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Another LulzSec Member Arrested
hypnosec writes "Raynaldo Rivera, aged 20, suspected member of LulzSec, has been arrested for his alleged role in the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment last year. The first suspect, Cody Kretsinger, has already pleaded guilty and was indicted last September according to the FBI. Rivera, who also goes by names 'neuron,' 'royal,' and 'wildicv', surrendered to authorities and he has been charged with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer. The LulzSec member may be facing 15 years in prison if convicted."
On the member who pleaded guilty: "Kretsinger, who pleaded guilty to the same two charges now facing Rivera, is slated to be sentenced on October 25. A federal prosecutor said he would likely receive substantially less than the 15-year maximum prison term carried by those offenses."
Hopefully with these arrests and others a few months back, the keyboard warriors out there will start to realise that they're not untraceable and can't just do as they damn well please on the internet.
I'm no fan of Sony but I hope this guy is banged up for a long time for stealing all that private data. And before any wannabe heros mod me down you might want to consider that YOUR data could be part of it.
Where one falls, three more will rise to take his/her place. Locking up LulzSec will be an exercise in futility much like the American "War On Drugs"
I wonder if that's another arrest they made thanks to Sabu's cooperation, if so, that coop was the best thing the FBI could have done in this whole mess of so-called "hacktivism"
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Hmm.. hate to break it to you but there ARE ways to be untraceable.. just like any criminal who gets bored they also get sloppy and hence getting caught.
Did these fucking kids really think that just because the cops weren't kicking in their door the next morning they wouldn't be caught? That is an impressive display of ignorance on how law enforcement actually works. It's as if the 90s never happened.
Raynaldo Rivera, aged 20, suspected member of Lulzsec has been arrested ....
charged with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer. The Lulzsec member may be facing 15 years in prison if convicted....
accused of hacking Sony Pictureâ(TM)s Web site in June 2011 through use of SQL injection attack and downloading thousands of records containing names, birth dates, addresses, e-mails, phone numbers, and passwords. The hacker after posting all the data onto Pastebin, announced the hack through a tweet.....
"Hey @Sony, you know we're making off with a bunch of your internal stuff right now and you haven't even noticed?"
The hacking collective claimed that they had managed to grab information of more than a million people whereas Sony countered the claims saying that only 37k records were actually stolen.
there is no sense of proportion here, it's not justice. Maybe it is the people, whose records were stolen, that should be outraged, not Sony, Sony as a company should be humble about it and do whatever to mitigate the problem their lack of interest in security may have caused.
But because large corporations like Sony are in bed with large governments, there will be no justice. Sure, send these guys to prison for 15 years because a company is outraged. How about company's clients?
My point is - this is none of government's business, it is up to the market to solve theft crimes. If these guys caused damage to private individuals, private individuals should take them to court (and maybe they should take Sony to court), but this has nothing to do with government, why is government throwing these people to jail?
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I know that it's good they caught the criminals and stuff but man I feel so sorry for these kids, it's going to ruin their lives.. :(
Pleaded at the quality of the proofreading as usual. Keep up the good work, editors.
really...come on really, was it that "protected" ?
I was surprised to see they are still making arrests. I had expected all those involved were already in federal "pound me in the ass" prisons. Obviously I overestimated our law enforcement.
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Your looking at reality from a warped perspective. The Internet isn't just in rich nations. It's everywhere and the majority of the world isn't prosecuting these people. All one has to do is look at spam. It's easy to do, easy to do from anywhere, and while some people within the US have been targeted there are those in Russia, China, and elsewhere that continue to profit from it. In fact it's protected by the Russian government. I really don't see how your going to take down one of the biggest powers in the world. We haven't exactly succeded in Iraq/Afganistan and your suggesting we are going to succede at tackling Internet crime? Or for that matter even make a dent in it? No. It's not happening. We will catch a few easy targets in the UK/US/and a few other cooperating countries.
However in the larger scheme of things the "crimes" will go on because where there are thousands of different laws and no enforcement in some places it'll be easy to skirt by someone somewhere. Not to mention we have GOVERNMENT funded hacking. What do you think "cyber war" is all about?
We shouldn't be going after people committing crimes on the Internet. We should be improving the systems which we connect to the Internet so they aren't vulnerable in the first place. We aught to eliminate law enforcement from having access to computers and technology and spend that money on mandating the source code be released for all critical components. Then fund review and analsys of free software.
SQL injections? You mean those things I learned from YouTube when I was 12?
America, where killing someone gets you less years than sending text to a computer (sql injection).
Clearly the work of Anonymous!
You coward.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit
never forget, never forgive
Next time, embezzle a few billion bucks from pension accounts, you pay a few millions back as "punishment" and go out as a rich and free man.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
What really gets to be is how a bunch of script kiddies on an power trip misappropriate the idea of "sticking it to the man", purely to stroke their own egos. Real revolutionaries are those who either do it openly, without masks, like the millions of people who spoke out against SOPA (actually stopping it) or people who remain truly anonymous and don't seek any kind of personal glory (e.g. informants for the press). And I say "truly" because this bullshit meme of how "everyone's anyonymous" is a bad joke. These wankers may be dezentralized, but they have a fucking logo for crying out loud!
