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UK police warn 'wannabe hacktivists'

article published on 3 August, 2011

UK's Metropolitan Police reminds potential hacktivists that the actions are a crime and they will be prosecuted. Using its official Twitter account, the Met Police directed users toward a notice that stated defacing website,s carrying out denial of service attacks and stealing information from servers is illegal in the UK. It also said that attacks aimed at targets outside the UK can ... [ read the full article ]

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hikaricor
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_ 		4. August 2011 @ 00:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
tl;dr
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xtago
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_ 		4. August 2011 @ 08:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Can run.
Can pretend to hide on the net.
But.
Can't hide in real life.
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Mysttic
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_ 		4. August 2011 @ 12:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Most true hackers involved in this don't even need to hide. Should be interesting
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plazma247
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_ 		5. August 2011 @ 10:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
lol i remember the old days pre computer miss use act when the hackers and hacktivist would be tried under theft of electricity instead lol... the good old days.
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Danthaman
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_ 		5. August 2011 @ 11:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They could easily argue they intended to improve the system, not hinder it.the proof is in the fact their actions have done so. The real hackers, the ones who do real damage, won't post on twitter, and may never be caught, but at least we are slightly safer thanx to the likes of these imbeciles.
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