Student Peter Gibson, 22 charged with Anonymous DDOS attacks
p2pnet view – P2P | Freedom 22-year old Peter Gibson, said to be a a member of Anonymous, has been arrested and charged with “conspiracy to do an unauthorized act in relation to a computer, with intent to impair the operation of any computer or prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in a computer or to impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of such data,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement Thursday, says BGR.
Gibson is out on bail and is Slated to appear in court on September 7, it Says.
“It is believed that Gibson was involved on a number of Anonymous’s DDOS attacks against large corporations”, says the story, Going on “the ‘Anonymous Operations’ branch of the hacking group most recently attacked Apple.
“Authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom have arrested a number of hackers believed to be associated with Anonymous and a sub-group called LulzSec. LulzSec spokesperson and hacker Jack Davis, aka Topiary, was arrested earlier this month and released on bail.”
August 27th, 2011 at 10:15 am
I like “member of Anonymous”.
Maybe if this lad had strived to actually BE anonymous (small ‘A’) instead of being A MEMBER OF Anonymous, he might not be in this situation.
Kids, being trendy and ‘fitting in’ is not going to serve you well. Being smart will. If you are into activities that the law-bringers object to, protect yourself or face their wrath.
Is it really that hard to use TOR or whip out a proxy lists and setup a good chain? Come on, even Mike Sandy with his Computer Science III skills would know how to do this right.
August 27th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
“conspiracy to do an unauthorized act in relation to a computer, with intent to impair the operation of any computer or prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in a computer or to impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of such data”
There is no longer justice in the US otherwise they would have leave this guy alone. If they were smart this is what they should have done anyway regardless in order to prevent an escalation with anon.
Why are they BS charges?
For one thing the gov has no standing since:
1) no damage has been done to any equipment by anonymous.
2) one single anonymous alone using the LOIC canon can not affect the operation of any server since the LOIC canon is maxing out at 50 hit/sec and this is nothing for a current server. By the way this can be achieve with internet explorer too so no real need for LOIC. Only a large number of user that have to be at least 10 of thousands can affect substantially a server. Few hundred or even few thousand is not going to do much against visa or Google. You need ten of thousands!
3) They can not charge Peter Gibson with all these BS because by himself he does not have the possibility to affect or impair any server while using the LOIC.
The charge of “conspiracy” does not stand in front of the US cosntitution since once again there is no standing as there is no victim and no damage is done by simply “Conspiring”. This charge of “conspiracy” is anti-constitutional and must be deleted from the law books unless the US has already renounced in being a nation of laws.
Beside this also infringe the freedom of speech since it is easy to call “dissenting” conspiracy.
It is not up to the US gov officials, judges, policemen and lawyers to decide if they are going to follow the supreme law of the land or not. They have no choice otherwise they will sooner or later face the wrath of the US citizen and end up in prison or worst. Already the citizen demand for the prosecution of the war criminal of the previous and sadly enough the current administration in despite of electoral promises. This has remain unanswered at their own peril.
They declared unilaterally without public consultation that DDOSing is illegal. Yet the government himself conducted DDOSing operation against wiki-leak, the pirate bay and other foreign government web sites. So there is 2 justices: one for the government and the corporations and one for the people. According to this the corporations and the government they control can do whatever the fuck they want without sanction while the justice for the people expose them to abuse, harassment arbitrary search and seizure dispossession, beating tasering torture and even killing!
Attacking anonymous is foolish by the way because there is millions of these guys worldwide many of them talented hackers. To respond to the arrest of the LOIC canon users anonymous switched to hacking. For now. New ddosing tools has been recently deployed that protect the anonymity of the user and are also several log scale more powerful than LOIC. So powerful in fact the if the next anonymous ddosing operation involve one of this tool and ten of thousand of participants entire region of internet go down affecting many internet users. The authorities has been warned of this. Unfortunately these stupid ass-holes did not listen. And some really believe that these idiots are going to fix the economy! Finally these arrests had made anonymous really mad and retaliation on a grand scale is coming.
August 27th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
RW, could I helpfully point out that this guy is in the UK, it looks like you may have overlooked this in some of your comments.
August 27th, 2011 at 11:43 pm
I have a real hard time giving blame to Anonymous.
For one the way they have been operating, there appears to be no need of them, if the government were straight forward in it’s dealings. Anonymous has been mainly about disclosing coverups and aggravating those in cahoots. Those bad intentioned actors that feel they would get away with that behavior if it were not exposed to the light of day.
The government has been up to it’s eyeballs in hiding actions that aren’t really for the good of the nation. You could just as well say a corrupt government (along with officials) acting out it’s plan. Only corruption can not stand the light of exposure. Since no one else is coming forward as whistleblowers because the present administration has shown that coverup, rather than the political promise of transparency has ruled the actions shown. As always actions speak louder than words and despite running with a campaign promise of transparency in government, the Obama administration has demonstrated by action that the words were lies. You can not be the transparent president while exceeding the punitive actions of all other presidents in history against whistleblowing. It shows hypocrisy, not transparency when taken to the level of the present POTUS and administration.
Because these politicians desire that their ill deeds remain covered, they have went after those exposing wrong doing. Anonymous has been dead in the middle of such actions of exposing those ill deeds.
I do not believe there would be a need of an Anonymous, were there no coverups. It is plain as it can be that our government is not being honest with it’s citizens. It is the source of why the majority of the citizens no longer believe that the US government has the consent to govern by it’s citizens and that is really saying something. Mainly because it takes a long time to get a grassroots feeling expressed in this manner. It takes time after time and then a long time added to that before those citizens begin to feel that way. That there is an over-majority stating this lack of belief for consent permission, says one heck of a lot about it.
August 28th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
The problem is that an handful of big corporations had taken over our governments worldwide using electoral campaign donations and other forms of corruption.
Their ultimate goal is to destroy our governments* so that they can do whatever the fuck they want with no accountability and then to enslave us all in the name of their god: Proffit!.
These corporations are also killing the planet so doing something about this is very urgent.
The corporations responsible are mostly the big banks the energy companies such as BOA, JP Morgan/Chase, Well Fargo, Exon/mobile, Chevron, BP, and the entertainment company such as Vivendi Universals, Time Warner and Sony.
Our response shall be to to kill all these corporations for the sake of the planet and it’s inhabitants so that new Healthy businesses can replace them:
LET’S KILL THEM ALL!
(*Governments are still needed to enforce and protect the human right of each citizen but they shall be the government of the people not of the corporations.)