Comment by jazzyjackson

Comment by jazzyjackson 9 hours ago

I definitely agree USA was pulling for the revolutionaries, and making sure the powers that be couldn't snuff out all communications was essential in throwing the fight, I just don't believe in inception as far as inspiring a revolt in the first place.

I mention 4chan because I thought it synonymous with anonymous, and I was wondering what you knew that I didn't re: what hacking was happening.

And yes Mobutu with his little leopard hat is my favorite too.

gunian 9 hours ago

The leopard hat was indeed the best :)

I didn't know anonymous was active on 4chan it's kind of uncomfortable for people of my ilk to be there so I avoid but that kind of checks out

Do you think there is/was any advantage to having a group labelled as a freedom fighter / vigilante perform hacking operations as opposed to official state actors during color revolutions?

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jazzyjackson 9 hours ago

I guess I'm thinking of the Guy Fawkes era. I'm scarcely aware of what anonymous means outside of what was reported in mainstream media about it. Now that I think of it that too was a case of one group choosing not to correct anyone when credited with the accomplishments of somebody else. They would produce all these cringe videos about how any day now they'd spill the beans on the powers that be. Kind of a WikiLeaks fan club more than anything.
But you, then, were referencing some other front in the info war with folks that had access to higher tier tools than a Low Orbit Ion Cannon?
And yes plausible deniability goes a long way, perhaps even enabling people to collaborate when they may otherwise be on opposing "sides" as far as states are concerned.

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- gunian 8 hours ago
  
  No one who knew enough about the powers that be to spill the beans would live to spill aforementioned beans all we can do is look at and correlate publicly available data to infer plays the aforementioned powers maybe calling such is the life of poor peasants like me lol
  Idk how we went from color revolution, hacking, social engineering to Guy and DDoS but now I gotta watch V for Vendetta a peasant can always dream :)
  
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