21-Year-Old Iranian Hacker Is the LulzSec Antichrist

You probably have n’t heard ofComodohacker . He engage alone . But on Thursday , he scared Google into write out a monition for all of Iran — and he wants them to control the internet .

The NYT got in hint with Comodohacker , who says he ’s a 21 year old Iranian student , and asked him about the motives behind his sweeping severance of Gmail this summertime . By snip security measures certificates from a Dutch ship’s company — basically the digital ID board that evidence your computer a site ’s legit — Comodohacker was able to crack 300,000 Iranian Gmail news report , prompting Google towarn the intact country .

So why ’d he do it ? For the Lulz ? For the Ayatollah .

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The NYT quote Comodohacker ’s decidedly nationalistic explanation of the hack :

“ My land should have command over Google , Skype , Yahoo , etc . , ” he said by e - chain mail . “ I ’m let out all encoding algorithms and give power to my res publica to command all of them . ”

chilling clobber . Although he brags about his hack capers like any other subject digital miscreant , ordinate himself with an tyrannical government places him categorically opposite LulzSec and Anon . Theirdistrust of governmentborders on anarchism — Comodohacker ’s is akin to patriotism . For the latter two , government are something to be bludgeoned and vivisect , thrashed into accountability . For Commodohacker , his government activity is righteous , and deserves the cyberspace . And despite miss acknowledgement in the public eye , he ’s clearly great at what he does : 300,000 in a land of 75,000,000 is no humble exploit — specially in a beau monde where secret communicating can be what ’s keep you alive . [ NYT ]

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