Christopher Doyon or Commander X, head of Anonymous offshoot the People’s Liberation Front, doesn’t think the hacktivist group will be fazed by the arrest of several of its members. In an interview with the National Post, Doyon, who is currently facing 15 years in prison for a “virtual protest” of a municipal website, admits the arrests have had a “chilling effect” but says that the group may still be “the most powerful organization on Earth.”
Anonymous may be ‘the most powerful organization on Earth,’ says hacker
Christopher Doyon, head of Anonymous offshoot the People’s Liberation Front, talks about the chilling effect of arrests on Anonymous and the group’s continued power.
Christopher Doyon, head of Anonymous offshoot the People’s Liberation Front, talks about the chilling effect of arrests on Anonymous and the group’s continued power.
is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.
According to Doyon, the increasingly politicized Anonymous is expanding beyond hacking. “Right now we have access to every classified database in the US government,” he claims. “We didn’t hack them. The access was given to us by the people who run the systems,” IT administrators like Bradley Manning. “Now people are leaking to Anonymous and they’re not coming to us with this document or that document or a CD, they’re coming to us with keys to the kingdom... The world needs to be concerned.”
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