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On their Twitter feed Lulzsec also boasted about bringing down a website linked to the FBI.

Davis ran that Twitter account, under his alias Topiary - a witty and cock-sure character, which he says was a more self-assured version of himself:

"Aspects of myself went into him," he explains. "It was an exaggerated version of the things MONCLER uk sale I couldn't be. I think Topiary is a lot more confident than I am certainly."

On 24 June 2011, Newsnight spoke to Topiary in an online chat room. He came across as his usual, confident, online self. In reality, he now says, he was in turmoil and describes that day as a turning point.

That was because earlier on that Friday, in the US, Lulzsec members had attacked the Arizona State Police, in protest against tough new laws on immigration. They released private intelligence material, names, addresses and phone numbers of officers, and the content of e-mails.

"I thought this hack has gone way too far - there's no point to this thing, it's just harming police officers… This doesn't entertain anybody or help anybody anywhere," Davis http://www.wintercoatsale.co.uk told Newsnight.

Founder turned informer

By then the group was falling apart, and unbeknownst to the world, the FBI had a new weapon. Just prior to the Arizona hack, one of Lulzsec's founders, Hector Monsegur, Sabu, had been arrested. Then, for some 10 months, he turned informer.

Davis was arrested on July 27 2011. His last tweet as Topiary read: "You cannot arrest an idea."