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Famewhoring and egofagging have no place when seeking justice for a rape victim. EVER!
Deric, you are such a disgusting douchbag even Anonymous has turned their back on you. How fucking dare you use a rape victim to promote your *cough* “career” *cough* and now you’re trying to insert yourself in the Maryville op?? Why?? Are you not getting enough attention?? Have you NOT learned your fucking lesson?? Apparently not.. Stupid is as stupid does..
Get a fucking clue already.. Time for you to move on with your pathetic famewhoring and stop using Anonymous to try and gain more attention. Your involvement in any op is NOT needed OR wanted… obviously.
Karma is a bitch isn’t it?
Deric Lostutter’s Amusing Gawker Interview
“Greetings, citizens of the world,” the pre-written script said. Behind his mask, Lostutter bobbed his head, as if he were speaking along. “We are Anonymous. We are KnightSec.” He was no longer the hard-partying, chronically underemployed 26-year-old rapper who lived in his girlfriend’s house on the outskirts of a small town. He was KYAnonymous, crusading leader of KnightSec, an offshoot of the infamous Anonymous hacktivist collective.
– No, he was still the chronically underemployed 26-year-old ‘rapper’ (and I use ‘rapper’ loosely) who lived in his girlfriend’s house. He was bored and drunk one night and thought being Anonymous would make him one of the ‘cool kids’.
Not long after, one of KnightSec’s supporters tweeted a photo back at him. “She was on the treadmill at the gym, and she took a picture, and on all the TVs on the wall, I was on every one,” Lostutter said. “I was like, ‘Fuck.'”
– Egofag much?
But the decision to take on the Steubenville case unleashed more powerful forces than he had ever encountered before: international outrage, legions of vigilante followers, and a glaring media spotlight.
– Because he lied and made the situation out to be something it was not (there was no cover up, amongst other falsities he threw out there).
It was KnightSec that would obtain the video of a Steubenville teen joking about the rape, turning an alcohol-blurred local crime into a visual that cable news could loop like disaster footage, crystallizing public opinion against the offenders. It was also KnightSec that helped create a toxically false, conspiratorial dossier on innocent parties surrounding the case.
– KnightSec obtained the video because it was sent to him. Law enforcement already had it in their hands.
– Yep, him and his ‘cronies’ bullied and harassed innocent adults AND CHILDREN.
And it was KYAnonymous himself who found an FBI tactical team in his driveway in April, preparing to search his home, investigating the hack of a website during the Steubenville campaign.
– It wasn’t just because of Steubenville. He has been wire tapped since September 2012. Much more to the story he did not divulge.
On a recent Saturday, Lostutter slouched in a big sofa in the living room of his girlfriend’s house. He wore jeans, and his scrawny tattooed arms poked out from a black t-shirt emblazoned with the logo of Nightshade Records, the tiny local record label that releases his rap albums. Lostutter is a proud country boy, owner of a small arsenal of firearms, a motorcycle, a blue Chevy pick-up, and a hyperactive pitbull named Thor that he swatted profanely off the couch whenever he jumped on it. Sliding glass doors offered a swaying panorama of chest-high bluegrass, in which sat a couple of outbuildings surrounded by clusters of vehicles and old farm equipment. This was not the stereotypical hacker hideout.
– “Hacker” LOL! He couldn’t hack open wifi.
“I don’t really get down with violence toward women or rape or anything like that,” Lostutter said.
– Is bullying and harassing mothers and children on social media violent?
He was explaining why he’d felt the need to intervene in Steubenville. “It seemed to me like this girl was taken advantage of. And the people I used to run with and hang out with, and how I was raised, if you did this at my house, or the house I was at, I was going to kick your fucking ass. Period. I was going to take you outside and beat the hell out of you. I can’t do that over the internet, so I did the next best thing.”
– The “next best thing” must be sitting behind your computer threatening innocent children and their families. Got it.
As Lostutter, his brother, and his brother’s girlfriend stood handcuffed in the driveway, agents combed through the house and carted away electronics. An agent sat Lostutter down on the back porch.
“You know why we’re here. Who are you?” the agent said.
“I’m KYAnonymous. I know why you’re here,” Lostutter replied.
– LMAO! I’m KYAnonymous? Really? Even then the ego didn’t subside. smh
Lostutter had made a lot more enemies than just the feds as KYanonymous, and she was afraid of what they’d do now that they knew his identity.
– That’s what happens when you attack innocent people for no valid reason.
There is no right or wrong way to become Anonymous.
– Pretty sure YOU did it the wrong way.
