DAVID IS IN HIS LATE teens, lives alone and makes ends meet working a part-time job. David (not his real name) could get a better job at a bank or software firm. He's a self-taught computer programmer with serious skills. Instead David spends 60 hours a week helping run Anonymous Operations, the supposedly elite arm of the troublemaking hacking group called Anonymous that orchestrated a massive computer network attack against MasterCard, Visa and PayPal in November in retaliation for their freezing donor payments to WikiLeaks. The distributed denial-of-service attack failed to crash those payment networks, but David says Anonymous did manage to poke around their back-end computer systems.
展开▼
