February 22nd, 2012 at 11:57AM
theatlantic: Who Do You Trust Less: The NSA or Anonymous? Who has Anonymous hurt? What kinds of laws have they broken? Are they pursuing weapons? Do they sell drugs? Do they have guns? What credible evidence do we have that they are trying to hurt regular citizens? If not, what is gained by lumping them in along with real and persistent threats to Americans?  One doesn’t have to support Anonymous’ methods, goals, or aesthetics to worry about the US response to them in the intelligence community. Read more.

theatlantic:

Who Do You Trust Less: The NSA or Anonymous?

Who has Anonymous hurt? What kinds of laws have they broken? Are they pursuing weapons? Do they sell drugs? Do they have guns? What credible evidence do we have that they are trying to hurt regular citizens? If not, what is gained by lumping them in along with real and persistent threats to Americans?

 One doesn’t have to support Anonymous’ methods, goals, or aesthetics to worry about the US response to them in the intelligence community.

Read more.

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