FBI Arrests LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers 289
Velcroman1 writes "The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix. Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana, an FBI official told FoxNews.com. A document purported to come from the FBI leaked online earlier this month called these hacker groups a national security threat. One individual was described as part of the LulzSec group, the other belongs to the group that calls itself Anonymous, the official said. The suspected hacker arrested in California is homeless and alleged to have been involved in the hacking of Santa Cruz County government websites."
I am wondering (Score:5, Interesting)
How they know the homeless guy did it, yes I know its not impossible for people to get on a computer, but unless the guy had a freaking home office in his box its probably going to be on shared computers
this will be interesting when there is more than a 1 paragraph blurb
A lesson to learn (Score:4, Interesting)
He got caught because he REGISTERED his username on the internet. This breaks rule #1 of the internet, what's posted cannot be unposted.
I was reading the court indictment wondering if they were somehow able to trace a proxy after the fact of use, which with something like TOR is quite the feat, but no, dude signed up to hidemyass.com, used the SAME user name, and thus will now meet Bubba in prison. Ah, the world of hacking, a mistake, and its your ass.
Re:Hang Them (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm not willing to claim they are all "activists." But there is certainly an activist component to what they do.
And at the same time, power hates being stood up to. Stand up to the MafiAA, stand up to the abusive assholes at Sony, stand up to abusive cops who don't like the idea of being caught on video shooting a handcuffed homeless guy in the back, caught beating up a special ed kid [youtube.com], or try to get a 75-year charge on someone for recording them [reason.com].
So it's not surprising the FBI are engaged in what many will see as an overreaction. Especially when they need to be "seen to be doing something" to look good for their corrupt politician bosses.
Re:Well... (Score:3, Interesting)
Lets add the word 'corrupted' to that "Law Enforcement". Conspiracy charges are typically what is used when there is no real evidence that an individual has actually committed a crime but instead they are going for sounds like, looks like they might have charges. Also police, only police the laws, they absolutely do not enforce the laws (this is the delusion of ignorant crew cut jock thugs in uniform) the courts enforce the laws.
A lot of countries reject conspiracy laws because inevitable 'Law Enforcement' (again read power mad douches in uniform) types routinely conspire to twist evidence and testimony under threat of punishment, to create cases to suit promotions, rather than any real evidence.
Seriously, I mean really seriously, look at the people they have arrested and the pseudo charges used. This is what they call a 'NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT', it hard to tell whether to call it FBI ego bloating or just grovelling to corporate profits and power. Yeah, let's all panic because a few individuals used DDOs to temporarily disrupt access to an internet bill board, let's all pretend that a temporary IP address (used to monitor a minor billing account) is all the evidence you need and of course that testimony under threat of decades of imprisoment means anything (this from a country that legalised physical torture or at least pretended to and, where psychological torture is to be expected and even sickly enough demanded).