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by kouunji 724 days ago
If this is real, this is an incredible target to choose. I mean, you might not make it trial if they catch you, if you know what I mean. Makes me wonder what level of affiliation or perceived safety would make anyone this confident.
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They will be Russian. All of the groups are just government agents, that’s why you get someone like “Anonymous” suddenly appearing overnight, attacking someone that is a foreign rival to the US and then disappearing for another 8 years.
> that’s why you get someone like “Anonymous” suddenly appearing overnight, attacking someone that is a foreign rival to the US and then disappearing for another 8 years

Humans can spontaneously self organise to a surprising extent. No government was behind Reddit's meme trading, for instance.

Not saying you're wrong. Just that spontaneous bursts of organisation aren't per se evidence of outside influence.

I feel like you missed what Anonymous is supposed to actually be. Anyone and everyone can be a part of Anonymous; queue V for Vendetta.
I don't think the federal reserve has that many deep dark secrets. The main risk is going to be stuff like knowing that a bank is in trouble before it's public knowledge.
I suspect the purpose of announcing it is so that it enters the news cycle before a Presidential debate. The payload itself may never materialize.

Trust in the Federal Reserve, and ignorance of its function, can be a strong partisan issue without waiting for a payload.

The Fed runs several payment systems so in theory all the transfers sent through there could be a part of this leak.
I'd be _extremely_ surprised if they managed to pop the payment systems.
If previous releases are anything to go by, it’ll be a bunch of backups and databases from enterprise HR and IT software that was running on poorly secured Windows servers, though I don’t know how it adds up to 33TB. Probably undeduplicated backup images or something.

The dump from their Boeing hack was excruciatingly boring.

As of February, they openly support or court Trump.