(Anonymous) Hackers intercept confidential conference call between FBI and Scotland Yard, leak info

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Hackers intercept confidential conference call between FBI and Scotland Yard, leak info to Web

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, February 3, 1:14 PM

LONDON — They trade jokes, chuckle and talk shop about a hacker plot called “Project Mayhem.”

But at the heart of the conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was a strategy aimed at bringing down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, which has launched a series of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.

Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were listening, too — and now so is the rest of the world.

Anonymous published the roughly 15-minute-long recording of the call to the Internet early Wednesday, gloating in a Twitter message that “the FBI might be curious how we’re able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now.”

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[Lionessa]

1. I always feel a bit of a hypocrite for my thoughts about Anonymous

I truly think there is a need for government, for paying taxes, and so on. So I would think that I would be bothered by anyone/anything threatening it, like say Teabaggers, which I am. However, gov't is so corrupt now, especially with regard to military/defense activities and budgets and false fearmongering, that I can't help but applaud Anonymous with hopes that it can truly accomplish something worthwhile in exposing hacked information to the general public.

[msongs]

2. obama admin is outspying Bush 2. "transparency" is just an election slogan nt