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[personal opinion] I was asking myself the same question recently. I think some of PR/decision making personas are probably "in charge" there, to define next

[personal opinion] I was asking myself the same question recently. I think some of PR/decision making personas are probably "in charge" there, to define next goals for the collective, but then hackers itself are just volunteers who wants to spend their time & use their knowledge for such ideas that might make the world a better place.

twox2 5y ago
It's generally perceived to be autonomous and without central leadership, and I think at this point it largely is. Any PR efforts could just be independent efforts and whoever wants to follow along does. Originally though I think it was a lot more like "project mayhem" with centralized leadership that created this beast.
rvz 5y ago
> just volunteers who wants to spend their time & use their knowledge for such ideas that might make the world a better place. Only if they are on the your side or agree with what you think. One day they are on your side and the next day they aren't. If they breach and leak data from a company they don't like, they don't care about the collateral damage or the innocent users getting caught in the crossfire, they just move on to the next target or the villain of the week. The nature of anarchist hacktivist groups is that they are on no-one's side.