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• how did the FBI find them they are anonymous? : gmd
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  they probably reverse-tracked the IP using a DNS switching device that propagated tracking bots to the in... : jipey
  • ENHANCE! : Masem
  • You forgot to open up a socket. : DialDforDan
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    I wonder if they whipped up a GUI in Visual Basic for that : Arctic Fox
    • do you mean Gooey? : hirez
  • But I thought backtracing IPs was impossible?! : Haxim
  • Somewhere in between sockets were opened. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  They're all united to start shit but conspicuously absent once the FBI gets involved. I'm all for a littl... : jingletard
  • Yeah they're idiots. Shoulda deleted all evidence and whatever else illegal they had right afterwards con... : sanchez
  • "I'm all for a little vigilantism, but..." is my new favorite expression. : DialDforDan
• ...and consequences were never the same. : Fenring42
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  If the FBI keeps this up, these anon fags, are going to turn into real rioters, whats next take away thei... : oldschoolbob-o
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    i'm sure this has scared a shitload of them already : gyokuro
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      probably but the same thing happening in the UK, other countries, I can only see a future where this happ... : oldschoolbob-o
      • thats a really big leap you are making though from cracking down on DOS attacks to revolution : gyokuro
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  I got raided once in 1995, lotsa fun.. : watcherxp
  • vaguebooked : foo
  • Can you elaborate on why you were raided and the experience? : ucanbfuzzy
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    Is that you Crash Override? : ant_hillbilly
    • Naw, he was Zero Cool : Volatus32x
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    *sigh* Back in the dayâ„¢, I was in the USAF and lived in a small apartment over some shops in a s... : watcherxp
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      Woah, that sucks for him, but I suppose it could've been worse. : datoo
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        Yeah, well he rolled the dice and took his chances. : watcherxp
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          Good news for you I guess. That probably could have gone worse. : DialDforDan
          • Yeah, but thankfully they had larger fish to fry. : watcherxp
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  It'll be interesting to see if any one of these guys actually talks and has any real info on the organiza... : DialDforDan
  • Also, how many of these guys probably have kiddie porn or other illegal material on the HDD from trolling... : DialDforDan
  • "organization" ? There might be a few splinter IRC groups that are buddies, but it's mostly lame call ... : anhero
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  I guess they weren't so /puts sunglasses on...anonymous : gyokuro
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3jnW2kcUs : Ambient80
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    Perhaps it such that one must go as far as to say that is sunglasses........ un-4CHAN-at!!! eh? EH? : rotten element
    • lol : gyokuro
• Haha. Little kids get bit in the ass by the real world. It's not all fun and games. : Visceral Monkey
• cry me a river : ninjase
• HAhaha the FBI got trolled hard. : crazywigga
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  LOIC only works well when you are in large numbers, otherwise you can be singled out. dont know why these... : sanewave
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    it's not illegal to shoot a gun, but it is illegal to shoot a gun at a store front. : liqker
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      is it illegal to stand in front of a stores window and block the view for others looking in? i guess if t... : sanewave
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        I assure you that if you goto a mall store with some friends and start chaining doors shut to stores the ... : liqker
        • hehe, indeed : sanewave
  • Isn't it illegal to purposefully inhibit customers from entering a place of business? If they could call ... : Ambient80
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  I don't understand...these kids did this from their house? At least connect to a neighbor's wifi or go t... : norulez
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    They probably had proxies and shit and thought they were safe. Also going to a Starbucks doesn't help... : K1Bond007
    • Maybe the guys who didn't get caught were running through proxies. ;) : ThomW
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  I still think the FBI over-fucking-reacted. These are not highly armed terrorists. : Fred Garvin
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    But a no-knock warrant is pretty reasonable considering the fact that these guys had data destruction pla... : DialDforDan
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      $50 says that guy A) doesn't know what thermite is B) had no plans in place at all to destroy data in ... : Herman Toothrot
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        I would not take that bet, if only because D) applies to everything ever written on the internet. : DialDforDan
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          If it helps, I'm betting that all of those things are true. : Herman Toothrot
          • C's a bit shaky though and admittedly falls under D's general rule of thumb. : Herman Toothrot
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        It's not that hard to make A : Volatus32x
        • I still say he didn't have any. : Herman Toothrot
    • Disagree; I personally see very few cases where a no-knock warrant is ever reasonable. : Conan
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  I take it the FBI is thoroughly investigating who was DDOSing Wikileaks as well? : ColoradoCNC
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoy4_h7Pb3M : DialDforDan
  • This is a stupid counter-argument. Do you know how they tracked down these anonymous people? Server lo... : OverloadUT
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  This puts the power in power ballad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2q_-xN2N54 (Tesla - Love Song) : Grumbeld
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    I need to stop drinking in the afternoon. : Grumbeld
    • hahahah : DJ Clipdat
  • Power Ballads are never unwelcome. : DialDforDan
• v& for real : electroly