It’s a loosely-organized group that anyone can swear allegiance to with a hashtag.
– Hehehehe.. Clueless mofo for realz!
But the way Lostutter joined Anonymous was definitely not anonymous.
– Cuz he stoopid 🙂
One night in September, 2012, he got drunk and created a Kentucky Anonymous Facebook page (1st fuck up), and a Twitter account which became his online handle: KYAnonymous. He didn’t disable the location feature of Twitter at first so all of his tweets came labeled with “sent from Winchester, Kentucky.” (2nd fuck up)
“The rule is I should never be around a computer when I drink,” he said.
– And yet you still are…
“I was like damn, I do everything that these guys do without a mask already. I’m out here preaching all the wrong shit that’s going on in the country,” he said. Anonymous, he decided, was where he belonged.
– Wrong.
Lostutter threatened Moore on Twitter (seems he likes to threaten a lot of ppl from behind his computer), and Moore responded with characteristic bluster: “You can’t do shit my whole life is public. you fuckin tard.”
“It was kind of personal between me and Hunter Moore,” Lostutter said. “My friend was on Is Anyone Up, and now you challenged me personally? You think you’re a God? I’m gonna take you down a notch, I’m that kind of person.”
– aahh the God complex. Something you 2 have in common.
As KYAnonymous, Lostutter was one of the leaders of Anonymous’ turn towards fighting rape and cyberbullying, an odd reformation for a group that started on 4chan.
– One of the leaders?? LMAO! I think “bottom of the barrel” would be much more accurate.
Lostutter began with the video because he knew this might catch the media’s attention and bring a spotlight on the case, just as it had to Hunter Moore. Lostutter is adamant that throughout his career as a hacktivist he never hacked anything himself. He was a hype man, making videos, launching campaigns, and obsessively tweeting about them—he would “weaponize the media,” as he calls it, and inspire other people to join and do the dirty work.
– Yep, Deric always had everyone else do his dirty work.
“People go online and they read news sites because they want to know what’s going on,” he said. “And if it ain’t from a reputable site then they ain’t gonna believe it. So I gotta make sure that anything I do gets put on these reputable sites.”
– “Anything you do” as in spreading false stories about Jane Doe to make the situation worse?
In this case, Lostutter’s video went from his bedroom to national news so quickly because he expertly tapped into widespread suspicions that something was not right in Steubenville.
– False. He listened to some vindictive bitches lies, who had ulterior motives.
The popular narrative that emerged pitted Steubenville against everyone else: Steubenville citizens felt besieged by meddling outsiders; everyone else felt the disturbing tweets and photos produced that night revealed something sinister about the town, which residents were trying to cover back up.
– THERE WAS NO COVER UP!
“We’re not really the judge nor the jury,” (you obviously thought you were) KYAnonymous, masked and with his voice disguised, told an Anderson Cooper 360 reporter.
The video that launched Operation Roll Red Roll on December included a dramatic ultimatum: If all of the students who were complicit in the rape—bystanders and perpetrators alike—didn’t issue a public apology by January 1, Anonymous would release the “names, social security numbers, addresses, relatives, and phone numbers” of “every single member of the football team, those involved, the coaches, the principal, and more.”
– D0xing children. smdh
The information dump never happened, and Lostutter now claims he never intended to release the private information of minors. Instead, he said, it was a “scare tactic” to get students to come forward with more information.
– Bullshit, you would have dumped that info in a second. You were asked not to by Anons.
When I interviewed KYAnonymous over Skype during the campaign, he explained how he vetted his information, which came mostly over Twitter:
“I consider the source. If I think it interferes with the original story and they have two followers [on Twitter]… then I don’t pay attention unless I hear it from another person. If it can correlate somehow then I’ll put it out there for the world to judge. Then the world judges and says ‘Yes this happens in our town, no it doesn’t.’
– How about doing some fucking research before throwing info out regarding innocent people?
If it were just Lostutter, his tweets might have gotten lost in the ether. But he worked in parallel with the website Local Leaks, a Wikileaks-style website that compiled many of these same tips into a big dossier called the Steubenville Files. Local Leaks is run by Christopher Doyon, also known as “Commander X,” a longtime Anonymous hacktivist who made a dramatic escape to Canada from California in 2010 to avoid federal hacking charges. He’s been on the lam ever since. Doyon is not a reliable source. Once, he boasted to me in an interview that he had access to “Every classified database in the U.S.” Still, Doyon’s site became a go-to information source for many interested in the Steubenville story, its claims repeated widely by respectable news blogs.
– And 90% of that website was false information.
Anonymous publicized disturbing facts:
The victim said she had been drugged; one of the parties the victim had attended that night was held at an assistant football coach’s home. They posted the ugly tweets from witnesses, and the infamous photo of Mays and Richmond holding the victim like a sack between them.
– She was never drugged.
– It came out in courts docs that the pic had been taken earlier in the evening and was a joke.
But the most explosive facts Anonymous “uncovered” were false. Lostutter and Local Leaks painted a lurid fantasy where “Jane Doe’s” rape was just one of many carried out by a self-identifying “rape crew” of football players, aided and abetted by coaches, law enforcement and Steubenville government officials. A child porn ring, an illegal gambling ring, and a drug ring were all allegedly tied to the rape. Steubenville was a Midwestern hellhole out of a Coen brothers movie.
– Deric tweeted out these ‘facts’ to get more attention. It was all false.
To date, no proof of any of these allegations has surfaced. Many fell apart at the barest inspection. “It was badly written fiction,” said Lee Stranahan, a conservative journalist who has covered Steubenville obsessively on his blog. He believes the media ignored the facts of the case and built up a sensationalistic narrative that fit Anonymous’ crusade. “That whole narrative where they were covered up or protected because they were football players, I didn’t see any evidence of that whatsoever. These guys were arrested, they were pulled out of bed the night before school started.”
– Stranahan was/is right.
One of the central targets of the “Rape Crew” conspiracy theory was James “Jim” Parks, the webmaster of RollRedroll.com, a Steubenville High School sports fanpage not officially connected to the school. On December 23, 2012, RollRedRoll.com was hacked and defaced with Lostutter’s KYAnonymous video. Parks’ email account was hacked and his private emails leaked in a .zip file to the internet. Lostutter and other KnightSec supporters spun the contents of Jim Parks’ emails into more proof of a Rape Crew fantasy. In a statement accompanying the hack, KnightSec declared that there was possible child porn in Parks’ email, as well as a photo of Savanah Deitrich, another high-profile rape victim. (The woman in the photo was clearly not Deitrich.) From this, the statement concluded, Parks was “possibly hiring the team to go to different parties and send him pics of girls they take advantage of.”
– Deric lied about that too. The woman was nowhere near underage.
These days, Lostutter no longer stands by his claims of a sinister football player-child porn ring led by Jim Parks. During the raid, his FBI interrogator informed him that the women in Parks’ email were over 18. The interrogator explained that by spreading Parks’ emails and the photos inside, Lostutter had actually created more victims. “I never looked at it this way,” Lostutter said.
– This was his MO from day one. He wanted some type of fame, and he got it.
Discussing Parks was one of the few times Lostutter’s conviction faltered. “I feel bad, if I could talk to the dude and say sorry, I’d tell him I’m sorry for putting his name out there and putting his business out there,” he said. But that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t do it all over again.
– He would do it all again if it meant he’d get more attention.
“If I had to go to bat for a victim, I’d do it,” he told me. “Even if I was wrong I would do it. The good guy stands up for the victim.”
– I don’t think any victims want you in their corner after the Steubenville fiasco.
The facts were secondary to the mission of avenging Jane Doe for Lostutter. But it’s puzzling why so many others repeated Lostutter’s outlandish claims so credulously during the height of the Steubenville story.
– Because they saw the attention he was getting and wanted a piece of it. ‘Fame whores’ comes to mind.
“I don’t think Anonymous should be getting any credit for doing anything good here,” he said. “They did nothing good. They clearly raised awareness, but they spread a false narrative and attacked a guy who had nothing to do with it.”
– Deric did this, not the Anonymous collective. He fucked up, then tried to cover his fuck-ups by throwing more false bs out there.
Despite the false accusations, others still believe that the light Lostutter helped shine on Steubenville was instrumental to the convictions of the two boys, and to the convening of a new grand jury investigation to see if any other crimes had been committed that night.
– False. The GJ convened because of all the harassment and stalking of innocent people, plus the ‘hacking’ and other ‘illegal activities’ that happened.
“If it wasn’t for Anonymous,” a Steubenville bar patron Yahoo in March, “this would’ve been swept under the rug.” Lostutter and other KnightSec members repeatedly claimed that the victim herself had voiced support of Operation Roll Red Roll through friends on Twitter.
– It never would have been swept under the rug. That’s been proven over and over again.
