The Glade 4.0

The curious thing about a group like Anonymous is that they are not composed entirely of internet script kiddies. There are people within the organization - and I use that word very loosely - who are truly talented individuals. The best and brightest will end up getting recruited by major companies for a variety of technical positions. It shouldn't be a surprise, as it has happened before. This, ultimately, will prove to be their undoing.

When the crackdown does occur, those wielding the hammer will be the very individuals that the best and brightest of Anonymous would become fifteen years from now after working in a department with an actual budget, on projects with actual scopes and deadlines. What currently protects groups like Anonymous and Lulzsec isn't their skill, or anything about their organizational structure, but rather the fact that they are a small time nuisance rather than a real threat. When that changes, they're going to discover how little protection the veil of internet anonymity actually affords them.

I'm hoping that someone with more technical knowledge than me can help answer this question. How hard is it to hide your identity/location when hacking a website? If you're really good at covering your tracks or whatever, can you make it impossible to find you?

Considering the controversy over Julian Assange, and how the U.S. is still harassing him (or pressuring various European countries to harass him), I strongly suspect that within the next five years we will see the emergence of legislation to regulate the internet, citing "cyber terrorism" as the necessity.

I highly doubt it. It can't be regulated at this point. Maybe in 2005 or earlier or something, but right now it's too late.

At the very least, I'm looking forward to people with simplistic views like Lex getting disabused of the notion of how protected they are.

It's never too late for the government to **** things up. Just because your imagination is limited doesn't mean they can't: add requirements that have prohibitive costs or make it a terrorist act or enable a firewall like China or god know what else.

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