Three of the top Anonymous leaders allegedly captured in Spain

[redstripe]

"The suspects encoded their communications and penetrated nearby secure Wifi networks, since two of the suspects did not even have an Internet connection at home, the police said."

Spain probably has a pretty rigorous internet/telephony monitoring aparatus as a result of it's internal terrorism problems, but I'm curious how they were tracked down after the wifi network was located. Did the police just search all nearby properties? Is there hardware that can locate the source of individual wifi broadcasts?

[ceejayoz]

Any law enforcement authority is likely to have hardware for triangulating radio signals.

[Typhon]

Anonymous has no leaders. Anonymous is not a hacker network. It may be that some people who belong to hacker networks use Anonymous as their name, but that doesn't involve Anonymous as a whole.

The reason Anonymous is called Anonymous, what makes it different from another human group is that anyone can be part of it, anyone can claim to represent it.

[bry]

That's the theory, but in reality there are likely members that are more influential than others. Not official leaders perhaps, but a form of leader nonetheless.

[escanda]

They've already been released with charges. One of them hosted the IRC server in his own house.

They were not involved in the Playstation network attack but on national Spanish attacks to the Minister of Culture and some other local websites.

He, at least these last two weeks between the cucumbers crisis, and now this misunderstanding on the PSN, the focus is diverted from bonds speculation :)

[getsat]

> a computer server that was used to coordinate and execute the attacks

lol, they arrested a kid with a laptop running LOIC. Nothing to see here, move along.

[click170]

I'm waiting for their response (Anonymous), it's usually comical and entertaining.

[voidr]

You can't just arrest the leaders of Anonymous, because it has no leaders, this is the whole point of it.

These goverment people fight back the only way they know: propaganda.

[velutinous]

I think the term "leaders" is used very loosely here since last I checked they weren't an organisation with "leaders"

I think they're trying to put the blame on anonymous. They found this and thought, we'll blame it on them:

"police found a large quantity of software programs specifically designed to infect third-party computers. The suspects encoded their communications and penetrated nearby secure Wifi networks, since two of the suspects did not even have an Internet connection at home, the police said."

[tomelders]

Lol. They think they know what Anonymous is. Lawfags can't even triforce, etc etc....

[tomelders]

Minus points for satire? It's a good job HN doesn't run a country.