Anonymous Strikes Deus Ex, Eidos Websites

These guys are some sort of jerks. I'm hoping they are caught some day and rather than offering them a job - which is usually what happens with hackers - instead tossing them in the clink for a good 10-15 years.

What a bunch of total imbeciles. These people are contemptible.

It's great to have computer skills. To use those skills to steal the property of developers and designers who are pouring their sweat into making software titles to be sold is just despicable.

These people are too lazy to get real jobs and instead spend their time destroying the livelihood of others. They deserve universal condemnation from users.

Do people understand yet why Anonymous aren't heroes? They're just people who like to hurt other people, then hide behind "social justice" or other empty marketing-grade buzzwords. Anonymous does not give a damn about Guantanamo, Tibet, or whatever other cause they use as excuse. Don't fool yourselves; they're the online equivalent of wife-beaters.

Giving a sullen Asperger's poster-child punk computer skills doesn't somehow make them anything other than a skilled punk.

Big difference between 9000 and 350 resumes.... Yay sensationalism. The next article I see will have a headline of "9000 resumes and source code stolen by Anonymous".
Why has Toms Hardware gone all tabloid in the past few years? (I don't care if the article originated on another site either -- you guys shouldn't just repost it anyways -- this isn't Gawker).

Why do companies keep making the mistake of havign sensitive game source code data on the same hard disk /network of their own website, keep the damn things separated!, hackers can only steal what you have on there FFS

The complete chat log can be found here http://pastebin.com/8yb6bVxQ.

btw these are rogue anon member. unfair to hate on the majority of anon that don't support this.

Oh and its ok for Anon to hate on everyone that uses PS3 just because a few people didnt agree with what they did cause thats what Anon did, took down Sony and affected EVERYONE. but its ok to keep believing your fairy tale

Based on what's written here, it wasn't Anon that hacked Eidos then...

Last I checked they didnt hate on everyone that uses a PS3. They took down sony for a short while with a DDoS attack, but the people that caused PSN to be down for so long were not part of Anon.

Also, from what I read in this article, anon had nothing to do with the attack on Eidos. For once, I really disagree with the title of an article.

It wasn't anon, sony only said it might be

If you hack a company and cause a 7 figure financial loss, you deserve a double tap to the forehead. People need to burn these Anon Aholes to the ground...

Once again, that was not Anon. PSN is/was down due to the infiltration that stole data which was not Anon. A simple DDoS was from anon, which could cause only some minor downtime.

@azcoyote well said sir

I hear it might be a retaliation for in game advertising of things like The Mechanic and McDonalds in a game based in the future.

If thats true then these people are even more pathetic than I thought

@TheRabidDeer - I call BS. They WERE affiliated with Anon and got disavowed. Does that mean Anon is a bunch of pus$ies or are they just disloyal when the heat is on? BTW a DDos attack causes losses as well. Anon is not acting on social conscience or realizing some new form of digital activism. It is Cyberterrorism. Attack, destroy, steal, graffiti, cause mayhem... For what? For every 1 "idealistic" member in Anon, there are probably 100 punkish script kiddies with a grudge and cr@p for morals. Anon needs to burn and I would happily douse each member in kerosene and give the Feds a match if I could...

Well if I were Anon, I'd seriously consider stopping and/or outing the punks who did do it, since they are seriously giving Anon a bad name.

Yes, and if I come to your house, almost step on your foot, before running off, I suppose the news would be more than appropriate to say: "US Navy unleashes covert operation to injure civilian! Mission Canceled when cover was blown!"

Get real. This has absolutely nothing to do with Anonymous beyond the fact that these people "used" to be in Anon, at best. And I assure you.. after a stunt like this, Anon they are no longer. Perhaps you should know what your talking about before tossing your two cents around.




If Anon taking down Sony for a short period of time has THAT big of an effect on you.. You need a much better life. Also, they didn't hate on anyone for using a PS3, stop making crap up. So yeah, I'd rather believe my fairy tale, then your flat out uninformed, unrealistic, and rather childish bias and lies. Anon, sir, stands for something. Wish you could say the same.




Are you really that mad you can't play COD right now on PSN? Go buy a book.. Meet a girl.. Something productive.



You too.

