In 2007, KTTV Fox 11 News in Los Angeles ran a about a group called . According to the KTTV report, this "Internet hate machine" was to be feared for such devastating crimes as spoiling the end of the new Harry Potter book. The report was rife with creepy, faceless pictures and lurid phrases such as "hackers on steroids" and "domestic terrorists."

Unfortunately, KTTV's fantastic report was wrong: Anonymous is not a specific group at all, just a name for any random collection of from various online communities and IRC networks working together (rather, in the same direction) at any given time. has more accurately described Anonymous as a group of "supremely bored 15-year-olds."

Crimes--Internet annoyances, really--that have been include DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on (including that of the Church of Scientology, and, more recently, Websites that ) and assorted cases of .

Years: 2002-Present