Re: Follow up questions.

1. Was the Church of Scientology Anon's first public target? Can you talk a little about this episode in the group's history, and how/why it has evolved since then?

It was not our first public target. Hal Turner was hit before Scientology, and you'll find out more about that on Hal Turner's page at Encyclopedia Dramatica. Here's a brief recap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guzAWD4Q98o

As for Chanology and how it developed, that's not something that will become evident for a while and I'm not the best person to ask.

2. You are a self-described anarchist, but would Anonymous ever define itself that way?

Anonymous doesn't like to define itself and my anarchism is my own, although it's a tendency shared by quite a few people, especially as we see the extent to which states have decided that their own populations are the enemy.

3. Anonymous has been getting a lot of attention lately, some good and some bad. Does this attention place pressure on you/the group to stay on the offensive, rather than regrouping to create a strategy and think about where the group is going?

I can tell you that a regrouping has already occurred and that our strategy is in a constant state of flux. We work not on plans, but on contingencies. Our movement has a necessary case of ADD/sugar rush that allows us to punch in one direction and then do over 9000 backflips in a totally different direction in order to punch someone else while still talking smack about the first target. This does not describe our opponents, who are constrained by systemic baggage and incompetence.

4. To clarify, you said you use a "voluntary botnet composed of Anons" for dDos attacks. Does that mean Anonymous members' own computers serve as zombies?

Yes, voluntary zombies.

5. Does Booz Allen Hamilton play any part in creating "virtual armies"? What exactly are "secure cyber operations in and through the electromagnetic spectrum," as referred to in the contracts with the Defense Department (which mostly seem to pertain to information security)? Really, why are they Anon's next target?

Booz Allen has a piece of the virtual army business but they are not the foremost players. They also have a piece of something else, something wackier, that we will be exposing in the near future. "Secure operations" in this context can refer to several different things and I can't answer that question quite yet. Booz is not our next target; we have already discarded them. Our next target is a series of smaller companies that run the persona management racket and which we plan on hitting soon from a variety of directions.

6. A final word?