Anonymous is a huge hacker collective, with hundreds of twitter accounts and even more people joining in on raids and DDOS attacks.


Some members have very noble motives. Anon twitter accounts talk of helping the poor and stopping corrupted politicians. They raise awareness of fundraising activities and give important, unbiased news.
Heck, they even took down child porn websites on the OnionIB.

But Anonymous is a collective. It is a very varied and diverse group. It has its sick bastards and trolls. You have to keep on mind that they originated on the boards of 4chan, and anyone who frequents the image board can tell you that it is definitely not a friendly site.

This is shown by the arrest of "Sabu". The FBI thought they chopped off the head of Anonymous, but Anonymous doesn't even have a head. Check out the suit.

They did destroy Lulzsec, however.

Then they are those who "join" anonymous just to feel big and important. These happen to be the same people that are "killing /b/". They will hear about how anonymous are super |_33T hackers and rush over to 4chan to post ponies. Some anons also have a serious messiah complex going on, aswell.

Do I consider myself as an Anon? No. While I do respect most of Anonymous and follow anon accounts on twitter, and monitor threads that report on the progress of DDOS attacks on raids, I don't join in (Apart from that raid on 9gag, but that was just for the giggles XD).

Anyway, that's just my opinion. The opinions on anonymous are very varied, but most people seem to respect them.

P.S. More source code to come.