Dueling development

In England, five hackers were arrested. They are suspected of hacking the websites of companies that refused to cooperate with the organization of WikiLeaks and personally with its founder Julian Assange. Apparently, this is only the beginning of hunting for hackers from a civilian active group Anonymous.

The vengeful defenders of unfairly offended - “anonymous” - appear on the Internet exclusively in the mask of a fighter for freedom from the film “V means Wendetta”.

Five British - their age from 16 to 26 years - were arrested on January 27 in the UK in their own houses. All of them, presumably, are members of the hacker group Anonymous, that is, according to the police, took part in attacks on Mastercard, Visa and PayPal payment systems. Young people are charged with violation of the law on unlawful use of computers.

The “visa” and other hackers were attacked not for the sake of self -interest, but exclusively from idealistic reasons. They wanted to support Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website specializing in the publication of secret documents. In December, after Assange handed it over to reporters the secret correspondence of American diplomats, many large companies refused to cooperate with him. MasterCard, Visa and PayPal, including: they stopped translating it from supporters. Thousands of hackers promised to take revenge on corporations and organized DDOS attacks on sites. MasterCard and Visa stopped functioning for a while, PayPal resisted.

After that, the hackers themselves began to take revenge: the FBI threatened to catch and punish them. As it turned out, the threats of the federals were not empty, and, most likely, British arrests would not end. The official statement of Scotland Yard says a whole campaign to combat the “Anonymous” payment systems. So it is possible to predict new arrests of “unlawfully used computers” of adolescents in a month or two.

Moreover, Anonymous, it seems, firmly decided to become politically active. During performances in Egypt and Tunisia, the same hackers blocked the work of government sites.