After the FBI descended on key members of the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec last year, an agency spokesman intoned confidently that they had “chopped off the head” of a rather dangerous snake. It was an impressive achievement, but security experts were less sanguine, aware that it was always an organization without a head — no nucleus, no membership rolls, and no definable political worldview. Little surprise, then, that in 2012, several self-proclaimed agents of Anonymous infiltrated a Justice Department website, knocked the Chicago Police Department and NATO domains offline and hacked a military dating service.
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