Kyle
By now you probably know that the most infamous member of hacktivist group LulzSec isn’t the least bit anonymous any longer. That’s because Sabu, who’s real name is Hector Xavier Monsegur, was arrested last summer and immediately flipped on the rest of his coherts. This was a betrayal of epic proportions, the kind that leaves mafia bodies in the Hudson River.
Monsegur was facing well over a century in prison for hacker related charges ranging from attacks on financial institutions, movie and production companies and government agencies. While no one has the details on the deal Monsegur has made with authorities, it’s definitely worth some kind of reduction in sentence. The blogsphere reported when Sabu’s snitching was discovered, that he was doing it because he couldn’t stand to be away from his kids. Instead now, five of his accomplices will probably end up spending lots of time away from their families.
Earlier this week Monesgur was due for a court appearance. That particular court appearance actually resulted in the dropping of an “impersonation” charge. At one time Monsegur had been arrested and identified himself to police as a federal agent. Whoops. The judge hearing Monsegur’s cases dismissed that charge, presumably to make room for the meat and potatoes of his case.
That’s all well and good except Monsegur wasn’t in court to hear the charges dropped. He apparently didn’t totally skip as his lawyers said he didn’t show up for fear of his safety and that seems to be ok with the judge.
At this point we’re hearing from betabeat and others that Monsegur may cost the tax payers even more as they are considering witness protection.
source: BetaBeat
thats lulzy