@Scuba

Actually I don't own a PS3 or other console... PC gamer.. Regardless, no person or group should be allowed to attack a company, negatively affect it's business, effectively tarnish it's reputation, devalue it's stock, damage it's employees livelihood, and then just walk because YOU think the people who use their services should read a book, meet a girl, or use their time differently. That is some seriously flawed thinking being used to excuse some seriously criminal behavior. I have news for you and people like you Scuba. If you dislike Sony or any other corporation, don't buy their products... H3ll, go stand at their door and scream with a picket sign if you want... You have that right... You and everyone else like you do NOT have the right to attack them digitally, deface their property, diminish their ability to do business, or steal from them... This is just as criminal a throwing a firebomb through a front window of a business. The difference being that because this is an internet attack, they can hide behind their anonymity... For a while at least.... Anon needs to burn. I hope you sympathizers burn with them...

Note: "Psychotic" means hallucinating and/or delusional. It has nothing to do with malicious behavior.

Amazing how these guys covered their tracks so well *sarcasm*. What with them already being blamed for "framing" their fall guy.

No it is not. But people need to blame the group as a whole any way possible.

So you're saying that all "real life" activists should also be put behind bars.

Saying that all of Anon should be brought down because a couple asspies got a burr in their panties and took it out on a former Anon member doesn't mean what Anon is doing is wrong (the rest of their actions, maybe, but not this particular example). Remember, Anonymous doesn't claim credit for the Sony hackings, and the main body of Anonymous didn't claim credit for these hackings (and these groups typically like to claim credit).

Is performing a DDoS any different than getting a flash mob to picket a store? It might be on a larger scale, but then again, it takes a lot more computers to block-off a website than it does angry people to block-off the entrance of a store. If PeTA were picketing a clothing store for selling fur or leather, and some jerk, wearing a PeTA T-Shirt, walks in a steals a pair of jeans while security is distracted with the protesters, does that mean PeTA is at fault? No.

Now, you may not think Sony's business practices or selling fur is a protestable offense, but
some people do. Some people didn't think taxation without representation was deserving of a revolution, but the U.S. won it's independence despite the British sympathizers.

Look at any revolution. In Egypt, hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of Egyptians actively revolted against the government and got the president to step down. At the same time, some a-holes, drunk with power, took to the streets and beat-up or sexually assaulted reporters. Now, you can't say the whole Egyptian "revolution" was flawed because a fringe group of psychopaths took advantage of the chaos. Those individuals were flawed, and either caved to the mob mentality, or knowingly took advantage of it.

Same with these little script-kiddies (sounds like they didn't do the hack themselves, probably couldn't). Anon is causing chaos in the world, and these jerks decided to carve out a little venture of their own.

If it wasn't Anon condoned, then they need to out these guys to save face.

They might not have supported it but they are encouraging the kind of behavior that spawns into this by using people who have a weak grasp on morals. There needs to be more action than just kicking people out who obviously had weak ties to the group already.

You can say its to punish the big fish at the top, but all the big fish do when they lose money is fire the average joes who work for them to compensate. Who do you really hurt in the end?

Did you even read the article or did you just see "Anonymous" in the title and immediately start bashing your face against the keyboard? Just because someone used to be Anon doesn't give you the right to associate this with them. You might as well say every christian is a murderer if one goes and shoots up a place, because, hey he used to be christian, right?




Rosa Parks didn't have the right to sit in the front of the bus either. The law isn't always correct.

But either way, DDoS attacks cause minor damage and don't really hurt anyone that badly, it's more like the internet version of a picket line. You know how those actually work right? Picketers discourage people from doing business with a company by any means they're willing to take. Picket lines can get violent with just one person taking things too far. They're pretty disruptive to a business, but without them workers would have far less rights. Hacking can go the same way, sometimes it's a simple DDoS and sometimes someone goes too far and steals personal info. A poorly organized group like Anonymous can't control their members well enough to prevent it, but the majority isn't pushing for anything more extreme either. Most of them are script kiddies, but there's some real hackers in the bunch who can actually get personal into and ruin lives. If Anonymous as a whole wanted to terrorize, they could. They could get private addresses, make pipebombs, hack into people's accounts and spread malicious info. Do not underestimate the power of a large group of people, they can protest peacefully, but if a few people start straying the wrong way the whole group could move with it. Be glad they're here though, because without people standing up for themselves, we'll be controlled like cattle pretty fast. The government would love nothing more than having an excuse to put a collar around your neck.

