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by meowface 4186 days ago
On one hand I don't like the idea of surrendering to criminals, especially when you're giving them some kind of compensation, but on the other hand it's likely most or all of them will be arrested in the not-so-distant future. It's probably a net benefit if you appease them in the short term so they can cause as little damage as possible before they end up going away for good.
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jdong 4186 days ago
>but on the other hand it's likely most or all of them will be arrested in the not-so-distant future

People have been saying this for 3-4 months now.

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meowface 4186 days ago
Take a look at the following Twitter: https://twitter.com/finestsquad

At least one of them, a 17-year-old from Canada, has already been arrested.

The personal information of most of the rest of the group has already been publicly spread by "Finest Squad" and sent to law enforcement (though I imagine law enforcement probably already knows who most of them are, especially if other random Internet users can find their names and addresses so easily).

At that point it's just a matter of monitoring and building up a strong enough case.

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jdong 4186 days ago
What's there to back up the legitimacy of the information released by these guys?

It just looks like they're tweeting out random IPs from zeustracker.

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meowface 4186 days ago
If you're familiar with some of the script kiddie communities these people hang out in, it's not that hard to check their work.

It's quite possible they got a few wrong; I have not independently confirmed the information and I'm not sure anyone else has. One can clearly tell what sort of individuals the perpetrators are, though, and US law enforcement typically does not have a lot of trouble identifying and rounding up egotistical script kiddies. Look at LulzSec and all the copycats.

Feel free to put my comment on a calendar: I'd bet a fair bit of money that 75% or more of the group will be arrested before Christmas of 2015.

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jdong 4186 days ago
All "finestsquad" seems to have done is doxed various people the lizardsquad twitter has followed over time, I doubt they're stupid enough to follow themselves.
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meowface 4186 days ago
That is not what they have done at all.

These aliases and information are present on channels far away from Twitter.

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