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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 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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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?
If this were true, then why would the Israeli propaganda machine be downplaying the effectiveness of the attacks? Instead, you'd expect them to be wailing about the terrible carnage about to be unleashed on society by Anonymous, unless their "cyber-warrior" budgets are immediately increased and a slew of new controls imposed on the internet --- not saying that already existing infrastructure is already 100% effective at preventing real damage.
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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Good point but the possibilities are varied. It might be that the US or some other state wants to throw money at cyberwar prevention (a bogus issue most of the time), so Israeli contractors have one succesfully thwarted attack in their track record.
Or OTOH Israel has some infrastructure problems and that they fake an Anonymous attack to deter other from trying the same.
After all, everybody can impersonate Anonymous.
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I doubt that a few defaced web sites or a barely-noticeable DDoS would concern the IDF or Mossad. Anonymous are like a bunch of virtually-unnoticeable gnats; Israel has real security concerns like rockets from Gaza and instability in Syria to worry about.
I'm absolutely certain that the US wants to throw money at the boogeyman of cyberwar --- however, they've already got a propaganda line. Look at all the fear-mongering in the media about Chinese hacking; this is the credible enemy of which we are supposed to be terrified. As for deterring a real anonymous attack against vulnerable infrastructure by posing as anonymous --- this seems overly risky, based on the way anonymous functions. Indeed, anyone can pose as anonymous, by announcing upcoming attack plans through the internet forums where anonymous hangs out. If the CIA/Mossad tried to rally a failed attack in this way, there would be far too much risk of inciting the "real" anonymous to show up in typical independent, uncoordinated style and "help" the attack to find the real vulnerable targets.
The only people on the planet not livng in a "stolen house" are the Icelanders.
I am a firm believer that the US should withdraw from North America.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
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.)
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.
Isreal didn't steal any land they won it fair and square in war.
You really think anything is "won fair and square in war" --- that "I've got bigger weapons and am better at killing your folks than you are mine" justifies "therefore, all your stuff belongs to us"? To you and anyone who shares your "might makes right" philosophy: fuck you. Attitudes like yours make it clear that "homocidal maniacs" aren't exclusive to the "other side."
I don't care so much "who started it"* in the playground fight, that doesn't justify the stronger bully walking away with the weaker kid's lunch money, and declaring him his bitch for life. Nor does groups of Palestinians being militarily evicted by other countries justify their plight (being a persecuted loser doesn't make you worthy of said fate either; one might think that more Israelis might have more introspection on that point, given significant facts in their past history).
*) Not that it changes whether or not Israel is justified in taking land by force, but, from the Wikipedia article on the 1967 Six Days war:
The war began on June 5 with Israel launching surprise bombing raids against Egyptian air-fields after a period of high tension that included an Israeli raid into the Jordanian-controlled West Bank,[12][13] Israeli initiated aerial clashes over Syrian territory,[14] Syrian artillery attacks against Israeli settlements in the vicinity of the border followed by Israeli response against Syrian positions in the Golan Heights and encroachments of increasing intensity and frequency (initiated by Israel) into the demilitarized zones along the Syrian border[15] and culminating in Egypt blocking the Straits of Tiran.[16] and ordering of the evacuation from the Sinai Peninsula of the U.N. buffer force.
so this was certainly *not* a case of a one-sided offense against Israel's defense; there is no measure by which Israel is not at least a co-aggressor, if not the primary culprit for the war.
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.