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		siegecraft on Jan 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Uni... I was under the impression that Anonymous was just kind of a brand that anyone who wanted to could assign credit to for their activities (since they have the publicity infrastructure in place)

arctangent on Jan 20, 2012 [–]

You're correct. But I believe there's a certain amount of coordination going on behind the scenes in order to arrange significant activities.

Anonymous is an interesting cultural phenomenon, but hiding behind a common shared identity is not new. For example, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-use_name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collective_pseudonyms

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