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Man Who Sent GIF of Laughing Mouse To Employer After DDoS Attack Is Now Arrested (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The FBI has arrested and charged a man for launching DDoS attacks against a wide range of targets, including his former employer, a Minnesota-based PoS repair shop. The man, who bought access to a VPN but didn't use it all the time, was caught after registering email accounts and sending taunting emails to victims, including his former employer. The taunting emails also included a GIF image of a laughing mouse, which eventually tied the man to the DDoS attacks as well. The guy also uploaded the image on Facebook in a post that asked people to join in DDoS attacks on banks as part of Anonymous' Operation Icarus. The suspect also created the fake email accounts using the name of another former colleague, trying to pin suspicions on him. The FBI was not only able to track the man's real IP address, but they also tied him to attacks without a doubt because he used a DDoS-for-hire service that was hacked and its database was shared with the FBI.
This story is yet another example of the usual way that the alleged "editors" like to distort and lie about what a news story is about.
The way the headline and most of the "summary" reads it's like the FBI is out to arrest some guy just because he sent a GIF in an email. You know, just like how if Slashdot had been around in 1963 they would have been whining and complaining about how the FBI unfairly arrested Lee Harvey Oswald for sitting in a movie theater*.
* Right after assassinating Kennedy, but that's a minor detail.
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Having your name on buildings, millions of dollars, and getting elected president are not mutually exclusive with being stupid.
Yes. He IS stupid.
As well as a sexist, racist, pig, loud mouth, bully, orange clown.
None of those things exclude any of the others. It is possible to be rich and stupid. Famous and stupid. President and stupid. (How many stupid politicians are there do you think?)
Trump cannot speak in complete sentences. He cannot complete a thought, unless he is reading what someone else wrote.
Now, I'm not trying to say any of the above in anger. It's just a fact. You can disagree with any set of items in the above as applying to Trump. Fine. But nothing precludes them from all potentially being true, in principle.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
He immediately did not call out racist bigots for being just that, and tried to draw false equivalence with protesters of racist bigots.
This alone makes him a complete fucking moron.