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Anonymous Helps Turn In Hacker Who Targeted Charity
netbuzz writes "A hacker who defaced and disabled the website of a New Zealand film company known for helping poor children could find himself in legal hot water in his home country of Spain after his attack spurred a Facebook/Twitter posse that included members of Anonymous, who the hacker may have been trying to impress. 'Apparently, one of the (Anonymous) rules is you don't hack charity sites, you don't hack sites of people trying to help kids,' says the owner of the damaged site. 'This guy was trying to impress them, to try and get into their group and boasting about what he'd done — but they turned on him, they chased him.'"
I want to hate them. I believe in following the law. I believe in following the rules of society and government. I believe that doing bad things in the name of good is still bad. Still, it is hard for me to hold Anonymous as evil when they are doing good like this, fighting the evil (of child porn) and injustice (Sony.)
If you are an Anonymous member reading this, then know this, I am against you. I hold wrong what you do and how you do it, but what you are accomplishing... you have torn my ethical code. So here's to you, I raise a glass, may you be punished for your wrongdoing, may you suffer the consequences of your misdeeds, but despite that, may you accomplish the good things you aim for. If you have the balls to be willing to take the just desserts of what you have done and still have the guts to do what you feel is right, then kudos to you.
B) Eliminate all the stupid users. This is frowned upon by society.
They're trying to get better; that's why they started Anonymous Anonymous.
Doesn't that make up a rather large portion of each anon movment? Also, every time I hear someone refer or imply to anon being a group or organization I cringe a little.
Remember when anyone at all could join Anonymous, claim its name for themselves, and could probably find some others in the group interested in pursuing their idea for an attack, even if it wasn't sanctioned by the group as a whole?
Oh wait, that's how it still is.
The idea that "Anonymous" is a single entity is false. There isn't some supergroup called "Anonymous" anyone can (and does) call themselves "Anonymous" simply because its the "cool" factor. In then end, I'm anonymous, you're anonymous, the guy down the street is anonymous. That's the big thing with "Anonymous" there is no leader, its just a bunch of people moving in roughly the same direction. There is no one philosophy either morally or politically, just a couple of common interests. Join the swarm and leave.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
In that way, they are very similar to a corporation. They are an aggregate of lulz.
Anonymous are people, my friend.
You are welcome on my lawn.
who is a firefighter? anyone who fights fire, or anyone wearing the uniform?
In much the same way a bunch of people at a bus stop are a group or loose affiliation... all going in the same direction... yeah.
Don't generalize that too much, though. Mediterranean maybe, but here in Belgium, and our neighbors France, Germany and the Netherlands (which, you'll have to admit, is a sizeable part of Europe), we generally move out after university, or as soon as we find a job.
Jesus saves... the rest takes full damage.
As a Spaniard I can tell you that you have no idea what you're saying.
How can it be traditional? 20 or 30 years ago people were working, married with children and owning (paying 10-year mortgages) a house at 18.
With the rise of people going to college things changed nowadays, but you're regarded as a failure and mocked if you live with your parents at 30.
It's true that many people lost their jobs and now they're living with their parents but that's obviously not a tradition.
I cannot speak for Greece but I know a lot of people from Italy and it's the same.