'On March 13, an anonymous benefactor announced the availability of Anonymous-OS, a new live-bootable Linux distribution tailored for a particular class of user. The package was posted on Sourceforge and downloaded over 20,000 times before it was taken down by the service on March 15
'Some in Anonymous had cautioned that it might be some sort of trap; others claimed it was in fact a clever socially engineered package of malware waiting to spring on whoever had the audacity to download it.
'I had the audacity to download it just before Sourceforge shut the project down, loading it up on a virtual machine and installing it to a bootable USB. And honestly, there's not a whole lot to get excited about - Anonymous-OS is nothing more than a snapshot of a system running Ubuntu 11.10 with a few minor tweaks, redistributed as a live-boot ISO, and packaged with the usual collection of "educational" security tools (some of which may in fact expose you to law enforcement attention).
'Sourceforge's move to take down the project had more to do with the shady way in which it was posted than its content. The Sourceforge community team looked at the project, and found it was "a security-related operating system, with, perhaps, an attack-oriented emphasis," the company said in its statement. But they found no evidence it was in any way connected to Anonymous, concluding that the person or persons behind the project were in fact using the name of the group to draw attention.' (Ars Technica article).
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