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Lol this is hilarious. I don't know which "anonymous" they spoke to, but it definitely wasn't the actual subversionist hackers that know how to do shit.

Anonymous, if you are going to do it, PLEASE make sure to leave the innocent people alone and go after the rich assholes that are doing this.

Other than that, here's my axe, go wild

Can they do something useful like destroy the debt infrastructure and delete all student loans and medical bills?

Aren’t they kind of notorious for empty promises?

Hacker fashion tip: while wearing your guy fox mask, match it with a Luigi hat.

Exploit it you say? Please get in line behind the russians, the chinese snd pretty much all arab countries

Anything supposedly said by "Anonymous" as a hacker group should always be treated with immense skepticism.

There do exist somewhat legitimate sub-factions that actually take serious actions and do serious ops, and also semi-legitimate "outlets" for their statements... but there's also an overwhelming amount of smokescreen bullshit "anon news outlets" and little script kiddies running around. It's important/intentional that those continue existing as smoke screen for the more "serious" factions.

Beyond that, being an anonymous group with no real methods of confirming membership to outsiders (insiders can just check if you're in the private IRCs and etc) it means that just about anyone and everyone can make some big declaration like this. The proof will be in the results, not some announcement that could be made by a rando.

All that said, there's convincing and considerable evidence (collected by Krebs) that members of Elon's DOGE group have background in the actual hacking ops spaces.

No matter who is really making these threats/warnings, I think things are going to get pretty dire in the US government IT space. It's been well known for decades that most government orgs have absolutely abysmal cyber security, and now you have a bunch of young adult tech-bros with no true accountability running roughshod over all of it. Then there's the fact that more than one of them have "serious black hat hacker" backgrounds.

Going to be one wild ride.

This is kinda what trump wants. If the government cant handle "online stuff" they can pitch privatization. It hurts more if tech megacorps get hacked. Though at this point I wou'd laugh if a bunch of internet nerds got the nuclear codes or locked up a bunch of satellites

Tomorrow

Trump: By executive order, I dismantle the computer warfare and defence division

Musk: It doesn't exist anymore!

The day after

Anonymous: They turned off their service that sanitized all inputs. We just stole everything from every department, and put cats on every governments webpage.

It'll take 40 years to fix the damage he'll do in 4.

By all means do. It's not like much of value is lost at this point.

I will believe it when I see it this is likely just talk.

Then do it

Do it, attack America's life points directly.

Ah, Anonymous—the digital equivalent of a fart in a hurricane. Trump’s America? Weakness isn’t new—it’s baked into the propaganda circus we’ve called democracy since Reagan. You think script kiddies and Elon’s crypto-bros “hacking fascism” will fix anything? Please. The real op is watching tech oligarchs and politicians collude while we argue about which flavor of dystopia we’re slurping.

Infrastructure attacks? Bold move, Cotton. Let’s see how it works out when grandma’s dialysis machine gets bricked by some edgelord’s Python script. If you want revolution, stop fetishizing IRC nostalgia and touch grass. Until then, this is just digital graffiti on a burning trash barge.

Will it be like when they launched a load of DDoS attacks against Sony, of which the only impact was annoying regular people and doing nothing to the company they were supposedly going after?

Anytime I see something about "Anonymous" I just assume it's some kind of fed psyop until proven otherwise.

They're all talk and no bite. The world needs fsociety

As much and as little that anonymous means, because of the name, because of what the name implies, because of what they do, claim they do, and well, we don't know what they do... As much as all of that is true, it's AWESOME to hear from them again, if it is them...

I can't wait to see "real" anonymous actions again, lord knows we can use it

Well I hope they choose their targets right, otherwise it'll just make everything worse.