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18 October 2013
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Jay Leiderman is a criminal law specialist and defense attorney who has represented members of Anonymous and Lulzsec.
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Reuters' Web Producer Indicted For Conspiring With Anonymous Hacking Group
Reuters' Web Producer Indicted For Conspiring With Anonymous Hacking Group
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There's been an interesting twist in an ongoing story about political hacking. A federal grand jury has indicted a 26-year-old deputy social media editor at reuters.com for conspiring with the hacking group Anonymous. The group is known for hacking into websites to make political statements. According to the indictment, Matthew Keys helped Anonymous break into the computers of his former employer, the Tribune Company. NPR's Laura Sydell has more.
LAURA SYDELL, BYLINE: Our story begins back in October of 2010 when Matthew Keys was let go from his job at Fox 40, a Tribune-owned TV station in Sacramento, California. On December 14th, someone hacked into the website of one of the Tribune's other news properties, the L.A. Times. The intruder changed a headline from Pressure Builds in House to Pass Tax-Cut Package to Pressure Builds in House to Elect CHIPPY 1337. According to the federal indictment, Keys conspired with the hacker group Anonymous to stage the attack and change the headline.
Keys, who had been reporting on Anonymous, had managed to gain access to an online chat room where members of the group hung out. According to the federal indictment, using the name AESCracked, Keys shared all of his login and personal information from his former employer with one of the hackers. The indictment has a screenshot where AESCracked responds to news from one of the hackers that they got into the Tribune website by writing LOL, laughing out loud.
The hacker identified as Sharpie says he's having trouble staying inside the system. AESCracked responds by saying, I can grant you access again. The Justice Department would not comment for this story, but Keys' newly appointed attorney, Jay Leiderman, had this to say about the accusations.
JAY LEIDERMAN: He didn't hand over passwords, login credentials, anything like that to Anonymous.
SYDELL: Leiderman claims that Keys is being falsely accused by a former Anonymous member named Sabu, whose real name is Hector Monsegur. Monsegur was arrested by federal authorities and has been cooperating with the larger investigation into the activities of Anonymous. Leiderman thinks that Monsegur, who faces over 100 years in prison, is just trying to please federal prosecutors.
LEIDERMAN: When you're looking down a barrel at a 124-year prison sentence, you are liable to say anything.
SYDELL: Leiderman says Keys is a journalist who wrote a good article looking at Anonymous from the inside, and by indicting Keys, the federal government is trying to send a signal.
LEIDERMAN: Because Anonymous receives so much press, so much interest from the media, this was a shot across the bow of journalists. If you embed yourself with Anonymous, if you dare tell their story, we're going to prosecute you.
SYDELL: Keys' current employer, Reuters, has suspended him from his position where he's a social media editor. According to Reuters' own reporting, Keys got in some trouble there last fall. He covertly created a parody Twitter account, mocking Google's CEO Larry Page. The indictment of Keys has drawn the attention of Internet civil rights groups, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation or EFF. Keys is being charged under the Computer Fraud Abuse Act, and he could face as much as 25 years in prison, says EFF attorney Hanni Fakhoury. Fakhoury says the law is too harsh.
HANNI FAKHOURY: He's charged with a felony for behavior that if done in the physical world, if you think of someone who spray-paints graffiti on a freeway sign, will maybe be charged with a misdemeanor instead of a felony.
SYDELL: Keys is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Sacramento on April 12th. Laura Sydell, NPR News.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Jay Leiderman on Voice of Russia Radio 29 January 2013
Voice Of Russia Radio
The Afternoon Show
Show host: Rob Sachs
Jay, Andrew "Weev" Aurenheimer and Rob Sachs talked about free information on the internet, the persecutions of Aaron Swartz, Weev and Bradley Manning, and scrapping the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (See e.g.; 18 USC section 1030) such that we can start fresh with a sensible crimes computer law.
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Afternoon Show → Hacktivist: Swartz’ Death Symbolizes ‘Prosecutorial Overreach’ in US
Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) wrote a letter to the Justice Department and asked why the department was pursuing Swartz and what was the nature of the prosecution. In addition, they asked if Swartz’ known association with the opposition to SOPA was among the factors considered.
Host Rob Sachs spoke with Andrew Auernheimer, an internet hacktivist also known by the name Weev, and Jay Leiderman, a California-based attorney who represents notorious hacktivists like Anonymous, to talk about Swartz’ death and the reaction from the hacktivist community.
And, just for fun, and because this is a Voice of Russia interview, a picture Jay took in St. Petersburg Russia inside the political prison Peter and Paul Fortress. The picture is of the cell once occupied by Aleksandr Ilich Ulianov, the older brother of Vladimir Ilich (Ulainov) Lenin. It somehow seemed appropriate.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Attorney Jay Leiderman is the guest on the second ever Commander X radio show: Commander X Speaks on PLF Radio
Check it out: http://localleaks.me/plf/CXS12812.mp3
Topics include legal analysis of the recent conviction of "Weev" and "Nerdo" and the new indictment of Barrett Brown.
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