Ahhhhh. It was just a matter of time, wasn’t it? The FBI announced that LulSec leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka “Sabu,” helped them to take down the organization (organization in the loosest possible use of that term). A coop for the FBI. But, of course, they’ve gone too far. One senior official is quoted by Fox News as saying, “When people in the hacking community realize their God has actually been cooperation with the government, it’ll be sheer terror.” That quote is certain to evoke a response from the hacker community.
But is the message a dare? A taunt? I mean, the whole interception of the telephone conversation a month or so ago between the FBI and Scotland Yard appeared to be so incompetent on the part of the law enforcement agencies as to be phantasmagorical.
They have LulSec’s main guy. He’s a genius. They say he’s a hacker-rockstar. But there are others. LulSec is only a teeny, tiny portion of the conglomeration of hacktivists that make up Anonymous. I worry that the FBI taunts tease those geniuses who sympathize with the group and haven’t taken the plunge into deviant acts into wholesale hacking. The government has thrown down the glove, haven’t they? Seems sort of stupid, given that they’ve been compromised so many times in so many ways so much.
The hype that the FBI released attending the Sabu snatch is intended, no doubt, for us to question whether all of those hacks were “real” or if they were conducted with the supervision and under the auspices of FBI operations. Pisshah. As if. The flounderings of desperation.
I have great respect for the feds and for all of law enforcement. It’s really great that they were able to bring Sabu and others to justice. However, bear in mind that these are a couple of uneducated guys with broken computers. The FBI is using the same tactics they use in every successful venture they’ve ever launched. Find one guy- usually when they pinch his girlfriend or buddy on an unrelated matter, and get him or her to squeal and offer a deal. That’s unquestionably what led them to Sabu, which is what led them to the other members of LulSec and what will lead them to other miscreants. I’d hold off on the ticker tape parades lauding and magnifying the intellectual and investigatory prowess of our federal government agents and their minions. Extortion is their means. It works. It’s been the tool that has worked for about a hundred years and it will be the tool they continue to use.
However, it’s not going to get them very far with 
the real geniuses, who are much more dangerous than the guys like Sabu, who are not formally educated and are missing the left shift key on his computer. Push the MIT Ph.D. too far and you’ve got trouble. Piss off the Rochester Institute of Technology woman who’s had just about enough and see what happens. You are playing freshman ball, my friends. These guys dazzle you, but they are only the people in Spring training.
the real geniuses, who are much more dangerous than the guys like Sabu, who are not formally educated and are missing the left shift key on his computer. Push the MIT Ph.D. too far and you’ve got trouble. Piss off the Rochester Institute of Technology woman who’s had just about enough and see what happens. You are playing freshman ball, my friends. These guys dazzle you, but they are only the people in Spring training. The capabilities- the potential out there- is far more dangerous than anything that Sabu or the Anonymous folks have so far done or contemplated. Two questions for the feds- 1. Why tempt them? 2- Given the obvious- that you are dealing with freshman players and not first string, shouldn’t you start upping your game?
A side note- A search for the definition of “Sabu” yielded some interesting results from the urbandictionary.com. Apparently, there was a wrestler named Sabu circa 2000, it may refer to putting your friend’s mom through a coffee table, and it can also stand for, ‘smack a bitch up.’ Nice.
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