Anonymous Founder Opens Group's Secrets

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Anonymous founder reveals the early days of the hacktivist group

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Gregg Housh started the group in an online chatroom from his basement in 2006 and intended it to be solely used as an online tech forum where every person had to be anonymous.

For about a year it was just users trolling on each other, years before trolling was mainstream, until they went up against someone they believed deserved to threatened - Hal Turner .

Turner was a neo- Nazi radio host who once held up a noose on a CNN interview and said: 'This is a symbol of justice and you're going to see a lot more of this in the United States' Anonymous went from a couple hundred users to 10,000 in 42 countries and across 143 cities.

HB Gary 's emails revealed it was creating VPNs for the US Air Force to make fake social media profiles in other countries to 'sway people's views of America ' 'They're in state houses as state representatives and aides in Congress , some even running for congressional seats. They're in positions of power at corporations, they're journalists all over the place'.

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