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Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack” by zucker42 on Monday June 01, 2020 @04:49PM (#23383633)
Has Anonymous ever been an actual group or more of a loose collection of people claiming the name?
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Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack” by kart23 on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:10PM (#23383852)
Read the wikipedia page, its pretty accurate. There have been arrests for 'Anonymous' hacks but it's not really a group, more so an idea.
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Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack” by a-wu on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:34PM (#23384190)
You're totally right and I shouldn't have referred to them as one entity. Even so, I think that Twitter accounts "representing" Anonymous spreading misinformation really discredits the work other Anonymous members do.
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Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack” by monadic2 on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:23PM (#23385279)
I don’t think the point of taking up the “anonymous” moniker is to get credit. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the underlying meme, which is populist, not meritocratic or whatever. It’s spelled out quite well in V for Vendetta...
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Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack” by aspenmayer on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:21PM (#23385250)
sabu[1] existed and was an actual person behind a keyboard at least some of the time. Hard to say where it starts and where it ends now, or then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Monsegur

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Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack” by ryanlol on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @09:14AM (#23390622)
> the work other Anonymous members do

such as?

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