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PayPal Hands Over 1,000 IP Addresses To the FBI

Posted by samzenpus on from the naughty-list dept.

tekgoblin writes "PayPal was attacked by Anonymous last year when they had blocked the Wikileaks accounts transactions. Now PayPal has finally come up with enough evidence to strike back at Anonymous with the help of the FBI. PayPal has come up with a list of over 1,000 IP Addresses left behind when they were attacked by Anonymous."

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  1. Why did it take this long? by F69631 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    TFA doesn't have any more info than the summary. PayPal hasn't apparently done any investigation themselves so why couldn't they have handed these over 11 months ago? Did they fear that it would cause a retribution and wanted to harden their systems first? Did they actually hand these over 11 months ago and simply announce it now? Did they just spend a year thinking whether to press charges or not (couldn't they have allowed FBI to start the investigation immediately, even if that was the case?)?

    If you want a crime solved, it seems very odd to wait a year before handing the relevant data over to FBI... I refuse to believe that it took them a year to determine what traffic was actually part of the DDoS and what wasn't (it can even contain false positives if it's just the starting point for FBI)!

  2. Re:Botnet IPs? by Co0Ps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    FYI it's open source... http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/

  3. Re:oooh 1,000 infected computers by Moryath · · Score: 5, Interesting

    By that logic, citizens who protested against Gitmo were "providing material support" to the supposed terrorists held there.

    This is where the law has become completely goddamn stupid. A protest is a protest. If it becomes violent, and that means PHYSICALLY VIOLENT, then it's a problem. Shy of that, it's just a protest and protected under the Constitutional right to peaceably assemble.

    Temporarily taking a website offline sucks for the affected company. So does a protest that blocks the street in front of a store being protested, or even the neighboring stores in the strip mall. But unless there is permanent damage done (the equivalent of someone not just peacefully protesting, but actively spray-painting graffiti as one conceptual example) then it's just a protest and shouldn't be considered criminal.