War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show
You have to wonder, do the GCHQ agents involved <i>really</i> think Anonymous is worth their time?  Are the people actually carrying out these attacks convinced that their efforts are better spent on that than identifying and infiltrating terrorist networks?<p>I get spying.  I get compromising and penetrating the networks of rival countries.  I even get economic espionage, in the same way that I understand why the US Marines overthrew sovereign governments in service of United Fruit.<p>But DDOSing <i>Anonymous?</i>  Were they loading up LOIC and firing their lazors at freenode?  That just seems fucking <i>pathetic</i>.  It looks like a bunch of children got written a big cheque and were told to go play.<p>We're constantly inculcated with notions of spy agencies as supremely powerful, supremely competent cloak-and-dagger organizations that work in the shadows to guide world events.  But this just makes them look like bratty kids with a rich uncle.  It's pathetic.