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Hackers debate ‘Anonymous’ tactics at DefCon gathering. By Agence France-PresseSunday, August 7, 2011 10:24 EDT LAS VEGAS — Hackers bent on derailing Anonymous clashed with members of the notorious group at a DefCon gathering in Las Vegas late Saturday.
“Hubris” and “Asherah” of startup Backtrace Security condemned Anonymous for “bully behavior” and argued that the group was trying to pass off reckless opportunism as Internet-age activism. “When Anonymous started it was a good idea,” Asherah said during what exploded into the fieriest session yet at the infamous DefCon hacker get-together. “Now, it is in violent freefall,” she continued as the audience divided into opposing camps of hackers cheering in agreement and angry Anonymous fans heckling and shouting. “We are trying to derail something that has gone wrong very quickly and is going to get worse.” Asherah presented a history of Anonymous, saying the same people were behind splinter hacker group Lulz Security. Defcon panel: Anonymous is here. LulzSec is here. They’re everywhere. A panel at Defcon that focused on the hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec was as confusing, chaotic and free-wheeling as the organizations themselves.
The panel included a masked man, introduced as Baron von Arrr, who spoke with authority about Anonymous, but, upon a request from the audience, he unmasked himself as a security expert and blogger who wasn’t speaking for Anonymous. The debate was itself a theatrical microcosm of the whole problem of identifying members of Anonymous, or LulzSec, and prosecuting them for committing various hacking crimes such as shutting down web sites. Law enforcers, some who were presumably in the audience, are faced with the question of whom to arrest as the “leadership” of a groups, which have (reportedly) attacked everyone from the Church of Scientology to Sony. No one can admit to being a leader of Anonymous, since he or she would be subject to arrest for bringing down the web sites of so many companies this year.