Two UK Lulzsec Suspects Plead Guilty To DDoS Charges

judgecorp writes "Two teens have pleaded guilty to taking part in Lulzsec attacks on the U.S.'s CIA and Britain's SOCA. Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis, aged 19 and 18 respectively, admit to denial of service attacks. Cleary has also been charged in the U.S., but is unlikely to face extradition." However, "... both Cleary and Davis denied allegations they posted 'unlawfully obtained confidential computer data' to public websites including LulzSec.com, Pirate Bay, and PasteBin, in order to encourage offenses contrary to the Serious Crime Act." Two others involved pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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Re:Parent is a moron

[miknix]

No, they're the same kind of rebel teenagers that used to do vandalism and tagging and in general rage against the machine when I grew up. They got no plan, no agenda except to strike out randomly and cause mayhem, with gang leaders shouting "let's flip that car" but little more than that, a mindless beast with zero attention span. Script kiddies and their wannabe groupies that would like to be script kiddies are exactly the same in online form, and I don't mind the police giving them a good slap and telling them to grow up. Go back to what you wrote, when did you last see very powerful clowns? Even when they do cause mayhem, they're still just clowns.

Uuuuuhhuuu! There is a lot of hanger going on here. Relax, they are just kids and the act of randomly vandalizing is just part of the learning process - sure there are limits. If you didn't stay at home playing with dolls, maybe you had learned it too! Since you did not, you are just afraid of those kids and raising hell for what they are doing instead of actually putting yourself in their position. IF SOCIETY actually didn't marginalize them and provided the means for them to mentally and physically evolve, certainly they wouldn't be at the streets burning hormones by breaking stuff. We need more hackerspaces, we need more youth associations. WE DONT NEED MORE RESTRICTIONS AND REASONS TO MARGINALIZE THEM!

It is exactly for people like you that these kids are doing what they are doing. Seems like you actually prefer to call the police and totally avoid them instead of actually going there, talking to them and actually understand WHY they are doing what they are doing!

Re:Parent is a moron

[Kjella]

Relax, they are just kids and the act of randomly vandalizing is just part of the learning process

That you think random acts of vandalism is a natural part of growing up speaks volumes of you and presumably the shitstain you grew up in. While I'm not going to make any claims of sainthood the people that went past pranks and looting the apple tree and into pure vandalism were mostly assholes that had no respect for other people or other people's property or other people's work. Hey there's a nice garden where someone has worked many hours to make a flower bed, let's just tear it up for the lulz. That you're trying to psychobabble that into being society's fault sounds like a pathetic excuse.