Could the KGB Infiltrate LulzSec?

Barence writes "Foreign powers could try to infiltrate hacktivist networks in order to manipulate their actions, according to a security expert who advises governments and businesses on internet issues. Likening the emergence of the hacktivist movement to the arrival of militant groups such as the Red Brigade during the 1970s, government advisor and chair of the International E-crime Congress, Simon Moores, said that hacker groups could eventually be swayed by outside influences. 'If you have a LulzSec or an Anonymous that is perhaps being manipulated by a foreign actor, it takes us back to the days of the Stasi and the KGB, which were manipulating [anti-nuclear campaign group] CND quite easily from Moscow,' he said."

Comments

What about?

[Broken scope]

So could the CIA, NSA, FBI or any of the 20 or 30 Intelligence/enforcement agencies in the US government.

What is to say that this hasn't already happened and everything we have seen has been... "just as planned."

Oh look at me! I can speculate too!

No

[ewanm89]

One, the KGB doesn't exist anymore, 2) neither does LulzSec (technically), but even if it doesn't work like that, every single member (I use this loosely as anonymous doesn't really have members) can decide whether to take part in a particular action or not.

Re:Is it worth it?

[Smallpond]

Why not? The FBI infiltrates US peace groups:

http://www.progressive.org/mc011411.html
http://www.progressive.org/mc052609.html