“Anonymous is all about privacy,” says group member
The ephemeral, anarchic group known as Anonymous is credited with shutting down trains and publishing the personal information of transit police in San Francisco this week. And yet its decentralized nature means there’s little agreement about the organization’s methods.
Hackers found and published the personal information of 100 Bay Area Rapid Transit police this week. Ostensibly, Anonymous was behind the leak, as many have reported. But it’s hard to say precisely who was responsible, because of Anonymous’s intentional lack of structure and organization.
Just finding an official spokesperson for Anonymous is impossible. Although news stories frequently cite the Twitter accounts @AnonyOps and @AnonOps, neither is an official channel. In fact, several other Twitter accounts frequently speak for the group, including @anonymouSabu, @AnonymousIRC, @YourAnonNews, @AnonymousPress, and many more. These twitter handles often cite and retweet each other. But none of them are the “official” mouthpiece, and indeed the group doesn’t even have a single point of view.
