Whether they are being toyed with or not these guys are on the same level as the ANON crowd as far as cyber.........the bottom line is people who do not want denial of service attacks need to put their web pages on cloud networks and hide their ISPs and that is what this cloudshare (sp?) program does. It keeps folks like anon from hacking and implementing denial of service attacks to keep their websites open and making money. Look at the folks who use are. Now the same can be said for spook ops using this type of cloud web hosting service ......it makes anyone who uses the service appear suspect but in some cases it is just good business sense.
What I find interesting is the tracing of the ISP’s to Chicago!
That the Chicago trace is interesting. Wasn’t there some big Anon occupiers arrested there? They were supportive of the NOI? something..I will dig up that old story and post it.
Anonymous unmasked: hacker ringleader turned FBI informant
Anonymous and its spinoffs, including LulzSec, could be seriously damaged by the arrests of a half dozen high-level hackers.
By Mark Clayton, Staff writer / March 6, 2012
Another person charged Tuesday, Jeremy Hammond of Chicago, was arrested Monday by the FBI. He is charged with hacking into Strategic Forecasting, Inc. (“Stratfor”), a global intelligence firm in Austin, Texas, in December. He may have stolen confidential information concerning 860,000 people.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0306/Anonymous-unmasked-hacker-ringleader-turned-FBI-informant
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Rose told me that while her son detests Glenn Beck (“He called him a liar”), Jeremy confirmed to her that information that he gathered by hacking buttressed Beck’s claim that some groups, including Anonymous, are working toward trying to “bring down capitalism” in the United States. And while Collins says that her son never told her that any members of the federal government were involved “Jeremy also went to UIC and he bragged that he met with Bill Ayers.” Ayers is the controversial retired professor from University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) who used to be part of the Weather Underground, a 1970s far-left radical group responsible for bombings and other criminal acts in the United States. Ayers and Barack Obama were friends in Chicago, served on the same boards and Ayers even contributed money to Obama’s first campaign.
Collins also said that Jeremy claimed that he was working with Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, a black supremacist group in Chicago, as a part of his work with Anonymous, to promote an Islamic takeover of the United States.
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/03/16/hacktivists_mom_has_a_few_questions_for_anonymous/page/full/
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Another story, not sure if we can post any of their stuff (broken link by space between h&t):
h ttp://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-07/news/ct-met-jeremy-hammond-hacker-20120307_1_computer-hackers-mainframe-computer-home-computer/2