Because sooner or later, the law catches up with you.
A Dallas grand jury has brought charges against Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown stemming from the 2011 hack of intelligence vendor Stratfor Global Intelligence.
Brown isn’t charged with committing the hack; just with possessing and transmitting credit card numbers that were stolen in the incident.
He has been in prison since he was arrested in dramatic and public fashion three months ago after posting a threatening video to YouTube. Brown was talking with acquaintances during a Sept. 12 TinyChat session when the feds burst in and took him away. The chat session was later posted to the internet.
The Anonymous spokesman was charged the next day with threatening a federal officer.
This time the charges are are related to a different incident: the 2011 Stratfor hack where credit card numbers and internal e-mail messages were stolen.
According to the grand jury indictment, dated Tuesday, Brown posted a link to a zipped version of the documents stolen in the Stratfor hack on Christmas day 2011 — that counts as trafficking in “stolen authentication features,” the indictment claims. He’s also charged with possessing stolen credit card numbers, Card Verification Values, and other information related to those credit card numbers.
Unless you consider logging into their public IRC chat network as “doing something with them.” I went there, very much a hard leftist sort of a group. Which is, honestly, really not my thing. In fact, on the Anonops network’s “Newblood” channel there was someone who gave me a hand with setting up Linux Mint 14 on Oracle VM Virtual Box, which really does work well. Before anyone panics, I checked, it was an legit ISO and the system works great on this laptop.
Anyhow, this dude is going up the river for a long time. I feel sorry for his Mother; I mean the dude freaked out and was trying to protect his Mom. Something I know very well about. I am quite protective of my Mother and Father too. He did that, and is now going to have pay the piper. This is why I never got involved with anything illegal, internet or otherwise. Because the law always catches up with you. The Wheels of justice turn slow, but they do turn. If you are a lawbreaker, and the Government decides your number is up, its all over but the court case and crying in jail then. If you are not well off, you are done. As my uncle (Dad’s youngest brother) found out back in the 1990’s. He fell into hard times, start dealing blow and weed; wanted to make some quick money. One of his friends, got busted for possession with intent to distribute and of course, he sung like a yellow canary and they nailed my uncle, big time.
He pulled 15 years in prison for it too. This is why I keep my nose clean. Because jail sucks. I have never been there and I do not intend to go there, if I can at all help it!