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Anonymous 2012: a year in review

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:39:00 +0000

In 2012, the loose association of tech-based activists protested bullying, LGBT discrimination, corporate media, Israel, Muslim genocide, police brutality, election-rigging, douchebaggery/bullying, surveillance, nationalist education, and of course Internet censorship—expanding both the range of its “causes” and the tools it deployed to defend them.

Of course, it’s impossible to say with certainty which actions "Anonymous" actually pulled off, since its membership is ill-defined and anyone can claim association, not to mention that sometimes Anonymous hacktivists act alone or as part of a subgroup. Even when Anonymous has put out one of its quintessential videos claiming responsibility for a hack or DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service—shutting down a website by flooding it with requests) attack, it hasn’t always turned out to be true.

Given that, below are Anonymous’ “Top 20” for 2012. With its widening arsenal and focus, one can only imagine what these Internet denizens have in store for 2013.

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Hunter Moore: I lied!

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 02:00:00 +0000

It turns out the whole reason I called Hunter Moore in the first place was because of a lie -- or a "semi-lie," as he preferred to put it.

Earlier this week, the king of the now-defunct revenge-porn site "Is Anyone Up?" announced that he would be returning with a new site, HunterMoore.tv, featuring his tried-and-true formula of jilted lovers sending in naked photos of their exes, along with links to their social media profiles and Moore's unique brand of body-snarking. Only, in an interview with the New York Observer's Beta Beat, he claimed that he was also going to introduce a mapping feature "so you can stalk people." That inspired a flurry of media attention: Moore was back, and more villainous than ever! There was a barely concealed puritanical glee in even the disapproving chatter about this brave new world of punishment-porn, and a gruesome awe at just how far he was willing to take this Web-smut version of the "Saw" franchise.

Hunter Moore’s new “revenge porn” site is scarier than his last one

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:05:00 +0000

Yesterday news broke that porn prince Hunter Moore has unofficially launched his new "revenge porn" site, HunterMoore.tv. From a notice on the site, it seemed that Moore's Porn 2.0 venture might differ from his original, Is Anyone Up, which hosted nude shots of people submitted by anonymous users. But in a follow-up interview last night with Betabeat's Jessica Roy, the deeply reviled porn pusher said that his new site will feature the same content as the old one, minus the "legally questionable" content that put him in a lot of hot water the first time around. “I have nerds for days,” said Moore. "I have nerds on nerds. I have so many secret servers. I got shit in Switzerland, Australia, Canada. All that stuff’s accessible it’s just on a different domain."

Scarier yet, though, is what Moore plans to add to all of the nude pics: home addresses. “All these people that thought they were safe: nah, it’s all gonna be back,” he said. "We’re gonna introduce the mapping stuff so you can stalk people." Moore insists that he is within his legal rights because he's posting user submitted content.

In any case, let's all hope that the FBI is still sniffing around.

Revenge porn king Hunter Moore is back

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:04:00 +0000

It was only a matter of time before Hunter Moore, the creator of shuttered revenge porn site Is Anyone Up, found his way back to the dark subterrain of the Internet. For the blissfully uninitiated, Moore's original site was a platform to share "pornographic souvenirs from relationships gone sour" along with personal information. Moore closed the site earlier this year, citing "legal drama" and concerns of online bullying, turning it over to anti-bully group BullyVille.

But the Internet's so-called Most Hated Man hasn't backed off for long. In what reads like half school note, half press release, Moore has posted a notice on his new site, HunterMoore.tv, announcing his ominous return: