BREAKING: First hacker arrested 16 y/o...

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

...being held at the Hague.

Just heard this on CNN radio update.

[Catherina]

1. That's like plugging a leak in the Titanic. The elite has lost their fucking minds

[TBF]

11. Seriously they are probably all 16 & under - they are the ones who know how to do this stuff. nt

[toddwv]

16. Probably just a script kiddie.

So they'll arrest a few of these "smackers" who downloaded the DDOS software and weren't smart enough to bounce their attacks. Meanwhile, they won't get within 2 continents of those smart enough to proxy.

[NavyDem]

19. I would agree

From what I've read, they were using a program called LOIC, which from what I could tell, does not proxy, it mearly launches IP traffic at a specific target. Without a proxy, this kid was easy to track down.

[NoPasaran]

18. It's the "progressives" who cheer these criminals on who've lost their fucking minds

[Chef Eric]

35. O.K., I've lost my fucking mind.

I am CRAZY to think that an exchange of information is a good thing.

[Matariki]

38. Same here. Stark raving mad -

if that means thinking standing up to war criminals and the 1% who want to own EVERYTHING and EVERYONE on the planet is an honorable thing to do.

[Catherina]

44. Surely this comes as no surprise since we're *fucking retards* n/t

[mdmc]

51. 1

[readmoreoften]

46. You'd rather sweep US contractors procuring boys for Afghan pedophiles under the rug?

Yes, I've lost my mind I suppose.

[frylock]

47. we're all batshit crazy..

you go ahead and welcome your insect overlords while others fight for our essential rights.

[RetroLounge]

49. You forgot your "terrorist" talking point

:rofl:

RL

[readmoreoften]

2. Send him to be tortured! Pronto!

He distributed information about US contractors buying child prostitutes for Afghan officials. Someone must stop this immoral minor from revealing such information!

[tblue37]

12. No, Wikileaks leaked that info. This kid was one of the hackers who

jammed the MasterCard and Visa websites yesterday.

[leftstreet]

3. LOLOLOL Young people rock!

K&R

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

7. That was my first thought. 16? Wow!

[Renew Deal]

23. He's going to rock his prison cell.

:headbang:

[young but wise]

26. +1

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. He'll probably get recruited by the government. LOL

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. This is a cross between Hackers and Sneakers.

[NavyDem]

20. Not if he was that easy to catch...N/T

[quinnox]

5. To GITMO with him! Mitch McConnell is waiting!

No XBOX for you!

[blogslut]

6. Here's a link

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20025187-503543.html

[Leftist Agitator]

8. Should have used...

[Iterate]

10. No crime is too small

When the global empire is so threatened by a 16 year-old with spare time and spare bandwidth that it must act swiftly and harshly, then I don't see it as a sign of overwhelming power as much as it is a warning that the wheels are about to come off.

[Catherina]

13. +1. Well said. the wheels are coming off. n/t

[Iterate]

27. And the dumbasses just created a new cause,

Free (16 year-old Dutch boy)!

USA, EU, PayPal, NSA, Dutch Police, all vs. a 16 year-old kid. Talk about an asymmetry. Yet none of them had the good sense just to ring the house and have a civil sit-down with the parents.

[Catherina]

29. I'm all for it though. Come on, arrest more of us. We are legion.

Arrest one and a hundred more will rise up before you have the time you need to finish putting your police world in place.

[laughingliberal]

36. Yep. This will serve to recruit hundreds more. nt

[jwirr]

14. Absolutely.

[Renew Deal]

22. How long should he have been left free after being identified?

[Iterate]

37. Left free? Did he hurt anyone, or steal, or break a window?

He didn't tag a bridge, no, at its core he's accused of sending too many packets.

cnet: "The Dutch National Prosecutors Office said that the teen, who was not named, was arrested by a high-tech crime team last night."

So we're told to be so fearful of this shadowy, unpredictable group and the high-tech crime team swoops in -and picks up a script-kiddie. From the speed of the apprehension, what maybe LOIC with no proxy?

So rather than have a chat with a neighborhood cop who politely says "Knock that shit off", he gets crime-team arrested. That's beyond heavy-handed, that's just dumb.

[Kalyke]

24. If the global empire had been charging and arresting war

criminals like Bush and Cheney and Blair instead of ignoring them to pursue 16-year-old script kiddies and surprise sexers, then mayhaps the wheels would have had Truth and Justice to tighten them before they became so loose.

[northernlights]

43. +10000 nt

[Raksha]

50. I agree. It's pretty pathetic that a "secure" website like Mastercard

can be hacked by a 16-year-old. Must be damned embarrassing for the PTB to have the whole world know about it.

[csziggy]

15. Does he look like any of these suspects?

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

28. I was thinking this...

[csziggy]

31. I haven't read that yet - not buying books right now

Since I am not getting any where. I've heard it is good, though.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

33. I bought the sequel first because it was there...

The Girl Who Played With Fire

...I hear that was a big mistake. I'm not much into fiction to begin with, but I was really having trouble trying to get into it. I explained that to someone and she told me that you have to read Dragon Tatoo first.

:shrug:

[csziggy]

52. Thanks for the tip

Chances are I will end up trying to find them at the public library. Some 'series' I can read each book as an individual tale, so it's nice to know not try to start with just any of the books.

[AuntPatsy]

17. Where is Bruce Willis when you really need him, aside from the obvious joke, I hope

He does not fall victim and finds that like bush and company, bygones be bygones......after all fair is fair,silly me that holds only true for the elite

[Renew Deal]

21. Didn't see that one coming.

:sarcasm:

[dgibby]

25. So, will the Hague move to the top of the hit list now? n/t

[Occam Bandage]

30. A script kiddie who didn't even try to hide his tracks, most likely.

[RagAss]

32. I predicted 8 years ago.....

The world will be taken down by a 14 year old on a laptop in Fresno !

[TorchTheWitch]

34. stupid little 4chan punk n/t

[Matariki]

39. Stupid lazy people who love the status quo.

[TorchTheWitch]

41. is that comment directed at me?

Are you claiming I'm stupid and lazy and love the status quo?

[Occulus]

48. That's what it looks like.

Be honest, Torch- you've been against the entire premise of all these events from Day One. You love the status quo. It's truth on its face. You cannot escape that. Nearly every post I've ever read by you has supported authority and authorities, lashed out against any action that upsets their applecart (however small that action may be), and in general trashed any sort of effective activism.

You are, quite literally, one of the targets, in the broadest sense of the word. That this scares the living piss out of you not only should come as no surprise to anyone, but is in fact one of the desired goals.

You are who wikileaks and its supporters fight. You made that bed; now you get to lay in it.

[Matariki]

53. It's directed at people who are more concerned about taking down Visa's site for an hour

than they are about the illegal and immoral actions of our government. Illegal wars killing innocent people, torture, disregard of Geneva Conventions, assaults on free speech and privacy rights, etc, etc, etc.

It's directed at people who don't seem to like any form of protest or civil disobedience unless it's safely in a history book or in a foreign country.

So, I guess you can decide if you feel like that's directed at you or not.

[marmar]

40. A Hacker makes it to the Hague.....while Kissinger, Bush, Cheney and Blair roam free.

The world is an hour past totally f**ked up.

[Catherina]

45. Mind-blowing isn't it? That poor kid is providing a valuable service

exposing the political elite's hypocris and petty vindictiveness even futher. He'll be famous as an early warrior in this cyber war.

[Raschel]

42. Is this the the global gov't/corporation's version of hostages?