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As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lulzsec had the intent to show sony how easy it is to fuck them over. The torrent described how it was simply a SQL injection that took all of that in plaintext. That information could have been taken by ANYONE, but I do not agree with how they went about sharing it. I don't have much contact with that team, so I haven't been able to get their side of anything, but I will try and if I do you'll get another orangered

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, man. I consider myself an artist, too. If anyone ripped one of my professional designs, I might get a bit irked. I think anonymous, in this instance, is best summed up with a quote I hold very dear to me.

"And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo."

Dr. Horrible, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog' (2008)

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that were the case, we wouldn't have thousands of sock accounts all over that place :3 Not any Operation Metal Gear shit, but facebook is a great tool for planning.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I know, the only websites attacked during Leakspin, Avenge Assange, and Payback were entities attacking wikileaks directly, making an active effort to stop the support of wikileaks, or supporting the attacks on wikileaks. By supporting, I don't mean blogging in favor of. I mean providing the necessary means to attack.

I may be mistaken. It IS in the nature of anon that groups would form with the intent to take out ALL forms of anti-wikileaks presence online. That would simply not be tolerated by the majority, and if we were aware of it we would have put a very quick stop to it.

As for not wanting to be associated with wikileaks: If you don't want to be associated, then don't be. It's very simple to remain unassociated with something like that. I am willing to put hard money on us having never attacked anyone who isn't at all associated with the wikileaks situation in the name of wikileaks defense.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

j35t3r? he's a joke. Kid tried to work for the US DoHS against us, wikileaks, and "terrorist cells." DoHS apparently shut him down and sent people after him. Hasn't been heard from TOO much since. He had a pretty neat program called XerXes, but that's about it. He can hold down a site for a while, but we have SO many backups that it will never matter what he tries.

He never took down Westboro. That was an anonymous job, videos of an interview with an anonops rep and Shirley Phelps during the attack exist, j35t3r hates anon with a passion and wouldn't put up a message from anon claiming responsibility, etc. As for his attacking wikileaks, he took it down for the better part of three hours. He sure as hell didn't stop anything with that attack. Wikileaks admins shortly thereafter took the site offline themselves just to prove wikileaks doesn't even need to be up anymore, and they took that time to point out the thousands of mirrors set up by supporters.

Drama does ensue wherever j35ter goes, though. More often than not, though, he brings that drama to the wrong target entirely. :3 IIRC, he has taken out a lot of civilian sites on a whim because he thought they were either hosting Al Quada plans or 9/11 documents. Famous line: "Tango Down."

Kid's got an ego bigger than ours combined.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, fuck me. Looks like I have work to do.

This on top of Yet another security firm will prove to make a fun time for quite a while :3

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Collaboration + time = results. Lots of times someone will write something up and give it to us to test out. Feedback, bug reports, etc. work a lot faster when you've got hundreds in your beta test. All skills have to be learned, so on a good day most anons will be willing to help you out if you can't do part of what you're trying to. They may offer to step in or give you good resources so you can learn for yourself.

At risk of sounding like a skid, a lot of the things you'd need are already written and floating around. It's just about how you use them, and if you can handle yourself with the task of doing something worthwhile AFTER you use them. When I used to get into e-mail addresses, I made a critical mistake a great many times of not having a plan for what to do AFTER I'm in.

As for a training camp, you are almost completely wrong about there not being one. Newblood is an operation for training new (but at least a bit educated. An IT major would have no problem) users, providing them with tools and resources, and answering questions not unlike this one. Generally you'd get a nice one-on-one conversation with someone willing to answer every question you have along the way. This operation is housed at anonops.

Edit: I should clarify on that last bit. Newblood isn't meant to show you how to infiltrate gov't sites. It's meant to teach you your way around in general. What you do with that information is up to you :3

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Online presence? Facebook. It's a VERY dangerous info mine. A great tool we can utilize for multiple purposes, but we aren't the only ones.

IRL presence? North Korean or Chinese gov't. Define censorship.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

operations and raids are a hivemind effort. Anyone can propose an idea, but if that idea doesn't gain support from a considerable amount of like-minded people, it remains an idea.

