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Fund Grows For KYAnonymous, Who Helped Expose Steubenville Rapists

Deric Lostutter, who may face hacking charges after helping expose details in the Steubenville rape case, is getting a hand from supporters. As of Tuesday morning, his legal defense fund had collected more than $49,000.

"There is nothing that we would like more than the government to come to its senses and decide not to charge Deric and for us to be able to return all the funds to the wonderful people who have showed him support," his attorney, Jason Flores-Williams of the Whistleblower Defense League, told The Huffington Post on Monday. "Unfortunately, our indications are that that isn't going to happen, so we are preparing for a vigorous fight."

Flores-Williams said the government has indicated that it will indict Lostutter, 26, on alleged felony violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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Anonymous Hackers Bring Down Sony Websites

If Sony’s ongoing legal offensive against those who reverse engineer its products was intended to protect the company from hackers, it seems to have had the opposite effect. On Monday, as of 1pm Eastern time, Sony.com and Sony’s Playstation.com were both suffering intermittent downtime as a result of denial of service attacks launched by the hacker group Anonymous.

Late Sunday, the loose digital collective released a statement that promised attacks against the Japanese tech giant on behalf of George Hotz and another hacker who goes by the handle Graf_Chokolo. The two face lawsuits from Sony under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act for publishing methods that break the digital protections on the PlayStation 3 to allow the use of unauthorized programs. Hotz, a 21-year New Jersey security researcher who goes by the handle GeoHot and gained fame for jailbreaking the first iPhone at the age of 17, was recently ordered by a San Francisco judge to turn over his computer equipment as part of Sony’s legal effort and submit his PayPal records for evidence that he’d received donations in response to PS3 jailbreak publication.

Anonymous hasn’t responded warmly. “You have now received the undivided attention of Anonymous,” a statement from the group reads. “Your recent legal action against our fellow hackers GeoHot and Graf_Chokolo has not only alarmed us, it has been deemed wholly unforgivable.”