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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