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FBI Agent: We've Dismantled The Leaders Of Anonymous

Thursday, August 22, 2013 6:39

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Starting in late 2010, Anonymous captured worldwide attention through a series of attacks against U.S. companies and government agencies, stealing data and defacing or crashing websites.

But the arrests last year of five members of Lulz Security, an influential splinter group of hackers, had a “huge deterrent effect” on Anonymous by creating an “added layer of distrust” within the hacking group, according to Austin P. Berglas, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s cyber division in New York.

“All of these guys [arrested] were major players in the Anonymous movement, and a lot of people looked to them just because of what they did,” Berglas said in an interview with HuffPost.

I hadn’t even thought about it untilI read the article but they are right. We have not eard from Anonymous it seems like in quite awhile. In hacktivst groups, trust is a huge issue and if that trust is broken, it only makes sense that the hacktivists go underground. I suspect we will see them again and somepoint though especially considering they have no leaders. Not because the FBI arrsted them but because they have no leaders, thats what it means to be a collective. They believe their cause just and rightly so. -Mort

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Total 4 comments

Aaronymous

This is just an attempt for them to demotivate us. They have a handful of people out of millions. Good luck with that FBI.

Aug 22, 2013, 7:57 am 0 Reply
Android Wizard

Yah right! So they went and arrested a bunch of CIA spooks? Next they will be telling us AlCIAda is on the run and then send them weapons…O.. wait that happened never mind.

Aug 22, 2013, 10:44 am 0 Reply
UM...

Theres too many people in this movement for it to be broken, and theres many more other movements working for the same goals… Theres BILLIONS of us… how many people work for the FBI?

Aug 22, 2013, 11:27 am 0 Reply
Betty Liberty

B.S. Anonymous has no leaders.

Aug 22, 2013, 11:29 am 0 Reply

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