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This post comes to us from FreeAnons, a group which does great work all year round supporting incarcerated Anons and those under threat of incarceration. They have asked that we all take a moment to think of those Anons, and if we have more than a moment, to write to them as part of the…

This is a guest post stolen wholesale from Pastebin, where Ryan Ackroyd aka Kayla posted it on December 20th. It has made the rounds of social media over the weekend and is an incendiary, no-holds-barred calling-out of Hector Xavier Monsegur aka Sabu by one of his old crewmates. Ackroyd is now free on controlled release after 10…

It's Day Two of #OpDestroyDailyDot or #OpDDD for short. Can we call you #OpDDD? We feel like we're getting to know you a lot better. You can call us "The." To recap, if you missed our exhaustive article from yesterday: news site The Daily Dot hired legendary snitch/rat Sabu, aka Hector X. Monsegur, to review the…

>> well, this week on "the communicators" a look at cyber attacks. a new book out, and it is called, we are anonymous. inside the hacker world and the global cyber insurgency. it is authored by party olson, london bureau chief reforms magazine, and she joins us from london. if we could start, what is anonymous? >> well, actually, a very difficult question to answer. a lot of people see it as a group or an organization. is not quite that. anything is more of an internet phenomenon or a ...

>> how did it begin? >> so, anonymous emerged from something called image portrait. these are discussion boards on websites. and one particular which in 2004, run 2004, 2005 the website became very popular and the greater of the website in force all of its users to be anonymous when they posted comments. a lot of these didnt like it personal with the realize overtime was that when they were stripped of ego and identity and age and gender and all sorts of identified features gratis almo...