There was a very good article on Wednesday in the WSJ on LulzSec and Anonymous, another similar hacker group. Most of them are hard-left or anarchist teenagers and men in their 20s who are based in Europe, particularly Holland (although there are also some in Russia). They are heros among the “antiglobalization” (which really means anti-US, anti-capitalist) crowd . If you see people at your local riot wearing masks of an evil-looking smiling white man with a pencil-thin moustache and goatee, they’re proclaiming their support for Anonymous.
They often attack things here, of course. They recently hacked both the CIA and a private security company that was being contracted to investigate whether recent attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce had been conducted or paid for by certain labor unions. How they found out about the latter in the first place, I can’t imagine. Probably somebody on the inside at the FBI or CIA, some low-level person like the Wikileaks dweeb.
In any case, I don’t think they even need to have Russia or China controlling them. They’re doing the work of the radical left on their own just for the heck of it.
I hear Sweden is nice this time of year
Ha, I wouldn’t put much stock in what the WSJ says about Anonymous.