Imagine the 3D animator who create the video logo (the bright swirly globe thing), that's very professional, do you suppose he just happened to be watching the IRC chat channel on some server one day when someone saying they are anonymous needed a 3D video logo? And he did what he was ordered to do and delivered the logo via IRC (or via Tor even) for free?
Then someone else said 'here hack a computer and post this video anonymously'... and someone else lower down diligently obeyed orders and did it?!
Nah, it's all very complex and implausible. Plus there's the communications mechanism, they must be communicating anonymously, so they must be on a darknet, but then how could you convince users of a darknet to attack a darknet?
We have a classic 'think of the children' agenda, which doesn't fit the likes of 4chan at all (where they usually hang out, and where they began), who spend most of their time posting up skirt shots of a young Hermione Granger too. Again, that doesn't fit the profile, but it does fit the profile of government agencies.
All too complicated and requiring far too much cross-skill organization.
I remember that 'Booz Allen Hamilton' hack, that revealed they had psychops and fake cyberwar hokum.
See boingboing dot net/2010/03/01/cyberwar-hype-was-co.html
This sounds like the sort of thing they'd do, perhaps they're a contractor on it? Anyone care to leak some more Booz Allen emails via a darknet?
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