I'm not sure I understand what it would mean for this to be "a hoax". Someone made and released it, right? I thought the point of Anonymous is that it is not a specific organization or group. Whoever made this video could claim to speak for Anonymous as much as the guys that hacked HB Gary, right?
Is it widely known/suspected that the various hacks and messages that have been attributed to Anonymous are from the same group of people?
EDIT: Ha. Great minds think alike. I see Xuzz was posting precisely the same idea as I was typing this.
There are less than 20 people active in the hacking escapades that get attributed to Anonymous. There are less than 100 people who actively engage in DDoS and the few fools who join in straight from home have mostly been arrested.
The fairy-dream of an anonymous active online collective with no discernible membership is simply a joke. The lengths AnonOps goes to keep up the image is pretty hilarious. Crafting figures like Kayla, a cyberpunk teen hacker chic (actually Xyrix, who's been forced to remake himself after getting owned by zf0 in 2008[1]. they're lucky zf0 were merciful and did not dox them). Creating new group names with new narratives like Lulzsec with theme songs and such.
Let me save the typing for those who will argue "but n0ez, Anonymous is Legion and every1!!11!". Anonymous was everyone. Now the name has been hijacked by a small group that uses tools online from places like Reddit to cheer them on but not actually do anything. Hijacked similar to the way the Tea Party was hijacked by the current crop that show up Tea Party rallies.
Is it widely known/suspected that the various hacks and messages that have been attributed to Anonymous are from the same group of people?
EDIT: Ha. Great minds think alike. I see Xuzz was posting precisely the same idea as I was typing this.