That also means that not everyone associated with the group agrees on every action taken under its name. Anonymous is known to vigorously go after its targets. It has been associated with crashing Web servers, website defacement and leaking hacked private information. At the time, Anonymous allegedly hacked the firms website, posted a message on its website, downloaded thousands of emails and took control of the CEO's Twitter account.
In , Anonymous gained notoriety when then year-old programmer Deric Lostutter worked to expose the cover-up in the Steubenville rape case. His initial video message calling for action, spurred Web site take-overs and uncovering of personal emails reported Rolling Stone in a lengthy profile of the incident.
Anonymous worked with other groups to assist the Arab Spring uprising, specifically in Tunisia and Egypt, to keep access to the Internet open for organizers on the ground, according to Housh. We'll notify you here with news about. Direct link. What Is Anonymous? Dissertation, Robert Morris University. Interconnected computer information systems have become indispensable aspects of modern life. All forms of communication, education, finance, commerce and identity utilize these systems creating a permanent personal presence for all of us within this digital world.
Individuals who reveal or threaten to reveal these personal identities for various reasons, are sometimes referred to as hackers who can also form hacker activist groups; also known as hacktivists.
Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Anonymous is a loosely organized Internet group of hackers and political activists that began as a collective in on 4chan, an anonymous internet chat board.
Members of the Anonymous community communicate and collaborate via social network services and encrypted Internet chat rooms. Anonymous is most widely known for its cyber-attacks against governments, government-affiliated groups, corporations, and the Church of Scientology.
Individuals who wish to be recognized as part of the group wear Guy Fawkes masks in public in order to conceal their identities. Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who were involved in the Gunpowder Plot—a failed assassination plot—of The Gunpowder Plot was an attempt to secure greater religious tolerance under King James.
After blowing up the House of Lords, King James' residence, his daughter Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Later, Fawkes would become synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated since in the UK.
On this day, Fawkes effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by fireworks. To the extent Anonymous has a coherent ethos, it features decentralized communities interested in engaging in mutual goals. These goals have historically ranged from political statements to pranks and hacks , sometimes in retaliation for actions taken against the group itself—or those for whom members of a given operation feel an affinity.
Groups of Anonymous members have thrown support behind political movements such as the Arab Spring. Common methods of protest or retaliation include "distributed denial of service" DDoS attacks on governments or organizations.
These actions are known as Operation Payback. The decentralized nature of Anonymous can make it difficult to judge the extent of its reach or power in any given activity. In practical terms, the strength of an Anonymous action appears to be proportional to the number of people interested and involved in an action.
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