• Muffi@programming.dev
    111·
    2 months ago

    Angry and nihilistic teenagers used to have tech skills and laptops. Now they have iPads and TikTok.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    2 months ago

    They fizzled out, members probably moved on to various other groups and projects, while the rest simply went on with their lives. A danger of being decentralized is losing all of your momentum.

  • Kcap@lemmy.world
    59·
    2 months ago

    Not gonna dig through their Twitter feed, but I saw someone a couple months ago ask them this exact question on one of their posts, and they wrote a pretty interesting response. They basically said, we’re still here, trying to fuck the system up, but, with all the information we’ve provided and ported out there to the world, y’all haven’t done dick with it. Laws haven’t been passed, politicians haven’t been ousted, corporations are still abusing the systems. So they were basically saying, what good is them leaking and hacking if the public doesn’t take a more activist approach towards change themselves and hold the people they expose accountable.

    • Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
      10·
      2 months ago

      Well if I knew how to take down sites and child porn site I totally would. Just don’t know what to study and probably don’t want to be another computer cracker using programs found online.

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
        12·
        2 months ago

        If you’re serious, study cyber security to start.

        Then move towards devops.

        Worse case scenario, you’ll end up in a 6-figure job making complaints into the void as you write bash scripts to speed up a pipeline by 0.1 second.

        Best case scenario, you take down a massive criminal ring that sprouts back up like a weed a few days later.

  • saigot@lemmy.ca
    52·
    2 months ago

    Hacking got harder, and the enforced penalties for getting caught became a lot more severe (in the west at least). This meant that most hackers aren’t doing it for luls but for serious business.

  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
    45·
    2 months ago

    “They” got over it, as most people do, and moved on. Remnants still remain, but they were unified due to a critical mass of dissent.

    Don’t expect to see anything like it again until another critical inflection point. Just know that, if you do, shit’s prolly in a bad place…so…

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    32·
    2 months ago

    A meme that comes quickly, goes quickly.

    It’s not an actual organised group, if you didn’t know. Anyone can hack something and then say “Done by Anonymous”.

  • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    They (I use that term to mean the average 4channer) were co-opted by alt right propaganda.

    Most neckbeard, incel, Andrew Tate followers are what Anon originally was. We just lied to ourselves that it wasn’t really racist and that we were fighting a good fight.

    Now, its a bunch of sad lonely people that found acceptance in intolerance and hatred.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
    22·
    2 months ago

    Shutting down porn sites? Is that a thing they wanted to achieve? Like free video sites like PH or production companies like Brazzers?

      • nutsack@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        doxing work is very boring. much of it is thousands of hours sifting through the lamest social media content you can imagine.

  • Mikina@programming.dev
    15·
    2 months ago

    it’s also important to keep in mind that the cybersecurity field has adbanced tremendously, with cloidfare, EDRs, and in general it is now way harder to do anything anonymously without getting caught, quickly. This also males the field of hacking way more difficult to get in, which combined with reduced attention span of younger generations probably means there’s not that many bored teens willing to put the time in, and as an adult you have way much more to loose, so for hose who had the skills it would be a lot greater risk.

  • tisktisk@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Curious to know what answers you were looking for here OP. What makes you think they aren’t doing these things but stopped identifying themselves as such? Also some dialogue is required about the myriad of things ‘Anonymous’ took responsibility for but were never adequately confirmed as objectively true–and more importantly, what is accomplished with this last feat? I believe the answer you seek lies in these depths