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Mutiny Within Anonymous May Have Exposed Hackers’ IP Addresses

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Re: Mutiny Within Anonymous May Have Exposed Hackers’ IP Addresses

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Seems likely there's more going on here than meets the eye. Somebody's playing games. Either: 1. Anonymous does, in fact, have enough of a centralized leadership that they can pull off this kind of thing as an attention-getting disinformation tactic. 2. This "rogue admin" is working with the feds as part of some kind of deal. By releasing some info they get some people to panic, drop their defenses, generate chatter,…

Yup, exactly. I'm absolutely ASTOUNDED it took this long for at least a portion of anon to start festering from within.

Re: Mutiny Within Anonymous May Have Exposed Hackers’ IP Addresses

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Better a visible internal betrayal than a long datasuck by an "Advanced Persistent Threat" The whole Anonymous thing was getting a little too big, IMO, and needed something like this to fragment it and make the kids involved start thinking about the rest of their lives. I hope a few well meaning but naieve people quit while they're ahead, wipe their disks, and realize that some government agency has probably been tra…

Why do you assume they're kids? Or that they haven't already been living their life?

You're assuming I'm assuming about the whole group.

My statement was about people who have involved themselves with this who are kids. We've seen pictures of who the FBI rounded up.

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