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Anonymous are a group of computer activists that are associated with the wearing of Guy Fawkes masks. The group has been developing its own publicity with DDOS attacks on government, corporate and religious websites. An Anonymous hacker has a mandate which is derived from a collective sense moral injustice. They have been branded as cyber terrorists by the American Church of Scientology. Other descriptions have been ‘cyber lynch mob’ of ‘freedom fighters’. Groups associated with Anonymous such as LulzSec have following exposure arranged with the FBI to hack the computers of activists. The founder of LulzSec Hector Xavier Monsegur was sentenced to 124 years in prison for hacking servers owned by the American Government. Time served with the FBI reduced this to one year’s parole. It might be considered that groups like anonymous help make the web a safer place through highlighting security flaws in many of the world’s computer systems.