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Re:British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong ... by rdtsc on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:57PM (#2818361)
I think they just need to get someone. Doesn't really matter who. Find some random gullable 13 year old wanna-be-hacker kid that ran LOIC for a while. Parade him in front of the media and judges, send him off to juvie, handshakes and bonuses for everyone involved... Police, prosecutors, media, all get to pat theselves on the back. That is what this is really about.
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Re:British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong ... by hugh3 on Thursday July 28, 2011 @03:05PM (#2818401)
Which itself achieves a positive outcome, by communicating to the next gullible 13-year-old who might be thinking about doing something stupid to someone else's computer that there might be real-world consequences to it.
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Re:British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong ... by yew on Thursday July 28, 2011 @03:18PM (#2818473)
Assuming gullible 13-year-olds are the sort to think about the consequences before downloading an executable and clicking "run," anyway. In my experience (so this is really just anecdotal evidence), that's rarely the case, especially when it comes to politics.
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Re:British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong ... by PotatoEngineer on Thursday July 28, 2011 @05:02PM (#2818919)
The total number of script-kiddies might go down a bit. Of course there's always going to be some gullible 13-year-olds who run scripts, but the idea is to have less of them. It's more of a statistical argument than an anecdotal one.
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