Anonymous against the police arrests and raids in Italy - The Republic

Four people ended up under house arrest following the “Tango Down” ordered by Rome prosecutors. They would be responsible for attacks on government sites, the Vatican and the Parliament and would have acted in the name of the hacktivist movement but also for personal purposes. Numerous computer equipment seized. World crackdown against the “pirates”

ROME – The postal police made four arrests in an operation against cybercrime. To finish under house arrest four hackers hiding behind the name “Anonymous” and taking advantage of the reputation of the movement, attacked the computer systems of critical infrastructure, institutional sites and companies. In addition to the four arrests, searches were undertaken in Rome, Bologna, Venice, Lecce, Turin and Ancona. The operation, called “Tango Down”, led to the seizure of other computer equipment.

The surveys were carried out by CNAIPIC, the National Anti-Crime Computer Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection of the police post, and are coordinated by the prosecutor of Rome.

Anonymous. The four arrested would be also responsible for the attacks on government sites, the Vatican and the Parliament.

According to surveys, the four arrested were part of the Anonymous movement but the logo exploited for personal gain. In fact go back to the real connections between the hacktivist group, and who then acts on the Net is not simple. It happens that individual hackers acting in the name of a collective which by definition has no face, much less an order or a chain of command, at least official. In the haziness of the hacktivist network, it can happen that the same hackers sign individual actions with the image of the group, the mask of Guy Fakwes of “V for Vendetta”, without

then proves that this coordinated. And on the canals “official” Anonymous Twitter and through special web spaces is not uncommon to find dissociations.

The web responds. The reactions of the Italian hacker community and world are not be late “Anonymous will react or leave the four arrested by yourself?” you read, the hashtag is # Freeanons. And there are many expressions of solidarity coming from the world of so-called “other network”. “You can stop four people but you can not arrest an idea,” someone wrote on Twitter, but in the whole world the crackdown against hackers is obvious: in the U.S., the group responsible for Lulzsec attacks among others against Sony and Nintendo was sentenced to four members translated into prison. The shorter sentence is 20 months.