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The feds' guide to bringing down a hacker from the inside

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Earlier this month, Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the hack of security consultancy Stratfor Global Intelligence. Hammond is the biggest fish to be snared after the FBI managed to turn former top Anon Sabu into a confidential informant. His conviction is a dagger in the side of the struggling hacktivist movement.

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This is nothing more than the FBIs normal mode of operation.

I refer the interested individual to the "Constitutional Militia" movements of the first half of the 1990s, the Waco massacre, the first World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing, the VIPER militia of New Mexico, the Times Square bomber, and an endless stream of other events.

The FBI informant process is always the same. They threaten someone with immense prison times in the govt rape cages, to be turned to sweetness and light if they will entrap, entice, and frame, others. Anyone. The FBI provides information, weapons, money, while the informant pushes for violence, often becoming the driving force behind whatever eventually comes to pass.

The venue changes, the FBI does not.

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