Hack attacks no laughing matter

The Jester is a pro-US hacker who has infiltrated the websites of jihadists and Wikileaks. Michael Moynihan was granted a rare interview

WINDING through corridors lined with poison-tipped umbrellas, pistols fashioned from lipstick tubes, and bulky button-hole cameras, visitors to Washington’s International Spy Museum will soon be confronted by a modern tool of the trade: a small black laptop.

According to the computer’s owner, it was employed over a three-year period to briefly knock WikiLeaks offline, disable almost 200 jihadist websites, and develop a handful of sophisticated hacking tools.