Earlier this year, the Atlantic revealed Aubrey Cottle as the internet prankster who years ago started Anonymous, an amorphous collective of hackers and activists waging cyberwar against oppression and corruption by targeting institutions like the Church of Scientology, the Westboro Baptist Church and, most recently, the police department.
If you have a voice, you can help Anonymous. Since its peak in the early s, Anonymous mostly faded from the public eye after a series of arrests, but a new generation seems to be taking up the mantle. For example, earlier this year, a person identifying as Anonymous leaked hundreds of gigabytes of internal police files from more than agencies in what was called the BlueLeaks. So what happened to the original crew? I more or less abandoned everything I was doing for this. Anonymous is known to vigorously go after its targets.
It has been associated with crashing Web servers, website defacement and leaking hacked private information. At the time, Anonymous allegedly hacked the firms website, posted a message on its website, downloaded thousands of emails and took control of the CEO's Twitter account. In , Anonymous gained notoriety when then year-old programmer Deric Lostutter worked to expose the cover-up in the Steubenville rape case.
His initial video message calling for action, spurred Web site take-overs and uncovering of personal emails reported Rolling Stone in a lengthy profile of the incident. Anonymous worked with other groups to assist the Arab Spring uprising, specifically in Tunisia and Egypt, to keep access to the Internet open for organizers on the ground, according to Housh.
We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Previous Next. February 29, GMT. On February 28, Interpol announced it had arrested 25 suspected members of the international hacker group Anonymous.
The arrests, carried out in more than a dozen cities in Europe and Latin America, resulted in the confiscation of hundreds of pieces of computer equipment, mobile phones, credit cards, and cash.
It also was followed by an apparent attack on Interpol's website. The suspects, reportedly aged between 17 and 40, were believed to be planning coordinated cyberattacks against institutions including Colombia's Defense Ministry and presidential websites. What is Anonymous?
Anonymous is a loosely organized international movement of online activists who share similar social and political ideals. Anonymous says it promotes access to information, free speech, and transparency, and also supports various anticorruption and antiauthoritarian movements. How does the group operate? The group is generally perceived as anarchic, with no controlling leadership.
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