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Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader Arrested In Australia
New submitter AlbanX writes "An IT professional working in Sydney has been arrested for hacking a government website as part of the LulzSec movement. The 24-year-old man, residing in Point Clare, was arrested at his workplace late yesterday. He claimed to be the leader of the hacker movement. 'Police say he was in a "position of trust" within the company and had access to information on government clients. The AFP says its investigation began less than two weeks ago when investigators found a government website had been compromised. The man has been charged with two counts of unauthorised modification of data to cause impairment and one count of unauthorised access to a restricted computer system. He faces a maximum of 12 years in jail.'"
At 24, he's a "senior Australian IT professional" for an "international IT company"? Well, there's your problem right there. Skinny jeans and a hoodie? Check! Who hired this guy?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
... in Vienna.
If he was working in Australian IT, especially for the government, he was probably so bored to death by his job that he needed an outlet.
These poor IT 'professionals' should be nurtured, not punished. Have sympathy for their pain. Finding bugs in 10 year old spaghetti code will do anybody's head in.
... says the seriousness of the crime is not about the magnitude of damage done, but the breach of security.
Which is a nice way of saying "Well, they didn't really do anything that bad, but they made a lot of people look foolish, so they must be punished harshly...". I think these days we must remember that pulling down someone's trousers in public will make an enemy of that person - and their friends.
Moved to http://soylentnews.org/. You are invited to join us too!
For most governments worldwide, especially all English-speaking countries who uses the common law, LulzSec , Anonymous etc. are treated like the al-Qaeda of the Internet. You proclaim to have association with them (or even claiming to be "leadership") , then expect government agents on your door soon.
New Economic Perspectives
Protip: never claim to be the leader of a decentralized vigilante organization.
That will teach 'em. It should put an end to these crimes against authority. I'm sure China and Iran and North Korea will now cower to such impressive spectacle. All anonymity has come to an end. Somehow, I don't feel any safer.
"Flannery was charged with hacking offences, and is alleged to have defaced a government website this month. [but nobody noticed or cared enough, so you don't know which one] The AFP confirmed it was not a Federal Government website. [are the afraid we'll laugh if they mention the site?]"
"It is not about the magnitude of damage, its about the vulnerabilities that exist, [indeed vendors get away with faulty products full of security holes]" he said. "No one has tacit consent to acceas such information [Yet you already said it was a government website? A website surely has tacit consent to access the website or I'm in deep trouble, because I've been accessing information from millions of websites!]. We are not dealing with a small, petty crime here [defaced a website, so yes we are]. Such access has "huge ramifications for society," [OH THE HUMANITY! THE MONSTER!] .
"Commander Glen McEwan, manager of the AFP's Cyber Crime Operations, said he wanted to get the message out that it was not 'harmless fun' to attack government websites. [give me budget! I really really am useful! Honest I am]"
Seriously. I can picture this guy yelling I AM SPARTICUS from his jail cell.
Okay, maybe not yelling. Crying?
In any event, he's temporarily famous.
- Nec Impar Pluribus, or so I'm told.
The only "white pointers" you will find on the reef belong to topless bathers. The 2 ton man eating fish lives down south.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
So how does his CV look like?
Hobbies:
- Fishing, basketball, hacking
Memberships:
- Leader of the LulzSec group
"did you miss the bit where he claims to be the leader of lulzsec?"
How can a leaderless group of anons have a leader? Or are they like Cylons? Only other Cylons know who is Cylon, but humans can't tell, so they walk among us, and are anonymous, yet somehow manage to agree among themselves who is leader and maintain a rank structure?! Perhaps there's an organizational rank chart that shows which Cylon reports to which Cylon??! A board of Cylons appointed to choose the CEO (Cylon executive officer)?
*OR* perhaps this is an idle childish impossible boast, seized upon by a officer trying to talk up a petty vandalism crime.
I reckon it's the Cylon one. We should prosecuting him for destroying Planet Capricorn!
" what's your point anyway? that people should be allowed to deface any website they like"
False dichotomy: either 12 years sentence for defacement or free as a bird to deface websites? Are they the only options? You really can't think of anything between the two?
" and/or access any system they like?"
Wait, did he access the public website or did he deface it? I can see you (and rozzer) are trying to conflate the two. I guess its because he wants to use a law designed to prevent spying or some such. Is that what that word game is about? Get your head straight, you are accusing him of what exactly? a) Every crime ever committed by anyone claiming to be lulzsec? b) Defacing a website or c) Accessing the [public] website in some bad way?
Look, he's not a super evil mastermind criminal like Aaron Swartz, this is just an officer, talking up a crime for the press release presumably for budgetary reasons.
But he's not prosecuting some mastermind criminal Aaron Swartz figure who threatened to destroy America civilsation as we know it, he's just a vandal.
Yes, though they can be found north on occasion. Regardless up north you'd be more worried about the jellyfish.
Some elite hacker, He doesn't seem to have made any effort to cover his tracks. His hacker 'handle' is easily found links directly achievements on encyclopediadramatica and his twitter account which leads to his real name, which links to both facebook and linkedin profiles amongst many other sites, with photos and lots of personal data.
If libertarians didn't exist, the IQ level of the internet would rise to almost 100.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
You call that a disaster? If this continues I'll start the yub-yub dance!
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
If libertarians didn't exist, the IQ level of the internet would rise to almost 100.
Leave it to an authoritarian to tell us that authoritarians know best. Fortunately, you're not in charge of determining who's allowed to exist or use the Internet.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it[.]
For example, exercising the right to vote for a libertarian/non-authoritarian candidate is "voting wrong?"
I suppose I could come to agree with your wisdom, once your junta puts a gun to my head and tells me that I "agree."
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
No...I am the leader of LulzSec :p
Can a person program a new solution to a problem? Why should anyone be able to stop such a thing? -Richard Stallman