Report: Designer arrested over pro-Wikileaks Anonymous press release

According to this item, Alex Tapanaris, whose name appears in the document properties for a PDF press release attributed to Anonymous during last week's pro-Wikileaks DDOS-a-thon, has been arrested. His web site is now offline, too.

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Tapanaris…
acb

Anonymity: Yr doing it wrong.
andygates

Unless it was Joe Anonymo using pirated keys for Adobe, which originated with Tapanaris. Plausible deniability in spades.
mlp

@andygates Except according to the image, the PDF was created using OpenOffice.
- andygates
  
  Good point, you got me. Or rather, they got him.
MrJM

Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US
MrJM

Just imagine if all this national security horse-power were directed at Osama bin Laden.
- TooGoodToCheck
  
  I imagine if Bin Laden were to leave a return address on on of his video releases, he’d also get picked up fairly quickly.
  
  I’m going to go out on a limb here and hazard that at this point, more resources have been spent tracking down Bin Laden than have been spent on Tapanaris, by several orders of magnitude. But Bin Laden isn’t in Greece, and he doesn’t just give away information so people can track him down.
  - travtastic
    
    But what would we blow up after that?
- teapot
  
  Osama bin who?
  
  I thought free speech was the new enemy??
Anonymous

n00b
Patrick Austin

Oddly enough, one of the anagrams for Alex Tapanaris is Anal Pirate Sax. COINCIDENCE?