• Lulsec Hacker Faces Life in Prison for Revealing Truth
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[quote]A pretrial hearing in the case against accused LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond this week ended with the 27-year-old Chicago man being told he could be sentenced to life in prison for compromising the computers of Stratfor. Judge Loretta Preska told Hammond in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday that he could be sentenced to serve anywhere from 360 months-to-life if convicted on all charges relating to last year’s hack of Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, a global intelligence company whose servers were infiltrated by an offshoot of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. Hammond is not likely to take the stand until next year, but so far has been imprisoned for eight months without trial. Legal proceedings in the case might soon be called into question, however, after it’s been revealed that Judge Preska’s husband was a victim of the Stratfor hack. According to the indictment filed in March, Hammond illegally obtained credit card information stolen from Stratfor and uploaded it to a server that was unbeknownst to him maintained by the federal government. Months earlier the FBI had arrested Hector Xavier Monsegur, a New York hacker who spearheaded LulzSec under the alias “Sabu,” and relied on from thereon out to help the authorities nab other individuals affiliated with Anonymous and LulzSec. The feds say Hammond openly admitted to compromising Stratfor’s data in online chats with their informant and unsealed a three count indictment against him relating to hacking back in March. After Anons gained access to Stratfor’s servers, they collected a trove of internal emails and more thousands of credit card details belonging to the firm’s paid subscribers that were released last Christmas. A class action suit was filed against Strafor over the breach of security, and in June the company settled with its customers at an estimated cost of $1.75 million. Just now, though, it’s been learned that Judge Preska may have a vested interest in seeking a prosecution by any means necessary. Among the thousands of Statfor client’s whose credit card data was compromised in the hack alleged to be linked to Hammond is Thomas J. Kavaler, a partner at the law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP and the husband of Judge Preska. The archived document dump released by LulzSec last year includes personal information from Mr. Kavaler that suggests he was victimized in the attack and thus qualifies for the class action settlement. In a press release issued under the branding of the Anonymous collective, supporters for Hammond call for Judge Preska’s immediate resignation from the case. “Judge Preska by proxy is a victim of the very crime she intends to judge Jeremy Hammond for. Judge Preska has failed to disclose the fact that her husband is a client of Stratfor and recuse herself from Jeremy's case, therefore violating multiple Sections of Title 28 of the United States Code,” the statement reads. “Judge Loretta Preska's impartiality is compromised by her Husband's involvement with Stratfor and a clear prejudice against Hammond exists, as evident by her statements,” it continues. “Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected.” According to Sue Crabtree, a member of the Jeremy Hammond Solidarity Network and a witness to his bail hearing this week, Judge Preska ordered the continue incarceration of Hammond on the basis that he is a danger to the community and likely to flee the country if released from holding. Crabtree notes that Hammond does not now nor has he ever had a passport, though, and has also since been added to a terrorist watch list. “In the end, Jeremy was denied bail because he was deemed a flight risk and more dangerous than [a] sexual predator. And yes, if you are asking yourself if this was said, it was said. Jeremy's legal team stated they would appeal this denial of bail,” she writes on a Facebook group for Hammond. After Anonymous went public with the hack of Strafor in December 2011, the internal emails from the intelligence firm were handed off to WikiLeaks, who soon after began publishing the findings. Among the information stored in the emails was documentation alleging that law enforcement agencies spied on Occupy Wall Street protesters and proof of an international surveillance system called Trapwire. Hammond is at this point likely to be the first US citizen tried in a civilian court for crimes relating to the whistleblower site. Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) tells The Real News network this week that the denial of bail is both “very disturbing” and “legally wrong.” “The bigger story is what they've done in this country to Jeremy Hammond, Bradley Manning, and what they have proposed to do to Julian Assange, and that's really say that they're going to come down as heavily as they can on people who expose government secrets, whistleblowers,” Ratner says.[/quote] [url=https://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-stratfor-hammond-judge-440/]Source[/url] I guess some information about people doing illegal things is illegal for most people to know. Oh wait that's called a [I]conspiracy[/I]. The gent in question: [img]http://i.imgur.com/6HvtK.jpg[/img]
Yay. No more of this lulzsec shit.
Can we get more info in the op? Depending on what info he's leaked, and what came of it, this may be justified.
He needs a hair cut, desperately.
He more looks like the type of person who's been busted for possession of weed than "hacking".
those fucks getting what they deserved, they literally breached companies that didn't even ask for it, and those cunts released passwords of those who didn't deserve any of that. "for the lulz" or "lulzsec" was the dumbest, most childish thing thats happened for the longest fucking time. I don't exactly know what was going through their heads when they thought it would be a great idea "HEY LETS SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE WE CAN PISS OFF"
[QUOTE=Van-man;38581736]He more looks like the type of person who's been busted for possession of weed than "hacking".[/QUOTE] I got a friend who looks like him, bastard had a 19.5/20 at the final exam. He puts aspirine in his joints "to enhance the high". [editline]25th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Laferio;38581755]those fucks getting what they deserved, they literally breached companies that didn't even ask for it, and those cunts released passwords of those who didn't deserve any of that. "for the lulz" or "lulzsec" was the dumbest, most childish thing thats happened for the longest fucking time. I don't exactly know what was going through their heads when they thought it would be a great idea "HEY LETS SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE WE CAN PISS OFF"[/QUOTE] They deserve some jail time, but seriously, life time over this?
Why do Dreadlocks always look like a bunch of cat hairballs to me?
