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Dispute over the Anonymous hacktivists' direction

There's a fight for the direction of the loose collective of 'hacktivists' known as Anonymous, and no one knows where it will end up.

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Source: Channel 4


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The number of people downloading the tool of choice for Anonymous's denial of service attacks - Low Orbit Ion Canon - is at an all time high, figures seen by Channel Four News reveal.

But some former members are concerned at one-time high ideals being sidelined by ever more broad security breaches affecting everday people.

Channel Four News spoke to a man who used to identify with the group, Martijn Golag, about when the police came looking for him.

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