GLOBAL CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: An Inside Look at Anonymous, the Radical Hacking Collective
Reproduced with agreement from: An Inside Look at Anonymous, the Radical Hacking Collective : " Link: Inside Look at the Masked people, global Civil disobedience phenomenon http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/08/masked-avengers?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits Anyone can join Anonymous simply by claiming affiliation. An anthropologist says that participants “remain subordinate to a focus on the epic win—and, especially, the lulz.” CREDIT PAPER SCULPTURE BY JEFF NISHINAKA / PHOTOGRAPH BY SCOTT DUNBAR In the mid-nineteen-seventies, when Christopher Doyon was a child in rural Maine, he spent hours chatting with strangers on CB radio. His handle was Big Red, for his hair. Transmitters lined the walls of his bedroom, and he persuaded his father to attach two directional antennas to the roof of their house. CB radio was associated primarily with truck drivers, but Doyon and others used it to form the sort of virt...