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Submitted by Erudito87 216d ago | news

Hackers say they’ve found Amanda Todd’s tormentor

thestar.com: A group of hackers say they have tracked down a man they say is Amanda Todd’s tormenter.

The “hacktivists” are part of the group Anonymous and say they have found a man in his early 30s from New Westminster, B.C., who allegedly blackmailed the 15-year-old girl for pictures over the Internet. (Anonymous, Culture, Internet, Web)

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Smokeeye123  +   216d ago
Do more of this and people won't fucking hate you Anonymous.
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Erudito87  +   216d ago
anonymous have done quite a lot of good since their alliance with wikileaks
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Archmagel  +   216d ago
What about when they took down those horrible "children" sites and then invited the FBI and Interpol to have the names of the frequent visitors? I believe they put their skills to good use more than you realize. You rarely hear the good they do because others are trying to focus on the "bad".
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RockmanII7  +   216d ago
You act like Anon is one universal group all following the same goal. It's more similar to a community than a group in which that saying "I hate Anonymous for hacking PSN" is like saying "I hate Christians for being intolerant" yes it may apply to some but not to all. Everything Anonymous does I'm sure there are members who affiliate themselves with Anonymous that disagree with what is happening.
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DOOMZ  +   216d ago
Most people love them, just sayin!
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CanadianTurtle  +   216d ago
Finally these half wits are doing something useful with their lives.
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LightofDarkness  +   215d ago
I don't think "half-wits" is a suitable description for people with clearly exceptional investigatory and computing/networking skills. There's no evidence linking them to others who've assumed the anonymous mantle either, they've just stated that they too are "anonymous", i.e. unnamed.
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Tales RPG addict  +   216d ago
Anonymous working for the Greater Good
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RE_L_MAYER  +   216d ago
cops and other assholes cant find anyone anyways,unless obama died or something then they will find the killer

good job whoever you hackers out there are
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aiBreeze  +   216d ago
Good stuff, next could you guys please go after the sick perverts who keep stalking Suri Cruise? That poor innocent girl, I'm fed up of every time I load up my news app on my phone I see her solemn face in some BS news article.
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Erudito87  +   216d ago
you mean the scientologists?
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aiBreeze  +   216d ago
No the paparazzi.
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Ben_Grimm  +   216d ago
"who allegedly blackmailed the 15-year-old girl for pictures over the Internet."

Are they sure its the guy? I would hate for these hackers to go after someone who's innocent and had nothing to do with that.
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bigdaddy4247  +   216d ago
I never was against Anonymous in fact i support them for all they do. Like someone said above Anonymous has done a lot of good but media and people only seem to focus on the bad. Anonymous is doing what hackers should really do and fight for the people and help because sometimes it takes breaking the law to find that criminal or person doing wrong.
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Legion  +   216d ago
"The “hacktivists” are part of the group Anonymous" bullcrap... everybody and their brother claims they are a part of anonymous... that is like saying you are a part of the human race.

Their is no single entity known as Anonymous... it has become a tagline for everyone to claim some greater cause for their activities.

I am going to call myself Anonymous and thus I am now Anonymous... all wanna be's who weren't allowed in any other group so they join an imaginary clan. ha
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LightofDarkness  +   215d ago
Well... that's the idea. They're no pretending to be a group, it's akin to the Alan Smithee pseudonym for directors who don't want their name attached to a work. It's just the de facto means of obscuring the identities of those involved in questionable cyber activity.

People need to stop looking at Anonymous like it's a purposed group, it's just an idea. You are just stating that you are "ANONYMOUS", i.e. unnamed.
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Legion  +   215d ago
Except the vast majority of people that say they are Anonymous really think they are claiming to be in some special group.

This is not V for Vendetta, this is not an Alan Smythee pseudonym.... people really think they are a part of some special cause.

And people who threaten and then promote they are anonymous end up talking against the wrong person and finding out they aren't so Anonymous after all.

THOSe people make me laugh....
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Bil  +   216d ago
just wondering is this man really the "one" as Anonymous is claiming....
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OSIRUSSS  +   216d ago
I miss Lulsec.
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