How an FBI Informant Led the Hack of British Tabloid "The Sun" 38
Daniel_Stuckey writes Hector Xavier Monsegur, also known online as "Sabu," was caught by the FBI in June of 2011 for a litany of hacking-related offenses and, within hours, began cooperating with authorities in hopes of receiving a lenient sentence. Now, never-before-published FBI records and exclusive interviews detail how the informant rallied other hackers to attack various News Corp. interests, including The Sun, at a time that the FBI has said it was tracking all of Monsegur's online activity. And for a week shortly after his arrest, he was privy to the anti-Murdoch campaign waged by Anonymous, according to the documents obtained by Motherboard.
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This is why you don't shake babies.
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Personally, I don't see much difference between Democrat and Republican administrations, in practice. What is weird, is how the paranoid, conspiracy-nut lunatic fringe has become the base of the Republican party. I wonder if they now regret encouraging these people?
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well why bother with finesse when the crimes were clearly of victimless, damageless nature.
how the fuck else could you turn 124 years into 12 months probationfuck? the crimes are of nature that nobody gives a fuck about really, so there's unbelievable range in the potential punishment.
for the record, that's like giving a mobster 6 months in jail for confessing to multiple crimes that would give life sentences each - while not disputing that he did those things.
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or we have the US justice system dealing peddling finally maybe getting near end of it's life?
I mean, prosecution/enforcement do deals all the time - while not asking the victims. heck, they let there be more victims to further their case in the dealing(of incarcerating maximum number of people). that's not justice - where is the justice for The Sun and Murdoch in the case, when the ringleader acted while under FBI leash to do something harmful against Murdoch - and the ringleader for that crime gets off fr
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No, in MY movie the real hero is Jeremy Hammond [wikipedia.org] the guy who exposed the scumbag dealings in the Statfor emails [wikipedia.org] and who is currently serving 10 years because of this motherfucker.
Sabu is the Judas of my movie, a coward who will never ever be able to get the taste of FBI dick out of his mouth.
Everything old is new again... (Score:3)
When in US history was the FBI turned against a native political faction to the political gain of the sitting establishment?
Exactly. We've seen this movie before.
And we know how it ends. Whatever you think of the targets of these things... it won't destroy those movements... it is just pissing them off.
So the UK can charge him? (Score:4, Insightful)
Or will the UK once again prove to be a lapdog of the US government.
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I really think it's disparaging to call the UK government the lapdogs of the U.S.
I mean, it's really not fair to lapdogs. They at least have SOME dignity.
LOL - nicely said! (Score:2)
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Or will the UK once again prove to be a lapdog of the US government.
I'm not familiar with this meme, would charging him or letting him off make the UK a lapdog?
Lapdog is to fail to charge (Score:2)
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The US/UK extradition agreement is not symmetrical. The US need only ask nicely and we are supposed to turn over the accused, while the UK would need to provide evidence sufficient for conviction to even ask for someone to be extradited from the US.
Agent Provocateur (Score:3)
And THIS is why you should always be suspicious of the guy in your cause who always seems to be screaming the loudest for the most radical (and illegal) stuff, yet whose own operations always seem to end up sabotaged.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg [wikipedia.org], I'm looking in your direction.
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