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This situation and the support the hackers get, is also a strong testament to how the Orwellian "1984"-mentality has been accepted in a lot of people´s minds. So many nowadays find it completely acceptable and preferable even, if hackers constantly work towards "outing" people on chat forums and the likes.

Many people (which is evident in threads like these) like a surveillance society, where everyone is being watched and no information is off limits. If we all believed in a society where a persons privacy is fundamental, we would all oppose this, no matter what the issue regarded.

The ironic thing is that these hackers are most likely defenders of their own privacy, thinking that it should be off limits for government to invade their privacy, no matter what they do. But they have no issues at all with invading other peoples privacy and taking on the role as self-proclaimed government themselves.