Anonymous Not Anonymous Anymore to Hacked Off Drug Lords
Here’s a lesson to the Hackers for the 99%: You’re not anonymous once you get caught.
And you’ll always get caught, because, um, the internet was designed by the Department of Defense. And that’s a group that doesn’t want anyone to remain anonymous for long.
In fact, they are so good at tracking people down-with extreme prejudice- that they can make sure a very large bomb fits in a very tiny place.
But that’s not your biggest problem.
No your biggest problem is that hubris led you to a confrontation with Mexican drug lords who have all sorts of contacts in some of the smallest places in America- prisons. And that is where you are likely headed. What part of “don’t steal from drug lords” don’t you get? Didn’t you see the movie Midnight Run?
So it goes with hacking kingpin and left-wing computer community organizer Jeremy Hammond of – surprise!- Chicago, who was arrested this week, along with 4 compatriots, after eight months of FBI surveillance into the inner workings of the internet theft group commonly known as Anonymous. As a result, Hammond and his friends now face the prospect of spending a great deal of time in a very tiny place with bars on it.
Often dressed in black and wearing the mask of Guy Fawkes as its symbol, the hacking-activist group of the Occupy Wall Street crowd broke into intelligence agencies, banks and corporate servers in search of embarrassing information, as well as digging for digital plunder in the form of credit card digits- which they promptly charged for “charities.”
But six months ago, it all started to unravel for the hackers.
The virtual stakeout of Anonymous started in August of 2011 when the most anonymous of all hacking kingpins, “Hector Xavier Monsegur, of New York, pleaded guilty …to computer hacking charges and [started] helping law enforcement officials with their investigation [into Anonymous], authorities revealed,” reports the Chicago Tribune
Monsegur, 28, is “a welfare dad who lived in a housing project on New York’s Lower East Side,” according to FoxNews and other media sources, while he orchestrated the activities of several groups that loosely make up Anonymous.
Government Motors, Government Electric and now Government Hacking?
With public money thrown so freely to support Anonymous, one has to wonder if it’s a division of Solyndra. Quick, call Warren Buffett and find out if Anonymous qualifies under TARP or some sort of tax credit. They are, after all, looking more than a little green right now.
Imagine that: After the skull and duggery and all the populist rhetoric it turns out that Monsegur and his friends are just more entitlement-age criminals with an axe to grind over how much the world owes them.
This week we reported on a murderer in California who was still cashing unemployment checks from prison.
A group of gang members in California is helping Nancy Pelosi stimulate the economy by collecting unemployment checks for one member who is in jail for murder.
“Family members of a convicted murderer in the L.A. County jail system were arrested for allegedly cashing $30,000 worth of his unemployment checks, authorities said,” according to the LA Times.
“‘Anthony Garcia had family and friends cashing his $1,600-per-month government assistance checks while he served time,’ said Capt. Mike Parker, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. His accomplices would then deposit a portion of the money into Garcia’s jail account. They also shared the cash with Garcia’s fellow incarcerated gang members.”
Count the murderer as the much more honest criminal compared to Monsegur and his friends. At least Garcia hasn’t wrapped himself in the false humility of a community organizer.
Jeremy meet Anthony; Anthony meet Jeremy.
The same can’t be said for Monsegur’s Chicago sidekick Jeremy Hammond.
Hammond, 27, is a well-known, dreadlock-wearing, “hacktivist”- think community organizer with a computer- known for his high IQ and his low common sense.
“His mother, Rose Collins,” writes the Chicago Tribune, “offered a heavy sigh when informed that the FBI had arrested her 27-year-old son.
“‘Again?” she asked. ‘I love my son, but he is a genius with no brain. He has a 168 IQ, but he has no wisdom.’”
The Tribune goes on to paint the picture of another entitlement-age criminal, raised by a musician father, who, of course, was a leftist. By high school Hammond was breaking into mainframes just to show it could be done. By college the stunt wasn’t cute anymore, and Hammond presumably was bounced from college over another hacking incident hinted at by the Trib:
“While still a student, he hacked into the high school’s mainframe computer to show administrators its weaknesses, and was thanked for calling attention to the gaps, according to his mother. She said Hammond did the same thing at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was kicked out.”
The incident apparently only served to give Hammond the very huge chip that he now wears, not very anonymously, on his shoulder.
But here’s why both Monsegur and Hammond ought to shudder.
School days have ended for both young men.
