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Hackers on Steroids? A True Inside Look at the "Internet Hate Machine," Anonymous

Despite the fact that anyone who can say the phrase "Hackers on steroids" with a straight face is so full of shit their eyes are brown, it's my job to put these imbeciles in their place. A few days ago, Fox 11 from Los Angeles had a "Fox Investigates" segment regarding Anonymous, the collective faceless entity that's, ironically, the true face of the internet. In this waste of airtime, they made several shocking claims, complete with spooky music, dramatic voice, and randomly exploding vans for filler. You can watch this for yourself here.

What they claim: Anonymous is a group of "Hackers on steroids."

I shouldn't have to debunk this point because of how absurd it is, but if I followed that standard then I wouldn't have an article to write.

I sincerely doubt that any Anons (plural, shorthand form of Anonymous) have ever used steroids in the same sense that I sincerely doubt that most Anons have ever lifted weights or played sports (aside from the mandatory ones in PE class throughout Elementary School).

Furthermore, I doubt that steroids will do anything to benefit ones ability to hack anything.

What they claim: Anonymous treats the web like a real-life video game.
"Real-life video game." Seriously? Eat shit.

This alleged video game of yours; who's the final boss? If Anonymous truly treated the internet like a video game, I very much doubt there would be any eCommerce. Or blogs for that matter. Based on the RPG threads I've read, most Anons are power-levelers and would stop at nothing to get to Lv. 99 as soon as possible.

The fact that we still have an internet is proof that this is bullshit. It's not a lack of ability on their part (trust me on this), it's a lack of motive.

What they claim: Anonymous is a gang of computer hackers.
Correction: Anonymous is a large group of bored young adults who have a very dark sense of humor. Only one in ten of them have enough knowledge in computer science to even label themselves as a "hacker" without criticism, and those ones don't because real hackers don't represent themselves as such.
What they claim: Anonymous attacks innocent people.
Innocent people like the racist radio host Hal Turner and Islamic terrorist forums? (Image of an ex-Anon named Alex Wuori snitching on this raid, who also said on President Ahmadinejad's blog, "We need someone strong like you to stand up the big bully of the world. We need someone like you to unite the middle east against the imperialism of America. The world needs you, Ahmadinejad. You must not falter.")

Yeah, Klansmen, the President of Iran, and real Terrorists. How dare you, Anonymous. You should be ashamed of yourself.

What they claim: Anonymous has even threatened to bomb sport games.
No. An imbecile named Jake Brahm posted terrorist threats on various image boards stating that he was going to detonate dirty bombs at sports events. That had nothing to do with Anonymous; just a failure of a man who tried to use websites frequented by Anonymous to spread terror threats.

In the video, this is followed by Wuori's mom saying, "I believe they're domestic terrorists" and a "demonstration" (also known as useless filler) of a yellow van exploding for no apparent reason. Great job on that news reporting, Fox!

What they claim: Their name comes from their "secret websites."
The best secret websites are the ones that turn up as the number one result on every search engine, right?
What they claim: Myspace users are among their favorite targets.
I have to admit: There's nothing more satisfying than a long day of harassing terrorists and racist bigots than hacking some 15 year-old emo kid's myspace and posting up pictures of gay porn that I have on my hard drive for a reason I can't remember right now. (That's sarcasm in case you mouth-breathers couldn't tell.)

On a serious note, you can't blame Anonymous for the actions of a few members. That's just stupid. Besides: Their accounts did not get hacked, they got phished. The teenager they interviewed in the video claims Anonymous got his password 7 times. This begs the question: How stupid do you have to be to fall for the same phishing bullshit seven times?!

Then the poor bastard blames Anonymous for his girlfriend breaking up with him. It's not Anonymous, it's you. You have no one to blame but yourself and your own incompetence, dickhead!

What they claim: Anonymous crashed someone's computer with a virus.
Great idea: Blame Anonymous for the virus you got from looking at hentai sites. I gotta hand it to you kid, you're damn good at bluffing to get out of trouble with your parents and/or girlfriend.
What they claim: Anonymous gets big "lulz" from pulling random pranks.
Who doesn't enjoy a good prank? This one time when my friend Roswell was working at Sears he went out to collect shopping carts while I was there and I found a strip of security tags. I put one on every cart (and 4 on the one with the baby carrier) in a different, obscured location. They spent two months finding them all.

Then I applied for a job there.

What they claim: Anonymous enjoys raiding Habbo Hotel, an online children's game
Oops! Look like Fox's investigators forgot to read the demographic charts: Most of Habbo Hotel's users are 20 year olds looking for sex. The raid in question was in response to Habbo moderators discriminately banning users for being black.

How very cruel of you, Anonymous.

It's been said that you shouldn't believe everything you see on TV. Damn straight.
Modified: August 27, 2007 3:39 pmCreated: July 30, 2007 8:08 am
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