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Meatwad gonna Meatwad.So let me get this straight....it is a good thing to take down the websites that espouse viewpoints that go against your own? What does that even accomplish?Oh contraire, my westboro baptist frère.A side note on Anonymous: these guys are a bunch of tools that so far have produced very little compared to the boasting of many of its members. A couple of months ago they were going to uncover a bunch of pedos (Operation Deatheaters) and I actually got excited to see who they would uncover because there is really nothing worse than a child molester. Anyways, long story short, I could not find that they outed even a single person!!! What a joke. This looks like more of the same from this group of toolios.
It's easy to think of the hacking group Anonymous as a group of punk troublemakers, raising hell online.
Some have even debated whether their extra-legal protests should be labeled terrorist acts.
But that would overlook some of the genuinely good deeds the group — whose members identify themselves with the Vendetta mask — has done.
Whether it's retaliating against kiddie porn sites, helping to identify Chinese military cyber-attacks, or targeting the digital properties of various hate groups, Anonymous can sometimes be a force for good.
8. In December 2006, Anonymous took down the website of white supremacist radio show host Hal Turner. The attack ended up with Turner paying some very expensive bandwidth bills and dropping a lawsuit a year later.
7. Beginning in January 2008, Anonymous kicked off "Project Chanology," its attack on the Church of Scientology, a cult-like religion which allegedly imprisons its dissident members. They launched denial of service attacks against the organization's websites, gamed the link-sharing site Digg to more prominently display anti-Scientology pages, and even physically protested — showing up in person — many church events.
6. Anonymous released user information from a major hacking forum in February 2011, and security firm Mandiant was able to use this data to link the Chinese military to cyber-attacks against the U.S. this year.
5. The Westboro Baptist Church is notoriously hateful and intolerant. Anonymous successfully took down the Westboro Baptist Church's website in February 2011 in protest.
4. Operation DarkNet was the group's campaign against child pornography in October 2011. Because pornographers were incredibly effective at using technology to hide themselves, Anonymous used technology to put them out of business.
3. On August 13, 2012, tensions were rising in Uganda as the country's laws were increasingly intolerant on LGBT issues. Anonymous defaced two Ugandan government sites in protest.
2. The Steubenville rape case — in which images of the high school victim were disseminated in social media — obviously got a lot of attention earlier this year. Anonymous released incriminating video, tweets, and emails belonging to accused players on the school's football team.
1. Just this month, Anonymous began "Operation Free Korea." It's the group's effort to get "controversial leader Kim Jong-un to resign," "install free democracy," "abandon nuclear ambition," and grant "uncensored internet access" to its citizens. On April 3, Anonymous released all 15,000 usernames and passwords for the government's web services and threatened to wipe its data.
I will say that their highest impact hit was the Steubenville thing, but lets face it, that is small potatoes....it had the same level of impact as the 'bacon jalepeno mac and cheese' guy.
Everything else on that list is a bunch of B.S. Oh no!!! They took down somebody's website for a couple days!!!!! They are gonna shut down North Korea!!!!
Also, look at the timeframe. All of those 'accomplishments' from 2008 - 2015!!! Pathetic.
I will be impressed when they really out people who are actually doing horrible things, not just talking about them. I can certainly agree that Westboro Baptists are among the worst of the worst, but lets be real...shutting down their website for a couple days is really doing nothing. If they were real rebels or 'hackers', they would find out where some of the members lived and then would hire hit squads to do bodily harm or worse. Better yet, since the members of Anon are so dangerous and edgy, they should skip hiring the hit squad and just do the visits themselves. Once the Baptists realize they are on a hitlist for their deplorable actions, many would quit or go into hiding. That is some change that I feel we all can get behind, simply because it is actual change!
What these guys are doing right now falls somewhere in between auto fellatio and circle jerking with pets.
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Isn't that where we are?
