Anonymous challenges FBI again

Associated Press ^ | 06 February 2012 | RAPHAEL SATTER

[Rabin]

LONDON – Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.

Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were in on the call, too – and now so is the rest of the world.

[Rabin]

This sort of cluster flub on the part of two top shops exposes a mole in the works, and it is us.

Is it better to circle you'r firing squad or to shoot the messenger? Perhaps do both rab suspects.

r.

[DouglasKC]

Anonymous is doing them a service. They are apparently under the impression that the label of fbi, police, or scotland yard is enough to stop anyone from exploiting their weaknesses.

[DouglasKC]

Anonymous is doing them a service. They are apparently under the impression that the label of fbi, police, or scotland yard is enough to stop anyone from exploiting their weaknesses.

[GOP Poet]

Yep.

[Pilsner]

Anonymous is doing them a service.

Yep.

W.C. Fields said "Never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump. (emphasis added) Anonymous played the FBI as chumps -- they had a direct line into international conference calls concerning the investigations into Anonymous. They could have exploited it for years. And they pi@@ed it all away, just to create a three story to embarrass the FBI.

Somewhere the shades of Feliks Dzerzhinsky and James Jesus Angleton are shaking their heads in disapproval.

[Sopater]

And they pi@@ed it all away

Well, that is yet to be seen. Just because they let the FBI and Scottland Yard in on their little secret doesn't mean that they can no longer continue in the same manner.