translated from Spanish: Video Anonymous is back: What’s the world’s most famous hacker looking for?

The case of brutality against George Floyd in the United States filled the fed-up of racist violence and abuse of power in people around the world, who came out to defend rights and created the slogan “Black Lives Matter,” to put in context that all lives have the same value. In the middle of the outburst, they voted: AnonymousWhile the streets were burning, the hackers returned after several years of silence, also ending the routers that they had been imprisoned or killed and began with a hack to the Minnesota Police and then reminded Donald Trump of his ties to billionaire and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.In what was a global scandal , where there were names of actors, businessmen and politicians, the President was accused of being involved in the network of trafficking and child abuse. Poer then calmed down and began popularizing information through his Twitter account, which multiplied his followers in a couple of days.

Let’s get this straight from Anonymous: He has no leader, no hierarchy. It has no political flag. He defends freedom of expression and access to information and the independence of the Internet and its symbol is the mask of Guido Fawkes, who attempted to blow up the British Parliament in 1605, which was also popularized with the film “V of Revenge”. But before that we remember a little. Anonymous began to be the one we now know in January 2008, with Operation Chanology, when the Church of Scientology was exercising all its power to stem the circulation of a propaganda video that should not have leaked, starring Tom Cruise.After viralization, they managed to break down the Church portal with one of their favorite weapons: the DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks that consist of bombarding a server with an avalanche of requests to the Collapse. Cyber action first hit the streets, with flesh-and-blood protesters and Fawkes masks.
By 2012, Anonymous, which emerged from the 4CHAn forum, entered the list of the 100 most influential personalities, according to TIME magazine. What had he been involved in until that moment? In 2010 he carried out Operation “Avenge Assange”, by Julian Assange, the journalist and founder of Wikileaks, and in 2011 he supported the revolution in Tunisia and the “Indginated” movement in Spain.However, in that apoca, everything began to turn black. Dozens of “hacktivists” were arrested around the world and Jeremy Hammond, icon of the movement, was sentenced to ten years in prison for the hacking into US intelligence company Stratfor in 2011. The FBI even managed to bend some of them, who “sold” their colleagues. Now, eight years later, he decided to come out but making one thing clear: the fundamental idea behind the entity. Anonymous is free for anyone to personify it and place it in an excellent position for resurrection and reinvention. Make it clear that it’s a concept of freedom. An idea and ideas never die.

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