Over at the ABC Rosalind Scutt notes that Aunty's getting adventurous — the old girl's even enabling users to interact with a real life hacker...

While fraternising with the enemy has always been a favourite pastime for government employed journalists, it seems the old girl's gone one step further in enabling web users to interact with a spokesperson for the notorious hacking collective simply known as Anonymous.

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Anonymous is a decentralised, online, global community which acts in a coordinated manner with a focus on anti-government and anti-censorship, often for entertainment.

The ABC forum is simply called Ask an anonymous hacker anything and facilitates a Q & A style interaction between the nefarious mystery spokesperson and users.

For some of the best Q & A posts so far, view the Ask an anonymous hacker anything slideshow.

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