Two LulzSec Members Plead Guilty To DDOS Attacks

[The Wooster]

Two LulzSec Members Plead Guilty To DDOS Attacks

A pair of English LulzSec members admit they took part in DDOS attacks against Sony, Nintendo and others.

Today, Ryan Cleary, 20, and Jake David, 19, both told the Southwark Crown Court that they took part in the DDOS attacks on Sony, Nintendo, 20th Century Fox, the NHS and the British branch of News Corp. Cleary pleaded guilty to six of the eight charges laid against him, while David pleaded guilty to two out of four. Two other men, Ryan Ackroyd and an unnamed 17-year-old, pleaded not guilty to similar charges.

"Arrest us. We dare you," the (ugh) hacktivist group tweeted [https://twitter.com/LulzSec/status/93093868379193344] back in July of last year.

The authorities did exactly that. Several alleged members of the group were arrested after a joint investigation by Scotland Yard and the FBI.

Asperger's Syndrome sufferer, Cleary, who is being held in jail in the UK after breaching his bail conditions, was indicted earlier this month by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles. It's unclear, at this point, whether US authorities will push to have him extradited, but Cleary's lawyer says she would "fiercely contest" any attempts to do so.

"Cleary is a skilled hacker. He controlled his own botnet, employed sophisticated methods and his broad geographic scope affected a large number of businesses and individuals," an FBI spokesperson told Reuters back in June.

A UK judge has set a trial date for next April.

Source: Gameindustry.biz [http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-06-25-lulzsec-members-plead-guilty-to-hacking-sony]


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[Evil Smurf]

I don't know if I should be sorry for him or not.....

 

[itsthesheppy]

I don't know if I should be sorry for him or not.....

I'm not. you live life on the edge, you handle the consequences like a man. They knew the law. they broke it and thumbed their noses at authority, but they weren't good enough to not get caught. Now it's time to man up and take what's coming.

 

[Kahunaburger]

The real story is that governments and major corporations somehow managed to get embarrassed by these kids. No, FBI, the fact that your people used the same passwords for their .gov accounts and their favorite porn sites doesn't make the people who exploited this "skilled hackers."

 

[Dastardly]

Is the inclusion of the Asperger's thing supposed to make people sympathetic to the guy? All that means is the guy has trouble with social interaction and an abnormally intense interest in a particular subject, not that he doesn't know right from wrong, or that he has superpowers, or that he's somehow not responsible for what he did.

 

[Clearing the Eye]

Is the inclusion of the Asperger's thing supposed to make people sympathetic to the guy? All that means is the guy has trouble with social interaction and an abnormally intense interest in a particular subject, not that he doesn't know right from wrong, or that he has superpowers, or that he's somehow not responsible for what he did.

Statistically, people with Aspergers are less likely to commit crimes and more likely to be the victim of them, interestingly enough. I did a load of research on the matter after I was diagnosed a few years back.

 

[SuperNova221]

The real story is that governments and major corporations somehow managed to get embarrassed by these kids. No, FBI, the fact that your people used the same passwords for their .gov accounts and their favorite porn sites doesn't make the people who exploited this "skilled hackers."

Reminds me a bit of this (http://xkcd.com/932/) xkcd strip.

As for the common passwords thing, I don't understand why that's embarrassing for them. I could've told you that a bunch of them are computer inept enough to do that well before it was comfirmed. It just goes without saying really.

 

[Fappy]

The real story is that governments and major corporations somehow managed to get embarrassed by these kids. No, FBI, the fact that your people used the same passwords for their .gov accounts and their favorite porn sites doesn't make the people who exploited this "skilled hackers."

For every bad ass agent there are probably five idiots who ruin everyone's fun

 

[Lethos]

Why do all the hackers I read about end up being British? Does this country have some sort of hacker-child training programme or what?

 

[Ishigami]

I sincerely hope the UK do not extradite him to the US since he seems to be a British citizen.

 

[GiglameshSoulEater]

Well, at least America haven't actually nicked these (like that innocent guy a while back), and let us handle them.

Why do all the hackers I read about end up being British? Does this country have some sort of hacker-child training programme or what?

Well, I have seen a university course for 'ethical' hacking. No joke.

I sincerely hope the UK do not extradite him to the US since he seems to be a British citizen.

Never stopped them before. Why start now?

 

[80Maxwell08]

Why does it matter if he goes to prison there or in the US if he's still going in prison anyway?

 

[Eric the Orange]

it's like they say, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

 

[Hiname]

He broke his bail conditions? Welp, there goes the last little shred of sympathy from my side.

Edit] No, Aspergers is NO excuse to fuck up TWICE when facing the law hammer.

 

[edos63]

I sincerely hope the UK do not extradite him to the US since he seems to be a British citizen.

The UK has no problems with trying to send Julian Assange to Sweden, and he's an Australian citizen. Why would they care about some misguided youth who hacked a few major corperations?

 

[EHKOS]

Is the inclusion of the Asperger's thing supposed to make people sympathetic to the guy? All that means is the guy has trouble with social interaction and an abnormally intense interest in a particular subject, not that he doesn't know right from wrong, or that he has superpowers, or that he's somehow not responsible for what he did.

I know. I have Asperger's and I think that inclusion was unnecessary. It's like including that one of them has insomnia.