it is authored by parmy olson and parmy olson is london bureau chief for "forbes" magazine and she joins us from london. missiles and, if we could start, what is anonymous? >> actually very difficult question to answer. a lot of people see it as a group or an organization. it isn't quite that. if anything it's more of an internet phenomenon or a movement. many different people, collaborate together online to protest against all sorts of different reasons, and also to harass people sometimes for fun. it comes from a culture, image boards and discussion boards online, and some people see it as a start of a new way of protesting online. >> how did it begin? >> so, anonymous emerged from something called image portrait. these are discussion boards on websites. and one particular which in 2004, run 2004, 2005 the website became very popular and the greater of the website in force all of its users to be anonymous when they posted comments. a lot of these didn't like it personal with the realize overtime was that when they were stripped of ego and identity and age and gender and all sorts of id

parmy olson, who is sabu? >> one of the key people that i interviewed for the book, and he was also pretty much the defacto leader of the splinter group of anonymous called lulzsec which was an acting group. there were organizers to start with, and the kind of found each other in some of the private channels used by hackers and press release riders in late 2010 and early 2011. they formed friendships and created this splinter group called lulzsec. sabu became friends with another key interviewee in the book called topiary. not so much a hacker as he was an entertainer. and a great communicator and a great writer. someone who was very good networking. when the two of these guys work together, sabu was quite a skilled actor. they decided that they wanted to a comma after there had been a 2-month lull in activity, they wanted to do something to be inspired and creates some kind of projects that they could get their closest collaborators to work together on. the two of them plus another four or five others have wo

. >> parmy olson, does anonymous in any way still exist. does lulzsec still exist? >> the worst of attempts to revive lulzsec although the main guys organizing it are definitely not on the internet any more. a few other guys from the anonymous community tried to start something called lulzsec reborn but nothing to offer in the same way. we have not seen another hacker group come to prominence with the same kind of attention are be as destructive as lulzsec was. there have been other splendor groups from anonymous with names like cabin crew and they have done some damage and gotten press attention but nowhere near the amount that lulzsec had. >> was there a relationship between wikileaks and the occupy wall st movement and anonymous and lulzsec? >> i think it was definitely a lot of support between the two sides. there was an overlap of -- and terms of left wing libertarianism. a lot of guys will align themselves with that ethos. certainly the kinds of processes they were using to propagate ideas and spread the word about an event, the people from occupy wall street

and parmy olson is london bureau chief from forbes magazine and joins us from london. could start, what is "anonymous"? guest guest actually, a very difficult question to answer. a lot of people see it as a group or an organization. it isn't quite that. if tpheurbg it's more of an internet phenomenon or a movement. it's many different people collaborating together on line to protest against all sorts of -- for all sorts of different reasons and also to haras people sometimes for fun. it comes from a culture of image boards and discussion boards online, and some people see it as the start of a new way of protesting online. host host how did it begin? guest guest so anonymous emerged from something that's called image boards. these are discussion boards on a website and one in particular, for chance, which in 2004, around 2004, 2005, this website became very popular and the creating of that website forced all users to be anonymous when they posted comments. a lot of the users didn't like this at first but what they realized over time was when they were stripped of identi

. >> parmy olson looks at the impact the motivations of the hacker group anonymous. >> a discussion oning rights. this was not at the convention in houston. -- this was held at the convention in houston. this event from early jell-o last -- july last about 1.5 hours. gamble>> this is a teaching session. we understand what the battle is. it enables us to engage more. would you repeat after me, we are seeing an attack on voting rights. an attack on progressive tax policies. an attack on public education. attack on labor rights. an attack on the principles of equal protection. under the law. and the attack on the principle of equal justice in the criminal justice system. and vicious attacks on white, black, latino, and progressive leaders from the president to the attorney general all the way down. we have seen that before, we are seeing it again. we fought against the before, and we must fight against it now. 1870. say it with me. 1870. 142 years ago. these matters were settled with the 15th amendment. why is this nation trying to undo what was settled 142 years ago? 1965. 47 years ago t