Anonymous (collective)

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One of the hallmarks of Anonymous . The headless person in the suit symbolizes the leaderless character of the movement.
Anonymous - activist at an Occupy Wall Street rally in 2011. The sign reads The corrupt fear us - the honest support us - the heroic join us .
Activists with their typical Guy Fawkes masks , which are modeled on the British resistance fighter.

Anonymous ( American-English pronunciation [ əˈnɒnɪməs ], from the Greek ανώνυμος anonymos for "nameless") is an Internet phenomenon that is used worldwide by various groups and individuals within the network culture to - with or without consultation with others - under this name hacktivism and to conduct public demonstrations and publish them on various Internet platforms.

Initially as a fun flick of the Image Board 4chan emerged Anonymous joined since 2008 increasingly politically with protests for freedom of speech , the independence of the Internet and against the copyright , writers and various organizations, including Scientology , government authorities , globally active companies , copyright societies and in international social problem cases in appearance. Initially, the participants only acted on the Internet, but now they also conduct their activities outside of the Internet. Anonymous' means of action include demonstrations and hacker attacks . At public rallies, most of the activists wear face masks, which have become something of a trademark of the movement. These depict the British, Catholic assassin Guy Fawkes and are borrowed from the dystopian political comic V for Vendetta , in which the main character masked in this way fights an oppressive regime.

About Anonymous

The flag of the Anonymous collective

The roots of Anonymous are mainly in so-called imageboards on which all un censored , and un moderated images and messages can leave, where a name can be specified. However, hardly anyone does that, which is why most of the posts are labeled "Anonymous". The name of the collective probably comes from the fact that - depending on the technical settings - all entries in the imageboards are marked with "Anonymous" if they are not registered. Over time, this type of publication became an internet phenomenon . The participating users are abbreviated as "Anon".

Typical of Anonymous are the masks taken from the graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd , which were originally supposed to represent the face of the British freedom fighter Guy Fawkes. These serve both as identification marks and for anonymization and, in the course of protest actions, also to protect against persecution by Scientology within the framework of their so-called Fair Game Policy . David Lloyd, the comic's illustrator, welcomes the fact that people are using “his” mask for this protest. It has become a symbol of protest against tyranny . On the Internet, videos are often posted on YouTube to disseminate information to the public .

Anonymous motto

At the end of messages from Anonymous and on the collective's website there is usually the following motto:

“We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us. "

- Message-to-Scientology video

“We are Anonymous.
We are legion / many.
We don't forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us. "

This motto is also modified or expanded, so human rights violations or freedom of information can also be addressed, for example with the sentence "Knowledge is free."

structure

Anonymous protest against the practices and tax exempt status of Scientology
Demonstration against Scientology in June 2009 in Hamburg

In the beginning, Anonymous consisted mostly of users from various imageboards and internet forums . In addition, various wikis and internet chats were set up for the organization in order to utilize even more space on the internet. Protests such as Project Chanology are organized through these platforms .

Overall, Anonymous is a loose connection between Internet users who can be found in virtual space mainly on websites such as 711chan , 420chan , 4chan , Something Awful , Fark or Encyclopedia Dramatica . Social networks like Facebook tend to play a minor role, but are used to form so-called cells, which can then be mobilized for real protests. Anonymous has no leader or controlling authority and is based on the collective power of its individual participants and the advantage that information can be disseminated quickly over the Internet. Some websites state that only adults aged 18 and over should view the content, but since there is no safe way to block younger visitors, some " anons " are minors.

“Anyone who wants can be Anonymous and work towards the goals […] We have this program that we all agree with and that we all coordinate and execute, but all work independently towards it without needing confirmation. We just want to do something that we think has to be done [...] "

- Anonymous, quoted by Chris Landers in the Baltimore City Paper, April 2, 2008

There is no management or membership in the administrative sense, and participation is therefore completely non-binding. There is no central organizational structure or hierarchy that would be binding in any way on all members of the collective. So Anonymous is not an organization in the traditional sense, but rather a movement . So every activist can freely choose what he wants to do. This could also be exploited by criminals.

aims

Initially, Anonymous limited its demands mainly to the prohibition of the Church of Scientology and its practices and institutions. The beliefs of Scientologists or other organizations should not be attacked.

