Behind the Hacks: The Origins of Anonymous | Cyberwar

Meeting the FBI spy at a bar to confirm that anonymous are, in fact, anonymous, is brilliant.

"everyone has rights or I don't have rights." Fckn gold right there

5:08 "scentogy cured my dislexia" 😂

The problem with trying to pin down Anonymous is that it’s not REALLY an organized group. There is a core of high level hackers that interact with one another, but it’s closer to a movement than a singular organization.

Nobody cares about hackers until someone wealthy loses money

Moral to the story.The state will go to any length to continue it's self appointed right to carry out their daily vile activities and their corporate enablers.

I used to be part of Anonymous while ago. We were a movement that was structured by a process, we were never an organisation. I still don't know anyone by names, we all used username, P2P channels, we had to collaborate on tasks that we believe they helped humanity in general and that was the only common thing. We voted on many things to avoid any bias in many decisions and that's pretty much it from my experience. I used to be part of operations in WikiLeaks about the Arab spring, the Israeli occupation, and US elections.

"There are "authorized" ways that people can protest." Spoken like a true authoritarian.

to be clear: this episode is from during/before 2020. hammond was released Nov 2020

This program should be an hour long.

“there are ways of protests that we allow and disrupting corporations is not one of them” -former FBI man

A DDoS attack doesn't necessarily crash a service, it simply floods it with noisy data so that the service cannot process legitimate data

Just for a note. At 4:20, the point of the black faxes was so it would use all of the ink in the fax machine. It's funny and kinda genius.

"you can't jail an idea"

"Ideas are bulletproof" -Vendetta

An "authorized protest" is not a protest, lol.

Shawn Henry recommends legal avenues of cyber protesting. I've tried protesting a local smelter and raising awareness to the danger of toxic metal fumes and Ring, the doorbell camera company, took down my posts and wrote that their service was not to be used for political purposes. Public Health should never be political.

With the camera angles, those railroad tracks and that crossing, the fact Vice straight up gave his country of origin away (he said Canada, not me), it would be incredibly easy to pin Bio down. For a hacker he should probably know better. Makes me think Vice slapped a bandana on a kid and told him to start talking hacker.

The pizzas and black faxes is just gold.

We need a part 2!