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In reply to the discussion: If Anonymous has definitive proof that Rove tried to hack the vote, present it. [View all]toddaa
(2,518 posts)Let's remember that "Anonymous" isn't a traditional hacker group like the Legion of Doom or the Computer Chaos Club. Anonymous is anyone claiming to be a member of anonymous. The only "official" Anonymous group with any credibility is the one that goes after Co$ and that group is largely street theater. They have only one cause that they truly care about and that is completely unfettered free speech.
Once they started spinning off Antisec and Lulzsec in the wake of Wikileaks takedown and OWS, all sorts of individuals jumped on the bandwagon calling themselves "Anonymous", many of whom never hacked a line of code in their life. The arrest of Sabu and Topiary pretty much put an end to the whole "We are Legion" technical threat and you now have a shell of whatever quasi hacker organization actually existed in 2008. What was posted to Pastebin is likely nothing more than act of one of the new breed "hacktivists" who are pretty good at PR stunts, but have no real hacking skills. If Anonymous really did participate in an election day hack against the Romney campaign or Rove's Crossroads GPS, we'd see a lot more dox on pastebin than a single post.
In short, not only is there no evidence Anonymous hacked the election, there's no evidence Anonymous even claims to have hacked the election. Everyone is here and elsewhere is likely being trolled for lulz.