In a completely hypothetical, imaginary, (not our) world, Anynomous was just a bunch of wanna be hackers who could only use scripts and such. They had some ta

In a completely hypothetical, imaginary, (not our) world, Anynomous was just a bunch of wanna be hackers who could only use scripts and such. They had some talent that could write scripts but mostly for denial of service etc. As luck would have it, some highly skilled band of people decided to use the Anonymous philosophical movement to push their own agenda forward. Thus lulzsec [0] was born and from within the anonymous ranks performed a series of hacks that got anonymous more attention then it knew what to do with. Lulzsec were also claiming[1] to be forwarding the philosophy of anti-sec[3]. But in this hypothetical world, anti-sec was anti attention. They believed getting media attention, white hat hacking, publishing etc all lead to reduced exploits for them to use and more unwanted attention they wanted to avoid. This might have gotten them more attention than from just law enforcement. Rumor had is that it was Teamp0isoN [3] that leaked some information about lulzsec to law enforcement. At least some supposed members of that group were claiming such (on random irc) before the bust of lulzsec was announced. But in honestly, there were dozens of different irc servers at some point that all claimed to be Anonymous. Because it was supposed to be some type of hivemind, there wasn't any one place that could claim authority. Before their lulzsec stuff, the appear in zines for various groups like h0n0, zfo, el8 where they get mentioned as `scriptkiddies` and exploits of their servers getting owned is presented as entertainment for anyone reading it [4]. Hopefully this is at least entertaining if completely fictional. Some things are very hard to know/verify as an outsider looking in. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_AntiSec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_AntiSec [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisec_Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisec_Movement [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeaMp0isoN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeaMp0isoN [4] https://bgr.com/general/lulzsec-hacked-exposed-by-rival-hackers/ https://bgr.com/general/lulzsec-hacked-exposed-by-rival-hack...