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CYBER

Is Anonymous Really Back?

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Back in 2011 during Occupy Wall Street protests, a certain hacktivist collective truly came into its own. The years since Anonymous exploded in popularity and even became the constant pop culture reference point to all hacktivism or even, just hackers. But as we’ve discussed on the show, lately, it kind of seems to have disappeared. Until the latest Black Lives Matter protests seems to have kicked it back into the headlines. I got Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Francheschi Bicchierrai on the show to tell us more.

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0:00.0

It's got the code it's going to launch.

0:07.0

It's a unit system.

0:12.0

I know this.

0:14.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus. Eagle won. The package is being delivered.

0:23.6

Back in 2011, during Occupy Wall Street protests,

0:26.6

certain HACTIVist collective truly came into its own.

0:30.6

Greetings. We are anonymous.

0:32.6

On September the 17th, we called for a peaceful protest to Occupy Wall Street, and we delivered.

0:39.8

We witnessed the streets of New York flood with protesters in the thousands in Twitter feeds explode with Occupy Wall Street hashtags.

0:47.3

We have marched with one.

0:49.3

The years since, Anonymous exploded in popularity and even became the constant pop culture reference point,

0:54.9

to all hacktivism, or even just hackers.

1:03.7

Greetings, brothers and sisters. We are F society. By now you know us. You've seen what we're capable of.

1:12.1

But as we've discussed on the show, lately, it kind of seems to have disappeared,

1:16.7

until the latest Black Lives Matter protests seemed to have kicked it back into the headlines.

1:21.9

I got motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi Bikirai on the show to tell us more.

1:27.3

Recording from my insanely hot apartment in New York, I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber.

1:40.6

Lorenzo, welcome back.

1:42.1

Thank you.

1:42.7

I'm very happy to be here.

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