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Quiz: Are you Anonymous?

By | May 16, 2011, 1:04pm PDT

Anonymous’ roots and actions remain steps ahead of pop media, who think they’re a pimply teenage army, and Anonymous has a complex history. Despite Anonymous’ online evolution, people still seem to confuse Anonymous with “Revenge Of The Nerds.”

For those who might not know, Anonymous is a notorious, indefinite online collective (often called “hacktivists” in media) credited with high-profile website raids, protests and various actions tied to values relating to internet freedom. Membership requires a secret identity.

Take the quiz to test your outsider knowledge of Anonymous. Or… are you Anonymous?

Instructions: Click on your answer and then see how many others agree with you. Then click to see the answer and the next question.

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1. 61-year-old rock and roll fossil Gene Simmons threatened Anonymous with what for DDoS-ing his website after he urged entertainment companies to take a hard stance against piracy?

The correct answer is… »

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justin.donie@... 17th May 2011
O ... that's what this is about. Then I don't care.
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@justin.donie@... These questions relate to being Anomymous how? But the gene Simmons question is kinda funny....the answer being a beating... Local Google Places
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Is anonymous bad? Regardless what a lot of people have in their mind. Being anonymous is not 100% bad. Sometimes some of us, including me, the creator of natural anti inflammatory, choose to be anonymous to express our thoughts, views or opinions freely, whether they are bad or good, wrong or right. That freedom of expression should not be ruined by our acts that can?t be responsible to public. Anonymous should go along side by side with responsibility.
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Anonymous hack FBI website,FBI can't find him, and blame to an english boy and arrest him for being anonymous? how cool is that?
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krtinberg79791 Updated - 13th Nov
@esm2012 Doesn't it refer to the group Anonymous?
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@esm2012: There are times when I am shamelessly anon but there are other times when i love to show off at search engine optimization perth.
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@justin.donie@... This article is interesting, but I think the author was just having a little fun with it all. The questions were a resulting polled answers were enjoyable to read over.
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@justin.donie@... not willing to stretch your memory? I'd forgotten about most of these moments in hack-history.
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Aerowind 18th May 2011
You realize question 3 asks which Church they did attack, not which they didn't, right?
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w/e
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I chose 'face painting lessons' because maybe this 'hacktivist ' although annoying, might have inadvertently done Simmons a favor by exposing a weakness on his web portal. Now, whatever Gene said back to Anonymous is what i'm wondering about ... ?!@%
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@EtherStreams I agree.. working alone is not in my nature.
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Maybe.
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You have to be pretty smart to belong to this group. May be a few more years of computer classes and I can fit in.
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