The FBI is Unmasking Anonymous
There has been loads of good news on the cyber law-enforcement front. Seems that the Feds know how to generate some lulz too, including how to drop some serious dox. They are exposing the dope-smoking anarchistic leftists behind the Anonymous and Lulzsec groups. I’ll get into more of that in later posts. But right now look at Jeremy Hammond, who looks like he was stoned for his arrest picture.
From the DailyCaller here:
A hacker involved in the December 2011 cyberattacks on private intelligence firm Stratfor was arrested late Monday evening in Chicago. The hacker was one of six members of hacktivist group Anonymous charged with “computer hacking and other crimes,” the FBI said Tuesday.
Chicago native Jeremy Hammond — a member of Anonymous splinter-group Antisec — was arrested by the FBI late Monday evening as part of a greater sting on the leadership of Anonymous, a group once thought to be leaderless.
The international sting comes one week after the publication of Stafor’s private email correspondence — which was obtained through the cyberattack — by WikiLeaks and its various international media partners.
Hammond (“Anarchaos”), a 27 year old from Chicago, Ill. was the only other American charged in the case. New York native Hector Xavier Monsegur (“Sabu”) — a 28-year-old alleged kingpin of the group — plead guilty in August 2011 to the charges he faced and cooperated with federal officials in exchange for leniency. Monsegur is an unemployed father of two.
In addition to the Americans charged Tuesday, several of the members — all of whom identified themselves as members of Anonymous, Internet Feds and/or LulzSec — were from the U.K. and Ireland. Ryan Ackroyd (“Kayla”), Jake Davis (“Topiary”), Darren Martyn (“Pwnsauce”) and Donncha O’Cearrbhail (“Palladium”) were charged.
The only way these anarchists will learn is to make them serve long jail stretches. It should dissuade the other skiddies out there in the Warner Bros. copyrighted V for Vendetta masks. But I have a feeling that the Feds are finished with their lulz yet.
