Following up on the recent raid at Leaseweb, Leaseweb’s Chief Security Officer Alex de Joode provides further details in web magazine WebWereld.nl:

• The Denial of Service attack on MasterCard was indeed launched from a server at Leaseweb but the investigation portrayed in the media only focused on the seizure of 143 servers at affiliate EvoSwitch that were part of the Bredolab-botnet;
• The police truck and investigating officers which were shown by Dutch broadcaster NOS (here and here) had nothing to do with AnonOps but were meant to secure the 143 servers. There was no connection to anonops.net;
• The website Anonops was located within Leaseweb’s network but it was hosted at a reseller. “Leaseweb was not involved in any ‘takedown’. We do not know whether the site has been removed by the customer voluntarily or whether it has been removed by the reseller.”

The Dutch National Police, The Public Prosecutor’s Office and Evoswitch weren’t available for comment, WebWereld reports.

Alex de Joode aka Usura is well known and oftentimes associated with the vox.hacktic.nl anonymous remailer, the utopia.hacktic.nl bulletin board and the Cypherpunk community discussed previously and appears a couple of times in John Young’s (Cryptome.org) Cypherpunk list (Google Cache) while e-mailing from the famous anonymous remailer domain replay.com, and the sabotage.org (Societé Anonyme BOTAGE) domain. He has traditionally been associated with crypto repository zedz.net and the dizum anonymous remailer.

In the past he has single-handedly shut down a complaint center for online child abuse images, arguing that the staff of the center didn’t adhere to proper procedures nor the bylaws of the organization.

His favorite tagline appears to be:  “Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?” – Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347, “Who Watches The Watchmen?”

More technical information: http://www.iusmentis.com/technology/remailers/index-cpunk.html