MetaFilter posts tagged with Anonymous

The dark side of the internet

jouke — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:23:41 -0800

The dark side of the internet. In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. Article in the Guardian.

All in all it's just another brick in the wall

HotPants — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:50:32 -0800

British Department of Health releases LR Hubbard Docs The British government has released documents compiled to expose Scientology's founder as a fraud. The main foci seem to be the role of Sequoia University in granting Hubbard's PhD, and the sudden mental illness of an investigating district attorney after visiting with some dubious doctors. p r e v i o u s l y .

Internet Lynch Mob

mippy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:33:15 -0800

The 8 Most Awesome Examples of Internet Vigilantism. Contains a heady mix of justice and harrassment.

Spontaneous rebellion alone is not sufficient.

divabat — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:52:44 -0800

The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself

palin's yahoo mail hacked ... oh anonymous, what will you do next

yeoz — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:05:22 -0800

Sarah Palin's email gets hacked by Anonymous (right, that Anonymous). And given the legal contro versy surrounding her email, one wonders if the fact that her yahoo email accounts are now deleted constitutes destruction of evidence or violations of public-records laws. Its hit Wikileaks too, but, I'm not sure they have more then what's already released (rapidshare).

Anonymous American in Rangoon

gen — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:38:33 -0800

A week in Burma after the storm is the second of two anonymous eyewitness reports at danwei.org of the impact and aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. It is the most gripping and tremendously sad report I have read yet on the human tragedy that is Nargis and the Myanmar Junta's non-response.

The monster was wailing, things were crashing on the roof, and the windows looked to break at any moment. The walls and ceilings were moist with water and part of the ceiling had even opened up to spill water below. I felt that with these winds, the whole wall and ceiling could really be peeled away at any moment. I chanced another look out my door and with the force of the winds, plus the caved-in ceiling and electrical wires, chancing an escape seemed not much better an option, especially given that I didn't even know where the emergency stair case was.

"...it stunts your evolution."

brain cloud — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:35:44 -0800

Former 'poster boy for Scientology,' Jason Beghe, OTV, Class V auditor, and seasoned character actor speaks out in a two hour interview about his experience as a celebrity in the CoS. A week ago Mark Bunker, affectionately known as Wise Beard Man to the Anonymous movement, posted a teaser video on YouTube to an interview he conducted with character actor Jason Beghe (Monkey Shines, Thelma & Louise, numerous TV appearances) about his experience . Though he's not a household name, the move was seen as a major win by critics, since so far Jason is the highest-profile ex-scienotologist to come forward as a critic of the organization. The teaser video was seen nearly 600,000 times before the video was abruptly taken down and Bunker's account was supsended by YouTube. YouTube claims Bunker's account was suspended due to two months-old DMCA complaints from Viacom regarding short Colbert Show clips that Bunker had posted on YouTube, and not due to any request by the Church of Scientology (tm). Others, who have noticed Scientology's big adsense push on YouTube lately, are a bit skeptical of that claim. Previously on Metafilter: Anon Protests : Seekrit Dox : Tom "Go to guns" Cruise

Иванов Иван Иванович

mdonley — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:59:45 -0800

John Ivan NN Janez Sultano Bērziņš "John Doe" around the world.

Anonymous' Church of Scientology protest has some and gone

phearlez — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:53:11 -0800

If you have missed knowing about the 'declaration of war' from Anonymous, Jess Lee does a good job of summarizing the story. In short: some people don't like the Church of Scientology and have been waging a virtual war on the Church's various electronic presences. After some of that, someone called for a live action: protesting in front of CoS facilities. It happened this weekend. You could look to traditional media for coverage, but this is an internet internet phenomenon - why not look at one of the over 4,600 Flickr pictures tagged with "Scientology" and "Anonymous" taken between the 8th and the 11th? Or look at one of the YouTube videos of events all over the world, linked by Jess Lee or sift through the two-thousand-plus YouTube videos from the last week. The revolution will be televised? Maybe. But it seems certain the internet-based protests will be streamed. And, sometimes, rickrolled.

