14 DAY TRIAL // Anonymous is the very definition of "chaotic neutral." The "group" is just as likely to destroy a company as it is to stand up for a just cause. And, while anyone can hypothetically be an Anonymous member, not anyone can get to be "officially" linked to the group.
Not for lack of trying though; some would-be hackers will do anything to get noticed by the upper echelons. Some, though, don't really seem to think this through very well.
A Spanish "hacker" going by the name @AnonVoldemort figured that the best way to get some credit is to put his skills to the test. What better way to do that than to deface a small website belonging to a charity, he thought.
A laughably easy target, there are basically tutorials for taking down this type of small sites. "Mad skillz" are not a requisite.
As a side note, doesn't having a unique name, an online identity of any form, go against the entire idea of being Anonymous or literally anonymous?
In any case, the best this "hacker" should have expected was being branded a script kiddie and sent on home. The worst that may have happened would be Anonymous not taking kindly to a charity website, which helped raise funds for hungry children, being hacked in its name.
Can you guess which way it went? Within a day, the man behind the site, Bryan Bruce a documentary filmmaker, got an email with the personal details of the alleged hacker, a 35 year-old man living in Madrid with his mother. Bruce sent the details to the police.
After the site got defaced, Bruce put a message on Facebook asking for help. Apparently, someone with some ties to some active members of Anonymous got the word out and got help from precisely the people the Spanish hacker was trying to impress.
This doesn't help put the sites back up, but it should give pause to other would-be hackers doing stupid stunts like this. The site taken down sold documentary DVDs with all of the money going to charity.
