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Anonymous mugshots are leaked

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Mon Sep 12 2011, 12:03

SUSPECTED MEMBERS of hacktivist group Anonymous have been identified on a US political web site, which shortly after posting suffered a denial of service attack.

A website called Talking Points Memo (TPM) posted mugshots of sixteen individuals who were arrested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for their alleged involvement in cyber crimes. These individuals were arrested in July following an investigation into attacks on Paypal and others, it added.

TPM posted the mugshots along with the names and city addresses of those involved. Earlier, just after they were arrested, it looked them up on Facebook and other social networking web sites and databases and surmised that they are a ragbag of students and low paid workers.

You want goatees? You got 'em. Also beards, mullets, balding guys and someone who looks like your mother. The photos perhaps represent the kind of grass roots support that the hacktivists have, as well as the ease of use of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon distributed denial of service attack tool used by Anonymous in some of its exploits.

According to Gawker the web site went down the day after the images were posted and remained down for some time.

Publicly, Anonymous expressed little interest in the release, and in a tweet said, "Here are the 'anonymous' mugshots. (link removed_ Look at these dangerous terrorists. *zomg* /sarc."

However, in a later post, perhaps made in reaction to this as well as the earlier leak of an FBI Anonymous profile document, it added, "I will follow up the FBI profiles of anon with a 'leaked' release of an Anonymous profile of FBI leadership." So on it goes. µ

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"There are times when the syntax and grammar infer that ... "

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Syntax and grammar cannot "infer" anything. It may, however, "imply" something.

The guy can't even manage his own grammar, let alone analyse anyone else's.

posted by : J Bo, 13 September 2011 Complain about this comment
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"he tends to not use as much netspeak as the others and makes relevant arguments in correct grammatical syntax. There are times when the syntax and grammar infer that [subject] is not an american and may in fact be in the EU"

Lol: 'He can form a sentence, he can't be an american', nice..

And it's funny how they have to ascribe 'amoral' to people who protests the amoral behavior of businesses and government, they HAVE to add it to every 'profile', how sad.

I'd say it's very clear that a vast majority of those working for the US authorities is so amoral that they completely lack any ability to even determine when something is amoral or immoral though.

Anyway it's nice that people are reminded the federal bastards are in your chat/friendslist and selling you crap, and to 'never forget' that.

posted by : W.-, 12 September 2011 Complain about this comment
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