their guys....I mean, this doesn't seem like an "end of the world/sky is falling" data breach:

It is a very machismo-driven agency.

I have no inside knowledge--I just know that sometimes, when I get an odd feeling, it turns out that I'm right. Not all the time of course--but this whole construct seems a bit off to me!

Sometimes the moles aren't always followers; sometimes, they're leaders.

Which seem to know a hell of a lot about what Anons are up to. Forbes, Ars Technica, etc. etc.

To quote Led Zeppelin!

The way they are stocking up data, that be what they want anyway... Who the hell knows anymore.

are so thrilled about are productions of the Feds.

I mean, essentially the first Occupy-style video was a production of the US government, according to DU.

Anyone can post as "Anonymous", the question is if they are advocating for something that other people support.

If not then they are representing no one but themselves. If it is a good idea then who cares where it came from, I guess the thinking goes?

Consider the mainstream civil disobedience activist groups which have turned out to be thoroughly infiltrated by the FBI.

It seems that, if you're not considered a threat, it means you're an ineffectual activist. (like me.)

After all, they don't have to monitor the Democratic Party any more, do they?

portray yourself as one of the biggest, baddest hackers in town! Find something that is embarrassing, but doesn't really matter, and toss it out there like it's something you went and stole....then boast about tweaking the nose of the "PTB" and next thing ya know, you've gathered a tribe of people who have done similar stuff, but who are perhaps less creative or successful.

Years ago, there were a number of activists (Weathermen, SDS, Black Panthers, SLA, etc) that liked to engage in some pretty substantial criminal behavior that sometimes descended into violence. The feds thought the best way to limit that was to infiltrate when they could, but they weren't too good at it--just too dorky, most of the time. Nowadays, though, it's easier to appear "cool" from behind a keyboard...

a good idea--or even rational?

law enforcement officials.

Shortly after an FBI representative said Anonymous was doing nothing more than “yack” on Twitter, the hackers leaked some data allegedly obtained from FBI servers.



On Friday, they published a file which they claim contains the full details of every single employee of the US Federal Reserve Bank.

Initially, the file containing the personal information was removed, but the hacktivists uploaded it to another server, presumably located in Zimbabwe, so that US authorities will not be able to take it down.

“The central banking and finance system has systematically defrauded the planet and bears responsibility for unfathomable death and misery. When the vast majority of the world population hangs below the the poverty line, massive profits for a few insiders are beyond criminal,” Anonymous hackers stated after leaking the data.

“Let there be no equivocation: Anonymous will never stop fighting and punishing the excesses of vampire capitalist exploitation and avarice. The good earth is bountiful and we produce more than enough for universal dignity in living standards and opportunity for betterment,” they added.

“As the FBI and DOJ have proved themselves incapable or unwilling to prosecute the institutional kleptocrats, we will step up to the plate. We dispense with the monopoly on violence arrogated by the state & employ instead asymmetrical economic and political warfare,” the hackers said .

“The final result of which will be the creation of conditions whereby it is simply not profitable to exploit the poor & vulnerable of earth.”


http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Leak-Details-of-All-US-Federal-Reserve-Bank-Employees-377920.shtml

there are so many computer clever people in our world. Nothing any Gov wants to be secure should be online ever. Then they STILL,have the thousands of 'contractors & employees' who steal and sell secrets to deal with.

I remember a game developer years ago, who said about hackers and developing games.
" If you make it, they will come"

catch the stupid ones.

that crime doesn't pay just helps to cut down on the competition. Crime pays very well and gets better and better the further up the chain you go.

So we have that going for us

I refuse to believe in the existence of some kind of "underground hacker movement."



To paraphrase Woody Allen in Antz: " ... If only it were that easy."