Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/stakeout-how-the-fbi-tracked-and-busted-a-chicago-anon.ars/

By Nate Anderson
Ars Technica
March 6, 2012

"Script kiddie" -- no hacker worth his salt wants to hear the term used 
to describe him. Anyone with modest computer skills can cause modest 
havoc using other people's code fragments, scanners, and infiltration 
tools, but this is little more than knowing how to point a gun in the 
right direction and pull the trigger. It lacks art. True hacking 
requires a deep knowledge of computer and network security, an ability 
to navigate around obstacles, and the willingness to be careful enough 
to always hide one's tracks. The script kiddies, they might be easy 
targets for the feds, but the true hackers? Shadows are their home.

The Anon-affiliated hackers who broke into the private intelligence 
company Stratfor to release e-mails and steal credit cards certainly 
didn't think they were script kiddies. In an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) 
just after the December 2011 hack, one of the Statfor hackers (sup_g) 
spoke to an unidentified chatroom member (CC-3) about the 
accomplishment.

CC-3: but this stratfor shit was bigger shit than
CC-3: old shits
CC-3: at least it deserves no critics
@sup_g: oh yes
@sup_g: notice no one is throwing around script kiddie comments...
CC-3: this time was classy
CC-3: and thats perfect
CC-3: we produced a cool video
CC-3: we announced luzxmas
CC-3: we hacked big shit
CC-3: we donated by 1000000...
CC-3: and we destroyed a big serious intel corp
CC-3: actually just a lil bunch of ppl thinks shit on this
CC-3: like 3
CC-3: lol
@sup_g: they are just mad because of the sheer amount of
        high profile people in this

The day after Christmas, sup_g had another online chat about the 
Stratfor hack and about some 30,000 credit card numbers that had been 
taken from the company. His interlocutor, CW-1, engaged in a bit of 
gallows humor about what might happen should they all get caught.

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