Being a Fed tool will get you in trouble every time. For crying out loud at least get a written contract.
They give pro (facist / police state / surveillance / corporate) forces the perfect justification to slowly destroy the most important source of freedom and information since the printing press: the Internet.
I just hope some of the wiser ones will still be around to help fight the forces of evil (and that ain't a video game console company, FFS).
Would he be facing the same 15 years if he hacked into Bob's Computer Shack's servers? Or do they consider it more severe because sony has more money and more clients? Is there some equation they use that determines "you stole this much data, so you do this many years in prison" ?
Most of the sentences these days that have to do with computer related crimes seem outrageous.
I'd understand if it got people killed. But what Sony has is banking information. Most banks have mechanisms to mitigate damage ( I used to play a tank in WoW - Dwarf warrior, so gangster) in the case where your money/information is stolen. They will reissue your card, give you new account numbers, whatever it takes. Sony shouldn't have private information like SSNs, so I'm not too sure what everyone is worried about. Unless you're afraid Lulzsec is selling your home address to that kid you kept calling a fgt on COD and he's actually gonna kill you like he was screaming he would.
What should happen is something like this:
Dear Sony Customer,
We left our gaping hole exposed and we lost your data.
Here are the details that you should be worried about and
that you'll need to provide to your bank. Please check your shit.
Sorry we fucked up, keep buying our crap.
Hugs and Kisses,
Sony Entertainment
But it won't, because they want to play the victim. Shit, if Lulzsec got it, some other hacking group probably had it before them and have been buying viagra on your cards for months.
Anyway, there's my daily rant. Windows Sucks, Linux Rules, OPEN SOURCE FOR LIFE!!!
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Hopefully with these arrests and others a few months back, the keyboard warriors out there will start to realise that they're not untraceable and can't just do as they damn well please on the internet.
I'm no fan of Sony but I hope this guy is banged up for a long time for stealing all that private data. And before any wannabe heros mod me down you might want to consider that YOUR data could be part of it.
I agree they went too far and I hate Sony too. I don't think revealing user data served the purposes of Anonymous in any way and if anything made Anonymous look like the bad guys and helped the opposition gain political cover to attack Anonymous and everything Anonymous was trying to do politically.
I definitely believe criminal activity should be punished but sending in prison a 20-year old for 15 whole fucking years and treating him as if he is a war criminal or serial killer, for simply hacking into a computer of a multi-billion-dollar company (which as it seems didn't care to invest some of it's awfully lot of money in protecting it's customer's data) , is a little too much. Especially when at the same time there are other criminals out there who roam free thanks to their financial status.
But it doesn't matter. His life is destroyed now and honestly you can thank Sabu for playing informant and helping to destroy it.
He can also thank himself for being an idiot.
I wonder if that's another arrest they made thanks to Sabu's cooperation, if so, that coop was the best thing the FBI could have done in this whole mess of so-called "hacktivism"
The thing here is it's not like Sabu is the good guy. Sabu is the worst of the worst here because he ruined the lives of the people who trusted him with their lives. Hackers are motivated by money, ideology, coercion or contraband and ego. This is the MICE motivation and in general all human beings are motivated the same way.
So in this case it's not money because these hackers weren't being paid. It was either IDEOLOGY or EGO. What that means is most of these young adults were brainwashed, or psychologically manipulated, probably by Sabu and people like him who also happened to be informants for the FBI. That is what sucks about tihs, we will never really know how many of these kids would never have got involved if Sabu hadn't influenced them. Sabu had no problem sacrificing his ideology for his ego as he threw Lulzsec under the bus for the FBI. Let's just accept that Sabu is a scumbag even by cyber criminal standards.
For the record I don't endorse Lulzsec, I think they were a bunch of idiots and my posts reflect that. Being an idiot shouldn't mean 15 years in prison, that is a political sentencing and I disagree with that. I also disagree with what Sabu did on a personal level, as he was a bad person, a rotten human being, but this has nothing to do with what he did on a professional level which may have actually put an end to Lulzsec.
Thousands of top secret patents at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Energy companies keeping environment-changing technologies a secret. Military keeping world-changing advanced propulsion technologies a secret. Maybe just a refocusing of effort is needed?
It has been hibernating for quite a while. But I comment here and... Windows had a bad shut down and reinitialized. SOMEHOW my session was not respected in hibernations!!! But it is ust a matter of closing down the lid and hibernate. What happened, eh? See why fifteen years is not enough for theimmatures with technology? Though of course NON OF YOU HERE thinks of SERIOUS sabotage, infiltration, spying, disabling... no computing at all because they can break a hibernation session but not build a full processor chip and OS. I saw the guy in question, he looks Iraqi taking revenge, despite the Latinamerican US facade. Does not look criminal, looks political.