Topiary (hacktivist) On February 24, 2011, Topiary gained attention after he appeared on The David Pakman Show.
He informed the host that Anonymous had replaced a Westboro Baptist Church webpage with a message from Anonymous during an on-air confrontation with Shirley Phelps-Roper.[12] A recording of this event was placed on YouTube,[13] where it reached over one million views in five days. Topiary was a member of LulzSec, and ran their Twitter account.[14][15] The Guardian had reported that Topiary's name was Daniel.[16] On July 14, 2011, The Guardian published an exclusive interview with Topiary,[17] in which he spoke extensively about his motivations. Describing himself as "an internet denizen with a passion for change" he said he feared being tracked by the authorities: "I can only hope that they haven't pinned any of us, especially my friends from LulzSec.
" The Scotland Yard LulzSec Arrest Claim: A Mess of Social Engineering and Disinformation? Jul 28, 2011 Disinformation is a trick of the espionage tradecraft—show ‘em one thing and do quite another.
Is Scotland Yard’s claim that they’ve arrested Topiary some large-scale disinformation campaign? The Web Ninja’s dox claim Topiary is a 23 year-old Swede. Scotland Yard claims he’s a 19 year-old Shetland Islands resident. Topetaliban.jpg (784×534) Raw/full log, because that's how it is ctrl+f "baby" for start of conversation. Hacker Topiary speaks on TV, representing Anonymous FBI AFTER ANONYMOUS! LulzSec Rep. Topiary Arrested Anonymous on Swedish TV Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church Website During Live Confrontation
secret message to the Army Exclusive: British Police Duped by LulzSec Into Arresting the Wrong Guy. It appears UK police have been deceived by LulzSec.
(Source: Warner Brothers) Topiary (atopiary) Am. Photo: Jake Davis the Scottish Hacker looks like Neo from the Matrix, was Reading book about Libertarian Scientists. Arrested teen hacker Jake Davis cut a defiant figure outside the City of Westminster Crown Court, wearing sunglasses and waving a science book at the massed photographers and press keen to see the human behind the hacker persona.
The Police are now certain that Davis was Topiary - a LulzSec ringleader responsible for many of their high-profile attacks including SOCA and The Sun, and also the group's flamboyant press releases and Twitter accounts. Tweeter ShonaGhosh pointed out Davis' resemblance to Neo from the Matrix. It's those sunglasses isn't it. Damn that film for making hacking look cool. 18yo Jake Davis Charged for DDoS Attacks on SOCA. Well it has surfaced again, the story that UK police got their man, and they are 100% confident its him that they have charged him with the SOCA attacks. 18yo Jake Davis from Shetland islands UK, was arrested on the 27th of July 2011 and has been held for questioning since and is now due to be charged on Monday 1st of August 2011, these charges related to an attack anonymous did on the SOCA website 20th June 2011.
Here is the full list of the charges against Jake Davis: Seem like u heard this story before? Anonymous and Lulzsec stand for Jake Davis with #FreeTopiary Operation ~ THN : The Hacker News. Accused LulzSec hacker Topiary released on bail ~ THN : The Hacker News. Accused LulzSec hacker Topiary released on bail Jake Davis, an 18-year-old from the Shetland Islands, was released on bail after being charged with five offences relating to computer attacks and break-ins by the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups.
Davis was granted bail to stay with his mother at their new home in Spalding, Lincolnshire, on condition that he does not access the internet either directly or through anyone else. He also has to wear a tag to ensure a 10pm to 7am curfew. Davis, whom police believe used the online nickname "Topiary" and was a member of the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups, was arrested at 2.10pm last Wednesday in Mid Yell, an northern island of the Shetlands.
Jake Davis allegedly had the login passwords of 750,000 people on his computer. U.K. Teen Charged With Hacking Websites Released on Bail. (Updates with Murdoch ‘death’ hoax in first paragraph.
For more coverage of News Corp., see {EXT3 <GO>}.) Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Jake Davis, a British teenager accused of conspiring to create a fake news story claiming Rupert Murdoch had died, was released today on bail with the condition that he doesn’t access the Internet. Davis, 18, from the Shetland Islands in Scotland, was arrested last week and charged with conspiring to carry out a so-called denial of service attack on computers at the U.K. government’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement yesterday.
Police said Davis may act as the spokesman for the hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec and uses the online nickname “Topiary.” LulzSec’s Twitter feed hasn’t posted any comments since his arrest last week. Davis was also charged with unauthorized access to a computer system, encouraging and assisting offenses, and conspiring with others to violate the Computer Misuse Act.
Jake Davis aka Topiary wrote Murdoch Death Article and had Private Details of 750,000. dRyZz.png (564×390) Jake Atopiaric: an @exiledsurfer remix. 9WDqFR6. Scotland Yard Busts Suspected LulzSec Spokesman. Why hacker group LulzSec went on the attack. Its audacity was brazen and apparently fearless.
Among its high-profile victims were Sony, the CIA, the FBI, the US Senate and even the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency. Exposing frailties in government and corporate networks, the group leaked hundreds of thousands of hacked passwords, and in the process garnered more than a quarter of a million followers on Twitter. But after just 50 days, on 25 June, LulzSec suddenly said it was disbanding. Just hours before this announcement, the Guardian had published leaked internet chat logs revealing the inner workings of the group, which appeared to consist of six to eight members.
A passion for change - LulzSec interview. Last week, hacker collective LulzSec returned with a bang, attacking a series of websites owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International in apparent response to the ongoing phone hacking scandal.
For 50 days between May and June, the tight-knit, six-strong group made headlines across the world, rising to almost instant notoriety after perpetrating a series of audacious cyber attacks on high-profile government and corporate websites, before abruptly announcing that they would disband. Among just a few of LulzSec's targets: Sony, the US Senate, the CIA, the FBI and even the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency. LulzSec - 'leaders in quality entertainment' The authorities continue to try to track them down, and on Tuesday 20 suspected hackers were arrested in the UK, US and Netherlands as part of an ongoing international investigation. In a joint statement with an affiliated network of hackers known as Anonymous, LulzSec responded to the authorities directly. Topiary: Yes. RG: OK. RG: OK. AnonymouSabu: RIP Topiary Fuck the polic... Wrong LulzSec suspect may have been nabbed - security, online security, network security, hackers, firewalls. UK police may not have gotten their guy when they arrested a 19-year-old Scotsman believed to be LulzSec spokesman "Topiary.
" The website LulzSecExposed, which is run by LulzSec detractors and aims to expose the identities of the hackers, says it believes police may have been misled thanks to a disinformation campaign waged by LulzSec. "Two weeks back, Topiary tried to mislead us with some email conversations to make us believe that Topiary is a UK guy named Daniel Chatfield," according to a post on LulzSecExposed.
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