The agents are a jovial lot, and spend a fair amount of time laughing and telling jokes. Though the call has been edited in some instances, it appears to concern tracking and prosecuting several members of Anonymous, including Ryan Cleary and Jack Davis, two British suspects linked to Anonymous. “The FBI might be curious how we’re able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now,” said Anonymous on Twitter. According to the Washington Post, calls to either the FBI or Scotland Yard were not returned, though the call appears legit. Anonymous shut the FBI website down in the wake of the raid on file-sharing website Megaupload, and they’ve been focusing their efforts on law enforcement ever since. They also posted an email sent by the FBI giving dial-in information for the call. Today, FBI director robert Mueller told told the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that cyber crime could be a bigger concern for the bureau than terrorism in the future. “There is very little we do in this day and age that is not on or somehow associated with the internet,” he said, according to CNN. “The theft of intellectual property, the theft of research and development, the theft of the plans and programs of a corporation for the future, of all which are vulnerable to being exploited by attackers.” As the FBI has decided that cyber crime is a bigger and bigger concern, so have its opponents decided that the FBI is a bigger and bigger concern. The conflict doesn’t seem like it will de-escalate anytime soon. youtube/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pl3spwzUZfQ
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:12:26 +0000
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