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Anonymous Begins Teaching Hacktivism on IRC (softpedia.com)
Softpedia reports that "At the end of April, members of the Anonymous hacker collective announced the launch of the OnionIRC, an internet relay chat network where the group says it aims to teach people about hacking and hacktivism." [Chat logs are available through the @OnionIRC Twitter account.] Classes cover topics like open-source intelligence and how to use nmap and bash, but "The teachers and the main people behind this campaign have been focused more on promoting the principles of hacktivism than anything else...classes on the idea of Anonymous itself, hacktivism in general, and civil disobedience."
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
The group's actual hacking activity has died down in the past years, with less "hacks" and more DDoS attacks, which most of the times are carried out by attention-seeking members. Because of this, the group's older members created the OnionIRC as a way to recruit and train new members.
Meanwhile, Softpedia reports that an Anonymous group is now targeting the mayor of Denver for dismantling homeless shelters, by bringing new attention to unconfirmed rumors that he once visited a prostitute.
Meanwhile, Softpedia reports that an Anonymous group is now targeting the mayor of Denver for dismantling homeless shelters, by bringing new attention to unconfirmed rumors that he once visited a prostitute.
now that we've got that out of the way...
After what they did in their War on ISIS and War on Trump, Anonymous' skill are beyond question. Even members of the NSA, FBI and GCHQ will be signing up to learn such advanced skills.
I can imagine the content of the class: "Go to the website you want to pwn and keep pressing F5 until it stops working".
Lesson 1. How to pretend that you have anonymity on the internet
Lesson 2. Never talk about Lesson 1
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So when does the teaching curriculum cover ethics? How about the legal process required to actually effect change? Does their "civil disobedience" lesson cover the detail that activists are actively trying to be arrested, so their complaints can be addressed in courts? Where's the lecture on the justice ramifications of vigilantism, the need for due process, and the history lesson covering the last few dozen centuries of slow improvement to the process?
I don't see any of that mentioned on the Twitter feed, but those really should be the first subjects for anyone looking to bring justice to the world.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
And they're usually very experienced coders/hackers you name it - there are very few newbies or script kiddies on IRC mainly because they've never heard of it. I suspect anonymous' lectures will last about 5 minutes before they're laughed off the channel.
From the scanned pages, the Denver mayor visited "a prostitute" more than once :)))
There was a story half a day ago, about people being afraid of doing things online, including "posting things on social media"
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/05/14/1755210/privacy-fears-deterring-almost-half-of-american-households-from-online-shopping
Now we have this story... Maybe people don't want to get hacked for posting political opinions.
IRC is obviously a "hacking tool" so best shut it down, hunt down all users, and throw'em in jail for good measure. "Computer hacking" is criminal, it's the law!
without their mom walking in on them with their microwaved hotpocket, then i will have at least a little more respect for them
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Next they will expand to Usenet. It will really get deep when the move onto FidoNet.
I think that it is a problem with the homeless camping in Denver. The public parks are full of homeless people. You cant walk 5 feet without being hit up for something. 16 Street smells like a dirty hippy. This in a city that is supposedly in a boom. Please clean it up. If the homeless want to camp, they should do it other places than the most popular downtown areas.
You don't learn hacking by using bash and nmap, you learn hacking by learning programming languages. If you want to hack something, you must first understand how it works.
Remember Jeremy Hammond from LulzSec?
He was doing this kind of shit years ago. Partly with HackThisSite.com.
But he was also teaching people how to break into systems and sites in IRC.
Unfortunately, the raging dumbass was doing this with systems that belonged to his employer, MacSpecialist (now defunct).
Worse, the the systems contained live customer data INCLUDING CC info.
At the time he wasn't exactly popular in the local hacker scene in Chicago (he's and his crew had been making unmitigated asses of themselves).
So, mysteriously, a copy of the IRC logs of him doing this made it to his employer the next morning.
Did you know? The first thing an employer will usually do when given evidence that they can corroborate that you're using their systems without authorization?
FIRE YOUR STUPID ASS!
Hopefully the n00bs teaching other Anonytards will be a bit more circumspect.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
But whichever way it goes, should be fun.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
This looks like the perfect setup for a police sting operation.
I will teach you how to perform an harmless hack, then catch you for it
Hacking is wrong, punishable by death. Not a death as fast as using a gun unfortunately.
This is the anonymous that ISN'T the random hackers who hack stuff and reveal it on Pastebin, this is the psychop 'Anonymous' that makes pretty videos and well written press-releases declaring political agendas e.g. hack mexican drug lords....attack terrorists.... anti-prostitute...
It's just a psychop under the name 'Anonymous'.
Oh, you mean Israel.
Fuck you and your ugly mother.
Anonymous is proof that anything designed and managed by committee is doomed to chaos. They gained notoriety with some pretty basic hacks several years ago, as well as from DDOSing a couple big websites, based on some strong principles. Since then, they've just been an embarrassment. This move to political "hacktivism" could better be described as armchair extremism without focus. Some sects are against trump, some are for, etc. Regardless, activism isn't about picking political leaders, it's about core principles and ideals. And the Guy Fawkes mask has always been corny. Nothing screams basement dweller more than hiding your identity behind a character from your favorite movie. These guys are just embarrassing.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Spoken like a true 12 year old Call of Duty gamer. Have a Snickers.
I don't know. I've used black hat sites to hone my computer security skills. Know the latest methods to break into networks and systems makes you better at securing systems. This posting here breaks what the old protocol used to be.
hard to respect those who use technology to silence the voices of others
This is awful, it's just the same bunch of guys who ran anonops. They just want a bunch of little kids to take the fall for them and personal power on their IRC channel now that nobody gives a shit anymore everyone is leaving.
To see how dedicated they are to their causes look at "Sabu". At least some of the OPs there are guys who are going to teach kids to hack so they can snitch on them.
Honestly, I don't give a shit if they "go away" or not.
However, like Hammond, if they fuck up royally enough, they'll "go away" for a while regardless.
To Federal Prison.
Then, I'll just point and laugh.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Anonymous was the internet hate machine
these guys are leftist faggots wearing a 'V' mask they ordered off amazon