Dutch Arrest 16-year-old Related to WikiLeaks Attacks

Morango - on 12-12-2010
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Dutch Arrest 16-year-old Related to WikiLeaks Attacks

By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News

Dutch authorities arrested a 16-year-old boy on Wednesday in relation to the cyberattacks against Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, which were aimed at punishing those companies for cutting off services to WikiLeaks.

The boy was arrested in The Hague, and he will be arraigned before a judge on Friday in Rotterdam, according to a press release from the Netherlands' Public Prosecution Service. The boy, whose computer equipment was seized, has allegedly confessed to taking part in the attacks.

The Public Prosecution Service said he is likely part of a larger group of hackers.

The arrest follows a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks aimed at websites that have been critical of WikiLeaks, which has been releasing portions of 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables since late last month. The attacks seek to overwhelm websites and services by sending streams of meaningless traffic.

Part of the attacks originated in the Netherlands and the main site coordinating the attacks, anonops.net, was hosted in a Dutch data center in Haarlem. The site is down since police actions Wednesday.

Right after the police found out that there were cyberattacks coming from the Netherlands, the Team High Tech Crime started an investigation, the Dutch attorney general reported.

The attorney general also noted that "probably thousands of computers" took part in the attacks. The police are still investigating and will probably arrest more people.

Since the release of the documents began, several companies have decided to cut WikiLeaks off from their services, including PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and the Swiss payment transaction firm PostFinance, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange held an account.

In response, a loose affiliation of hackers called Anonymous have orchestrated DDoS attacks against those websites over the past two days or so, knocking many of the sites offline. The group has dubbed that effort "Operation: Payback." Other websites that have been attacked include those of vocal critics of WikiLeaks, including U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman and former Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Twitter and Facebook have also deleted accounts believed to be affiliated with Anonymous.

On Thursday, the BBC's Radio 4 program broadcast an interview with a 22-year-old who goes by the nickname "Cold Blood" and claims he is part of Anonymous. Cold Blood, who appeared in the BBC's studios, said that more people were downloading a botnet tool that enables them to perform a DDoS attack.

The campaign is aimed at companies that have decided not to deal with WikiLeaks, Cold Blood said, and is also a protest against what Anonymous believes is increasing control over the Internet by governments and the European Union.

"We are trying to keep the Internet open and free for everyone," said Cold Blood, who described himself as a software engineer.

WikiLeaks and its founder and editor Assange have come under fierce criticism from U.S. government officials and politicians for releasing the information, which is believed to have been leaked to the site by U.S Army Private Bradley E. Manning.

Manning has been charged with mishandling and transferring classified information in connection with the cables and a video of an Apache helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq.

(Loek Essers of Webwereld in the Netherlands contributed to this report.)

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/213120/dutch_arrest_16yearold_related_to_wikileaks_attacks.html

Morango - on 12-12-2010
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Dear OM [Dutch Prosecution Office],

The remarkably swift arrest of Jeroenz0r, a 16 year old Dutch student, has been all over the international media since the event took place. While the Kremlin takes a dig at the U.S. over Assange’s arrest, while Facebook and Twitter delete the accounts of cyber activists, while over 9,000 ‘hacktivists’ are believed to be behind electronic onslaught, the Dutch authorities arrest a 16-year-old boy
suspected of involvement with Operation Payback.

The whole world reports about WikiLeaks and Operation Payback. How could an underage boy be held responsible for making the world wide news? How could the Dutch authorities hold a 16 year old boy responsible for the world being in a state of digital war?

Is it in the haste of getting something done, that the Dutch government labeled him as a scapegoat and a terrorist, just so they could say: “We have done our part about the cyber terrorists”? Is the detention and possible conviction of Jeroenz0r an act by law,
or is it –as we suspect– a political statement? Is Jeroenz0r being used to scare the
hell out of everybody who would think that they could do something about censorship and the forces our governments (ab)use?

If this would be a fair trial, what evidence would there be? He may have been a user, or even host for an IRC server, still, this may hopefully not be the primary reason? Even if he had an active role in coordinating the attacks on MasterCard and Visa, which is still improbable, Anonymous is not a personal army and will not be commanded like one. How then, would that incriminate him if everybody is responsible for his/her own deeds? One student would never be powerful enough to take down corporations like MasterCard, Visa or Paypal.

Could we accept that in todays’ society, big corporations are using children as a means of manipulating people for their own gain and benefit? What could have happened if the government had decided to stick out for freedom of expression and free speech, and refused to bend under the demands of MasterCard and Visa? It could have turned out to be a turning point in the war between big corporations and the people who get caught in the gears of the system and have no means of making their way out from the mess.

Eventually, even the government will have to decide, either to be the puppet in the hands of global corporations, or be the one who paved way for rebellion against oppressive corporations and corruption of our society.

We would like Jeroenz0r to know that Anonymous will not be giving up on him. One for all, all for one. Divided by zero.

