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Authorities Closing On LulzSec

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lul-me-to-sleep dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "The noose is tightening on hacker group LulzSec, according to a coordinated group of like-minded users, some from LulzSec-Exposed that claim to have uncovered the identity of LulzSec members and supplied them to the FBI. An arrest Monday of a UK teenager was rumoured to be former hacker scene member Ryan Clearly, and the trackers, which includes a former FBI agent, say this arrest is the first of many. They refused to disclose the identities of LulzSec chief, saying it would cause the members to burn the evidence of attacks and scatter."

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  1. Huh? by Afforess · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really, the FBI isn't afraid that capturing one alleged member of LulzSec won't cause the other members to bolt and hide the evidence, but disclosing the names will?

    It's days like these I think elementary logic classes should be manditory.

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  2. Re:Logic disconnect... by Marc+Madness · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe that's the intention. By putting out a press release stating that arrests are imminent, maybe they are hoping that LulzSec will destroy their own infrastructure and go into hiding, thus eliminating them as a threat. It's true doublethink; it can mean that they have no leads whatsoever, or that they do.

  3. More misinformation. by rhadamanthus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ryan Clearly housed a lulz IRC chatroom. He has nothing to do with lulzsec.

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  4. Re:Very Unfortunate. by woolpert · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't the broken window fallacy. Nobody is trying to boost the economy by breaking perfectly good things.

    Rubbish. The systems they are targeting are working fine. They are breaking perfectly working things, thus demonstrating that they are BREAKABLE. That's irrelevant. In the broken window fallacy the windows are breakable too.

    Wrong.

    If the systems they are targeting are breakable they are not working fine.

    A window can be breakable and still perform its primary mission. The breakability of the window has nothing to do with the point of the story.

    An authentication server can not be susceptible to such attacks while still be considered performing its primary mission.