Six years after ruling that the Constitution protects the right to distribute anonymous campaign literature, the Supreme Court today agreed to decide whether that right extends to anonymous door-to-door advocacy for a political or religious cause.
Richard Stallman, the first-generation hacker from M.I.T., told me that though he supports many of Anonymous's causes, he considered these dox attacks reprehensible.
Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina said it was unfortunate that the choices made by an unknown number of players, some of whose names have been publicized and some who remain anonymous, had caused some clean players to be unfairly suspected of cheating.
The group, an offshoot of the "Anonymous" hacktivists, caused an international stir as they coordinated high profile attacks against some of the world's biggest companies and intelligence agencies in 2011, often from their bedrooms.
Earlier this evening, MIT's network went offline and there was notable evidence that Anonymous had caused the outage.
For many years, "Anonymous" also caused him not to be recognized for one of his most important works.
The U.S. district judge Loretta Preska was unmoved, focussing on statements made by Hammond in online chat logs, where he encouraged his fellow Anonymous members to cause "maximum mayhem" with Stratfor's credit cards.
Whoever the donor is, he or she undoubtedly has a double psychological benefit in remaining anonymous: advancing a cause that you deeply believe in and knowing that people can't accuse you of grandstanding.
We spread a petition, launched a website, and with the help of Anonymous, trended the cause to shut that abhorrent place down on Twitter.
Anonymous unit record cause data for 1997 2009 are available electronically upon request, subject to a data user's agreement.
