HBGary have some friends in government - Anon do not (some may, but most of them are kids). HBGary was being extremely naughty and now need to divert attention. It's in the mutual interest of "adults" to step together sweep everything under the rug and go after the "kids".
They will again make the mistake of assuming that anon is an organized entity, anon (as hive mind) has probably already lost interest in HBG and moved on. The harassment if indeed true is probably coming from fans and sympathizers of anonymous - so the government will probably go after some people who are not but indeed are members of anonymous (this phrase can only make sense in the context of anon's nature).
Or as my dear Machiavelli put it: "Though Men make Mistakes about Things in General, they do not make Mistakes about Particulars". I believe that this quote sums mob ethos fantastically. The anon might be goalless, formless group. But their targets tend to be worthy of targeting.
And another observation - the people who are harassing HBG now are the IMHO the kind of people that are usually so risk averse that they won't participate in anything that might endanger their comfortable existence. Yet here they throw themselves into action to serve as cannon fodder for the core Anon group :).
HBGary have some friends in government - Anon do not (some may, but most of them are kids). HBGary was being extremely naughty and now need to divert attention. It's in the mutual interest of "adults" to step together sweep everything under the rug and go after the "kids".
They will again make the mistake of assuming that anon is an organized entity, anon (as hive mind) has probably already lost interest in HBG and moved on. The harassment if indeed true is probably coming from fans and sympathizers of anonymous - so the government will probably go after some people who are not but indeed are members of anonymous (this phrase can only make sense in the context of anon's nature).
Or as my dear Machiavelli put it: "Though Men make Mistakes about Things in General, they do not make Mistakes about Particulars". I believe that this quote sums mob ethos fantastically. The anon might be goalless, formless group. But their targets tend to be worthy of targeting.
And another observation - the people who are harassing HBG now are the IMHO the kind of people that are usually so risk averse that they won't participate in anything that might endanger their comfortable existence. Yet here they throw themselves into action to serve as cannon fodder for the core Anon group :).