Anonymous Navigates the New Online Frontier of Civil Disobedience Matthew Fleischer - TakePart
go to original February 14, 2013

Anonymous’s hacktivism could end up pushing the center of the Internet toward the left on social justice issues. (Nacho Doce/Reuters)

The “hacktivist” group Anonymous is in the news again, claiming to have taken down the website of the Los Angeles Police Department - for its trigger-happy mishandling of the search for muder suspect and former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.

Seven LAPD officers, due to a “a tragic misinterpretation” and “incredible tension,” mistook a 71-year-old Latina newspaper delivery woman and her 47-year-old daughter for the 6-foot 270-pound Dorner last week and unleashed a fusillade of gunshots at her pickup truck.

That Anonymous should wade into the fray of such a high-profile criminal justice case is no surprise. The group launched the latest in a series of online attacks against the U.S. Government last week, hacking into the internal records of the U.S. Federal Reserve and publishing a trove of contact and personal information on more than 4,000 American bank executives.

The information was rather benign in itself, but the fact that data could be purloined from behind the black curtain of such a high-profile, secretive entity within the government testifies to the group’s reach and determination.

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