Quote:Members of the infamous hacker collective Anonymous are more than likely responsible for the attacks on Sony and its networks despite the group's denial of any involvement, according to, ironically, two veterans of the group itself.

Full Story: Anonymous Members Most Likely Responsible For PSN Breach, Says Hackers

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See, this is the thing with Anonymous. There are no leaders, so there is no control or lease over what goes on under their name.

*sigh*

I want PSN back. v_V

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Its sad that people can be so stupid

p.s. spybot alert

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385/2 Days

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF! >_< Man Anon, because of ye, They may never release the rest of Hyperdimension Neptunia DLC! Not only that, but ye have pissed millions of people of.

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Laharl95

(May 07, 2011 05:47:18 AM)Astharis Wrote:  See, this is the thing with Anonymous. There are no leaders, so there is no control or lease over what goes on under their name.

*sigh*

I want PSN back. v_V

I can't really agree with that at all.

Anonymous is just a name and it's no different from most other criminal organisations or terrorist factions. Of course there is leadership, but it doesn't stop people lower down from abusing the name of the organisation they're a part of, or other people outside from claiming they're a part of said organisation.

If there was no leadership, things like "OpSony" wouldn't exist, there wouldn't be a mouthpiece for their videos and they certainly wouldn't give out official press releases or have "veteran members".

If what this "splinter group" did comes back to haunt some senior Anonymous members, you can guarantee that the "splinter group" will be hunted down by those senior members and destroyed.

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Yeah but anyone within the group can organize an op, it's like a flash mob, anyone can take the lead. There doesn't appear to be any permanent appointed leadership, at least not in the traditional sense, even if they do recognize seniority. Whoever led OpSony may not be the leader of Anon, clearly neither is the one who led the recent attacks on PSN. Hence "loosely organized group."

Leadership or not, this whole fiasco has become a huge pain the butt. At this point it isn't even about showing how "evil" Sony is, if they do another attack, I can assure you the anger and hate won't just be directed at Sony anymore.

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(May 07, 2011 02:21:15 PM)Colin Wrote:  Leadership or not, this whole fiasco has become a huge pain the butt. At this point it isn't even about showing how "evil" Sony is, if they do another attack, I can assure you the anger and hate won't just be directed at Sony anymore.

My anger was never aimed at Sony. It wasn't their fault that they were hacked, and Sony couldn't have predicted that they were going to be hacked. So, apart from the whole 'Sony didn't have a firewall' business, which I don't believe, and the credit card details being stolen, which, again, wasn't really Sony's fault, then consumers can't really get angry at Sony, because they couldn't have prevented it.

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