We may have got a LulzSec Member...

[HAL9000]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13859868

A UK teenager has been arrested in a joint Scotland Yard and FBI probe into the hacking of websites.

A man, named locally as Ryan Cleary, 19, has been arrested in Wickford, Essex. Police have not identified him.

On Monday the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) took its website offline after it was attacked by Lulz Security hackers.

Scotland Yard said the raid followed a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

But they would not confirm it was linked to LulzSec.

The raid in Essex had been a "pre-planned, intelligence-led" operation, said Scotland Yard.

The teenager was arrested under the Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act and is being questioned at a central London police station.

That's not far from me...

Interesting.

 

[FDF12389]

No they didn't, they just needed the headline.

 

[HAL9000]

No they didn't, they just needed the headline.

Equally possible.

 

[MotF Bane]

Hopefully not.

 

[guyver01]

I submit to Scotland Yard that Hal9000's posting on the internet falls under the Computer Misuse Act and request they immediately investigate him.

 

[Scotteq]

Naaah - Lulzsec hacked the newspaper's servers and put the article there.. :ninja:

 

[HAL9000]

Hopefully not.

Why so, I thought they were a bad thing?

 

[purbeast0]

A man, named locally as Ryan Cleary, 19, has been arrested in Wickford, Essex. Police have not identified him.

i don't understand that line at all.

 

[guyver01]

i don't understand that line at all.

Translation:

Our Sources say his name is Ryan Clearly. Police will not confirm.

 

[HAL9000]

i don't understand that line at all.

The man was identified by people local to the area as Ryan Cleary, 19. The police have not released his name.

 

[Number1]

No they didn't, they just needed the headline.

Do you have inside knowledge to share?

 

[purbeast0]

oh i see now.

 

[dpodblood]

A man, named locally as Ryan Cleary, 19, has been arrested in Wickford, Essex. Police have not identified him.

Wait... what?

 

[HAL9000]

Wait... what?

Seriously?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=31887362&postcount=8

 

[FDF12389]

Do you have inside knowledge to share?

They've know about Cleary since Anonymous outed him, he makes the perfect fall guy. To my knowledge he isn't lulzsec.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

so basically everything about this article is 100% speculative down to the guy that may or may not have been arrested for crimes that may or may not be related to luzsec. cool story

 

[HAL9000]

so basically everything about this article is 100% speculative down to the guy that may or may not have been arrested for crimes that may or may not be related to luzsec. cool story

Well no, they've got the guys name and what he was arrested for along with interviews with the family.

They just don't know if it's related to lulzsec.

 

[dpodblood]

oh i see now.

Me too. Still it's not very well written.

 

[HAL9000]

Me too. Still it's not very well written.

I think maybe it's an American thing, because that's normally how they make that statement on the news over here.

 

[FDF12389]

You guys have no Idea who Ryan Cleary is do you?

 

[HAL9000]

You guys have no Idea who Ryan Cleary is do you?

I don't.

 

[Scotteq]

You guys have no Idea who Ryan Cleary is do you?

..apparently, he's English, and was arrested as a suspected hacker who may or may not be involved with Lulzsec.

 

[Spineshank]

Apparently he is their IRC admin. But not a member.

 

[Raduque]

If he IS LulzSec, waterboard him for the names of other members, then shoot him.

 

[FDF12389]

I don't.

http://www.chronicle.su/news/world-...eader-of-anonymous-amid-post-civil-war-fugue/

Very talented young member who pissed on too many other members. I see this situation as either:

1. Anonymous invented lulzsec and framed him
2. Authorities needed a fall guy and he was perfect