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FBI Arrests 12 in 'anonymous' raids
Stoic Joker:
Today's FBI raids shouldn't come as a surprise, said Josh Shaul, CTO of Application Security Inc. "They got a lot of people angry," he said. "When you play with fire you are going to get burned."
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This Just In!!: Pot calls-out Kettle ... This guy has apparently forgotten who he works for. Marie Antoinette made that mistake once. Once... :)
What is unusual, however, is that some Anonymous members appeared to have put little effort into concealing their tracks, he said. "It seems like these folks who got caught were brazen and careless about the way they went about their hacking activity."
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Sounds like somebody went after the Decoy.
Many of the recent attacks by Anonymous and splinter group LulzSec appear to be focused on embarrassing the victims, not about outright data theft or sabotage. Even so, "they [law enforcement officials] are certainly going to want to make an example of anyone they can bring in," Shaul said.
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Because just like every other street gang... Image is important.
wraith808:
Yeah... I just can't get excited about double-speak.
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+1. Say what you mean. I hate PC-talk.
-kyrathaba (July 20, 2011, 06:42 AM)
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As much as I want to agree, there are reasons in some instances, especially with ongoing arrests, so I can't condemn them for it out of hand...
f0dder:
I wonder if they got anybody important, or just a handful of guys running LOIC.
Probably nobody important, just like last time. But it sure does make nice headlines to say you've grabbed 12 members.
Stoic Joker:
But it sure does make nice headlines to say you've grabbed 12 members.-f0dder (July 20, 2011, 12:03 PM)
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hehe ...Yeah, especially when you leave out what a small percentage of the whole that is.
I liked the part where they said a computer was seized in the raid. o_O Seriously?!? A computer ... Who the fsck has a computer?
Now if they said they seized a small distributed computing cluster ... I might be inclined to believe they were on to something. But "a computer" WooHoo ...I gotta go piss myself laughing.
The word for the day is: d. e. c. o. y ... decoy.
:D
f0dder:
But it sure does make nice headlines to say you've grabbed 12 members.-f0dder (July 20, 2011, 12:03 PM)
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hehe ...Yeah, especially when you leave out what a small percentage of the whole that is.-Stoic Joker (July 20, 2011, 01:31 PM)
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Indeed.
Now, if they had actually tracked down 'important people', then 12 could very well be a huge whopping percentage... I refuse to believe in this "zomg we're hyper-distributed like small terror cells!" mumbo jumbo, but it's hard getting to the rotten core when there is a big distributed net work of cannon fodder.
I liked the part where they said a computer was seized in the raid. o_O Seriously?!? A computer ... Who the fsck has a computer?-Stoic Joker (July 20, 2011, 01:31 PM)
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Apparently only one of the suspects? ;P
Depends on how you count, I guess. I've got a computer. And another. And yet a computer over there in the corner, playing a server. Do laptops count as well? Then I've got a laptop-computer to the left of me (for work), and another that I'm currently typing on. Oh, and that other computer in the corner, that's a computer of my brother's that I'm supposed to linux-up. :]
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