Crackdown takes toll on hackers

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/business/8894905/

By Tom Pullar-Strecker
Technology reporter
Stuff.co.nz
09/07/2013

Digital activist and journalist Quinn Norton says hacker group Anonymous 
has survived dozens of arrests in the United States, but there are a "lot 
of broken spirits" in the US following the crackdown on the Occupy Wall 
Street movement.

Norton, famed for her lucid accounts of Anonymous, including one, Inside 
Anonymous, that featured in Wired magazine in July last year, will deliver 
a keynote speech at InternetNZ's Nethui in Wellington this morning.

In Inside Anonymous, Norton detailed the impact on Anonymous of the arrest 
of 28 year-old hacker and mentor Hector Xavier Monsegur, alias "Sabu", who 
was turned by the FBI in 2011 after being threatened with 124 years' jail 
time.

Norton said yesterday [Monday] that she believed the FBI was complicit in 
more than 50 hacks during the eight month period after it arrested 
Monsegur and secretly took over his online identity to gather and, she 
claims, generate evidence against other "Anons".

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