Members of the collective would often post a short Twitter message after a successful hack attack, providing a link to a Pastebin post which in turn contained details of the data they had copied from the target's computer servers.

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For the sake of our collective fiscal health it is time that we the people send a message to Washington as to the direction the majority of us want to go.

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Ms Blears' article in the Observer raised eyebrows over her YouTube reference and also a comment that all ministers had "a collective responsibility for the government's lamentable failure to get our message across".

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