That's what is troubling to me, just as it would be if any other company researched and threatened their public critics.Д®ta: Also, there is a bigethical difference and even a different legal standard in covering public figures vs. It's pretty evident here that they targeted this guy because CNN was the 'victim' of his meme. If CNN started outing online racists, that'd be one thing. In a broader sense, if you don't want to be known as a maker of neo-Nazi memes.

Well, if the guy's real identity had been released. They argued that releasing the emails was okey-doke because they were real. It's odd to see people who spent month after month jacking off to every single release of DNC emails by Wikileaks suddenly clutching their pearls because this trollВ almost got doxxed. Putting aside 4chan, are any of you actually OK with CNN's behavior here? The Jester, however, works alone.TheyreTheSteakEatersFranks wrote: uncwood wrote: TeaMp0soiN launched this attack in late June 2011В and seem like they have a lot of members. The attacks are disparate and kind of hard to track as the groups are also loosely organized. Web Ninjas, TeaMp0isoN, The A-Team and th3j35st3r ('The Jester') - These mostly small and less organized groups all launched attacks on LulzSec at some point in time. This hacktivism project began with a major release of documents from law enforcement officers in Arizona. We've covered almost all of those attacks here.ДЄntiSec - LulzSec disbanded in June 2011 but not before they announced a new project that reunited LulzSec members with the leaders of Anonymous. Short for 'Lulz Security' LulzSec attacked various government and corporate websites. Their last post on the subject appears to be a call-to-arms on 'Xenu Day,' the anniversary of the Death of L. Muna 14:36, 29 January 2008 (UTC) Cult of the Dead Cow declared war on scientology in 1995. LulzSec - This small offshoot of Anonymous supposedly organized themselves around the same that Anonymous was working on various Arab Spring projects. It would probably be a good idea to mention that the Cult of the Dead Cow waged war on Scientology a good while ago. HackerLeaks, a WikiLeaks-type site just for hackers, was created as a result. Operation Orlando - Anonymous attacked the websites of the Orlando Chamber of Commerce and Universal Orlando Resort in June 2011 after police there arrested Food Not Bombs volunteers for breaking city ordinances while trying to feed the homeless.

Anonymous has also hacked into a number of Libyan government websites during the civil war there. Operations Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt - During the Arab Spring, Anonymous launched a number of campaigns against the Tunisian, Algerian and Egyptian governments protesting their suspending internet access. Anonymous cheekily denied responsibility for the attack, although Sony reports having discovered a document named 'Anonymous' on their servers that read 'We Are Legion.' Three weeks later, the entire Playstation network was brought down, and Sony was unable to restore the network for weeks. In response,В Anonymous announced that they would attack Sony's website in early April 2011. Operation Sony - Sony filed a lawsuit against George Hotz, a hacker who reverse engineered the Sony Playstation 3, in January 2011. Within those documents was a PowerPoint presentation called ' The WikiLeaks Threat' which HBGary compiled for Bank of America in order identify and potentially disrupt the activities of journalists who supported the movement, including Glenn Greenwald. After Aaron Barr, chief executive of the internet security firm HBGary, announced that he would reveal the inner workings of Anonymous at a conference in February 2010, the group brought down their website and phones, erased files and pulled over 68,000 emails from their database. *Attack on HB Gary - Although not mentioned in the chart, this event marks an important turning point for Anonymous. Unlike Operation Payback, which was bent on destruction, Leakspin focused on exposing information for the public good, and the effort still survives across a number of websites. Operation Leakspin - Anonymous conceived of LeakspinВ in December 2010 as a way to help WikiLeaks sort through data. They also maintain a Twitter account with updates. They bill themselves as an infrastructure for the group, and their internet relay chat (IRC) network remains a central hub for activity amongst various hacker group. AnonOps.US - This subgroup of Anonymous spun off in mid-October 2010 when Operation Payback hit a lull.

I declare war on 4chan