Sickos!
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“I’m getting personal threats from people, and I have two kids. I have two four-year old kids. Nothing is worth that.”
The threats have come through Facebook including one commenter who wrote: “I’m gonna find out all the people that you know and cause them pain. Death is too good for you.” Last night Barr also received about half a dozen phone calls to his cell. He only answered one of them – a woman who quickly hung up. The rest were voicemails: “They didn’t actually speak,” he says. “One was singing something. Some of them just hung up. One guy just had weird noises in the background.”
http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/02/07/victim-of-anonymous-attack-speaks-out/
He was supposedly going to sell their personal info to FBI, problem they would have if he had the right info would be much more significant.
Mr. Barr decided to do battle with someone clearly out of his league. Anyone in IT security with half a brain knows messing with blackhats is serious business. Showing your hand when you are in any way vulnerable — meaning you have ANY presence on the web — is just asking for trouble.
Announcing that you’ve been messing in their sandbox to drum up press for a talk makes Barr world-class stupid.
I’ve had the pleasure to meet a several world-class “hackers.” You only have to talk to them for a very short while to learn that they’re serious about what they do.