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Anonymous' "OpIsrael" Has Little Impact
An anonymous reader writes "The Times Of Israel and AlArabiya.net report that the planned and announced April 7th attack by Anonymous failed to frustrate the Israeli government or its citizens. The country's national Cyber Bureau quipped 'So far it is as was expected, there is hardly any real damage,' Ben Yisrael said. 'Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldn't have announced the time of attack. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart,' he said."
It is the new Al-CIAda, designed to justify the elimination of the free internet as we once knew it.
Ask yourself, who really benefits from the activities of "Anonymous"? The neocons and the military industrial complex, spreading fear so that we beg for the internet to be regulated and censored.
Don't fall for it.
"It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart,' he said."
In other words, you're saying they won...
Well done.
I don't see why Anonymous would have succeeded where morenskilled groups in China and Russia have failed.
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we all know the nose of the jew is dominant in media.
Israel doesn't have pizza delivery.
"Anonymous" claims to be acting against Israeli oppression of the Palestinians. Did they consult with any Palestinians about this attack? Or do they share the official Israeli point of view, that Palestinians are not worthy of their own point of view?
Why would they announce a day? I mean if you're going to deface a website, you're telling them the day to check their website! The heads-up makes no sense! It screams disinformation. The webadmin knows to turn on full logging for that day, and check the website, maybe even load it into a VM. Why the headsup??
Why on earth would anyone care if a government website is down? Really? I mean as attacks go that's not even a token attack, it's a completely pointless attack! If they defaced a website, so what it probably just gave an Israeli or two a chuckle. Make their day a little happier. Motive is weak.
If it was actually from anonymous (doubtful, the word 'Zionist' flags it as false), and they really don't like Israel, then just boycott Israeli goods and services and the companies with strong Israel ties? That BDS campaign I read about on Slashdot the other day:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3615015&cid=43357875
That sounds like a far more effective solution, and without all the cloak and dagger nonsense.
Whoever dropped the ball on the title should be sacked. I mean, you seriously missed the opportunity for "Anonymous \"OpIsrael\" Is Not Very Effective"??
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Israeli special forces is known for finding a-holes like this and killing them quietly, wherever they are and up to decades later. I imagine a bunch of Anonymous go dark if they actually pulled something like this off. Anon doesn't understand the ring they're stepping into- serious shit- not spray painting a billboard, haha funny joke- no, this is kinetic- "we'll murder you at 2am when we track you down three years later" shit.
[Cyber Bureau bureaucrat] Ben Yisrael said. 'Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldn't have announced the time of attack. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart,' he said."
On the one hand, a challenge response...on the other hand, a political response designed to defuse.
I guess they're soliciting a mixed response to their response.
Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
1. Israel has no magic internet defences any more than anyone else does. They wouldn't fare any better than some of the countries and companies did a few years ago i.e. they would notice and would either have to spend resources on mitigation or wait it out.
1.b. The Israeli official or whatnot isn't only full of shit but doesn't know anything technical about the internet.
2. The obvious conclusion is that the vast majority of the people who are willing and able to be part of Anonymous didn't participate.
2.b. "OpIsrael" simply learned as many before them that Anonymous is not their private army. Suddenly they could get a lot of support but they didn't this time around, the hive is fickle as it should be.
2.c. Obviously not all that many are against Israel right now and/or don't care for either Israelis or Palestinians or the Middle East. It doesn't matter what media and pundits think.
2.d. Most Anonymous members are likely not semites, arabs, or persians but instead very likely white.
No surprises so far :)
It seems like the major impact of this attack has been to mess up a website for children with cancer. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166808#.UWGaIb9gLZd
Guess Anonymous has now joined with Palestinian woman who said, after an Israeli hospital saved her baby's life, that her greatest hope was for her son to grow up to become a "martyr".
Anonymous are supposed to be an apolitial institution. Now,they aren't credible anymore. They are fucking wankers, how do you want them to hurt a sovereign state. Wankers will still be wankerz.
http://www.opisrael.com/ is playing Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem all day today.
