Anonymous Creates Profit Center With Duck Duck Go

Remastering Ubuntu and creating your own distribution is easy. In fact, this is part of my day job and I can tell you that a child could do it with a little nudge in the right direction. Anonymous, or more accurately, some anonymous person, has remastered Ubuntu 11.10 to create the Anonymous OS. Trust me when I tell you, this is not an altruistic release. It can’t be.

Why? First you should get a little insight on how Anonymous really creates a botnet of sheep to bring websites down. Hacktivism means nothing if so unscrupulous to begin with.

From the project’s homepage:

Anonymous-OSLive is an ubuntu-based distribution and created under Ubuntu 11.10 and uses Mate desktop.

Created for educational purposes,
to checking the security of web pages.
Please don’t use any tool to destroy any web page
If you attack to any web page,
might end up in jail because is a crime in most countries!
*** The user has total responsibility for any illegal act. ***

Thanks to all author tools!

So, Where Are The Profits?

We are so glad that you asked! What you should really be asking is “How does Mozilla generate income?”. If you don’t already know, one way the the Mozilla Foundation generates income is through search. The company, and the foundation, have long relied on Google as a partner for search, allowing Mozilla take take a cut from the ad revenue you generated as a user.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Firefox is the default web browser is Ubuntu 11.10 the Mozilla uses this as a form of revenue. Why bother messing with it? Because Anonymous wants a piece of the pie from it’s unsuspecting legion.

Linux Mint recently inked a deal with DuckDuckGo, making them the default search provider on their immensely popular, Ubuntu based distribution. Essentially what they’ve done, while perfectly legal, is robbed the Mozilla Foundation. Anonymous is no different. There is no explainable reason for switching to a search provider that uses Bing as a back-end over Google. Both engines claim to offer privacy, though ironically, users of Anonymous OS are likely to be logged into Google’s services to satiate at least one need while using Duck Duck Go.

I think it is fair to presume the Anonymous, or some individual with a Guy Fawkes mask, is using Duck Duck Go to generate profits.

Question everything…

Caes

….. In fact, this is part of my day job and I can tell you that a child could do it with a little nudge in the right direction …..

What about an article to provide that nudge as an educational piece
Mithrandir

Your argument is quite flawed, as you could easily put blame on people who switch their search engines to DDG or similar. Plus, as you pointed out, there’s nothing illegal with what CentOS does, nor is there anything “wrong” about it either; after all, it is FOSS and CentOS can do whatever it wants to with it’s distro.

Not to mention the idea of Anonymous trying to take over Mozilla’s or Google’s market share with DuckDuckGo is utterly absurd and untrue.
- Wjack2010
  
  Agreed
Wjack2010

DuckDuckGo is not run by Anonymous, but it supports anonymity, but not in the hacking way.
Thepowerbase-fool

Please, start moderating the comments, otherwise people might know what a moron you are..
Dumb-powerbase

lol, I had to block this website from network, so that people can avoid knowing the fact that internet is also used by morons
anonymous

Did you actually ask Yegg at ddg.gg if he paid anyone for that search spot, or are you just lazily spewing out conspiracy theories? I use ddg.gg out of my own free will since I prefer not to be tracked as little as possible, and I love their bang searches, so I don’t see why it’s suspicious that some other anonymous user would switch the default. If you download the tor browser bundle, it also has ddg.gg in there, but uses startpage.com as the default, again because it unlike Google claims no tracking and better privacy. Look up Occam’s Razor before you go on a witch hunt..

So, Where Are The Profits?

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