First of all, I read today that Sony will be offering up to $1M of identity   
   theft protection to users of PSN.  If you have an account, you may want to   
   contact them.   
      
   Anonymous released a statement on Wednesday rebutting the claim by Sony that   
   they perpetrated the hack.  They make a compelling argument.  Here is the   
   press release, for anyone interested:   
      
   For Immediate Distribution   
   Press Release   
   May 4, 2011   
   Anonymous Enterprises LLC (Bermuda)   
      
   Last month, an unknown party managed to break into Sony's servers and   
   acquired millions of customer records including credit card numbers. Insomuch   
   as that this incident occurred in the midst of Anonymous' OpSony, by which   
   participants engaged in several of our standard information war procedures   
   against the corporation and its executives, Sony and other parties have come   
   to blame Anonymous for the heist. Today, in a letter directed to members of   
   Congress involved in an inquiry into the situation, Sony claimed to have   
   discovered a file on its servers, presumably left by the thieves in question,   
   entitled "Anonymous" and containing a fragment of our slogan, "We are   
   Legion." In response, we would like to raise the following points:   
      
   1. Anonymous has never been known to have engaged in credit card theft.   
      
   2. Many of our corporate and governmental adversaries, on the other hand,   
   have been known to have lied to the public about Anonymous and about their   
   own activities. HBGary, for instance, was caught lying a number of times to   
   the press, to the public, and to Anonymous itself (in this phone call, for   
   instance, ( http://tinyurl.com/...) CEO Aaron Barr makes a number of untrue   
   statements regarding the intent of his "research," claiming for instance that   
   he never tried to sell the information to the FBI when e-mails acquired soon   
   showed that he had been set to do just that; executive Karen Burke was also   
   caught lying to Bloomberg about having not seen an incriminating e-mail that   
   she had in fact replied to just a few days before). The U.S. Chamber of   
   Commerce lied about not having seen the criminal proposal created by them for   
   Team Themis; Palantir lied about not having any idea what their employees   
   were up to; Berico publicly denounced a plan that they had actively engaged   
   in creating; etc. There is no corporation in existence will choose the truth   
   when lies are more convenient.   
      
   3. To the contrary, Anonymous is an ironically transparent movement that   
   allows reporters in to our operating channels to observe us at work and which   
   has been extraordinarily candid with the press when commenting on our own   
   activities, which is why reporters prefer to talk to us for truthful accounts   
   of the situation rather than go to our degenerate enemies to be lied to.   
      
   4. Whoever broke into Sony's servers to steal the credit card info and left a   
   document blaming Anonymous clearly wanted Anonymous to be blamed for the most   
   significant digital theft in history. No one who is actually associated with   
   our movement would do something that would prompt a massive law enforcement   
   response. On the other hand, a group of standard online thieves would have   
   every reason to frame Anonymous in order to put law enforcement off the   
   track. The framing of others for crimes has been a common practice throughout   
   history.   
      
   5. It should be remembered that several federal contractors such as HBGary   
   and Palantir have been caught planning a variety of unethical and potentially   
   criminal conspiracies by which to discredit the enemies of their clients.   
   This is not a theory - this is a fact that has been reported at great length   
   by dozens of journalists with major publications. Insomuch as that our   
   enemies have either engaged in or planned to engage in false flag efforts, it   
   should not be surprising that many of the journalists who have covered us,   
   who know who we are and what motivates us - and who have alternatively seen   
   the monstrous behavior of those large and "respectable" firms that are all   
   too happy to throw aside common decency at the behest of such clients as Bank   
   of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - also have their suspicions that   
   some capable party performed this operation as a means by which to do great   
   damage to Anonymous in the public eye. Those who consider such a prospect to   
   be somehow unlikely are advised to read about what was proposed by Team   
   Themis in their efforts to destroy Wikileaks, and should otherwise take a few   
   minutes to learn about COINTELPRO and other admitted practices by the U.S.   
   intelligence community. The fact is that Anonymous has brought a great deal   
   of discomfort to powerful entities such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Palantir, and   
   much of the federal government; the Justice Department in particular is   
   likely unhappy that our efforts revealed that it was they themselves who   
   recommended the now-discredited "law firm" Hunton & Williams to Bank of   
   America in order that the latter might better be able to fight back against   
   Wikileaks. All of this is now public record, and anyone who finds it   
   laughable that those or other entities may have again engaged in tactics that   
   they are known to have engaged in in the past is not qualified to comment on   
   the situation.   
      
   Anonymous will continue its work in support of transparency and individual   
   liberty; our adversaries will continue their work in support of secrecy and   
   control. The FBI will continue to investigate us for crimes of civil   
   disobediance while continuing to ignore the crimes planned by major   
   corporations with which they are in league.   
      
   We do not forget, even if others fail to remember.   
   We not forgive, even if others forgive our enemies for those things for which   
   we are attacked.   
   We are legion, and will remain so no matter how many of our participants are   
   raided by armed agents of a broken system.   
   We are Anonymous.   
      
      
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