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The Wall Street Journal and NSA are bleary-eyed with terror over the newest cyber bogeyman: Anonymous is going to cause a blackout! Except they can’t, and they won’t; they’re saying so themselves. So why the misinformation?

According to the WSJ, “The director of the National Security Agency has warned that the hacking group Anonymous could have the ability within the next year or two to bring about a limited power outage through a cyberattack.” Idiocy. Even putting aside the major hedging of “next year or two” and “limited,” the claim is absurd. You can pin plenty of pejoratives upon Anon—nihilist, anarchist, devilish—but terrorist isn’t one of ‘em. However misguided Anonymous’ ethos may be, they’re at least ostensibly a populist group. Even in the LulzSec days of mayhem for its own sake, the targets were always entities of authority and moneyed interests: the cops and Sony.

But the power grid? Not on the target list.

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Note Anonymiss Express: Whut? Really, Wall Street and NSA faking for a reason to strike or for more funding (or bailouts).

Of course not. Even if we could, this could seriously affect real lives of real people, like via hospitals, to name but one. People could die cos of it. SO OF COURSE NOT. Harming wallets of imperialistic corporations that aren’t people, yes. Harming entrenched political policies that put everything on the altar of profit and power, yes. Harming government websites of tyrannical governments cracking down on its people, yes. But not really harming life and people with our actions. A consideration, by the way, we can’t expect from Wall Street or the NSA.