| Here's What It Looks Like When Two Hacker FBI Informants Try To Inform On Each Other [message #92869] |
Mon, 01 July 2013 10:38 |
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The FBI has so many moles in the hacktivist community, it seems, that at times they've even ended up unwittingly doing their best to get each other arrested.
For much of 2011, Icelandic then-teenager and self-described hacker Sigurdur Thordarson worked as both a WikiLeaks volunteer and an FBI informant. As Thordarson first told Wired, he claims to have given the FBI eight hard drives full of information potentially useful to the U.S. government's ongoing investigation into WikiLeaks, which has come back into the spotlight due to the secret-spilling group's role in helping NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden seek asylum.
In an instant message conversation with Thordarson Thursday, I asked him what he might have given to the FBI that could be relevant to its investigation, and he responded immediately with a log of an instant message conversation between himself and the member of the LulzSec hacker group known as Sabu, which he says he gave to the FBI and which he claims shows "that information was passed on from LulzSec that later got published by WikiLeaks." Thordarson told me he believes the log supports a "conspiracy" charge against Julian Assange or others in WikiLeaks.
The log is likely less useful to the FBI than Thordarson thinks: It's no surprise that WikiLeaks has published hacked files, or even that it publishes files hacked specifically by LulzSec, such as the millions of emails stolen from the private intelligence firm Stratfor by activist Jeremy Hammond, who pleaded guilty to computer fraud and abuse last month.
More interesting, or at least more humorous, is the fact that the chat log represents a conversation between two FBI informants, both of whom seem to be trying to lure the other into providing evidence they can turn over to their law enforcement handlersor even into a meeting that could lead to the other's arrest. Sabu, also known as Hector Xavier Monsegur, had agreed to work as an FBI mole within LulzSec months before his conversation with Thordarson. Thordarson, for his part, tells me he thought he was helping to deliver a "notorious hacker" to the FBI, and didn't know he was speaking to a fellow stool pigeon. Monsegur doesn't show any signs of knowing either.
Full article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/28/heres-w hat-it-looks-like-when-two-hacker-fbi-informants-try-to-info rm-on-each-other/
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