Perhaps no tech story was bigger this year than the growth of the crusading hacker collective Anonymous. In a Best of 2012 package, Andrew Leonard considers the group's mission and popularity. Natasha Lennard discusses the group's biggest successes of 2012 with a member. And a slide show looks back at 20 of Anonymous' most attention-grabbing efforts.
In 2012, the loose association of tech-based activists protested bullying, LGBT discrimination, corporate media, Israel, Muslim genocide, police brutality, election-rigging, douchebaggery/bullying, surveillance, “moral education,” and of course Internet censorship—expanding both the range of its “causes” and the tools it deployed to defend them.
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