Anonymous link alleged in Santa Cruz hacking

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(09-23) 09:19 PDT SANTA CRUZ --

Two men with alleged ties to the online activist group Anonymous have been indicted on charges that they hacked Santa Cruz County computers in retaliation for the arrest of demonstrators who mounted a long-running protest of a ban on outdoor sleeping.

Christopher Doyon, 47, of Mountain View - who was a spokesman for the protesters - and Joshua John Covelli, 26, of Fairborn, Ohio, were indicted Wednesday for allegedly taking part in a "distributed denial of service" attack Dec. 16 against Santa Cruz County's computer servers, causing the county website to go offline.

A group known as the People's Liberation Front, which is associated with other activist groups including Anonymous, coordinated and executed the attack, authorities said.

"People's Liberation Front, also known as PLF, was an online collective of individuals that was associated with collaborative hacking attacks motivated by political and social goals, often referred to as 'hactivism,' " said the indictment, handed down by a federal grand jury in San Jose.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/23/BADC1L8L6M.DTL

[polly7]

1. k & r nt.

[Pterodactyl]

2. Looks like they'll be sleeping indoors - in jail!