Anonymous takes credit for blackout of Elon Musk's social media outlet

This is the first time i see anyone take actual action
- You haven't been paying attention.

Finally and can't wait to see much much more

I'm shocked it wasn't Ukraine I tell you positively shocked now let's watch everyone who reported as such reverse it...
- It was about as obvious of a lie as when people tried to say that Russia blew up their own pipeline.

How do you join a DDoS these days?
Is LOIC and HOIC still a thing?
Or what are the cool kids doing

Wow, I haven't heard anything from those guys in a hot minute.

They're doing what we should all be doing. Particularly those obsessed with the 2nd amendment, since this is literally what it was made for.
- Dirty little secret they don't want to admit is 2A was for the military. Not meal team six.

News to me, the other day when it was just a regular DDOS they said it wasn't them so I assumed the blackout wasn't either.

I love every sentence they have in the first picture
- Probably what the Democrats should’ve said

Every inch is important.

This is the energy Anonymous is supposed to have. I still fondly recall the work they did on Scientology.
- Mr Robot was great
- One of the big - but to be expected - problems had always been, that basically every group or individual could don the "Anonymous" label. But yeah, this is in the spirit of the anti-authoritarian hacker identity, that it started out with.
  
  Granted that any time humans wield anonymous power without oversight there will be bad behaviour. When I was younger I took for granted that a key part of the social construct of Anonymous was an ironic awareness of that, hence its suitability for striking back at high-handed enemies of humanity.
  I was quite young back then.
  
  Obligatory
- the energy Anonymous is supposed to have
  Obligatory "Anonymous is not your personal army," but yeah, this is Anonymous at its best.
  
  The energy that Anonymous as a social construct is supposed to have. I'm not here to give notes to any would-be vigilantes.

I fucking HATE that there is a typo. 😡
- Those things always have at least one typo. That's how you can tell they're legit.
  
  I guess it fits the bill for hackers not to be concerned with things like proof reading lmfao
- Elon Musks' social media outlet*.

Fuck, I wish we heard more about chaotic good hackers like this more often. They're like our modern day super heroes in some regard to me.
- I think they caught most of them from back when they were more active (2009-2012) or at least were more in the public eye.
  
  The ones that didn’t get caught went underground and stopped working together as ‘anonymous’
  
  Lulzsec comes to mind

Remember that time Anonymous fought Scientology? That's why we don't have Scientology anymore.
- Can't tell if sarcastic or not.
  Yeah, Scientology is still quite powerful but they were exposed for a lot during that attack.
  Plus, this isn't the same group of people. Anonymous was never a set group of hackers or anything, it was a catch all name used back in the day to keep anonymity, and then later on a bunch of edgy dorks decided to pretend they were an actual organization
- I spoke out about Scientology and now have unmarked cars/vans outside my house daily (off and on for a year)… I was perma banned from Reddit for speaking my truths… it’s effing terrifying!!! Fuck Reddit and the cesspool they are creating! It’s embarrassing!
  
  if you were in the scientology cult, yea they want to keep thier secrets within the cult.
  
  I hope that what you’re saying is true and that you aren’t experiencing some kind of breakdown.
  I say that from a genuine place of concern AND, it breaks my heart that we live in a world where someone has to worry about such things.
  It wouldn’t surprise me if Scientologists were stalking you, but I’ve been making fun of them online for 20+ years and I’ve never had this problem.
  Were you born into Scientology? If you were, yeah, they’re probably stalking you. Same if you joined the cult at any point in your life.
  Film this shit and ask people to confirm you’re dealing with this.
- Instead of facing black pieces of paper to DOGE, we can just sign their emails up for so many spam mailing lists. So many that legit emails get lost in the chaos

There is no way this is the same guys who went after Scientology, however, I do love whoever they are. We need more people fighting fascism.
- They're based on the AnonOps IRC so it is, technically, the same sect of Anonymous. Although anyone can join and start an Op there so...
  https://opdreadnought.com/us
  
  Yeah... I'd be real careful getting started by joining a particular irc server known for anything.

Yes more more more!!

I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition, but I'll allow it.
- nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
  
  Oh, you think you're clever, do you?
  THAT'S IT. BRING OUT.... THE COMFY CHAIR!

