Occupy Underground

You make it sound as though the hacker conned the lawyer and took advantage of his good nature. But the article doesn't support that interpretation at all.

For example, it has Fry saying, “It goes with the territory. I’m doing a lot of things above and beyond the call for lawyers, and I don’t expect any great rewards.”

That's not somebody who's just "taking it in stride." It's somebody who's dedicated to a cause and is glad to accept the risks.

It also seems as though both Fry and Doyon's own lawyer are pretty much on Doyon's side when it comes to seeing his DDOS attack as a form of civil disobedience, regard the government's attempt to ban Doyon from Twitter and IRC as an unwarranted infringement of his First Amendment rights, and are sympathetic to Doyon's decision to duck out rather than attempting to fight the charges.

There are a lot of moral complexities arising from the government's attempt to use the full weight of the law to crush both Occupy and Anonymous -- but trying to label good guys and bad guys within the movement is far too simplistic a response.