FBI's claim that it dismantled Anonymous met with a massive data leak

[MADem]

29. Well, if you wanna rope in a bunch of hackers, the best way to do that is to

portray yourself as one of the biggest, baddest hackers in town! Find something that is embarrassing, but doesn't really matter, and toss it out there like it's something you went and stole....then boast about tweaking the nose of the "PTB" and next thing ya know, you've gathered a tribe of people who have done similar stuff, but who are perhaps less creative or successful.

Years ago, there were a number of activists (Weathermen, SDS, Black Panthers, SLA, etc) that liked to engage in some pretty substantial criminal behavior that sometimes descended into violence. The feds thought the best way to limit that was to infiltrate when they could, but they weren't too good at it--just too dorky, most of the time. Nowadays, though, it's easier to appear "cool" from behind a keyboard...