Behind the Hacks: The Origins of Anonymous | Cyberwar

The notorious hacktivist collective Anonymous has targeted everyone from PayPal to the FBI. So who are the people behind the group?

This episode of Cyberwar first aired on VICE TV in 2016.

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[jeremybistline]

Nobody cares about hackers until someone wealthy loses money

[Yerpyerp]

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

[BryantAvant]

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

[kingnaga]

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.

[Sjalabais]

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

[bonghead]

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.

[cLevoSteamer]

5:08 "scentogy cured my dislexia" 😂😂

[ytpaul]

"Ideas are bulletproof"

-Vendetta

[jibrish]

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

[davidnelson]

The lack of eye contact is strong in these interviewees

[SpencerRoberg]

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

[MikeNBikes]

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.

[nephibarrera]

"you can't jail an idea"

[sabebarker]

This is from their Cyberwar series and is quite old, seems many people don't know that. All episodes are a must watch!

[MysticScapes]

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.

[gerade-aus]

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.

[ricksgrandauditorium]

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.

[AnEntityBrowsingYT]

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

[StevieCooper]

Org’s like Anonymous are absolutely needed to defend regular citizens

[jonnyquest]

"The 90's called and it wants it's fkn security vulnerabilities back" hahahah