Reddit reviews We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
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There's a few nice books on the topic (anonymity, how 4chan ended up keepin the anon system, how long term users saw much less homophobia and racism than new acceptance for things they never had been exposed to). I was on 4chan for a little while. Can't remember other author names but I find the take of Parmy Olson to be very close to how the thing felt. She's presenting the history of 4chan as a total outsider, but she did do the research, and she makes the whole Poole/Anonymous/LulzSec thing sound like a nice suspens story. It's easy to read. It's still very, very much contemporary and it's very strange for me to call it history but it is and I don't know how people can use the internet without having at least some idea of what went on around 4chan (but they can I'm just being old).
Anonymous is/was a small group of highly skilled hackers, that were loosley organized together and somewhat activist or "hacktivist". They did some notorious hacks and denial of service attacks, and other cyber attacks. As well as being given hacked info that others did to help them and to distribute the hacked info. They were also known as LulzSec a group that existed before, though that name is less familiar than the iconic "Anonymous" and not all members of LulzSec moved over to the new group
They also popularized the use of the Guy Fawkes mask, commonly known from the dystopian movie V for Vendetta.
Most or all of the original members of the small group were eventually caught and charged with various crimes, with quite little fanfare, they were caught pretty solidly.
After this, many other groups, related or not to the original group have also taken the "anonymous" title and headline as their names or who they represent, and often perform similar acts to the original group
A good source for reading up more on the group, its origins, its people, and its begining, fall, and re-rise: We Are Anonymous by Parmy Olson
https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Inside-LulzSec-Insurgency/dp/0316213527
Parmy Olson - We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency (2013)
Read [this] (http://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Anonymous-LulzSec-Insurgency/dp/0316213527) book if you get a chance.
Awesome, thanks for posting the quotes. I really should read the whole thing.
If I may add a couple of additional sub-topics for discussion:
>Carder-pretending-to-be-Anon: Hey, let's all DDoS this bank website in support of Occcupy Wall Street!
>Anons: *DDoS bank website
>Carder: *chuckles Lol, dumb skiddies! *hacks in while bank is distracted by DDoS, steals customer information
>Bank: We've been DDoS'd and hacked by Anonymous!
>LE: Anons, you're under arrest!
>Anons: But it was a social protest!
>Carder: *Heh heh *enjoys $$$$$$*
Should the Anons have any liability for being gullible skiddies?
Ha, I knew right away from the title this was about Sabu. Everyone who hasn't should read We are Anonymous if you are at all interested in the rise and fall of anonymous and lulzsec. Sabu plays a pivotal role in the events that unfold, eventually culminating with his arrest and subsequent informing.
It's not my opinion it's fact. This book does a great job of telling the whole story. I totally recommend it.
These guys are a bunch of idiots! Seriously, 4chan is someone? Not only that but password app? Really? Even before I took cybercrime I knew it wasn't something so simple as a app. They are the worst at explaining how someone gets hacked. There are many many ways to get into someones account. Social engineering is the best way than to just guess someones password. They should really read We are anonymous or even look up how people found out they got hacked when a white hat hacker told them how they did it.