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Alleged Anonymous members are arrested over EDF hacking
ALLEGED MEMBERS of the hacktivist group Anonymous have been arrested in France.
A report at the French language news web site Midi Libri says that three people have been arrested.
They are accused of hacking into or knocking over servers belonging to the French energy firm EDF shortly after the Fukushima nuclear tragedy in Japan, according to the report.
A report at another web site, Franceinfo.fr, says that three men have been arrested, that all are in their 30s and 40s, and that two of them have been detained and interviewed in Paris.
The arrests follow three months of investigations, according to the reports, and there is a suggestion that they had not met before the incident but had felt compelled to cooperate after linking up on a blog after the Japanese nuclear accident.
So far Anonymous has been rather silent about this news, and has only been tweeting links to the reports. µ
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Law enforcement is doing their job. Hacking is a crime and now Anonymous members will be held accountable for their crimes like any other criminal. We have police to arrest and courts to convict those who feel they are above the law. We'll see how these criminals like prison life.
Seems quite a waste of resources to spend 3 months trying to arrest people who take down an unimportant website. so this is clearly just a rich guy getting the politicians to do his personal bidding over pet peeves. The warrenbuffet experience if you will.
And that kind of thing creates another few dozen anti big business misbehavior activist, so they lose.
Hacking is a crime. Hack and go to prison. Trying to rationalize hacking because it might expose some CEO crimes is ignorant and foolish. Hackers are no better than any other criminal. Prosecute them all. Maybe the hackers and CEOs can share the same cell?
It's a shame and sham that Law enforcement goes after those exposing corporate and government corruption and never the ones being exposed.
Groups like Anonymous would vanish (or have never existed) if the law did their job in the first place.
Like moths to a flame.
YOU IDIOTS NEVER LEARN. ALL DOZENS OF YOU WHO WANTS TO SURF TO FBI WEBSITE TOMORROW, GET READY FOR THE BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH!
Antisec makes it easier everyday for authorities to arrest them.