“Everything incriminating has been burned”: Anons fight panic after Sabu betrayal (original) (raw)

"Hackers claiming to be Anonymous have distorted this truth in order to further their hidden agenda, and some Anons have taken the bait," members of Anonymous claimed. "Stratfor analysts are widely considered to be extremely unbiased. Anonymous does not attack media sources."

Sabu remained a presence on the Anonymous IRC channels up untll this week. But as the news broke yesterday, administrators of the #anonops channel added his handle to the "bad word list"—anyone typing "sabu" would be automatically ejected from the channel.

"I'm done, bro"

For his part, Avunit split with LulzSec when the group began its attacks on government servers as part of its "Fuck FBI Friday" operations. Since then, he's been aligned with the AnonOps collective within Anonymous, where he has restricted himself mostly to working on denial-of-service tool development and guiding new recruits.

Avunit was shaken by Sabu's willingness to cooperate with authorities, especially since he learned much of the craft of hacking from Sabu. "I cant even describe what it's like to have someone that taught you, and quite honestly inspired me (and many others), turn on the very people that trusted him the most," he told me.

While sympathetic to the fact that Sabu's children may have influenced his decision, he didn't understand how Sabu could have put his family at risk in the first place. "Why would you get involved with something like this if you had kids that relied on you?" he asked. "If I had kids I would get a 'responsible' job/hobby."

As for his own involvement in Anonymous, Avunit said, "I think I'm done, bro." He was considering changing locations, but he said he was concerned about being picked up in transit, "because if I try and leave through an airport and they know my ID, it'd be like walking to prison and handing myself in."

At the end of the conversation, he logged off IRC with the quit message, "Adios anonops <3 ."