UK Police Arrest Alleged LulzSec Spokesman
UK Police Arrest Alleged LulzSec Spokesman
Posted 07/27/2011 at 10:08am
| by Brad Chacos
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Setting sail on the Lulz Boat with a of glass of wine in one hand and a wide-brimmed top hat protecting him from the harmful UV rays, a hacker might actually start to believe that life is all laffs and SQL injections. Here's a shocker: things aren't quite so sunny in the slam, jackass. British police are the ones lulzing in the Shetland Isles after arresting a 19-year-old man they say is Topiary, the smarmy LulzSec hacker responsible for the group's satirical Tweets.
Graham Cluely at Sophos reports that the man is now being brought to a police station in central London while police go over his house with a fine-toothed comb. If he does turn out to be Topiary, this is a major blow against LulzSec's operation – half of the group's "allure" is its verbal smoothness (The other half being its strong pwnage capabilities). Topiary reportedly handled LulzSec's finances as well as its Twitter account.
It's not surprising police tracked down Topiary first: USA Today described him as "reportedly the least skilled hacker, but he's a quick-witted wise cracker willing to take risks." Looks like the dice came up snake eyes this time.
LulzSec has yet to comment on the arrest on its Twitter account, which makes sense if the man is actually Topiary.
Update: Check out Topiary's personal Twitter feed. All the messages have been erased except one: "You cannot arrest an idea."
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Slugbait
July 28, 2011 at 11:53am
Web Ninjas are still confident the wrong police nabbed the wrong guy. Topiary tried to steer Ninjas to the UK a couple of weeks ago. In fact, he stole his handle from some other guy in anticipation of later needing to throw people off his scent while trying to dox him. And he deleted his tweets weeks ago, and it was for the second time.
Especially telling is how quickly Sabu R.I.P.'d for Topiary over twitter...these guys constantly practice disinformation. Do not believe anything that they say.
someuid
July 27, 2011 at 11:57am
"Here's a shocker: things aren't quite so sunny in the slam, jackass."
Come on Brad, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. :-)
iceman08
July 27, 2011 at 12:09pm
Some reason unknown to me, I read Brad's line in the voice of Joe Flaherty from Happy Gilmore
blkpanthr
July 27, 2011 at 11:47am
I blame a lot of this lulzSec BS from these no talent ass-clowns on internet porn.
When you can sit in your moms basement and look at all the porn you want, where is the motivation to get out of the house, and try to get laid learning social skills in the process?
there is only so much metaphorical "Playing the Skin Fute" you can do before the bruising starts, so what do you do wih the rest of the evening?
lol
/sarcasm
Neufeldt2002
July 27, 2011 at 12:08pm
"Playing the Skin Flute" say that and look at the logo for lulzsec.
TommM
July 27, 2011 at 10:56am
Sucks to be him. Another shocker that he's only 19 years old. Kids having locked themselves in their Mom's basement with the parents having zero clue as to what they're up to.
Aerumnosus
July 27, 2011 at 10:35am
Man, i remeber when they use to sale Country Crock Garlic butter at Food City.
You could buy that stuff, take it home, warm it up a little in the microwave and it was just like having that great garlic butter from Papa Johns.
Those were the good old days. :)
TerribleToaster
July 27, 2011 at 11:10am
You mean you guys don't remember that time when we were at that place doing that thing that we did and it was oh so crazy but oh so right?
TerribleToaster
July 27, 2011 at 10:25am
InB4LulzSecDenyingAssoication
Granted that I don't like tuting horns early (as this may not be the guy, or it could be him but he was able to cover up everything first), I must admit this brought a smile to my face.
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