Am I the only one who sees the irony in HBGary's CEO complaining that "Google’s call center set up elaborate hoops through which they expected [him] to jump in order to validate his identity"?
Nope, there's so much irony in this whole story that if you dug it all up and mixed in a little carbon, you'd get steely.
Lest there be any doubt, his exact words: "And I'm waiting on the phone and I can't do the technical magic tricks, jumping through the hoops that Google wanted me to jump through, to get them to listen to me."
Sounds like he's trying to goad Anonymous into a follow-up attack / trap.