User blog comment:Leolab/Retroactive Unfair Battle Enforcement: Pt. 2/@comment-1683193-20140222091515/@comment-4661256-20140222232605

@ HAL 9000 vs. Anonymous: HAL 9000 likely would have Internet connection. The fact that the movie was made in 1968 means that Kubrick (the director) would obviously not know about some future invention and would not include it visually in the movie. However, as the plot takes place in 2001 and HAL is an IBM computer AI, it isn't a strong departure from reality to assume that it would be built with Internet capabilities, especially for the purposes of a situational battle like mine.

As for the part about "Anonymous being bad at hacking," that's entirely subjective and debatable, and if you had found that to be a valid point then you should have brought it up while voting was open (and I know you could have, as you joined several months before I posted that blog.)