FBI arrests LulzSec member "recursion" for Sony Pictures hack

Re:FBI arrests LulzSec member "recursion" for Sony Pictures ... by patrickod on Thursday September 22, 2011 @08:25PM (#3028340)

It's hardly surprising that these people are being caught. Using a VPN service that resides primarily in the USA, the same jurisdiction in which your attacks are being carried out, seems a bit shortsighted.

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Re:FBI arrests LulzSec member "recursion" for Sony Pictures ... by laluser on Thursday September 22, 2011 @11:44PM (#3028745)

Exactly. At the level that these guys were playing at, I would assume that they would have protected themselves in a wiser manner

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Re:FBI arrests LulzSec member "recursion" for Sony Pictures ... by shin_lao on Friday September 23, 2011 @02:27AM (#3029071)

Actually I'm not surprised. They got too comfortable. They got lazy. Properly covering your tracks is extremely cumbersome and boring.

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Re:FBI arrests LulzSec member "recursion" for Sony Pictures ... by tripzilch on Friday September 23, 2011 @01:12PM (#3030740)

Well, there's that and there's using a USA-based VPN service.

They could have picked any other totalitarian police state in the world, Russian, Chinese proxies, they all accept creditcard, and the FBI could have done fuck all to get the logs.

Instead you know USA based companies are required to barf up the logs at the drop of a hat.

It's not just lazy, it's really really dumb.

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