'Anonymous' takes down RT.com

By artappraiser on Thu, 02/24/2022 - 9:07pm |

BREAKING: Infamous hacker activist organization "Anonymous" takes down Russian state propaganda outlet https://t.co/o13eUF1aBF in reprisal for Putin's bloody invasion of Ukraine. RT TO THANK ANONYMOUS!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) February 25, 2022

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https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1497002193563521027

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new claim that they just did this:

The Russian Ministry of Defense website is down. #Anonymous #Ukraine
— Anonymous (@YourAnonOne) February 25, 2022

also apparently they did this:

Gotta love #Anonymous! Posting the Ukrainian president's appeal to the Russian people on one of Russia's own municipal websites. #UkraineInvasion pic.twitter.com/p3TbuQmxUw
— Dom (@DominicNeagle) February 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/25/2022 - 9:59am

Yes, much better than just taking down the page/site.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/25/2022 - 12:16pm

Poland is closing its airspace to Russian airlines, with the ban due to go into force at midnight today https://t.co/JBITvSDxzB
— Notes from Poland (@notesfrompoland) February 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/25/2022 - 10:50am

^ meant to put this on the Ukraine war thread, but what the heck, I'll just leave it here, not that bad of a fit.

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/25/2022 - 10:53am

Czech Republic too:

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/25/2022 - 11:25am

Pornhub cockblocks Russian users.

Russian users who tried to go on PornHub were presented with a message saying the content is blocked along with a Ukrainian flag and a message of support to Ukraine.

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/25/2022 - 2:27pm

Female empowerment?

And we have the two. pic.twitter.com/hxUewFAnls
— NCGirl (@Mitzi27860660) February 26, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/26/2022 - 5:32pm

No brainer, Putin has made it a poison brand

Delta Air Lines suspended a marketing agreement with Aeroflot, Russia’s national airline, after the country invaded Ukraine https://t.co/UdKjwCNDGn
— Bloomberg (@business) February 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/25/2022 - 2:44pm

Anonymous has ongoing operations to keep .ru government websites offline, and to push information to the Russian people so they can be free of Putin's state censorship machine.
We also have ongoing operations to keep the Ukrainian people online as best we can.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) February 26, 2022

That's them, they just changed their avatar, it's the same user name.

by artappraiser on Sat, 02/26/2022 - 3:07pm

moved to correct Ukraine war thread

by artappraiser on Sat, 02/26/2022 - 4:05pm

Kremlin website goes down as Russian TV channels ‘hacked to play Ukrainian songs’ #Ukraine #Russia #Anonymous https://t.co/UApl5XEQ07
— Rob Wolvin (@TorCentre) February 26, 2022

(story is from 4 hours ago)

by artappraiser on Sat, 02/26/2022 - 6:11pm

Elon Musk, 45 minutes ago:

Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2022

his tweet is responding to Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

by artappraiser on Sat, 02/26/2022 - 6:17pm

⚡️Hacking group says it will transfer money from all Russians' bank accounts to Ukrainian army if they don't start protesting war until March 3.

If Russians don’t want to change the government it means they are “on the same side with the bloody power of Putin,” the group said.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) February 28, 2022

The Anonymous hackers also said that they would launch “the biggest cyber attack in the history of the world” targeting Russia.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) February 28, 2022

https://t.co/7IWwz0HnI8
— Yahya Aliyar (@yahyaaliyar_) February 28, 2022

haven't double checked this for veracity...

by artappraiser on Mon, 02/28/2022 - 2:39pm

Where is WikiLeaks?

I mean... right now, DMing them is literally the only way to connect. Their chats are all broken. Their secure chat has been broken for months.
— Emma Best (@NatSecGeek) March 1, 2022

Yeah, Wikileaks is a symbol, not an actual service.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/01/2022 - 1:06am

Ironically, your quote tweet code is also broken! (I followed the link and embed it correctly below) THAT SAID, it's fascinating. Could it be that few care passionately about document leaks to research anymore? That no one cares that it is broken because no one cares about the principle of it (which emptywheel claims was always a farce anyway.) That more and more are more into pushing their own propaganda by cherry picking? Causing total divisiveness about even what is the truth? Totally Post-Modern fur sure.

People need to understand that WikiLeaks' submission portals have NEVER meant to work.

They are a cover, requiring sources to directly connect, which is how WL recruits. https://t.co/8MmDPwTVmB
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 1, 2022

I mean... right now, DMing them is literally the only way to connect. Their chats are all broken. Their secure chat has been broken for months.
— Emma Best (@NatSecGeek) March 1, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/01/2022 - 5:12am

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