Saw your post here.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/04/973151/-Anonymous,-Sony,-and-the-rule-of-law

Thought I'd say hi. I'd like to be anonymous. That is to say, join or contribute. Right now I just want like a twitter feed or something so that way, I can keep up to date with whatever shit anonymous is up to.

As for the whole PSN thing, here's my speculation: Anonymous decides to attack Sony for taking away Linux on their ps3s. They start their dos. Then some people in there, who are mostly likely also psn customers realize, wait, I like playing multiplayer and other people do to, isn't there a way we can have our cake and eat it too? Some way to strike at Sony without interfering with their own personal enjoyment of the service and also not angering gamers, because they is a significant overlap between the anonymous 4chan prankster demo, and the bored video game player demo. So they say, stop the attacks. But the real hardcore hackers don't give a shit. They figure you can't make an omlette without breaking a few eggs, they're the actual hackers, fuck these pimpley faced "nerds" who think they're leet because they can log onto irc. So maybe a small group of ACTUAL hackers, or even just one guy continued and escalated the attack that the anonymous swarm
 initiated. As it stands credit card info has not been used, so maybe this grey hat hacker is doing the whole "break the system to show how flawed it is" idea.

I say anonymous takes credit and call it a win. What was their stated goal? To punish Sony for their anti freedom to tinker and anti customer policies. And to bring greater attention to the issue. What would have a no collateral damage attack have accomplished? The gamer sheep would have continued to be oblivious and indifferent. Now that hackers have completely fucked up Sony's shit, EVERYONE is pissed and rightfully so, exactly as we wanted people to be in the first place.

Call it a win, and start educating the masses about the freedom to tinker, and corporate insecurity of OUR customer data.

Is anonymous so insecure, that they can't stomach the idea of gamers being mad at them? It's collateral damage. How else were we going to hit Sony except where their wallet is?