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Is Anonymous Going Mainstream Following Website Funding?
DavidGilbert99 writes "For a completely online movement, the lack of an official Anonymous website is certainly strange. The reason, according to Anonymous itself is down to the lack of a hierarchical structure. However, one Anonymous-linked group could be about to change all that, having succeeded in securing $55,000 in funding for a website. Is this the beginning of Anonymous going mainstream? From the article: 'The @YourAnonNews (YAN) Twitter account has over one million followers and has leveraged its popularity to successfully raise over $55,000 (£34,000) through a crowd-funding campaign on the Indiegogo website.
The funding drive was established to allow those behind the YAN account to set up a website of its own which will allow it "to collect breaking reports and blog postings from the best independent reporters online."'"
Would people who donated to their cause be unwitting accomplices when Anonymous continues to violate many laws in many countries? I'm sure that governments will use this as a tact to pry into people's lives.
Ever think you're getting modded down because you're an asshole?
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
The idea of an official Anonymous anything is absurd.
And for an unofficial Anonymous site, there's 4chan.
Someone has to claim the money, somehow, making it a sure way for authorities to nab the silly buggers. To be sure, though, it's not Anonymous but someone cashing in on their fame.
Is it just me or does this seem like the dumbest idea ever, about as smart as an Al Qaeda cell setting up a plainly signed recruitment office next door to MI5's headquarters?
... it just happens to have other people's content on it sometimes.
The cybercrime division of the FBI is the very first subscriber, remarkably enough.
This is probably the most stupid thing I've ever seen in my life. And I used to go to church...
I must've gotten the better of him + seriously "gotten his goat" in doing so in a technical debate & his "geek angst" @ losing to me has him doing the:
Says the one spamming Slashdot comments despite repeatedly being told nobody cares about your geek angst.
Yes, yes, I know, everyone, don't feed the troll and don't bother replying. Point taken, but still, I can't help but be amused by how the entire multi-page whine specifically designed to cheat Slashdot's comment length cutoff is confirmed hypocrisy in the first few lines.
How long before some other "anons" decide to go against the YAN. This cannot and won't go mainstream as long as others use the same name. I wait for their twitter or website to be owned soon enough. the real anon's are /b/tards and do whatever they please. You cannot control or organize such a group. They are called /b/tards for a reason.
An Anonymous website...the whole point is there can be no single website. This project is a bunch of posers, and it will be DoSed as soon as it goes up. In any case, 4chan is about as close to an Anonymous web site as is wanted, needed, or possible.
How does he bypass the comment length cutoff?
Look, I'm posting as anonymous!
Listen, the whole point of calling themselves anonymous is because they are. There's no way to be "officially" anonymous, because attaching a name and website to it defeats the entire purpose.
Slashcode is all just fucked to hell.
I remember someone mentioning it has to do with html tags
using 'Anonymous Coward' as the name for the replacement anti-organization? :)
Anonymous went mainstream circa 2007. Anyone thinking anything different has no understanding of what is actually going on.
RUGBYRUGBYRUGBY
"That's excellent! Now that they're a legitimate public entity, they can be sued! That gets them out of criminal court, and into profit court err I mean civil court."
I can hear the excited clicking of Mont Blanc pens now...
In a similar case somebody ran of with the server and donations:
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Why_We_Protest_Forums#11.2F29.2F08_The_Day_Enturb_Stood_Still
I headdesked when I read it up to "official Anonymous website".
That guy claimed MY money, check my username - I'd go and sue him for that but I don't have enough guts for this :(
Hi. I am a 28 year old male that frequently reads these forums over the past several years. I generally use them to gauge popular perception on certain topics, and to find competing viewpoints to popular problems (nerds love to make each other look stupid/disprove each other/demonstrate topical intellectual superiority). I have come across your post a few times, and it is very disconcerting to see the sort of writing style you introduce as it is a very harsh contrast to the "normal" -- which goes even for non-native English speakers. I spent at least five minutes reading links and supporting evidence for "127.0.0.1" not being as efficient as "0". The amount of fervor you utilize to make this point comes off to me (and perhaps an explanation for you, many others that you refer to as trolls) as insanity. You seem to imply there is an unexplained, even conspiratorial effort at Microsoft for sabotaging your preferred host file entry method. You also seem to think you have a reputation which is at stake, and I assure you, aside from your raving posts, I have never heard of you before. The time-cube APK imposter you mention appears to be (at least to me) an adequate parody of your abrasive writing and argument style. The fact that you seem to take such excessive offense to this parody further strengthens the lehman's perception of your insanity. I suspect I am representative of a much larger sample in this regard, but you may consider me to be one additional data point.
