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Insider tells why Anonymous ‘might well be the most powerful organization on Earth’

12 May 2012

Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hillside in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path to join him, away from the prying eyes of law enforcement. It’s been a few weeks of encrypted emails back and forth, working out the security protocol to ...

Christopher Doyon, one of the brains behind Anonymous

12 May 2012

Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hillside in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path to join him, away from the prying eyes of law enforcement.

Lessons of the Arab Spring

12 May 2012

Christopher Doyon remembers first “meeting� Libyan blogger Mohammed Nabbous in an Internet Relay Chat room, a kind of virtual private conference room where Anonymous partisans discuss and plan their operations — in this case the overthrow of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi.