Hector Xavier Monsegur: LulzSec leader, FBI informant, and cyberpunk antihero

With the arrest of several alleged members of Anonymous offshoot LulzSec, court documents have revealed new information about Hector Xavier Monsegur (aka Sabu), the LulzSec leader-turned-informant. From his apartment in the projects, Monsegur raised his aunt's two children while leading LulzSec in attacks on Visa, Stratfor, and several government agencies. When arrested, he continued his work with LulzSec, this time as an informant for the FBI. It's a life reminiscent of a William Gibson protagonist or a member of the street gangs that populated Gibson's Sprawl. The Panther Moderns from Neuromancer, for example, are a group of "mercenaries, practical jokers, nihilistic technofetishists" who ... »read more

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