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by David Kurtz
09.28.11 | 12:19 pm

A lawyer representing one of the alleged “Anonymous” defendants tell TPM there’s nothing criminal about DDOS attacks: “This was merely a digital sit in. It is no different from occupying the Woolworth’s lunch counter in the civil rights era.”

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