If we really want transparency, then groups like Anonymous are really valuable. There's something very anarchistic about them though, so I could see them pissing me off at some point. But, so far, I really like what Wikileaks, Anonymous, and Lulz Security are doing. They truly are challenging the power elite.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/21/anonymous-defiant-in-the-face-of-arrests/SAN FRANCISCO — Notorious hacker group Anonymous on posted a defiant message to police Thursday and boasted of plundering sensitive data from NATO computers.
"We are not scared anymore," read an online message that purported to be a response by Anonymous and splinter group Lulz Security.
"Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea... there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- you can possibly do to make us stop."
As if to underscore the point, a message posted at a Twitter account by "AnonymousIRC" claimed to have looted about a gigabyte of NATO data that even the rebel hacker group deemed too sensitive to release.
"Yes, we haz (sic) more of your delicious data," the Twitter post read. "You call it war; we laugh at your battleships."