Internet collective Anonymous (known for internet hacktivism and pulling off pranks like a boss) has had quite a busy week: they defaced the Greek Justice Ministry’s website, defaced the Boston PD’s website, hacked Salt Lake City PD’s site “compromising” confidential informants, purloined data from a Virginia-based law firm that defended a U.S. Marine convicted for his part in the 2005 Haditha massacre in Iraq, and the final fatality (Finish Him!), hacking into and releasing a 16 minute confidential conference call between the FBI and the Scotland Yard. Oh! And they also released an email from FBI official Timothy F. Lauster, Jr. with the date and time for the unencrypted, scheduled call, the single (one size fits all?) password allowing entrance to the call, and a list of attendees. Whew! A hacker’s work is never done!
The subject of the call? Anonymous. Yes, Anonymous listened in on, recorded, and released a call discussing ongoing investigations into themselves. The call begins with banal chitchat and joking about a teenage hacking suspect being “a bit of an idiot” and progresses quickly to some seriously iffy tactics. At 6:30, the voice of a Scotland Yard officer:
“We’ve got Ryan Cleary and James Davis due in court on the 27th following some discussion with the New York office, we’re looking to try and build some time in to allow some operational matters to fulfill on your side of the water. So we’ve sat back the further arrests of Kayla and T-flow, that being (censored) and (censored) until we know what’s happening. We’ve got our prosecution council making an application in chambers i.e., without the defense knowing, to seek a way to try and factor some time in that won’t look suspicious.”
Kinda brings to mind the scene from V for Vendetta in which High Chancellor Sutler is being pranked and humiliated by V on Gordon Deitrich’s talk show, am I right?
Anonymous released links to the call and email on twitter saying, “the FBI might be curious how we’re able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now.” Why? I’m guessing for the lulz.
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