Recently, Anonymous has been increasingly targeting internet censorship and state censorship . This is particularly evident from the events in Australia where members of Anonymous attacked the Australian government's websites after the government approved a law to implement Internet filters. Anonymous also attracted attention through DDoS attacks against financial companies such as PayPal as well as the credit card companies Visa and Mastercard , which had previously denied or blocked access to the whistleblower portal WikiLeaks . These attacks were then extended to Tunisia and Zimbabwe , as these countries threatened to sue "anyone who publishes WikiLeaks [documents]". Anonymous played a key role in the mass protests against the ACTA and SOPA bills . The resistance against bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements such as TTIP or CETA that emerged in 2013 is also supported by Anonymous. In the case of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in the summer of 2020, "Anons" brought the website of the police station concerned to a standstill.

Basically, Anonymous always declares in various video messages to target all human rights violators, censors and dictators. However, there is no consensus on this, as it simply seems impossible to let all people who feel they belong to the collective vote on it or to involve them.

communication

The Anonymous collective communicates its goals and activities primarily via social networks . In particular, the Twitter messaging service is used because its operators have behaved liberally towards Anonymous throughout and, by using multiple accounts, permanent blocking of Anonymous would not be practicable anyway. Only in December 2012 was an Anonymous profile temporarily blocked because it was used to distribute private data .

Chanology project

The group received worldwide press attention through the Chanology project , which brought the international protest against Scientology under one name.

Emergence

"Message to Scientology", January 21, 2008
February 10, 2008 - Anonymous protest in London (1st wave)
March 15, 2008 - Anonymous protest in Munich (2nd wave)

On January 14, 2008, an original Scientology-internal video, in which Tom Cruise speaks uncritically about himself and Scientology, was posted on the Internet and uploaded to YouTube. Scientology then accused YouTube of an alleged copyright infringement and demanded that the video be removed. In response to this, Anonymous formulated the “Chanology Project”. Members of the "Project Chanology", who described Scientology's action as internet censorship, organized a series of " denial-of-service " attacks against Scientology websites, whereupon Scientology was protected by the security service provider Prolexic . Anonymous then switched to other forms of protest such as demonstrations, prank calls and joke mail via fax to various Scientology centers.

On January 21, 2008, several Anonymous supporters stated their goals and intentions in the video Message to Scientology uploaded to YouTube and issued a press release "declaring war on Scientology": against the Church of Scientology and the Religious Technology Center .

In the press release, the group states that the attacks against Scientology would continue in order to protect freedom of speech and to end Scientology's financial exploitation of its own members. A new video called Call to Action appeared on YouTube on January 28, 2008, calling for protests in front of Scientology centers on February 10, 2008. On February 2, 2008, 150 demonstrators gathered in front of a Scientology building in Orlando, Florida and called against their practices. Small protests were held in Santa Barbara and Manchester . On February 10, 2008, between 6,000 and 8,300 people demonstrated against Scientology in 14 countries. Many protesters masked themselves to prevent retaliatory acts by Scientology.

Anonymous conducted the second wave of protests on March 15, 2008 in cities around the world including Boston , Dallas , Chicago , Los Angeles , London , Paris , Vancouver , Toronto , Berlin, and Dublin . The number of participants worldwide was again estimated at 7,000 to 8,000. The third wave took place on April 12, 2008. The so-called "Operation Reconnect" was intended to raise awareness of Scientology's disconnection policy practice.

On October 17, 2008, an 18-year-old Anonymous testimony confessed to being guilty of involvement in the January 2008 Internet attacks on Scientology.

