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Remember those Anonymous attacks way back in 2010? PayPal, Mastercard and the Ministry of Sound, to name a few, got the Anonymous treatment. Well, it’s taken a while, but at least one of the Anonymous hive has been dragged (probably kicking and screaming) away from his computer screen, and is being charged with some pretty serious crap in court.
Northumberland University student Christopher Weatherhead is the accused; the hacktivist’s been brought up on charges of “conspiring to impair the operation of computers”. In one attack of note on PayPal, he and his virtual chums cost the site £3.5 million of damage, and left a cyber-mess that took 100 employees three weeks to mop up. Well, if nothing else, it goes to show that Anonymous are pretty serious enemies to have — but not invincible, as one of their members is finding out. Anyone taking bets on how long it takes for some UK Criminal Justice System websites to get hit? [BBC via Techradar]
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Whatever happened to those serious hacker groups from back in the day, I wonder. Today, there’s just criminals and fool around-ers.
Atleast they have morals.
I would rather hang with one of those guys than any of judge’s, police, paypal owners or anyone else on the otherside.
As far as im concerned the real criminals are still at large.
1. Wikileaks exposed American war crimes
2. Visa / Mastercard / Paypal blocking of Wikileaks is wrong and I believe the EU is now looking at it. Unfortunately with all the corruption im sure it will go the way of the Corporates
3. Theses guys did little more than a non violent protest. They essentially stopped people using a service, just as many different protesters do all the time when outside a bank / shop / government. It wasn’t even hacking.
But yeah we all now know the banks ( UK at least ) have been involved with laundering money for criminals, drug lords and others seeking to hide illegal monies. Never mind all the mis-selling and other actions which caused financial crisis.
Wikileaks exposed actual war crimes.
UK police and courts spend their time and money prosecuting those who protested. A DDoS is a lot less violent than a picket, some protest marches and many other actions.
And all of that were using Tax Payer money.
For whom? For PayPal !!!
Stop this now.
And use the money instead for British people for better live.
whatever happened to cult of the dead cow
and back back orifice
Will They Stop ?
He’s just one of the other million hackers.
Putting him in jail will not stop the rest of the other million hackers.
Nothing will change.
It’s not fair for him. The rest of hackers will just ignore him and move on. There is no heavy personal dependency in the group anonymous, one may come and go easily.
So the challenge is, Will They Stop ?