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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 08:08 AM
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Five arrested over 'Anonymous' web attacks
Edited on Thu Jan-27-11 08:37 AM by dipsydoodle
Source: BBC News

Five men have been arrested over a spate of recent web attacks carried out in support of Wikileaks.

The five males are being held after a series of arrests at residential addresses in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London this morning.

The men were arrested in relation to recent and ongoing attacks by an online group that calls itself "Anonymous".

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This investigation by the Central e-Crime Unit was carried out in conjunction with law enforcement agencies in Europe and the US.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12299137


nb. BBC subsequently changed the narrative when the page was updated.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 08:22 AM
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1. They are divided by ZERO! Millions more to come!
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 08:31 AM
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3. Interesting thought Joanne
Divide anything by zero and you get infinity. :)

:hi:
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 08:33 AM
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4. I LOVE infinity!

:hi:
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 08:40 AM
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5. Then you'd be proud of
Graham's Number which would take longer than the universe has existed to write down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
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dotymed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 08:25 AM
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2. I rec'd for the info,
not for the arrest. Not shockingly, the "Anonymous" members were not in the U.S. We need them here too...
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 08:56 AM
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6. Apparently the word did not mean what they think it mean.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 12:11 PM
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11. +1 for the PB reference!
:D
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iamthebandfanman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 09:23 AM
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7. i promise there will be more too
Edited on Thu Jan-27-11 09:23 AM by iamthebandfanman
most of the people that participated in this arent that computer friendly... and from their last statement about downloading a program to do their dirty work instead of (god forbid) someone typing 1 command at the command prompt... now even more people will put themselves at risk by participating.

unless you know what you are doing, people can trace this crap back. finding the origin of a flood of info aint that hard. especially if you have ISPs co-operating
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 12:14 PM
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12. The cyberpolice can backtrace.
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greiner3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 09:32 AM
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8. Amateurs were caught;
But if all the amateurs that participate in this were caught there would not be enough prisons in the world to hold them.

Remember, remember, the 5th of November. However, given the average American's attention span, this degrades to a Mexican holiday.
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 10:48 AM
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9. They can arrest these guys but not Osama. The ghost of Osama lives on.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-11 10:53 AM
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10. Osama lived in the cave so presumably no computer.
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ManiacJoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-10-11 03:04 AM
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14. Osama tends to up just a bit more armed resistance.
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-11 11:10 PM
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13. ..
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