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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."
Try as I might, I see ZERO MENTION of the jester being arrested in the linked article. Here's the real article, pulled from the original submission:
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/12/1/wikileaks-hacker-raided-cops/
Interestingly enough, thinq.co.uk seems to be one of only a few, if more than one, reporting on the subject. A few quick google searches turned up nothing regarding his arrest..
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I won't say which, but that guy (or at least someone using that handle) would occasionally drop into an IRC channel that I frequent, trying to recruit us. When news of the leak first broke, I wondered if he was going to try to DOS wikileaks (something he had spoken about doing in the past), and then, there was a DDOS. Now he's been arrested for it, and I cannot say that I am surprised.
Now I just have to wonder if he'll receive a pardon of some kind.
Palm trees and 8
I truly hope no one is dumb enough to give him money.
So he committed a crime and tweeted about it. Stupid, but helpful for law enforcement. Durrrr....
I honestly don't care one way or the other regarding the Wikileaks mess, but common sense tells you that if you do something illegal (like DDoS'ing) and then brag about it that you will likely get caught.
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.
I honestly thought it was government(s) behind the DDoS.
Trolling is a art,
The Wikileaks twitter account is reporting/complaining that Amazon booted them from using their servers. Others are saying it was due to pressure from the US.
I live in constant fear of the Coming of the Red Spiders.
Well, I’m not doing it to appear leet.
I’m actually doing it in a small sort of protest to the fact that it’s virtually impossible to get a descriptive username (on AIM, originally) without having a number tacked on the end. So I made the username as non-descriptive as possible and made the number extra big.
But I somewhat doubt anyone cares.
Distributed Denial of APK: It takes 15 seconds to reply to him anonymously, but wastes tons of his time if we all do it.
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
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
He did run DDOS attacks on websites that were sympathetic to terrorists. Basically, this guy is a hard-line far-right hacktivist, and I cannot say that I am surprised that he was behind the wikileaks attack.
Palm trees and 8
I fail to see how being an 'individual' and acquiring a moniker for one's self that 'might' not have been used to any gainful notoriety by someone else prior to this point justifies having their computer confiscated.
Alphanumeric's are practically forced down our throat at every turn, whether it's in new capture images, password requirements on a banking site or when registering with any of the other myriad companies you might be required to have a login for these days. Is it so strange for that to translate into a name that transcends the King's English?
I ate a box of Ex-Lax, but I can't bring myself to give a shit.
I write sci-fi for metalheads
That's weird... my last two comments have been modded but I only see the score (Score: 3) instead of the score+mod (Score: 3, Funny).
When someone uses the "underrated" mod, it simply pushes it up a notch without changing the previous tag. On the other hand, you can be modded "overrated" which will simply push your point down without touching the tag attached.
:)
There have been some rather funny cases where a mod has been +5 Troll and similar mods. Well, at least they give me a giggle
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If they found out who he was in the first place, apparently he wasn't very good either.
But... didn't you see all of those numbers in his name!? Didn't you see all of that reckless gloating!? Clearly he is a master of computers (though he's not nearly as good as Komen Bryce)!
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
m0nk33dud3 concurs.
Let me allay any doubts.
Besides all you need to get a name without numbers is be good at mispelling things.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
1. Attack Amazon's infrastructure from their home computer
2. Post about it on twitter
3. Make videos of the attack and blog
4. Try to recruit sidekicks
5. Brag about it on IRC and the interwebs
You do any or all of the above, and you are not a vigilante or a cracker. You are just another idiot you got his/her paws on a computer.
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If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
SLASHDOT shame on you... in your rush to try to "scoop" everyone else you posted what is more than likely a hoax storey.
Be careful everyone before you help to "donate" $10,000 to his attorney fees. This is more than likely a scam. There is no confirmation from ANY reputable site, news or otherwise, that police actually kicked his door in today and confiscated anything.
Of course Slashdot won't post this comment because ...
1) It's a little critical of them and...
2) It's from "anonymouse"
It only took two days since the attack occurred for the perpetrator to be tracked down and arrested? I can't say I've ever heard of such a fast response time to a computer crime. I'm quite surprised.
Is this typical these days?
Nah, not hardly. Let me demonstrate.
I'll just fire up my handy-dandy scrypto-rama botnet infestor... there... and point it at Amazon... like that. And - hang on, there's someone at the doo%$^&%&*+++NO CARRIER
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
He's even gone so far as to develop his own pretty DoS tool with green fonts on black background with twitter integration that exploits uber-secret knowledge, like opening many connections that slowly feed http headers to apache, thereby using up all available children.
What will be interesting, though, is his own encrypted insurance file, that supposedly contains various information about the people behind wikileaks, although - like the wikileaks insurance file - you can't really prove it contains anything but random garbage. I rather choose to believe that the guy is a bored, stupid teen who read too many articles about the fantasy anarcho-hacking world of the 90s...
:/- spoon(_).
Its not a substitute. But then you dont know where my nick is from so I wont call you a twat. Just off-topic :)
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, sue.
Some of us made up our usernames when we were children, think of the children!
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).
Yeah. What a silly bunt.
I see you've invoked the dual powers of slashdot-shame-on-you and I-dare-you-to-mod-down, a virtually undefeatable combination. Well played.
Once in a while there are posts that are so exceptional good textbook cases of trolldom, that you feel they trump everything any other troll could ever write. For these cases there should be a +1 troll. Maybe not as part of the regular rating, but as an exception mod one could give once a year.
Also, for these rare posts -that should be made visible for everyone- I'd like to see:
+1 perfect strawman
+1 this is what's wrong with humanity
+1 clinically insane
+1 so dumb, I almost rated it funny
I may be a bit late to this discussion, but I was wondering if anyone could fill me in on the technical side of Wikileaks, instead of the politics.
- Why is it called Wikileaks when it's not a wiki? .gov to compromise wikileaks, and ferret out the informers/insert wrong data/track down Julian?
- How do they ensure confidentiality of leaker's identities?
- I know they have a group of volunteers working around the world, how do they communicate securely?
- How hard would it be for the US/Other