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Story time. A few years ago (during the height of the anonymous media frenzy), I was working for a hosting company in Iceland, which among other things hosted

Story time. A few years ago (during the height of the anonymous media frenzy), I was working for a hosting company in Iceland, which among other things hosted websites of a large government ministry. One day, I was called into a meeting with a couple of my bosses and other technicians. The reason for the meeting was that we had received a tip-off from the Icelandic police, which they said came from the FBI, that anonymous was planning to attack Icelandic government sites in the next couple of days. They wanted us to make sure the sites were ready, and to monitor for signs of attack. I thought the whole thing was really strange, how did the Icelandic police have this knowledge? And why did they know with such certainty that there would be an attack in the next two days, when they could not provide us with any other information on the attack vector? Anyway, we decided to just make a static HTML dump of the site and serve it with thttpd for the time being (the site didn't really have any dynamic content anyway). Now, several years later, with this and other leaks related to Sabu and Hammond, I wonder: was I used as a pawn in the FBI's game to entrap anonymous? Did the FBI encourage anonymous to attack Icelandic government servers?

psykovsky 12y ago
Now, several years later ... I wonder: was I used as a pawn in the FBI's game... Does it really matter? You've been used as a pawn in governmental games ever since you were born.
- tkinom 12y ago
  So like the Matrix.
drballs 12y ago
hey dude. i'm one of the authors of that brazil piece. can you hollar at us? our twitters are at the bottom of the article, and our contact info is contained therein. thanks.
mdisraeli 12y ago
There's another reason other than being used as pawns to get anon. It is not uncommon for such information exchanges and warnings to actually be readiness tests. Except you don't know it's intended as a test of your resources / ability to handle such an attack.

psykovsky 12y ago

Now, several years later ... I wonder: was I used as a pawn in the FBI's game... Does it really matter? You've been used as a pawn in governmental games ever since you were born.

tkinom 12y ago
So like the Matrix.

drballs 12y ago

hey dude. i'm one of the authors of that brazil piece. can you hollar at us? our twitters are at the bottom of the article, and our contact info is contained therein. thanks.

mdisraeli 12y ago

There's another reason other than being used as pawns to get anon. It is not uncommon for such information exchanges and warnings to actually be readiness tests. Except you don't know it's intended as a test of your resources / ability to handle such an attack.