FBI gets derped by Anonymous
 

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You gotta love this. The FBI, who's supposed to be tops in cybersecurity is hacked by Anonymous. The delicious irony of them being unable to stop one group from listening in on their conversations is amazing. The 17 minute discussion is really enlightening. They have all the power in the world and one trick of phone hacking upends their plans. Isn't that awesome?

Wait, when were the FBI supposed to be tops at anything?

Odds are someone actually working for the phone company decided to make and release the recording. Anonymous 'hacks' very few things, honestly. They do even less in an organized manner. It is an image they like to project, though.

Ugh, talking about Anon is always so complicated since it's difficult to say who exactly did what and why.

Whoever did it would have to have been pretty much actively spying on the FBI.

Anyway, what you would consider hacking aside, "someone at the phone company" sounds anonymous to me. Like that's basically the whole point; sure there is or are some organized group(s), but the idea is that pretty much anyone can be anon.

That's what I meant, Bit. It wasn't "An Act of Anonymous", a 'cyber-terrorist/activist Group' that exists only because the media said it did, but the act of someone anonymous than then shared it.

There isn't really a group or a collective in the form of what They like people to fear actually exists.

I dunno, that seems a bit farfetched to me. It was someone who was a participant in the conference call -- the FBI is able to track if their line is bugged, but if you are in a conference call without their knowledge it's a different story...

which is actually kind of ironic because the "omni-present FBI" is also a created image.
Isn't it awesome that the organization tasked with protecting our population from domestic terrorism, acts of mass murder, human trafficing, and several other horrible crimes has a security breach?

No, I dont find that "awesome"

You guys have so many agencies. You've got enough redundancy.