THEY are our go-to pranksters. No sooner has online skulduggery been spotted than all fingers point to hacker group Anonymous. Like modern-day Scarlet Pimpernels, it is tempting to infer their presence behind every episode of cybernetic mischief-making.
DARPA鈥檚 Shredder Challenge is the latest locus for Anonymous-spotters. A mysterious team has stormed into the lead, even as its name has turned up in an email purportedly sent by the saboteur of a competitor鈥檚 efforts (鈥淚nside the race to crack the world鈥檚 hardest puzzle鈥�).
The emailer claims to have support from a favoured Anonymous haunt. Are the lead team connected too? Perhaps. But for all we know, they could just as well be reclusive jigsaw fans for whom the challenge is reason enough to take part.
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That鈥檚 not so different from the Anonymous ethos anyway. Doing it for the lulz, indeed.
