Wondering What Anonymous' Response Will Be To The UN....

[IScreamSundays]

For ignoring their demands??

In case you didn't see it:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/21/948079/-Anonymous-to-UN:-Help-Libya-Now

[Posteritatis]

1. Considering there's no coherent organization called Anonymous...

...the response will be whatever anyone claiming to represent the nonexistent organization called Anonymous says.

[Boswell]

2. possibly another hoax letter?

that's the problem now after Phelps seems to have used a fake one for publicity

[IScreamSundays]

3. Pretty sure it's for real. nt

[wallawallajefferson]

7. good job white wolf VVV

UN = NATO!

also, how does providing medical supplies or a NFZ interfere with the peoples ability to determine their political fate on the ground?

[white_wolf]

4. That letter isn't real.

Anonymous says they opposed UN intervention. Here is the link: http://www.anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=511

[MedleyMisty]

5. I've been following some links

And I've seen some people trying to dig up info on enablers of the regime within the UN, with plans to make their complicity public. I do think it was legit for some people - but the key thing about Anonymous is that it's decentralized and anarchic. I think some people agreed with the idea and they are working on it, but others didn't agree. So they're not working on it.

[Aerows]

6. Anonymous is right here

and they are giving aid even to people in the US who have had their internet access cut off.

I don't agree with their tactics, but their goals, and their efforts, I do applaud.

[Oilwellian]

8. There won't be one

A subgroup of the huge Anonymous hive took it upon themselves to write and publish this press release. I was sitting in their opLibya chatroom when it was written, and know quite well how it evolved and what was said about it in real time. Most in the room were highly against the idea and understood the UN is not equipped to stop what is happening in Libya. But a handful disagreed with the vast majority and published the press release anyway.

I've been fascinated with Anonymous since the HBGary story broke and found it quite easy to join their chat forums. I will admit it took me two days to get over the fear of poking around in such a formidable group, but now I'm glad I did. I spent most of Sunday sitting in their opLibya room, and many of those in there were Anon hackers. You literally sit in one of the various hives (opEgypt, opHBGary, opTunisia) of the group and watch them in action. In opLibya, they were attacking a Libyan intelligence website that was posting photographs of protesters on the streets and gathering information about them. Personally, I think they performed an honorable task when they succeeded at taking it down. At the same time, there were many other discussions from those who were just visiting the room and weren't participating in the actual operation. People like me. I haven't a clue about hacking.

The conversation was great and they're very politically savvy. I was also quite amazed by the compassion so many expressed for the Libyan people, and all people who live in oppressive conditions. When you put that kind of passion together with the powerful tools they have at their disposal, it becomes a new day indeed. So far, their hearts are in the right place but, their greatest strengths being freedom and anonymity, could wind up being their greatest weakness. This press release to the UN was stupid and lessens Anonymous' credibility. Their official response to this press release was posted upthread so it's obvious there's a hierarchy to the group, even though they deny there is. They have to find a way to control official statements to the public and scrutinize the targets created by renegade hive members, if they are to keep public support. I wish them well and happy hunting.