While I do like the term "net activist" I actually believe more that he "did it for the lulz" and was not really aware of what it means to run LOIC w/o using an anonymizer like tor.
There are many uninformed people on the 4chan of all places, where the anon ops peeps (if that is even one coherent group) look for LOIC operators. It sucks for him to be caught, but in the end he is a 16 year old kid using a software of unknown source to attack a website of somebody else. Nothing heroic to see here IMO.
Yes there are stupid big companies doing stupid and bad things, but cyber vandalism, while pretty funny, will fire back, when the next round of silly internet laws is made, be it in Europe, the US or elsewhere.
He would be better of in operating a tor-relay/node than doing some silly vandalism. A tor node actually helps real people to circumvent censorship.
While I do like the term "net activist" I actually believe more that he "did it for the lulz" and was not really aware of what it means to run LOIC w/o using an anonymizer like tor.
There are many uninformed people on the 4chan of all places, where the anon ops peeps (if that is even one coherent group) look for LOIC operators. It sucks for him to be caught, but in the end he is a 16 year old kid using a software of unknown source to attack a website of somebody else. Nothing heroic to see here IMO.
Yes there are stupid big companies doing stupid and bad things, but cyber vandalism, while pretty funny, will fire back, when the next round of silly internet laws is made, be it in Europe, the US or elsewhere.
He would be better of in operating a tor-relay/node than doing some silly vandalism. A tor node actually helps real people to circumvent censorship.
my 0.02€