• Ogmios
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      283 months ago

      I mean, it’s an unofficial ‘group’ so there’s no reason at all that these are even the same people who have used the name before.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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        233 months ago

        It is official it’s just that it’s membership and leadership isn’t.

        Anonymous is basically just a mask for greyhats to operate under when attacking targets who can backlash more specific groups.

        Would not be surprised at all if some anonymous hacks were committed by already known hacker collectives who knew they had something big but wanted to avoid retaliation.

        • Jo Miran
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          83 months ago

          greyhats

          I prefer the term “hacker activists” which can include blackhats, greyhats, and sometimes whitehats that get angry enough that, even if they do not actively participate in an attack, they can provide resources of all sorts.

        • Match!!
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          63 months ago

          Is there any difference between “the hacker group Anonymous” and “an anonymous hacker group” now?

          • @marzhall
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            33 months ago

            There never was, all the way back to day one. Any given “operation” may or may not have overlapped in membership. The name is literal, and always has been; but with it comes a set of meanings and tropes (the mask, “we will not forgive, we will not forget, we are legion”) that a given actor taking the name can invoke as a call to action for others, or use to simply mask their identity.

        • Ogmios
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          -43 months ago

          They’re almost certainly a sock puppet for state actors most of the time.