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Italian Anonymous Hacker Cell Arrested

Posted by timothy on from the scrambling-adjectives dept.

jojo_it writes "Three hackers, part of Anonymous Hacker Group, have been identified and arrested after an Italian-Swiss investigation. The cell performed several attacks against Italian government websites and 'relevant Italian companies.'"

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  1. "Hacker Cell" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As in an implied terrorist cell

    Anonymous is just a bunch kids who hang out on IRC and exercise their social conscious in a slightly unconventional manner. The only reason anybody in a position of authority gives a fuck is because they seem to be rather good at highlighting how much the status quo consists of governments indentured to abusive corporate interests.

    So I'm guessing protest hacking is now a terrorism on a par with suicide bombers.

    1. Re:"Hacker Cell" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Social conscience? Um, no. These kids largely act out of their desire to be attention whores. Example: Lulzsec.

  2. Re:It's been said before by TheCarp · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unless you are familiar with C, or any of its derivative languages, all of which chose !=

    Meaning that != is already pretty widely understood, and uses one less char, making it 33% better!

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    "I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
  3. There's a seriously stupid thing there by erroneus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Once again, I always thought it was too obvious to even talk about it because I presumed Anonymous participants (I hesitate to say "member") were smart enough not to hack on things within their own country. So like, if you were in the US, don't go hacking on US servers... (additionally, don't hack from a country with an extradition treaty.) So Italians were caught hacking on Italian servers... brilliant. I never thought anyone would be that stupid.