In November of 2011 Anonymous got into a confrontation with the drug trafficking cartel in Mexico called the Zetas.
Anonymous reportedly stole 25,000 emails from the Mexican government that detailed up to 75 government accomplices in the drug ring. Anonymous threatened to release the information after an Anonymous hacktivist got himself kidnapped doing some community organizing against the drug group in Veracruz. While both sides quickly backed off their public dust-up- with the Zeta’s releasing the hacktivist- Mexican drug lords aren’t really the forgiving type.
Expect the Zetas to look at the hackers with considerable more prejudice than the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Prison’s a tiny place, and there are a lot of Anthony Garcias there. Garcia by the way is part of the Rivera-13 gang. The “13” stands for letter M, a symbol for the Mexican mafia.
Perhaps in prison Hammond or Monsegur will run into an Anthony Garcia and feel some real pain in the very tiniest of places. Or it could be a much, much bigger place. But the pain they’ll feel I’m guessing is non-negotiable.
Drug lords just don’t have that much discernment, even if they have a lot more common sense than Jeremy Hammond.
Well, they wanted a war ……. they got one.
They were hiding behind the legal protections provided by the governments they wanted to attack. They demanded transparency from everyone else while trying their damnest to conceal their nefarious interactions. Demanding their privacy be protected while shattering ours.
But you know, there’s at least 2 ways to track down someone who leaves an anonymous message somewhere on the internets.
There’s the legal way of going to a judge and getting a subpoena from the server owner that can trace it back to an ISP, and then you can subpoena that ISP owner to give up the subscriber’s name and address …….. or you could do the same thing with a few as 2 bullets if you’re committed enough and willing to travel. (H)
You remember those Mexican bloggers found hanging from that bridge. I bet the cartels didn’t bother with a subpoena to find out their identities.
This is good news though. Malicious hacking should have tougher penalties than those currently proscribed by law. And most hackers today are not sophisticated geniuses. They are young leftist or anti-american punks who have downloaded online hacking tools and replicated methods designed by others. They’re increasingly from 3rd world islamic shitholes as well as sponsored / trained by foreign governments. I think the CIA should be, if they are not already, tasked with tracking them down and splattering some blood on their keyboards.
Cause this has the potential to get way out of hand. They could destroy our way of life by interfering with our computer controlled networked infrastructure and financial systems. Its just a matter of time until they do.
…….. (B) (B) You know it’s like if everyone on the planet had a teleporter like on Star Trek ……. (B) there would be total chaos. If people could beam into a bank vault or just beam out the cash …… they would. The murder & rape rates would skyrocket. No President would live through his term of office.
Without fear of punishment society would break down.
If more people think they can get away with crime …… there will be a lot more criminals. And if the technology is evenly distributed amongst all cultures on the planet America will be come the prime target.
If there was a button on every 3rd world street corner that would destroy us when pressed, how many times a day do you think it would get pushed?
(B) Technology is just simply outpacing the current legal mechanisms that have worked in the centuries past. Just like our wars in the middle east, you cant have one side playing by one set of rules while the other is free to exploit the loopholes in our humane doctrine. If we’re going to be interconnected by technology to nation’s who cant or wont stop their citizens from attacking our systems we’re going to have to eventually either destroy their capacity to do so, or adopt the Zeta’s rules of engagement.
Agree Joe Blow in mass can and will screw up society with out law. But what about that other society that is actually in control. Like the Fed and the banking cartels and certain politicians as well as anonymous men behind the scenes. We can protect ourselves from Joe Blow when we organize. How is it only idealistic idiots fight the Fed. As for entitlement mentality who surpasses Congress? The private sector has a product or beneficial service to show for their expectations. The expertise of the private sector made us great. Now the Fed slowly usurps our freedoms without violence or provoking us to violence. Now that is expertise because it has unlimited resource a well all of the expertise of the private and academic sector. Only an idiot would fight the Fed. The wise just whine and complain and vote. I fall into that category because I am wise and like the Fed, survival is my priority. Every time my patriotic hairs start working my mouth my wise friends remind me of my place.
I gonna delete ‘Before the News’ from my bookmarks
(Y)
lotta beer mugs on that post.
up late.
They were hiding behind the legal protections provided by the governments they wanted to attack.
That’s a very good point! Bastards and they’re not the only ones.
…we ought to drop the bastards down town and watch the rats scramble…..
dailymail
…you know we really fuk`d up here these barbarians are pure rabid bastards..
…. (N)
the article didn’t say when obama would apologize.