Images of unknown provenance

tellurian — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:46:44 -0800

*M*I*R*R*O*R* *W*O*R*L*D* Photographs Of Unknown Origin [NSFW]

the cupboard, the cupboard.

hama7 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:47:34 -0800

The Cupboard.

Next thing I now, I had a bunch of naked guys on my profile.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:13:31 -0800

According to LA's Fox 11, Anonymous is epic evil and considered harmful.

A new place for all your burning relationship questions.

bigmusic — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:13:53 -0800

A new agony aunt for you. He beat me after I cheated... can I fix this or should I leave? More examples inside.

Death Threats in the Blogosphere

zabuni — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:01:17 -0800

"I've been getting death threat comments on this blog." Kathy Sierra, of the Creating Passionate Users blog, has currently canceled a talk at the ETech conference because of death threats on (and off) her blog. Scoble's mad, and so is everyone else. But isn't this what happens when we bring anonymity to the Internet?

Anonymously.

divabat — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:12:19 -0800

The Anonymous Message Server - leave a message, get a message. (or a URL, if you want.)

Apple's mystery blogger

TheDonF — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:38:19 -0800

Apple has its own mystery blogger. Not to be outdone by Microsoft's secretive Mini Microsoft, Apple now has its own anonymous blogger (except with a less attractive blog and more spelling mistakes). There's not too much there at the moment, but how long can they last before being shut down? via Scoble

Treasure My Text in public.

feelinglistless — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:01:52 -0800

"Treasuremytext allows you to store SMS Messages (text messages) from your mobile phone online [...] generates a realtime RSS stream of saved messages for viewing by others.: "You gotta realise what u want from me, i ain't here for you to walk on, i'm happy the way things r goin but don't really know where i stand." [Incidentally much of the text here is NSFW.]

Message In A Bottle

daninnj — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:21:14 -0800

Oceangram is billed as an "online message in a bottle website." Send an anonymous message and it floats to another user in the world. They will add to it and it floats to another and so on. You'll get a bottle sent to you and you can add to it. [mi]

Anonymous Law Firm

grumblebee — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:02:32 -0800

The New York office was opened by the founders of the Firm in 1908, the same year women competed in the modern Olympics for the first time. While the Firm moved its headquarters to Los Angeles in 1972, the New York office remains a critical branch of the Firm today, paying tribute to the firm's deeply rooted traditions by undervaluing support staff, requiring formal business attire, and excluding Jews.

Free speech for the shy or self-conscious

pmbuko — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:09:24 -0800

What would you say, given one free minute of anonymous, uncensored speech? via Wired

I spy with my little eye encrypted darknets on the horizon

sourbrew — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 02:40:14 -0800

we have talked about darknets before. The motivation exists. Some solutions exist, speculation is prevalent. What would it take for you to become faceless.

Shhh, it's a secret

mathowie — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:44:54 -0800

Post Secret is a group confessional, where the site admin solicits deep, dark secrets from anyone that sends theirs in via postcard, then scans them in, and hijinks/hilarity/psychosis ensues. Kinda like grouphug, but more visual and has a bit of a barrier to entry.

It turns out it wasn't Joe Klein

sixpack — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 09:40:21 -0800

The anonymous author of Imperial Hubris has been revealed.

Anonymous

homunculus — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:17:58 -0800

Everyone's favorite unidentified 22-year CIA veteran who used to hunt Osama bin Laden, Anonymous, is back with a new book, "Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror," and suggests that al-Qaida may try to reward Bush before the election. Last year, Anonymous created a stir with another book and was interviewed on Nightline. If only he had a scramble suit, he could do a book tour.

Old Family Photos

th3ph17 — Mon, 24 May 2004 10:50:05 -0800

Gallery of the Unamed. As much as i love digital cameras, i doubt that in a hundred years our descendants will rummage thru stacks of old flash cards or CD's looking for pictures. Here is almost 10,000 old photographs...not only the unknown, but Civil War veterans, railroads, fire departments...or you can search by location or surname. I've already spent hours and hours looking. Have some of your own? Go ahead and send them in...