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A Letter From Topiary

If this letter makes it out to you I will be amazed. Who I am, and what you know about me, is irrelevant. I am writing to you, the government as well as...

The Virtual Wars: How Hacktivism Finally Became a Powerful Virtual Weapon

Hacking might not be something you think of very often in terms of major conflicts. The Internet has been around for a relatively small...

Documentary on Anonymous Premieres

The film titled “We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists”, is directed...

More Fear Mongering: NSA Declares Anonymous Could Attack U.S. Power Grid

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) and other sources in the media are again fear mongering, this time not of WMDs in a Middle...

AnonyUpload Steps In For MegaUpload (Supposedly)

On the surface, it seems members of the amorphous collective called Anonymous have set up the basic infrastructure for “AnonyUpload”...

British High Court Decides Extradition For Julian Assange

After a lengthy battle in court, Britain’s High Court ruled that extradition to Sweden was “appropriate” for Julian Assange,...

It Begins: Occupying Wall Street

We from Anonymous and other organizations have commenced operation concerning the occupation of Wall Street today (September 17, 2011) on the U.S. Constitution Day. Thank You All For Your Support. Pre- & Post-Fun Exchange Sept 16, 17, 18 Bike Bloc! Meet 7 pm @ Tompkins Square Park! North Bowling Green 12-2:30 David Rovics sings Songs of Social Significance 12-2:30...

A New DDoS Tool? RefRef Being Developed by Anonymous

According to AnonOps Communications, obviously an Anonymous-affiliated news website dedicated to “Internet freedom”, the amorphous (h)acktivist group has been developing a new program (dubbed RefRef) meant to be a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) ‘tool’ to utilize in future raids on websites deemed to be restricting human freedoms or to be used...

Suspected “Topiary” Caught by British Authorities

British authorities stated that they have arrested a male, 19 year old Briton accused of being “Topiary”, the anonymous spokesperson of “hacktivist” group LulzSec and other groups. British police say that prior to the arrest, the Metropolitan Police Service first gathered information and planned out the arrest. Police say that the arrested individual...

CEO “Forever Barrlone”, the Koch Ogliarchs & Westboro Baptist Church

After Anonymous ’crackers’ exposed the anti-WikiLeaks plans of three private security firms brought together by Hunton and Williams (the law firm of Bank of America) which included HBGary Federal, in the form of more than 70,000 HBGary e-mails, hijacked HBGary’s CEO Aaron Barr’s Twitter account and defaced the firm’s website, CEO “Forever...