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Anonymous goes political, starts attacking Egyptian government
The Egyptian unrest has provided a real test case in how social media and web culture can be used in political hotspots. Now, Anonymous, the amorphous and unidentified group of hackers who provided so much drama during the Wikileaks furor late last year, are evidently going after Egyptian governmental web sites.
Sites belonging to Egypt's cabinet, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology were inaccessible, most likely due to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, as of 3 p.m. EST.
Members of Anonymous had begun to organize at attack on Egypt three days ago, according to the Web-hosting company Netcraft, but the effort picked up steam Tuesday as the authorities in Cairo blocked domestic Twitter access.
That last bit answers your question of why Anonymous would care about Egyptian politics. It's not so much about the policies of Mubarak, it's that they blocked Twitter and Anonymous is(/are?) rabid advocates of free and open internet.
you guys really don't know Anon do you? I've been to many of there websites, most of the time there in it for the lulz, but hidden in those lulz is a passhon for people who be free, to not have censered lives and be able to freely speak how they want and know the truth, you all may think they are just for drama, but you should see some of there websites, such as why we protest and such. these people want to help, even if its like this.
learn2knowtehtruth :P
Silly people, it is obvious that most of you who haven't heard anonymous, would believe the things that you do. "Sexless geeks suffering the delusions of grandeur"??? "In it for the drama"??? Clearly your statements are a direct reflection of the protective bubble in which you live. Which is NOT ok, many many people DEPEND on you to stay in it.
Is Anonymous truly a force to be reckoned with, or are they just sexless geeks suffering delusions of grandeur? Anon. is making some pretty big claims in regards to these protests. I am fascinated by the notion of anon. as global freedom force. Here's hoping they are the former.
