Anonymous Now Allegedly Threatening to Take Down the Muslim Brotherhood
- Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:01pm by
Liz Klimas
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As Egypt prepares for an election of a new parliament later this month, one group is apparently seeing the dominant Islamic party — the Muslim Brotherhood — as a threat to the Egyptian revolution.
The hacker collective Anonymous has allegedly issued a threat on its TheAnonMessage YouTube channel stating that it will take down the Muslim brotherhood on Nov. 11. The video says the group believes the brotherhood seeks “to destroy the sovereignty of the people of Egypt as well as other nations including the United States:”
Anonymous recalls the brotherhood’s “benevolent” founding that then turned into a “power-hungry organization” and emphasizes that its targeting the Muslim Brotherhood, not Islam:
In our collective, many of us are Muslim, yet we fight against the corruption in society and the injustice that comes with it.
The hacker group lays out a very specific time schedule for when the brotherhood will be taken down via a “Coordinated Distributed Denial of Service attack” on the Muslim Brotherhood’s website (http://www.ikhwanonline.com). Here is an English version of the website, which is currently not slated for attack, click here.
A Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS), according the the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, is when an attacker floods your system with information, making it difficult or impossible for you to access your network during that time, often then forcing your commuter to send data to a website. It is a “distributed” attack because many computers are being used, including the one being attacked to achieve denial of service.
This was the same type of attack expected to be used by Anonymous against NYSE.com in October. In that attack the site seemed to falter for a moment but then returned to normal.
Some, then, have started to wonder if the almost-weekly threats by Anonymous, some that have not been carried out, are sounding like the boy who cried wolf. Gawker stated Monday that “after a month of fake Anonymous scares” it was calling the organization’s bluff. It recalls that Anonymous threatened to takedown Facebook, Fox News and the Zetas drug cartel and did not make good on its word.
Then again, could it be that Anonymous isn’t really putting out some of these threats at all? Gawker notes that anyone with “iMovie, a voice synthesizer and a painfully overblown prose style” can post a video with the Anonymous logo and threatening message on a YouTube channel they’ve created to look associated with the collective.
Anonymous has also acknowledged the fact that sometimes factions have missions of their own that aren’t taken on by the whole group, which could account for why some of their alleged missions appear aren’t accomplished.
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Comments (61)
cajunmojo
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:37amA darth vader voice would have been more convincing.
dmcelhannon
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:45pmDarth Vader would have been cool but the voice from the Star Trek Borg may have more in-line here. hahah … “Resistance is futile. We are the Borg”.
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:22amThey say they are a “collective.” That word rings bad bells. What a scary time in history.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:46amWill this be on pay-per-view? I might pay to see this.
Report Post »JOHNNYROTEN
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:46amI have visions of some kids in their basement producing these before mom yells downstairs that dinner is ready
Report Post »ChuckJ
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 8:01pmHey those kids are dangerous have you played them in on line first person shooter games?
Report Post »BelieveNJesus
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:44amYou know, in this one instance against the MB, to bad they can’t deliver on their word. If the enemy starts feuding among themselves, that would be a good thing. A house divided cannot stand!
Report Post »123456beatriz
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:21pmHey Anonymous maybe some of you can read this!. Is doesn’t matter the brotherhood, is your religion. The base of the Islam IS UGLY!. Don’t tell me that this religion is religion of peace, well is NOT!. READ the Koran and the life of Mohamed both are ugly and violent(worse than hinduism, buddhism,christianism, or judaism etc), and put the women and animals inside the worse position of treatment, so. Don’t tell us that your religion is peacefull, IS NOT!. So Anonymous DON’T waste your time if you are muslim well change your horrible religion. My best advise for you.
Report Post »JediPatriot
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:10amNice job, again, Blaze. The video is private. Might want to fix that.
Report Post »Peace
jester667
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:03amMay be time to upgrade the ole flash player…
Report Post »Jumper
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:04pmWorked for me.
Report Post »JediPatriot
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 6:40pmWorks now. (Without upgrade, even)
Report Post »expatinontariocanada
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 8:48amIf these punks start turning up dead, even headless, when they mess with the “big boys” we won’t hear from them again. That’s probably why the Zeta threat was never carried out. That‘s my guess and I’m sticking to it.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 8:27amAnonymous is about to change it’s name to Irrelevant. Bet they take credit for the 2pm loss of TV and radio.
Report Post »scrapadapolis
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:50amJust a bunch of people who play video games all day in mom and dads basement shooting virtual bad guys and think they have super computer powers!
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 8:16amRight on! These anon. pukes are really full of themselves, taking on the Mex. drug cartels, now the MB.
Report Post »does anyone NOT believe the MB has infiltrated anon.-because they do have the same goals? This makes the HEADLESS anon. logo even more interesting.
tppagee
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:38amDo you even have a job? TICK.
Report Post »grudgywoof
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:22amThey said they would hack into the Wall Street trading system……They failed
Report Post »They said they would expose the Mexican Drug Cartel members……They didn’t
They said they would create havoc on the internet…….The have not
We are Anonymous we are Useless
Morgue
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:35amAll Anonymous can do is launch denial of service attacks by sending tons of packets and shutting down a server. They didn’t take down that kiddie porn site either, they simply traced the IP connections of users which means nothing other than you know what CITY they’re in, not their street address of anything that authorities can use.
There have been NO ARRESTS of those trafficking in child porn thanks to the Anonymous operation.
