Post by functionunknown on Dec 14, 2010 1:35:02 GMT
'Anonymous' is like Fight Club - you don't say you are in it
Last week I spent much of a day inside the internet relay chat (IRC) rooms where Anonymous makes its decisions — and what a mess that turns out to be. I was led there by someone who had got in touch because he felt the group was being misrepresented in the media. One of my interviewees is still a student in the U.K., while the other recently left a British university. They’re living in completely different countries but both frequent the same IRC channels, oblivious of each other.
My main guide, “an0n”, has been on /b/ for about four years. He showed me how to get on to the IRC rooms where, just after the MasterCard web server had been knocked offline, the chatter was trying to identify the next target. [more]