The roots of Anonymous, the infamous online hacking community

August 2024 · 1 minute read

DAVID KUSHNER:

Right. Right.

In that case and in others, most recently Ferguson, to a great deal, you know, the way that — their approach is that they're — they come back to the clearinghouse of information, and they're trying to get it out there very quickly. They're not really taking the time to verify everything.

I think they — it's sort of a WikiLeaks model, in a way, where they're going out and say, look, here's all this information coming in, here are videos, here are testimonials. You all make sense of it, you all meaning the general public, or the media, or whomever.

So — and, sometimes, in that kind of fire hose blast of data and media, there will be some things that are impactful, such as that video, and then there will be things that aren't. And there will be things that are problematic, such as in Ferguson when, you know, there was a rush to identify the — who is the officer who shot Michael Brown, and Anonymous or someone representing Anonymous released the wrong name.

And I spoke with the person who was named, and he basically feels like his reputation has been just ruined forever.

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