Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it. The international hacker community is preparing to strike against U.S. infrastructure and calls for public awareness against incoming fascism

  • HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    Anonymous, if you are going to do it, PLEASE make sure to leave the innocent people alone and go after the rich assholes that are doing this.

    Other than that, here’s my axe, go wild

    • Semperverus@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Its more of a chaos entity. Because anyone can be a part of it with literally no steps other than saying “I am Anonymous”, anyone can say or do anything. As a result, one person or group may claim Anonymous while doing a legitimate hack, while another person who is just a script kiddie won’t ever actually do anything and you get this hot and cold, will they won’t they effect as a result.

  • WhatSay@slrpnk.net
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    11 hours ago

    Hacker fashion tip: while wearing your guy fox mask, match it with a Luigi hat.

  • Ozymati@lemmy.nz
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    21 hours ago

    Can they do something useful like destroy the debt infrastructure and delete all student loans and medical bills?

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      A more useful thing would be to do as much damage to Twitter as possible. In fact, why they haven’t attacked Twitter while Musk has been disarming all of its safety protocols is fucking beyond me.

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        10 hours ago

        Attacking twitter would be more useful than deleting all debt? I mean go wild, take that shit ass site down but if you had a “delete twitter” button and a “delete all debt” button, mashing the second one would make you the greatest hero who ever lived.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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          6 hours ago

          Debt is monitored/store by many different companies

          Even if you took down all data of x health insurance company it would still exist in other places

          So I would say that it poses a bigger challenge and you would have to do it at roughly the same time

          • Juice@midwest.social
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            4 hours ago

            Sure. Yeah its very hypothetical and silly. As if the Banks that manage national and international money supplies, since most of their managed assets are debt, haven’t thought of it? So no such button exists, whereas there might be a delete twitter button somewhere or one could be rigged up 👀

        • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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          6 hours ago

          You’re right, What if they publish cheat codes for all Steam games, thus freeing humanity from corporate exploitation???!!!

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        “Anonymous” isn’t like a formal group. The entire point is that anyone can say that they are anonymous. So yeah, people talk a lot. You can do whatever you like as anonymous.

      • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        18 hours ago

        mostly they are spending hours scrolling through social media accounts of certain types of people looking for dox materials. that’s really about it

    • Randelung@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      I’m sure backups and redundancies are “inefficient” since “everything is in the cloud, anyway”.

    • Hackworth@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      My final semester in American Sign Language was “Sex, Drugs, and Profanity,” and most of the signs are just exactly what you’d guess. (I held on to those textbooks.) Plus, facial expressions are a big part of the grammar of the language. I don’t recognize this scene, but assuming it’s from a comedy - it’s probably also not far off from accurate.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    This is kinda what trump wants. If the government cant handle “online stuff” they can pitch privatization. It hurts more if tech megacorps get hacked. Though at this point I wou’d laugh if a bunch of internet nerds got the nuclear codes or locked up a bunch of satellites

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours ago

      If the government cant handle “online stuff” they can pitch privatization.

      It kind of already is privatized. Most of the government’s cyber security efforts are handled by defense contractors.

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      14 hours ago

      Imagine if one nuclear head was pointed to every megacorp headquarters in the US.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Tomorrow

    Trump: By executive order, I dismantle the computer warfare and defence division

    Musk: It doesn’t exist anymore!

    The day after

    Anonymous: They turned off their service that sanitized all inputs. We just stole everything from every department, and put cats on every governments webpage.

    • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      “The government had both server and client side validation, which is totally wasteful and inefficient! I removed both and may the best one win!”

      Elmo, DOGE

  • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Ah, Anonymous—the digital equivalent of a fart in a hurricane. Trump’s America? Weakness isn’t new—it’s baked into the propaganda circus we’ve called democracy since Reagan. You think script kiddies and Elon’s crypto-bros “hacking fascism” will fix anything? Please. The real op is watching tech oligarchs and politicians collude while we argue about which flavor of dystopia we’re slurping.

    Infrastructure attacks? Bold move, Cotton. Let’s see how it works out when grandma’s dialysis machine gets bricked by some edgelord’s Python script. If you want revolution, stop fetishizing IRC nostalgia and touch grass. Until then, this is just digital graffiti on a burning trash barge.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      23 hours ago

      I’m not going to write off hacktivism so quickly.

      Even if it’s just a few defaced websites now and then, that’s a whole lot more effective than any other sort of activism I’ve seen to date.

      • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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        17 hours ago

        Oh, sure, let’s romanticize hacktivism, the digital equivalent of spray-painting a slogan on a collapsing wall. A few defaced websites? That’s your bar for effectiveness? The oligarchs aren’t losing sleep over a 404 page; they’re too busy consolidating power while you cheer for digital vandalism like it’s the French Revolution.

        Real change doesn’t come from poking at the system with a keyboard and hoping it flinches. If anything, these stunts just give them more excuses to tighten the noose—more surveillance, more control.

        You want to fight the machine? Build something better. Organize. Create infrastructure that can’t be co-opted. Until then, hacktivism is just a tantrum dressed up as resistance.

        • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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          17 hours ago

          Settle down mate.

          I didn’t say defaced websites are going to take down the government.

          My implication was that it would be more effective than ranting on social media.

          • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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            16 hours ago

            Settle down? Sure, but let’s not settle for mediocrity. If your metric for effectiveness is being slightly better than social media rants, you’ve already lost the plot. Hacktivism that doesn’t disrupt the system in a meaningful way is just noise—an aesthetic rebellion that the system shrugs off or, worse, absorbs.

            You want to be effective? Stop playing into their hands with token gestures. Build tools, networks, and alternatives that outlast their control. Otherwise, you’re just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic while calling it progress.

            Defacing websites might feel cathartic, but it’s not revolution—it’s a distraction.

      • nomy@lemmy.zip
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        23 hours ago

        What a pointless thought-terminating comment.

        Do you have any actual critiques or just lame regurgitated snark to try to win imaginary points?

        • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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          5 hours ago

          Well, meowmeowbeanz has a good point, namely, Anonymous saying anything is meaningless. Because Anonymous is a not a group, at best it could be called a movement, at worst it’s just a name. In any case, anybody can claim to speak for them. Hence their statements are meaningless.

          However, meowmeowbeanz’s post is also a barely coherent rant with overused emphasis. Which makes them seem mentally unwell. It’s like encountering somebody with a tinfoil hat ranting about how the earth is round.