Huffington Magazine Issue 55-56 | Page 78

WENDY MAEDA/THE BOSTON GLOBE VIA GETTY IMAGES VIRTUAL DISOBEDIENCE Megaupload.com, a file-sharing site that allegedly facilitates Internet piracy. Since then, the group has taken credit for numerous other attacks on corporate and government websites. But the charges in the PayPal case had one noticeable impact on the hacker group — its members became more careful. They began circulating manuals online on how to use virtual private networks, or VPNs, to shield their IP addresses from the watchful eye of law enforcement, said Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University who has studied Anonymous. “The arrests Y