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Anonymous is a decentralized international
activist/hacktivist collective/movement widely known
for its various cyber attacks against several
governments, government institutions and
government agencies, corporations, and the Church
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 (or lulz). Beginning with Project Chanology in 2008
a series of protests, pranks, and hacks targeting the Church of Scientology—the Anonymous collective became increasingly associated with
collaborative hacktivism on a number of issues internationally. Individuals claiming to align themselves with Anonymous undertook
protests and other actions (including direct action) in retaliation against copyright-focused campaigns by motion picture and recording
industry trade associations. Later targets of Anonymous hacktivism included government agencies of the United States, Israel, Tunisia,
Uganda and others; the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; 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. Related groups LulzSec and Operation AntiSec carried out cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies, media,
video game companies, military contractors, military personnel, and police officers, resulting in the attention of law enforcement to the
groups' activities.
Dozens of people have been arrested for involvement in Anonymous cyberattacks in countries including the United States, the United
Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, India, and Turkey. Evaluations of the group's actions and effectiveness vary widely.
Supporters have called the group "freedom fighters"[5] and digital Robin Hoods[6] while critics have described them as "a cyber lynch-
In the years following Operation Payback, targets of Anonymous protests, hacks, and DDoS attacks continued to diversify. 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, while fellow future LulzSec member Hector
Xavier Monsegur (alias "Sabu") and others allegedly hijacked servers from a London web-hosting company to launch a DDoS attack on
Tunisian government websites, taking them offline. Sabu also used a Tunisian volunteer's computer to hack the website of Prime Minister
Mohamed Ghannouchi, replacing it with a message from Anonymous.[87] Anons also helped Tunisian dissidents share videos online about
the uprising.[88] In Operation Egypt, Anons collaborated with the activist group Telecomix to help dissidents access government-censored
websites.[88] Sabu and Topiary went on to participate in attacks on government websites in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Jordan, and Zimbabwe.
Tflow, Sabu, Topiary, and Ryan Ackroyd (known as "Kayla") collaborated in February 2011 on a cyber-attack against Aaron Barr, CEO of the
computer security firm HBGary Federal, in retaliation for his research on Anonymous and his threat to expose members of the group. Using a
SQL injection weakness, the four hacked the HBGary site, used Barr's captured password to vandalize his Twitter feed with racist messages,
and released an enormous cache ofHBGary's e-mails in a torrent file on Pirate Bay.[90] The e-mails stated that Barr and HBGary
had proposed to Bank of America a plan to discredit WikiLeaks in retaliation for a
By the start of 2009, Scientologists had stopped engaging with protesters and had improved online security, and actions against the group had largely ceased. A period of infighting
followed between the politically engaged members (called "moralfags" in the parlance of 4chan) and those seeking to provoke for entertainment (trolls).[63] By September 2010, the
group had received little publicity for a year and faced a corresponding drop in member interest; its raids diminished greatly in size and moved largely off of IRC channels, organizing
again from the chan boards, particularly
In September 2010, however, Anons became aware of Aiplex Software, an Indian software company that contracted with film studios to launch DDoS attacks on websites used by
copyright infringers, such as The Pirate Bay.[65][64] Coordinating through IRC, Anons launched a DDoS attack on September 17 that shut down Aiplex's website for a day. Primarily
using LOIC, the group then targeted the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), successfully bringing down both
sites On September 19, future LulzSec member Mustafa Al-Bassam (known as "Tflow") and other Anons hacked the website of Copyright Alliance, an anti-infringement group,
and posted the name of the operation: "Payback Is A Bitch", or "Operation Payback" for short.[67] Anons also issued a press release, stating:
Anonymous is tired of corporate interests controlling the internet and silencing the people’s rights to spread information, but more importantly, the right to SHARE with one
another. The RIAA and the MPAA feign to aid the artists and their cause; yet they do no such thing. In their eyes is not hope, only dollar signs. Anonymous will not stand
As IRC network operators were beginning to shut down networks involved in DDoS attacks, Anons organized a group of servers to host an independent IRC network, titled
AnonOps.[69] Operation Payback's targets rapidly expanded to include the British law firm ACS:Law,[70] the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft,[71] the British nightclub
Ministry of Sound,[72] the Spanish copyright society Sociedad General de Autores y Editores,[73] the U.S. Copyright Office,[74] and the website of Gene Simmons of Kiss.[75] By
On November 5, 2013, Anonymous protesters gathered around the world for the Million Mask March. Demonstrations were held in 400 cities around the world to coincide with Guy
Fawkes Night.[115] This has not been the only march; there have been quite a few others over the years, such as the 2015 march, which formed into a riot and went out of control in
London, UK.
In the wake of the fatal police shooting of unarmed African-American Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, "Operation Ferguson"—a hacktivist organization that claimed to be
associated with Anonymous—organized cyberprotests against police, setting up a website and a Twitter account to do so.[121] The group promised that if any protesters were
harassed or harmed, they would attack the city's servers and computers, taking them offline.[121] City officials said that e-mail systems were targeted and phones died, while the
Internet crashed at the City Hall.[121][122] Prior to August 15, members of Anonymous corresponding with Mother Jones said that they were working on confirming the identity of the
undisclosed police officer who shot Brown and would release his name as soon as they did.[123] On August 14, Anonymous posted on its Twitter feed what it claimed was the name of
the officer involved in the shooting.[124][125] However, police said the identity released by Anonymous was incorrect.[126] Twitter subsequently suspended the Anonymous account
from its service.
Quinn Norton of Wired wrote of the group in 2011:
I will confess up front that I love Anonymous, but not because I think they're the heroes. Like Alan Moore's character V who inspired Anonymous to adopt the Guy Fawkes
mask as an icon and fashion item, you're never quite sure if Anonymous is the hero or antihero. The trickster is attracted to change and the need for change, and that's
where Anonymous goes. But they are not your personal army – that's Rule 44 – yes, there are rules. And when they do something, it never goes quite as planned. The
internet has no neat endings
Anonymous is the first internet-based super-consciousness. Anonymous is a group, in the sense that a flock of birds is a group. How do you know they’re a group?
Aubrey Cottle, the founder of Anonymous, talked about where his focus currently lies while
answering questions on Reddit this week in an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session.
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