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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.'"
... in Vienna.
Because age and clothing determine ability. SMH
Quite often they are an indication of maturity.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Only Americans would hire people based on age, fashion, looks, basically anything but real skill. I'm glad I don't live in that hell-hole.
You are a complete moron who fails to understand human beings(here's a hint dumbshit, Europeans are even more formal than Americans). People judge eachother on age, fashion, and looks pretty much wherever there are people. But don't let the facts get in the way of your self-righteousness.
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Because age and clothing determine ability. SMH
Sometimes they are an indication of maturity.
Fixed that for you.
Quite a few people grow old without growing up.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
... 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!
Protip: never claim to be the leader of a decentralized vigilante organization.
What the AFP claims is a total lie.
"He was a low-level support tech who was on a three-month probation,” Wurth said. “He had no access to any type of customer data apart from support tickets"
So essentially a script kidding working a low level tech support job. Not exactly a criminal mastermind.
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.
When it comes to FUD and the Internet it only matters what material he could potentially have had access to, not what he actually had, or was supposed to have, access to. If Content Security handles any information anywhere that might be sensitive or politically embarrassing then the case will proceed on the assumption that Flannery had access to that information and used it. Flannery will, of course, have to spend serious dollars defending against these broad claims regardless of their veracity.
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
[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?]
Somebody mentioned it because the ABC is reporting:
The LulzSec group allegedly broke into Australian Government departments, universities and schools in 2011. Some of the targets included AusAid, Victorian Government departments and local councils in Victoria and New South Wales.
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
European, skinny jeans, hoodie, senior development professional for an international company, and I'm by no means an exception here. But don't let the facts get in the way of YOUR self-righteousness.
What kind of shoes do you wear?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
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.
Quite a few people grow old without growing up.
You mean, they stay immature?
What kind of shoes do you wear?
Dynamically typed ones.
What is it with computer crime that gets any police force involved to wildly exaggerate everything to do with it. From the skills of the accused, the claimed crimes committed, the damage caused, the global impact or the justification for promotions. The bullshit desire for massive headlines only to have it all deflate as the internet picks over the story as the slowly collapsing prosecution proceeds to a rather minor event.
It seems driven by two things a desire for promotion and a need to flood the airwaves with propaganda in order to protect their case based on really rather weak and often only circumstantial evidence. Hype seemingly used to drive the individual into becoming an informant, a means by which to entrap minors into minor computer crimes.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
I used to work for a public sector body who gave their first line support peons (wheter outsorced or insourced) domain admin accounts. They 'required' this in order to fix issues remotely, but the higher-ups didn't understand the full extent of the access they had, and the lower-downs I guess didn't feel the need to restrict their access by telling them. The security guys were pointless.
We were going through a restructure, and I knew a bit about the document management system because I had to fix issues with it. I knew that all the files in that 'secure', 'auditable' database-driven software were held on a windows server in a windows file system which was shared, and you could access ALL CONTENT if you logged on to that server with your admin account and browsed the files. The files were gobbledigook names, but every file was stored in a directory named after the username of the uploader. So simply, we were able to browse the top level director who we knew was working on the restructure, find the latest edited versions of say, an excel spreadsheet and a visio diagram, and check out the future proposed org chart in draft. There was no audit on this. I felt ill with guilt the whole time I did it, but I wanted to know, damnit, and they were treating us like shit. So I stole the data, and was able to prepare my response once they finally announced the random manager they were planning to assign me and that salary and grade they were putting me at (oh and all my colleagues, too).
It is just an example of how clueless people are - even the trained 'security' guys and 'administrators' of software that these people deploy. Often the underlying way these crappy tools work is... crappy. Anyone with half a brain could have done this, and I managed it with only a quarter of one ;-) I feel bad that I didn't tell them before I jumped ship. I could access the CEOs docs if I wanted to. I didn't, because the whole thing made me scared shitless!
I guess you're right. If you're wearing a suit, you're probably a complete tool.
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The upper limit on someone's experience is the number of years they've worked. Of course, some people have 20 years of experience, and some have 1 year of experience 20 times, but it's a safe bet you don't have either in your 20s.
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