Hacktivists

Well to start, I thought this film was terrifying...not in a scary way but an eye opening way. I believe our government being exposed for what is it is quite intriguing, however some things are better left unsaid. The government is what governs our country, and obviously has very high security standards at all time. I think Anonymous is very dangerous considering they hacked into private servers and exposed secrets to the American people. I do agree that our government is corrupt, however I don't think it's right to expose what is supposed to be confidential. I agreed with all their points about how they need to expose things, and how we all need to have the right to speak out what we believe in, but I think the way they handled the situation was unnecessary. There are so many different ways in which people can speak out in a non threatening and violent way. Peaceful protests is an example of one, blogs, videos, etc. By hacking into private servers, taking people's information, and exposing secrets is not a way to get what you want and won't accomplish anything. A part I thoroughly disagreed with is when they hacked into Sony, and exposed personal information about account holders. THIS IS NOT OKAY. I've actually experienced my information being taken from my debit/credit card and actually lost money that I had earned. It was a very scary experience because the credit card company couldn't find out how my account was hacked, and where it was coming from. This could happen to anyone, and the fact that it can happen to a huge company like Sony is very frightening. I just believe that hacking in general is wrong, because it is illegal in several ways, and if it effects innocent people, than the hackers deserved to be punished. Overall I didn't like this movie, I don't agree with the group, Anonymous, however it was very eye opening towards our government, and security.