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LulzSec “Mastermind” Arrested In England
Posted by: Linda Carbonell on June 21, 2011. 06-21-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell
Nineteen-year-old Ryan Cleary of Wickford, Essex, U.K., has been arrested under the Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act in a joint Scotland Yard-F.B.I. investigation of the hacking site Lulz Security, also known as LulzSec. Following the arrest by the Metropolitan e-crimes division, Scotland Yard issued the following statement: “The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group. Searches at a residential address in Wickford, Essex, following the arrest last night have led to the examination of a significant amount of material. These forsensic examinations remain ongoing.” The Yard spokesman declined to specifically identify Cleary as a member of LulzSec, but the attacks which led to the raid have been linked to that site. The F.B.I. had no comment on the case.
When LulzSec first appeared last month, it presented itself as a group of prankster hackers just in it for the fun. The name, Lulz, was supposed to be shorthand for “loads of laughs.” The attacks linked to the group proved to be anything but funny. They attacked gaming sites such as Nintnedo and specific games like League of Legends, Fox.com user passwords, Sonymusic Japan, PBS staff log-ins, Sonypictures.com users, the United States Senate, Bethesda military hospital, Infragard which is an F.B.I. affiliate, and UK cash machines, as well as Pron.com, a porn site.
It was when they attacked the U. K. Census Bureau, the C.I.A. and Britain’s Serious Organized Crime Agency that it became possible to track down Cleary. It is also suspected of trying to hack into the British National Health Service system.
LulzSec announced on its Twitter page recently that they wanted to rival Anonymous, which wants to rival WikiLeaks without the whistleblowers that provide WikiLeaks with a shield from prosecution. The international support of WikiLeaks as the saviors of freedom and sources of truth have persuaded some that any hacking into any system is somehow noble and heroic.
There is nothing noble about screwing up an on-line game site. That’s just childish and petty. There is a chasm between exposing government cover-ups of illegal or immoral behavior and messing up census data that determines education allotments for towns. The only people who benefit from hacking and publishing criminal investigation files are the criminals.
Daniel Ellsberg and the people who worked with him on the Pentagon Papers had the experience, knowledge and expertise to analyze the documents and redact whatever was unnecessary or which placed innocent lives in danger. They were dealing with the manner in which a war was conducted and the lies told to the American public about that war. They weren’t messing around in private medical records or screwing up bank accounts or jeopardizing funding for public services or giving criminals a heads-up for avoiding arrest. They also weren’t lazy. Dumping thousands of raw records only smudges the facts that exist in them. Every incident becomes mulitplied as it is “exposed” repeatedly on blogs or websites until it is virtually impossible to tell what the facts are.
The world needs full transparency. We need those people willing to step forward and say, “the official version is a lie.” We don’t need someone thinking that undermining criminal investigations or unraveling years of intelligence work to track down al Qaida leadership is a good thing.
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LulzSec “Mastermind” Arrested In England
06-21-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell
Nineteen-year-old Ryan Cleary of Wickford, Essex, U.K., has been arrested under the Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act in a joint Scotland Yard-F.B.I. investigation of the hacking site Lulz Security, also known as LulzSec. Following the arrest by the Metropolitan e-crimes division, Scotland Yard issued the following statement: “The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group. Searches at a residential address in Wickford, Essex, following the arrest last night have led to the examination of a significant amount of material. These forsensic examinations remain ongoing.” The Yard spokesman declined to specifically identify Cleary as a member of LulzSec, but the attacks which led to the raid have been linked to that site. The F.B.I. had no comment on the case.
When LulzSec first appeared last month, it presented itself as a group of prankster hackers just in it for the fun. The name, Lulz, was supposed to be shorthand for “loads of laughs.” The attacks linked to the group proved to be anything but funny. They attacked gaming sites such as Nintnedo and specific games like League of Legends, Fox.com user passwords, Sonymusic Japan, PBS staff log-ins, Sonypictures.com users, the United States Senate, Bethesda military hospital, Infragard which is an F.B.I. affiliate, and UK cash machines, as well as Pron.com, a porn site.
It was when they attacked the U. K. Census Bureau, the C.I.A. and Britain’s Serious Organized Crime Agency that it became possible to track down Cleary. It is also suspected of trying to hack into the British National Health Service system.
LulzSec announced on its Twitter page recently that they wanted to rival Anonymous, which wants to rival WikiLeaks without the whistleblowers that provide WikiLeaks with a shield from prosecution. The international support of WikiLeaks as the saviors of freedom and sources of truth have persuaded some that any hacking into any system is somehow noble and heroic.
There is nothing noble about screwing up an on-line game site. That’s just childish and petty. There is a chasm between exposing government cover-ups of illegal or immoral behavior and messing up census data that determines education allotments for towns. The only people who benefit from hacking and publishing criminal investigation files are the criminals.
Daniel Ellsberg and the people who worked with him on the Pentagon Papers had the experience, knowledge and expertise to analyze the documents and redact whatever was unnecessary or which placed innocent lives in danger. They were dealing with the manner in which a war was conducted and the lies told to the American public about that war. They weren’t messing around in private medical records or screwing up bank accounts or jeopardizing funding for public services or giving criminals a heads-up for avoiding arrest. They also weren’t lazy. Dumping thousands of raw records only smudges the facts that exist in them. Every incident becomes mulitplied as it is “exposed” repeatedly on blogs or websites until it is virtually impossible to tell what the facts are.
The world needs full transparency. We need those people willing to step forward and say, “the official version is a lie.” We don’t need someone thinking that undermining criminal investigations or unraveling years of intelligence work to track down al Qaida leadership is a good thing.
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