I was very supportive of the dynamics that Anonymous represents.
For an online collective whose modus operandi has largely focused upon cyber-attacks and hacking, the latest announcement by Anonymous represents a striking switch in strategy.
I was very supportive of the dynamics that Anonymous represents, I'm very much an advocate (and continue to be) of these new sorts of communities to express yourself on the internet and the next move I'll be making is deploying some communities a little more structured than Anons to perpetuate themselves, and grow, while maintaining Anonymous' core qualities.
Online communities provided a testbed for such practice, with the activist group Anonymous representing perhaps the purest form of this, where any individual can propose initiatives that may get adopted, shaped and executed by an incredibly large and fluid network of participants.
"Purchasing new and 'old' drugs via 'darknets' – underground, online networks permitting anonymous communication — represents a new challenge for law enforcement," said the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in a statement on Wednesday.
Another kind of information that the user submits to the anonymous server represents location update; the format is [ I D,L o c x,y),2], where ID represents the user identity, L o c x,y) represents the user's new location information, 2 means that this information represent the location update.
And while it'll probably end up stashed in a huge warehouse in a strategic low-tax location somewhere, there are those who hope the anonymous buyer represents a museum and that Salvator Mundi will be the next Mona Lisa.
By the mid 2000s, the hactivist organization Anonymous took its name not necessarily to celebrate the concept of Anonymity, but rather as a reference to the fact that non-pseudonymous posts on 4Chan were labeled as being posted by "Anonymous" (which lead the term Anonymous to represent the collective pseudonym of the 4Chan hivemind).
The second, in which angry men with sandals carried rocks and wood staves and were directed by anonymous organizers, represented the dark underside of no-holds-barred clan warfare.
When questioned about the difference in tactics, one Anonymous member representing #OpCyberPrivacy, who operates under the pseudonym Bio, told VICE News that: "the only difference between us is methodology, leaking databases we access is non conducive to the end result of respected privacy in this nation and abroad".
Data were obtained from the Occupational Disease Surveillance and Reporting Systems in Zhejiang province from 2006 to 2010, which contains anonymous records representing general population of Zhejiang province, China.
