British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?
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Re: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?
#2I read this article earlier. I don't understand the following line from the chatlog:
> Topiary: better not hit me on April fool's day
is this a joke that has gone over my head, or are the logs indeed from March?
Edit: looks like I'm a fool, the logs are indeed from March and are unrelated to this incident. I thought the article was using them as proof of this incident being part of "duping" the police, but it's actually being used to show Topiary from England != Lulzsec topiary. My mistake. Will leave comment in case anyone else makes the same mistake.
Re: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?
#3I read this article earlier. I don't understand the following line from the chatlog: > Topiary: better not hit me on April fool's day is this a joke that has gone over my head, or are the logs indeed from March? Edit: looks like I'm a fool, the logs are indeed from March and are unrelated to this incident. I thought the article was using them as proof of this incident being part of "duping" the police, but it's actua…
Yeah, it was all a little unclear. I'm still not sure whether LS's Topiary stole the name from a troll, or a troll started using Topiary's name.
Not that it matters... In the end, it looks like the real Topiary is in a different country altogether from where the arrest was made.
Absolutely hilarious.
How long before the police discover their mistake, I wonder?
Re: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?
#4Sad to watch them try to send another guy to jail for what they did. "No honor among thieves" came to mind.
Re: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?
#5Makes one wonder if their monikers are really tightly tied to real persons. Maybe the core group uses their names interchangeably and when one of them is ousted with a raid, some one else from the group assumes the online identity.
Re: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?
#6Sad to watch them try to send another guy to jail for what they did. "No honor among thieves" came to mind.
I rather see it as highlighting a weakness in the system. Arresting someone on suspicion without evidence tying the human to the twitter account and to the actual crime is a sad state of affairs. People should be made aware that this kind of thing cam happen with little recourse for the mistakes of the police.
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#7Not all that surprising. Eventually the LulzSec people will get popped inadvertently, but they'll run law enforcement in circles for quite a while before it happens. LulzSec and Anonymous thrive on ambiguity and confusion so they can keep piling on the lies and deception. They have no need to get their story straight, just keep law enforcement in a cloud of doubt. This entire chatlog could be bullshit, a little disinfo to muddy the waters. If Swedish Topiary gets popped you release some logs revealing yourself to be Shetland Topiary trolling the Swede.
Re: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?
#8The explanation in this article seems pretty tenuous and the title could at least do with being "British police might have been duped by LulzSec into arresting the wrong person".
Re: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?
#9my 5 cents:
* the antilulzsec movement is missleading information created by lulzsec themselves
* chatlogs are just text. they do not prove anythinh
* i guess they raided the guys home not without reason...
Re: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy?
#10my 5 cents: * the antilulzsec movement is missleading information created by lulzsec themselves * chatlogs are just text. they do not prove anythinh * i guess they raided the guys home not without reason...
If I were betting, I'd be with you on this, even though the reason to raid may have been deliberately planted misinformation from lulzsec.