According to one of the charging documents, Mr. Monsegur was recruited into Anonymous by other hackers in December 2010, and later broke off to participate in other hacking collectives including LulzSec.
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The irony in all this is that Anonymous by nature is not a massive, global organization constantly plotting new cyber attacks against governments and corporations, but small cells of people working independently across the globe, some vastly more skilled than others in hacking, but sharing the same name.
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The Princie Diamond was purchased by an anonymous collector bidding by phone, Christie's in New York said.
It was purchased by an anonymous collector bidding by phone.
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The diamond was sold to an anonymous bidder by the Christie's auction house in Geneva.
Numerous protesters - here and elsewhere - are choosing to identify themselves with the online protest group "Anonymous" by wearing the Guy Fawkes mask.
Mr Chavez has tried to make his candidates less anonymous, by selecting prominent members of his entourage, including his photogenic wife, a former beauty queen.
The number was bought by an anonymous Qatari bidder during a charity auction hosted by Qatar Telecom in Doha on 23 May 2006, according to Guinness World Records.
So next time you hear about a looming cyber attack by Anonymous, stay calm.
Yet for all its power and bluster, Anonymous is challenged by one obvious issue: credibility.
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This followed a series of reports by anonymous researchers on websites like MuddyWatersResearch.com.
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Keys has written publicly about participating in discussions within chat forums used by Anonymous but presented his actions there as reportorial.
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About 10, 700 of those cases -- 56% -- involved male victims in 2010, based on anonymous reporting collected by the military.
Taking part will involve an anonymous interview, by phone or in person.
One reason the original, July gathering for OpFacebook came about may have been the momentum created by Anonymous splinter group LulzSec, which had disbanded in late June.
Moving the lines of responsibility undermined Noa as, "there was a lot of resistance internally still, " to his authority, according to an anonymous source quoted by the Financial Times.
The largest was an Alcoholics Anonymous convention attended by about 50, 000 people in 2000, said Laura McCarthy, a spokeswoman for Meet Minneapolis, one of the Twin Cites region's convention-and-visitor's organizations.
On a broader level, reputations of individuals and companies have been unfairly damaged by anonymous comments and posts on the Internet, so that, for example, phony negative claims about a company show high up on search results.
The company--citing claims by anonymous tax officials in the media--had said it appears that the action was related to taxes on payments made for supplying software from its parent company in Finland for devices produced in India.
Instead of appearing first in a medical journal where results are carefully vetted by anonymous outside experts, as is the tradition for scientific papers, the researchers involved organized a press conference that was funded by the company.
Many told Alexander they were lobbied or pressured by someone to change their allegiance -- sometimes in person, sometimes by anonymous e-mails and phone calls -- in the period between Election Day and mid-December, when the Electoral College votes.
It appeared online late March last year, when a small group of anti-Anonymous campaigners who went by the name Backtrace Security released a database of suspected Anonymous figures, and pointed to Sabu as being Monsegur from New York City.
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In December 2010, in an online forum used by Anonymous, Keys, under the username AESCracked, allegedly shared a username and password that he told them would allow them to access the content management system of Fox 40 and the Times.
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To describe the prevalence of binge drinking, the CDC analyzed data from its 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an annual telephone survey, and the national 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, an anonymous questionnaire completed by high school students nationwide.
Enter through a concrete lobby in an anonymous building fronted by corrugated sheeting a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean in West L.A. and suddenly you're in a hangar-esque space where some 200 acolytes toil at desks and tables constructed from the same cheap red plywood used for packing cases.
The TechHerald points out that Sony has suffered seven security incidents in two months, including an original mass DDoS (distributed denial of service) by Anonymous last month and the devastating breach that compromised the data of more than 100 million account holders of the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment.
For now, what began on October 6 as an operation by the Anonymous hacker collective targeting the Los Zetas cartel in Mexico has morphed into an effort by Barrett Brown to investigate allegations of corruption by a District Attorney in North Carolina.
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John O'Dowd said he was concerned the test was being paid for by an anonymous donor.
They are among 250 letters and documents being sold by an anonymous American collector.
But by referencing Anonymous and Occupy, these two go beyond general jingoism to something more specific.
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