Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"As someone who doesn't reside in the USA, I was wondering what would be the best way to get internet for my computer in the US for a couple of weeks? If it were Europe I know I'd look for some prepaid data. Is there anything similar offered by American carriers? A MiFi or a data SIM that I can tether from would work, but I'm trying to maintain a tight budget. Help!"
Goddammit Anonymous, how do I support you in your war against censorship when you do crap like this? I even double-checked the read link to make sure Engadget wasn't just throwing that in...
The real anonymous says on the boards.
The so called "anonymous" that go out and do this kind of shit, well, they're the cancer.
*stays on the boards
It might or might not have been anonymous, but then since Church of Scientology has a mantra of "destroy church's enemies through whatever means, legal or illegal, moral or immoral" and a history of actually taking that approach, I would think twice before blaming Anonymous.
It is entirely possible that this was perpetrated by someone for the Church of Scientology. It isn't the first time that (under their policy of 'Fair Game' [read the wikipedia entry]) that the C.O.S has done something terrible and then blamed an organization, business or person who was against the C.O.S.
Nope, its just that the "journalist" from Wired doesn't know any better. I doubt the overlap between the people who raided that forum and people who picketed Scientology is more than a few percent.
every 12 year old pale, acne faced, friendless loser who thinks that they are
"angry" at the world calls themselves anonymous and assumes that they represent the anonymous community and they do not. The kind of people that do this trash are not who are anonymous; the problem is that because of the nature of the boards anyone can do stupid shit and just say oh btw twas anonymous. Just by acknowledging the name in respect to what one loser did fuels and perpetuates the idea of the so called "anonymous" being something more than a bunch of weirdos posting inside jokes on boards all day long. they are not a real threat and its sad how all these reports of late are portraying anonymous as this great force and a threat, ect..
a side note: this is a very sad state of affairs when someone gets kicks out of doing something like this. they are cancer of the human race and in good time they will get what is coming to them one way or another. injustice never goes unavenged. someday and in some way, it is set right.
You are all both correct and incorrect. You have to understand that Anonymous cannot be defined in quantity and that anyone can claim to be them. This is what Scientology has been doing lately. Next, if this was Anonymous, it was likely the original, for-the-corrupted-lulz Anonymous that resides in certain boards that decide, hey, let's make a prank!, rather than the reformed Anonymous protesting Scientology (which are most new to the group and probably aren't responsible for the DDoS in January. Also they are greatly detested by the original Anonymous, see dvsbstrd for example).
That being said, when Anonymous raids forums, it's to disrupt them first (for lulz) although not that I am aware to actually physically harm people. No one was hurt at Habbo, and they did help in the arrest of Chris Forcand and that kid with the stadium threats. I seriously doubt that either original or reformed/new anonymous had anything to do with.
tl;dr: Scientology probably did it.
Hello, I'm back. I'd like to follow up on my now erroneous post by informing you a chan did organize the effort in Anonymous' name (they wanted to "restore" their image).
4chan was not involved, 7chan tried to but was late.
99% of Anonymous disapproves of this action for the reasons I gave in my post above.
Remember Gordon in Batman Begins: We get Kevlar, they buy armor-piercing rounds.... if Anonymous becomes more heroic, the dissenters will resort to worse moves....
@rTwelve
"for-the-corrupted-lulz"
Corrupted lulz? Isn't that a bit double?