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Turkish Police Nab 32 Suspects Tied To Anonymous
wiredmikey writes "Following the arrest of three alleged 'Anonymous' members by Spanish authorities on Friday, Turkey's state-run news agency has reported that police have detained 32 individuals allegedly linked to the hacktivist group. The Anatolia news agency said today that the suspects were taken into custody after conducting raids in a dozen cities for suspected ties to Anonymous. The group recently targeted Web sites of the country's telecommunications watchdog, the prime minister's office and parliament as a protest to Turkey's plans to introduce Internet filters."
it's also possible that Turkey is cracking down on dissidents, using Anonymous as a cover story.
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Thirty-two? That is a suspiciously round number.
Conspiracy theorists will be happy.
As they called it in Office Space: Federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison. No conjugal visits, either. Better beat someone up on their first day.
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i have a hard time believing that they have enough people part of anon, to get 32 caught at once... cover story?
Is it so hard to believe 32 of them were dumb enough?
It seems people like to consider "Anonymous" to be like "the cloud". The cloud is everywhere and nowhere, boxes and fuzzy lines on a chart. It is a mystery what goes there. "Anonymous" is everyone and no one, no leaders, no members. But at the end of the day, "the cloud" ultimately resolves into individual servers with an IP address, and "Anonymous" resolves into individual people with a computer and an IP address who did or didn't do something as part of the group on any given day. DDOS once, and you were in on that attack, forever, even if it is only once. Now that "Anonymous" is attacking government institutions on a regular basis, I think life will be much more exciting for them, especially since they seem to be showing poor taste in targets.
The interesting thing is, due to the nature of their collective, they can really only admit to attacks, but can't effectively deny them. I wonder how many purely criminal organizations or foreign intelligence agencies are having their members participate as cover?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
I seriously doubt there are 32 members of Anonymous's inner circle tied to the hacks, much less all in Turkey. Chance are they detained /b/tards that are guilty of nothing more than posting pony threads and trolling, thinking all of Anonymous knows anything about hacking.
And judging by the pics on the site, I doubt it's even legit.
Once you identify an individual member of anonymous don't they immediately cease being a member?
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
i have a hard time believing that they have enough people part of anon, to get 32 caught at once... cover story?
I'm pretty sure that a simple scan for LOIC packets by an ISP on the planet would find at least a couple dozen people. They did not say they were core members, or hardcore hackers, or even members. But regardless, they said "With ties to". So... parents, siblings, children, friends, bartender, people who live within a mile, you get the idea.
The Spanish arrests were simply of people who used LOIC, the DDOS tool directly from their home PC making them trivially traceable by their PC.
It's possible these arrests in Turkey are precisely the same type.
The people who have been doing the real hacks for anonymous like the HBGary hack are probably much less likely to be caught.
Do you think a member of Anonymous would be getting a conjugal visit if he wasn't in prison?
The people who have been doing the real hacks for anonymous like the HBGary hack are probably much less likely to be caught.
Indeed. That are people that actually know what they are doing. And if it's indeed users of some simple DDOS tool, then that also explains the fairly high number of people rounded up.
In that case they're lucky that at least some people have been caught. Otherwise you'd get a division by zero error.
The people who have been doing the real hacks for anonymous like the HBGary hack are probably much less likely to be caught.
Indeed. They are people that actually know what they are doing. And if it's indeed users of some simple DDOS tool, then that also explains the fairly high number of people rounded up.
And if I recall my history correctly - all revolutions required sacrifices (red herrings, expendables). That's why rallies are mass exercises - helps the long-term (committed) activists survive - so a certain amount of fools will always be tolerated and encouraged. Take a look around the world at where rebellions are daily affairs - see those kids throwing rocks and being arrested? They're part of a larger movement, they're expendable, and because they are, the authorities are tied up which makes it a lot harder to track down the real activists. Historically rebellions have deliberately sacrificed their own just to force the general population to pick a side - it's hard for Mum and Dad not to think about the issues when number one son is hooked up to the generator. Play the game long enough and sooner or later the operator of the generator will find their own family strapped to the chair.
Ha! We've found another one! Here's the evidence:
by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 13, @02:24AM (#36422702)
Destroying peoples' lives and work online isn't funny either, but Anonymous and its ilk haven't really thought that through.
Welcome to immature pranks.
Thought puzzle: if you want to create a future with open rational discussion about a variety of issues, is making people afraid of being hacked and 'outed' the way to get there? No, its the way to create silence and fear.
Anonymous is counter-productive.
- Michael T. Babcock (Yes, I blog)
As soon as Anonymous went after Sony and the banks, the corps got the governments to nail them. Anonymous would have been safe if they kept their activities aimed at less powerful entities. In any case, I bet most of these guys are just low level pawns for the real hackers.