It's more likely just someone hired by Sony to ruin Anonymous' reputation in the ignorant masses. It's really pretty easy to label someone a terrorist considering so few actually bother to check facts and just believe what the news tells them. You don't ruin peaceful movements with clubs, you ruin them with propaganda and deceit. The more "evil acts" Anons do, the more Sony can play the victim and try to get people to forget they had lousy security to begin with.

Refer to Hellwig's post. I couldn't have possibly said it better myself. Needless to say.. This country was forged upon actions very similar to that of what Anon is doing now. The basics are the exact same now, as they were then.. Alot of people have had enough, and Anon agrees, and they have the resources to do something about it. Do they need to DDoS everything, and misc, into oblivion from time to time? Maybe, maybe not. But as Hellwig mentioned.. I'm fairly certain we didn't need to make the Boston Harbor taste better...

Simply put.. America was founded on standing up again corruption. If you don't have the will, fortitude, or character to do the same.. Or are simply not affected/don't care.. Shut up and stay out of their way. Anon isn't trying to hurt you, but some things will splatter a bit when they launch an "attack". War, is never pretty. And that's exactly what Anon is doing on the digital front.

No, I actually didn't say that... nice try at a sensational lie based comeback though... Activism != hacking in digital realm just as it does not equal burning buildings IRL. As to jailing people over activism in real life, if they were attacking a business physically and setting it's offices on fire, then YES. Put them in jail. Regardless, your statement is absurd. Go picket something if you wanna be an activist. Activism this is/was not... It was criminal... Theft, destruction, defacement, and denial of service are all criminal acts regardless of whether you do it digitally or IRL.

If you didn't say that, please.. pray tell what the heck you meant by:
"Anon needs to burn. I hope you sympathizers burn with them..."
Because.. Personally, that sounds bad to me. Sounds like I should get the same punishment as your "so called" criminals.. just for supporting them. PS.. Communist's do the same thing to their citizens. You a commie buddy? If not, chill out.. Your being ridiculous. And childish. If I get enough people to stand around a building, shoulder to shoulder.. Then no one could enter without assaulting someone. That's basically the same as a DDoS.. Actively doing something until services can not be rendered.

And nobody said THIS instance of hacking wasn't criminal. This had no point, or reason. Nor are those responsible doing anything to make their agenda clear. So, as such, we are forced to conclude/assume they did it for fun. THESE guys should be punished. Anon, however, stands for something. Maybe you should be a little less judgmental about those who are different in mind, or body, than yourself. Or go to China. I've been there too.. I think you sound like you would fit right in.

Oh, and picketers can stand out front and try to persuade you not to use a company. They cannot stand at the door and block you from entering. Freedom means letting YOU choose to do business with them or not. DDos takes that choice away from everyone. Don't try and play it down like it is not a big deal and "not real damage". It may not destroy something real but it DOES infringe on the rights of a person to choose. Be careful with all this rhetoric about the Revolutionary War. Anon and it's ilk are worse than the foes they claim to stand against. The millions of people affected by the PSN outage aren't Sony nor are they a tax hungry monarchy. The difference between Anon and the Boston Tea Party is that colonists were standing against a government overtaxing them. Freedom was being infringed by placing an overburden on people to the crown. Anon attacks BUSINESSES. These aren't governments. They aren't suppressing the will of the people. People choose to use them or don't. It is a free market. Anon and several of you responders want to claim that they are activists? Please, which website did you attack that is worthy of the comparison to Rosa Parks above. You really will say anything to try and justify your acts won't you? The facts are these. Hackers are not standing against injustice. They are destroying something in the name of a false cause. If you guys wanna try and convince yourselves that you are Internet Knights here to save the unwitting masses... enjoy that. I hope they lock your ass away and you have to try and explain to a hairy man named bubba how you are so cool as a hacker... The rest of us in reality know you are a bunch of disgruntled a******s with good computer skills...

i sense a huge con to disrepute anon...

as expected tho, coz anons pick huge names as their target. they will retaliate somehow

If they use illegal means to get their point across. Definitely. If they cause millions of dollars in financial damages to not only their target, but other companies who do business with them, like the PSN attack, that they as a group would never be able to pay back, they should either spend the rest of their life in prison, or the rest of their life working for minimum wage as a janitor for one of the companies they affected.