OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/25689/Top_LulzSec_hackers_arrested_group_leader_reportedly_working_for_FBI Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 02:08:16 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Huh http://www.osnews.com/thread?509723 http://www.osnews.com/thread?509723 Something is wrong here. Why would they tell everyone this story? FBI got only 5 "top hackers" and decided to tell everyone about this Sabu guy and put his strange photos on the web? Don't buy it... Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (witold.bolt) Comments Sense of justice? http://www.osnews.com/thread?509727 http://www.osnews.com/thread?509727 If this story is true the FBI really must have a strange sense of justice. I mean, really, working together with _the leader_ of a "criminal" group to catch others?
Does anybody wonder if any recent LulzSec attack was orchestrated by this Sabu guy on behalf of the FBI?Edited 2012-03-06 19:35 UTC Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cptsalek) Comments RE: Huh http://www.osnews.com/thread?509728 http://www.osnews.com/thread?509728 Depends, if there are any retaliations from Anonymous we will see. Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments RE[2]: Huh http://www.osnews.com/thread?509739 http://www.osnews.com/thread?509739 What usually happens in cases like this is that they arrest one member of the group, threaten him with twenty years in jail or more, and then offer to cut it down to a much shorter sentence if he cooperates. So when you read that a leader is "working with the FBI" that doesn't mean he was an agent provocateur all along, but that he was "turned" at some point and allowed to continue to act like a member of the group until they could arrest everyone else.

Anyone engaging in online civil disobedience has to consider the possibility that people they are working with might be government agents and that even people they have known a long time might sell out the group to save themselves.

On the other hand, some of the Anon schemes were so lame (like the tools for DDoS that made no attempt at all to cloak participants) that I wonder if they weren't law enforcement stings from the beginning. Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JoeBuck) Comments RE: Sense of justice? http://www.osnews.com/thread?509742 http://www.osnews.com/thread?509742 Birds of a feather flock together?

Anyway, it is an odd sort of publicity - almost like they're trotting this guy out just to see how much backlash he receives now. Clearly they intended to make an example out of him in order to demoralize all his "followers"...

I suspect it won't work. Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments RE: Sense of justice? http://www.osnews.com/thread?509750 http://www.osnews.com/thread?509750 Wouldn't shock me if it was a false flag op from day one. The same could be said of Anonymous itself, just a little nudge to get the all too willing dupes to provide you with an excuse... Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (orestes) Comments I'm just wondering http://www.osnews.com/thread?509797 http://www.osnews.com/thread?509797 How long before the other cracktards out there take down the FBI's website again as a 'retaliatory strike'

They always try to push these types of arrests as being 'cutting off the head of the snake' -- when these are just a few whackjobs and screwups (That Jeremy guy for example -- 2nd offense too, previous offense he was turned in BY a 2600 club) that the real cracking community is as likely to turn in just for giving the scene a bad name...

... and that the goofy little up and coming script kiddies with their rah-rah fight the man attitude will come out of the woodwork to rally around. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deathshadow) Comments RE: Sense of justice? http://www.osnews.com/thread?509802 http://www.osnews.com/thread?509802 I love the hyperbole in the articles.

In half the world he was a god

Uhmm..does this person know how big the world is?

but even the rumor of a breach can cause a company to spend large amounts of money

Yeah, like spending money on morons like Sabu and his like to "verify" or "pen-test".

And this is my personal favorite:
He's a rockstar

All the girls, you buy them a drink, but all they want to talk about is Sabu, Sabu, Sabu.

This is so far-fetched and hilariously ridiculous that there's really nothing to add.

And what really sucks is he really is that good.

Yeah, that must be why he got caught; because he's so good. For sure.Edited 2012-03-07 07:55 UTC Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments