"Hackers’ website comes under attack"

[kane_magus]

"A website used to co-ordinate computer attacks on Sony and other big companies by members of Anonymous has itself come under assault in what security experts and veterans of the organisation see as evidence of a split within the hacking group."

Nice. I definitely don't mind seeing Anonymous taken down a peg or three. Looks like some of them might be taking my advice after all (not that I'm claiming any sort of credit for this, mind you, since I'm sure nobody directly involved in this is reading my dinky little blog at all).

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

This happens all the time with Anonymous. ALL the time. I don't know why some people seem to be portraying this as some kind of upheaval inside a "leet hacking group" rather than just understanding there was no leet hacking group to begin with - just a bunch of random people who decided to do something mostly on a whim.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

They're organized enough that they have a website to be hacked and defaced at least, not that that's saying too awfully much. Anyway, I don't follow Anonymous enough myself to know if this is something that happens all the time, so I'll just have to take your word for it. I'm only posting about them lately insofar as that they're in the news in relation to the Sony crap. *shrug*

I agree with you that they're not so much the "1337 h4x0rs" that everyone wants to make them out to be, as they're mostly just script kiddies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOIC) (well, if merely downloading and using LOIC can even be considered as reaching the lofty heights of "script kiddie" status, that is) who happened to get lucky this time in that Sony apparently had really crappy security that made them easy to hack. Not to say that there might not actually be some somewhat skilled hackers who count themselves as Anons, but just that they're the exceptions.