This was a good read, but the author is not above narcissism it seems.

   He reminded me of the Luddites in the 19th century, who 
   destroyed the cotton- and wool-processing technology 
   that they feared would replace man with machine. Only in 
   this case, the concern was reversed: The attacker seemed 
   to dislike how crowdsourcing puts the collective 
   potential of humans above technology.

or sometimes extreme narcissism.

   “artistic flare.” The words are now what I imagine when 
   trying to express the struggle between the creative, 
   collective mind that emerges online, and the dark, 
   almost eerie forces that antagonize all kinds of genius.

In my experience, mobs like 4chan tend to descend on people who have high and mighty ideas of their actions. Though almost certainly in this case it was just because the tool was vulnerable to such activities.

The authors inability to empathise with "... and personally feel that crowdsourcing is basically cheating (and I’m not the only one that feels this way)." is something that makes me leery as well. That's an understandable viewpoint, how is this going to work with actually classified documents?

Still, like I said, good read.