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There is a certain delicious irony in this:
The website of Washington DC-based HBGary Federal was hijacked Sunday along with the Twitter account of CEO Aaron Barr. The company’s website was defaced with a message that read, “This domain seized by Anonymous under section #14 of the rules of the Internet.”
“Your recent claims of ‘infiltrating’ Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself,” the messaged continued. “How’s this for attention?”
Follow the link to learn why Mr. Aaron Barr (it is so difficult not to type “Aaron Burr“) has unplugged his router. Seems his bid for publicity has attracted port scans.
While thinking that Anonymous’s actions are ultimately rather pointless–it’s deeds are roughly the internet equivalent of tee-peeing the lawn of the principal and school board member that you don’t like–I admire the chutzpah here.
On a more serious note, to the extent that persons in authority persist in thinking that there is a group called “Anonymous,” they betray their lack of a clue and their overall $luser-dom.
It’s not a group when the only qualification for membership is showing up.
It may be a chance meeting on the inter-streets, a mob, a gang, a vested interest, or (current beaten-to-death buzzword) stakeholders (apologies to Dr. Van Helsing), but it’s not a group.
The press paints Anonymous as if it were The Gathering.
Hell, it’s barely a gathering.