This is nonsense. Have you even looked at the Tel-Avi Stock Exchange website?
The attack is ongoing and has already had a major financial impact!
http://www.tase.co.il/Heb/Pages/Homepage.aspx
http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2013/04/08/attacks-on-israel-creating-major-financial-loss-from-opisrael-v2
One of the big scores for Anonymous was that they defaced the page for Adalah.
Adalah is an organization providing probono legal help to Israeli minority citizens for discrimination cases.
Way to go, Anonymous. What a bunch of fuckwits.
(Added style points for starting this op on Holocaust Memorial Day, and trying to DDOS Yad Vashem.
And for getting this op led by a citizen of Mauritania, the one remaining country that still has slavery.)
http://anonopsibero.blogspot.com/2013/04/lista-parcial-de-sitios-atacados-en.html#.UWDukRBg8y6
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Anonymous' pathetic little "operations" failed against Amazon. They will keep failing. This is not the '90s anymore, they might have gotten someone by surprises but in the 21st Century the advantage goes to those who have the better resources - and those aren't the script kiddies. Corporations and nation states have more digital power than any wannabe "hacker". The glory days are gone. Meatspace shits on cyberspace every given sunday.
Geeks are so full of shit that "beating the crap out of them" takes a whole new meaning.
Israel doesn't have pizza delivery.
Sure it does. When I was in Israel 4 years ago, I saw Domino's Pizza delivery via scooter in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and in Haifa.
Live Long and Prosper - Thanks Leonard. You are missed.
I really don't understand what Anonymous is attempting to achieve here. They can't possibly believe they can actually destroy our entire internet infrastructure, even temporarily. And it's not like the websites they deface wait patiently until they finish defacing all other Israel websites to fix themselves up. Even as they DDoS one site the previous ones are coming back up. In fact, so far today, I haven't been "denied" any "service" I regularly use.
I've looked at the one of our ISP's network graph, and it doesn't look any different than... well, ever.
I'm listening on IRC right now, and these twatwaffles just got trolled into DDOSing Sakhnin College, an Arabic trade school.
It's funny to see these idiots fall for it, but Sakhnin's students are probabl having an annoying day.
Way to go, Anonymous.
It's clear that anonymous is just a bunch of script kiddies that have no real power or impact on the real world. They may strut and fret about the stag of life but do little if nothing to improve their own condition.
Your mask is slipping
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,4676183.column
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jews-do-control-the-media/
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I read somewhere (on the internets, so it must be true) that it wasn't even anonymous, or 'the loose, amorphous coalition' that sometimes acts in the name anonymous. The bigger issue for Israel, I would imagine would be state actors (Iran, Russia, China) or non-state actors backed by state actors (i.e. Hezbollah-Iran, Al Qaeda-Saudi Arabia).
any publicly open channel you are 'listening to' [are] a bunch of fuckwits.. infiltrated by the cia, fbi, the mainstream media and normal armchair commentators/criticizer/dumbasses such as yourself. This is why those channels are public so things like this can influence your week mind and sway your fragile opinions. granted there are your nomal skiddies and attention whore seekers that hang in those publicly know 'anonymous' channels as well. All in all though, It's really a crock of shit. Any well trained vigilante knows this and would never expose themselves to this psy-op that will be used as justification to lock down the internet from "cyber attacks" and used as an example.
however those who have the real goods do not publicize it via anonymous often, hang out in "anonymous" irc channels (try private key connection only guys and never connecting to a network from any personal identifiable source) - but we do horde all of the knowledge/loot to ourselves so that ungrateful zionist's such as yourself site there pompously and arrogantly criticizing any form of resistance to the tyranny of the world upheld by private bankers, zionists, and the military industrial complex get to see how primitive you really are compared to the great minds who run the internet (and yes we run this shit) - and in the end you and israel get shitted on. we lurk in the underground and if we choose to be part of 'anonymous' once in a while we do so, anonymously.
but as far as the public version of anonymous there's been some decent leaks to you (ungrateful) bottom feeder hang round's if you've been paying attention the last year or 2
Im sure those students are having a really annoying sunday when they are all at the mosque (not the brightest bulb in the box are you? but im sure you got some sympathy from your shithole observance ) You actually personify the pervasive ignorance that has infected the internet. either that or you are just another dumb blind zionist repeater bot.
any publicly open channel you are 'listening to' [are] a bunch of fuckwits.. infiltrated by the cia, fbi, the mainstream media and normal armchair commentators/criticizer/dumbasses such as yourself.
