Anonymous Declares War on Syrian Government Sites
Hacking group blames Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for internet blackout.
With the Syrian government responsible for the country's recent internet blackout, as well as cutting all telephone lines and blocking flights, online hacking group Anonymous has announced a campaign against the government's websites hosted outside the region.
Anonymous stressed that it has carried out an "exhaustive analysis" of the blackout and came to a conclusion that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has interrupted both fiber-optic and coaxial cables going into Syria.
"Essentially, they have physically 'pulled the plug out of the wall,'" Anonymous said in a press release. "As we discovered in Egypt, where the dictator Mubarak did something similar -- this is not damage that can be easily or quickly repaired."
Branding the outage as a "desperate move by a dying regime," the infamous online hacktivist group confirmed it would commence a campaign at 6 p.m. PT titled"Operation Syria", which aims to remove all web assets belonging to Assad's government hosted outside the country.
The group said its first target would be all servers belonging to Syrian embassies, beginning with the embassy situated in China. "By turning off the Internet in Syria, the butcher Assad has shown that the time has come for Anonymous to remove the last vestiges of his evil government from the Internet," Anonymous said.

Among those guys, the script kiddies, there are Anons that are actual programmers and network specialists. I respect the work they do. Its influence could be pretty much driven to a major scale if they decided to bypass other securities, like tv companies or news sites to spread their message. Information is a weapon.
It'll be the standard Anonymous routine: they take a site down with a DDoS attack, it goes offline for a couple hours, media splashes "ANONYMOUS DID IT AGAIN" everywhere, they brag and it's over. Meh.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/30/israel-build-jewish-settlement-un-palestine
Pretty much. When was the last time a govt. was toppled via a DDOS attack by a group of self promoting ass-hats?
yes much of them are script kiddies, but anon isnt an organization, its an idea
not everyone comes from /b/
and not everyone is strictly a script kiddie
and when the ones who really want to screw things up act, thats when things will get interesting.
sure, facebook and many other areas, they were targets, but how many people would be willing to go to jail to take it out for a day?
wait till something happens they are willing to go to jail for and you will see the mind that the group has amassed.
they arent an organization... lulzsec was, but non anon.
if i can best describe anon, it would be watch Ghost in the Shell: Stand Along Complex
like i said above, anonymous inst an organization, its an idea.
yea, take a look at lulzsec.
they were a small group with a little skill
imagine when something happens that members with real skill are willing to die for, people with real convictions.
Anonymous is just a bunch of attention whore's. They will get behind anything in order to get attention from the media.
Egypt is pretty much Anonymous-proof right now.
By the way, where are the UN now? Counting the deaths they could have prevented or just doing nothing as usual?