Sometimes his online activities would intrude on his real-life ones. In mid-December, fresh off the success of the Hunter Moore campaign, Lostutter launched an operation against the Westboro Church, which had announced it would be protesting the funerals of victims of the Newtown, Conn. school shooting. Someone hacked the Twitter account of Westboro matriach Shirley Phelps. Lostutter was at a strip club with his girlfriend when it happened, but that didn’t keep him from gloating on Twitter.
– He gloated about a lot of things he had nothing to do with because he is a compulsive liar.
Once, he was at the supermarket with his girlfriend when someone messaged him on Twitter with dire news: The person claimed an inside source had revealed the Department of Justice was hunting Lostutter: He’d seen “KYAnonymous” written on a whiteboard at an FBI office, somewhere in Ohio. “I just turned bright white like a fucking ghost,” Lostutter said. He had long suspected he’d be targeted—all prominent Anonymous members eventually were. But the realization that it was finally happening sent chills down his spine. His girlfriend asked him if he was OK. “I said yeah, I’m fine, I just ate something.”
– “He had long suspected he’d be targeted—all prominent Anonymous members eventually were” – too bad you were never prominent… Just stupid, hence being busted. Do you even VPN?
Lostutter turned to a woman sitting next to us. “What did you think about that case in Steubenville where the football team raped that girl?” he asked. “And what did you think about that stuff where the hackers took down the team’s website?”
The woman gasped. She had heard about the case, but not the hacking. She asked, “Who hacked the website?”
“Some good-looking kid who’s sitting at The Waterfront with a reporter next to him writing a story about him,” Lostutter said with a huge grin.
– Holy ego! Not good-looking (sorry, truth hurts).
Lostutter later asked me not to report the hacking comment. He is adamant that he did not actually hack or help plan the RollRedRoll.com hack. A hacker named BatCat later took responsibility in the Steubenville Herald-Star, saying he broke into the site in 15 minutes by guessing the password.
Operation Roll Red Roll caused a furor among Steubenville residents, most of whom, it’s safe to say, had little idea what Anonymous was before it came to town. After the initial shock, some began their own public relations campaigns to counteract KYAnonymous’. At the end of January, I spoke with Nicole Lamantia, a longtime Steubenville resident and the wife of a Steubenville High School football coach, who had created a blog to combat the rumors.
One involved a relative of hers, who had been accused on Local Leaks of having orchestrated a complicated revenge plot to set Jane Doe up to be raped. The names and photos of the relative and her boyfriend were splashed prominently on the page. But the girl was out of town the night of the rape and had absolutely nothing to do with it, Lamantia said.
– Innocent people accused by Deric?? Shocking!!
Lamantia said, “You have this 16-year-old girl who lives a normal teenage life, and all of a sudden her name and picture are up there. And granted Anonymous isn’t dangerous. But you’ve got 2,000 people at a rally and you can’t guarantee that there are no dangerous people in that rally. Her parents were petrified—what if some crazy person is trying to harm her because they believe what’s on Local Leaks?”
– “Her parents were petrified”… Is THAT why they ‘thanked Deric for getting involved”??
When Lamantia launched her blog, she was quickly attacked by KnightSec supporters. She singled out KYAnonymous in particular for terrorizing the town. “We were all kind of bullied into silence by him,” she said. “We were afraid that if we disagreed we would get hacked. He didn’t try to back up his facts. He didn’t take the time to reach out to any of us to hear the other side, and that’s upsetting to me.”
– Many locals said this from day one, but no one would listen 😦
Anonymous’ shadow over the trial may have had the opposite effect than Lostutter intended. The prosecutor in charge of the case, Marianne Hemmeter, said that Anonymous’ attacks had made her job harder. In a press conference after the trial, she said: “We had pretty good working relationships with some of the witnesses that you heard from, but once Anonymous hit, there was a chilling effect.”
– Yup! Deric got some people immunity due to his ridiculous antics and false rumors he put out on purpose.
But most of the downsides of KnightSec’s campaign have been overshadowed by the undisputedly spectacular leak in early January of a video of a Steubenville football player, Michael Nodianos, drunkenly joking about the rape. When Lostutter began Operation Roll Red Roll, he had been shown a screen shot of the video and told to keep an eye out for it. One day, a random Twitter account tweeted him to say they had an interesting video but didn’t want to give it to the Steubenville authorities for fear it would be covered up. “It clicked for me as soon as I seen that screenshot pass in the video,” Lostutter said. “I was like, that’s the fucking screenshot, I found the video. Yes!”
– It was revealed in court docs that the video had been in the hands of authorities for some time, but they did not announce it due to MINORS being in the video. Deric fucked that up too.
