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Anonymous targets the Pope
Posted at 10:50 AM ET, 03/23/2012 Mar 23, 2012 02:50 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost On any papal visit, security is a top concern. Throughout history, more than two dozen popes have been murdered . Pope Benedict XVI waves as he boards a plane on his way to Mexico and Cuba on March 23.
Anonymous operating system prompts security warnings
15 March 2012 Last updated at 10:28 ET More than 26,000 people have downloaded an operating system which members of the Anonymous hacker group claim to have created. The software is based on a version of the open-source operating system Linux and comes outfitted with lots of website sniffing and security tools. The "official" Anonymous group has distanced itself from the software.Anonymous gets documented at SXSW
A documentary chronicling the rise of the hacktivist collective Anonymous has premiered at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The film - titled "We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists" - is directed by Brian Knappenberger and features commentary by Gabriella Coleman, an anthropologist who researches hacktivism. "I [do] think there are a ton of [Anonymous] supporters. Some supporters become participants, others remain fascinated spectators," Coleman told Death and Taxes Magazine in a separate interview.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attends a press conference in London, 27 February 2012, about the release of more than 5m emails from private intelligence firm Stratfor. Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA WikiLeaks , the whistleblower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intelligence firm known as Stratfor .
Stratfor, WikiLeaks and the Obama administration's war against truth