Twitter is working fine, "blackouts" aren't what they used to be. DDOS attacks aren't really hacking, and would barely interrupt services at the level today's "anonymous" has access to.
People claiming to be anonymous hackers very slightly inconvenience whoever's still on Twitter.
I'm no fan of Musk, but something more powerful needs to be done.
- Voting. Voting could have been done. I know it sounds trite and overly simplistic, but that's the power We The People have, as set up in the founding of our country. We just have to use it...
  How many people sat out in 2024, as everyone politically-engaged screamed that a Trump administration would be bad for the economy, bad for Palestinians, bad for Ukrainians, and bad for America (because it might literally elect a fascist dictator who will enact Project 2025 and refuse to give up their power)? Several thousand? That sounds reasonable, right? Maybe up to hundreds of thousands? Maybe even a million people...? No. 90 million people who were eligible to vote in the presidential election didn't vote by mail, ignored the election drop boxes, and sat at home on Election Day.
  That's enough to beat any entrenched political coalition opposed to progress. That's not some "pie in the sky" fantasy, we literally had the numbers to accomplish every single political agenda that actually helps working Americans:
  #If "Did Not Vote" was a candidate:
  I say this all without an ounce of schadenfreude. I genuinely don't want to hurt the faces of the people who voted for the leopards, not least of all because we all suffer along with them. I will keep shouting this point because we have to do better in the future. Voting isn't always fun, but it's the first and most powerful defense against a wannabe dictator like Trump or Musk. I literally don't care how "not excited" you are about the candidate that doesn't want to tear the US apart, you need to vote, and vote against fascism. ~~That's our only hope going forward...~~ EDIT: Okay, maybe it's not our only hope, but it's where we have to start.
  
  Billionaires will never allow you to vote away their power.
  Never
  
  we literally had the numbers to accomplish every single political agenda that actually helps working Americans
  Great! Now all you need is a candidate who runs on that.
  
  It’s strange how there’s a north/south divide there.
- Is it possible to take down the server's that back Tesla's? Just hinder voice commands, maps, software updates, telemetry, the mobile app, etc.
  That'd be fun.
  
  If the computer exists it can theoretically be compromised, it just depends on the resources of the individual or group attempting to compromise it. For example, the US Government created Stuxnet targetting the completely airgapped computers which operated centrifuges in Iran. They created brand new malware, loaded it onto flashdrive and sprinkled said flashdrives near the target, then sat and waited then observed their nuclear refinement centrifuges fail way more rapidly than they should effectively killing their nuclear program

Anonymous
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while

Where were these fuckers before the election‽ They did a lot of talk in the lead up to Nov 6th but then nothing came of it
Now they actually want to do something lmao
- They were probably murdered by the CIA or something. Who would know?
  
  you misspelled suicide
- where were these fuckers before the election
  Shitposting on chan boards, running right wing grifts, spreading QAnon conspiracies…
- I'm not sure what launching a DDoS would have accomplished... Twitter will be back soon enough
- Before the election, they had to look out for the CSRB and CISA. Now… not so much.

They've DDoS'd X/Twitter?
- Surely they just clicked the 'X' button and it closed itself down?
- Apparently that's what the news is saying

Bunch of anons: DDoS Xitter
Elona: Ukraine did it!
Wait before this dimwit will start screaming of casus belli against an unfriendly Ukraine and the USA will start selling Russia weapons.

Makes me wonder,
Similar to all the peeps 20 years ago in the SETI@home movement, where you could donate your CPU/bandwidth.
Is there any 'safe' way to donate and collectively protest on the internet by signing up to a botnet?
- low orbit ion cannon and friends were tools for participating in anon ddos ops back in the day, but it wasn't exactly safe -- without a vpn your isp and other intermediaries can see your traffic, and the host can see your ip address. with a vpn you're in part dosing your vpn, depending on the attack
  no idea how anon organizes such things these days

Wow it's been a little while since I've heard Anonymous taking credit

Honestly, even if it isn't doing much, it's making a statement which is more than enough.

Nice. I love anonymous.

Wow, good for them. Way to roll in to save the day after the fascists took power. Too bad they didn't do something when it could have made a difference.
- Looks to me like they’re doing a lot more about the problem than all of the protest voters that caused it are doing.
- Like what? I get wishing things never got to the stage they are at, but what do you wish a bunch of unorganized hackers did earlier? Genuinely curious as I'm not good enough at coding to think of any creative "solutions"

Could they challenge DOGE?

I applaud the blocking of social media as a form of activism and yet peaceful protest.

Not Anon,a specific group that named themselves.

The conspiracy crowd believe that Anonymous are a wing of the FBI/CIA. I wonder how they'll reconcile known persons openly attacking another piece of the government. Probably “something something deep state”
- derp state
- Can confirm. As a former network support "staff" member I was paid by the both the CIA and the FBI. Neither paid very well though.
- Well, they are attempting to fire a good portion of them. I wouldn't say it's out of the question.
  
  “Can you believe Ted and the crew are going to federal prison? I can’t believe they signed their names under their many felonies.”
  That doesn’t pass a glance test, let alone a sniff test

Where does it say on the website that they are taking credit for the blackout?

Good on them, I guess. But Twitter is only a small part of the problem.

Looks like something a 16 year old script kiddie would make, no way it's real

Finally, someone is stepping up!

THAT'S IT. BRING OUT.... THE COMFY CHAIR!