New Delhi: After a three-year hiatus, hacktivist group ‘Anonymous’ made its official comeback during the riots and protests that followed the death of African-American man George Floyd in the US recently.
anonymous has come back after 3 years of radio silence to shut down minneapolis pd’s website and expose donald trump for engaging in child sex trafficking and ordering the hit on jeffrey epstein ITS HAPPENING pic.twitter.com/XzIVUsALck
— BLM + ACAB (@mayaguler1) May 31, 2020
According to reports, the hactivist group made a comeback to expose many crimes of the Minneapolis Police Department. On May 29, it released a video message on their Facebook page warning the department demanding stringent action against the police officers who were involved in the arrest and the subsequent death of Floyd.
The collective since then has allegedly taken down the Minneapolis Police Department website, and allegedly hijacked the radio systems of the Chicago Police Department.
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Anonymous apparently now been hacking Chicago PD radios all night and playing polka music and Fuck The Police so the cops can’t communicate about protests lmfao pic.twitter.com/cAGPRRcROX
— elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) May 31, 2020
They have even released documents as proof among other things which includes the rape allegations on US President Donald Trump of a 13-year-old boy and even the killings of Princess Diana by the English Royal family, Jeffery Epstein and many more. However, many of their tweets have been disappearing off Twitter but its 7.4 million follower base in Twitter took screenshots.
What does Epstein have to do with Black Lives Matter? it’s a testament to the impunity given to those in power that believe that we are property they can sell & destroy as they please. Their impunity is why they murder black people and traffick children. We can all stop them.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) May 31, 2020
ANONYMOUS RELEASED PROOF THAT OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT WAS INVOLVED IN A CHILD RAPE AND SEX TRAFFICKING LAWSUIT
— kennybeats (@kennybeats) May 31, 2020
Now the question remains, who is Anonymous?
They are an international group of hackers who are activists. They are decentralised which means that this group does not have any proclaimed leadership. To make things more mysterious, all the members of this group still remains unknown. They come together under a banner to carry out operations which usually sends a political message.
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Who is YourAnonNews? pic.twitter.com/iaTEHn9dDD
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) May 1, 2019
Formed in the year 2003 on 4chan (anonymous English language imageboard website), their motto is, “We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive, we do not forget. Expect us.”
They are also known to post a video message as a warning against their next target. In the past, they have launched cyber-attacks against institutions, corporations, and governments which they accuse of wrongdoings and power misuse.
They are known for their operations against the Church of Scientology in 2008 where they targeted them for a period of three months. They even targeted Aiplex, an India software firm that used to host DDoS (Distributor Denial of Service) attacks on Torrent sites to prevent movie piracy as Anonymous believes it to be restricting free speech. They even took on Sony as it denied hackers to find any flaws in its PlayStation 3 console. In its wake, they took down PlayStation Network for over a month and compromised over 100 million Sony accounts.
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So you want to join Anonymous?
You can not join Anonymous.
Nobody can join Anonymous.
Anonymous is not an organization.
It is not a club, a party, or even a movement, it is resistance.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) June 3, 2020
WE DO NOT ACCEPT SUSPENSION. ARREST THEM. https://t.co/v5sar5WyoX
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) June 5, 2020
Donning the tragi-comic mask which was made popular by graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, the second coming of the hacktivist group does spell doom for the ones they target but their anti-establishment stand and exposing the dark underbelly of various institutions have made them quite popular in the present times.
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