Shocking, eh, when they are about to have their IPO?
Here's the indictment of the 13 Anonymous goons.
Ryan Russell Gubele works as an engineer at Twitter and remains there, from all indications.
Twitter management needs to take care of this great image and reality problem right away. They should suspend this hacker pending trial and not have him near their servers unless he is acquitted.
I don't think that any decent business can allow vigilantes to work for them who attack other businesses for radical political reasons. No public account or company back end is safe then when somebody like that has log-on privileges.
We learn this from Matthew Keys, himself indicted on charges of collusion with Anonymous in hacking his formal employer's website, the LA Times, and also taking emails from a Fox News affiliate.
I was just noticing that there doesn't seem to be a decent list of all arrested Anonymous/LulzSec etc. hackers even on Wikipedia which isn't full and isn't neatly listed, so I'll have to make one. Anonymous likes to play down this news, as then it hurts their recruiting efforts.
Operation Payback was when Anonymous -- spurred on by WikiLeaks and John Perry Barlow and other "Internet freedom fighters" -- attacked the servers of PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and others because they refused to allow funds to be received and forwarded for the WikiLeaks operation -- which after all, is an operation that deliberately incites -- and aids -- hacking and abets the theft of classified files. Why should any business with a terms of service forbidding the storing and forwarding of stolen content allow such payments to be processed? It shouldn't, and the spurious claims of "a chill on free speech" have no merit.
Anonymous has been obscured by the greater antics of Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum, and their envy is visible -- they never really got behind this crew with the robustness you'd think, given the destructiveness of the cause, because a) they didn't run it and b) there was too much cooperation with mainstream media.
The Lost Boys are trying to get themselves back in the news again with another Steubenville-type stunt, Maryville, another small-town tragedy of a young girl raped by the relative of a prominent politician on the football team whose reputation is ruined and who is forced to move out of town.
There's the same witless praise from some liberal media for these "hacktivists," but at least Adrian Chen at Gawker got it, and said he was skeptical. Lee Stranahan of Breitbart, who was heckled mercilessly by Anonymous and had his entire personal life spilled over Twitter and blogs by these goons, said that nothing Anonymous ever did in Maryville could make up for Steubenville. Agreed. They do not take on these cases out of genuine concern for victims or the desire to uphold the rule of law and women's rights and due process. Such things are anaethema to them as hacknarchists.
What they are far more interested in doing is disrupting judicial institutions they find flawed and replacing them with revolutionary justice.
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