With everything going on in this world at the moment. I wanted to see if anyone here knows if this anonymous account is the real deal. I feel they are the legit Anonymous. If so, they have risen.

Seriously guys will you learn to do your research. Don't just be coming here with "how do I join anonymous?" If you have to ask you really shouldn't be trying to "join". Go do some research.

Yno that thing we have, that we use almost daily called Google? Remember that thing? USE IT! Actually understand what anonymous is before doing anything.

And if you cant be bothered to do that research what help do you think you will be to all of the skilled cyber security professionals, the professional "hackers", the penatration testers, the red and blue team members and even the script kiddies getting involved in the operations?! I'd say 80% of an operation is research, if not more.

Now let's say you have done your research like a good anon, you've found out how you can help in a technological way, great!

But wait. You've found out who the targets are, you've found out what you need to do with the IP addresses (because the documentation provided by anons tells you what to do and how to do it) so let's get to hacking! Right? No!

First think about what you are actually doing. No matter how strongly you agree with anonymous actions remember this is all still illegal. Do you want to take the risk of going to prison? If you do that is absolutely great. You believe in a cause so much that you would risk that. But again do your research and this time not into anonymous but how not to get caught. But let me tell you one thing about that, anonymity is not guaranteed on the internet no matter what method your choose to hide yourselves. The internet is an evolving entity, as an example one day that server your using for your vpn is safe the next day a bug I'd discovered in one of the programs that run on that machine, depending on the bug it could allow people to see exactly who you are. This wouldn't even be that unusual really. So even if you do everything correctly you are not guaranteed to not be going to jail.

Now let's go back and cover "yeah, I don't really want to go to jail but still want to support the cause" get your masks and go protest with the others. Make anonymous a household name again. Get people talking. Make a stand. Still not happy and want to do more? Well if you did you research it should be simple enough to talk to someone in the know about how else you can help.

It's really not hard guys, due to the nature of anonymous you might think they have squirreled themselves away in the darkest corners of the dark web. This is not true, for the most part anyway.

I would like to add I am in no way a hacker or cyber security expert. I just know a little about it, so if anyone notices anything wrong with what I have said above please do let me know as I would hate to hinder any progress made by anonymous by giving false information. I just want you all to understand the effort and risks these anons are taking and why realistically some of you cannot help at the hacking level.

And just one last thing to all the people who are saying "these people aren't real anons all they've done is release old docs" and "these guys are just posers, they probably cant even hack". Sorry but you guys probably don't know shit. You probably know how to ping your router and think that is hacking. It takes people years to learn how to do what they can do and guess what, they are still learning. They will be learning all their lives to do this. Like I said earlier the internet (and all technology) is an evolving entity, things change daily. These people know the programs we all use daily inside and out. Like literally they speak the language of computers. So if your saying stuff like that you obviously have no idea how hard it is to hack something and basically need to shut up and sit down.

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Edit: its been pointed out in the comments that Google is not great for anonymity. Big oversight on my part.

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What is Anonymous? Who is Anonymous?

Everyone seems to have the answer, but if I asked you to point him out in a room, would you know? If you did, would they still be Anonymous?

What Anonymous is NOT, is a cemented group of 7 or 8 master hackers that every blue moon do something big and then disappear.

Anonymous is an idea. If you believe in equal rights, freedom of speech, and are against mass surveillance, hear me out. Anonymous will be here long after all of us are dead. Anonymous was here before us.

Don’t sit and wait for “this Anonymous guy” to do a big hack, and then twiddle you’re thumbs until another one happens. To be frank, Anonymous is so many people doing so much at once, and that’s what makes this movement powerful!

Have web dev skills? Use em. Can you rally support for the cause of social progress and positive change? Do it! We need all hands involved in this situation, because it’s bigger than any one individual.

Anonymous isn’t who You or I say they are. We are just followers of that old rallying cry:

“We are Legion. We do not forgive, We do not forget. Expect us”