Anonymous and NATO in Cyber Pissing Match
In this corner, the amorphous blob of Wikileaks-loving nerds: Anonymous! And in this corner, the sometimes-relevant intergovernmental military alliance NATO! NATO wants to kill Anonymous, but Anonymous says back off.
Some day we may get to a point where cyberattacks are as exciting and dangerous as real-life actions. Currently, the most dramatic act of "cyberwarfare" is a chat room full of 15-year-olds clicking a button at the same time to make Paypal stop working for three minutes, as Anonymous did that one time. (To be fair, that was the closest thing Etsy has come to having a 9/11.)
But that hasn't stopped NATO from calling them out in a big important report as something we might want to blow up, virtually at least. In the report, they wrote that groups like Anonymous "will be infiltrated and perpetrators persecuted." Oh no you did not.
Anonymous has now replied in typically overblown fashion: "Do not make the mistake of challenging Anonymous," Anonymous wrote in a statement. "Do not make the mistake of believing you can behead a headless snake. If you slice off one head of Hydra, ten more heads will grow in its place. If you cut down one Anon, ten more will join us purely out of anger at your trampling of dissent."
Yeah, yeah. Clearly NATO and Anonymous were made for each other. They should make up and go shit on Iran together or something.