since most people don’t know (or don’t remember) the hacker group anonymous, here’s a thread because they’re a pretty big fucking deal https://twitter.com/lavenderthug/status/1266900030029549569

so basically anonymous started on 4chan back in 2003. the whole point was to gather hackers all over the world to form a digital “hive”. they’re usually distinguished by wearing guy fawkes masks

so you’re probably asking why they’re such a big deal? well let me tell you... they hacked EVERYTHING. from public government servers (U.S., Israel, Tunisia, Uganda, Iraq and the Levant, etc.) child pornography sites, even paypal, mastercard and sony hqs. nobody was safe

eventually it got to the point where, in 2012, TIME declared they were one of the "100 most influential people" in the world. coincidentally, they were also declared a national security threat because they deadass would not stop hacking american government servers LMAOOOO

for example, remember back in 2008 when the church of scientology was gaining an insane amount of supporters and celebrity endorsements (tom cruise, john travolta, etc)? where’d they go? turns out anonymous singlehandedly ended the majority of the moment due to ddos attacks

email spams, prank calls, etc) normally this wouldn’t have been a problem but the fact that the group was SO huge meant that the church was getting millions of troll calls a day until eventually nobody took the church of scientology serious anymore bc they couldn’t operate at all

there was also the “Operation Payback”. it was so fun to watch because they targeted so many important govt branches (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, the U.S. Copyright Office, etc) the total downtime of all these attacks was estimated to be around 537.55 hours

Operation Payback eventually led to “Operation Avenge Assange", and Anons issued a press release declaring PayPal a target. attacks brought down paypl for an hour on dec 8 and another brief period on dec 9. this may not seem like a long time that meant MILLIONS of dollars lost

beginning in january 2011, anons took a number of actions known initially as “Operation Tunisia” in support of Arab Spring movements. Tflow created a script that Tunisians could use to protect their web browsers from government surveillance

not only that, but they also target multiple businesses/corporations accused of homophobia. in december 2012, anons published the names, phone numbers, and e-mail and home addresses of westboro church members and brought down GodHatesF***.com with a DDoS attack

in august 2012, anons hacked the site of Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi in retaliation for the Parliament of Uganda's consideration of an anti-homosexuality law permitting capital punishment (he tried to make sentences of 14 years to life if you were caught being gay)

they also hacked sarah palin and leaked her emails but nobody really cares about her so i’m just gonna move on to the next incident

OHHH! they also declared war and constantly hacked sony in retaliation for them trying to sue George Hotz (the first guy to jailbreak an iphone, rumored to be an anon). this was the biggest gaming security breach EVER and left weeks without access to online servers

they threatened atlantic records because they wanted Lupe Fiasco to drop his album, giving them a 24 hours to release a statement. 19 hours later atlantic confirmed a release date. Anonymous only responded with “Damn, we wanted to test that website crasher” LMFAOOOOO

quick intermission from this long ass thread!! here are some petitions you can sign while reading about cool hackers https://twitter.com/rosiegguks/status/1266299358695141378?s=21 https://twitter.com/rosiegguks/status/1266299358695141378

there was also them vs the los zetas, a huge mexican cartel. this literally sounds like a movie plot but 100% happened:

they took down the BIGGEST host for dark web sites overnight. releasing a statement describing their disgust for the dark web (more than half being child pornography) 6 hours later there was hack attack deleting more than 7595 site databases, accounting for 1/5 of the dark web

not them doing this in the middle of me making the thread girl bye

also!! this isn’t the first time they’ve took action in cases of racism. following threats from the kkk to use violence during the michael brown protests they released the personal information of more than 350!!!!! kkk members including us mayors, senators and fbi agents.

they also told police “if you attack the protesters, we will attack every server and computer you have. this is your only warning.” my kings

wrapping this up because it’s dragging a bit, but please keep in mind this is barely scratching the surface of what they’ve done when it comes to public activism. if they really do decide to step in regarding this george floyd case they shutting EVERYTHING down

nvm my friends replaced me in the playstation party time guess we’re doing more cool hacker posts

a global campaign called “Operation Venezuela” was introduced after 3 protestors were killed and servers censorship (Venezuelan president preventing Venezuelan Twitter users from viewing photos being circulated online of the government violently dispersing protesters.)

in retaliation, the hackers coordinated their attacks and hacked just about every venezuelan govt website, plastering the pages with Anonymous brandings. not only that, they also hacked the PRESIDENT of Venezuela’s twit acc and posted the pictures of said brutality on there

here’s a more recent example to prove they’re still as powerful as they ever were. just 3 days ago they hacked one of the biggest telecom companies in the Philippines. Ironically, two days before PLDT warned customers against hackers who may take advantage of the corona situation

tw/ r*pe, assault

(1//2) In 2012, Steubenville, 2 Ohio high schooler’s gang-r*ped an unconscious teenage girl and took photographs of the sexual assault. a member of anonymous hacked into the school website and leaked evidence of the r*pe including a video of them joking

about it. it was later revealed the school staff helped cover it up. while he did solve the case and lead to them getting arrested and jailed, he was unfortunately caught. the r*pists got 2 years while he faces up to 13 years for threats and hacking a school website.

also, i apologize for sounding insensitive by saying this sounded like a movie plot! i’ll do my best to chose my words my carefully while continuing the thread :) https://twitter.com/yunhophobe/status/1266951889893163008?s=21 https://twitter.com/yunhophobe/status/1266951889893163008

continuing on, they hacked into the official United Nations website and created a page that supports Taiwan a( country which was removed from the organization in favor China in 1971). this was around 3 months ago

back in 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice shut down the file-sharing site Megaupload on allegations of copyright infringement. Anon responded by hitting them with waves of ddos attacks, shutting down sites such as the FBI, BMI, the US department of justice and more

okay y’all i’m gonna pack it up fr. if you have any other cases you find interesting, please share them in the comments because i know i just barely scratched the surface. also make sure to support black people of every gender, shade, and sexuality

here are more links to donate btw. every penny counts https://twitter.com/kookpics/status/1265927090588856320?s=21 https://twitter.com/kookpics/status/1265927090588856320

also acab, thread concluded