How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

Re:How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price by JonnieCache on Thursday February 10, 2011 @06:37AM (#2201591)

This guy is clearly a dangerous moron. This kinda makes me feel better for being so cold about this whole affair in the other thread.

The terrifying thing is that there are still people in government who believe sentences like "specific techniques that can be used to target, collect, and exploit targets with laser focus and with 100 percent success" through social media.

I mean, who claims one hundred percent success at anything?

EDIT: Also, that coder hopefully shouldn't be buying any drinks for a while.

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Re:How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price by rst on Thursday February 10, 2011 @09:08AM (#2201973)

The same people who believe that DRM can effectively prevent copying, if the people selling it say that it can. Which is to say, the ones who think of technology as wizardry, and evaluate wizards by looking for social proof. (They can't really evaluate what the guy's selling, but they sure can tell if he's the kind of person that would get respect at a cocktail party.)

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