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Three Arrested For Sony/Egypt Hacks
jimmij0770 writes "Three people accused of being behind cyberattacks on the Sony PlayStation store, the Egyptian government and other targets have been arrested in Spain. Quoting: 'Spanish National Police announced the arrests Friday in a statement that alleged the three in custody are leaders of the Spanish section of Anonymous, a loose-knit international activist group that has claimed attacks on companies such as Visa and MasterCard and on government websites. At least one spokesperson for the group had denied responsibility for the attacks on Sony through its AnonOps blog. ... The statement said police began their investigation in October 2010 following a complaint of a denial of service attack on Spain's Ministry of Culture. They analyzed more than two million lines of chat logs and web pages used by the hackers in order to find the three people who were arrested.'"
>>'Spanish National Police announced the arrests Friday in a statement that alleged the three in custody are leaders of the Spanish section of Anonymous...' >>'...the three in custody are leaders of the Spanish section of Anonymous...' >>'...leaders of the Spanish section of Anonymous...' lol. freaking morons. So long as they can make "Anonymous" out to be an "organization," they can "fight" it. wonderful how far violence gets people toward solving problems.
silly cops i am the leader duh
I wish the media would hurry up and realize how stupid they sound saying "leaders of anonymous."
I get this sinking feeling that the three will be released due to insufficient evidence. But then again, this is the Spanish inquisition... nobody expects the Spanish inquisition.
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They were behind six proxies instead of seven, otherwise they wouldn't have been caught.
Really? Three people, along with the Egyptian government and other targets have been arrested in Spain? What was the Egyptian government doing in Spain? Was is on a vacation? That must have made quite the arrest.
Hint, this would have been much clearer:
We always knew Comcast was corrupt, here's the proof: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1909890&cid=34545432
surreal speech from the spanish police about the operation: http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20110610/anonymous-va-seguir-pero-hemos-desmantelado-principal-servidor-espana/438788.shtml they compare anonymouse with al qaeda.. and they justify the sophisticated skills of the hackers with arguments like "they use wifi networks".. it looks like a monty python film..
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I know that the script kiddie running the application on his PC is just as guilty as the author of the tool, but wouldnt it be wiser to to find the one(dev or dev team) who commands the horde(script kiddie collective)?
An arrest is an arrest i guess. As long as law enforcement has something they'll run with it.
Anonymous has no leaders, just anons. That's because it's not a group, it's just anons. Also, expect retaliation against policia.es.
Why is it that no one is discussing the article, or the implications of the arrests.. everyone is commenting on how you can't name the leader of Anonymous..
Just because you think you know what Anonymous is, doesn't mean that everyone else does.. it's easier to say there is a "leader" than to explain what it really is..not to mention that fact that they are doing this to themselves. When they start releasing statements and using Twitter and shit, someone is in charge of those things, hence the "leader" tag.
Lets try talking about the article instead of pretending we're cool enough to know how Anonymous works.
A few scapegoats who may not even be connected to the actual hackers are going to prison because governments want appear to be capable of capturing them.
Countries doing the bidding of foreign corporations. I don't expect these 'terrerists' to get much in the way of true justice - assuming they're not just fall guys.
No really! Can YOU prove they expected this raid?! Just sayin'...
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That's basically what makes them "leaders of Anonymous", according to the police. Supposedly one of them ran an IRC server at home and the three were IRC operators. That's all. There's even a hilarious police screenshot featuring an IRC client and three huge red arrows. Because everyone knows that huge red arrows means they're the Bad Guys.
They're blaming some of the playstation store DDoS attacks on them (which Anonymous did take responsibility for), as well as DDoSing the SGAE (spanish RIAA) and some government websites as a response to recent legislation and social unrest. None of this has nothing to do with the PSN breach, it was just the usual Anonymous DDoS modus operandi.
New IRC server up in three, two, ... oh, wait, they probably set one up within minutes, certainly before Slashdot managed to pick up the story.
All of this seems to be a useless operation just so they can claim that they got *someone* for some of the DDoS attacks on government sites. Even the police knows this isn't going to stop anything, they're just making it look like some big breakthrough to appease the "victims" of the attacks.
They're charging them with a violation that could get them one to three years in prison. So, for now they're free (you don't get preventative imprisonment for that kind of charge), and I'd say there's a pretty good chance they'll end up dropping the charges due to lack of evidence.
