The Hunt For LulzSec's Missing Sixth Member 104
DavidGilbert99 writes "LulzSec's star burnt brightly in the short period it was active, but things quickly turned sour when its core members began getting arrested. Last week three of the six core members were sentenced in the UK, but this only served to highlight the fact that one member of the group, known as Avunit, has been able to remain unidentified despite the FBI having turned the group's leader Sabu into an informant. Who is Avunit? And does he hold the purse strings of the group's Bitcoin wallet which could have up to $180,000 in it?"
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Wow (Score:5, Insightful)
Given the general leakyness of the Lulzsec "organisation", this person has done well to remain unidentified.
Re:Clever guy (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah and not bragging about his achievements.
Re:Clever guy (Score:5, Insightful)
So must be doing something about that.
Maybe he is fictive? Number three pigs '1', '2', and '4'. And laugh your ass off as the police search pig number 3 for months if not years.
Multiple aliases are better to remain anonymous. When the author is found, there is no way to know if all his aliases are discovered. Undiscovered aliases could be confused as a other person. Even if someone confess there is a sixth person it could be misinformation or plain ignorance.
Re:Why link to junk? (Score:1, Insightful)
Typical American. Oblivious to the social engineering surrounding him at ever living second of his life.
He linked to them, *because that makes him money*! Remember: Slashdot nowadays is an *advertisement* website. There is no such thing as a real actual article. He wrote that, not to warn you, but to make you more accepting towards those ads. Seems like it worked.
The 6th member is... (Score:1, Insightful)
an FBI agent provocateur responsible for directing this false flag operation to discredit online "hacktivism" everywhere. Look at the changed opinions on slashdot of "anonymous" before and after Lulzsec.
Re:This is a nerd site, right? (Score:5, Insightful)
Support, agree.
Safe, not. The site does not bring the ads themselves, some external ad broker does this. And with many well known ad companies compromised, no matter how well you trust the site and it's webmaster, I doubt there is any ad network that can really be trusted.
Your data too (Score:2, Insightful)
The data leaked to the press was a tiny file of a few gigs, 1%'er stuff about tax havens. The data given to the UK, Australia and USA FBI/IRS, was hundreds/thousands of times bigger and 100%'er stuff.
Your data too.
"I feel here is schadenfreude."
You wish.