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Scotland Yard Has Been After Anonymous For Months

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the summon-sherlock dept.

jhernik writes "Scotland Yard has confirmed it has been investigating Anonymous since before the WikiLeaks wars broke out. The Metropolitan police has been investigating Internet vigilante group Anonymous, since well before its current online reprisals against companies not supporting WikiLeaks. 'Earlier this year, the Metropolitan police service received a number of allegations of denial of service cyber attacks againat several companies by a group calling itself Anonymous,' a police spokesman told eWEEK Europe UK. 'We are investigating these criminal allegations and our investigation is ongoing.'"

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  1. Good luck with that by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 4, Funny

    A source inside Scotland Yard has also confirmed that they are looking to bring Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2006 in for questioning.

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    Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
    1. Re:Good luck with that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Me!? Why would they want me?

      Ohhh... my username.

  2. Excuses by DarkXale · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're just using it as an excuse to browse 4chan.

  3. Article has no content, move along by RMH101 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Police interested in Anonymous", is what it boils down to. Shows no sign of a clue that Anonymous isn't an organisation as opposed to the section of the geeky general public who are pissed off with current state of affairs/doing it for the lulz.
    TL:DR - Scotland Yard can't Triforce.

  4. Wanted by gmuslera · · Score: 3, Funny

    Scotland Yard is close to capture the leader of the Anonymous group, someone called John Doe.

    1. Re:Wanted by bersl2 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You fail it!

      The leader of Anonymous is David Davidson. Clearly everyone knows that. I'm sure you think you're getting away with misleading everyone, but they know better.

  5. Re:Anonymous Isn't Anonymous by lee1026 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Play fair man. Anytime I send stuff to that ip, I get tons of stuff. Are you retaliating or something?