The only thing they are capable of is making website run really slow or shut down as long as they are “attacking” the server. However you’re not going to beat the Drug Cartels, Muslim Brotherhood, or Child Molesters by shutting down their Facebook page.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 6:49amWell, this pretty much seals the deal on Anonymous.
They openly admit they include many muslims in their soulless collective borg-mind.
Anonymous is a tool of Jihad.
Anyone interfacing with muslims and doing the bidding of the muslims become tools of Jihad.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:08am… what a pack of mooslim pussee’s …
Report Post »taxedout
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:56amNot only will they not do as they have threatened but they can’t do it just like they said that they would close down facebook on November 5, well that day came and went and guess what facebook was not shutdown, they are just a bunch of pimply faced little pr**ks who don’t know their A$$ from a hole in the ground.
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 7:26amThe only thing I might add to your description of Anonymous is “arrogant” and “self-absorbed.” They remind me a little of the Black Knight from Monty Python. They try to put up an ominous front with their threats, but they fall far short in their performance.
Report Post »BlessedONE333
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:59amone of their youtube channels –
Report Post »here is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6MWJ2YYitc
The Noodle Fish
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:41amthis is everything I love about an internet police force made up of master hackers and black hats. They’ve shut down child porn sites, animal abuse sites, and they have actually aided law enforcement in finding members of the Zeta drug cartel.
Report Post »Anonymous is by no means, a coherent, well organized machine. It’s a chaotic bunch of people with the same skills who occasionally happen to agree to do something good. This should be interesting… and potentially very useful.
Walkabout
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 8:32amNamed names of Zeta or of child porn people? Who? I didn’t see it in the news.
Report Post »Bloodline14
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:45amInteresting.. /b/ is nothing but a bunch of washed up losers that think they own the world. Believe me, the only power they hold is the ability to vote, and even then I can pretty much guarantee you that at least half of their “organization” are under the age of 18. I have absolutely no respect for them, and only pity them for being so incredibly stupid. Keep on doing your thing, /b/, see how much farther you get in the world. Remember the Facebook scandal? What happened there? Right..
Report Post »jcannon98188
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:05amYou do realize that “/b/” is a sub-forum of a website that is not affiliated with Anonymous, except for the fact that people who post on the website as a whole are doing so anonymously? Further more, there is no real group called “Anonymous” it is an identity that many hackers as a whole hide behind to remain “Anonymous”? Seriously, before you spew forth crap from your mouth, please at least try to understand what it is you are commenting on.
Report Post »Conservative2
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:43amvideo located here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5njL-ckG-GM
Report Post »hogtrashhd
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:39amoh my goodness. what can’t they do.. but have they done anything they said would do lately? I haven’t heard of it.. legends in their own minds..
Report Post »The Noodle Fish
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:43amactually, they’ve done everything that they claimed/promised to do. Most notably shutting down child pornographers and their customers.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:35amAll this bs is going to do is be the justification for the obama democrat internet killswitch and anything the gov’t can come up with to control the web stuff like this gives them ammo.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:01amAll progressives working for their common cause. I agree with you. look at the date. If we get by this week without any thing major I will be relieved, not to compfortable, but relieved for this week anyway.
Report Post »Kitsune
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 9:18amI think the hackers would WELCOME the killswitch, because they’ll know how to get around it, while most won’t.
It‘ll turn the internet back into a hacker’s playground where only hackers will have the networks all to themselves, while the regular people are locked out.
Report Post »Leevamark2
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:33amPsst. This is the voice of reason. — You can’t “take down” an entire ideology by hacking a website.
Just sayin.
The only one who is ever going to take down the Muslim Brotherhood is Christ….and it’ll be a total and final take down. No wishy. No washy.
Report Post »~_^
TyrannyNoMore
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:09amuhm….guys, while you are at it, could you please hack into Columbia and Harvard for Barry Sotoro’s school records ? Post them for everyone to see please. Oh yeah…..do his Blackberry too !
Report Post »honolulu45
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:55amWhat a great IDEA!!!! Give us some insight to our elusive Barry. Maybe we can appreciate him as much as he appreciates himself
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 11:30pmThey can start with NPR and Obama.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:01amThey are probably anarchist Occuweenies—they won’t do anything. Furthermore, there is no way that the FBI or CIA would not have figured out who these idiots are already, so what gives??
Report Post »jcannon98188
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:09amMost people who are part of the Anonymous Collective are libertarian in nature. Though many align themselves with the Occupy Protests, they do it for the cause of ending corporatism, and rarely for the advocating of socialism. Anon represents a movement of freedom on the internet. Also, the FBI and CIA have no idea who the many members of Anonymous are, because they operate entirely Anonymously. If no information is given, and basic safety measures are taken they can remain completely anonymous. It took the FBI weeks to find a kid making bomb threats at my old high school. They are not as all knowing as you would think.
Report Post »ShadowmaSSofSC
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 11:28pmWell they have attack pedophile websites and I heard that they weren’t serious about taking down Facebook. So, who knows, they might do this one.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 11:19pmThey are like Zorro or something. I like it.
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 11:07pmThey, I believe, gave up on the Mexican drug cartel, but do do good to help take down the child porn folk. I do hope they can take the Brotherhood down too. I don’t care too much for bad hacking, but I do like black hat hacking for good. Will see what these guys can do with the Brotherhood. :)
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