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  • Anonymous withdraws support for WikiLeaks - Assange teases "Romney" info for $$$ - Gaga goes for tea

    10/14/2012 10:42:52 PM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 10 replies
    Financial Times ^ | October 12, 2012 | Tim Bradshaw in San Francisco
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost another high-profile supporter as Anonymous, the hacking collective, said the whistleblowing site had been “ruined by egos”. Anonymous, a loose group of internet “hacktivists”, has been one of WikiLeaks’ closest allies during the past two years, launching cyber attacks against the site’s opponents and, some claim, becoming a source of its material. ...But leading Anonymous accounts on Twitter, which rallied behind WikiLeaks and Mr Assange despite his legal and financial woes, have now withdrawn their support, decrying the freedom-of-information project as a “One Man Julian Assange show”. Calling the split “the end of an...