Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it. The international hacker community is preparing to strike against U.S. infrastructure and calls for public awareness against incoming fascism

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    Anytime I see something about “Anonymous” I just assume it’s some kind of fed psyop until proven otherwise.

    • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      So you’ll go to your grave believing it because all the proof in the world will just be fake news

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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        10 hours ago

        In this case? Yeah, probably. If there was proof of their identity they would no longer be anonymous, would they?

        It’s a much more reasonable assumption than how your lot assumes anyone who disagrees with you for any reason is a Russian bot, and can’t be convinced by any amount of proof otherwise.

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          50 minutes ago

          I mean at least you’re leaning into the conservative conspiracy hole instead of pretending you’re not in it, so bonus points for honesty.

          I’ve also never accused random posters of being Russian trolls/bots, so fewer points for that.

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            9 minutes ago

            Lmao, “conservative conspiracy hole.” I guess “being suspicious of anonymous sources” makes me a conservative conspiracy theorist, somehow 🤣

            This is just basic critical thinking lol.

  • HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
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    18 hours ago

    Anonymous, if you are going to do it, PLEASE make sure to leave the innocent people alone and go after the rich assholes that are doing this.

    Other than that, here’s my axe, go wild

    • Semperverus@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Its more of a chaos entity. Because anyone can be a part of it with literally no steps other than saying “I am Anonymous”, anyone can say or do anything. As a result, one person or group may claim Anonymous while doing a legitimate hack, while another person who is just a script kiddie won’t ever actually do anything and you get this hot and cold, will they won’t they effect as a result.

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    1 day ago

    Hacker fashion tip: while wearing your guy fox mask, match it with a Luigi hat.

  • Ozymati@lemmy.nz
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    1 day ago

    Can they do something useful like destroy the debt infrastructure and delete all student loans and medical bills?

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      A more useful thing would be to do as much damage to Twitter as possible. In fact, why they haven’t attacked Twitter while Musk has been disarming all of its safety protocols is fucking beyond me.

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        24 hours ago

        Attacking twitter would be more useful than deleting all debt? I mean go wild, take that shit ass site down but if you had a “delete twitter” button and a “delete all debt” button, mashing the second one would make you the greatest hero who ever lived.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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          20 hours ago

          Debt is monitored/store by many different companies

          Even if you took down all data of x health insurance company it would still exist in other places

          So I would say that it poses a bigger challenge and you would have to do it at roughly the same time

          • Juice@midwest.social
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            19 hours ago

            Sure. Yeah its very hypothetical and silly. As if the Banks that manage national and international money supplies, since most of their managed assets are debt, haven’t thought of it? So no such button exists, whereas there might be a delete twitter button somewhere or one could be rigged up 👀

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          20 hours ago

          You’re right, What if they publish cheat codes for all Steam games, thus freeing humanity from corporate exploitation???!!!

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        1 day ago

        “Anonymous” isn’t like a formal group. The entire point is that anyone can say that they are anonymous. So yeah, people talk a lot. You can do whatever you like as anonymous.

      • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 day ago

        mostly they are spending hours scrolling through social media accounts of certain types of people looking for dox materials. that’s really about it

    • Randelung@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I’m sure backups and redundancies are “inefficient” since “everything is in the cloud, anyway”.

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      19 hours ago

      My final semester in American Sign Language was “Sex, Drugs, and Profanity,” and most of the signs are just exactly what you’d guess. (I held on to those textbooks.) Plus, facial expressions are a big part of the grammar of the language. I don’t recognize this scene, but assuming it’s from a comedy - it’s probably also not far off from accurate.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This is kinda what trump wants. If the government cant handle “online stuff” they can pitch privatization. It hurts more if tech megacorps get hacked. Though at this point I wou’d laugh if a bunch of internet nerds got the nuclear codes or locked up a bunch of satellites

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      24 hours ago

      If the government cant handle “online stuff” they can pitch privatization.

      It kind of already is privatized. Most of the government’s cyber security efforts are handled by defense contractors.

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        13 hours ago

        CISA actually monitored Internet traffic and would contact government entities (local, schools, universities, etc) when they were being attacked. I went to a talk once where they said they usually had response times in minutes, and it would take longer to figure out who they needed to alert and convince them that it was real. Now that CISA is gutted I would expect more and worse breaches in the future.

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      1 day ago

      Imagine if one nuclear head was pointed to every megacorp headquarters in the US.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Tomorrow

    Trump: By executive order, I dismantle the computer warfare and defence division

    Musk: It doesn’t exist anymore!

    The day after

    Anonymous: They turned off their service that sanitized all inputs. We just stole everything from every department, and put cats on every governments webpage.

    • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      “The government had both server and client side validation, which is totally wasteful and inefficient! I removed both and may the best one win!”

      Elmo, DOGE