Friday, March 11, 2011

Meet the hackers who founded Anonymous


The website 4chan used to be little more than a digital hangout where teens could share rude pictures and inside jokes, but it evolved into the launchpad for Anonymous, a hacking collective that achieved notoriety for crashing MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal's websites in retaliation for the companies' refusal to provide financial services to Wikileaks. The group's ringleaders style themselves as digital freedom-fighters, and insist that law enforcement officials will never be able to catch them or end their guerrilla activism.

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Blogger Paulette said...

I would love to read more.....

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