Understanding Anonymous
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Understanding Anonymous: The Culture Of Lulz | Techdirt
from the it's-not-an-organization dept We've written a number of times about the not-really-a-group Anonymous, and just how little those who position themselves "against" Anonyomous understand what it is they're fighting against. But even for those who are "of internet culture," explaining just what Anonymous really is certainly can be difficult. Either you live it and you get it, or you don't.
Austin, Texas (CNN) -- When it's revealed that a prominent member of a clandestine movement has been giving information to the FBI for months, you'd think it would intimidate others in the group into backing off. And that may have been the case when it was discovered that "Sabu," real name Hector Xavier Monsegur, had been arrested in June and provided information that helped lead to the arrest of five other alleged members of the "hacktivist" collective, Anonymous. For a few minutes, anyway. "That night, after everyone found out, it was a bit chilling," said Gregg Housh, one of the few people associated with Anonymous who speaks publicly using his real identity. Elite hackers arrested
Anonymous members speak out at surreal SXSW panel - CNN.com
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Image via Wikipedia It might be called the “low-orbit ion cannon.” It’s the Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS), the crude but effective and now-ubiquitous tool of hackers throughout the web and favorite weapon of Anonymous.
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Mr. Washington Goes to Anonymous - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
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Guy Fawkes Mask: How Anonymous hacker group created a powerful visual brand - Slate Magazine
The need to remain anonymous at live protests led the group to adopt its now-familiar mask depicting a highly stylized visage of Guy Fawkes , an early-17 th -Century British figure who was executed following a foiled plot to assassinate King James I. Though Brits have long used effigies of Fawkes in their Guy Fawkes Night celebrations, this particular, cartoonish representation comes from the 1980s comic-book series , V for Vendetta : A vigilante character wore such a mask while overthrowing a totalitarian British government in an imagined dystopian future. In 2006, the series became a film .Is it a Crime? The Transgressive Politics of Hacking in Anonymous » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented
Joseph Menn’s September 24, 2011 Financial Times article, “They’re watching. And they can bring you down,” covers a dynamic that has received scant attention in the mainstream news: tensions within political entity referred to as Anonymous (Anon, for short). Regrettably, Menn does not bother with any discussion of Anon’s internal dynamics and his analysis on the hackers involved in Anonymous lacks any sustained engagement with the collective’s history. Menn’s treatment of Anonymous thus makes it impossible to appreciate the tensions that define Anonymous, where dissent is even more prevalent – if less sinister – than it appears in his FT article. In what follows, we discuss some of our primary concerns with Menn’s FT piece, since we believe more critical engagement with the issues he raises is likely to yield important lessons for scholarly and journalistic approaches to digital media, protest politics, and cyber-security.
Joseph Menn's September 24, 2011 Financial Times article, "They're watching. And they can bring you down," covers a dynamic that has received scant attention in the mainstream news: tensions within political entity referred to as Anonymous (Anon, for short). Regrettably, Menn does not bother with any discussion of Anon's internal dynamics and his analysis on the hackers involved in Anonymous lacks any sustained engagement with the collective's history.
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Cole Stryker's new book on 4chan and Anonymous, called Epic Win for Anonymous , was only published on September 1—but the death threats, pizza deliveries, and magazine subscriptions are already rolling in. Stryker waded into 4chan's notorious /b/ board to announce his book's publication; the very first response was "Kindly kill yourself immediately." Anons have tweeted his home address, even down to the correct apartment number. And he has been signed up for every spam e-mail list on the planet. The first rule of /b/ is that one doesn't talk about /b/, so writing a book about 4chan was unlikely to be received well, whatever its message.
"Kindly kill yourself immediately": a tale of writing about 4chan
Summary Often abbreviated as " Anon ", Anonymous refers to an indefinite collective centered around the chans . This group of internet users communicates without consistent usernames on various chans. Between posting gore and porn threads, Anonymous stages largely unsuccessful raids on other websites. Originally, the idea of Anonymous was to act as a hive mind as part of a meme. Enchanted with anarchy and convinced they were part of some Internet Fight Club , 13 year olds everywhere took the idea of a faceless force of nature to heart.
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The darkness at the heart of Anonymous | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Louise Mensch, the Conservative MP, didn't react as perhaps the sender of the threatening email she received on Monday had hoped. She came out swinging - as anyone who knows her even a little might have been able to predict. "Had some morons from Anonymous / LulzSec threaten my children via email. As I'm in the States, be good … to have somebody from the UK police advise me where I should forward the email," she tweeted. And then followed up by refusing to be cowed : " I'm posting it on Twitter because they threatened me telling me to get off Twitter.FR
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