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Anonymous Hacker Gets Lost At Sea, Rescued, Then Arrested (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Martin Gottesfeld, 31, from Somerville, Massachusetts, was arrested by FBI agents after being rescued at sea in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the FBI, Mr. Gottsfeld was under investigation after launching a series of cyber-attacks against Boston Children's Hospital in 2014, as part of the Anonymous hacker collective. Gottesfeld and his wife were found in a sailboat, near the coast of Cuba, with lots of luggage and 3 laptops. A Disney Cruise ship took them to the Bahamas, where FBI agents took him into custody.
...that is dedication for ya!
Go thing they weren't Jews.
No matter how great a person is, if they did anything with ill intent to a children's hospital, I can't feel any pity or concern about them. Lock them up and throw away their keys.
I'm hoping his time floating in the Gulf was horrible.
Seriously...
as time went on Anonymous increasingly became a tool of western 'liberal' establishment pushing its ideology against outsiders.
for example, it, becoming prosecutor, judge, and executioner, tried to take down twitter accounts (branded as isis supporters) of those protesting and resisting( by definition through a non violent platform of tweets) western crimes, torture camps, invasions, etc.. it tried to do the same for outsider candidate trump. in contrast Anonymous has not done anything against establishment criminals like clintons, or members of western military drone killing children in countries it invaded , or those running the torture camps illegally.
" the Bahamas, where FBI agents took him into custody". There - and I thought that it was an independent country. Will they be getting Medicare soon?
to Cuba (except for the piss-poor Internet), but why the hell was a Disney ship near Cuba?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
If you can't do the time..!
According to a couple of reports he was arrested in Miami.
I don't think they were anything other than a random group of hackers who used the title.
That 'organized group called 'Anonymous' with the flags and the glossy promotional videos and the press-releases, that will be an agency (e.g. JTRIG) doing a false flag attribution.
Without a command structure and any discipline mechanism its not possible to order that group of sheep around, so none of that made sense for the basement dwelling real Anon.
So when you see how Anonymous has announce they're doing this or that, and a PR video is released, that will be some government doing this or that with false attribution because they don't want to be associated directly with it.
"Had it been targeted against the incompetent doctor(s) i would have no problem with this."
So a stressed out doctor who may have worked 80 hours that week makes one mistake and you think its ok to cyber attack him systems which may compromise patients records or even their treatment??
Why the fuck do people like you think you're judge and jury??!
But attacking a childrens hospital because of one particular case that Mr Self Appointed Judge and Jury clearly had issues with is really setting a new low bar. I honestly hope they put him in a cell with Big Bubba and throw away the key. And at 31 years old the guy needs to grow the fuck up fast. This is the sort of shit that teenagers pull, not a supposed adult.
I'm sure there other idiot volunteers ready to attack other worthy targets like bereavement charities, puppy sanctuaries, make-a-wish foundations etc. Maybe Anonymous should give them a course in seamanship first, just in case.
It's never that simple, when parents receive conflicting information from different doctors. And when someone alleges a parent is abusing a child, that be a very scary thing. It's particularly so when it involves removing custody from a parent who genuinely wants the best for the child. It's very possible the parents may not have cooperated out of fear. There are plenty of people who will say that medical child abuse is overcharged, that it's actually less frequent than the accusations that are made.
There have been other improper allegations of medical child abuse made by BCH and others, some of which is well documented at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/opinion/sunday/the-new-child-abuse-panic.html. Take the case of the Hilliards, described in the article. Their daughter died at age 5 from what experts concluded was a genetic disorder affecting mitochondrial function. When their three year old son began to show symptoms, the parents asked that he be tested. The hospital, also BCH in this case, alleged abuse, though the state disagreed. The parents took the child to Tufts to be treated. However, a BCH pediatrician called a different doctor at Tufts and again alleged abuse. The state intervened against the medical opinions of the pediatrician treating the child at Tufts. Under demands of the state, the treatments were scaled back, resulting in a six week hospital stay in which the child's condition worsened. The treatments were restored and the child recovered. In this case, the improper allegations of medical child abuse by BCH actually harmed the child involved. BCH has twice made the allegation of medical child abuse in similar circumstances, this one clearly being false.
I have no clue why you'd simply accept BCH's word on this. Their credibility is certainly in question based on the other incident. Furthermore, there's plenty of reason to believe that most allegations of medical child abuse are completely unfounded.
Justina spent over a year in psychiatric care at BCH. When that treatment ended, her symptoms hadn't improved. BCH may well have misdiagnosed Justina because their treatments weren't successful. Furthermore, it's unbelievable to me that you're willing to simply disregard the opinions of multiple other doctors both before and after the child abuse allegations who believe that Justina's symptoms are caused by physical health issues rather than mental health issues.
...make an example of him.
At some point we seem to have recognized how vitally important networks and computers have become to our system, but we still pretty much treat hacking as a minor (if not outright trivial) crime.
Then again, I'm for capital punishment because if you have 7+ billion of ANYTHING, they're demonstrably not precious.
-Styopa
Honestly these guys are not "hackers" but simply script kiddies. Remember kids, the proof that you are a kiddie is that you open your mouth and brag about shit.
Since they are not going to be needing it anymore, can I have their boat?
What? I like to sail.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Interesting, the flip/flop of reason because the actor here is in anonymous. Many of these slash for members lean so hard left and believe in GOV as end all be all i.e. Big Healthcare i.e. an extension of the GOV.
Somebody KILL this MOTHERFUCKER who tried to murder children!!!
I am curious about the backstory to this attempted escape more than the foolishness of his hacking that put him in the crosshairs.
Like, where did he get the boat? Was it stolen? Borrowed?
Was it seaworthy? Sail or power? Where did they leave from?
My guess is that they took off and tried crossing the gulf stream during a period when the wind was contrary and got tossed. The wife then tossed her cookies and probably demanded they get rescued.
Knowing how things operate down there, they probably had eyes on them from the moment they left. The only surprise is that they did not show up on the FBI radar until they got picked up and IDd by the cruise ship. There is hella surveilance down there since the 80s to keep an eye on the smugglers. Even a wooden boat with negligible radar signature will still get scooped as that is what the Haitians are ghosting over on.
I doubt they even got spitting distance from Cuba before the gulf stream put them in the wash cycle and started hauling them backwards. If they had arrived, the Cubans would probably have taken a dim view of their arrival. Unless you have money and a specific float plan, they see any boat entering their sheltered bays and harbours as a yankee plot.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Clearly not very anonymous, if they knew exactly who he was and what he was doing, to arrest him...
Nice strawmans there mi. I'm not even going to shoot it down. A troll will troll.
While I think sentencing for hax0ring and in general has gotten way out of hand the DDOS attacks are just lame. They require no skill, have no class and closely resemble whiney little entitled bitches pouting.
If they had defaced the hospitals website with some class in response to an action of the hospital they believed to be unjust I would be far less critical.