The protests continued and took advantage of events such as the premiere of the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie . Their location was chosen in response to previous protests in such a way that the demonstrators were given as little viewing space as possible.

Scientology Response

Scientology responded to the new "headless" adversary without leadership by posting a video shortly after the denial-of-service attacks. It alleged thousands of death threats, bomb threats and harassing phone calls were received. Allegedly, Anonymous members made 8931 harassing calls, sent over 3.6 million malicious emails, and accessed the site more than 114 million times in less than three weeks.

Anonymous responded to the video with jokes that parodied the video Anonymous Exposed because of its supposedly excessive exaggeration.

Public advocates

Ursula Caberta , former head of the Supreme State Youth Authority and head of the Hamburg Scientology working group from 1992 to 2010 , endorsed the protests in an interview published on YouTube and called on people to continue with peaceful protests against Scientology, which she herself considers very effective. From their point of view, the increased number of dropouts in the USA can be attributed to the higher activity of Anonymous there. She first heard about the movement through positive feedback from ex-Scientologists. However, due to a lack of time, she cannot participate in Anonymous.

This statement only referred to the peaceful protests against Scientology, not to actions such as the DDoS attacks against payment service providers such as Visa and Mastercard, which the collective only began later with.

Operations

Operation Payback

From September 2010 onwards, members of the collective carried out distributed denial-of-service attacks on the websites of rights holder associations such as RIAA or IFPI as part of the so-called "Operation Payback" .

In December 2010, a new target was identified for the attacks: First, financial institutions such as Visa and Mastercard , which had blocked accounts on the whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks, were attacked. The attacks were later directed against the Dutch public prosecutor and police, who arrested two participants in the operation.

In January 2011, the government of Zimbabwe and Tunisia were attacked because legal action against the so-called "indiscretion service WikiLeaks" was taking place in both countries. A statement from Anonymous said: “We are attacking [Zimbabwe President] Mugabe and his [party] Zanu-PF regime for declaring the free press outlawed and threatening to sue anyone who publishes WikiLeaks [documents] . "

Anonymous also threatened to attack the Egyptian government if communication channels like Twitter were censored. Since the revolution in Tunisia , social networks have played an important role in organizing politically motivated protest groups. The appeal said:

“To the Egyptian government: Anonymous challenges everyone involved in censorship efforts. Anonymous demands that you give free access to uncensored media across the country. If you ignore this news, we will not only attack your government websites. We will also make sure that international media get to see what cruel life you are forcing your citizens. "

- Appeal from network activists who identify themselves as members of the Anonymous group, quoted by Matthias Kremp in Spiegel Online on January 27, 2011

Operation Sony

In the course of the lawsuits filed by Sony in January 2011 against hackers George Hotz and Alexander Egorenkov , who were accused of having made information about the PlayStation 3's copy protection system public, Anonymous intervened.

At the beginning of April 2011 there were attacks on the websites of the group and its PlayStation Network , but these were stopped again as they affected their customers. They were known under the title OPSony , but in some cases they were also assigned to Operation Payback . When it became known at the end of the month that 77 million user data on the PlayStation Network had been stolen in a hacker attack, parts of the Anonymous network declared, however, that they had nothing to do with the attack.

On June 10, 2011, the Spanish police arrested three alleged activists of the collective in Gijón . They are said to be connected to the attacks on Sony and the websites of various governments and to make the leadership of the Spanish part of Anonymous. Two days later, Anonymous responded with a DDoS attack on the Spanish police website.

On June 16, 2011, the collective announced that it would stop the attacks against Sony. They justified this with the disturbance of the Sony customers, for whom and for whose rights one wanted to stand up.

Operation Zeta

Anonymous activists gathered information about the Mexican drug cartel Zetas . The cartel then apparently kidnapped a fellow member of the group and threatened to kill him if the names were published. The Anonymous "member" should be released by November 5, 2011, otherwise the group will publish names and addresses of people on the net who work with the Zetas. According to Anonymous, the "member" was released. Allegedly, the Zetas threatened Internet activists with killing ten people for every name published.

