14 DAY TRIAL // The sentencing of Hector Monsegur, better known as Sabu of the LulzSec hacker collective, has been delayed again for undisclosed reasons.
The sentencing was scheduled for today, but Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson has learned that it has been adjourned.
Of course, this isn’t the first time this happenes. The sentencing was first postponed back in August 2012.
At the time, the government argued that it still needed Monsegur.
The sentencing date was postponed again in February 2013 to August 23, 2013, “in light of the defendant’s ongoing cooperation with the government.”
On Thursday, Jeremy Hammond, who has pleaded guilty to hacking Stratfor and other organizations, and who is currently in prison, published a statement regarding Monsegur’s sentencing.
“It is widely known that Sabu was used to build cases against a number of hackers, including myself. What many do not know is that Sabu was also used by his handlers to facilitate the hacking of targets of the government’s choosing – including numerous websites belonging to foreign governments,” Hammond said.
“What the United States could not accomplish legally, it used Sabu, and by extension, me and my co-defendants, to accomplish illegally.”
He added, “The questions that should be asked today go way beyond what an appropriate sentence for Sabu might be: Why was the United States using us to infiltrate the private networks of foreign governments? What are they doing with the information we stole? And will anyone in our government ever be held accountable for these crimes?”
A few days ago, FBI representatives boasted that the arrests of the LulzSec hackers had led to the downfall of the Anonymous movement.
“The movement is still there, and they're still yacking on Twitter and posting things, but you don't hear about these guys coming forward with those large breaches. It's just not happening, and that's because of the dismantlement of the largest players,” Austin P. Berglas, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New York cyber division, noted.
Anonymous responded to his statement by leaking data allegedly stolen from FBI servers.