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Shetland Man Charged With Hacking


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A Shetland teenager has been charged with unauthorised computer access and conspiracy to carry out a distributed denial of service attack in London:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14359933

 

You think word would of got round the island that london poli had docked, and they would of been able to hide him in caves somewhere, or smuggle him off to norway...

 

:sherlock:

 

there's f**k all else for the kids to do. :dontknow:

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there's f**k all else for the kids to do. :dontknow:

 

Well, that's not strictly true is it...

 

:sheepshag:

 

In all seriousness it can't of been easy for him pulling off those feats of computing genius with a 56.6K dial-up connection. My uncle stays on shetland and his internet is barbaric...

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Apparently this isn't the guy, but rather framed by the real Toparia, who is actually in Sweden.

 

The 19-year-old Scotsman fingered Wednesday as a central figure of the LulzSec hacking crew is a fall guy who was framed to take the heat off the real culprit, according to unconfirmed claims from a rival group.

 

The real LulzSec figure known as Topiary is a 23-year-old Swede, who stole the handle from a low-level member after he ran afoul of its parent group Anonymous. The mistaken identity was part of an elaborate ruse to confuse authorities about Topiary's true identity, the speculation claims.

 

read more here if you want to be bored about the details.

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In all seriousness it can't of been easy for him pulling off those feats of computing genius with a 56.6K dial-up connection. My uncle stays on shetland and his internet is barbaric...

 

My brother's is fine on Bressay. No idea what the Yell connection is like though :sleeping:

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I'm just following this on Twitter:

Anonymous IRC, AntiSocialAnon and Your Anon News are saying it is him.

But then they would I suppose if it was a cover up :sherlock:

Anyway this tweet made me laugh:

 

#Topiary "grimaced when prosecutor Chodha mispronounced the name LulzSec as 'Luke Sec.'" #FreeTopiary

 

There you go then. They're bluffing to take the heat off the Swede.

 

Here's another mispronunciation.

 

Louise Boat instead of Lulz Boat.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQr0vMeXZ1c

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Well, that's not strictly true is it...

 

:sheepshag:

 

In all seriousness it can't of been easy for him pulling off those feats of computing genius with a 56.6K dial-up connection. My uncle stays on shetland and his internet is barbaric...

 

Shetland has one of the oldest ISPs in Zetnet, it was quite good back in the day of demon internet etc 15 odd years ago. No idea of the state of affairs nowadays it's probably still at 56k like you say.

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