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Anonymous in disarray after major crackdown snares leaders
CNN.com ^ | 3/6/12 | David Goldman

Posted on 03/06/2012 12:57:02 PM PST by Slings and Arrows

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- In the U.S. government's biggest crackdown to date on a hacktivist group calling itself "Anonymous," four leaders and one other activist were arrested Tuesday and charged with a computer hacking conspiracy.

The U.S. Department of Justice also revealed Tuesday that it had snared the prime leader of an Anonymous offshoot group called LulzSec, which conducted a high-profile, two-month hacking rampage last summer against corporate and government targets.

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What particularly set the movement on edge was the conviction and apparent turning of the LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, known by his hacker alias Sabu.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2011; 201106; 20110607; 201203; anonymous; assange; corruption; fraud; hectormonsegur; hectorxaviermonsegur; julianassange; lulzsec; monsegur; napl; puertorican; pwn3d; realsabu; sabu; silkroad; therealsabu
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To: carriage_hill

That’s shocking.

How bout the George Bush Sr. turned states evidence on Bill Gates and they arrested him for trying to undermine the country’s financial system?


41 posted on 03/06/2012 6:45:53 PM PST by nixonsnose (Let's see all you lawyers argue your way out of hell.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Execute them.


42 posted on 03/06/2012 9:51:38 PM PST by NoLibZone (Liberal concern for womens rights is fake. I submit their love of Bill Maher as proof.)
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To: nixonsnose

I’m bewildered by all the stuff I’m now finding on this subject, just as an accident on a search for something else. I’m trying to get more data on it to find out if what happened, really happened, and whether the “financial wheels” are really turning that fast, n.


43 posted on 03/07/2012 3:33:12 AM PST by Carriage Hill
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To: q_an_a

good point


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