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Another LulzSec Member Arrested

Posted by Unknown on from the no-one-went-to-prison-in-wargames dept.

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."

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  1. Not so many lulz now by Viol8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Not so many lulz now by fm6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I come at it from the opposite direction: I'm no fan of LulzSec, but Sony deserves to have its toenails removed for being so bloody sloppy about security.

    2. Re:Not so many lulz now by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You don't have to be a fan of Sony, to see what these guys are doing is wrong and criminal.

      Sony says we we want to run our business this way. The hackers go we don't like it. So except for just informing the public on their opinion (freedom of speech) they bring down the site, because for some reason we think that Our Ideas are right and any disagreeing idea is somehow motivated by some corrupt cause.

      If you are Pro-Choice then those Pro-Life people are trying to keep Women rights down.
      If you are Pro-Life then those Pro-Choice people are trying to make a world where woman don't need to have any consequences for their actions.
      If you are Republicans those Democrats are trying to keep the People addicted to government services so you can better control them.
      If you are Democrat those Republicans are trying to brainwash people to keep buying crap from these companies so they no longer need to innovate.

      We rarely ever get arguments anymore stating I understand your view, but I think my advantages may outweigh the disadvantages that you brought up. But we have moved to a world where a disagreement means your oponent has some Evil motive behind them. If you think your Ideological Opponent is evil then you feel justified hurting them in one way or an other.

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    3. Re:Not so many lulz now by mvar · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

    4. Re:Not so many lulz now by 1s44c · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I come at it from the opposite direction: I'm no fan of LulzSec, but Sony deserves to have its toenails removed for being so bloody sloppy about security.

      Dead right, I don't know how you got modded down.

      This was a SQL injection attack. Sony didn't follow that little rule about validating user input and should have known better. I'm not saying they deserved it because they didn't, but I'm saying it was bound to happen sooner or later.

    5. Re:Not so many lulz now by Hatta · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You don't have to be a fan of Sony, to see what these guys are doing is wrong and criminal.

      But that's not why they're going to jail. Sony has done plenty of wrong and criminal things in their time, and no one there has gone to jail for it. Selective enforcement of the law is not justice.

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    6. Re:Not so many lulz now by bws111 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Bullshit. Sony did not 'leave your money sitting out front'. They left your money in the teller's drawer, as is normal practice. If someone comes in and reaches over the counter, opens the drawer, and removes the money, that person has committed a crime. Not the bank.

      Stop making excuses for these 'kids'. Sony may have had lax security, but they did not commit a crime. The 'kids', on the other hand, willfully commited a crime. The 'fault' is entirely theirs.

    7. Re:Not so many lulz now by Hatta · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Who do you jail when a company does something wrong?

      That's the problem isn't it. The mistake these kids made wasn't committing crimes. It was commiting crimes without a corporation to hide behind.

      Personally, I'd be in favor of jailing both the CEO who gets the credit for success and should bear responsibility for criminal failures, and the lowly tech who didn't go to the police when asked to do something illegal for his job. That would be far more just than letting the rich and powerful get away with crimes.

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  2. An exercise in futility!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:An exercise in futility!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's right. I'm behind seven proxies. Come at me bro.