No shit, Sherlock.
That didn't stop the Anonymous twatwaffles from DDOSing Sakhnin College. And I checked: it fell off the web shortl afterwards.
Im sure those students are having a really annoying sunday when they are all at the mosque
Sunday's a regular workday in Israel, dumbass. Including in the Arabic schools.
Websites were DDOSed and gay porn was shared far and wide.
Hey, hacker dummies, these are Jews you're attacking. They have won more than one-quarter of all Nobel Prizes.
Even your sneak attacks reveal that you are over-matched.
I'm a neutral party to this mess. I do have a strong bias against theocracies even if they are democratic so I think of Israel as badly as I do Iran. Yes, I called them a theocracy and I do know what that means and how it also applies to Iran. THINK about it. Not all theocracies function the same way, it only requires a few characteristics to be classified as such.
Their claim on land they took was illegitimate as far as nearly all of human history. It is not ok for any group except Jews who's religion has them claim that ancient land... That is, the USA and Israel - the rest of the WORLD is not on their side most the time and for good factual reasons. I'm with the majority of the planet; however, I go 1 step further and don't see how they ever had legitimate claims and holding onto land by force for 60 years is not legitimacy. As far as the original peoples of that area-- their descendants are the Palestinians who lived there for 100s of years. Some people are descended from people who came from there 100s of years ago - big deal. so what.
My ancestors are from Europe about as long ago as Israel has existed. I'm not going to the EU to take land away from Europeans because my relatives were forced to go to the USA by WW1 and WW2. They legally sold their lands they didn't want to sell and fled Europe (all were farmers, BTW.) If the invisible man in the sky told me I deserved to live on my ancestor's lands I might feel justified, but everybody else wouldn't allow just any person hearing voices in their heads have anything they claim to have been given... (The jews don't even have that; no talking burning bushes, nothing.)
I love it when people refer to "Anonymous" as a coherent entity, or even one with a defined membership or even single motive.
/.'ers.
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"Anonymous" is not a group, but a tactic, or even a posting style. It comes from message boards that work like this one, and is dirrectly analougous to the "Anonymous Coward" on this site. So fellow
So its highly likely "Anonymous" is really many many diffrent groups and inviduals with diffrent, and even contradictory or even opposing views and goals using the exact same tactic. Just the same as the AC on
I think you can judge how popular an idea by judging how many people actually show up to attack it, and the group that does the attacking. Of course you don't know, but just guess via their skillsets.
Most Israeli Jews have ancestors who fled Arab countries to come to Israel.
'Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure.
Yet you do and have demonstrated it with Stuxnet!
thank you Timothy for posting this story
This is blatant propaganda for Israel. If you would have only tried to search for any of the sites that Anonymous mentioned you would have seen that they are down and will stay that way for a long time.
http://www.bankisrael.gov.il/en/Pages/Default.aspx
http://www.cbs.gov.il/engindex.htm
http://www.gov.il/FirstGov/TopNavEng/Engoffices/EngAuthorities/EngTaxes/
I thank you because of this story, I searched and found your posts are biased in favor of Israel and I have found three better science and technology sites to get RSS feeds from.
You can gauge the expertise of these "Anonymous" attackers by the fact that their own opisrael.com has been taken over by Israeli hackers some 12 (?) hours ago, and at this moment still displays a list of interesting facts about the Israel-Palestine conflict and what appears to be a picture of an Arab kid and a Jewish kid being friendly, with the Israeli national hymn playing in the background.
When they cannot secure their own site, I'd dare say that vital Israeli infrastructure is probably not in any immediate danger from them.
there are still slaves there.
'Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure'
They do NOW.