Closer Look At Anonymous' Attempted Symantec Extortion
Symantec disclosed this week that a person claiming to be from the Anonymous group Lords of Dharmaraja in India tried to extort $50,000 from the company to keep it from releasing on the Internet product code stolen from the company in 2006. Negotiations between the extortionist, who went by the moniker Yama Tough, and law enforcement posing as Symantec executive Sam Thomas, started in mid-January and broke down Feb. 6. Negotiations started shortly after the group released source code for 2006 versions of Norton Utilities and PcAnywhere and threatened to release more code from other products.
What follows is the piecing together of the e-mail thread of the negotiations that appeared on the Internet, apparently from Anonymous.
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