Anyone who thinks that this represents or is backed by the core activists who are part of the collective is, well.. a fool parted with their money.
It would paint a massive bulls-eye target on anyone associated with it, pretty much saying "here I am, come get me!".
-SS "Teach the ignorant, care for the dumb, and punish the stupid."
so many of the posts will be signed with anonymous coward
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
Bunch of spooks, astroturfing cover for break-in operations, secures public funding to increase profile of non-existent group.
the wi-fi is free, but your disk gets examined on the Tors.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
i thought they already had one called 4chan...
+1
He certainly does read as either a complex spambot who's doing an awful lot of linkfarming, a very peculiar troll, or a total nutjob, i tend to believe the latter least.
Ever think you're getting modded down because you're an asshole?
I've started clicking the flag button to report that guy's ass on every post, hoping that Slashdot admins eventually ban this guy's ass for repeated spamming, but that doesn't seem to work. I bet if everyone who sees that spam post reports it that eventually they will do something about it.
I can set them up with a wordpress site for free!
(I would think they know how to 'secure it', hardy har har)
DDoS It Like It's Hot
DDoS It Like It's Hot
It's called 4chan
I and many Anons stand against it, because it is not the way Anonymous works. Those individuals do not speak for the rest, and they may be taken out of business by Anonymous.
It happened once before with "The Plan", where those that came up with it came up with a web site, which required people to login and it provided all kinds of personal information. They came under attack, and finally gave in and dropped out of sight.
A majority of the Anonymous community saw them as a front for government spooks, and the same will happen in this new case. In fact, I would not be surprised if it is the same people.
if 75% of all anonymous' activities arent the fbi they are other 3 letter orgs of the usa govt.
Apparently not if Slashdot has anything to say about it! Anonymous makes the call for websites to go dark to protest CISPA and Slashdot ignores it as if it wasn't happening. Tsk. If this were 1998, i'm betting it would, but now your corporate masters won't let it.
For shame, Slashdot, for shame (and you just lost a reader.)
Nobody cares. Nobody ever cared. Kill yourself.
Maybe it's just me, but surely this is one of the few stories where it could be considered on-topic.
of LOIC attacks from anonymous.
This guy, http://mirror.hardchats.org/doxbin/doxviewer.php?dox=Jackal he is a Federal Criminal Informant Just like Sabu.
A good lawyer doesn't slay it; she keeps it alive and milks it for hourly payments.
Just as the name suggests, the reason why Anonymous has gained such popularity is because actually being a member is "Anonymous". Thus, it is easy to say "Well, I'm in Anonymous and we're gonna hack you!" However, since there is no official membership, participation, or having to answer for being in the group (assuming you weren't one of the few people who actually did the hacking and were tracked... it happens...), you can just deny participation when it's convenient. Also, since they don't have specific leaders, there is no "big boss" who you could piss off if you do something wrong in his/her eyes.
It's actually a lot like posting on /. Yes, there are many who have accounts (not that it's difficult to make a free account that isn't linked to you)... but it's really easy to post only when you feel like it as "Anonymous Coward". When you actually have to join something, you think about reputation and backlash for things you do wrong... but since it's not linked to you (and you had to invest 0 time to prepare for doing it), #&@! what other people say and just move on whenever you want.
Thinking about posting a stupid comeback? Don't care, after I post this I won't be checking this article again... and you'll never know who I am since I'm "Anonymous".
You're embarassing yourself Jeremiah Cornelius http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3581857&cid=43276741 since you posted that using your registered username by mistake (instead of your usual anonymous coward submissions by the 100's the past 2-3 months now on slashdot) giving away it's you spamming this forums almost constantly, just as you have in the post I just replied to.