Is Anonymous a threat to national security, or just trolling?

With mounting concerns over computer security after a rash of high-profile hacks last year, governments around the world have been increasingly quick to condemn and punish the actions of the nebulous "hacktivist" collective Anonymous and its associated groups. The United States has been particularly bullish in the affair; in January, NSA Director General Keith Alexander attempted to frame Anonymous as a national security threat, warning that they might soon have the will and the ability to shut down national power grids. But Wealth of Networks author and Harvard Law professor Yochai Benkler says that the current attitude toward Anonymous stands only to incriminate relatively innocuous and in... »read more

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