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Another hacker, Deric Lostutter, was sentenced to two years in prison after infiltrating the website of a high school sports team for exposing the alleged coverup of a rape case. Click here to join our channel indianexpress and stay updated with the latest headlines.

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Click here for more. The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards. Trending 'One last heist List of Partners vendors. Anonymous is a loosely organized Internet group of hackers and political activists that began as a collective in on 4chan, an anonymous internet chat board.

Members of the Anonymous community communicate and collaborate via social network services and encrypted Internet chat rooms. Anonymous is most widely known for its cyber-attacks against governments, government-affiliated groups, corporations, and the Church of Scientology. Individuals who wish to be recognized as part of the group wear Guy Fawkes masks in public in order to conceal their identities.

Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who were involved in the Gunpowder Plot—a failed assassination plot—of The Gunpowder Plot was an attempt to secure greater religious tolerance under King James. After blowing up the House of Lords, King James' residence, his daughter Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state.

Later, Fawkes would become synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated since in the UK. On this day, Fawkes effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by fireworks. To the extent Anonymous has a coherent ethos, it features decentralized communities interested in engaging in mutual goals. These goals have historically ranged from political statements to pranks and hacks , sometimes in retaliation for actions taken against the group itself—or those for whom members of a given operation feel an affinity.

Groups of Anonymous members have thrown support behind political movements such as the Arab Spring. Common methods of protest or retaliation include "distributed denial of service" DDoS attacks on governments or organizations.

These actions are known as Operation Payback. The decentralized nature of Anonymous can make it difficult to judge the extent of its reach or power in any given activity. In practical terms, the strength of an Anonymous action appears to be proportional to the number of people interested and involved in an action. This structure also means any loose group interested in participating in a collective operation can call itself Anonymous or claim to be part of the group.

The frequency of operations claimed by Anonymous members declined significantly after the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI infiltrated the group via an informant in A group of former hackers assisted the FBI in identifying a major player in an arm of the group called LulzSec. This eventually led to his arrest. The arrested hacker, known online as Sabu, became an informant. The identity and structure of Anonymous make it difficult to determine the exact effects of these events.

The marked slowdown in claims made by the group in the years following drove speculation that greater caution among members drove major players to keep a lower profile. However, the group continues to announce actions and issue warnings via its official website and Twitter account. ET By Shawn Langlois.

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