Hacker has links to Aussie race riots
One of the people arrested as an alleged ringleader in the Aussie race riots is bloke known to the online community as the hacker Valiant. Andrew Sanders, 25, was the head of a hacking organisation called Halcon, which claimed to be Australia’s biggest hacking organisation in the late 1990s. He claimed to have developed something "remarkably similar” to the New Love computer virus and was linked to the Australian Underground and Empire Loyalist Movement. This group claimed to have sabotaged the Australian Republican Movement's office shutting down its phones and email. While Sanders denied being involved, “Valiant” wrote to Wired magazine and said he did it. Halcon folded in 2001 and Sanders now spends his time investigating the tunnels and sewers of Sydney. Now police have linked him to a White Supremacist group which was involved in Australia’s recent race riots. A raid on his house found a haul of weapons and suspicious items. Sanders faces charges of possessing an unlicensed firearm, a prohibited weapon and an item used for disguising a face. His brief said that much of the gear the cops seized was related to his "urban caving" exercises and there was a dispute over the gun licence with the Firearms Registry.
Reproduced from an article published by The Inquirer
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