@AbaraXas Color me particularly unimpressed.
You've never followed their attacks on ISIS have you? Operation Ice ISIS. They've had multiple ISIS websites taken down and Twitter accounts removed.
Seriously? Identifying ISIS sites and getting them removed from their hosts? People do the same thing for "offensive" Facebook accounts. All it takes as a whiny email to Facebook.
If they are performing attacks, I'm equally unimpressed. A DOS attack on a third-rate outfit's bathroom server is hardly an accomplishment. If I went looking for ISIS sites, performing a DOS on them would be trivial. Sounds like the only real requirement here is the ability to speak Farsi or read Arabic so you can identify ISIS content. Since most of us don't, we can't participate.
Chalk this one up under "internet mischief 101."
They also have a campaign called Operation Death Eater and Op Dark Net that takes out child pornographers and websites and has netted many arrests.
While this is a good thing, it's also not anything particularly impressive. I personally did this once myself.
I started receiving "you should die you sick f$%k" email responses in my inbox years ago - all to an email that had spoofed my email addy as the return address. Child porn. Did some registration research and discovered they had "borrowed" some poor lady's identity in KY as the registrant. Went deeper. Researched the email header... did some tracerouting... etc... found the origin server in London. Worked with the FBI and the ISP in England to nab 'em.
So, in summary - good on them - but it's nothing earth shattering to take down a kiddie porn operation. The way they talk, it's always like they are going to "change the world" with their actions.
They were able to hack white nationalist Hal Turner's computer and expose that he was making threats against judges, resulting in his arrest.
Never heard of this, nor do I particularly think the case is high profile enough to make a spit of difference. My guess - they social engineered this one and put an "Anonymous" bow on it to make it seem like they were l33t h4x0rs. But that's just a guess.
They hacked and leaked the Church of Scientology's internal documents exposing their financial scams and how they manipulate people.
Whaaaaaaaaat? The Church of Scientology is a financial scam and they manipulate people???? NO WAY!!!!
Anonymous Iran has been getting out information about their torture of political prisoners and other abuses for years.
Whaaaaaaaaat? The Iranian government tortures political prisoners???? NO WAY!!!!
They hacked several high ranking Russian officials email accounts and exposed they were paying the press for favorable stories. Several Kremlin members had to resign.
Damn Russian hackers interfering in elections again.
For the record, Anonymous didn't have squat to do with the "election hacks" this time around.
They exposed sexual and physical abuse at the Judge Rotenberg Center including hacking security videos and internal documents. Several directors resigned and as well as some were arrested.
Again, never heard of it. Maybe they did this, but it is small fish for an organization that wears the V for Vendetta masks.
Well you can't catch a big fish, you make sure your fish stories about the small ones are EPIC. (Where is the Epstein Island video of Bill with a minor Anonymous claimed to have? Oh yeah... did you SEE the whopper I caught over at the Judge Rotenberg Center pond?)
Like I've said, Anonymous is very diverse. There are many factions within the group doing a lot of good. A lot of bad, but also a lot of good.
Meh. They are revolutionary wannabes who have had some successes, but probably only because they went after soft targets. Let's hear a hard target get hacked.