The video exploded. Nodianos’ disgusting jokes cycled over and over on cable news: “She is so raped right now…. They raped her harder than that cop raped Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction.” Although Nodianos was not present during any crime and, his attorney claims, didn’t even know the victim, the video did more than anything else to make Steubenville a household name.
The video wasn’t forensic evidence of a crime, but of the attitude that could allow something like the rape to happen over and over again. When people talk about how Anonymous “exposed” Steubenville, they can’t mean the facts of this case, which were utterly botched by KnightSec and its allies. (AMEN) What they mean is that Anonymous exposed how sexual assault is a bigger issue than bad people doing bad things. That it is enabled and even celebrated by a culture that tells young men it’s OK to laugh off a horrific rape as harmless late-night debauchery, to be instagrammed and tweeted about, then expects the rest of us to feel bad for the perpetrators when they’re punished. That’s the valuable lesson of this video, and KYAnonymous alone had uncovered it.
– Again, Deric did NOT uncover the video, as stated in court docs.
As the Steubenville story got bigger, Operation Roll Red Roll went out of control. The Nodianos video had raised the expectations on KYAnonymous and attracted another flood of frenzied supporters. And when the January 1 deadline Lostutter set in his original video passed with neither apologies from the football players nor the promised information bomb, people began to take things into their own hands. There were death threats to football players. The sheriff said people in Guy Fawkes masks were going door-to-door terrorizing residents.
– Deric built his own little vicious army to “do his dirty work” by having flyers put up in Walmart and McDonalds inviting them to “join Anonymous”.
Lostutter tried to rein things in, encouraging followers to distance themselves from the more violent tactics. But the anarchic structure of Anonymous that had helped him attract mass support was now working against him.
– Bullshit! He ENCOURAGED it! The proof is in his past tweets!
Lostutter was simultaneously becoming distracted by an increasingly vociferous gang of critics and haters. A hacker named IcanHazCandy and a rival group called Team Intricate worked day and night to discredit his findings, out his identity, and confuse his allies by sowing misinformation.
– Because he is an egotistical bastard who tweeted false claims and people just wanted him to stfu and leave the innocents alone!
By the end of January, Lostutter decided he’d had enough. He was sick of the trolls, and of constantly looking over his shoulder. He wanted to spend more time with his girlfriend. Lostutter announced on Twitter that he was going dark.
– Yea, because people were realizing he was lying about almost everything and calling him out, so he thought it best to leave like the coward he is.
Lostutter doesn’t know how his identity leaked—he suspects an angry ex-girlfriend or a local Winchester rival who learned his identity back when all his tweets still all said “Winchester” on them. Terrified, he gathered his Anonymous mask, flag, and newspaper clippings about his work as KYAnonymous and burned them outside his girlfriend’s house.
“That’s what I see on TV, they burn everything,” he said. “They’re getting raided, they investigate for murder or shit like that, they’ve got a barrel out back and all their clothes are in that motherfucker.”
– You need to stop watching so much tv, dude..
Lostutter denies he was ever paid for his activism, or that he engaged in any hacking-related financial crime. He recently bought a motorcycle and a truck, but he pointed out both were used, not new.
– New, used, who cares. Either way you could use that money towards your supposed ‘defense team’.
KYAnonymous has been unmasked, but in the wake of the FBI raid, Lostutter is still weaponizing the media. He has yet to arrested or even informed that he’s the target of an investigation into the hacking of Rollredroll.com, but his lawyer said in a statement he believes he’ll be charged with three felonies under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. (In an email to Gawker, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Cincinnati office wrote, “we are unable to confirm or deny the existence of any potential investigation into this matter.”) He wants to put pressure on the Department of Justice before that happens, and raise money for his defense.
– You mean scam people’s hard earned money for his pleasure.
“I believe they’re trying to make a spectacle of me,” he told me. “They’re using me to say that this is what happens when you challenge us. I got in trouble for questioning the government.”
– Bullshit, you got in trouble for being fucking stupid and cocky.
He raised over $30,000 for a defense fund in just a matter of days. (The fund is administered by Lostutter’s attorney Jason Flores-Williams, a founder of the Whistleblower Defense League, which specializes in defending hacktivists and leakers.)
“I was shocked, I was stunned, I think I drank a whole fifth of tequila in celebration,” he said. Now he’s selling “Free KYAnonymous” stickers on his new website, ProjectKnightSec.com.
– Who bought that 5th of tequila for you, Deric? The poor innocent people who were duped into donating to a non-existent defense fund?
There was more to the article, but like I said, I only wanted to address certain parts. So there you have it 🙂
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