Five arrested over 'Anonymous' web attacks

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Five men have been arrested over a spate of recent web attacks carried out in support of Wikileaks.

The five males are being held after a series of arrests at residential addresses in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London this morning.

The men were arrested in relation to recent and ongoing attacks by an online group that calls itself "Anonymous".

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This investigation by the Central e-Crime Unit was carried out in conjunction with law enforcement agencies in Europe and the US.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12299137

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nb. BBC subsequently changed the narrative when the page was updated.

[Joanne98]

1. They are divided by ZERO! Millions more to come!

[dipsydoodle]

3. Interesting thought Joanne

Divide anything by zero and you get infinity. :)

:hi:

[Joanne98]

4. I LOVE infinity!

:hi:

[dipsydoodle]

5. Then you'd be proud of

Graham's Number which would take longer than the universe has existed to write down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number

[dotymed]

2. I rec'd for the info,

not for the arrest. Not shockingly, the "Anonymous" members were not in the U.S. We need them here too...

[Robb]

6. Apparently the word did not mean what they think it mean.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

11. +1 for the PB reference!

:D

[iamthebandfanman]

7. i promise there will be more too

most of the people that participated in this arent that computer friendly... and from their last statement about downloading a program to do their dirty work instead of (god forbid) someone typing 1 command at the command prompt... now even more people will put themselves at risk by participating.

unless you know what you are doing, people can trace this crap back. finding the origin of a flood of info aint that hard. especially if you have ISPs co-operating

[AngryAmish]

12. The cyberpolice can backtrace.

[greiner3]

8. Amateurs were caught;

But if all the amateurs that participate in this were caught there would not be enough prisons in the world to hold them.

Remember, remember, the 5th of November. However, given the average American's attention span, this degrades to a Mexican holiday.

[sarcasmo]

9. They can arrest these guys but not Osama. The ghost of Osama lives on.

[LisaL]

10. Osama lived in the cave so presumably no computer.

[ManiacJoe]

14. Osama tends to up just a bit more armed resistance.

[mdmc]

13. ..