After the release, Anonymous now wants to forego the publication, wrote blogs that are attributed to the group. Barret Brown , who is believed to be the former “spokesman” for Anonymous, said the Mexican Anonymous “members” who started the action were being very careful to protect themselves.

Operation OpSafeWinter

Since 2013, Anonymous activists have been collecting clothes, blankets, sleeping bags and groceries every year for the cold season in order to distribute them directly to the needy homeless. In the meantime, Anonymous activists have documented the annual charity via a so-called Anonymous WorldMap . In addition to cities such as Stuttgart, Berlin or Munich, locations in the USA, the UK and other countries also participate.

Operation Ice ISIS and Operation Paris

In September 2014, the collective announced on Twitter that it was running a cyberwar campaign against the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) under the name Operation Ice ISIS . The aim of the campaign is to reduce the influence of IS on social media. In the course of this campaign, a large number of accounts on Twitter and Facebook were discovered, taken over or made unusable.

On November 16, 2015 - three days after the terrorist attacks in Paris that left over 130 dead - Anonymous announced that IS, which had claimed responsibility for the attacks, could not get away with it, and declared war on him again. Under the name of Operation Paris , the collective undertakes to hack the terrorist organization's websites, including on Twitter.

Other "operations"

  • The first action that is associated with Anonymous is the "Habbo raid" on July 12, 2006. The Habbo Hotel (a social network for teenagers) was attacked; several users logged in and blocked the pool. The background was the rumor that the portal's moderators were increasingly taking action against dark-skinned avatars and thus abusing their moderator rights.
  • During the Jasmine Revolution , Anonymous started Operation Tunisia on January 2, 2011 to draw attention to the extensive censorship in Tunisia and the protests in the country. DoS attacks paralyzed the Tunisian government and the Internet agency ATI. The collective also provided a script to ward off government phishing attacks.
  • In order to protest against human rights violations in Iran , the collective attacked various websites of governmental Iranian agencies on International Labor Day 2011. As a result of the DoS attacks, some sites temporarily shut down. Around a month later, according to media reports, Anonymous activists succeeded in breaking into servers of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, stealing around 10,000 stored e-mails.
  • In February 2011, several were sites of the Westboro Baptist Church paralyzed. On May 1, 2011, German-speaking Anonymous activists targeted right-wing extremist websites under the name Operation Blitzkrieg . Since that day, some German and Austrian right-wing extremist websites, mail orders and internet forums were no longer accessible; the focus was on other international platforms with right-wing extremist content. The DDoS procedure was also used here. In a previously distributed video, the collective condemned the neo-Nazis ' inability to accept other cultures and to have anti-Semitism burned into the collective consciousness of society. The course of the campaign was documented online via Twitter.
  • After the nuclear disaster in Japan , Anonymous focused on Operation GreenRights. She turned against corporations that earn their money with nuclear power . There were demonstrations and apparently DDoS attacks.
  • In July 2011, Operation GreenRights turned against the seed manufacturer Monsanto , as this company was accused of a lot of environmental pollution. Among other things, Anonymous put the website out of action and announced that it would paralyze the websites of the companies / groups ExxonMobil , ConocoPhillips , Canada Oil Sands , Imperial Oil and Royal Bank of Scotland . In February 2012, Anonymous attacked Monsanto again and leaked an, albeit outdated, employee and customer database of the agricultural company. In addition, the collective renewed its threats against the group and announced further attacks.
