At least 14 arrested in operation targeting Anonymous - Polidicks

[URL="http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/19/new.york.anonymous.warrants/index.html"]Source[/URL] [quote] [B]New York (CNN)[/B] -- At least 14 people have been arrested as part of an ongoing operation targeting the notorious hacking collective known as Anonymous, a federal government official said Tuesday. The arrests have taken place in locations including Florida, the San Francisco area in California and New Jersey, the official said. Earlier, a senior federal law enforcement official said up to 15 total arrests are expected following the execution of more than 15 search warrants. The warrants were being executed in New York and several other states Tuesday by the FBI as part of the investigation, according to the federal government official. FBI agents spread out to about a half dozen locations on Long Island, in Brooklyn and in the Bronx, where they seized computers and other records, according to the federal government official, who requested anonymity given the sensitivity of the investigation. In the past, Anonymous has launched attacks on websites belonging to the Church of Scientology, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America. However, the hacker collective vaulted to worldwide fame in December, when it disabled or disrupted the websites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal in what the group said was retaliation for the companies' cutting ties to the WikiLeaks website following the arrest of Julian Assange. Assange founded WikiLeaks, which facilitates the release of secret information. He is currently out on bail in England and is fighting extradition to Sweden, where he faces sex crime charges. In addition, Anonymous has been linked to cyber attacks at the CIA, Sony, Fox News, the Arizona Department of Corrections and a well-known consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, among others. The group is implicated in denial-of-service attacks, in which large amounts of traffic are directed to a website, overloading it and, in effect, shutting it down. The FBI in New York refused to confirm Tuesday's actions involved Anonymous. "These search warrants are being executed in connection with an ongoing FBI investigation," said FBI spokesman Peter Donald.[/quote] I think I speak for a lot of people when i say, it's about time! [editline]19th July 2011[/editline] FUCK-Late, so sorry! Everyone post about it [url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1108851-More-than-a-Dozen-Suspected-Anonymous-Hackers-Arrested]Here[/url] instead, Really sorry about being late.

atleast anon goes after assholes, lulzec does shit to awesome sites n stuff [editline]19th July 2011[/editline] too lazy to type right now sorry

[QUOTE=Atlascore;31211996]Fuck Anonymous, they need to be arresting those lulzsec douches.[/QUOTE] So angsty. I remember when Anon was not yet mainstream and were still attacking the church of scientology.

[QUOTE=MIPS;31216138]So angsty. I remember when Anon was not yet mainstream and were still attacking the church of scientology.[/QUOTE] Congratulations, that was like 3-5 years ago.

Anonymous is always someone else. Sometimes they are assholes, sometimes people fighting for something good, like gay rights or all this affair with giving homeless food.

[QUOTE=MIPS;31216138]So angsty. I remember when Anon was not yet mainstream and were still attacking the church of scientology.[/QUOTE] No, that was when they got mainstream. [editline]20th July 2011[/editline] These days, "Anonymous" is more like a codename for "14 year old cyber police".

Anonymous is sort of brilliant in whenever their brought up for responsibility, there's no leader to be held accountable, just a bunch of skiddies/1337 haxor/ ect. kids who call themselves such. Then the media flips.

[QUOTE=proch;31217085]Anonymous is always someone else. Sometimes they are assholes, sometimes people fighting for something good, like gay rights or all this affair with giving homeless food.[/QUOTE] Yes. God damn, there's a reason it's called "anonymous". Because there is no collective identity. Fuck, they need to get out of the news

I don't like when anonymous is doing malicious things, and I don't like when they are doing helpful things. I do however like when they do harmless but mean and annoying things, I wish they would go back to doing those things. Today everyone is treating anonymous either as some charity based organization, or like an organization of psychopathic idiots who destroys everything in their way. Anonymous used to do things because it was fun, not because it was the right thing to do.

[QUOTE=Simski;31217430]I don't like when anonymous is doing malicious things, and I don't like when they are doing helpful things. I do however like when they do harmless but mean and annoying things, I wish they would go back to doing those things. Today everyone is treating anonymous either as some charity based organization, or like an organization of psychopathic idiots who destroys everything in their way.[/QUOTE] Jessi Slaughter was pretty harmless and annoying, until the news came in. Fuck perspective

as said in other thread [QUOTE=J!NX;31217410]Its most likely a bunch of cry baby whiners that guess passwords, who don't know how to use a proxy. theres a much, much larger number of them. If they did have a proxy they would never have been caught, meaning they'd be smart, this isn't the case. Thus theoretically, they get the cry babies. [editline]19th July 2011[/editline] Thus! They aren't actually hackers.[/QUOTE] [editline]19th July 2011[/editline] That being said, those poor, poor dim-wits.

[QUOTE=Simski;31217430]I don't like when anonymous is doing malicious things, and I don't like when they are doing helpful things. I do however like when they do harmless but mean and annoying things, I wish they would go back to doing those things. Today everyone is treating anonymous either as some charity based organization, or like an organization of psychopathic idiots who destroys everything in their way. Anonymous used to do things because it was fun, not because it was the right thing to do.[/QUOTE] Why don't you like it when they do helpful things? It's good when anyone does a helpful thing.

[QUOTE=Rebi;31217580]Why don't you like it when they do helpful things? It's good when anyone does a helpful thing.[/QUOTE] Because it's boring as fuck, and it's usually on very one-sided subjects or unimportant subjects. They take on the role as representing everyone, but they do that while acting retarded and fighting causes that not everyone would disagree with. The "good guy" anonymous are a bunch of unfunny 14 year olds attempting to save the world with DDOS attacks and by spouting memes in public.