Breaking: Alleged ‘Leader’ Of LulzSec Arrested By Australian Federal Police

16 responses to “Breaking: Alleged ‘Leader’ Of LulzSec Arrested By Australian Federal Police”

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   arkayn

   April 24, 2013 at 9:23 am

   Wow exciting. To bad I am at work and cannot see the statement on tv.

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   distantdrop

   April 24, 2013 at 9:30 am

   The Lulzsec founding member known as Sabu apparently made a plea deal to help law enforcement agencies track down other major members of the group.

   No honor among thieves I guess.

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   1. 

      tiberath

      April 24, 2013 at 10:02 am

      They were threatening to take the mans kids away!

      You can play with your little hacking group if you want, I’d rat ’em all out if the cops went for my kids.

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         mase

         April 24, 2013 at 10:12 am

         So blackmail and holding kids to ransom, in a sense, is all fine and legal when the Australian Federal Police do it?

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         1. 

            tiberath

            April 24, 2013 at 10:17 am

            Read the comments in order and try again…

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               mase

               April 24, 2013 at 10:21 am

               AFP – We’ll take your kids away
               Saba – Please don’t, I’ll help you get lulsec members
               AFP – that’s all we needs to hear

               That’s how it reads.

               I’m not defending what lulsec does, but the AFP are well known as a group of thugs who will break laws for the “greater good”.

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               tiberath

               April 24, 2013 at 10:22 am

               Saba was the LulzSec leader who ratted out the rest. He was American, in America. Talking to the FBI.

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               mase

               April 24, 2013 at 10:24 am

               My apologies then.

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               darthphikl

               April 24, 2013 at 10:24 am

               AFP must have a very wide jurisdiction. Pretty sure he was from new jersey

3. 

   letrico

   April 24, 2013 at 9:47 am

   They were a bunch of kids anyway. You can see from the way they write their threat letters they are most probably in the 16-24 range.

   Now I’m just waiting for anonymous’ turn. I refuse to accept people that talk big while hiding behind the walls of internet.

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   1. 

      mdn

      April 24, 2013 at 10:07 am

      Back in the early days, Anonymous did quite a bit of stuff offline. They did the whole Scientology thing.

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         mase

         April 24, 2013 at 10:22 am

         They still do, but they pick more political targets rather than the stupid ones like lulsec did

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   2. 

      germinalconsequence

      April 24, 2013 at 10:11 am

      Most of Lulzsec has been caught now, and you’re right, they’re mostly late teens to early/mid twenties.

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4. 

   foggy

   April 24, 2013 at 9:47 am

   I love it.

   Turns out the big men behind the keyboards aren’t so keen to be the little men in prison.
   I hope they make an example of these losers.

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5. 

   darren

   April 24, 2013 at 10:16 am

   Sad day, I enjoyed the hijinks and the targets usually deserved it, at least partially.

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6. 

   r0ck3t0wn3r

   April 24, 2013 at 10:29 am

   For anyone who wants to know it will be held on sky news national. Channel 601 on foxtel in a minute

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7. 

   samtheman

   April 24, 2013 at 10:53 am

   I think Lulzsec’s actions were justified to an extent. They (hopefully) made alot of people open their eyes as to how bad alot of companies are with securing their private information.

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   1. 

      dogman

      April 24, 2013 at 11:47 am

      I have a bit of trouble keeping up with which group is doing what and why, but with the exception of the Sony case weren’t Lulzsec essentially just smashing stuff for smashing stuff’s sake? Then later they added a ‘nah, it’s to expose security stuff’ bit while continuing to just randomly attack targets. I don’t have anything against them beyond them inconveniencing me for a week or two but either way it’s not really justified. There are tons of better ways to achieve that goal.

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8. 

   MrBlo0dVesseL

   April 24, 2013 at 11:13 am

   As someone who has experienced Internet connection in that part of the central coast I can safely say that it wasn’t him. Point Claire can only boast better “connectivity” over areas armed with two aluminium cans and a piece of string.

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