Exclusive: Leader of Anonymous Steubenville Op on Being Raided by the FBI
"They want to make an example of me, saying, 'You don't fucking come after us.'"
—By Josh Harkinson
| Thu Jun. 6, 2013 5:08 PM PDT
In April, the FBI quietly raided the home of the hacker known as KYAnonymous in connection with his role in the Steubenville rape case. Today he spoke out for the first time about the raid, his true identity, and his motivations for pursuing the Steubenville rapists, in an extensive interview with Mother Jones.
"The goal of the media interviews is to get the entire nation to say 'fuck you' to these guys," said KYAnonymous, whose real name is Deric Lostutter. He was referring to the federal agents who raided his home in Winchester, Kentucky, and carted off his computers and XBox.
Lostutter may deserve more credit than anyone for turning Steubenville into a national outrage. After a 16-year-old girl was raped by two members of the Steubenville High football team last year, he obtained and published tweets and Instagram photos in which other team members had joked about the incident and belittled the victim. He now admits to being the man behind the mask in a video posted by another hacker on the team's fan page, where he threatened action against the players unless they apologized to the girl. (The rapists were convicted in March.)
A 26-year-old corporate cybersecurity consultant, Lostutter lives on a farm with his pit bull, Thor, and hunts turkeys, goes fishing, and rides motorcycles in his free time. He considers himself to be a patriotic American; he flies an American flag and enjoys Bud Light. He's also a rapper with the stage name Shadow, and recently released a solo album under the aegis of his own label, Nightshade Records. The name dovetails with that of his Anonymous faction, KnightSec.
full: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/kyanonymous-fbi-steubenville-raid-anonymous
PZ Myers just posted this story and commented, "Only rapists are allowed privacy now ."
What is WRONG with this country, where one can get more time behind bars for leaking the names of later-convicted rapists or releasing a video of the US military attacking foreign civilians than raping a girl?
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