First of all, I love how one text file is used as evidence. I mean really. In fact, to show you what I mean, I just created a text file named Anonymous that had "We Are Legion" in it on my desktop.

Second, Anonymous isn't a group that has entrance exams interviews or anything. You can come and you can go as much as you want. I can be part of anonymous just by saying so, and if I feel liek it I can say I am not a part of them. You (and I mean you, the individual reading this) can do the exact same. 

So there you go, two reasons just how silly this is.

Edit: I forgot to mention. Do you HONESTLY think Anonymous will go ahead an literally rape a humongous company's security that they hate, and then proceed to not gloat endlessly about it? If you say yes, then you don't know anything about Anonymous' previous actions.

1. However if I was on the security team of Sony... come on now, use your head some, no need for me to spell it out for you.

2. My statements are not mutually exclusive, and therefore your entire point is absolutely void, yet again. You just have to look at the most recent Gawker Network deal to see what I mean by Anon gloating. Or the part wehre the completely fucked that one security firm. Or the one where they fucked the DDoSing anti-piracy company in India. The list keeps going and going.

yep and with those assholes recent history, evidence are 'against' them.

and I don't think they said they were responsible tho right? I think they just said a file was left by the hackers with that name.

honest to god if I see one more guy defending hackers I'm gonna lose it!

or not but yea you get the point

They are not that stupid.

Anyone that would such a thing and gloat about it on the web would go straight to jail without getting their 20 000$...

However weak Sony security might have been, breaching into their network and stealing the information is actually a crime.

The biggest breach on record was at Heartland where 100 millions of credit card numbers were stolen.

The hacker responsible was sentenced last year to 20 years in jail......

1. Ah-ha, see I already knew you did that because I'm a CIA investigator combing your server, and I've found that the file was created on this computer, so I know it's an inside job, or a plant. I just wanted you to admit it. You do know the penalty for disturbing a crime-scene, correct? Oh, and I saw you lied to congress about it too. You're going to jail for a long time, son. Although it is respectable that you love your own company enough to sacrifice yourself for it. Oh well, hands on the hood please, sir.

2. How are you statements not mutually exclusive? You explain how a person can be a member of anon without anon even knowing, and then say, "then why did anon not know about it"?

EDIT: And I think I understand why you're passively hinting at things. You think it's too crazy to come out and say what you're implying. Right? :P

Because they obviously failed to gloat when they hacked illegaly into other networks. Like say, the security firm, or Gawker media. Correct?

Does hacking Gawker carry a sentence of 10 years in Gitmo?

I am fairly sure I read about his being jailed. I am also fairly sure Guantanamo Bay wasn't where he was sent. I may have just misread.

Cyber attacks carry punishments, especially when they harmed a given entity. In both cases, if the hackers are caught, I am fairly sure they will end up in jail.