Anonymous Spies on Secret FBI Conference Call, Posts Audio Clip

[Cali_Democrat]

Anonymous Spies on Secret FBI Conference Call, Posts Audio Clip
Tiffany Kaiser - February 6, 2012 2:33 PM


The government just can't seem to sneak around hacker group Anonymous no matter what it does. Anonymous has managed to eavesdrop on a FBI conference call concerning strategies to arrest members of the famous hacking collective.

On January 17, an FBI agent from the Los Angeles FBI office and a Scotland Yard investigator engaged in a conference phone call regarding new ways to arrest members of Anonymous. Invitations to the conference call were sent out to law enforcement authorities all over the world in an email. As they chatted and joked while discussing specifics, the two investigators, named Stewart and Bruce, had no idea that the group they were talking about was listening in on that very conversation.

Last Friday, Anonymous posted a 17-minute clip of the conference call as well as the email sent by an FBI agent to other agents around the world, which contained a phone number and password for obtaining the conference call.

"The FBI might be curious how we're able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now," said AnonymousIRC, a Twitter account connected to Anonymous.

http://www.dailytech.com/Anonymous+Spies+on+Secret+FBI+Conference+Call+Posts+Audio+Clip/article23938.htm

[Voice for Peace]

1. oopsy

[Voice for Peace]

2. the eavesdroppers become the eavesdroppees

Now they never know if someone is listening in on them
or reading their emails

heh

[Cali_Democrat]

3. My how the tables have turned

[Kaleko]

4. Lyrical.

As in poetic justice.

[MADem]

5. Hmmmm. Well, if anyone thought Anonymous was actually an arm of government, that's one way of

making people believe otherwise.

Why only seventeen minutes? Why not the whole magilla? And why redact anything?

The call between the two investigators detailed plans for setting back arrests regarding suspects linked to Anonymous known online as Kayla and Tflow. The real names of these online suspects were mentioned in the conversation, but Anonymous bleeped them out. The investigators also talked about Jake Davis and Ryan Cleary, two other suspects linked to Anonymous.

"We've set back the further arrests of Kayla and Tflow, that being [redacted] and [redacted], until we know what's happening," said the U.K. investigator. "We've got our prosecution counsel making an application in chambers, without defense knowing, to seek a way to try and factor some time in that won't look suspicious."

Anything's possible, I suppose.