We made a revolution and took down the government, catch us too. :)
I am Egyptian and i am OK with what Anonymous did to the old regime's sites
What the hell? Now even the people submitting articles aren't reading them. Or even the entire title. Here is the full title:
'Anonymous' cyberattack arrests made in Spain
Accused not involved in April PlayStation Network intrusion
We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
I remember everyone here saying there's noooo way hackers ever get caught nope, not ever....
Sticking to your guns you say now "those are the wrong people" or "so what?"
You kno how silly you sound now? And it didn't even take years like in the past.
Article: "Bert Nerdwell, a leader of biological research, suggests terraforming moon possible"
Slashdot Douches: "When will the media learn that calling somebody a leader of biological research makes about as much sense as saying I'm the leader of people who wear blue?"
I've said it a billion times it feels like, so mod this redundant: The people who are focused on the terms used to describe the people that are actually coordinating and implementing and participating in attacks are retards. If they can say they are anonymous, we can call them anonymous. Of all the people calling themselves anonymous, these are the leaders in being anonymous as they do the most anonymous-like stuff and coordinate people who also call themselves anonymous. Why is that so hard to get through your thick skulls?
I'm being trolled here, right? And all these "anonymous isn't a group" type postings is just a meme that I'm unaware of? Please tell me people aren't really this dumb. If I refer to somebody as a Christian leader, or a Islamic leader or a * leader it does not mean that I think Christian is a monolithic organization and all of us take orders from the top. Do you think the world is unfamiliar with classifications of people (groupings if you will) that lack top down leadership? Hippies, communists, capitalists, conservatives, liberals, bloggers, industrialists, terrorists, the KKK - you can refer to people as leaders of any of those groups without implying a top-down organization that encompasses all of them. How f*cking stupid can people get about this? You aren't clever, this is another case of "[mundane concept] ON THE INTERNET!"
If I can just reach out with my words and touch a butthole, just one, it will all be worth it.
Anonymous is like a turd.
Cut off its head and you have two turds.
In most other parts of the world, you're assumed to be guilty until proven innocent. Yes, the world is not entirely composed of just America.
Honest.
"Three people accused of being behind cyberattacks on the Sony PlayStation store, the Egyptian government and other targets have been arrested in Spain. "
They arrested 3 people, the Egyptian Government, and other targets, while they were in Spain?.. odd.. must have been there on holiday? I mean I know the Egyptian government isn't as stable as it once was... oh well.
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I'm being trolled here, right? And all these "anonymous isn't a group" type postings is just a meme that I'm unaware of?
Nope, real thing.
If I refer to somebody as a Christian leader, or a Islamic leader or a * leader it does not mean that I think Christian is a monolithic organization and all of us take orders from the top. Do you think the world is unfamiliar with classifications of people (groupings if you will) that lack top down leadership?
Well first, if someone called the leader of the "God hates Fags" idiots the Leader of the American Division of Christianity, would that be very accurate? Now let's say that guy's position was changed every time they got together, almost at random, with some random dude who had speaking skills volunteering to be the pastor. Wouldn't that make it hilariously inaccurate?
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
If they didn't want to get arrested, they should have secured their servers.
-- Will program for bandwidth
There also needs paragraph on the back of each one explain how it is to be used as evidence against them.
The fact that a group's members are anonymous doesn't necessarily imply that they are leaderless.
The fact that a group claims to be leaderless doesn't necessarily imply that it is leaderless.
'Anonymous' had no formal leadership but I refuse to believe there aren't members who initiate actions and push the various vendettas along. The guy who writes the script-kiddie program, the guy who makes the poster calling people to action, the guy who convinces others to join in a campaign. These people are leaders, even if they are informal leaders.
I'll also take this opportunity to point out that the actions of Anonymous very quickly became indefensible. Attacking Sony is one thing, attacking Sony's users is another. Opposing the punishment of Bradley Manning is one thing, defacing PBS's website is another (any a very clear and very reprehensible attempt to stifle freedom of speech).
In short, Anonymous has no formal leaders, but they have informal leaders. And I support the punishment of all people who join in their free-speech chilling, innocents-attacking campaigns.
Posted AC for lulz and out of fear.
They used their name to breach the security of the FTP service and access the account data. You may want to check your FTP logs to see if they are trying to hack your server.
And the Egyptian Gov isn't as big as it once was either...
How many were arrested when Sony rootkitted the computers of their customers?
Wannabe hax0rs thats all anonymous is.