Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe
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mostly they are spending hours scrolling through social media accounts of certain types of people looking for dox materials. that's really about it
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Oh, sure, let’s romanticize hacktivism, the digital equivalent of spray-painting a slogan on a collapsing wall. A few defaced websites? That’s your bar for effectiveness? The oligarchs aren’t losing sleep over a 404 page; they’re too busy consolidating power while you cheer for digital vandalism like it’s the French Revolution.
Real change doesn’t come from poking at the system with a keyboard and hoping it flinches. If anything, these stunts just give them more excuses to tighten the noose—more surveillance, more control.
You want to fight the machine? Build something better. Organize. Create infrastructure that can’t be co-opted. Until then, hacktivism is just a tantrum dressed up as resistance.
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Settle down mate.
I didn't say defaced websites are going to take down the government.
My implication was that it would be more effective than ranting on social media.
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Even a god king bleeds
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"Bloody Just Stop Oil protesters blocking the road, preventing me to go to work just so they can spread the message that we're all going to die! I HAVE A MORTGAGE!"
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Settle down? Sure, but let’s not settle for mediocrity. If your metric for effectiveness is being slightly better than social media rants, you’ve already lost the plot. Hacktivism that doesn’t disrupt the system in a meaningful way is just noise—an aesthetic rebellion that the system shrugs off or, worse, absorbs.
You want to be effective? Stop playing into their hands with token gestures. Build tools, networks, and alternatives that outlast their control. Otherwise, you’re just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic while calling it progress.
Defacing websites might feel cathartic, but it’s not revolution—it’s a distraction.
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Do I sense a fellow collapsnic here? Ah, exiled brother!
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I'm sure backups and redundancies are "inefficient" since "everything is in the cloud, anyway".
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No, my Blue Eyes White Aryan!
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“Anonymous” isn’t like a formal group. The entire point is that anyone can say that they are anonymous. So yeah, people talk a lot. You can do whatever you like as anonymous.
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Imagine if one nuclear head was pointed to every megacorp headquarters in the US.
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A more useful thing would be to do as much damage to Twitter as possible. In fact, why they haven't attacked Twitter while Musk has been disarming all of its safety protocols is fucking beyond me.
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I'm all for attacking infra - we need to make this shit more resilient and we need to transition to memory-safe langs like Rust.
This will hopefully accelerate it.
Also, I lol at people saying Trump/Elon/Doge will destroy the US when in reality - these kinds of people who wanna attack it probably have way better chances to do so. -
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho will be interested.
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Don't point at the HQs, point at their mansions / golf courses / private islands
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Memory safety is just a small part of infrastructure resilience. Rust doesn't protect you from phishing attacks. Rust doesn't protect you from weak passwords. Rust doesn't protect you from network misconfiguration. (For that matter, Rust doesn't protect you from some group of twenty-year old assholes installing their own servers inside your network, like you say.) Protecting your estate is not just about a programming language.
"Infrastructure", to me, suggests power, water, oil and food, more than some random website. For US infra, I'm thinking a lot of Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers, but probably a lot of Siemens and Mitsubishi stuff as well - things like these: https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/products/hardware/allen-bradley/programmable-controllers.html.
Historically, the controllers for industrial infrastructure (from a single pumping station to critical electrical distribution) have been on their own separate networks, and so things like secure passwords and infrastructure updates haven't been a priority. Some of these things have been running untouched for decades; thousands of people will have used the (often shared) credentials, which are very rarely updated or changed. The recent change is to demand more visibility and interaction; every SCADA (the main control computer used for interactive plant control) that you bring onto the public internet so that you can see what it's up to in a central hub, the more opportunity you have to mess up the network security and allow undesirables in.
PLCs tend to be coded up in "ladder logic" and compiled to device-specific assembly language. It isn't a programming environment where C has made any inroads over the decades; I very much doubt there's a Rust compiler for some random microcontroller, and "supported by manufacturer" is critical for these industries.
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You've been watching too much Mr. Robot.
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The whole point is to being attention to the rise of fascism. Hacking without releasing a statement like this is just terrorism. Releasing a statement after hacking can make it easier for the govt to cover up, like "no we weren't hacked, someone in our server room just accidentally tripped over a power cable"
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DEI
Donald, Eric and Ivana?
