Member Claims Anonymous "Might Well Be the Most Powerful Organization On Earth" 241
wasimkadak writes in with an interview with Anonymous member "Commander X" in which he talks about how the hacktivists are the most powerful group on the planet. "Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hillside in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path to join him, away from the prying eyes of law enforcement. It's been a few weeks of encrypted emails back and forth, working out the security protocol to follow for interviewing Doyon, one of the brains behind Anonymous, now a fugitive from the FBI. Doyon, who readily admits taking part in some of the highest-profile hacktivist attacks on websites last year — from Tunisia to Orlando, Sony to PayPal — was arrested in September for a comparatively minor assault on the county website of Santa Cruz, Calif., where he was living, in retaliation for the town forcibly removing a homeless encampment on the courthouse steps. The 'virtual sit-in' lasted half an hour. For that, Doyon is facing 15 years in jail."
Most powerful? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Most powerful? (Score:5, Informative)
Also less powerful than Amazon's cloud hosting [informationweek.com] or Lolita City [arstechnica.com] which survived Anonymous' best efforts (sadly).
Re:The people (Score:5, Informative)
Have you taken a good look around lately? The people got cut out of the loop decades ago. Time to wake up and smell the napalm.
Re:Most powerful? (Score:5, Informative)
I checked Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: they were going to release information on Zeta only because they had kidnapped an anonymous member. Los Zetas actually released their member, that's why they rescinded on OpCartel:
On 6 October 2011 a man identified himself as a member of Anonymous posted a video on the Internet (YouTube) under the account MrAnonymousguyfawkes stating that Los Zetas had kidnapped one of their group members and demanded Los Zetas Cartel release the individual.