ANON OPS A Press Release - December 10, 2010 (subtitled)

Who is Anonymous
In their most recent public statement, WikiLeaks is the only group of people to identify Anonymous
correctly. Anonymous is not a group, but rather an Internet gathering.
Both Anonymous and the media that is covering it are aware of the percieved dissent between
individuals in the gathering. This does not, however, mean that the command structure of
Anonymous is failing for a simple reason: Anonymous has a very loose and decentralized command
structure that operates on ideas rather than directives.
We do not believe that a similar movement exists in the world today and as such we have to learn
by trial and error. We are now in the process of better communicating some core values to the
individual atoms that comprise Anonymous - we also want to take this opportunity to communicate
a message to the media, so that the average Internet Citizen can get to know who we are and what
we represent.
Anonymous is not a group of hackers. We are average Interent Citizens ourselves and our
motivation is a collective sense of being fed up with all the minor and major injustices we witness
every day.
We do not want to steal your personal information or credit card numbers. We also do not seek to
attack critical infrastructure of companies such as Mastercard, Visa, PayPal or Amazon. Our current
goal is to raise awareness about WikiLeaks and the underhanded methods employed by the above
companies to impair WikiLeaks' ability to function.
What is Operation: Payback
As stated above, the point of Operation: Payback was never to target critical infrastructure of any of
the companies or organizations affected. Rather than doing that, we focused on their corporate
websites, which is to say, their online "public face". It is a symbolic action - as blogger and
academic Evgeny Morozov put it, a legitimate expression of dissent.
The background to the attacks on PayPal and the calls to attack Amazon.com
Amazon, which was until recently WikiLeaks' DNS provider, was one of the first companies to drop
support for WikiLeaks. On December 9th, BusinessInsider.com reported that Amazon.co.uk were
hosting the recently leaked diplomatic cables in e-book form. (Amazon.co.uk has since ceased
selling the bundle of the diplomatic cables.)

After this piece of news circulated, parts of Anonymous on Twitter asked for Amazon.com to be targetted. The attack never occured.

While it is indeed possible that Anonymous may not have been able to take Amazon.com down in a
DDoS attack, this is not the only reason the attack never occured. After the attack was so advertised
in the media, we felt that it would affect people such as consumers in a negative way and make
them feel threatened by Anonymous. Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are
buying presents for their loved ones, would be in bad taste.
The continuing attacks on PayPal are already tested and preferable: while not damaging their ability
to process payments, they are successful in slowing their network down just enough for people to
notice and thus, we achieve our goal of raising awareness.

Category:

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Tags:

• anonymous operations
• operation payback
• wikileaks
• julian assange

[Trooperzpwn]

Hmmm, they aren't a hacking group, so why are they hacking sony and PSN?

[marc2377]

@Trooperzpwn They aren't, as far as I know

[985fi7fvi5i]

It's the end times imho. I am prepared for everything. It's an amazing time to be alive! I send my love to all my brothers and fellow i-citizens. Fight for a better tomorrow.

[cadonuno]

@Trooperzpwn anonymous is not hacking anyone... we are fighting against opression and corruption for people like you to be free

[MrCazhemp]

is thankful you guys exist,...simply said Thank You.

[Cinthorc]

@commandertediz I'd argue that the character V is the perfect character for the group. Like V, anonymous cannot abide fascist organizations or groups performing business that is itself questionable. Have you read V for vendetta instead of just watching the movie?

[commandertediz]

these guys will never be what they imagine to be with using V's character. V stood for something entirely different.

[moirhann]

@985fi7fvi5i i agree 100% with you.. We are very fortunate to live these days.. We can help creat history!! so do what ever you can to spread the truth!!! VIVA LE RESISTANCE !!!!! go with the light sisters and brothers and share the love, support and understanding.... There will be no NWO!!!!!!

[TeamGoGoDino]

@Trooperzpwn I agree they claim to not care for personal information and they are working for truth and justice the only reason for them to attack sony would be if they are good friends with GeoHot or someone in the group decided to act on there own attacking Sony. I think they placed files on sonys computers were a cover up for someone else. I don't think Anonymous is dumb enough to do such a major attack taking credit cards and info and leave there name.

[marc2377]

@bluepawercp One of the anon members could want that, but not the group at all.

[bluepawercp]

@marc2377 they sayed me it was a man with 19th years all that wants to hack MDW2