we spoke with anthropologist gabriella coleman, an expert on anonymous, to find out who is behind those masks and how women are involved. >> anonymous is a little bit hard to define, but currently the name is primarily used to organize protest action. the name is used by different groups of individuals, some of them geeks, some of them hackers, some of them unknown parties, to organize very diverse forms of collective action. >> gabriella coleman is an anthropologist who has infiltrated anonymous, a secretive hacking group. she has become an unofficial liaison between the group and the general public. the group's current concern is using the internet and hacking to promote specific causes. >> anonymous has been involved in over 300 political operations in the last three years. they have been involved in occupy, the arab spring, quite recently ferguson, involving police brutality, a number of rape cases in north america. they have been involved in many international operations, for example fighting corruption in the peruvian government. >> but, their methods are seen as questionable. >>