  • Anonymous supported the protests against the government in Spain and insurgents in Egypt , Iran and Syria . When during the protests in the Arab world 2010-2011 governments in Arab countries blocked their citizens access to the Internet or planned to do so, Anonymous helped to enable Internet access so that information could penetrate further outside.
  • In response to the legal action taken against the Kino.to portal , Anonymous attacked the website of the Society for the Prosecution of Copyright Infringements in June 2011 and claimed responsibility in a video posted on the Internet.
  • Around the same time, the website of the Telecommunications Communication Presidency , a Turkish information technology authority, was attacked and paralyzed as a protest against Turkey's restrictive internet policy.
  • In Operation UnManifest , the group called for the manipulation of the Manifesto 2083 - A European Declaration of Independence by the Norwegian assassin Anders Behring Breivik , which was circulated on the Internet, and briefly changed its motto to "We all do not forgive murder, we all do not forget the victims". The subsequent dissemination of the forgeries was intended to ridicule the original document and eventually perish.
  • In August 2011, a video uploaded to YouTube announced an attack by Anonymous activists on Facebook. This was to be carried out on November 5, 2011, on the anniversary of the powder conspiracy planned by Guy Fawkes . The uploader claimed that Facebook was reselling users' data even if they had already deleted their account. Shortly thereafter, Anonymous distanced itself from this announcement and presented it as a forgery. On November 5, the name and address of a man who is said to be solely responsible for the Facebook operation were published.
  • In response to a contribution to Gamescom broadcast by the Cologne-based private broadcaster RTL in August 2011, a video was published in German on behalf of Anonymous calling for a boycott of RTL and threatening consequences. Parts of the RTL website were attacked and manipulated. Another text distributed via Pastebin , also on behalf of Anonymous, advised against taking part in these attacks, as the collective advocates free expression . RTL apologized for the "generalizing and exaggerating" report, in which the fair visitors were mostly presented unfavorably.
  • On August 23, 2011, the group announced their support for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations initiated by the Canadian magazine Adbusters .
  • In October 2011, Anonymous reportedly blew up a clandestine swap ring for child pornography and deleted the supposedly largest collection of child porn on the Internet. Data on 1600 users were published. The attack was part of the so-called Operation Darknet.
  • On December 24, 2011, the website of the private intelligence service Stratfor was hacked and a list of customers was published. With the unencrypted credit card numbers of the customers, transfers were made to aid organizations . In the name of Anonymous , both a letter of confession and a denial in which the action was attributed to free riders and condemned as a disregard for freedom of the press were sent out.
  • At the end of December 2011, as part of Operation Blitzkrieg , an action against right-wing extremism, Anonymous founded the disclosure portal “nazi-leaks”, which lists NPD donors, customers of scene-oriented mail-order companies, authors of the magazine “ Junge Freiheit ” and internal e-mails of the NPD can be found. The party spokesman for the NPD Frank Franz stated that the party would probably file criminal charges in “all conceivable areas”. The correctness of the lists has not yet been confirmed. In addition, several neo-Nazi websites were paralyzed with DDoS attacks. In response to this, neo-Nazis started an “Operation take nazi-leaks down” and attacked the servers of nazi-leaks.net with DDoS attacks. The websites of the neo-Nazis advertising this were deleted after a short time.
  • At the end of January 2012, the collective called for a fight against the international trade agreement ACTA.
  • In February 2012, Anonymous was dissatisfied with Israel's policies and called for protest.
