Anonymous Launches Attacks Against Russia and Pledges Support For Ukraine (msn.com) 73
A long-time Slashdot reader shares this report Friday from the Independent:
Hacking group Anonymous has said that it will support Ukraine in its fight against Russia, and has already claimed an attack on the state-controlled TV network Russia Today....
While the fight on the ground was happening, Russia Today's servers were taken offline. The broadcaster has been criticised for putting out "propaganda" to the extent that the UK government has asked media regulator Ofcom to review its output. Anonymous claimed credit for the attack, posting on Twitter that it took down the "propaganda station... in response to Kremlin's brutal invasion".
The group did not respond to The Independent's request for comment.
At the time of the tweet RT was briefly unavailable, before returning online without images. Currently, the broadcaster is online and appears to be operating as normal. "After the statement by Anonymous, RT's websites became the subject of a massive DDoS attack from nearly 100 million devices, mostly based in the US", RT told The Independent in a statement.
"Due to the hack there were temporary website access limitations for some users, yet RT promptly resolved these issues...."
Due to the nature of the Anonymous group, it can sometimes be difficult to verify their attacks as anyone can claim to be a member of the community without revealing their identity.
Early Friday morning Anonymous also tweeted that "The Russian Ministry of Defense website is down."
While the fight on the ground was happening, Russia Today's servers were taken offline. The broadcaster has been criticised for putting out "propaganda" to the extent that the UK government has asked media regulator Ofcom to review its output. Anonymous claimed credit for the attack, posting on Twitter that it took down the "propaganda station... in response to Kremlin's brutal invasion".
The group did not respond to The Independent's request for comment.
At the time of the tweet RT was briefly unavailable, before returning online without images. Currently, the broadcaster is online and appears to be operating as normal. "After the statement by Anonymous, RT's websites became the subject of a massive DDoS attack from nearly 100 million devices, mostly based in the US", RT told The Independent in a statement.
"Due to the hack there were temporary website access limitations for some users, yet RT promptly resolved these issues...."
Due to the nature of the Anonymous group, it can sometimes be difficult to verify their attacks as anyone can claim to be a member of the community without revealing their identity.
Early Friday morning Anonymous also tweeted that "The Russian Ministry of Defense website is down."
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Says the coward.
Don't propagate AC BS Subjects (Score:2)
Pretty please? With sugar on it?
'Nuff said.
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Hey man, are you okay? Maybe you should go see a therapist, that type of thinking isn't normal or healthy. I think you need help, and I mean that sincerely.
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we spend millions of dollars in america to watch torture movies like saw and slasher flicks.
go and mod me OT if you must, but i just needed to point out that fact.
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American horror movies are morality plays packaged in blood
The victims used to be randy teens looking to have sex, but have progressed in movies like Saw to any variety of jerks who deserved what they got
The ultimate point here is that the liberal celebrities that the original poster hopes to see abused are NOT the immoral ones.
The original poster themselves (with the own self-hatred twisted towards others) would make far more appropriate targets, much as seeing wanna-be Napoleon (aka lil'bitch putin) duped
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we spend millions of dollars in america to watch torture movies like saw and slasher flicks.
Which are works of fiction. Film is just another medium for storytelling, and real humans aren't actually being harmed when you write a fictional story with characters that get tortured.
Or, as you'd tell a child who just saw some shocking things on television, it's make-believe for grownups.
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Please don't feed the troll. The same text, or essentially so, has been posted to dozens of /. threads, and it has been off-topic in every one. Considering it is always posted as AC, the person or people posting it are not interested in real interaction or feedback. Their goal is just to wind people up.
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I'm also not really sure what he's trying to (repeatedly) say. The post indicates an extreme lack of respect and understanding of Marines more than anything else. Does the poster really think Marines would do anything like that, as Marines? Seems antithetical to the vows they take to protect the Country, its people and The Constitution. The premise isn't "simple" it's stupid.
You want President Trump to be beaten? (Score:2)
.. I mean he was best buddy with Jeff (Eppstein) .. perhaps the same taste for pussy grabbing action.
When you now ask yourself what has this to do with what you'd written?
-> Yeah that same idea came to my mind after reading yours.
Btw. perhaps you need to be reminded by that asshole that confirmed Vlads action on Ukraine to be "brilliant" .. yeah you should try to beat that liberal.
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ah, welcome vlad it is nice to see that the troll-farm got enough connectivity to keep trolling
You do realize that the whole 'Ukes are killing people just for speaking Russian" meme is complete twaddle
Re: "The Beating of a Liberal" (Score:1)
Russian websites better look out! (Score:1)
Anonymous is on the scene. Here to deface websites in useless acts of "defiance".
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Re: Russian websites better look out! (Score:2)
That being said, taking a Russian media outlet offline is a pretty insignificant move. Now, if they had taken control of it and used it to spread information that Putin didn't want, it would have been a much larger accomplishment. But frankly speaking, most of the t
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I guess what im saying is im hopeful that people will do much more than take over sites, get into russian banks, other russian business servers, and destroy what they can, transfer funds and worse
Re: Russian websites better look out! (Score:1)
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The Anonymous posting I saw intimated their goal is to expose lil'bitch putin's secrets to the whole world to see
I, for one, would like to see a dump of puties off shore holdings
c'mon Anon Show us what you got!
