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Purported FBI Report Calls Anonymous a National Security Threat
itwbennett writes "According to what purports to be a leaked psychological assessment of the leaders of LulzSec and Anonymous by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, Anonymous is not only not a collection of individuals, it's a coherent group that poses a threat to national security. Neither the FBI nor the Dept. of Homeland Security have commented on the document, which may well be a fake, but seems to reflect accurately the thinking behind a series of DHS warning bulletins and crackdowns that have resulted in 75 raids and 16 arrests of Anonymous members just this year."
How long before they finally crack down on all those Anonymous users posting on Slashdot
Anything the government can't understand or control is a security threat.
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Please, Wall Street and companies like Goldman Sachs are far greater National Security Risks than any conglomeration of people in their basements DDoSing websites.
"The Anonymous ‘collective’ has risen from an amorphous group of individuals on the Internet to the current state of a potential threat to national security. Due to the nature of Anonymous, they believe that they are a leaderless collective. However, it has been shown that there is a defined leadership group," the document reads. "A thorough assessment of each UNSUB’s online activities, speech patterns, and general writings was collected by the FBI. Each UNSUB was individually assessed by members of the SBU (sic) and a psychological profile created from these datasets."
(emphasis mine)
This is what some people on /. have been arguing for some time.
Regardless, the document itself (linked to in the first article) is kind of fun to read.
The FBI is the threat to national security. Anonymous simply reveals how insecure we are.
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And where's your rage at the bankers who tanked the economy, whose actions have affected far more people more drastically than anything Anonymous has done?
Or how about the Tea Party idiots in the House, who played chicken with the economy as well?
The result of Wikileaks/Lulzsec/Anonymous is hurting the US ...
How? They're embarrassing a lot of political office holders and appointees by holding their actions up to the light of day. How does that hurt the US or its citizenry? Why shouldn't US citizens know what their elected/appointed officials have been up to? They're paying for all of it (supposedly), and a lot of them question out loud whether what they're doing is the right thing.
If you don't want to look like fools, don't do foolish things. Smiple.
If you want your voters to become disillusioned with "The American Way", by all means keep toadying up to special interests, ignoring your citizens, and run the country into the ground via back room deals.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
I dunno, everyone I've ever seen mention Anonymous in person mentions the Scientology thing and is at least semi-positive about them. They often don't have a clue what's going on but they know what Scientology is (if only a little) and that they hate it so it must be a good thing.
On the other hand FOX news has yet to say anything positive about Wikileaks so of course they're spinning Anonymous, if they come up, as atheistic anarchistic monsters.
If that's your only measure, that the USA is so full of retards that the propaganda is accepted uncritically by a majority, then yes. But at that level, the majority believes that god exists. But that's not public opinion being against Anonymous, that's your whole fucking nation being addicted to the daily hate and willing to accept any story for blood. As you say, they'll gleefully watch thugs blowing away teenage "hackers" if they've been assured that these kids are against baby Jesus. Yay USA.
If you're going to play "Revolutionary" like the big boys do, you'd better understand what that means: secret jails, warrantless raids, and "shot while resisting arrest". That's how governments... ALL governments...
Yeah, that's pretty much why you're universally despised. One minute you're all like "We're the USA, best in the world", and the next it's "Did you look at me? I'll fucking kill you if you looked at me!"
If you treat harmless protests as terrorism you can expect terrorism because there won't be any enforcement difference. In for a penny, in for bringing down the power grid to fuck the pricks who shot your friend for DDoSing Sony. If that means China invades, oh well - you're gonna get shot anyways.
Think about the message you really want the government to send to our kids.