  • In March 2012, Anonymous disabled the Vatican's website. The reason is said to have been the attitude of the Vatican towards contraception and termination of pregnancy. Anonymous Italia claimed responsibility for this attack.
  • In May 2012, Anonymous published private phone numbers, addresses and e-mails of prominent signatories of the appeal “We are the authors,” which advocates strengthening copyright law. Anonymous threatened to bully other artists on the Internet.
  • On May 18, 2012, the website of the city of Frankfurt am Main was attacked as part of the Blockupy protests using a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
  • Actions were called for August 18, 2012 to make the cameras of the TrapWire surveillance system unusable due to pollution.
  • On September 4, 2012, 1,000,001 records were released that allegedly were Apple UDIDs that were allegedly stolen from an FBI agent's laptop .
  • On October 5, 2012, the kreuz.net blog was attacked with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack because of the insulting obituaries against the deceased entertainer Dirk Bach . The action was confirmed on Twitter on AnonymousEurope (OpKreuznet). Participation was encouraged on both Twitter and YouTube.
  • In response to the suicide of 15-year-old Amanda Todd on October 10, 2012, Anonymous began looking for the person responsible in order to get revenge on him.
  • On October 13, 2012, UK police forums were attacked as part of OpJubilee.
  • On January 13, 2013, anon activists hacked the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) website and posted an obituary for Aaron Swartz .
  • On January 26, 2013, the website of the United States Sentencing Commission was hacked and an obituary for Aaron Swartz was also placed there.
  • On January 28, 2013, the website, including the entire GEMA infrastructure, was attacked and paralyzed using a botnet from China. Taking down the website made at least parts of the infrastructure available again. During the attack, visitors to the site were redirected to a picture similar to the one that YouTube shows when a video is viewed from Germany for which GEMA has not granted the publishing rights.
  • On February 1, 2013, the website of the Wiener Korporationsring was attacked in such a way that the page could not be reached. You were forwarded to various pictures, some of which were underlaid with reggae music.
  • In April 2013, activists under Anonymous called for the nuclear weapons program to be lifted and North Korea to be democratized . As part of OpNorthKorea, Anonymous published passwords for 15,000 accounts on the propaganda website uriminzokkiri.com and hijacked North Korea's Twitter account.
  • On April 7, 2013, activists under the label Anonymous attacked Israeli websites, but preparing Israel prevented greater damage. On April 8, 2013, they continued these attacks and brought the Haaretz newspaper website to a standstill. German Anonymous activists distanced themselves from OpIsrael and declared that it was "largely run by US Anons".
  • On July 31, 2014, Anonymous announced via Facebook that it had carried out a hacker attack on the website of the Israeli secret service Mossad . The background to the action was the actions of the Israeli government in relation to the conflict in the Gaza Strip .
  • On September 20, 2018, Anonymous threatened in a video on YouTube that it would hack the servers of the German energy company RWE if they did not stop clearing the Hambach Forest immediately . RWE wanted to clear over half of the forest to extract lignite in the ground. In fact, on the following Monday, the company's website was partially unavailable or difficult to access. RWE had filed a complaint against unknown persons.
  • Fought from June 2020 German-speaking Anonymous activists since the COVID-19 pandemic various conspiracy stories spreading Attila Hildmann with a variety of activities under the title Operation Tinfoil (dt .: surgery aluminum foil , an allusion to the tin foil hat ). The chef spreads "lies, agitation and false news", and he also uses his reach significantly to advertise his products, "to squeeze even more money from gullible people".