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Now, if they had taken control of it and used it to spread information that Putin didn't want, it would have been a much larger accomplishment.
You mean something like this? [metro.co.uk]
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To normal people, yes, but Putin is a dictator who hates being made fun of or embarrassed. Like Jinping in China getting all huffy about people just mentioning him in conjunction with Winnie the Pooh. The day the Russian state run media channel runs a cartoon of Putin giving a BJ to Zelensky, he'll lose his shit (and he is probably such a psychopath that he'll have a hundred Ukrainian kindergartners lined up against a wall and shot as a consequence, but the world needs to understand what they're dealing w
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As usual it's about natural resources. [youtu.be] Just like people claimed with American aggression.
Putin may be on shaky ground (Score:5, Interesting)
To normal people, yes, but Putin is a dictator who hates being made fun of or embarrassed.
There's a theory running around that says Putin has become politically weak, and is invading Ukraine in an attempt to bolster his support (among many other reasons).
There are protestors in Moscow objecting to the Ukraine war, Ukraine didn't roll over quickly like Afghanistan did, and the invasion is costing a lot more than Putin expected. Ukraine claims to have shot down 6 planes, at least two of which are the really expensive ones. Ukraine has a boatload of Javelin missiles, which have apparently been 1-shot/1-kill against tanks in the region. Ukraine has completely destroyed at least 1 column of Russian tanks. UK has sent in missiles, and Germany has just now agreed to give Ukraine 1000 antitank missiles and 500 stingers (antiaircraft). 1200 Russian tanks are invading, against 900 Ukrainian tanks total in the country.
Ukraine has managed to hold out against the invading forces, and has the advantage of defense and terrain.
If Ukraine can hold out indefinitely, it just may happen that Putin loses enough political support to lose his position in Russia.
So yeah, any help Ukraine gets is a good thing, and Ukraine can still win with a bit of luck.
Re: Putin may be on shaky ground (Score:2)
I think that's exactly right, and it wouldn't surprise me if Putin finds himself a polonium chaser mixed into his evening highball sometime soon. I hadn't heard about the javelins from Germany before you mentioned them. Putin is about to lose a whole lot if tanks.
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I would *dearly* love to see Ukraine hold their own. I'd also like to see NATO do what's right and bloody some soviet noses.
I fear neither will happen.
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Another concurrence. Near as I can tell so far Putin has accomplished nothing except to motivate ALL of Russia's neighbors to join NATO ASAP.
I was skeptical that Ukraine could stop him, but I'm also skeptical that Putin can afford a long campaign. I think Putin lacks the financial and political resources required for a sustained war. Maybe he got overconfident after winning a couple of small ones? But he forgot about the Winter War against Finland and also forgot that Ukraine is much bigger than Afghanistan
Re: Russian websites better look out! (Score:1)
The CIA and such have long understood that cloaking ops under such is easy. No real anonymous are reacting quite yet. Heck at the height of anon you basically saw every intel agency enacting attacks.
Take your meds boomer.
The group did not respond to The Independent (Score:2)
Maybe you should contact their spokesman that you find on their website?
"..anyone can claim to be a member of the community without revealing their identity"
That's insane? how can you run a company like that?
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Giving it a name makes it sound like an organization, but it's not. It's basically the collective id of a segment of the Internet.
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Say what?
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afaic they can simply be a construct set up as a form of plausible deniability for the Five Eyes to perform leaks against the likes of putin
It would be sweet to see a thorough dump on putin since they already seem to have the military channels cracked
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(because the "right" supports Russia and is against conflict).
Only because of influences from a former president who likely slept through every history class he's ever taken. I'm sure he wouldn't be too thrilled if Spain suddenly decided they wanted Florida back.
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while 4chan became "right" (because the "right" supports Russia and is against conflict).
In America, the "Right" has stopped supporting Russia.
Technically they never really cared either way, they just wanted to oppose Biden in anything he does.
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Anonymous is pretty much literal: when someone doesn't want to claim responsibility for their actions, they claim that they're part of "Anonymous." Yes, it started from 4chan (since everyone on 4chan posts as "anonymous") but it's since been used by other groups that essentially came together for a single campaign and then left.
It's not "real" in that there is no Anonymous HQ and there are no "permanent" members of Anonymous. It's just a banner people fly under.
Which means that if "Anonymous" manages to do
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(because the "right" supports Russia and is against conflict).
I have some news for you. "right" opposes direct military confrontation with US, because that would likely trigger nuclear apocalypse. Not wanting to risk nuclear war is not the same thing as supporting Russia.
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Re: Does anonymous actually exist? (Score:2)
Those shirts sure aged well.
