Anonymous Releases Its Own Linux-based Operating System

[pocketdrummer]

I don't trust this OS AT ALL!

Even if it's a great OS, I'm sure they added little "features" so that your computer automatically participates in DDOS attacks without your knowledge.

Even if it's legit, I'm still sticking to good ol' Ubuntu

 

[DRosencraft]

@officeguy

Thank you Anonymous for admitting that you are criminals.

You're a criminal too, you know.
Ever watched a DVD on Linux?
Ever downloaded anything?
Ever sung a few lines from a song in public?

Two of those are crimes punishable by a 250,000 dollar fine and possible jail time; the last one is simply a civil matter which can net rights-holders upwards of that quarter-million depending on how many songs you sung and how the jury's feeling.

I'm not trying to change or hide the fact that DDoS attacks are criminal; and they will continue to be for the forseeable (10-30 years) future while the current crop of technology-dumb politicians die off. After that, I expect things to change- just like I expect the DMCA to be repealed at that time (there will be something else after that though).

But the thing is that there are only certain ways to protest against a company or five that are trying to take away your freedoms; that way is online. You can't assemble many people who don't have much money to go halfway around the world (or even just the US)- so you protest in the only way you can, which in this case is online.

But that's just talking about DDoS, which forms the majority of Anonymous' operations beside the usual trolling, raids, and other Internet jokes.

I have no moral problems about joining 100,000 other people in burying a site in ping or ACK requests; that protest is usually broken up quickly and doesn't do any irreparable harm to the company you protest against.

But I DO have a problem with actually accessing a server-side computer and changing files; it's like taking down a business's poster from the inside of the shop by breaking and entering. If it's illegal to do in the physical world it should be illegal to do in digital and vice versa (something Anon fights to protect in their own strange ways).

But that's not the typical news-making operation against anti-1st-amendment target X which should be allowed to take place.

Your "Examples" are far too broad. If "anything" downloaded was a crime, the internet itself would be illegal because most websites have you download at least little packets of information for running the website. You wouldn't even be able to check e-mail. As for the song thing, that falls under the "fair use" exemption in most copyright/licensing laws. It's the same way that you can tape a sports match and invite your friends over to watch it without worrying that you'll be sued; because there is a customary exemption.

My problem with Anonymous, and those who defend them fully or tacitly, is that they diminish the effectiveness cleaner forms of protest. Violent protests, attacking companies in the physical world or digital, builds and perpetuates a perception that other forms of protest are at the least ineffective, if not futile, while damaging the very cause that is being supported. We all have companies and causes we think are bad if not evil, but when you start slashing and burning to try to get rid of them, you come off as a petulant child and just another bad guy trying to pretend to be a good guy. Joining 100,000 people to "bury" a website may not seem like much to you, but you're not the one who has to handle the clean-up, or whose business lost customers or reputation for however long it is that your website was taken down. This is the same as getting as many people as you can and standing in front of the door to a brick and mortar store blocking the door, which is illegal as well.

Yes, they do know that what they're doing is illegal. Because a criminal who isn't looking to get attention first of all rationalizes their actions to the point of not seeing it as illegal, and secondly would never so clearly point out to others not to do the very same act they regularly commit. It shows consciousness of guilt.

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I wouldn't go so far to say its the road to hell, but good intentions are not enough to justify any and all tactics to accomplish a desired goal. If you want to give them the benefit of the doubt, I could see Anonymous at its best like this - good intentions but poor choice of tactics. Counter, however, I think they are more like prideful and self-aggrandizing individuals who like the attention and thrill of being able to claim superiority over all these big companies... just like most hackers from the beginning of the internet.

 

[gamoniac]

@officeguy, I thumbed you up.

I will only conditionally trust this OS if they have a support phone number

 

[d4rkr4in]

If you look at the download comments, all claim its a trojan backdoor. I'll stick with my windows 7.

 

[andywork78]

"Ever sung a few lines from a song in public?"

Well... then every Christmas many ppl have to go a jail because they song in public?

I don't think so.

Good point start with this post.

But it start out of point of article.

Ubuntu base linux.

Well it was Ubuntu then it's safe but once out of there hands.

it's not safe.

No matter what which company redeveloped if is not Ubuntu then Ubuntu base system os are not safe.

Just know what you are doing.

 

[COLGeek]

This could be quite the elaborate ruse or honeypot....... Buyer/user beware!

 

[megamanx00]

Um, no. There are already good distros for security testing. In light of recent event's I wouldn't trust an anonymous distro. You might be unwittingly creating a zombie for one ^_^.

 

[waethorn]

Released by The Jester.

 

[Guest]

I'm very disappointed that the link to download this is still listed on this website...

 

[Fierce Guppy]

You have rocks in your head if your trust a Linux spin rolled out by an organisation of morally dubious hacktivist script kiddies.

 

[Fierce Guppy]

[citation][nom]Fierce Guppy[/nom]You have rocks in your head if your trust a Linux spin rolled out by an organisation of morally dubious hacktivist script kiddies.[/citation]

Argh... "if you trust", not "if your trust" It's 6:40am in the morning, so that's my excuse.

 

[GreaseMonkey_62]

Just sniff your own packets and find out. If your downloading this and you don't know how to do that at least you shouldn't be downloading it.

I wouldn't even bother downloading it.

 

[lockhrt999]

[citation][nom]officeguy[/nom]Hmmmm, interesting. So, they do know it is a crime if they attack web sites and that is what they do. I have been saying all along they these people ARE criminals and I always get thumbs down. They you Anonymous for aditting that you are criminals.[/citation]
I agree with you completely. People have lost their perspective. I don't care how many thumbs down I'll have now, the truth always finds its way in the end.

 

[Uberragen21]

Wait, wait... Let me download the hackers OS so they can turn my computer into a zombie and use it for their DOS attacks on websites; meanwhile I get blamed, because my IP shows up on the webservers list. Yes, that's one for the books.

 

[Guest]

This looks more like a stackscript for the latest version for Ubuntu than an independent OS... It's just a theme and some freeware..

The only thing that really changes anything is that you're stuck with 32 bit, which I do suppose is better if you're crackin' 'cryptions or generating spam. I don't think this should really be covered, because while those are all nice freeware tools, this isn't really worth your time over any other Linux distro; keyloggers/trojans or not.

 

[whimseh]

No thanks, not a fan of Linux or idiotic "anonymous"

 

[tokencode]

Running an OS written by someone who will no reveal their identity is possibly one fo the dumbest things you can do

 

[pocketdrummer]

[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]I don't trust this OS AT ALL!Even if it's a great OS, I'm sure they added little "features" so that your computer automatically participates in DDOS attacks without your knowledge.Even if it's legit, I'm still sticking to good ol' Ubuntu[/citation]

HA!!! I called it... kinda.

Maybe it doesn't auto join LOIC, but it's riddled with Trojans, and it isn't really Anon's work (not that I'd consider it if it were).

 

[knowom]

they could have at least hacked windows instead 😉 smh