So normally I don't know how I feel about "Anonymous"...

but tonight I think I can comfortably support their hacking of the Syrian Ministry of Defense's Website:


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[Emberstone]

they took down all the WBC websites... They deserve the nobel peace prize for that act. however, when they were hacking paypal and credit card companies, that kind of irked me. WBC takedown=harmless and necessary... the hacking of financial companies=worrisome.

[Owen]

Though I took personal satisfaction in their taking down the WBC's website, I acknowledged it morally as a bad thing. But this, this I'm all for.

[biosynth]

what annoys me most about anonymous is they do to many good and bad things so i cant really tell if they are good or bad, they steal then they do this which is awesome.

i wish they would make up their minds about it.

[MyDecember]

I'm a huge supporter of them. I rarely ever disagree in what they do though I don't understand why they go after Scientology to much :/ I love their lulzsec counterpart who hack giant corporations for the sake of the lulz. Pretty funny stuff sometimes (redirecting one of Rupert Murdoc/News corp's website to their lulzsec twitter account) but they once took a political stance that wasn't very like them. But back to Anonymous, I feel like they are the "Dark Night" of the Internet. They do things based more on moral values that benefit the people rather than the rich/governments.

Paypal scandal had to do with wikileaks. They went after them because people donating to wikileaks through Paypal accounts where not allowed to because Paypal canceled the wikileaks papal account after wikileaks leaked all those American documents way back when, they are also advocates for using smaller paypal type businesses on the internet so PayPal doesn't have a monopoly on em. They then went after anyone who hosted Wikileaks but then dropped them due to Government pressure (Visa, Master card amoung other issues as well) Going after Sony was a pretty complicated situation in where Sony was hoarding a lot of personal information which put people's personal information out in the open so they did what they did after pleading with the company to change it and had no response. They ended up looking like the bad guys but Sony changed their way in the long run and I got 2 free games out if it The WBC website take down was more of a Lulzsec type of attack in which some news reporter had someone from anonymous and that crazy lady arguing. The lady said that they had attacked her and the representative from Anonymous said they did no such thing but she got so annoying that during that live interview they decided to take down the website anyway. I'm not saying I'd go make friends with them. They are scary poeple but it's nice to know there are people out there like me who get pissed off when the rich piss on the poor and then do something about it.

After writing this I'm probably going to get raided by the FBI.

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[Austin]

I tend to think the things they do are good things. I have only heard a fraction of the things they have done though.

[biosynth]

so hacking into websites because the website disagreed with them about wikileaks are the good guys?

robin hood meant well but he was still a thief, and a lot of the companies anonymous hacked really aren't the same as the king who over taxed his people

[Just Adam]

Attacking WBC and Syrian govt good.

Sony, apple, paypal not good.

Anonymous can do real good if they tried. Attacking companies hurts innocent people. Attacking these hate mongers helps people.

[Austin]

I would still say robin hood was doing a good thing.

[biosynth]

yes the king certainly should have been lowering taxes across the board

but in real life the robin hood's of the world dont rob the king because he isn't an easy target he goes after the readily available and in the end hurts the poor more than he helps them. its a bad example for the children

[Revan]

Newest attack scheduled.

Hacker Group Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5

They're after Facebook.

Originally Posted by Revan

Newest attack scheduled.

Hacker Group Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5

They're after Facebook.

See, this isn't any good. They do some good things, but overall, I disapprove. If they were more organized and had an actual mission besides just going around and trying to f*ck with people for fun, maybe I could get on board.

[Austin]

If you read their reasoning for killing facebook.

Good for them.

Originally Posted by Austin

If you read their reasoning for killing facebook.

Good for them.

I read their reasoning for hacking police computers and it didn't sound awful, but then they post a bunch of private info of people who had nothing to do with their "mission" and that puts peoples lives at risk.

I don't find it difficult to imagine that if they were successful, which I doubt they will be, a bunch of private messages ending up online for the world to see.

And that's the problem, you can't count on these people to do what's right. We just get lucky when they do.

[theJosephDean]

Originally Posted by Kevin42

but tonight I think I can comfortably support their hacking of the Syrian Ministry of Defense's Website:

What I got most excited about was the Reddit tab you had open.

When does the narwhal bacon?

[Austin]

I guess they do not handle things the way they should. But the point of exposing the private information is so that they can get the groups in bigger trouble. Kinda like that one anti-piracy law firm in the UK. If they hadn't allowed the private information to be exposed then the same result wouldn't have occurred. But, alas, I guess they are more of a "means justify the end" group. I guess I cannot agree with some of the their methods. I wouldn't be happy if my private messages got released. They are doing about a good thing (or at least trying to) but doing the wrong way a lot of times I guess - which happens to probably be the most effective way too probably. I guess if they didn't release innocent people's private information...

Anyways I think their ideals are good. Facebook I'm sure does sell people's personal information. Everyone does. There's probably a big unknown market on personal information. Grocery stores "reward" cards log all your shopping history etc. Most people are unaware which is wrong.

[Z3ni]

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What does everyone think part from the annoying voice

[Kerze]

Dramatic Much?

[Crypt]

They've taken down a few big companies. Tim [bf] and I deactivated our FB's a while ago due to all the drama. I say go for it.

[4alex6]

I'm not too worried about it. They tried to hack Amazon but they failed so I doubt they can get into Facebook. Hacker group vows to 'kill Facebook' - CNN.com