Yes and no. (Score:2)
Anonymous exists as the result of a new story that aired explaining it's existence which was really just mistaking 4chan pranksters for something they weren't. This gave birth to the concept of Anonymous leading to people desiring to copy the reported vigilante behavior which much to the displeasure of 4chan pranksters because they had no interest in being vigilantes. There were so many people on 4chan desiring to perform online vigilante acts that they dwarfed the pranksters. This was the first instance
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This is a very simple version of events, and is pretty much correct. As for the activist side of things, that really started with the Message to Scientology video being uploaded to YouTube.
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It's interesting to see that "Anonymous" is still "left" (because the "left" supports Ukraine and western aggression) while 4chan became "right" (because the "right" supports Russia and is against conflict).
This is a dumb hot take.
https://thehill.com/homenews/a... [thehill.com]
Sixty-four percent of registered voters in the survey said Biden is “too lenient” with Russia, while 31 percent said he handles Moscow “just right.” Five percent said he’s “too tough.”
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lol, nice spin vlad
btw, nobody is buying the neo-nazis are running Ukraine meme
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Come the fuck on, Boris.
The 50 rubles you're paid a week for this shit isn't worth anything anymore. It's time to find a new job.
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Other people wrote about the importance of the neo-nazis in 2014 so maybe it is time you at least learned of their existence https://consortiumnews.com/201... [consortiumnews.com]
Maybe you could argue they are not very important. I certainly don't believe they control everything so it would be a discussion over amounts.
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There's also no question that they did not go on to run the government, because they were never a majority player of that uprising (other than the fact that one of its chief paramilitary leaders was a former neo-nazi).
The claim that the country is now run by neo-nazis is fucking laughable. The idea that the populace supports neo-nazis is fuck
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And you are not aware that the link I sent you was written by that journalist?
Face it, to you a critical journalist is simply a russian stooge.
Actually I had forgotten Pravda still existed.
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Face it, to you a critical journalist is simply a russian stooge.
Face it, to you a russian stooge is indistinguishable from a critical journalist.
Of course, back in reality, someone can be both. Nobody's perfect, but this asshat has argued that Putin's hands are clean for basically the last 2 decades of terrible shit that Russia has done.
Actually I had forgotten Pravda still existed.
Who needs it when we can get Americans to parrot it?
Your guy claims that neo-nazis "spearheaded" Euromaiden. They were involved, for sure. It was a popular uprising.
As for spear
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Do you know what "literally" means? it means that that was what you said. Right after I pointed out the problem in what you said.
And of course the role of the nazis in 2014 was minimized: it was treated as 'Russian claims'. It is only gradually that the claims retreated to "yes but only involved in a good way". That seems to be about where you are at. Those who think differently obviously are still "parroting Russia" , that hasn't changed.
Parry was an excellent journalist till his death actually.
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I hope you are just being intentionally dense and not as stupid as you come across, it could get really tiring on your family
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Do you know what "literally" means? it means that that was what you said. Right after I pointed out the problem in what you said.
literally: adverb;
in a literal manner or sense; exactly.
I didn't say it was what I said, I said it was my point. That's correct usage of the word. If you're gonna grammar nazi- at least be correct.
And of course the role of the nazis in 2014 was minimized: it was treated as 'Russian claims'. It is only gradually that the claims retreated to "yes but only involved in a good way".
Nobody said "in a good way".
That's just you trying to smear the intentions of anyone who was on the same side of the Neo-Nazis.
It's disingenuous, and frankly pathetic.
Those who think differently obviously are still "parroting Russia" , that hasn't changed.
No, those who try to claim that the fact that neo-nazis were involved in an uprising somehow paints the resulting revolution are parroting Russ
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It does seem that Anonymous has no control over its agenda and is easily infiltrated by groups with any other agenda.
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"aiding Neo-Nazis in their violent overthrow of the democratically-elected government in the Ukraine": Don't forget the part about installing a new President who is a Jew. I'm sure the Neo-Nazis did that.
And don't forget Poe's Law...
Go Get'Em Anonymous : ) (Score:2)
Maybe a better approach (Score:2)
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Maybe, but doesn't that also cut the Russian citizens who oppose Putin off as well?
Maybe worth it, but I think we'll want people on the inside getting relevant info as well, and dispersing locally.
Um. My Grandma Launches attack on AARP (Score:1)
Anyone in the know, knows that anonymous became a cover for covert ops of like every country who has internet access.
It's an easy explanation as to why or who carried out an attack.
Anons are not stupid you don't announce Jack shit until AFTER your target is compromised.
World governments have simply appropriated the stuff as it is easy and provides a layer or denial.
Anons are active to be sure. But they won't announce until w00t.
This is propaganda.
For heavens sake my grandma can claim the same.
Take down the electricity supply of Russian cities (Score:2)
This is the way to destroy Putin's credibility. Losing the power grid of Moscow and St Petersburg would make life seriously nasty.
PS - are our power grids truly resistant to such attacks?
Anonymous ... (Score:2)
Anonymous are Technoliberalist [wikipedia.org] so it is obvious they would go against an authoritarian dictator like Putin.
Tit for tat (Score:1)