Encylopedia Dramatica's Ryan Cleary Arrested, split from older ED topic Options

[Greaser]

Ryan has been arrested by Scotland Yard, working in conjunction with the FBI.

[Silver seren]

*sighs* And now it's gotten sad again.

I mean, there's "showing that he sees this website as no more than a collection of poorly written attack articles"...I mean, that's pretty much what I think, yeah.

And this just made me laugh.

"he accuses ED of organizing a raid, despite the fact that we are a mere encyclopedia. It is also noteworthy that he does not call out the numerous attacks made against ED on that talk page, as he would with any other subject."

Of course ED has never been involved in a raid, everyone there are upright internet citizens.

[Milton Roe]

Of course ED has never been involved in a raid, everyone there are upright internet citizens.

For those who don't know the history, I recommend the WP article on LulzSec. Of course, the connection between LulzSec and ED is tenuous (and seems to be mainly through Cleary himself), and I'm skeptical of reports that it was heavy, simply because those who want to attack ED for other reasons have no better way of doing it than to smear it with all the activities of LulzSec.

Inquiring minds want to know what Cleary did with his supposed botnet. Did he run around doing DNS attacks on his enemies or was he really into sophisicated hacking? Did he program the thing himself, or did he get help from LulzSec hackers who know the game better than he does?