anonymous However, it is also clear that the issue of jury intimidation, harassment or worse is real. Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger is right to point to the case of Patrick Byers Jr., who ordered the 2007 killing of a witness in a separate murder case from his jail cell, and who, before his trial in that case, was found again with a cell phone behind bars. He was tried in federal court, which does allow anonymous juries in such instances, but had he been tried in circuit court, members of the jury would have had real cause for fear. s the information wars proliferate, they will no doubt continue to congeal along geopolitical and ideological lines.
Anonymous may indeed be anonymous, but they also seem to boast marked characteristics that differentiate them from hacker groups like LulzSec, who recently hacked Sony’s site. While LulzSec boasted of exposing the personal information, including home addresses, of 1 million users from the SonyPictures database, Anonymous seems to take care in targeting only institutional forces without endangering individuals as collateral damage. PC World notes “India and Pakistan have a long-standing dispute over Kashmir, which has spilled over online” with a series of hacks across international lines. Anonymous launched an Operation India Facebook page on Tuesday, the latest line in a global information war that includes Operation Tunisia, Operation Egypt and Operation Zimbabwe. Anonymous outlined highly specific socio-political demands in an Op.
India video display. As we saw in the US/ Israeli Stuxnet attack on Iran, as we move deeper into the information age cyber warfare may come to supplant military warfare more and more. If World War III turns out to be an information war, will Anonymous, which has clearly proven itself one of the most talented and effective cyber assassins on the planet, be able to stay truly anonymous forever?
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