Most people when they act correctly like to receive some kind of reward, either monetary or recognition and respect. There is a small group of people who simply prefer to act nice and help humanity without being seen.
Within this group that we have mentioned there is another even smaller and more exclusive, one could even say that it is a very elitist organizationwhich is in charge of finding abuses and immoral practices on the part of the most powerful, in order to make them pay.
In the entry that you have to read on this occasion, You will know the history of Anonymous, a group that has resonated a lot in recent years and who have had an arduous trajectory, in the search for justice, who have used unconventional but effective means to make themselves heard Let’s start!
What is Anonymous and what is the objective of this group of cyber activists?
anonymous It is the name that one or many people carry to hide their identity on the Internet, since this word is actually a pseudonym of the term anonymous. Therefore, we know that it is an organization that seeks first to protect its true identity.. Very little is really known about this group of individuals, because, although presumed members have been captured, there really is no certainty that they are authentic members of this clan that operates in the shadows.
We can then say that it is a group of people who make up an organization, which acts under an ideology and under certain principles that we will learn about later. It is a totally decentralized group, since its members are spread all over the worldthis favors them in many aspects because it allows them to lengthen their tentacles in many countries.
This group moves under an anarchist banner, so it is very easy to understand that it is dedicated to exposing the darkest truths that governments and large corporations have in the world. From its origins to the present day, its movements have caused much controversy and controversy.for many reasons, but one of them is the fact that not all the information that is heard about them can be corroborated, because it could be one or many impostors.
Among its main objectives are to promote the existence of a society where there is no abuse of power and freedom of expression abounds. His greatest efforts have been to expose wrongdoing by large and powerful world organizations. Thanks to the fact that most of their actions and movements are carried out from the networkanother of its main objectives is that the information is completely free and accessible to all interested users, for this reason it is a group considered and self-proclaimed Hacktivist.
What is hacktivism and what are the ideals of its greatest exponents?
Even though many times the term activism can cause controversy, because it is easily associated with collective protests. The true meaning is the tireless search for some general good in the area that is focused, it can be a solution to some social, political, economic, environmental and even religious evil. Secondly, is a person with the necessary skills to access privileged data stored on a computer.
This is based on getting vulnerabilities in the system of its targets, for later elaborated by the same. Hacktivism, then, is a compound word that encompasses these two well-known terms, thus generating a new concept that serves to describe the action of violating the systems of large organizations to extract information or to disable its operation on the network.
Many of the existing Hacktivists have built their reputations on disabling the aforementioned government websites., making use of denial of service attacks. This assault is directed at the server that is in charge of covering the requests of the users who work and request data on the web page. The goal is to saturate it with an exorbitant number of requests, more than it can support per second, thus leaving it offline.
This means that the system of the attacked entity must completely stop the services provided until they can be recomposed with a higher level of security so as not to suffer the same inconvenience again. During this process, data may be lost on software restore.
Having said all this, only that group or individual who engages in these practices is considered a Hacktivist to:
- Expose His ideals.
- Express your discontent.
- Search a social good.
- Avoid profiting of the weakest with this opportunity.
Origin of Anonymous What were the reasons that led to the founding of this group?
If we want to know the origin of this controversial group we must move at the beginning of the 21st century, exactly in the year 2003. At this time the concept of the image board was very fashionable. This is nothing more than a website where users can share images anonymously. 4Chan is one of these sites mentioned where initially only they touched on trivial topics like Japanese Animes and Mangas.
There originated the name of “Anonymous”, which was assigned to each of the users to protect their names. Over time It grew and the topics of conversation expanded. In the meantime, deeper and more controversial issues began to make their way about the things that bothered the group the most. It was then in the year 2008 when Anonymous made its first demonstrations through the Chanology project.
These first actions by hacktivists were directed against the Church of Scientology.. The spark that ignited this movement was an incident that occurred with a leaked video that the church attempted to censor. The video was an interview with a well-known actor who belongs to this religion, Tom Cruise. Where it is said that he is somewhat manic and perhaps forced to speak well about this religion.
Anonymous released its war manifesto on January 21 as a “Message to Scientology.”, condemning censorship and threatening to take religion offline. we already know that Anonymous became known thanks to its war campaign against Scientology.
4 days after his manifesto the start of this war occurred:
- Denial of service attacks for the local or international pages of the church.
- Large scale phone pranks to collapse public care services.
- Faxes in black to annoy the communication of the organization.
Following these initial attacks the sites Scientology officials moved to a specialized security hostingwhere a couple of days later they received a higher request deployment that disabled the system completely.
There is also talk of the existence of a second video that was removed from the internet due to demands from the Scientology organization, because it revealed information about a death in strange conditions of a Scientologist, Lisa McPherson, who was under the care of “Doctors” of this religion.
On January 28, 2008, a third video was posted on YouTube.in which all those who agreed with the the Chanology project, who went to the facilities of the Church of Scientology on February 10 of the same year. During those days, the group of hacktivists was also in charge of modifying the perception of the Google search algorithm.
This means that when typing phrases like:
- brainwashing sect
- dangerous sect
The first results would be the official sites of the religion. By the month of February, the collective discontent could be felt in the vicinity of the facilities of the organization attacked and people could be seen holding derogatory signs about religion. On the 10th, exactly on the birthday of the dead Scientologist, As scheduled, there was a demonstration in various cities around the world where the number of protesters reached and exceeded 7,000.
Throughout the year 2008 Anonymous was given the task of directing protests on the following dates:
- March, 15th
- April 12th
- June 14th
All of these protests were worldwide, involving people in Europe, Oceania and America. On all these occasions, the ideal that information is free was maintained and illegal and immoral practices were denounced. A small example of these abuses is the obligation that the members of the church had of signing absurd billion-year contracts.
Ideology of the “Anonymous” What is its motto and its principles? Do they really do good?
The ideology of this organization was made known by them in their first video “Message to Scientology”, the one that was published on January 21, 2008.
Several important points about Anonymous are clearly expressed in this video, still available on YouTube:
- They are against the harmful manipulation of information, under the concept of disinformation.
- They are against the opinion suppression practices of powerful entities.
- They do not support that in addition to the above, these powerful entities are conflictive in society.
- They hate organizations that exercise mind control over their members.
- They are in favor of free and free information.
- If necessary, they can match their opponents in evil in order to destroy them.
These points can help us to implicitly understand what the initial ideology of these hacktivists is, but to have a complete notion it is necessary to know their motto:
- Knowledge is free.
- We are anonymous.
- We are legion.
- We do not forgive.
- We do not forget.
- Wait for us.
It is also important know that Anonymous has no leaderSince they recognize each other as equals, this has allowed them to reach large masses and get their ideas supported with public demonstrations on various occasions. But just because they have public support doesn’t mean everything they’ve done is good..
It is true that they have condemned evil acts by powerful people and organizations, even so it is possible that they have erred in some ways used to carry it out. In any case, we leave it up to you to condemn or support the acts of this controversial group..
History of Anonymous What have been the most shocking events and revelations you have made?
Anonymous’s war against the Church of Scientology lasted two long years.from 2010 they turned their attention to new adversaries.
Let’s see now a small review of some of his cyber battles:
Payback Operation
This movement was active during 2010, in which hackers were in charge of strongly attacking various entities that were in favor of copyright:
- Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
- International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)
Due to the high level of piracy that this generated, many artists spoke out against it and also received various attacks…
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