Anonymous declares war on IS

Ricter · Nov 17, 2015

Has Anonymous really done anything helpful anywhere, yet?

Tsing Tao · Nov 17, 2015

Ricter said:
Has Anonymous really done anything helpful anywhere, yet?

No, and that's entirely my point.

Although they did post some cool videos in Guy Fawkes masks.

Ricter · Nov 17, 2015

Tsing Tao said:
No, and that's entirely my point.

Although they did post some cool videos in Guy Fawkes masks.

Lol

ipatent · Nov 17, 2015

Tsing Tao said:
There's plenty of ways to be anonymous on the internet. I don't know why you say this.

All the anonymity techniques are honey pots...saves the police and intelligence agencies from sorting through the rest of it.

Tsing Tao · Nov 17, 2015

ipatent said:
All the anonymity techniques are honey pots...saves the police and intelligence agencies from sorting through the rest of it.

Ok, really. So if I go to a kiosk in the Garbushka outside of Moscow and buy a throw away cell with cash, make a wifi point, and connect to it and post, I'm not completely anonymous?

Or what if I just take my laptop down to the local starbucks, sit in the parking lot and attach to the wifi...the NSA knows who I am?

How about hotel lobbies, or airports (outside security), etc.? In Schiphol (Amsterdam Airport), I can buy a throw away hot spot for complete and total anonymity.

This doesn't even go into things like TOR and whatnot. Or countries that are friendly to terrorists and the internet backbone there. IP spoofers, virtual servers, blah blah blah

What about Steganography? The list goes on and on.

ipatent · Nov 17, 2015

If there's any holes in their security, someone hasn't done their job. It's just a question of who has access to it.

Ditch · Nov 17, 2015

ipatent said:
If there's any holes in their security, someone hasn't done their job. It's just a question of who has access to it.

Isis known for lacking highly trained professionals. This certainly presents an opening.

Tsing Tao · Nov 17, 2015

Whatever. The point is, the internet is a very secure place if you know what you're doing and have access to the right tools.

jem · Nov 17, 2015

another argument for why politicians who allow porous borders and import solider age people without very deep checks from places like syria are traitors.

and I note... at least it appears anonymous is trying to do the right thing and I sure hope someone from homeland security is checking on those accounts.

Tsing Tao · Nov 17, 2015

jem said:
and I note... at least it appears anonymous is trying to do the right thing and I sure hope someone from homeland security is checking on those accounts.

Someone from homeland security most likely had those accounts flagged a long time ago. There's almost certainly a spider that runs through Twitter on a regular basis, if not an internal program centralized in Twitter itself that does so, and reports.