Sorry for the delay. Moving is . . . a biatch and time consuming. Indeed, the superficiality of it can be annoying. It will be interesting to see whether that texture can take hold in the media. I am just hoping it takes hold among academics who still fall back on rather one dimensional visions and pictures of hackers.!

I’m quite excited to have your input. When I said “superficial,” I certainly didn’t mean to imply unimportant. Rather, I was referring to the fact that there is a deeper commonality that is important to recognize, though not spelled out in the comic.

I do very much agree with you though. In the mainstream media for example, there is little effort to parse out the differences between the two groups. We really need to develop a better vocabulary to highlight the similarities and difference between these two actors as well as the institutions they are opposing. The ideologies that have emerged around visibility/transparency/conspiracy are rather sophisticated and could benefit from further taxonomy.

Also given the somewhat more unpredictable, larger nature of Anon, and their own leaking sprees, which have been more prolific and of quite a different nature as well, Randall might want to make a second version where Anon doxes Julian Although Anon actually would not likley target WL or JA nor would WL target Anon, Anon is certainly the far more unwieldy/whimsical of the two