In public protests, those representing themselves as Anonymous often wear Guy Fawkes masks. Fawkes was an English Catholic who participated in a plot to overthrow King James I and put a Catholic ...

The need to remain anonymous at live protests led the group to adopt its now-familiar mask depicting a highly stylized visage of Guy Fawkes, an early-17 th-Century British figure who was executed ...

The influence of these "hacktivists" is far-reaching -- and destructive. A person wears a Guy Fawkes mask, a trademark and symbol for the online hacktivist group Anonymous, Feb. 25, 2012. PYMCA ...

Anonymous: How the Guy Fawkes mask became an icon of the protest movement. The group has become increasingly notorious through attacks on organisations including the CIA, Ku Klux Klan and PayPal ...

As the hacking group Anonymous vows to "destroy" Facebook because of its privacy policy on Nov. 5, observed as Guy Fawkes Day in Britain, TIME looks back at the historical man and the legacy he left ...

The rumors began with a video depicting a black-clad figure in the group’s signature Guy Fawkes mask. “Greetings, citizens of the United States,” the figure said in a creepy, distorted voice.

Members and supporters of Anonymous adopted the Guy Fawkes mask, as depicted in the comic book and film ‘V for Vendetta,’ as a symbol for the group. Lately, however, Anonymous members have ...

The global event, organized by the amorphous hacker group Anonymous, is sure to irk authorities as Guy Fawkes masks transform identifiable citizens into anonymous dissidents. "My feeling is the ...

Hacking collective Anonymous wants to make sure you remember, remember that it’s the fifth of November. This year the group claims it has hacked the accounts of 28,000 PayPal users to get ...

Anonymous’ public “face” was once a faceless stick figure cartoon known as Epic Fail Guy, a self-deprecating identifier for 4chan members, a group which at the time largely saw itself as ...

Effigies are thrown on the fires — traditionally of Guy Fawkes, ... The mask was adopted in this century by the activists of the hacker group Anonymous and of the Occupy movement.

(CBS) - Now that hacktivist group Anonymous has stated it will "take down Facebook" for their alleged misuse of personal information on November 5 - which is "Guy Fawkes Day" - everyone's ...