Never say "Anon. never did anything good" ... ;)

**Paqman** · October 26th, 2011

On the face of it, this seems like a good thing, but various law enforcement agencies have come out saying that this will have completely ruined any ongoing investigations that could have actually led to arrests and putting these people away. If that's the case then it would have to go down as a well-meaning, but ultimately incredibly foolish act.

Anonymous is a mob, and acts about as stupidly as most mobs do. Given how short-sighted a lot of their attacks are I'm never surprised to hear just how young a lot of the ringleaders are when they get caught. The whole thing smacks of the idealism, need for rebellion and poor judgement of youth.

**Thewhistlingwind** · October 26th, 2011

Originally Posted by Dangertux

It's great... Save for the fact that all they did was give a head start for anyone who wanted to run. The information they provided was neither conclusive nor damning.

Safe bet that any hopes of convicting any of the individuals involved were dashed against the rocks of that thing I like to call reality. Why? Simple, this stuff will now completely be inadmissable in any half aware court. When pondering if you can you should really decide first if you should.

Sorry, but this is dumb.

I was praising the actual taking down of the servers. Publishing any data was dumb.

For two reasons:

1. INADMISSIBLE IN COURT comes to mind here.

2. They could have put ANYONES names in there. So I (And much more importantly, the relevant authorities.) essentially have to ignore that list because, the crackers could have contaminated it.

**drs305** · October 27th, 2011

Under review.

I do appreciate the tone of the posts so far, by the way.

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**F.G.** · October 27th, 2011

so, is this re-opened??

**Rasa1111** · October 27th, 2011

I think I may hold a record for the amount of "threads closed for review". lol
Glad it's open again though.

You guys make good points.
But it also kind of sounds rather 'typical' for L.E. to say something like that.
" well they could have interfered with our own ivestigations(that we're probably not even doing), and they could have just made it worse and harmed more children"!
Riight. Of course.
I have family who are judges and cops, so im not against the law or law enforcement..
Please don't think that.
it's just the system that controls it all, that i know far too much about for my own good. lol

**Pithikos** · October 27th, 2011

Anon? The ones divided by zero?

As some suggested they are mostly youngsters after some thrill. I find many clips they made way too cheesy! I mean what's up with the 'scary' clips and Sam's(from Microsoft) voice?

As about the thing they did, it doesn't change my opinion about them. What would really make me happy would be to see them do something to Fox News. Catching pedophiles is not that hard and many police investigators are doing it already.