Anonymous is as anonymous does
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Beginning with 2008's Project Chanology—a series of protests, pranks, and hacks targeting the Church of Scientology—
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Later targets of Anonymous hacktivism included government agencies of the US, Israel, Tunisia, Uganda, and others; child pornography sites; copyright protection agencies; the Westboro Baptist Church; and corporations such as PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, and Sony. Anons have publicly supported WikiLeaks and the Occupy movement.
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anti-Zionist, and has threatened to erase Israel from the Internet
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Anons oppose internet censorship and control, and the majority of their actions target governments, organizations, and corporations that they accuse of censorship.
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oup's few rules include not disclosing one's identity, not talking about the group, and not attacking media.
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ater targets of Anonymous hacktivism included government agencies of the US, Israel, Tunisia, Uganda, and others; child pornography sites; copyright protection agencies; the Westboro Baptist Church; and corporations such as PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, and Sony.
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Anons have publicly supported WikiLeaks and the Occupy movement.
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Ismetullah Mohammad SeddiqAnonymous Group
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Anonymous (group)
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Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group
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It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.[
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It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known
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It strongly opposes Internet censorship and surveillance, and has hacked various government websites
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It also opposes Scientology, government corruption and homophobia
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It has also targeted major security corporations
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Its members can be distinguished in public by the wearing of stylised Guy Fawkes masks
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In its early form, the concept was adopted by a decentralized online community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner, usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal, and primarily focused on entertainment
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Beginning with 2008, the Anonymous collective became increasingly associated with collaborative, international hacktivism
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They undertook protests and other actions in retaliation against anti-digital piracy campaigns by motion picture and recording industry trade associations.
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They have been called the freedom fighters of the Internet,[11] a digital Robin Hood,[12] and "anarchic cyber-guerrillas."[13]
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Although not necessarily tied to a single online entity, many websites are strongly associated with Anonymous
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This includes notable imageboards such as 4chan, their associated wikis, Encyclopædia Dramatica, and a number of forums.
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After a series of controversial, widely publicized protests, distributed denial of service (DDoS) and website defacement attacks by Anonymous in 2008, incidents linked to its members increased
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The name Anonymous itself is inspired by the perceived anonymity under which users post images and comments on the Internet. Usage of the term Anonymous in the sense of a shared identity began on imageboards
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A tag of Anonymous is assigned to visitors who leave comments without identifying the originator of the posted content
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Users of imageboards sometimes jokingly acted as if Anonymous were a real person.
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The concept of the Anonymous entity advanced in 2004 when an administrator on the 4chan image board activated a "Forced_Anon" protocol that signed all posts as Anonymous.
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In January 2011, the FBI issued more than 40 search warrants in a probe against the Anonymous attacks on companies that opposed Wikileaks. The FBI did not issue any arrest warrants, but issued a statement that participating in DDOS attacks is a criminal offense with a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.[27][28]
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Timeline of events involving Anonymous
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skilled hacker and founding member of an allied organization, the Peoples Liberation Front (PLF)
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Commander X did claim
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Explaining the relationship between Anonymous and the PLF, he suggested an analogy to NATO, with the PLF being a smaller sub-group that could choose to opt-in or out of a specific project. "AnonOps and the PLF are both capable of creating huge "Internet armies". The main difference is Anon Ops moves with huge force, but very slowly because of their decision making process. The PLF moves with great speed, like a scalpel."
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his family has received a lot of hate mail, lots of obscene phone calls, and even bogus pizza and pornography deliveries
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personal information were leaked
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despite attempts by the Iranian government to censor news about the riots on the internet.
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Anonymous announced their intent to attack Sony websites in response to Sony's lawsuit against George Hotz and, specifically due to Sony's gaining access to the IP addresses of all the people who visited George Hotz' blog as part of the libel action, terming it an 'offensive against free speech and internet freedom'[162][163] Although Anonymous admitted responsibility to subsequent attacks on the Sony websites, Anonymous branch AnonOps denied that they were the cause behind a major outage of the Playstation Network in April 2011. However as Anonymous is a leaderless organisation, the possibility remains that another branch of the group is responsible for the outage
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fifth of November 2011
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Simon BeckAnonymous (used as a mass noun) is an Internet meme that originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.[2] It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known.[3]
anonymous group hackivism activism politics economics society
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According to white supremacist radio host Hal Turner, in December 2006 and January 2007 individuals who identified themselves as Anonymous took Turner's website offline, costing him thousands of dollars in bandwidth bills. As a result, Turner sued 4chan, eBaum's World, 7chan, and other websites for copyright infringement. He lost his plea for an injunction, however, and failed to receive letters from the court, which caused the lawsuit to lapse.[14]
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On January 21, 2008, individuals claiming to speak for Anonymous announced their goals and intentions via a video posted to YouTube entitled "Message to Scientology", and a press release declaring a "War on Scientology" against both the Church of Scientology and the Religious Technology Center.[22][24][25] In the press release, the group states that the attacks against the Church of Scientology will continue in order to protect the right to freedom of speech, and end what they believe to be the financial exploitation of church members.[26] A new video "Call to Action" appeared on YouTube on January 28, 2008, calling for protests outside Church of Scientology centers on February 10, 2008.[27][28] On February 2, 2008, 150 people gathered outside of a Church of Scientology center in Orlando, Florida to protest the organization's practices.[29][30][31][32] Small protests were also held in Santa Barbara, California,[33] and Manchester, England.[30][34] On February 10, 2008, about 7,000 people protested in more than 93 cities worldwide.[35][36] Many protesters wore masks based on the character V from V for Vendetta (who in turn was influenced by Guy Fawkes), or otherwise disguised their identities, in part to protect themselves from reprisals from the Church.[37][38]
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n late June 2008, users who identified themselves as Anonymous claimed responsibility for a series of attacks against the SOHH (Support Online Hip Hop) website.[50] The attack was reported to have begun in retaliation for insults made by members of SOHH's "Just Bugging Out" forum against 4chan's users. The attack against the website took place in stages, as Anonymous users flooded the SOHH forums, which were then shut down. On June 23, 2008, the group which identified themselves as Anonymous organized DDOS attacks against the website, successfully eliminating over 60% of the website's service capacity. On June 27, 2008, the hackers utilized cross-site scripting to alter the website's main page with satirical images and headlines referencing numerous racial stereotypes and slurs, and also successfully stole information from SOHH employees.[51]
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Anonymous broadly represents the concept of any and all people as an unnamed collective
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none of us are as cruel as all of us.
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- Anonymous is everywhere.
- Anonymous is legion.
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Anonymous has no identity
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Anonymous is united by one, and divided by zero
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Anonymous is one; Anonymous is many.
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Add Sticky NoteIt is important to note that the distinction between this section, and the above, is of necessity somewhat blurred
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"loose coalition of Internet denizens
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Anonymous has no leader or controlling party, and relies on the collective power of its individual members acting in such a way that the net effect benefits the group.
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We have this agenda that we all agree on and we all coordinate and act, but all act independently toward it, without any want for recognition.
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the group responsible for Forcand's arrest as a "self-described Internet vigilant group called Anonymous" who contacted the police after some members were "propositioned" by Forcand with "disgusting photos of himself". The report also stated that this is the first time a suspected Internet predator was arrested by the police as a result of Internet vigilantism.[15]
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