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Anonymous' "OpIsrael" Has Little Impact

Posted by timothy on from the hard-target dept.

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."

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  1. Noise in the media by xushi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "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.

    1. Re:Noise in the media by amiga3D · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's just noise, nothing coherent.

  2. Duh by O('_')O_Bush · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't see why Anonymous would have succeeded where morenskilled groups in China and Russia have failed.

    --
    while(1) attack(People.Sandy);
  3. Anon never stood a chance by ReallyEvilCanine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Israel doesn't have pizza delivery.

    1. Re:Anon never stood a chance by dskoll · · Score: 3, Funny

      Infidel! Now you understand why there is war in the Middle East. You thin-crusters must be eliminated by the will of the Flying Spaghetti Monster; we thick-crusters alone have truth on our side!!!

  4. Palestinians? by jodido · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "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?

  5. Re:"Anonymous" is CIA/Mossad by femtobyte · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  6. Utterly pathetic. by Apuleius · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.)

  7. What is "Anonymous"? by davydagger · · Score: 3, Informative

    I love it when people refer to "Anonymous" as a coherent entity, or even one with a defined membership or even single motive.

    "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 /.'ers.

    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.