They have an twitter account, thus a quick phonecall to twitter from US gov for an IP and mac address should put an end to all of this. Also they have a site up, so simply check their dns and domain provider for a whois (most likely private - so might require pushing). They are also on The Pirate Bay, so they might have some IP data too. meh
No. Not that easy. They use VPNs offshore chained together not to mention the off shore vps' they have. Of course they would use protection when even just getting on Twitter, so a phone call from the government would do very little as the give would receive an IP from somewhere offshores that doesnt give a damn about US law, providing time and security to lulzsec.
I wonder how secure those VPN providers are. Regardless, my bet is that these guys will get taken down via a Kaczynski vulnerability. That is, someone that personally knows them will figure out that they are responsible and report them to the authorities.
"David Kaczynski had once admired and emulated his elder brother, but had later decided to leave the survivalist lifestyle behind.[74] He had received assurances from the FBI that he would remain anonymous and that his brother would not learn who had turned him in, but his identity was leaked to CBS News in early April 1996."
I doubt they use only "paid for" services in their chain. There are very likely normal user-boxes (like your moms) and "forgotten" servers involved as well.
It's not easy to back trace when you have to send in someone to do forensics on a computer.
Do you honestly think that they make such rookie mistakes?
It wont be that easy to track them down.
But im pretty sure the .com domain will be seized soon.
