• ArgentRaven@lemmy.world
    157·
    3 months ago

    A lot of the actual, serious ones that knew what they were doing got caught. Some went to lulsec to be jerks with no agenda and were caught by the Feds. All that was left were script kiddies that downloaded the Low Orbit Ion Cannon and used scripts they find online. Then they left or were overtaken by alt right idiots.

    The original Anonymous are in their 30s and 40s by now. Everyone ages out.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      148·
      3 months ago

      90s script kiddie here - a bunch of the shit you can do as a minor with low/no consequences becomes SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS as an adult with assets. It’s just not worth the risk to keep dicking around with things that might land you in prison or cost you everything you have.

    • Bobby Turkalino
      29·
      3 months ago

      I think the serious ones that didn’t get caught are now working in red team penetration testing, which is an industry that’s been growing exponentially since the years Anonymous did a lot of their big stuff

    • Elude@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Where did they get the name LOIC from in the first place?

      The only place I am aware of, that uses this name, was the Unreal Tournament 2004.

  • Kcap@lemmy.world
    41·
    3 months ago

    Not gonna dig through their Twitter feed, but I saw someone a couple months ago ask them this exact question on one of their posts, and they wrote a pretty interesting response. They basically said, we’re still here, trying to fuck the system up, but, with all the information we’ve provided and ported out there to the world, y’all haven’t done dick with it. Laws haven’t been passed, politicians haven’t been ousted, corporations are still abusing the systems. So they were basically saying, what good is them leaking and hacking if the public doesn’t take a more activist approach towards change themselves and hold the people they expose accountable.

    • Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
      8·
      3 months ago

      Well if I knew how to take down sites and child porn site I totally would. Just don’t know what to study and probably don’t want to be another computer cracker using programs found online.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    3 months ago

    They fizzled out, members probably moved on to various other groups and projects, while the rest simply went on with their lives. A danger of being decentralized is losing all of your momentum.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        3 months ago

        The other commenter is more right, anyway. A lot of the dudes got arrested. I think the chances of that are low here, for now.

  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
    355·
    3 months ago

    “They” got over it, as most people do, and moved on. Remnants still remain, but they were unified due to a critical mass of dissent.

    Don’t expect to see anything like it again until another critical inflection point. Just know that, if you do, shit’s prolly in a bad place…so…

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      3 months ago

      I think that’s a book I have been searching for a long time since I first read it in a library a good time ago

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          3 months ago

          Then it must be the book. I remember it as a sort of documentary narrative about events that happened at lulzsec that could be more or less adapted to film

      • nutsack@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        doxing work is very boring. much of it is thousands of hours sifting through the lamest social media content you can imagine.

  • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1918·
    3 months ago

    They (I use that term to mean the average 4channer) were co-opted by alt right propaganda.

    Most neckbeard, incel, Andrew Tate followers are what Anon originally was. We just lied to ourselves that it wasn’t really racist and that we were fighting a good fight.

    Now, its a bunch of sad lonely people that found acceptance in intolerance and hatred.