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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.
Woooosh right back at you. That was my point.
Al Qaeda should sue for patent infringement.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Exactly. You can either think of it as a group of individuals who merely believe the same ideals and co-operate in order to do what makes each individual happy. OR they are a collective consciousness where they are all controlled by one will, but they simply don't know it. I think its the latter.
Except the mods are the laziest bastards of the bunch and don't give a shit. If you wan't to see how real moderation is done, step over to SeVenezuela. Be sure to let everyone know you're either from the 4ailchans or underage, you'll see first-hand how it's supposed to be done.
Well, since everyone loved your comment, let me clarify with more words.
A nobody commented and used "Anonymous" as a way to get attention. He could have said Al-Qaeda and it would have been the same.
In this particular case, since only ONE person commented using a nonexistent group to get attention, this really is a non-story.
You answered 1 minute after I decided to answer properly. I didn't think this post would be seen as insightful like that so I didn't bother to give a proper reply at first. See my reply. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1547892&cid=31115280
It is a reference to the demon Legion in the bible.
It has never had this meaning.
Now before everyone mods this to hell (I'm sure everyone will anyways, so I'll just post as AC to be safe), I'm not saying that Anonymous are terrorists or affliated with Al Qaeda. But I've learned from /. that it's better to post a misleading title to get people to pay attention :)
Seriously, what the two organizations have in common is that they have no 'actual' leadership, as in leadership that gives direction that is followed by 'subordinates'.
Yeah sure, Al Qaeda has Bin Laden, but his only real capability at the moment is to stay alive (which, frankly, is enough). Did he plan the shoe bomber attack? No, all he does mostly is state ideology. Same thing with Anonymous.
Then because of the power of the internet, those ideas find like-minded individuals, who then on their own, decide to take action based on that ideology, and because of the amount of information available on the internet, are actually able to take action with nearly no support structure or assistance.
It's really amazing really, from a group dynamics point of view. I'm pretty sure both are unprecedented in the level of decentralization they now employ, and the level of impact a single 'agent' can have globally. Even classic insurgencies had local 'cells' that were connected to each other, and those cells generally could only have a local impact.
It also makes that type of organization pretty much impossible to 'kill'. And so far that seems to be true for both AQ and Anonymous.
Can anyone think of a historical (as in pre-internet :) ) example of something similar?
anonymous strikes with normal lack of reading comprehension. Let me explain to the cocksucking idiot who modded me off topic. Your ability to mod is a mistake, you and your inbred spastic children who you pimp out to gorillas so you can gather the semen from their bodies afterward with your tongue, are unfit to live due to such blatant stupidity. Fuck you, your family and everyone you love. I hope everything you have ever worked for gets taken and you are left homeless and penniless living under a bridge. I hope your wife and children are sold into slavery where they will be sex slaves for years until they are stars of their own snuff films. So anonymous fucktard mod, die in a fire. Oh, and have a nice day and thanks for contributing to /.