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25 Alleged Anonymous Hackers Arrested By Interpol

Posted by Soulskill on from the ddosing-a-jail-cell dept.

PatPending sends this quote from an AFP report: "Interpol has arrested 25 suspected members of the Anonymous hackers group in a swoop covering more than a dozen cities in Europe and Latin America, the global police body said Tuesday. Operation Unmask was launched in mid-February following a series of coordinated cyber-attacks originating from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain,' Interpol said. The statement cited attacks on the websites of the Colombian Ministry of Defense and the presidency, as well as on Chile's Endesa electricity company and its National Library, among others. The operation was carried out by police from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain, the statement said, with 250 items of computer equipment and cell phones seized in raids on 40 premises in 15 cities. Police also seized credit cards and cash from the suspects, aged 17 to 40."

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  1. Re:Interpol by zippo01 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The operation was carried out by police from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain, the statement said, with 250 items of computer equipment and cell phones seized in raids on 40 premises in 15 cities. Police also seized credit cards and cash from the suspects, aged 17 to 40." The way I read it is Interpol Interpol coordinated everything, and physical arrest was made by locals.

  2. Wrong wording. by bejiitas_wrath · · Score: 1, Informative

    sed s/hackers/crackers/gi;

    A hacker is a person that is modifying something to change it, like hacking on source code to improve it.

    A cracker is a person who is trying to break into computer systems.

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    1. Re:Wrong wording. by SuricouRaven · · Score: 4, Informative

      Words change. What was originally a misuse of the word 'hacker' has since become dominant over the earlier meaning.

  3. What asshole modded this down? by pecosdave · · Score: 1, Informative

    Looks like he answered the question well to me.

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  4. Interpol never arrests anybody by Sqr(twg) · · Score: 4, Informative

    While it would be cool if they were an international police force arresting cybercriminals, Interpol is really just an organisation for information exchange between national police forces. The arrests were made by the ordinary police in the respective countries and according to local laws.

  5. Re:We Are Anonymous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Why are USians so obsessed with gay rape? I never hear that kind of thing in British discourse."

    Because homosexual rape is routine practice in US prisons. Approximately 40% of males sent to a US prison will either rape or be raped before release. Americans who think it is a joke do so because they never think that they might one day go to prison, they don't care about what happens to prisoners, and they don't think through that allowing that culture to exist in prisons will mean the same rape culture is brought outside prison walls after prisoners are released.