Alleged Stratfor hacker no stranger to law enforcement

[FarCenter]

Jeremy Hammond, one of the five hackers arrested in Tuesday's crackdown on key members of LulzSec and Anonymous, is no stranger to the law.

Court documents released earlier this week show that the 27-year old Chicago native was arrested several times over the past few years for hacking activities, protests, mob action and other charges. The picture that emerges of Hammond is of an individual committed to a variety of activist causes with little concern about their potential consequences.

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On more than one occasion he talks about his sympathy for left-leaning groups and anarchist organizations, and in one chat, describes himself as an "anarchist communist." Hammond's chats also revealed his links with militant anti-racist groups.

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In an interview with the Tribune this week, Hammond's mother described her son as genius with a 168 IQ but little wisdom. "I love my son, but he is a genius with no brain," his mother Rose Collins told the newspaper.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225003/_Alleged_Stratfor_hacker_no_stranger_to_law_enforcement

[Robb]

1. Insightful comment from the mother, there.

To paraphrase Camus, it's not the rebellion itself that's noble, but the results of that rebellion.

If you don't have your eye on the consequences, you're lost.

[Vincardog]

2. Oh the humanity! they 'caught' him discussing his incarceration. The "painstakingly" bugged his

computer and tracked all communications "just to make sure he was the only one using it".
It couldn't to be looking for other conspirators could it?
They describe a radical anti-racist who lives his beliefs to such an extent that he dumpster dives to repurpose discarded food.

He pursues his ideals and is willing to take the consequences.
That is painted as "little concern about their potential consequences".

This whole piece reads like a slanted indictment designed to curry favor with the powers that be.

Imagine a genus who sees social evils and works to expose and correct them.

Where will it end?

[Zalatix]

4. I could not live like him... but he is a hero.

[Vincardog]

5. Agreed

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Computer World is owned by a 1%

and is an international magazine, one of many owned by IG Publishing, which is owned by

Patrick Joseph McGovern, Jr. (born August 11, 1937) is the chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG),
a company that includes subsidiaries in technology publishing, research, event management and venture capital.

He was listed on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans in 2007 as having a net worth of $4.7 billion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Joseph_McGovern

I can understand why that article would use the term "activist causes" as a pejorative, and seek to taint the phrase "left leaning" with the term "anarchist".