Anonymous

(1) Nameless. See anonymous post and anonymous Web surfing.

(2) (Anonymous) A loose, underground hacker community that attempts to bring down or damage websites of organizations and government agencies that are not socially responsible. Advocating freedom, fairness and justice, Anonymous became known to the public in a 2007 Los Angeles TV report and has since claimed responsibility for numerous break-ins. In 2010, it hacked PayPal, MasterCard and Visa for no longer accepting donations to WikiLeaks after the site disclosed U.S. military documents. See WikiLeaks.

The Guy Fawkes Mask
Anonymous adopted a mask created to honor Guy Fawkes as a symbol of rebellion in the 2005 movie "V for Vendetta." Fawkes was in charge of the gunpowder in a failed 1605 plot to blow up Parliament and restore a Catholic monarchy to England. About to be hanged to near death and then disemboweled, Fawkes jumped from the gallows and did himself in. In 1606, Parliament turned the foiled Gunpowder Plot into a national holiday.

Anonymous "Reconnect" Rally

In Amsterdam in 2008, Anonymous objected to Scientology ordering its members to "disconnect" with anyone not supportive of their beliefs. (Image courtesy of photographer John Melskens.)

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Fawkes, Guy

(1570–1606) leader of Gunpowder Plot to blow up Houses of Parliament (1605). [Br. Hist.: EB, IV: 70, 801]

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(His middle name, and his mother's maiden name, is Catesby.) Other stars include Liv Tyler; Peter Mullan; a slithery Mark Gatiss, as the court operator Sir Robert Cecil; and Tom Cullen, whose fearsome Guy Fawkes is a barbarous departure from the radical chic symbol favoured by many hackers and activists.

Kit Harrington branches out with 'Gunpowder'

'On one occasion my wife phoned and I had to say, "I'll ring you back in a minute love, I'm just pulling Guy Fawkes' fingernails out",' he laughs.

REMEMBER, REMEMBER, TO TUNE IN! KIT HARINGTON HAS A BLAST TELLING THE TALE OF GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT

The lady of the house, Claire Mansel Lewis, said: "It's known in the family as Guy Fawkes' Passage.

Time stands still at castle in the mysterious Guy Fawkes Passage; Geraint Thomas was given rare access to a subterranean passageway beneath Llanelli's famous Victorian Gothic mansion, Stradey Castle..

FASCINATINGFACTS | WE celebrate Bonfire Night - - November 5 - - because it is the anniversary of an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament by Guy Fawkes.

Make your Bonfire Night

Guy Fawkes evaded the full drawn-out horror of the punishment by jumping from the gallows and breaking his neck.

North East man behind the bonfire night tradition

Average drop in visibility each year in the United Kingdom during Guy Fawkes Night

Fireworks brighten sky, dampen visibility

While Guy Fawkes' lantern is behind glass, a replica has been made by 19-year-old Jamie Dalton, an apprentice at Hydram Engineering Ltd of Chilton, near Bishop Auckland, which specialises in precision sheet-metal components.

Shining light on the men who risked all in 1605; As a day of fireworks dawns, DAVID WHETSTONE views an object which illuminates a dark period in our history

A Hulton Archive image of |Gunpowder Plot leader Guy Fawkes

'TIME TO GIVE GUY A BREAK,' SAYS HEAD

GUY FAWKES is coming to Glasgow a day earlier than usual this year - because of a Celtic match.

Celts' Euro clash forces fireworks night switch

This paper approaches this problem by an extended paradigm of Generalized Hough Transform (GHT) using shape matching applied to two types of object-of-interest, Guy Fawkes masks and Credit Cards.

Xinpeng Liao, Pradip Chitrakar, Chengcui Zhang, Gary Warner, Dept. of Computer And Informational Sciences

The hacker identified as @TheHorsemenLulz attacked the Dubai Police's Twitter account, posting a message accompanied by an illustration of horsemen wearing Guy Fawkes masks.

Dubai Police's social media accounts hacked