You may have seen yesterday's Financial Times piece which claimed that the operational heads of Anonymous had been identified by a certain Aaron Barr of the internet secuity firm HBGary Federal. Barr claimed that Q is co-founder of Anonymous, which is demonstrably false (Q set up the #anonymous channel at anonops.ru, which is simply an IRC channel) and that he is seeking replacements for OWen. OWen merely runs and owns that particular server, which as I told you is one of several de facto operational centers. Everyone involved laughed their assess off yesterday and several of us wrote a silly press release which was thereafter posted at Daily Kos and AnonNews. Barr, for his part, is reportedly set to meet with the FBI tomorrow in order to provide them with info gleaned from our entirely non-secret IRC channels, and meanwhile his allegedly successful intel operation will no doubt help his firm acquire further business.

The only problem is that Anonymous has just taken over the website of HBGary Federal founder Greg Hoglund and deleted all bakcups. Suffice to say that HBGary has attempted to interfere with a movement that has made substantial contributions to the liberty and well-being of North Africans and others and will be further dealt with over the coming hours. Please see: http://rootkit.com/. And enjoy your weekend.