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This is a huge challenge for the FBI and it will be interesting to see how they handle and crack this case. I do hope they can find these bastards and put them behind bars for a very long time indeed.

The FBI should start with the a court order and to get the domain registrar to reveal the identity of the person/organization, that registered the domain name lulzsecurity.com which happens to be registered in the Bahamas and can be viewed at : (http://whois.domaintools.com/lulzsecurity.com) as

    c/o lulzsecurity.com
    N4892 Nassau
    Bahamas

Tel: +852.81720004

Of course, most likely they used an alias/fake identity. But the hackers had to have left a financial trail when they purchased and registered that domain name, or that phone number, PO Box.

I use the same registrar as these guys. The Bahamas pretty much do not give a fuck about FBI requests. They likely registered on the site using falsified info through a foreign, compromised Windows machine acting as a proxy and paid using an anonymous Paypal account. Problem?

Paypal accounts are cheap to buy and machines running Windows are plentiful.

> The Bahamas pretty much do not give a fuck about FBI requests

And how exactly do you know this?

Oh my god, you're right. He's one of them! (damn lawyers)

Haha, I used Internet.bs before they were cool. They have (had?) the cheapest .com's.

Registering a domain with a prepaid credit card isn't rocket science.

Not if they were smart.

Probably too smart for their own good - all super-smart criminals make the fatal mistake of assuming that others are too dumb to catch them. They also do not have access to the combined resources of the NSA, FBI, CIA.

Do you have experience dealing with super-smart criminals other than noticing how they are generally portrayed in movies / tv ?

The thing about super-smart criminals is that you don't hear about them ;)

Or they are called defenders of freedom;]

combined resources of the NSA, FBI, CIA

The problem is that all these combines resources mean less outside of the US. They mean even less in an old eastern bloc country, Russia, or some random 3rd world.

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