I remember eLy73 groups in BBS days and the early internet
   having a similar organizational 'unstructure' - lots of
   posturing, a few people actually doing something The good
   actions are "that was us" and the bad ones were, "That person
   did not represent us / is a rogue / etc". Same idea. I'd
   occasionally get a new player on my minecraft server. Claim to
   be from Anonymous and they were gonna ddos us (for whatever
   reason). I'd say, "go for it" and I'd watch the pings come in,
   the telnet attemps, the ftp attempts, the port sniffing,
   whatever. I never ran a firewall 'cause I know where
   everything's at and what it does. ONE guy actually made my
   Internet go _slower_ for 30 seconds. THAT was impressive. He had
   hits coming in from Russia, Australia, Turkey, NZ, US, Canada -
   he knew his way around the anonymizers, the pingers, had the
   right network setup at home. But, nothin' - server kept running.
   *He* got knocked off. I let him come back on - I didn't ban ppl.
   He said, "SEE THAT?" I said, "See what? Nothing happened". but I
   knew they weren't anonymous even back then, just someone playing
   with their new hax software. I ended up making him an Admin and
   in charge of a section of the server.. Turned out to be a decent
   leader and very fair. It's not anonymous, just an anonymous-ish
   story to share.