Public Face of Anonymous Leaves Group 191
Gunkerty Jeb writes "Barrett Brown, the reporter who became a media-friendly spokesperson for the shadowy hacking group Anonymous, says that he is quitting the group in the wake of a public feud that has broken out between different hacker factions within the loosely organized collective."
namefag != Anonymous (Score:0, Insightful)
namefag != Anonymous
fuck off Barrett Brown, we won't miss you
Re:it used to be fun (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:it used to be fun (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not sure what a "newfag" is, but I agree, there's been a lot of people spouting stuff like "Anyone can be Anonymous", "how can anyone deny it was Anonymous, when Anonymous is my cat", etc. recently, clearly they don't know anything about Anonymous.
Maybe Anonymousnwill go back to being anonymous? (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe Anonymous will go back to it's roots instead of having "leaders" and "spokespeople".
Hmm, maybe I should have posted anonymously. :)
Re:Someone is encouraging the dissension (Score:5, Insightful)
it's the boy who cried wolf syndrome: conspiracy theory is such a favorite currency of the low iq and not quite mentally sound crowd, that if an actual real conspiracy theory happens, no one will believe it
the effect of all the low iq and mentally deficient wack jobs constantly running around and crying wolf on conspiracies is to basically ensure that any rational and realistic consideration of an actual conspiracy theory is discounted up front
all those constantly babbling about conspiracy theories actually help conspiracy theories succeed, because they hide the tiny signals in a fountain of noise
i frequently laugh at and pour derision on conspiracy theory crack pots. however, i readily admit conspiracy theories are real. its just that they are exceedingly rare because they are so hard to pull off in airtight secrecy. but the dumber you are or the more mentally deranged you are, the more they seem likely, because your fear/ paranoia/ schizophrenia or dim perceptive abilities are unable to see just how incredibly hard an actual conspiracy theory is to actually pull off. how many ways it can fail, and continue to fail, long after the fact. how long has it been from the kennedy assassination. no one, NO ONE, the vast conspiracy has issued a peep about it, even accidentally? no one is still interested? come on! a lone asshole shot kennedy, not some mafia/ cia/ cuban/ whatever plot. occam's razor, my deluded friends, occam's razor
but conspiracy theories do have value in this world: entertainment. they are a frequent part of hollywood movies, because, like alien invasions or superheroes, they tickle our fancy. even though we know such things are impossible (well, those of us who are mentally sound realize superheros, aliens, and overarching vast conspiracies by secret black ops agencies are impossible)
please note conspiracy theory proponents: all the noise you dingbats constantly make about conspiracy theories, help to hide the actual real rare ones. not that that fact is going to change your behavior. because you're stupid and/ or deranged. but carry on, i need to laugh. yes, i know: the chemtrails from the government airplanes and the fluoridated water has completely turned me into a sheep. (giggle)
Re:Someone is encouraging the dissension (Score:5, Insightful)
Or they are a bunch of delusional thugs and the delusion is falling apart in the cold light of reality. It has to be big business and the government that wants to see anon fail?
Fail at what? Being mindless jerks that take there revenge on anybody the feel they can? Like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)#Epilepsy_Foundation_forum_invasion [wikipedia.org]
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)#No_Cussing_Club [wikipedia.org]
The attack on Sony is just the latest example. Anon was at it's best a gang of relatively harmless jerks. Now they are just dangerous jerks with delusions that they have a right to be judge, jury, and executioner.
Re:Someone is encouraging the dissension (Score:5, Insightful)
The French Socialist Party gets its best shot in 22 years [economist.com] of winning the Presidency and overthrowing a strongly pro-American regime. But a year before the election, their leading candidate, a guy with no criminal record in his 62 years who is leading by double digits in all the polls, suddenly decides to rape a maid in New York. That's quite a convenient coincidence for the United States and their friend Nicolas Sarkozy, no? That's right up their in convenience with Julian Assange deciding to become a serial rapist just a few weeks after leaking troves of secret U.S. State Department and Pentagon documents.
Isn't it nice when all your enemies decide to become rapists after they cross you?
Re:Someone is encouraging the dissension (Score:2, Insightful)
OBL had no skill set. His only value was his assets which were largely frozen within a month of the Sept 11th attacks. This the reason Bush's butt wasn't on fire about capturing OBL when asked about it in 2002... OBL, without his assets, was nothing more than a token member of Al Qaeda. Too bad most people don't see him for what he was.
And this isn't to take away from the recent killing of OBL. He still needed to go but he wasn't a significant threat once the groundwar started in Afganistan. If anything his best value would have been as a suicide bomber, a job normally reserved for unskilled jihadists.
Re:Someone is encouraging the dissension (Score:2, Insightful)
Dude, the CIA OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED doing this shit [google.com]! It's not like it's a censored secret!
The problem is with how brainwashed the US population are. Including many here at Slashdot.
You could tell them straight to their faces, that now they are being raped, insert your cock all the way, fuck around until it rips apart and they bleed, and they'd still form those fake-two-sides of the story:
A. "Those fuckin' fearmongers and lie-spreading anti-Americans who try to denounce our heroes!"
B. "Pardon me as I break my tin-foil hat out here. But the timing is almost too convenient. Don't hit me, for daring to even dream about thinking there might be a rape going on here."
NOBODY seems to ACTUALLY take on a opposing side. As if it were China, where that is banned. Just that nobody forced them. Which makes it even worse, as it means they actually believe it!
It's plainly obvious, that this is going on here: http://www.zpub.com/un/chomsky.html
Re:Someone is encouraging the dissension (Score:5, Insightful)
Overthrowing a strongly pro-American regime? Wow, you really don't know Sarkozy or the French very much. He's strongly pro-American only in the context of French foreign politics since de Gaulle, who was almost obsessed with throwing a wrench into American plans in Europe. Sarkozy likes America, but he also likes rich friends who host him during his vacations. The two go hand in hand for him.
As for DSK, he's apparently had a history of treating women in a less than gentlemanly fashion. The reason that DSK is the Socialists' best hope is because the others are intellectual lightweights (Segolene Royal, ugh) with no achievements to show for from a political perspective.
Re:Someone is encouraging the dissension (Score:3, Insightful)
Having them break up into smaller pieces is a good thing. Because you now have a bunch of small groups with limited resources, and more diverse motive. So there will be more smaller attacks which may more easily be thwarted. Vs. a large organization who can do more tactile large scale attacks.
These people are criminals. The fact that they are using computers to do their crimes doesn't excuse them. It is the same as breaking into a building. They are using "Oh we are protesting" nonsense to try to justify them acting as a criminal, the same way a bank robber justifies robbing the bank stating that the bank is just an evil organization and the money they steal will be covered by FDIC.
OMG a Video Game System (not even the most popular one) has dropped OS Support, This is worth an attack on a company? Seriously? Out of all the unjust things in the world to fight about this is the best you can do and put your resources on? Whats next Hack Wendy's because you don't like the taste of their new fries?
Re:Someone is encouraging the dissension (Score:5, Insightful)
how long has it been from the kennedy assassination. no one, NO ONE, the vast conspiracy has issued a peep about it, even accidentally?
Actually, E. Howard Hunt, one of the engineers of the Watergate break-in, audio recorded a confession on his death bed to his son. He also implicated Cord Meyer, Frank Sturgis, David SÃnchez Morales, William King Harvey, a French gunman who worked for the Mafia, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He could have made it up, I suppose, but he's hardly some crackpot. He's someone who would have been in a position to carry it out. And since it was a deathbed confession, there was no glory to be hounded.
But you're right. Nobody cares or this would have been a much bigger story. People have been conditioned to blindly reject anything that might even hint of a conspiracy theory.