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Originally Posted by 4X4
Do any of these badass hackers ever get busted? I suppose that the badge of honour in that field is freedom, just like anything else. I'm kind of impressed that these guys can go f***ing with major sites and not end up in jail. I guess it must be bittersweet to be so good at something and never receive any kind of compensation or recognition for your accomplishments.
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There was a security company that was working on finding the leaders and were about to make an announcement when Anonymous responded by hacking the security company itself and releasing all kinds of emails and private documents.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...d-the-hive.ars
I'd say most of Anonymous' "hackers" are just kids who know enough about proxies and have installed someone else's tool for carrying out DDoS attacks. But there are clearly a couple of quality hackers in their group that know what they are doing.
As an aside - some of the comments from Anonymous in CMPunk's link are appropriate to this thread. Yeah, it sucks that you can't play a couple games online atm, but if you're in a rage over it, maybe it is time to turn the computer off and go outside.