Anonymous PSN Attackers Arrested in Spain

[Genixma]

No one suspects the Spanish Inquisitors!!!

 

[Twilight_guy]

Isn't the point of the group that you cant single out individuals or, you know, have leaders? Attacking individuals is like punching a lumpy pillow. If you want to stop the group then you have to take down all their servers and stop their ability to do anything or communicate.

 

[CaptainKoala]

They know how much trouble they're in. They'll strike a deal with the prosecutors and sell out some other people for a reduced sentence.

 

[Hugga_Bear]

Isn't the point of the group that you cant single out individuals or, you know, have leaders? Attacking individuals is like punching a lumpy pillow. If you want to stop the group then you have to take down all their servers and stop their ability to do anything or communicate.

Yes but it doesn't quite work that way. Although anonymous is vast and extremely nebulous it's core hackers aren't quite as wide spread. There are a lot of them and they're very good but there aren't as many as you might think by looking at anonymous.

If you take out some of their actual hackers you are doing some damage, just targeting random members is pointless. Furthermore an attack against some of them may make them lay low for a while (though given their track record they'll probably opt for fighting back).


As has been said, I support anonymous in political activism and exposing frauds and liars but the turn they've taken is really kinda upsetting. Considering how much good they have done to see them hacking Sony for being mildly douchey is just...strange. I hope they go back to their 'roots'.

 

[Popido]

Sometimes I wonder if Escapist is the pit of darwinism.

 

[baconfist]

Wow you guys... has no one here realized that anonymous isn't even a group? Anyone that wants may claim they are anonymous, so how the hell can you say that the whole group is bad? It's like blaming a man for every crime ever committed by cristians because he owns a bible.

Stop being retarded and attaching blame to people who don't deserve it. Learn their names and set blame where it belongs. If I said was anonymous and went out handing homeless people money would you credit those men in Spain?

 

[BrownGaijin]

Three years for millions of dollars in damages, and possibly effecting the recovering economy of Japan? Well, I guess they can still sue them to the point where they'll never see another dime again.

 

[Simriel]

I wanna see pics with names. Take away all anonymity. Also that "We are legion threat". you'd think that they would learn that being an internet "Menace" Doesn't translate over to real life. they know your just some pathetic kids who probably can't do anything about using your computer the way other people tell you to little script kiddies.

Given that like 90% of the worlds defence, banking, consumer infrastructure and general workings are run by computers with online networking? Yeah... Hackers can do A LOT!

 

[EvilRoy]

Just an idiotic police capturing idiotic /b/tards, nothing new here.

I smell three little scapegoats, and a bunch of big, bad wolves who followed the butthurt corporate's orders.

Seriously now, why three? This kind of coordinate attack would involve more than three hackers, if you're going to round them up. Get them all. Otherwise leave them alone, the worst thing they can do is to arrest a handful without actually dealing with the main problem.

Jailing three of the possible hacker would not solve the problem, but fuel it..... Who am I to judge? People go to jail for more stupid reasons.

This too.

I really think this is more of a farmers solution to the old one of the oldest problems, and I'm really very interested to see how it works out.

You see, when crows are attacking your corn you don't kill all the crows. That's stupid, there are way too many and it's a hell of a lot of work since they can fly out of range.

What you do, is you find three crows that are stupider and slower than the rest. You catch these three crows. You take these crows and you gut them, and you hang them out around your property, right where they can be seen for miles. Then you see how many crows come back.

Sure, you might get swooped by some of the more aggressive crows that haven't been scared off, but you're a farmer and they are crows. They can cause some serious problems for you, but every single time they attack you they put themselves in danger of being crow number four.

 

[JUGGERNAUTBITCH]

the spanish popo just put there d*cks in a hornet nest.

 

[adamtm]

anonymous = 21st century witches

so whens the digital inquisition starting?

Oh you mean we are already doing it?

never mind, carry on then

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Nobody really ever does expect a Spanish Inquisition...
I may have already been ninja'd, but I don't care.

 

[RDubayoo]

Awesome news. No doubt some folks will say, "Durp, Anonymous doesn't have leaders," but, durp, yes they do. We know this from previous articles and from the motivation behind the Anonymous Civil War (or slap fight, that sounds more their speed).

Now I just hope that when Anonymous retaliates in their typical childish fashion that more of them will find their way into a cozy jail cell. The fewer of them online, the better.

 

[Devil's Due]

Waiting for Escapists to demand they be punished by prison rape, performed by state-sponsored rapists.

Because a crime is a crime, and criminals are criminals. And because I couldn't frag for two whole weeks.

You know you're a criminal then, too? Everyone is a criminal sooner or later. Hell, in my state of Washington, if you don't carry a plastic bag in your car, you are breaking the law. No one cares, but it's still a law. With so many laws in the world, we're all criminals sooner or later, and as you said: Criminals are criminals. Once an , always an , eh?. Your argument is so full of holes that in essence, you're a criminal too. So you deserve punishment as well, as do we all by your logic. Lastly, I'm sorry you couldn't frag for two weeks, no one truly knows how any of us survived before online fragging, huh?

As for the thread: Good... but I'm sure you've barely scratched the surface of the entire operation behind these attacks, and the ones responsible. For all we know, those arrest could have just been pawns and the leaders smile away another day of "u mad, bro?" while the police try to act like they're, y'know, doing something. I honestly won't take this story too seriously, we'll never know when the leader will be caught, because odds are there'll either be no proof, or someone will just take the fall for the real person and forever leave us questioning.

These sort of things don't just end with a few happy little arrests, they're painstaking difficult to go through.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Just three hackers does not all of anonymous make. Hell I don't believe that they were part of Anon just three random guys.

 

[Micah Weil]

*snicker* It's like saying "please come after us next"...because they'll totally do it.
Someone pass the popcorn, this is gonna be HILARIOUS!

 

[Frostbite3789]

Highly doubt these guys have anything to do with what the police are saying.

Most likely scape goats to keep their population in check.

Also: Those who believe everything is AS IS in these type of news articles, have no idea that government agencies and police lie to us all the time.

This is the kind of post I find funny. For every doubter of an article like this, there are just as many people taking the word of hackers at face value.

"SONY STORED PASSWORDS IN PLAINTEXT. BELIEVE US BECAUSE WE SAID SO." "OH MAN! They said Sony did that and an unethical douchebag hacker would have no reason to lie! SONY STORED PASSWORDS IN PLAINTEXT!" Meanwhile they provide absolutely no proof whatsoever. Congrats guys.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

We should put these hackers in a room with the people whose identities were stolen. Just to see what happens.

 

[samsonguy920]

Seems to me all these three are guilty of is being involved in attacks on Spain's Ministry of Culture website. Spain's National Police are setting themselves up to look like a bunch of morons when the dust settles if they are actually saying themselves that they busted those involved for the PSN break-in. Not to mention the unlikelihood of those three knowing anyone directly that might actually have been involved, if any of Anon were involved.
As Extra Credits pointed out, the PSN attack wasn't really Anonymous' forte. However, the culture website was Anon's calling card.
This strikes me as one of those cheesy thrillers where the robin hood of the movie gets framed for the actions of a less honorable person who was more a copycat, for the sake of just calling the case closed.
I'm not a fan of Anonymous, but I dislike unintelligent police work even moreso. It is actions like these that allow worse perpetrators to remain at large and create even more crap for us to deal with.

 

[Jyggalag]

I don't know enough concerning either side to make an informed opinion. I don't believe any of us do.