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April 5, 2012

Why Anonymous Is Not a National Security Threat

Yochai Benkler, Foreign Affairs

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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen. Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

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