The thing here that what was being exploited is irrationality of the system that uses these made up "Wars On <X>". Whatever this <X> is, it will always be boon for psychopaths and will be a exploited.<p>War on Terrorism -- send tips about so and so is building bombs or talking about jihad.<p>War on Drugs -- plant or send someone a drug package and notify police. One worse, SWAT them. With good luck they will be shot by the cops.<p>War on Kids via Zero Tolerance -- plant a piece of toast looking like a gun in someone's bag and tell a teacher.<p>War on Electronic Crime (Hacking) -- plant a DoS tool pointed to a .mil website on enemy's machine or network.<p>The list goes on. Of course in this case we have a good ending so that is encouraging. But the scary part is not that someone would wish all this harm to another person and come up with scheme like this, but that knowing how prosecution works, how Wars On <X> work, this seems like a very close call. It is the lack of faith in justice and the system to act rationally that is scary. Maybe the neighbor who is building bombs got a visit from FBI and they couldn't charge him. But they visited his work. Scared his kids. And ultimately put him on a watch list so from then on they get harassed every time they travel.
> According to a trusted source in the security community, that email account [belonging to 'Fly'] was somehow compromised last year.<p>Right... I'm sure it was just a source who themselves got the information legally secondhand, and that Krebs had nothing to do with it. ;)