A N00b's Guide To The Internet: Anonymous

Who is Anonymous? Anonymous isn't anyone, But it is a lot of people. Anonymous has no leader, but carries out planed attacks and raids. Simply put if the Internet was a movie, Anonymous would be the bad guy. But what makes them so bad? I mean after all, they are the people that gave us you dun goof'd. Well Let me tell you.

It all started in in 2006 with the Habbo raids. Habbo is an Social MMO where people go to socialize. On a planned day Anonymous users joined the site creating avatars of black men with suits and grey afros, with these avatars Anonymous blocked off entrances to certain areas of the site saying it was "closed due to aids." They also used all of there avatars to create swastika formations all over the website.

Also in 2006 Anonymous lunched a raid against a white supremacy radio show in New Jersey. It started with prank phone calls than escalated to a DDoS attack, (Distributed Denial-of-Service attack) This caused the radio host, Hal Turner, to try and sue 4chan.org, the site that Anonymous is know to use. He lost the law suit and than quit his job. Both of these attacks were nothing compared to what Anonymous had planed next.


On January 21st 2008 Anonymous hacked the Church Of Scientology youtube channel and posted a video called "A Message to Scientology" This video started the war between Anonymous and Scientology. Anonymous planed DDoS attacks and took down the Churches websites and sent black faxes to the church itself.

On February 2th, 2008 Anonymous posted another video called "Call To Action" This video encouraged people to protest the church of Scientology in non-violent ways. On February 10th about 8,000 people in 93 city's protested the church of Scientology.




Also in 2008 Anonymous took to many forum websites such as SOHH.com, Allhiphop.com and an Epilepsy support forum. SOHH and Allhiphop are both hip hop and rap oriented sites (obviously) Anonymous hacked into the site and changed all banners to have false news and racist images, while the Epilepsy support forum got hit with flashing images that were known to cause seizures. Both of the hip hop sites servers were crashed, and many people suffered from seizures.

As mentioned earlier Anonymous does sometimes harass young girls, now imagine with me that your a middle school girl in Cali (this is just a little weird) you decide, "Hey cussing is bad" so you start the no cussing club. Its place for teenagers to discuss clean things and of course no cussing. It was all fun and games until Anonymous found them. Anonymous raided the site of personal information and her house became the target of many prank calls and LOTS of porn delivery's.


Can people from a group that seems to cause nothing but trouble ever do anything good for anyone? Surprisingly yes. Chris Forcand was a 53 year old Internet predator with two accounts of luring children under 14 to have sex with him. Anonymous tracked him down and had him arrested, this has been the first case of Internet vigilantism. In another case of Anonymous tracked down a woman that posted a video of her self throwing puppy's into a river to drown, Anonymous leaked all of her personal information to the Internet.



In my opinion people in Anonymous are the best example of what happens when people think they are anonymous...They act like dicks.