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For the details you seek...
My limited understanding is that Anon expects there to be a certain number of "grey" hats attracted to their ranks. Most of them are current, former or future online security geeks, after all. It's really more of an organizing method than an organization... Anyone can claim to be Anonymous... Similar to Occupy, it's intended to be difficult to co-opt by persons who disagree with the majority of their supporters.
The only problem with Anon is you'll find it difficult to meet them in real life since Anon's supporters tend to, well, not disclose their support for Anon offline. But at least the premise is that they have far more quiet support than anyone thinks... of course, Anon likes to claim that anypony posting anonymously is a supporter of anon. That might have been true once...
But certainly in the case of [font color="pink"]Shadenfreude[/font] security, Agent Mike just sat back and let them take those calls and e-mails because they were in the process of rolling up the group. The lead guy, who wasn't anonymous at all, was in fact a CI. Str a†for is now being sued by their subscribers because of that, LOL!! Source: ars technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/doxed-how-sabu-was-outed-by-former-anons-long-before-his-arrest.ars
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/inside-the-hacking-of-stratfor-the-fbis-case-against-antisec-member-anarchaos.ars
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/the-hbgary-saga-nears-its-end.ars
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