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Fine Gael's website hacked

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭cian1500ww


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Yeah but infact are anti-piracy which would go against the whole Anonymous vibe wouldn't it?

    Fine Gael are hardly a likely target for anyone outside of Ireland, are they?
    If it was members of anonymous then it was more than likely done on a whim, all it takes is a few people with a similar target in mind to get something going. There's bound to be any amount of unofficial attacks carried out by anon's members seeing as there really is no hierarchy in the group.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    cian1500ww wrote: »
    If it was members of anonymous then it was more than likely done on a whim, all it takes is a few people with a similar target in mind to get something going. There's bound to be any amount of unofficial attacks carried out by anon's members seeing as there really is no hierarchy in the group.

    Perhaps - to be honest I'd suspect it's a few script kiddies from Ireland who think they're l33t.

    (Did I say that right? L33t?)

    Also forwarding the details to The Evening Herald? Something awfully parochial about that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,450 ✭✭✭StaticNoise


    What pisses me off the most is the fact that we've all recognised what's really going on, how (more than likely) it's people operating under the moniker "Anonymous", how they have already been recognised as amateurs and that they are no way associated with Anonymous, and still, RTÉ and other broadcasters are still stating that Fine Gael have branded them as the Anons.

    Even for public interest, they could remark towards these findings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,678 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    The whole Anonymous tieing into Wikileaks is a bit much IMHO. Anonymous were around a lot longer than the Wikileaks debacle, and used to be legendary in annoying Scientologists. Fine Gael trying to compare them to some sort of terrorist group intent on destroying the world using information's a bit lame.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    for people struggling with the concept

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Blissett_%28nom_de_plume%29


    Here's the thing, there never was a "Luther Blissett" group, it's an idea that was created and took legs.

    Anon is the same thing. There's no structure, no set core of beliefs, it can act in unison or individually, for a group decided motive or just one guy on a whim.

    Secondly, there was no "hacking" of the FG website. What happened is the equivalent of FG leaving a library book outside their front door unprotected and complaining that someone read it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    In that case this post was made by Anonymous.


    Anono(ymous)Boy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,405 ✭✭✭Lukker-


    The message ont he Fine Gael website is pretty embarrissing.

    Not a clue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    Could we say then that Anonymous is more of a movement than a group? Or even just a name for a certain type of hacktivism/trolling?


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