lördag 13 december 2014

66-årig gitarrlegend (ELO, Elton John, George Harrison m.fl.) fängslad i USA - klickade på länk

Den 66-årige gitarrlegenden, Geoffrey “Jake” Commander, som under åren spelat tillsammans med storheter som Beatlesmedlemmen George Harrison, Elton John och Jeff Lynne från Electric Light Orchestra, slängdes nyligen i ett amerikanskt fängelse för att han klickat på en länk på en av Anonymous webbsajter under 2010...
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Genom att klicka på länken 2010  så deltog Geoffrey “Jake” Commander, tillsammans med 1000-tals andra i de stora DDoS/överbelastnings-protesterna mot Master Card 2010 efter att företaget vägrat att hantera donationer till Wikileaks.
 
13 personer som deltog i protesterna 2010 ringades in och åtalades av USA.

Gitarristen hotades initialt med 10 års fängelse från de amerikanska myndigheterna, men efter att vissa delar av åtalet lagts ner, så dömdes Jake till slut till 10 dagars fängelse.

Vid rättegången i USA så lovade "Jake" domaren att han aldrig tänker sätta sin fot i USA fler gånger efter att han avtjänat sitt fängelsestraff.

Geoffrey “Jake” Commander bodde 2010 i USA, men flyttade därifrån med sin familj för flera år sedan.

- Jake arresterats 2013 när han återvände till USA med familjen, 3 år efter protesten mot kortföretaget.

Han förväntas bli frisläppt under nästa vecka...

http://www.ddosattacks.net/66-year-old-british-rock-guitarist-jailed-for-taking-part-in-2010-anonymous-ddos-campaign-called-operation-payback/
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66 year old British Rock Guitarist jailed for taking part in 2010 Anonymous DDoS campaign called Operation Payback

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2014-12-08
Radio.com Geoffrey “Jake” Commander, a British musician who’s worked with George Harrison, Elton John and Electric Light Orchestra, has been jailed due to his participation in a hack of the MasterCard website by the activist group Anonymous.

According to The Washington Post, Commander was one of 13 people charged last year for online attacks against various online financial institutions, which initially had the 66-year-old guitarist facing up to 10 years in prison.

This past Friday (Dec. 5), the case was dropped to a misdemeanor, with Commander still facing as much as a year behind bars. Ultimately, he was sentenced to 10 days in an Alexandria, Va., jail, with credit for one day served after his initial arrest.

He’s expected to be released early next week.

Related: Here’s Elton John Falling Out of a Chair At a Tennis Match

The charges stem from an incident in December of 2010 when the guitarist stumbled into an online Anonymous chat room and willfully clicked on a link “used by hackers to fire off a huge amount of traffic to a target site, resulting in servers crashing” while he was living in New Hampshire.

- Commander admitted to the infraction, calling it a form of “protest” because in his estimation, banks have “brought the country to its knees.”

His computer specifically targeted MasterCard, which would go on to lose more than $1 million in the online attacks.

During the trial, U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady admitted to being a fan of classic rock. It was also revealed that Commander had once set up a White House tour for Electric Light Orchestra back in 1978.

“I’m mortified to have upset the government of this country, which has been my host for many years,” Commander told the judge during the proceedings.

Commander and his family moved back to England years ago, with the guitarist promising to never return to America after his incarceration.
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66 year old British Rock Guitarist jailed for taking part in 2010 Anonymous DDoS campaign called Operation Payback


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DDoSInfo – Information about DDoS and Denial of Service Attacks
Geoffrey ‘Jake’ Commander, a 66-years-old British rock guitarist and part of the Electric Light Band Orchestra (ELO), has been given a a jail sentence for joining the popular online hacktivists collective ‘Anonymous’ and taking part in the famous Operation Payback campaign in 2010 which brought down many financial websites. 

Washington Times quotes that, “Geoffrey “Jake” Commander, a rock guitarist who has played with the Electric Light Orchestra, George Harrison and Elton John, among others, walked unnoticed through the halls of the U.S. District Court in Alexandria early Friday afternoon”

The sentence was given by the Alexandria District Court on Friday following the  admission of guilty plea by ‘Jake.’

- The ELO guitarist admitted to his involvement in the Anonymous operation at the hearing before the sentence was pronounced.  
- He also promised the Judge never to return to the United States after his release.  
- The authorities said that he could serve only ten days in prison, ‘Jake’ was earlier facing a likely prison sentence of ten years jail time in a federal prison.  

Operation Payback The Anonymous campaign called Operation Payback was a coordinated attack against the opponents of Internet piracy. Anonymous started the Operation Payback started as retaliation to DDoS attacks on torrent sites by anti piracy lobby.

The Anonymous then allegedly took down many anti-piracy websites all over the world through coordinated DDoS attacks.

After Wikileaks published the leaks of Diplomatic cables in December 2010,  some banks withdrew banking facilities given to Wikileaks.

Anonymous then turned the Operation Payback against such banks which had withdrawn the banking facilities. Geoffrey’s Role in Operation Payback. Reports indicate that Geoffery took part in the IRC chat administered by members of Anonymous collective and joined the 1000 members of Anonymous to launch a DDoS attack against MasterCard.

He was alleged part of the Operation Payback for over 3 hours in which he he contributed to the amplification of the attack by using the LOIC (low-orbit Ion cannon) tool on his PC. MasterCard had reported later that it recorded a $1 million loss due to this DDoS attack.

- Geoffery was arrested in 2013 after he returned to the United States with his family, 3 years after the attack. 

Source: http://www.techworm.net/2014/12/66-year-old-british-rock-guitarist-jailed-taking-part-2010-anonymous-ddos-attack.html

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66-årig gitarrlegend (ELO, Elton John, George Harrison m.fl.) fängslad i USA - klickade på länk
   
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1 kommentar:

  1. KRIGET MOT KONTANTERNA
    SOU_2014_72

    Ett lagförslag har nyss lagts fram som innebär att det blir förbjudet att handla skrot kontant. Lagförslaget innebär också att Skatteverket kan göra tillslag utan förvarning med assistans av polis hos skrothandlare.

    Attackerna på kontanterna avlöser varandra. Vi ska vänjas vid att allt ska skötas elektroniskt. Bankernas kontroll blir total. I utredningen används konsekvent ordet "kontantförbud", som en förvarning om vad som komma skall.

    Utredningen och lagförslaget finns här:

    https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/Dokument-Lagar/Utredningar/Statens-offentliga-utredningar/Handel-med-begagnade-varor-och_H2B372/

    SvaraRadera

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