Fake Facebook presence

Anonymous.Kollektiv was originally set up as the German Facebook page of the hacker network, but has not been operated by Anonymous since 2012. According to press reports, the Erfurt AfD member Mario Rönsch ousted the other site operators at the time. From then on, thesite spread right-wing populism , conspiracy theories and agitation against migrants , refugees and Muslims . Anonymous activists distanced themselves from it and informed their followers about the background to the forgery. After the " likes " for the fake site had increased enormously since November 2015, many media reported about the fake.

After criminal charges against the alleged operator, he or the Facebook administration removed the page. At the beginning of June a follow-up page with the same name appeared on the Russian network Vk.com , which refers to the blocking of the previous page and continues the hate speech against immigrants. Investigations are underway against Rönsch on suspicion of sedition and a manhunt.

Conflicts with state organs

In July 2011 one suspected Anonymous activist was arrested in 35 raids in the US, 14 in the Netherlands and four in the UK. 35 additional arrest warrants were issued by the FBI.

In response to the arrests, the hackers hacked a server containing more than 70 US law enforcement websites and copied 10 gigabytes of data.

Documents from the global surveillance and espionage affair show that the British secret service GCHQ targeted Anonymous.

Activities in Austria

On June 25, 2011, the Twitter account “AnonAustria” was created. He serves the Austrian collective of AnonAustria (the users of the IRC channel of AnonAustria) as a media mouthpiece.

  • At the beginning of July 2011, the websites of the parties SPÖ and FPÖ were attacked and in some cases paralyzed.
  • On July 22, 2011, the GIS website , which is responsible for collecting and billing the Austrian license fee, was also hijacked. In addition, up to 200,000 customer data could be accessed. Some of them, mainly by employees of the Interior Ministry and the police, were published with e-mail addresses and shortened account numbers.
  • On July 28, 2011, the website of the Austrian party Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative was attacked and 13,000 user data was stolen. The attackers called themselves Anonymous, but according to AnonAustria, the action was not carried out with the knowledge or the consent of the group.
  • On September 26, 2011, AnonAustria published the data of around 25,000 police officers on their Twitter account with first names, last names, addresses and date of birth under the tag #Pwnyzei , which led to numerous accesses to the published data. This was not a hack  - the data seem to come from the police association IPA and were "made accessible" to the collective according to their own statements.
  • On September 28, 2011, AnonAustria announced that the content of a complete database of the Tyrolean Health Insurance Fund was freely accessible on the Internet. In the course of the following week, the group pointed out further openly visible personal data on official websites (such as the Ministry of the Interior). Some of these were linked directly; the data from the TGKK remained unpublished.
  • On November 25th and 26th, 2011 members and supporters of Anonymous took to the streets in all of the state capitals and distributed specially created flyers. This campaign, called Paperstorm, was about making people aware that data retention will come into effect in Austria from April 2012 and that all connections will be saved for six months. The campaign was organized on Twitter.
  • On January 28, 2012, the side of the Vienna corporation ring was attacked on the occasion of the protest against the WKR ball . The website has been redirected to an external website. The side was red, with a Soviet star, sickle and a saluting pony. The Soviet anthem was playing in the background. In addition, the side of the WKR ball was paralyzed with DDOS attacks.
  • On June 12, 2012, network activists from Anonymous Austria published Scientology emails from 2010 and 2011 via pastebin.com. Parts of these mails were subsequently commented on by Wilfried Handl , an opponent and former Austria head of Scientology, on his website. Thereupon the associations Scientology Church Austria and Scientology Mission Austria sued for omission and combined this suit with an injunction, which was finally dismissed by the Higher Regional Court Vienna in the second instance, especially since Scientology neither presented sufficient grounds for the injunction claim, nor the endangerment could be finally verified by Scientology.
  • On January 13, 2013, AnonAustria published data from Austrian ministers, including credit card data. Whether the data is real has not been confirmed.
  • On February 8, 2013 Anonymous Salzburg hijacked the SPÖ Salzburg Stadt website. The reason was probably the Salzburg financial transactions .
  • On April 7, 2013, the event platform of the State Media Center Salzburg was hijacked by Anonymous Salzburg. It was an attack against the ÖVP's top candidate in the state elections, Wilfried Haslauer .
  • In October 2014, AnonAustria hacked the German AfD party and published sensitive data on Twitter, as a result of which the AnonAustria Twitter account was presumably blocked.

In addition to AnonAustria, which caused a sensation mainly through hacktivist actions, there is also Anonymous Wien, which is limited to demonstrations and so-called paperstorms (the distribution of flyers). In addition to a Wordpress blog and forum, they have a Facebook page and the Twitter account Anonymous Wien as a mouthpiece. They have been protesting against Scientology since March 15, 2008. They also organized some paperstorms against data retention and ACTA. They also helped organize the protest march against data retention on March 31, 2012.

In 2011, AnonAustria won the Wolfgang Lorenz Memorial Prize for internet-free minutes . The jury argued that AnonAustria had tracked down and published private data on foreign servers several times, including the private addresses of police officers. This has repeatedly violated the eighth rule of hacker ethics: "Use public data, protect private data."

