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>Sealed arrest records are also quite common in hacker investigations when law enforcement officials quietly arrest an individual, then flip him to work as a confidential informant with agents to capture others.

So I guess they'll be able to foresee when one of their crew gets turned al la lulzsec.



Yeah, I don't think this is going to turn out well for them. Granted lulzsec was broken up by having a mole so it might make it more difficult for law enforcement, but then again the FBI has been known to use blackhat means to track people across tor[0] and use malware to obtain information[1].

[0] http://www.wired.com/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/

[1] http://www.wired.com/2014/08/operation_torpedo/




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