US government IT space. It's been well known for decades that most government orgs have absolutely abysmal cyber security, and now you have a bunch of young adult tech-bros with no true accountability running roughshod over all of it. Then there's the fact that more than one of them have "serious black hat hacker" backgrounds.

Going to be one wild ride.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

little script kiddies running around

Yeah, they're running around the Treasury Dept right now.

It’s been well known for decades that most government orgs have absolutely abysmal cyber security

Having worked with government agencies and a lot of large private organizations the thing that keeps them mostly secure is the amount of red tape involved with things. Patching a production system requires a teleconference with at least five different people and no one person knows everything.

The idiots without any security experience coming in to "streamline" things will just make the systems even more fragile and insecure.

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[-] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 55 points 3 days ago

Ah, Anonymous—the digital equivalent of a fart in a hurricane. Trump’s America? Weakness isn’t new—it’s baked into the propaganda circus we’ve called democracy since Reagan. You think script kiddies and Elon’s crypto-bros “hacking fascism” will fix anything? Please. The real op is watching tech oligarchs and politicians collude while we argue about which flavor of dystopia we’re slurping.

Infrastructure attacks? Bold move, Cotton. Let’s see how it works out when grandma’s dialysis machine gets bricked by some edgelord’s Python script. If you want revolution, stop fetishizing IRC nostalgia and touch grass. Until then, this is just digital graffiti on a burning trash barge.

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago
[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

What a pointless thought-terminating comment.

Do you have any actual critiques or just lame regurgitated snark to try to win imaginary points?

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Well, meowmeowbeanz has a good point, namely, Anonymous saying anything is meaningless. Because Anonymous is a not a group, at best it could be called a movement, at worst it's just a name. In any case, anybody can claim to speak for them. Hence their statements are meaningless.

However, meowmeowbeanz's post is also a barely coherent rant with overused emphasis. Which makes them seem mentally unwell. It's like encountering somebody with a tinfoil hat ranting about how the earth is round.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 31 points 2 days ago

Do it, attack America's life points directly.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

No, my Blue Eyes White Aryan!

[-] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago

They're all talk and no bite. The world needs fsociety

[-] prole 41 points 3 days ago

Well I hope they choose their targets right, otherwise it'll just make everything worse.

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[-] St0ner@lemmy.wtf 14 points 2 days ago

hack the planet

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