There is also AnonNewsAUT.

Operation "pitdog"

In 2012, in the run-up to the introduction of data retention (VDS) in Austria as part of EU regulation, reports were circulating that local representatives of the loose network anonymous email traffic from all major parties in the country (SPÖ, ÖVP, FPÖ and others) tapped in more than 10,000 copies and thus collected evidence of clergy and crimes in the political area, especially a currently running corruption committee should be affected, but also many other machinations should be uncovered. The activity was repeatedly dubbed the need for "counter-surveillance". The announcement of the publication went through numerous media and was announced for the introduction date of the VDS on Sunday April 1, 2012 at midnight. The date was preceded by actual demonstrations in several Austrian cities on Saturday, March 31, 2012. The action was called "pitdog", from the English "pit" for hole / pit and "dog" for dog, ie pit dog and thus relatively synonymous with newspaper "duck". Although April 1st was occasionally an occasion to at least consider the possibility of an April Fool's joke , it was dismissed as coincidental due to other circumstances in the run-up to the date, and the apparently deliberate designation "pitdog" only became tangible after the appointment. Publications on the same day reflect the Anonymous words "fictitious". Opinions differ as to whether this action has possibly damaged the reputation of the AnonAustria Group.

Advertisements for disguise

On June 2, 2012 There came during a demonstration by Anonymous against Scientology Vienna to reports of disguise , as some participants had covered her face with a Guy Fawkes mask. As a result, the criminal order of an Anon activist was posted on the Internet and distributed via Twitter (including by AnonAustria). The fine was 50 € or a substitute imprisonment of 25 hours. It is unclear whether the reported Anon activists paid the fine or objected to the sentence. Shortly after the ads, AnonAustria published the Scientology emails. Wilfried Handl used some of these leaked emails on his blog, whereupon Scientology sued him. However, this was unsuccessful.

Activities in Germany

In Germany there have been regular protests against Scientology in several cities since February 10, 2008, and protests against surveillance and censorship have been carried out since 2011.

On April 6, 2013 Anonymous hacked the FDP portal Meine- Freiheit.de in protest against the inventory data information and published some access data on the Internet. They are also active on their German YouTube channel, which is a modified form of the official English-language channel.

Operation GEMA

As part of Operation GEMA , Anonymous attacked GEMA's website with DDoS attacks in June 2011 and paralyzed it for a short time. In a video, the group explained the reasons: GEMA is to blame for the fact that a large part of the music videos can no longer be accessed on the YouTube internet platform in Germany because YouTube has not been able to agree on a new license agreement with GEMA since 2009. (In fact, the corresponding videos from YouTube have been selected arbitrarily; GEMA is conducting a sample process with YouTube for correct licensing, which only affects a few videos.) From Anonymous' point of view, GEMA charges too high fees for accessing videos. "Further measures" were announced in the video, should GEMA's behavior not change. After this did not happen, another attack on the website took place on August 22nd, in which the page was briefly redirected to a graphic, the text of which alluded to the blocking messages from YouTube. It was also possible to read user names and passwords, which were then published on Twitter . In response to the DDoS attacks, there were several house searches of suspects. At Christmas, Anonymous started further campaigns against GEMA and other sides of the Copyright Initiative under the name LulzXmas . This resulted in a "deface" of the initiative copyright and the publication of personal data of the initiative. As it turned out later, communications on the IRC channels were recorded by the authorities prior to the 2011 DDoS attacks.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Anonymous  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Anonymous  - on the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Call for "We are the creators": Anonymous pillories supporters. In: Börsenblatt. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, May 14, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Gerald Himmelein: Anonymous vs. Scientology: Tom Cruise signs mask. In: Heise online. January 21, 2009, accessed May 25, 2011 .
  3. ^ V for Vendetta masks: Who's behind them?
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