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;38581774]I got a friend who looks like him, bastard had a 19.5/20 at the final exam. He puts aspirine in his joints "to enhance the high". [editline]25th November 2012[/editline] They deserve some jail time, but seriously, life time over this?[/QUOTE] maybe not LIFE, but I'd say at the least 6-8 years.
[QUOTE=wug;38581687]Yay. No more of this lulzsec shit.[/QUOTE] Lulzsec disbanded like over a year ago
[QUOTE=Laferio;38581834]maybe not LIFE, but I'd say at the least 6-8 years.[/QUOTE] As dumb as these lulzsec hackers are i wouldn't wish life in prison among any of them.
Threaten him with life, give him 6-8 years, and hope he's smart enough to never touch another computer.
[QUOTE=Laferio;38581755]those fucks getting what they deserved, they literally breached companies that didn't even ask for it, and those cunts released passwords of those who didn't deserve any of that. "for the lulz" or "lulzsec" was the dumbest, most childish thing thats happened for the longest fucking time. I don't exactly know what was going through their heads when they thought it would be a great idea "HEY LETS SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE WE CAN PISS OFF"[/QUOTE] Lifetime for taking down a few sites doesn't seem to harmful nor did they really damaged anything other then bringing a site offline for a couple of minutes/hours. Unless they were responsible for the Sony hack with the creditcards and shit but still not worth a damn life time
Thats what happens when you piss off a lot of powerful companies and then taunt them about it.
[QUOTE=Laferio;38581834]maybe not LIFE, but I'd say at the least 6-8 years.[/QUOTE] 8 years and a probation by the fourth. That sounds great. People like him end up being hired by the government or corporations anyway, doubt he'll do anything wrong anymore.
Hope he likes bending over for Bubba, the big black man
[QUOTE='[LOA] SonofBrim;38581706']Can we get more info in the op? Depending on what info he's leaked, and what came of it, this may be justified.[/QUOTE] He leaked information showing that the federal government was spying on occupy protesters, and something about a secret international surveillance system called trapwire. And all the people saying he deserves life in prison are fucking idiots.
-snip for not as funny as in my head-
[QUOTE=Jetpack Bear;38581934]Hope he likes bending over for Bubba, the big black man[/QUOTE] For some reason that comma makes me think it's his occupation. Like he has a bushiness card that says "Bubba, Professional Large Black Man and Attorney at Law".
[QUOTE=Archimedes;38581960]For some reason that comma makes me think it's his occupation. Like he has a bushiness card that says "Bubba, Professional Large Black Man and Attorney at Law".[/QUOTE] Bubba The Big Black Man, M.D.
Assault, hardly a few months. Murder, a few decades. Taking down an insecure website, a life time. What is this shit.
I saw his name and now all I can think of is Top Gear
Forget about the motives or the sentence. Eight months without trial is completely unacceptable.
[QUOTE=Matt-;38581984]Assault, hardly a few months. Murder, a few decades. Taking down an insecure website, a life time. What is this shit.[/QUOTE] they exposed the incompetence of large corporations, what worse crime can there be?
[QUOTE=Matt-;38581984]Assault, hardly a few months. Murder, a few decades. Taking down an insecure website, a life time. What is this shit.[/QUOTE] Targets of assault and murder are often simple people and not powerful corporations.
[QUOTE=Desuh;38582125]Targets of assault and murder are often simple people and not powerful corporations.[/QUOTE] So because it was damaging towards a big corporation and not an individual that instantly makes it 1000x worse. I don't want to live in this stupid society.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;38581810]Why do Dreadlocks always look like a bunch of cat hairballs to me?[/QUOTE] How well and how much you maintain them, as well as how long you have had them, makes a HUGE difference to how they look. I have them myself so you know I'm legit.
[QUOTE=Matt-;38581984]Assault, hardly a few months. Murder, a few decades. Taking down an insecure website, a life time. What is this shit.[/QUOTE] That's because Stratfor is owned by a bunch of ex-pentagon guys. Stratfor was planning to place tons of cameras in every big city with face recognition software that are all tied into a global network. They can find your face from footage and tie it in to all this other info they have. It was designed to track terrorist movement. Its already been used to catch that guy who randomly fired at the White House not too long ago and an LA terrorist plot that was kept secret from the public. The thing about Stratfor is that its an global corporation, not part any government so there are no checks and balances, which further fuels the conspiracy theorists. There is much potential for abuse of power with a project like this that I'm surprised nobody is talking about it. In laymans terms its basically deus ex level. Coupled with the UN attempting to become more influential lately I can see why some people would be scared by this.
[QUOTE=zombojoe;38582218]That's because Stratfor is owned by a bunch of ex-pentagon guys. Stratfor was planning to place tons of cameras in every big city with face recognition software that are all tied into a global network. They can find your face from footage and tie it in to all this other info they have. It was designed to track terrorist movement. Its already been used to catch that guy who randomly fired at the White House not too long ago and an LA terrorist plot that was kept secret from the public. The thing about Stratfor is that its an global corporation, not part any government so there are no checks and balances, which further fuels the conspiracy theorists. There is much potential for abuse of power with a project like this that I'm surprised nobody is talking about it. In laymans terms its basically deus ex level. Coupled with the UN attempting to become more influential lately I can see why some people would be scared by this.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/"]Someone's been watching too much TV.[/URL]
He looks like a guy taken straight out of the Hackers movie.
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