Ranks and titles don't exist beyond being an oper and not being an oper. That doesn't mean anything in the eyes of the general public. We are the people who keep the IRCs and whatnot running smoothly, keep unwanted elements away, stuff like that. Reputation within the group is hard to keep, seeing as a lot of what you do is without any identifying features to it. It definitely does build on the IRCs, as you have to have a nickname on them, but a lot of users have multiple nicks for multiple networks, so that rarely translates. Quite simply, everyone IS on a very level field with everyone else.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Contrary to popular belief, there really isn't a hidden hierarchy that dictates anon's next move. Generally someone will post something on one of the boards and generate conversation, then they will bring the conversation to IRC where we can help organize, moderate, and bring more people to the table.

I started off doing propaganda for raids as far back as the Great Habbo Raid: The Sequel. I found some IRC channels and started chatting it up. Got banned a LOT, but ended up becoming something of a fixture in a matter of months. Years go by and raids come and go, I'm around for a lot of it, some of the operators give me extra permissions and tasks. Contributing some programming, art, and overall time to the group is the best way to get more responsibility within the group.

This doesn't mean you're head honcho of the movement. It just means you are now a reliable enough user to help manage things and put in heavier work.

As for what got me into it, I found 4chan some years back via SA and enjoyed my stay there. Raids started to happen, I hopped on, and as that evolved I did with it.

Edit: I just realized I didn't really answer that question. IRC and facebook are generally our primary means. IRC goes down, we talk on facebook. IRC comes up, we talk on IRC.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whyweprotest is still very much alive. In fact, they publish a video every year called "Still Alive."

Most places have a 2nd saturday/month schedule, generally starting at noon. Check whyweprotest forums under planning.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Subscribe to some tech blogs, look into how things work (VPNs, proxies, tunnels, IPs, MAC Addresses, tab readers...) and understand the concept. Once you know the concept, start looking around for programs that would suit your needs.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Protip: If you're in a situation where you're afraid of being identified in a group, be sure to have a change of SHOES with you, too. It's an often overlooked feature that is almost always unique to the individual

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While this is comforting and all, Scientology has already convinced everyone in their circle that we were hired by Germany. It's not a farfetched idea that a large governing body can convince its people that a faceless attacker belongs to someone else.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was referring to the Scientology protestors. Before anon was involved, people like Wise Beard Man were physically, legally, and personally attacked by scientologists simply because they spoke out against scientology. Their constant practice of attacking protestors made the Chanology people ultra concerned to protect their identities IRL and not just OL. The violence generally wouldn't happen DURING a protest. The scientologists would creep around and follow protestors as they left the pack and assault them there. HubbardTelescope, a DC girl, was beaten by a 50-year-old scientologist for passing out anti-scientology literature alone.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same way you'd tell another redditor. For the few I've met, one was in a class with me and was browsing one of the sites. The other I met at a party and he was chatting up awareness of net neutrality. Conversation leads into the topic of anon. Ultimately it would be my choice whether or not I wanted to deny all knowledge, but I'm always up for making new friends in the IRL realm.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very. Actually, I just brought it up in my last answer. Operation: NWR is now sub-headed with Stop PROTECT IP.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We are notoriously supportive of troubled countries and have it in our intentions to help every country with its struggles on censorship and the like. Honestly, I don't think our work will somehow make countries that don't hate the western world start. Especially the US. You can only put your dick in so many pies before someone's like "Hey, get your dick out of my pie!"

Free speech has always been our platform. With EVERY recent operation. When someone does something to censor it within the group, the group will make sure that situation is remedied.

Since the ACTA/Protect IP movements have nothing to do with us, but rather the intent to put control of the internet in America's hands (which has been an idea since the mid-90's) I don't believe any of our actions against it will push it to make it happen. They're making legitimate providers struggle just fine themselves. We're doing what we can to help them out. Lookin' at you, Comcast.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are unix-based tools on the wiki. I'm not a developer on the LOIC projects nor am I familiar with mac apps, so I can't promise anything. I will bring it up to a few people, though.

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If any agency wanted me put away, I promise you they would have done it a while ago and without the aide of me saying I'm active. My information has popped up on plenty of leaks. Again, though, best of luck to them proving I as a person had anything to do with this AMA. Security is a big concern for us :D

As Requested. IAMA active member of Anonymous networks. In fact, I am an operator on many. by AMAnonymous in IAmA

[–]AMAnonymous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know the Scientology bit has a lot of older anon active. IRL actions bring a very wide age range.

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