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4chan Declares War On Snow
With all the recent hacktivism in the news, Anonymous has decided to take on a new and powerful enemy: snow. On Sunday the group announced that it will "do everything in its power to shut snow down by attacking the Weather Channel and North Face websites, boycotting outerwear, and voting for the sun as Time’s 2010 Person Of The Year." I'm sure there are a lot of people in Minneapolis right now that would wish them luck.
The term "hacktivism" has been around since at least 1999, in the hacker/cracker e-zines.
I had a CD full of various e-zines, including the whole collection of PHRACK/CDC/LoD at the time, it was certainly on the CD.
(Anonymous Coward because I've forgotten my password and I CBA to try to recover it)
...on that stupid word, "Hacktivism?"
They found something useful to do.
Seriously, with all this Wikileaks bullshit I was getting worried Anonymous might have forgotten about the lulz.
I've never forgiven him for that piece of shit "Informer" song.
(a licky boom-boom down)
We're going down, in a spiral to the ground
Just don't eat the yellow snow!
Not unless you boil the piss out of it.
“Hacktivism”. Never heard the word before today and now it’s on every second post.
I really hope it doesn’t catch on. I cringe every time I hear it.
Without Hacktivism we'd never get to experience the joy of Hacktivo. Thats right, now you'll never miss another poorly coordinated DDoS because you're too busy actually accomplishing things. Just set the Hacktivo to record your favorite troublemakers and play back the lulz when YOU'RE ready to watch, on your schedule.
Seriously. No, I'm not kidding, I think this is one of the smartest things that could be done.
Why?
Because they just reduced themselves back from "a political activist platform" to "14 year olds with too much time on their hands". Before you consider the ego, consider how the powers that are (tm) will react to either.
Whether they are one or the other, what do I know? I only know that being the latter means that nobody will seriously try to bring you down, while being the former just might get you too much attention from organizations whose attention is something you don't want if you want to continue living, working and having fun in peace.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Also, slightly OT, but hopefully funny enough to warm the mods' cockles: Mitchell & Webb @ 2:35
David Mitchell: I was just going to say that my eye was caught by this whole scandal in America.
Robert Webb: Oh, the scandal in America. Yeah, that is interesting. That must be the biggest scandal since Watergategate.
Mitchell: Watergategate? Isn't it just Watergate?
Webb: No. That would mean it was just about water. No, it was a scandal or "gate", add the suffix "gate", that's what you do with a scandal; involving the Watergate Hotel. So it was called the Watergate scandal, or Watergategate
Mitchell: But doesn't the term "gate" meaning scandal, come from Watergate?
Webb: What, take the last 4 letters of a previous scandal, or hotel, and add it to all future scandals? That can't be the system..
Mitchell: I think it is.
Webb: Well what if there's a scandal about water? What do you call that?
Mitchell: Well you'd call it waterga...ah I see what you mean. Aquagate?
Webb: It's not great is it?
Back on topic: I fully support Snowgate.