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UPDATED: Indictment Of Reuters' Matthew Keys Points To Dark, Complex World Of Anonymous
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Demonstrators wearing Anonymous Guy Fawkes masks attend a protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on February 11, 2012 in Paris. Protesters have adopted as their own the now-iconic wryly smiling, mustachioed Guy Fawkes cartoon character masks of the global hacker group Anonymous. ACTA's aim is to beef up international standards for intellectual property protection, for example by doing more to fight counterfeit medicine and other goods. But it is ACTA's potential role in cyberspace that has caused outcry online and on the streets. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)
UPDATE 03/15/13, 12:37 Pacific Time: Jay Leiderman, quoted at the end of this story as a Ventura, Calif.-based lawyer who has represented hackers dealing with cyber-crime charges, he will now be representing Keys. In an email toForbes he said the charges against Keys were false. “He was in the chat room just to do a story,” Leiderman said. “He handed over no passwords or logins. This is a shocking case of prosecutorial overreach, and part of a sad and disturbing trend.” New York-based attorney Tor Ekeland will also represent Keys.
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