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Anyone here anon sympathizers?

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Anyone here anonymous?

I like the whole idea of being anonymous on the internet and speaking with like minds in an effort to help bring this country back to the greatness it once was. Any suggestions on how to learn more?

Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is an Internet meme that originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.[2] It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known.[3]
In its early form, the concept has been adopted by a decentralized online community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner, usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal, and primarily focused on entertainment. Beginning with 2008, the Anonymous collective has become increasingly associated with collaborative, international hacktivism, undertaking protests and other actions, often with the goal of promoting internet freedom and freedom of speech. Actions credited to "Anonymous" are undertaken by unidentified individuals who apply the Anonymous label to themselves as attribution
 
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Anon as in Anonymous the anarchic internet-identity meme right? Affiliations with lulzsec and all that?
 
I think Anonymous in particular is just a school of thought that anyone can subscribe to. No real core to Anonymous, it's just a title.

Lulzsec was an actual group of 6 people who acted in total stealth, who's sole purpose essentially seemed to be to show off their hacking prowess by fucking with high-profile corporations like Sony and the CIA.

I don't sympathise with them at all since they're basically crusaders out to massage their own egos, conveniently under the ethical justification of 'exposing security flaws'. Although they have indeed exposed a lot of security flaws, there's no doubting they were doing it for the sheer thrill of it.

It seems they disbanded half a year ago though. Two of them have actually been arrested.
 
I don't think you even have to be a hacker.

It's as simple as me saying as of now, I'm a member of Anonymous.

But in all honesty that's just missing the point, in the same sort of way that a vegan in a steakhouse 'misses the point'.
 
No, to be Anon you need to just declare that you're Anon. Ideally you would subscribe to most of the core philosophy of the group, but there is no real criteria. IMO, to be an 'active' member you would need to become a member of the botnet as well, but I don't know if they're still doing that.

Also: rule number 1. C'mon people.
 
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