Anonymous has joined the fray in #Egypt protests declaring that it will not stand idly as people are denied their basic rights and human dignity thus raising the possibility of Egyptian government sites becoming their new target. The online hacktivist group had earlier come out in support of Tunisian protesters and taken down Tunisian government websites. However, what interest me more are the parallels in the structure of both the organizations (for lack of a better word). Both are leaderless movements by like-minded individuals participating voluntarily to achieve a simple objective. Further, as radically decentralized networks with no hierarchy nor structure,they expose no identifiable target that the government could coerce/corrupt into submission.
{Update 24/02/11: Came across an Al-Jazeera Op-Ed : Anonymous and the global correction)
{Update 24/02/11: Came across an Al-Jazeera Op-Ed : Anonymous and the global correction)
