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Interesting that this arrest follows just a week after a series of other arrests in USA/UK/NL regarding LulzSec and Anonymous: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/20/arrests-lulzsec-a... Not a good time to be a hacktivist
Hacktivists? These guys are breaking into private companies and stealing property. They're criminals .
> They're criminals.
The civil rights movement has been historically full of criminals. Lets question the legitimacy of all their claims!
The other day his Twitter feed was cleaned up and a single tweet remained: http://twitter.com/#!/atopiary/status/94225773896015872 reading "You cannot arrest an idea". I guess he saw this coming.
You may not be able to arrest an idea, but you sure can give its owner more jail time for destroying evidence. What was he thinking?
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Hacktivists? These guys are breaking into private companies and stealing property. They're criminals .
Activists tend to break laws, no?
The idea that we would arrest another human being for sitting at a lunch counter, etc, is designed to provoke outrage at the unjust situation.
The Crito is an excellent place to start in examining I suppose the philosophical roots of civil disobedience: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crito
Article does not say why they think that he is Topiary.
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if I were tasked with catching these guys, I would: * setup numerous honeypot open proxies and tor gateways * work with journalists to have all emails and communications forwarded * isolate ddos clients and reverse-engineer command and control. surprisingly many of these trojans are poorly written and have security holes themselves * setup numerous fake twitter profiles and provoking them into responses - things like…
"1337 5p34k was invented so you can not be traced via your vocab/grammar/spelling/phrases etc" What about txt msg spk?
It always grates on my nerves when someone that young, seventeen, is referred to as a "man". I suppose teenagers enjoy more freedom in Europe, maybe it's more appropriate there.
Frank Abagnale Jr. comes to mind.
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Hold on, hold on, let me try to clear some things up. A criminal is a rigidly-defined adjective meaning an entity which breaks or broke laws. An activist is a rigidly-defined term meaning an entity which acts to further some idea and bring it to public perception. A hacktivist isn't well-defined, but we'll assume here that it's a form of activist. Now based on this, the Anonymous and Lulzsec hackers were hacktivists,…
I agree to the defined terms, and further purpose hacktivist is an activist who's chosen/preferred method is "technology", be it illegally accessing private systems, or building nifty robots out of servos and shit. But, what cause or idea have they furthered? Computer security? Social injustices? Tax evasion by corporate amarica? I can't find one other then their own personal enjoyment. I can not point to a single ac…
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Well, since no one else is wading in here's what look like the usual suspects to me: - obvious digital connection (forgot to use tor / ipredator / hacked vpn) - timing attacks (keeping normal waking hours for his home country, using a vpn instead of tor) - word frequency attacks (since he wrote a lot of press releases, his word choices may have been cross correlated with a personal blog) - bragging to a friend - gett…
if I were tasked with catching these guys, I would: * setup numerous honeypot open proxies and tor gateways * work with journalists to have all emails and communications forwarded * isolate ddos clients and reverse-engineer command and control. surprisingly many of these trojans are poorly written and have security holes themselves * setup numerous fake twitter profiles and provoking them into responses - things like…