Signed:
10.12.2010
Failship IRC team
Anonboots, Bnon, (Jeroenz0r), Kris, Paws, Zeekill

http://twitter.com/JeroenAlexander

http://thepiratebay.org/user/Jeroenz0r/

Seriously, this #jeroenz0r crap has to stop, he is no hacker, he just used a retarded tool called loic, DDoS =/= hacking

http://twitter.com/Blazert/statuses/13621503534833664

Gewijzigd door Morango op 12-12-2010 03:47

sinenV - on 12-12-2010

Finally, some dipshit got caught. DDoS =/= hacking is correct. And attacking the sites of companies that decided not to support Wikileaks is fucjking retarded. While /b/ there is having a shitstorm about that and being hypocrites on their goal, they could be using their resources on something more useful. Westboro Baptist Church out on Kansas deserves a DDoS than fucking visa.com especially since they put out a hateful message. But that's beside the point; many people on the net are fucking retarded and only do things that they seem is right when in hindsight, what they're doing is counterintuitive and hypocritical to their goal. I mean, stopping access to websites to promote freedom?

Freaking retards.

hardcorerepublic [Moderator] - on 12-12-2010
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Morango - on 12-12-2010
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On 12-12-2010 04:09:33, sinenV wrote:

Finally, some dipshit got caught. DDoS =/= hacking is correct. And attacking the sites of companies that decided not to support Wikileaks is fucjking retarded. While /b/ there is having a shitstorm about that and being hypocrites on their goal, they could be using their resources on something more useful. Westboro Baptist Church out on Kansas deserves a DDoS than fucking visa.com especially since they put out a hateful message. But that's beside the point; many people on the net are fucking retarded and only do things that they seem is right when in hindsight, what they're doing is counterintuitive and hypocritical to their goal. I mean, stopping access to websites to promote freedom? Freaking retards.

the day that ex-president Bush be arrested and be responsible in court for the death of thousands (US Marines and civilians) in Afghanistan and Iraq in stupid oil wars, then i could agree with you.

is it acceptable that USA spy my country? is it acceptable that USA spies Holland? or spy other country???

this is a cyber war for the truth. about Visa, Mastercard...is it acceptable that they block donations accounts?

On 12-12-2010 04:09:33, sinenV wrote:

Westboro Baptist Church out on Kansas deserves a DDoS than fucking visa.com especially since they put out a hateful message.

whats happening there?

Gewijzigd door Morango op 12-12-2010 15:02

Vogelhuisje [Moderator] - on 12-12-2010
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Knomo is going downnn

Morango - on 12-12-2010
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On 12-12-2010 15:37:20, Vogelhuisje wrote:

Knomo is going downnn

:D

sinenV - on 12-12-2010

On 12-12-2010 15:01:02, Morango wrote:

[...]

whats happening there?

They're an extremist Christian church who protests local soldier funerals by holding signs that say shit like "God hates soldiers" "God hates faggots" and they get their kids on it too.

Daan - on 12-12-2010
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Hier nog eentje

http://tweakers.net/nieuws/71289/om-arresteert-19-jarige-jongen-na-ddos-aanval-op-om-punt-nl.html

lawless29 - on 12-12-2010
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Marc Pele Lawless 11 December at 18:29 .This whole wikileaks thing is like 911 all over again. A completely outlandish unbelievable myth that gives the government huge powers it would never be able to get otherwise....

thi...s entire thing is scripted, it was pre-planned Julian Assange is a CIA asset and the CIA is running all of his shots...

Julian grew up with a father in the "family" an Australian Cult that was famous for giving it's children LSD and locking them in a dark room for an entire day. This would most likely create a split personality paranoid schizophrenic which is most likely what Julian Assange is. This would also be the perfect premise that you would want someone to have if you wanted to brainwash them.. it would make the job that much easier and of course the CIA has a long history of brainwashing it's patsies like oswald, siran siran, and all the 'lone nuts' of the 60s and 70s that took out Malcolm X, Martin Luther Kings, John Lennon, JFK, Robert Kennedy and several others.

THIS ENTIRE WIKILEAKS ORGANIZATION. It is so important that you fully believe me, and understand. It has been created by the elites... that is the only reason it is getting complete media backup, why else would it? Because it is anti-establishment? 911 Truth is based strictly off of facts and it gets no air time because it is truly anti-establishment it would truly make a change for the better. I could say a million other things of the same nature, truths that are out there and are completely ignored by all form of media all throughout the entire "1st world". It appears that the end game of this new arm of government wikileaks is to shut down the internet... total government control of the internet in the name of, wikileaks justified, cyber security.

to me, knowing that Assange is anti-911 truth means that he is not out for truth, do you really think building 7 just fell through it's self.. it is physically impossible... do you really think a plane flew in to the pentagon? it is physically impossible....

This is why i have not bothered reading up on any of this. But if people are actually buying into this I better make a video and put it on youtube cause this is outlandish it sounds like a story line out of hollywood and that is exactly what it is unfortunately it is a script created by the elite to further their end game of absolute power and control over everything.

Please don't buy in to this none-sense. wikileaks is just a pawn in a mass game of political chess

Gewijzigd door lawless29 op 12-12-2010 17:57

Daan - on 12-12-2010
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Did you read your own post?

50% of it makes no sense at all.

lawless29 - on 12-12-2010
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