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Wisconsin man indicted in 2011 Anonymous hack of Koch Industries
Source: Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-anonymous-koch-hack-20130327,0,1118707.story
Wisconsin man indicted in 2011 Anonymous hack of Koch Industries
By Matt Pearce
March 27, 2013, 3:37 p.m.
A Wisconsin man could face years in federal prison if he is convicted of helping hacker collective Anonymous take down Koch Industries' website during protests in the state's capital in 2011, according to an indictment revealed this week.
The charges were announced Tuesday by the U.S. attorney's office in Wichita, Kan. -- the home of Koch Industries, a $115-billion-a-year oil and manufacturing conglomerate owned by libertarian iconoclasts Charles and David Koch.
Officials said Eric J. Rosol, 37, of Black Creek, Wis., participated in an Anonymous-organized shutdown of Koch websites www.kochind.com and www.quiltednorthern.com on Feb. 27 and 28 in 2011.
Rosol is the first and only defendant charged in the attack, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office told the Los Angeles Times.
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By Matt Pearce
March 27, 2013, 3:37 p.m.
A Wisconsin man could face years in federal prison if he is convicted of helping hacker collective Anonymous take down Koch Industries' website during protests in the state's capital in 2011, according to an indictment revealed this week.
The charges were announced Tuesday by the U.S. attorney's office in Wichita, Kan. -- the home of Koch Industries, a $115-billion-a-year oil and manufacturing conglomerate owned by libertarian iconoclasts Charles and David Koch.
Officials said Eric J. Rosol, 37, of Black Creek, Wis., participated in an Anonymous-organized shutdown of Koch websites www.kochind.com and www.quiltednorthern.com on Feb. 27 and 28 in 2011.
Rosol is the first and only defendant charged in the attack, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office told the Los Angeles Times.
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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-anonymous-koch-hack-20130327,0,1118707.story
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The Koch Bros are the ones who belong behind bars, along with immediate forfeiture of every last red cent of their assets.
I believe in due process and normally don't subscribe to bills of attainder, but in their case I'll just have to make an exception.
BTW, these are two guys where domestic drones would really come in handy. 
