Does anyone know what the actual fucking patent is? Anyone? Bueller?

Shut up, 007. ;-)

In other news, Assange is suffering a major sense of humour failure over the Guardian publishing details from the leaked police report into his case.

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/assange-turns-on-the-guardian-over-assault-case-coverage/s2/a542064/

If you're very, very quiet and listen very, very carefully, you might be able to hear the world's tiniest violin playing for Assange. ;-)

Subject: Wikileaks
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I'd just like to say thanks for cutting off Wikileaks funding. Nice move. Keep up the good work!

I don't have any accounts with you but if I ever need to open an account with a US bank, you'll be first on my list!

"I remember spending hours upon hours playing GoldenEye on the N64, and was sad seeing it go."

Where did it go?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/09/wikileaks_ddos_arrest/

It's a pity it's a 16 year old who, arguably, isn't old enough to know better. I'd be happier if it was some 20-odd year old feckless leftie layabout who we could lock up for five years or so to send a message.

In any case, kudos to the Dutch police! I expect we'll see a signifcant drop-off in the DDoS effectiveness as it begins to dawn on people that is' not, actually, the same a sitting down and refusing to move, and that they could actually end up in court.

Hopefully, they'll have gotten some good leads when they took down anonops.net

And approximately what percentage of people who think it's a good idea to DDoS Mastercard/Visa/PayPal/Amazon will have the smarts to do what you suggest?

Who said anything about jailing them? Police have limited resources so it's likely to take a loooooong time to work their way through all those seized computers. :-)

The use of this LOIC tool that this group are encouraging people to download onto their PCs and fire up to launch these DDoS attacks will be easily detectable and tracable. I'm sure that the companies that are being attacked will be keeping records of the malicious traffic, to be passed on to the police who will, in turn, be able to tie the IP addresses back to broadband connections.

So, I wouldn't be surprised if we see raids, confiscation of computer equipment and (in the UK, at least) charges brought under the Computer Misuse Act. I wonder what the average decline in income is, due to one's inability to get certain jobs because of a criminal record.

And, by the way, those who think that they can get away with it by claiming that it must be a virus infection are deluded - forensic examination will reveal the deliberate downloading of the LOIC tool.

Assange has been "remanded in custody" (i.e. refused bail), pending a hearing on December 14th.

Yeah, CmdrTaco is smoking something, having chosen this instead of my submission: http://slashdot.org/submission/1410934/Julian-Assange-arrested-in-London

Anyone who doesn't think that a Robot Space Plane is Cool should not be reading Slashdot! Robot Space Planes are on a par with sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!

Also, it's no coincidence that the Robot Space Plane returned from orbit in time for Ninja Day. "Unmanned" == invisible crew, and who do we know who can become invisible? Oh yes, it's the Ninjas...

Christ, that guy's family back in Iran are fucked.

If I find out where Assange is, my first call will be to the local US embassy to let them know, in the hope they have a CIA wet team handy to deal with him.