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I'll believe it when LulzSec stops hacking things. Between the spanish police arresting the "leaders" of Anonymous, the FBI meeting with Aaron Barr to learn the
by redthrowaway 15y ago
I'll believe it when LulzSec stops hacking things. Between the spanish police arresting the "leaders" of Anonymous, the FBI meeting with Aaron Barr to learn the identities of the "leaders" of Anonymous, and LEAs the world over generally not understanding this newfangled Internet business, I have precious little faith in their ability to actually get the people responsible. The only people who've been arrested so far were those who used LOIC.
It wouldn't surprise me if Ryan was hanging out in the LulzSec irc (hundreds did), or even if he was involved in a couple of the attacks. LulzSec has made no secret of the fact that they regularly get other people to do a lot of their attacks, and that they publish information given to them by others.
It's a lot sexier for the british police and the FBI to say they've captured a ringleader than "some guy loosely affiliated with", but I highly suspect he's the latter, if anything.
- NoJoke 15y agoIf a group is trying to get attention, they've done it. And it seems like attention is all they are after, probably a few dopey kids running the show. Someone is 'putting on a show' to go with their hacking hi-jinks. I guess that's what makes him a 'ringleader'?
- trbecker 15y agoHe ran the irc server for LulzSec. Not exactly loosely affiliated, but still not their mastermind.
- redthrowaway 15y agoThey had a chatroom on his irc server. They also had chatrooms on efnet, 2600, anonops, and rizon. So to claim he's a big part of the organization is pretty disingenuous. Of course, the question remains whether the authorities are being deliberately dishonest, or if they actually think he's a "leading figure" in LulzSec. I'm not sure which outcome would be more depressing, although I suppose I'd take an incompetent government over an evil one any day.