They can safely keep on hacking as long as they don't screw up in a major way. If the lives of regular folks are affected by their hacking, public opinion will turn around pretty quickly.

It's funny reading about these tools who give their real names and try to masquerade under the banner of Anon being this Great Scary Band of White Knights. The media that gobbles it all up is almost as funny.

The fact that Anon and Anon culture is primarily based upon trolling, porn, and sources of lulz has seemed to escape most peoples' minds.

The predictable coming wave on reedit and here on HN of people trying to show how on-the-level and hip they are by being able to rehash the same old "definitions" and sinister descriptions of the almost-mythical now Anon is also amusing. When the dust settles, the amount of damage caused by this seemingly endless wave of cancer ever since the days of Chanology that has picked up again now as all this newfaggotry has decided to come fight for some championing cause led by some awesome 1337 people they heard of from CNN can only be estimated as being somewhat worse than ED.

I am taking this totally seriously.

Anonymous will take down all US based SCADA devices using Stuxnet?