Anonymous Hackers Meet the Long Arm of the Law

Civil disobedience isn't always glamorous–peculiarly when it comes time to pay the bagpiper.

Fourteen suspected members of hacking chemical group Anonymous were arrested as part of a federal raid on Tuesday morning. Additionally, two individuals were inactive connected related charges in two separate complaints filed in the midst Territorial dominion of Florida and the District of New Jersey. Those subordinate arrest aspect steep penalties for their alleged actions they indicate were designed to protect civic liberties.

There could be severe punishment for a group that is more or less operating low-level the pretense of "civil disobedience." But as any civil rights lesson will tell you: Part of being civilly difficult is being willing to accept the consequences of your actions.

Fox News first reported the arrests, which–according to the DoJ–resulted from the grouping's allegedly attacking PayPal in response to the financial service's blocking WikiLeaks from receiving donations. (Side billet: Does anyone other find it amusing that Anonymous inside-out the Intelligence Corp. hackers into hackees and and then Trick News ends up being the first news outlet to report card the Anonymous arrests?)

The suspects are charged with "various counts of conspiracy and fashioned damage to a moated computer," according to a U.S. Department of Justice handout. Those charges carry a upper limit penalty of cardinal age in prison and a $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison house and a $250,000 exquisitely, respectively.

Unidentified Has Been Busy

Anonymous certainly has done a mete out recently that warrants some sort of consequences. Last week it allegedly hacked deuce government contractors and released 90,000 military addresses. The group also allegedly marred Genus Arizona Police websites and released data in protest of the state's new immigration laws.

IT's hard to argue against a group that takes action against things it says are below the belt. Nameless is–in some ways–one of those groups. After all, its members are called hackers with a cause. Indisputable, the radical's methods are extreme, illegal, and harmful to certain parties, only it's fighting for transparency, accountability, and a free Internet.

If the suspects are members of the group, their response to the charges should speak volumes about what driven them to help with the attacks. We can't time lag to hear what they have to say.

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Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/481178/fbi_arrests_members_of_anonymous_hacker_group.html

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