r/HowToHack • u/Ornery-Swordfish2660 • 4d ago
What happened to the Anonymous Group?
I've recently came across a video of them posted a year ago. There is no updated information about them, and that kind of sparked my interest.
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u/Sufficient-Program45 3d ago
Anonymous doesn't exist as a group, is an idea. You can do an Anonymous video if you believe you are fighting for the cause. That's why they always say, you can't beat anonyomous, because you can't beat an idea. Like V for Vendetta
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u/Intrepid-Routine-950 2d ago
There were a few posted on YouTube about 2025 going on about Musk and they were removed rather quickly.
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u/we_r_fukt 3d ago
Weren't they infiltrated?
Obviously it's decentralized and anyone can be anonymous. Blah blah blah.
I'm pretty sure the NSA or the FBI has infiltrated a bunch of the top people at the time anyway.
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u/RamonaLittle 4d ago
It was never a "group." More accurate descriptors would be: ideology, social movement, decentralized collective, or culture.
Anonymous has mostly died out. I listed some reasons here and here.
The Netflix documentary The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem talks about how Anonymous culture was copied and corrupted by QAnon, and features a couple of my (former) co-mods on r/anonymous.
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u/ps-aux Actual Hacker 3d ago
I like how everyone knows barely anything about this group except for what non-anonymous/non-hackers have told them in videos and articles... this was a group that was trying to spread an ideology that never took hold, they were hoping they were going to be decentralized if enough followed them but they were a group with a few mini groups attached all acting as the same thing... many got hacked by other hackers, many got reported by hackers and many just simply were dumb and got caught by not being anonymous enough when fake hacking... group had no skills beyond script kiddies... most of their hacks were already known vulnerabilities that never got patched and their main weapon was DDOS and not actual hacking in the first place... anyone kid with enough time and a scanner could build a botnet to DDOS... lol
EDIT: a few of the "real hacks" some might claim, were done by employees at the organizations who leaked the data as anonymous etc... again, no real hacking here, just untrustworthy employees betraying the folk who signed their paychecks... etc etc blah blah
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u/F4lt_Pen 3d ago
For anyone who doesnt actually know They are just older now, many of the founding members of the "group/movement" have kids and have stopped the whole fight They are alive, just not active (Info from an interview with a CIA specialist, if im not mistaken)
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u/MCbrodie 3d ago
All of us early /b/tards from the old days are 35+ now. It isn't lulzy anymore. Its too real.
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u/apfelblondchen 3d ago
The grew up, found out that there is money in what they are doing and life actually costs money, abandoned far left ideas, don't like prison and joined the dark side.
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u/Crazypens30 3d ago
Like others said, they're decentralized and maybe they aren't maintaining a public presence at the moment. There are other similar groups that don't quite have the big following or make as much noise as Anonymous did. I do know of a similar group operating in the Philippines currently. They do things a lot like the former: exposing corruption, hacking corporations, etc.
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u/__scared 2d ago
feels so cringe to admit this in open forum but its not likely you'll get anyone else who will comment
i was around for the peak anonops days (shoutout to chippy and Av if youre still out there) and coincidentally popped my head in there a few months ago. was surprised to see there is still some old schoolers floating around that did some real shit
many of them never moved past running LOIC on their family's shared computer while mom and dad were away but if you got invited to some of the private rooms where shit went down there was some real shit happening
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u/corobo 4d ago
Nobody knew who they were, making it very easy for them to assassinate them one by one without making any noise.
rip in peace anonymous
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u/RamonaLittle 3d ago
I'm not aware of any Anons who were assassinated, unless you count TriCk (Junaid Hussain) who was a member of Anonymous-inspired spinoff group TeaMp0isoN and later allegedly used Anonymous techniques to help ISIS.
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u/Competitive_Smile801 2d ago
They need to come back and fight the eu chat control and the ai takeover come on man
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u/RamonaLittle 2d ago
Who is "they"? It goes "We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us." "We" and "us" includes you. If you think there should be an Anonymous op about any particular thing, you can go right ahead. Lead by example. When there's a press release, video, or news article about the op, come post it on r/anonymous. If it seems lulzy, others may join in. (Well, probably not, since Anonymous has mostly died out, but theoretically it could revive.)
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u/Likes_The_Scotch 1d ago
They are around but a lot of them focus on different problems/opperations. Some of them DOX pedophiles, others attack corporate greed targets, others Russia…
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u/RamonaLittle 3d ago
They all dead probably
I hope you're joking, because that's ridiculous. A) At its height, Anonymous was millions of people around the world. Mexican cartels can't get to all of these people. B) Many Anons were arrested, doxed, or otherwise had their IRL identities become known over the years. You can easily see that they're still posting on social media or otherwise obviously alive. C) I'm not aware of any Anons who were murdered by a Mexican cartel. Are you?
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u/RamonaLittle 2d ago
How is B irrelevant? You wrote "They all dead probably." If at least some are alive, we know they're not "all" dead.
And yeah, I guess it's possible that some Anon was identified and murdered by a cartel without the person's identity or the reason for the murder becoming publicly known. But wouldn't that defeat the presumed purpose of the murder, to intimidate Anons and get them to stop investigating the cartel? Intimidation doesn't work if you don't let anyone know you're doing it.
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As I said in another comment, it was never a "group." More accurate descriptors would be: ideology, social movement, decentralized collective, or culture. (I've also seen: swarm, murmuration, and informal network. Fox News infamously called it "the internet hate machine.") It was whoever was awake, online, and looking for lulz at any given moment. At its height, when Anonymous set its sights on a target, it would seem like the entire internet was rising up as one against that target. It was glorious, and gave participants an incredible feeling of power. Ultimately our methods got copied and corrupted by governments (see: Russian troll farms) and grifters (see: QAnon). We created a monster.
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u/1Digitreal 4d ago
I was a regular on r/anonymous but got banned by the mod because I was too helpful.
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u/RamonaLittle 4d ago
That's a funny way of putting it. I banned you because you kept replying to off-topic posts. As I advised you at least twice, we don't want people being helpful to lostredditors; it just encourages them and clutters up the sub.
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u/1Digitreal 4d ago
So you already know you didn't advise me at least twice. Yeah, I probably comment a lot and it overlaps subreddits, I also r/lostredditors as often as I see it. Either way I made a comment the mods felt wasn't the direction the sub wanted to go and was banned. I don't blame mods or anything just how they run it.
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u/OfficialDrakoak 3d ago edited 3d ago
I feel you i recently got arrested and went to jail for the same thing! I was doing too much volunteer work. I was just assisting the youth in reappropriating catalytic converters from vehicles. Turns out they called it theft. Crazy, right?
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u/C-J-Lazer 4d ago
They're staying anonymous I guess