14 DAY TRIAL // The hackers called Anonymous slap the face of FBI officials by obtaining a file allegedly containing information on the group's members.
The document, which seems to represent a scan of the physical file, is called Psychological Profiles of Anonymous Leadership and it's labeled “Law Enforcement Sensitive,” being dated from August 2011.
It contains an overview for the FBI, a psychological profiling approach, a chapter on the group's background, Twitter logs, chat logs and profiles for some of its alleged members.
The introduction part states “The Anonymous 'collective' has risen from an amorphous group of individuals on the internet to the current state of a potential threat to national security. Due to the nature of anonymous, they believe that they are a leaderless collective.
“However, it has been shown that there is a defined leadership group. The goal of this report is to better understand that leaderships structure and its members psychological states in order to better assess how they really may be as well as define means to effectively track them down for arrest.”
The psychological profiling approach informs us that “Due to the nature of Anonymous and the Internet, the leaders of the collective have attempted to cloak their identities within screen names and technological obfuscation methods. Since the Internet has many ways to hide a person's true identity, the Behavioral Sciences Unit was contacted to assess the individual's online personalty through online dialogs.”
They don't seem to have much on their background as they've only written a few paragraphs of information taken from Wikipedia.
The interesting part is just ahead, where the profiles of the hackers are made.
First is Sabu, who is named to be the head of the LulzSec gang but also of Anonymous, after the arrest of its former leader, Topiary. He is considered to be a male, most likely American, aged between 29 and 35, “likely married” and employed in the technology sector. Compulsive behavior, narcissism, pride and probable conformism in everyday life, are just a few of the personal details mentioned in the file.
An interesting thing that makes this report seem real is the fact that the member's descriptions don't look like ones they would make themselves.
For instance, Kayla is believed to be from a broken home, abused as a child, suffering from inferiority complex, drug user and violent.
JoePie91, aged 21-26, is a college student or just fresh out of college, technically capable and the most autonomous member of the group.
Besides Topiary, which the report mentions as being captured, Tflow is the last one present.
He is believed to show “a more mercenary approach to the LulzSec and Anonymous campaigns. His motivations seem to be monetarily based and may in fact be a paid asset for the group as a freelance hacker. Tflow is a key player in the command and control of their domain registration and management. In essence Tflow is a key target for taking down the infrastructural underpinnings of the group.”
The infamous groups seem to be at an all-time high, after authorities claimed that recent arrests have discouraged them. Just recently they have released a new hacking tool which allows anyone who wants to be a hacker to gain access to Twitter posts.