But who’re they?
Anonymous are a collection of activists whose essential intention is to target established order hypocrisy.
The group first shot to attention in 2008 while a copyrighted scientology video starring tom cruise become leaked on youtube.
Nameless released allotted denial-of-carrier attacks towards scientology web sites in retaliation, after the church requested for the video to be taken down.
They swiftly started out the use of on line assaults as a form of nonviolent protest and through 2010, it became launching regular distributed denial-of-provider assaults against web sites in guide of copyright.
Assange attacks
Anonymous turned into instrumental in assisting wikileaks chief, julian assange, whilst credit score card processors credit card and visa blocked payments to the anti-secrecy web page, following the release of lots of mystery u.S. Authorities cables in 2010.
They ‘launched’ a low orbit ion cannon (loic) tool, which allowed everybody to take part in ddos attacks on designated websites.
How are they known?
Anonymous are recognized by means of their black-and-white guy fawkes mask used to hide their identification in public.
They are also famend for his or her sign-off: ‘knowledge is unfastened. We’re anonymous. We’re legion. We do not forgive. We take into account. Count on us.’
We are #anonymous, we are legion, we do no longer forgive, we recollect, assume us percent.Twitter.Com/xweqlufng9
— nameless (@anonrrd) november 16, 2015
War on isis
Even though nameless surely don’t have ‘boots on the floor’ to wage a real war in opposition to isis, what they do have is the power and ability to intercept isis via the net.
This weekend, anonymous declared ‘warfare’ on isis in a video posted to youtube.
Make no mistake: #anonymous is at struggle with #daesh. We might not forestall opposing #islamicstate. We are additionally better hackers. #opisis
— anonymous (@groupanon) november 15, 2015
Within the video, the nameless representative can be heard saying: ‘anonymous from all around the world will hunt you down. You should recognize that we are able to discover you and we can no longer assist you to go. We are able to release the biggest operation ever against you.’
‘the french humans are more potent than you and will come out of this atrocity even stronger.’