Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks

daria42 writes "The loose-knit collective of individuals known as 'Anonymous' has broken its silence about the distributed denial of service attacks on the Australian government. An individual (who insisted he or she is not a spokesperson for the group) said the attacks were more effective at stopping the government's Internet filtering project than signing a petition, and that the attacks could go on for months." The site where some members of Anonymous are said to hang out, 4chan, got a visibility boost yesterday when its founder moot spoke at the TED conference.

Comments

Anonymous isn;t really a group

[91degrees]

It's more of an activity. Possibly a culture. It certainly doesn't have anyone who speaks for the group as a whole.

Re:Impossible!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wooosh.

There aren't any spokespeople for anonymous, because there isn't any structure to the group. By definition, everyone in it is a "nobody." That's kind of the point.

Anonymous Users vs Anonymous Government

[Herkum01]

It is an appropriate response to a figurehead politician making these rules, because it is a bunch of anonymous peons that are implementing them. The peons hide behind the facade of a government which they don't have to take responsibility for their actions.

Governments love when an individual speaks out, because they can release a bureaucratic horde of government employees to crush them. An individual who cannot be expected to address numerous rules, regulations and pressures a government can bring against them.

So Anonymous vs the government, as far as I am concerned is a fair fight.

Re:How isn't this a form of terrorism?

[FredFredrickson]

DDOS is civil disobedience. They're just loading a site a bunch of times, making the site useless. It's no scarier than protesters having a sit-in, making the area they occupy useless. In fact, it's very similar.