Anonymous Hackers
BBC Documentary
How Hackers Changed the World – We Are Legion

Now, let me preface this by saying there are some hackers I am down with and others I am not. The ones who hack with no political agenda, just to fuck shit up, those ones are extremely lame. But hacker groups like Anonymous, who show the power of mass political movements via the Internet? I find them inspirational and exciting! Anonymous has shown that no issue is too global or too regional for their involvement. Take the recent Steubenville case: those despicable, subhuman, trollmeat, cowardly little shits may have actually won not only the sympathy of their idiot town and idiots everywhere in America, but also their trial, if it hadn’t been for the Anonymous campaign to make the rape footage public on the Internet. They deserve a fucking trophy for that in my opinion, and those nasty perps deserve to be raped to death by demons, which I am sure will be their karma. But I digress – BBC 4’s Storyville documentary series released a film about Anonymous at the beginning of this month, entitled How Hackers Changed the World – We Are Legion. It goes in depth (as much as they can) on this ever-changing group of world citizens who collaborate to “attack” targets like the Church of Scientology, Paypal, Amazon, Visa, Mastercard and world governments in order to shame them for their shady actions. Anonymous attacked online payment providers when they boycotted Wikileaks; they helped to provide black market Internet connections to and to disseminate information coming out of the Egyptian protest movement. They have targeted neo-nazi groups and taken down neo-nazi sites, they leak information and cover-ups left, right and center, and they support real-world protest and activism. The FBI/National Pig Program are trying hard to crack down on Anonymous, but because of the nature of their work (being anonymous) and their lack of a central leadership position, they haven’t been able to make a dent in the movement. I just think it’s incredibly ironic that a tool created by the Pentagon has been hijacked by the public to fuck with its’ creators! After the jump, check out this short documentary about the activist wave of the future!