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[-] Kcap@lemmy.world 60 points 4 days ago

Not gonna dig through their Twitter feed, but I saw someone a couple months ago ask them this exact question on one of their posts, and they wrote a pretty interesting response. They basically said, we're still here, trying to fuck the system up, but, with all the information we've provided and ported out there to the world, y'all haven't done dick with it. Laws haven't been passed, politicians haven't been ousted, corporations are still abusing the systems. So they were basically saying, what good is them leaking and hacking if the public doesn't take a more activist approach towards change themselves and hold the people they expose accountable.

[-] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Well if I knew how to take down sites and child porn site I totally would. Just don't know what to study and probably don't want to be another computer cracker using programs found online.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you're serious, study cyber security to start.

Then move towards devops.

Worse case scenario, you'll end up in a 6-figure job making complaints into the void as you write bash scripts to speed up a pipeline by 0.1 second.

Best case scenario, you take down a massive criminal ring that sprouts back up like a weed a few days later.

[-] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 215 points 5 days ago

A lot of the actual, serious ones that knew what they were doing got caught. Some went to lulsec to be jerks with no agenda and were caught by the Feds. All that was left were script kiddies that downloaded the Low Orbit Ion Cannon and used scripts they find online. Then they left or were overtaken by alt right idiots.

The original Anonymous are in their 30s and 40s by now. Everyone ages out.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 210 points 5 days ago

90s script kiddie here - a bunch of the shit you can do as a minor with low/no consequences becomes SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS as an adult with assets. It's just not worth the risk to keep dicking around with things that might land you in prison or cost you everything you have.

[-] NerfHerder@lemm.ee 28 points 5 days ago

This is the truest answer thus far.

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

The delicious irony is that they now get to live in the world they helped create.

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[-] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 37 points 5 days ago

I think the serious ones that didn’t get caught are now working in red team penetration testing, which is an industry that’s been growing exponentially since the years Anonymous did a lot of their big stuff

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

Omg LOIC... I was trying to think of that name a few weeks ago and just couldn't remember. That was fun.

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[-] elude@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

Where did they get the name LOIC from in the first place?

The only place I am aware of, that uses this name, was the Unreal Tournament 2004.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

I think you've found your answer.

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[-] Muffi@programming.dev 108 points 4 days ago

Angry and nihilistic teenagers used to have tech skills and laptops. Now they have iPads and TikTok.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 32 points 4 days ago

I wonder how true that is. Curious to know

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 39 points 4 days ago

I actually teach teenagers programming and 3D modelling. The past 5 years has been the first decline in tech literacy I've ever experienced between generations. My personal theory is that only the gamers actually have computers at home now. Everyone else only use their smartphones, and that only gives a negligible increase in tech literacy compared to using a computer.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes, computers in their various forms are now so user friendly (and often locked down, because fuck you) that you don't learn much using them. The golden age for learning tech on the fly seems to have been 1990-2010 or so, because computers were both accessible and still had exposed inner logic.

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[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

We've drastically simplified and made tech accessible to everyone with a smartphone, you no longer need computer skills to get on the internet to shop or participate in social activities. Kids use apps' platforms for the things we had to build and host ourselves 20y ago.

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[-] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

As a angry, nihilistic teenager: very fucking true. I am literally the only techy guy in my posh bullshit private international school (in Europe so affordable). The only other dude who uses Linux (I'm using that as a bare minimum for "techy") isn't into programming or reverse engineering shit even remotely. I'm all alone (apart from all my non-technical friends). I suppose that's where the nihilism comes from...

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago
[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago
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[-] occultist8128@infosec.pub 6 points 4 days ago

how is this so true lol

[-] Mikina@programming.dev 13 points 3 days ago

it's also important to keep in mind that the cybersecurity field has adbanced tremendously, with cloidfare, EDRs, and in general it is now way harder to do anything anonymously without getting caught, quickly. This also males the field of hacking way more difficult to get in, which combined with reduced attention span of younger generations probably means there's not that many bored teens willing to put the time in, and as an adult you have way much more to loose, so for hose who had the skills it would be a lot greater risk.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A meme that comes quickly, goes quickly.

It's not an actual organised group, if you didn't know. Anyone can hack something and then say "Done by Anonymous".

[-] Nytefyre@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 4 days ago

And anyone that performs any successful hack, can also declare themselves as part of Anonymous.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 65 points 5 days ago

They fizzled out, members probably moved on to various other groups and projects, while the rest simply went on with their lives. A danger of being decentralized is losing all of your momentum.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago

A danger of being decentralized is losing all of your momentum.

fediverse growth nervously sweats

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[-] TylerDurdenJunior@lemmy.ml 37 points 4 days ago

Anonymous basically became a US intelligence front around the Arab Spring.

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[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 56 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hacking got harder, and the enforced penalties for getting caught became a lot more severe (in the west at least). This meant that most hackers aren't doing it for luls but for serious business.

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

“They” got over it, as most people do, and moved on. Remnants still remain, but they were unified due to a critical mass of dissent.

Don’t expect to see anything like it again until another critical inflection point. Just know that, if you do, shit’s prolly in a bad place…so…

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago

Yes, things are pretty peachy in the world right now.

[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago

That’s the spirit.

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[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 4 days ago

Shutting down porn sites? Is that a thing they wanted to achieve? Like free video sites like PH or production companies like Brazzers?

[-] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

I ment to type child porn sites.-

[-] Nytefyre@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 4 days ago

You can edit the main post you know.

[-] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No, turn my question will look stupid!

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

they basically got put out of business by cloudflare

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[-] xylogx@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago
[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I think that's a book I have been searching for a long time since I first read it in a library a good time ago

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[-] tisktisk@piefed.social 14 points 5 days ago

Curious to know what answers you were looking for here OP. What makes you think they aren't doing these things but stopped identifying themselves as such? Also some dialogue is required about the myriad of things 'Anonymous' took responsibility for but were never adequately confirmed as objectively true--and more importantly, what is accomplished with this last feat? I believe the answer you seek lies in these depths

[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 5 days ago

all of the people who were part of Anonymous who were worth a damn at hacking back in the day work for the state department now. The movement could very likely have been a psyop, given how many high-level hackers from that era there are on government payroll.

I stand in solidarity with the gay furry hackers.

[-] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

They are waiting for a tangible response, and building.

[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago
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