Is Anonymous Good? 3 Minute Profile of Anonymous

Anonymous is a collective of hacktivists and script kiddies which originated in 2003 on the website 4chan. In the traditional sense, it is more of a cyber-mob than an advanced persistent threat; however, the group’s construction and global membership afford it significant influence and resilience to law enforcement efforts. The group has established a brand name with the physical weight of a cohesive advanced persistent threat group. The group has a decentralized command structure and it unties its members through anarchic ideology. Essentially, the loosely affiliated members or member groups work towards goals that they agree upon or remain inactive or split off, if they do not agree. Dissent is common within the group and one of the largest difficulties in profiling Anonymous is that the only absolutely unifying characteristic is membership in the group. Some members participate to deface websites and prank organizations while other members participate because Anonymous affords them a serious political activism platform

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