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Huh. More intelligent that most media descriptions. It lacks a description of 4chan or Project Chanology.

Probably should be interviewing Gabriella Coleman[1] for a translator of Anonymous to the world.

And one of the parts of the story, what I’m reporting on is a few years ago, there were briefings on Capitol Hill about this idea about this threat of Anonymous. Keith Alexander at the time was saying — suggesting that Anonymous had the capability to attack power grids.

Given the right ip address, a telnet session, and a plastic-covered keyboard, I expect a deranged orangutan could take down power stations by throwing poo at the keyboard. Some of those SCADA systems are not designed to be error-tolerant on the control plane in any sense.

[1] http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Gabriella_Colema...

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