Who are Anonymous? This is the group of hackers who briefly disrupted Visa’s payments system this week in retaliation for its refusal to handle donations to WikiLeaks.
You would be none the wiser even if you had heard Coldblood, Anonymous’s self-appointed leader, on the Today programme yesterday, stumbling his way through an interview in which he appeared to be asking the authorities to arrest him.
These guys, and they are mostly guys, are young. Probably 14 at the kiddie end to fortysomething, man-children who lurk in their parents’ attics endlessly playing World of Warcraft, while mum and dad worry if they’ll get a job or find a partner. The recruits in Anonymous’s cyberwar would be court-martialled by a real army for being four times