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Wikileaks DDoS Attacker Arrested, Equipment Seized
kaptink writes "The self proclaimed hacker that waged a DDoS attack on Wikileaks has been arrested and has had all his equipment seized. What is interesting is that local police conducted the raid and not a federal authority such as the FBI. The Jester (th3j35t3r) who has a reputation for attacking websites he disagrees with is said to be trying to raise $10,000 in expected lawyers fees. If anyone is going to be alight in the whole Wikileaks debacle, its going to be the lawyers. Personally I think anyone who spells their nick with numbers in an effort to look 'leet' deserves to have their computer confiscated."
A nick name like "th3j35t3r" is so unbelievably lame.
It clearly should be "7h3j3573r".
Watch it with the comments about having numbers in your nick, dude. We're both on very thin ice here.
If anyone is going to be alight in the whole Wikileaks debacle, its going to be the lawyers.
That's sort of an incendiary comment. You're playing with fire, here; you don't want to flame lawyers, they might get hot under the collar.
steveha
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lol.
Trolling is a art,
Let me allay any doubts.
Besides all you need to get a name without numbers is be good at mispelling things.
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If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
"Someone on here earlier was saying that the Jester doesn't have the smarts or the technology to pull off something like the DDoS "
and if someone says something on Slashdot, it must be true!
which makes locating and arresting him about as hard for a cop as scratching his own nuts.
Hey, you try scratching your nuts when you have a donut in one hand and a coffee in the other... you get some strange looks if you start scratching against furniture.
BM3
It only took two days since the attack occurred for the perpetrator to be tracked down and arrested? I can't say I've ever heard of such a fast response time to a computer crime. I'm quite surprised.
Is this typical these days?
Nah, not hardly. Let me demonstrate.
I'll just fire up my handy-dandy scrypto-rama botnet infestor... there... and point it at Amazon... like that. And - hang on, there's someone at the doo%$^&%&*+++NO CARRIER
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I may not have the smarts to do that either but I posted a link to my own server on slashdot and it stopped working.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Not if he was behind SEVEN PROXIES.
Hey, "Harmony" was taken, you know? Numbers are an easy way of getting past duplicate names. WIth well over a million users signed up to Slashdot, the chances of anyone at this stage getting their desired username are slim. At least with a few digits here and there you can be roughly consistent with your username on other sites.
Plus it makes me sound cool, of course!
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
I never had that problem. It's pronounced phonetically "John" btw ;)
I guess this makes my nick even more lame (first level of lameness in that I didn't even get the right UID).
"He has to make it past a belly bloated by years of coffee and donuts."
Careful - these are IT types your talking to.
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