When taking responsibility for a hack, Anonymous often uses one particularly cryptic message, but what does "We are Legion" really mean? Officials have stated repeatedly that what happened at the stock exchange was the result of an internal error , not an outside attack, and that there was no evidence the three incidents were connected or that any hacking was involved.
Naturally, that did not satisfy the more suspicious among us, especially after it was discovered that Anonymous tweeted the night before the systems' outages: "Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall Street. So where does the phrase "We are Legion" come from? It's actually a biblical quote with some deeply sinister implications. In the Bible, Jesus comes upon a man possessed by a demon, and asks him "what is thy name," according to the King James version.
But probably most importantly, the Church was rampantly guilty of feeding the trolls But Project Chanology was the perfect way for the people who did have a history with Scientology to jump under the wing of the haughty and lulzy collective.
Scientology had pursued its detractors with mean spirited ruthlessness, delving into critic's personal lives, following them with investigators and ruining their reputations. Anonymous didn't care.
Call them rapists, and they'd laughingly tell you they were child rapists. Anonymity and the 'words will never hurt me' ethic that arose out of the aesthetic of extremes on 4chan made them immune to the Church's arsenal. But some existing Anons, and the ones that came in from the community of Scientology detractors, really cared about winning this one. They wanted to be the good guys and Scientology to play the bad guys. The Church, they reasoned, hurt people, took their money, and lied to them under the guise of being caretakers and teachers.
Anonymous claimed to do all those bad things too, but didn't really, and would never promise to take care of you and teach you, but sometimes did anyway. As Coleman put it in her study, they were the perfect nemeses. But Anons caring about doing the right thing is about morality, and morality, at least straight morality, is not the lulz. On February 10, , the "moralfags" took the whole thing to a new level.
They set up meeting times and places in cities around the world, bought masks and made signs. Anons left the internet by the thousands and showed up in front of church locations and Scientology centers around the world, many wearing their new Guy Fawkes masks, V for Vendetta movie merchandise sold by Warner Brothers, to obscure their identities.
They played music and walked around with signs that both accused Scientology of crimes and referenced obscure internet memes. They met each other in meat space for the first time. They partied with their own in front of aghast Scientologists in more than 90 cities. The time has come for us to unite, the time has come for us to stand up and fight! You are Anonymous! We are in the information era. This was the end of the first broadcast video Anonymous launched against the Church of Scientology.
The so-called "Streisand Effect" is a recognized Internet phenomenon whereby the attempt to censor information, gets the opposite effect: more people want to see it, regardless of the reason, and therefore, it acquires greater diffusion.
The phenomenon is named after Barbara Streisand's attempt to ban, through a multi-million dollar lawsuit, the publication of aerial photographs of her manor in Malibu. Before the filing of the lawsuit, the image of the house had only been seen six times by the Web, but after the case was made public, the site had more than half a million visits. The video of Scientology recorded by Tom Cruise was subjected to a similar dynamic; his circulation became unstoppable.
In that video, Tom Cruise personifies the vision? You know you have to do something because you're the only one who can really help…". The trolls along with almost everyone else considered the video a pathetic if not pitiful attempt to give credibility to that pseudoscience, through the intervention of a famous one.
While in the video, Tom Cruise laughed delighted with himself, the Internet community laughed also, but of him. The protests that began almost isolated on the Internet, took a huge international impact in a few days.
Before anyone could say "Ave, Xenu" Xenu is the miserable, ruinous extraterrestrial lord of the galaxy, at least according to the scientological version of the story the crossfire started. Demands, persecutions, investigations, dissemination by scientologists of false information about hacktivists, etcetera. But the anons were not "frightened".
They had something very important in their favor. A power that the Church of Scientology, did not know and that would be able to shake the very foundations of the radicalization of messages and rebellions forever: social networks.
The united mass of anons trolls collaborated through chat rooms participating in various ultra-coordinated forms. The Scientology websites were hacked and subjected to Denial of Service attacks, in order to get them out of the Internet. The Dianetics telephone hotline received an overwhelming barrage of false calls.
And the "secrets" of this religion exploded all over the Internet. A movement in the network called "Chanology" was created with the aim of attacking the church on a large scale, and above all, to avoid at all costs that the video of "Tom Cruise deranged," being removed from the Internet.
The battle was fought both inside and outside the network: the video unexpectedly sparked a debate whether Anons should take the streets to protest against the Church of Scientology, or remain glued to its delirious roots and continue with the lulz, and their incursions only into the network. In this way the "Anonymous" began to take their actions differently, no matter if they were lulz or not.
In October of , Anonymous managed CNN to publish in the articles section, sent by the citizens, some fake news: Steve Jobs suffered a heart attack. The media believed it and this caused Apple's actions to fall precipitously. Time magazine opened an electronic voting to choose the most influential people of Surprisingly, "moot" won.
His initials, along with the next 20 people, formed the phrase "Marblecake, also, the game" anal penetration, the game , a 4chan joke. In July , the swastika symbol became one of the most consulted words on Google, as a request from 4chan users. And a very long etcetera Editions English. My name is Legion Behind the mask of Anonymous. Take Isis for instance: While the core Isis leadership might be based on Syria or wherever else, nothing is stopping any terrorist organisation from claiming to be affiliated to Isis and waving its flag around.
Isis might even condone the action; it's free publicity after all. And before anyone gets all hot and bothered by the comparison, we're not saying that Anonymous or Legion are terrorist organisations. Today, Legion seems to have no purpose; but tomorrow they might and that will probably be the day we see Anonymous extending its hand in partnership. Find latest and upcoming tech gadgets online on Tech2 Gadgets. Popular gadgets including laptop, tablet and mobile specifications, features, prices, comparison.
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