“We can’t help recalling that Anonymous came to the aid of WikiLeaks at one point and published a protocol that allowed hackers to attack enemies of WikiLeaks online. Unfortunately, the protocol (reportedly anyway) was not shielded and those who used it left a clear trail for the authorities to follow. In other words, Anonymous provided a utility that generated numerous arrests for government software sleuths….
In defense of LulzSec, the top priority “just announced” is to “steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation …” But once more doubt creeps in. “Prime targets” according to LulzSec “are banks and other high-ranking establishments.” Say what? It is not unpatriotic to want to challenge what the US has turned into – a putative democracy with 16 separate spy agencies and four undeclared regional wars. A country whose leadership has bankrupted its citizens while endlessly poisoning women and children abroad with endless hostilities aimed at pursuing a war against terror that cannot be won and in a larger sense does not even exist.” The Daily Bell
By The Daily Bell | June 21, 2011
Horizons LulzSec and Anonymous team up, plan digital destruction … LulzSec and Anonymous have joined forces, and “any government or agency” is the target. LulzSec and Anonymous have teamed up. Their target? The government. Any government, really. – Christian Science Monitor
Dominant Social Theme: Anarchy spins out of control.
Free-Market Analysis: Not long ago, we wrote how incomprehensible it was that anyone would believe that TWO US military-oriented males would set up lesbian websites unbeknownst to each other and then join forces (each thinking the other was a lesbian) to slam Syria’s policies towards women with alternative sexuality. It seemed like a classic psyops to us at the time – the kind in which Western Intel specializes; you could almost hear the giggling of young agents in the background. You can see the editorial we posted here: Gay Ops of American Intel?
Unfortunately, the episode has already passed dropped into the memory hole as we predicted. You can search in vain for a reasonable analysis of this operation in mainstream media. All you will find is pontifications having to do with how it is wrong to adopt the personas of people who don’t exist, even with the best of intentions.
Thus we are not surprised at the uncritical coverage that a “merger” between LulzSec and Anonymous is getting. We are instructed to believe that these metaphorical caped avengers met somewhere in a digital ally and decided to wage war against governments everywhere. We are not yet convinced.