If the INQUIRER is to be believed....
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UK Anonymous suspect was picked up by a non-existent crime agency
THE ALLEGED HACKER picked up on suspicion of being involved in the Anonymous attacks against Paypal has been arrested by a police agency that we have never heard of, prompting worries that he might have been picked up by men in fancy dress with rubber truncheons and pushed into the back of a clown car.
We took the news at face value this morning when the FBI told us that its UK cousins at the Met Police had arrested someone in association with the group, but then noticed that something was awry with the statement from Scotland Yard.
"Officers from the Met's Police Computer e-Crime Unit yesterday, 19 July, arrested a 16-year-old male on suspicion of breaching the Computer Misuse Act 1990," reads the statement from London's boys in blue.
"He was arrested at an address in south London and remains in custody at a central London police station."
This seemed fine until we discovered that there is no Police Computer e-Crime Unit operating under the Met.
The internet tells us that there is a Police Central e-Crime unit, and that we have heard of. But this other one? Well, it sounds niche, or frankly speaking, made up. As for the Computer Misuse Act, well, can we even be sure that it is not referring to a computer massuese act, or even a pet-friendly cow, puma, and mouse act that is popular at Scotland Yard. We can't say for now.
What with Sky News tracing the group back to one Louise Boat and the Met not even knowing who has picked up whom, it looks like Anonymous could get away with this one. Perhaps. µ
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Actually Anonymous members were picked up by KGB agents and sent to Siberia for interrogation.
Technically a Facebook Rape is a break of the Computer Misuse Act.
I found out since my last comment they added an amendment that could be applied to DDoS
"Section 36. Unauthorised acts with intent to impair operation of computer, etc"
And then there's the obscure 'applies to anything and anyone we wish to harass' amendment:
Section 37. Making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in computer misuse offences
Relevant link to the misuse act:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/contents
and amendment:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/48/section/36
Seeing the "Computer Misuse Act 1990" is about unauthorized access to 'material' it obviously cannot be used against those doing a denial of service attack.
So if this is about the DDoSing of paypal he should be released shortly with an apology and compensation.. unless the cops/public prosecutor are corrupt of course and doing the dirty work of even more corrupt bank institutions, but that's unthinkable.
Also, how is the 'misuse of monopoly by financial institution for interfering with free and open payment act of 2011' coming along? I'm assuming that their action against wikileaks and such prompted the start of the development of such a bill.. right?