Trying to understand the goals and motivations of Anonymous is about as useful as trying to understand the goals and motivations of any inanimate object- it jus

Trying to understand the goals and motivations of Anonymous is about as useful as trying to understand the goals and motivations of any inanimate object- it just isn't something that can be done, because anything is speculation, and any person who claims to be in anonymous can't answer for everyone. Its really best to just think of them as a black box that works without motivation. The only thing that I applaud here is people (hopefully?) becoming aware that it is severe negligence to store passwords in the plain or with a simple MD5. Any programmer not doing something more secure (bcrypt) needs to learn, or get a new job. It just isn't acceptable practice in 2011 and it hasn't been in some time. Also, if you have serious data, you have to take security seriously. Rarely have the Anonymous attacks been anything particularly clever from what I've heard, but have been more akin to walking in an unlocked door and pulling a folder out of an unlocked file cabinet.