Some members of the Anonymous hacktivist collective are disputing the legitimacy of a weekend threat by another apparent Anonymous faction to "erase" the New York Stock Exchange "from the Internet on Oct. 10 as part of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City.
"On Oct. 10, NYSE shall be erased from the Internet. On Oct. 10, expect a day that will never, ever be forgotten," warned a video message posted on TheAnonMessage YouTube channel.
The AnonMessage channel has been used to post several Occupy Wall Street-related video messages since the protest against lax regulation of the financial sector and growing economic inequality began on Sept. 17. Those messages include an initial "official" Anonymous video regarding Occupy Wall Street and a warning sent last week to the New York Police Department that threatened retaliation if "the brutality does not stop" against Occupy Wall Street protestors.
But a separate Anonymous message published Tuesday claimed that the threat of an Oct. 10 attack on the NYSE was "a fake planted operation by law enforcement and cyber crime agencies."
The more recent message claimed that those behind a supposedly Anonymous-led operation called "Invade Wall Street"—apparently believed to have originated the NYSE video threat—were in fact an attempting to undermine the Occupy Wall Street protests, now in their third week.
