If ever you wondered if there good enough reason for Op Sabu, remember that there are plenty of bad people out there that would take advantage of misguided young people in a heartbeat.

While in the end I think it will surface that Jeremy Hammond had actually been in contact with FBI agents, as opposed to Louis Farrakhan, there is still something to be taken from this. If you haven’t read John Ransom’s article and the open letter that Ruth Collins (Jeremy Hammond’s mother) published in it, I highly suggest it.  http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/03/16/hacktivists_mom_has_a_few_questions_for_anonymous/page/full/

Regardless of if it was an agent or not, it underscores the threat that Anonymous poses. “Have talent (some more than others) insert cause here.” Young highly intelligent twenty somethings that are still so impressionable that you would have a young white hacker wanting to work for a black supremacy group.

An army of hackers willing to take up any cause, with such a radically left of center position, presents a far larger danger than anyone seems to want to acknowledge. As sad as it is, a kid like this could probably be convinced that he was working with Bin Laden and that the whole death thing was a massive disinformation campaign. They want to have an impact but lack the discipline or temperament to direct that desire.

LulzSec and AntiSec were both shown to be opportunity based attackers. While Op Sabu sparks a few questions about the sources of those opportunities, it has no impact on the others willingness to participate in anything. What’s worse is that their willingness is not always exclusively limited to cyber space. Sooner or later, someone will do something stupid.

Op Sabu wasn’t only a case study in information operations. It was also a proof of concept attack  that exposes the weakness of the Anonymous collective. Instead of the once majestic and mysterious collective, now it is being shown to be an army of mindless morons. Creative enough to find exploits and write the occasional piece of code, but not rich enough in character to oppose being used. In the end it’s about ego. Anything to get famous in the Social Media era.

Hopefully some of the members have had enough. It is time to jump ship and disassociate with Anonymous. The collective is broken beyond repair. It is so infiltrated and inundated with law enforcement, bad guys, teenage wanna-be’s, freaks, kids, skids, and dorks, that it has lost both its identity and value to anyone of skill, discipline, honor, or integrity.  As available as the internet is in these days, you’d think that a group that prides itself on security consciousness, would have already figured out the problem.

The unsolvable problem with Anonymous is that it is anonymous. Zero authentication.  I would think that a collective of hackers wouldn’t pride itself on size. One skilled hacker is worth a thousand moron skiddies.  I would think that a collective like that would find it wiser to go the exact opposite direction. Keep the circles small, and eliminate all anonymity completely within the circles. With the security technology available today, from biometrics to OSINT, it is quite possible to verify with a high degree of confidence who the fuck you are talking to. I recommend taking advantage of that.  The idea of one massive collective is reminiscent of the origins of computers. Like a mainframe that everyone connects to. Think more like a cloud structure.

Either way, Anonymous has shown an unstoppable pattern of being easily influenced, manipulated, humiliated, and basically molested.  You can’t trust anyone you’re talking to, and every thing that’s said is on the FBI’s record books.

The system is archaic and compromised. It’s time for those in Anonymous that considers them self to be worth a shit to let the wreckage go. Sometimes you gotta scrap the whole thing and start over based on the things you learned along the way.

Let it go. It’s FUBAR.