Anonymous' "OpIsrael" Has Little Impact 136
An anonymous reader writes "The Times Of Israel and AlArabiya.net report that the planned and announced April 7th attack by Anonymous failed to frustrate the Israeli government or its citizens. The country's national Cyber Bureau quipped 'So far it is as was expected, there is hardly any real damage,' Ben Yisrael said. 'Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldn't have announced the time of attack. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart,' he said."
Noise in the media (Score:3, Insightful)
"It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart,' he said."
In other words, you're saying they won...
Well done.
Re:"Anonymous" is CIA/Mossad (Score:5, Insightful)
If this were true, then why would the Israeli propaganda machine be downplaying the effectiveness of the attacks? Instead, you'd expect them to be wailing about the terrible carnage about to be unleashed on society by Anonymous, unless their "cyber-warrior" budgets are immediately increased and a slew of new controls imposed on the internet --- not saying that already existing infrastructure is already 100% effective at preventing real damage.
Dumb idea (Score:0, Insightful)
Israeli special forces is known for finding a-holes like this and killing them quietly, wherever they are and up to decades later. I imagine a bunch of Anonymous go dark if they actually pulled something like this off. Anon doesn't understand the ring they're stepping into- serious shit- not spray painting a billboard, haha funny joke- no, this is kinetic- "we'll murder you at 2am when we track you down three years later" shit.
Utterly pathetic. (Score:5, Insightful)
One of the big scores for Anonymous was that they defaced the page for Adalah.
Adalah is an organization providing probono legal help to Israeli minority citizens for discrimination cases.
Way to go, Anonymous. What a bunch of fuckwits.
(Added style points for starting this op on Holocaust Memorial Day, and trying to DDOS Yad Vashem.
And for getting this op led by a citizen of Mauritania, the one remaining country that still has slavery.)