Geekosystem created a info-graphic chart describing his flowchart-like layout.Eric Limer writes, "Events are listed in unscaled but roughly chronological order from top to bottom." It's mostly helpful in seeing how the different groups are connected to each other and where they branch off on special projects. There's even some color coding and visual cues to show who's friends with whom and what those relationships begat in the recent history of hacking. There's not, however, much explanation about the projects or the groups. We've done our best to itemize and explain everything with a handy hacker glossary.
The Anonymous Branch
4chan - Started by Christopher Poole (screenname: moot) created this anonymous, image-based forum in his New York City bedroom at age 15. Since its launch in 2003, 4chan has grown to become one of the most trafficked forums on the internet with nearly seven million unique visitors a month. The culture at 4chan is both incredibly creative--memes like lolcats and Rickrolling started on 4chan boards--as well as potentially destructive--4chan users hacked Gawker and released the account info of all their users earlier last year.
Anonymous - The name of the Anonymous, leaderless hacking group originated on 4chan in 2003, and it's believed that various members of Anonymous met there. In 2008, an unofficial spokesperson Trent Peacock described the group on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio show:
Anonymous uses the Guy Fawkes mask from V Is for Vendetta as one logo and a headless businessman for others. Beyond iconography, however, the history of Anonymous is best told through a timeline of its projects.
Project Chanology -Project Chanology (also called Operation Chanology) is a protest movement against the practices of the Church of Scientology by members of Anonymous, a leaderless Internet-based group that defines itself as ubiquitous. The project was started in response to the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove material from a highly publicized interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet in January 2008.Though that war took many forms--prank calls, black faxes, denial-of-service attacks--it all started with this YouTube video:
YouTube Porn Day - After the long fought battle with the Church of Scientology and a few other smaller projects, members of Anonymous teamed up with eBaum's World users to declare YouTube Porn Day on May 20, 2009. The protest itself, as the name sort of suggests, involved countless people uploading porn to YouTube to annoy the moderators who would then have to remove the videos. It took YouTubedays to remove all of the videos. The group repeated the action in 2010 "in protest of YouTube's decision to suspend the account of Lukeywes1234," an otherwise typical user whose account was suspended for abuse language:
Operation Payback - Anonymous did some work around the 2009 Iran election protests and Australian internet policy, but they gained global notoriety as a activists--or more appropriately, "hacktivists"--for their support for WikiLeaks. Although the project started in September 2010 as a war against the recording industry for opposing internet privacy, it evolved. Beginning in late November 2010, when the first U.S. diplomatic cables were released by WikiLeaks, Anonymous latched onto the cause and launched Project Avenge Assange, an attack on banks and credit card companies who froze WikiLeaks donations.
AnonOps.US - This subgroup of Anonymous spun off in mid-October 2010 when Operation Payback hit a lull. They bill themselves as an infrastructure for the group, and their internet relay chat (IRC) network remains acentral hub for activity amongst various hacker group. They also maintain a Twitter account with updates.
Operation Leakspin- Anonymous conceived of Leakspin in December 2010 as a way to helpWikiLeaks sort through data. Unlike Operation Payback, which was bent on destruction, Leakspinfocused on exposing information for the public good, and the effort still survives across a number of websites.
Attack on HB Gary - After Aaron Barr, chief executive of the internet security firm HBGary, announced that he would reveal the inner workings of Anonymous at a conference in February 2010, the group brought down their website and phones, erased files and pulled over 68,000 emails from their database. Within those documents was a PowerPoint presentation called "The WikiLeaks Threat" which HBGary compiled for Bank of America in order identify and potentially disrupt the activities of journalists who supported the movement, including Glenn Greenwald.
Operation Sony - Sony filed a lawsuit against George Hotz, a hacker who reverse engineered the Sony Playstation 3, in January 2011. In response, Anonymous announced that they would attack Sony's website in early April 2011. Three weeks later, the entire Playstation network was brought down, and Sony was unable to restore the network for weeks. Anonymous cheekily denied responsibility for the attack, although Sony reports having discovered a document named "Anonymous" on their servers that read "We Are Legion." .
Operation Orlando - Anonymous attacked the websites of the Orlando Chamber of Commerce and Universal Orlando Resort in June 2011 after police there arrested Food Not Bombs volunteers for breaking city ordinances while trying to feed the homeless. HackerLeaks, a WikiLeaks-type site just for hackers, was created as a result.
The LulzSec Branch
LulzSec - Lulz Security, commonly abbreviated as LulzSec, was a computer hacker group that claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks, including the compromise of user accounts from Sony Pictures in 2011. The group also claimed responsibility for taking the CIA website offline. The group has been described as a "cyber terrorism group" by the Arizona Department of Public Safety after their systems were compromised and information leaked. It has gained attention due to its high profile targets and the sarcastic messages it has posted in the aftermath of its attacks.
AntiSec - LulzSec disbanded in June 2011 but not before they announced a new project that reunited LulzSec members with the leaders of Anonymous. This hacktivism project began with a major release of documents from law enforcement officers in Arizona.
The Web Ninjas, TeaMp0isoN, The A-Team and th3j35st3r -
TeaMp0isoN - TeaMp0isoN is a British hacker group. According to the group member TriCk (also known asSaywhat?), the core of the group consists of three members who know each other online for five years but never met in person.Another member of the group uses online nick iN^SaNe .
The Jester (also known by the leetspeak handle th3j35t3r) is a self-described gray hat "hacktivist" who is allegedly responsible for attacks on WikiLeaks, 4chan, Iranian President , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Islamist websites.He claims to be acting out of American patriotism.The Jester developed and uses the denial-of-service (DoS) tool known as "XerXeS". One of The Jester's habits is to tweet "TANGO DOWN" on Twitter whenever he successfully takes down a website.
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