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UPDATE 7/19/2011

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/19/new.york.anonymous.warrants/

Source: At least 14 arrested in operation targeting Anonymous

 New York (CNN) -- At least 14 people have been arrested as part of an ongoing operation targeting the notorious hacking collective known as Anonymous, a federal government official said Tuesday.

 The arrests have taken place in locations including Florida, the San Francisco area in California and New Jersey, the official said.
Earlier, a senior federal law enforcement official said up to 15 total arrests are expected following the execution of more than 15 search warrants.
The warrants were being executed in New York and several other states Tuesday by the FBI as part of the investigation, according to the federal government official.
FBI agents spread out to about a half dozen locations on Long Island, in Brooklyn and in the Bronx, where they seized computers and other records, according to the federal government official, who requested anonymity given the sensitivity of the investigation.

 In the past, Anonymous has launched attacks on websites belonging to the Church of Scientology, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America.
However, the hacker collective vaulted to worldwide fame in December, when it disabled or disrupted the websites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal in what the group said was retaliation for the companies' cutting ties to the WikiLeaks website following the arrest of Julian Assange. Assange founded WikiLeaks, which facilitates the release of secret information. He is currently out on bail in England and is fighting extradition to Sweden, where he faces sex crime charges.

 In addition, Anonymous has been linked to cyber attacks at the CIA, Sony, Fox News, the Arizona Department of Corrections and a well-known consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, among others.

 The group is implicated in denial-of-service attacks, in which large amounts of traffic are directed to a website, overloading it and, in effect, shutting it down.
The FBI in New York refused to confirm Tuesday's actions involved Anonymous. "These search warrants are being executed in connection with an ongoing FBI investigation," said FBI spokesman Peter Donald.

[ethercat]

It is unfortunate that the scientology-protesting Anonymous chooses to stick with a moniker that is so easily defamed via confusion with the law-breaking Anonymous (and indeed, anyone else who chooses to call themselves "anonymous"). 

In my mind, it is similar to the freezone and indy scientologists, who choose to stick with a name (scientology/scientologist) that has already, in the eyes of most, become tainted.  'Twould be better for them to call themselves "Hubbardites" or something along those lines.  Ah, well, their choice.

Me, I only ever wanted to be myself.

[Mary_McConnell]

What was the point in posting this here, Gumby? This is a forum to educate and inform people about the dangers of Scientology and it's front groups.This would be like posting a bad news article about the in-laws of a government rep who helps expose the cult. One thing has nothing to do with the other.

The stupid bad acts of the very few out of many good people that go under the Anonymous tag. Wouldn't surprise me if the cult instigated these 'pjts' to justify it's claim that Anonymous are terrorists.  This is what OSA does.  And this is what stupid pople do to ruin their lives over a prank. Maybe this will be a lesson for others. Me, I am anonymous but I am me, as are so many who get what Anonymous really is for the cause of exposing and dismantling scientology.

[SocialTransparency]

What was the point in posting this here,

Point? I found the article interesting.

[wynot]

What was the point in posting this here,

Point? I found the article interesting.

Err, umm; Please forgive my butting in here, but this is an off-topic area. Anon news may be only tangential to our prime subject in the general area of the forum, and this Anon news may be only tangential to the anti-scientology Anons, but is hardly out of place here in the side hallway, it seems to me...

'til later;
wynot

[Mary_McConnell]

  ok, lol

[EvanneC]

There were recent arrest made on the 14 cybercriminals also under the group named Anonymous (14 arrested for planned PayPal cyber-attack). I wonder how many people use "Anonymous" as their alias? I bet they aren't really related with each other but nevertheless, Anonymous is kinda over used. Some people say that they're caught because they aren't like some of the "professionals" in their field, they got careless and left some tracks for the FBI to trace. Even so, it must have took them months before they came to an eventual arrest, and it's even scarier to think that there still are thousands of other opportunists out there that are yet to be caught. It's amazing how the FBI agents can find cyber criminals like these, it must be a grueling task to track these people down.

[mefree]

Related: http://www.metro.us/newyork/Local/article/925251--anonymous-unmasked-meet-the-hacktivist-group-s-non-hackers

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Related: http://www.metro.us/newyork/Local/article/925251--anonymous-unmasked-meet-the-hacktivist-group-s-non-hackers

 Nice article but doomed from the get go. Attempts to correct present and or past preconceived notions or intent @ this stage of the game is a little to late. Main stream media ran with the label and it stuck! The brands moniker was tainted from day one when it "Labelled" itself!