Anonymous: Lords of the Internet or Lord of the Flies?

Stuart Sumner
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Online group Anonymous seems to have abandoned its original ideals

Anonymous, the loosely connected hacktivist group infamous for last year’s “Operation Payback” that forced Visa and MasterCard offline for a time, has recently set its sights on Sony. Before it ...

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