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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by siegecraft on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:41PM (#3487494)
I was under the impression that Anonymous was just kind of a brand that anyone who wanted to could assign credit to for their activities (since they have the publicity infrastructure in place)
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by arctangent on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:59PM (#3487764)
You're correct. But I believe there's a certain amount of coordination going on behind the scenes in order to arrange significant activities.

Anonymous is an interesting cultural phenomenon, but hiding behind a common shared identity is not new. For example, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-use_name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collective_pseudonyms

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