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jjp9999 writes "LulzSec was compromised and a member of the group, Robert Cavanaugh, was arrested by the FBI on June 6. Meanwhile, LulzSec hacked Sony again, this time leaking the Sony Developer Network source code through file sharing websites."
Guess the seven proxies weren't enough.
How did this arrest go down? This is clearly a more interesting development then yet another Sony hack. Hopefully there will be more information forthcoming.
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Maybe you didn't read the earlier articles about just how horrible Sony's security setup is. Here's a hint: It's every bit bad enough that a dedicated group could find a different way into the system every day for weeks on end.
I just imagine someone hacking their presentation at E3 while they're live onstage. That would be some serious lulz.
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You don't let people hack your consoles, they find something else to hack. Idle hands and all that. :)
Indeed it must not, because turning a blind eye to crime just because you don't like the victim leads to mob rule. It is the antithesis of the rule of law on which our society is founded, which protects our rights as well as Sony's. That's one slope that history has proven time and time again to be very slippery indeed.
I don't think the history has conclusively proven at all whether the rule of law enforced blindly without regards to who is right or wrong is a good thing.
For example, the Underground Railroad illegally helping escaped slaves, or every revolution in the history of the world.
Obviously the importance of the cause is different here, but it helps make my point clearer by using high-profile examples.
Although it also comes with the downside of being a holding group, umbrella naming. To Average Joe (via the sensationalist media), Sony X and Sony Y are the same thing. As it all masquerades under the name Sony, hacking Sony Music and Sony TV is essentially the same thing, even if, to the rest of us, it isn't. Ultimately though, I find the whole thing very funny and am rather enjoying watching.
Maybe you didn't read the earlier articles about just how horrible Sony's security setup is. Here's a hint: It's every bit bad enough that a dedicated group could find a different way into the system every day for weeks on end.
I don't think you're doing anyone a favor when you present Sony as a monolithic corporation.
It's not as simple as Sony vetting one security setup and replicating it across all websites tagged as Sony.
Sony is made of of endless domestic and international subcorporations, each with its own (poor) security setup.
At least these hacks are a return to the previous trend of defacements, revenge, and lulz,
as opposed to the last few years of organized crime, ID theft, and renting out botnets.
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I'm losing all the mods I made thus far (and resisting the temptation to downmod you just because you coughed up that stupid "I'll get modded down for this" crap, which is my usual policy for such whiny attention-seeking dickweedism), but I can't let this go by uncontested.
turning a blind eye to crime just because you don't like the victim leads to mob rule. It is the antithesis of the rule of law on which our society is founded, which protects our rights as well as Sony's.
That's just crazy. Our society in no way "protects our rights as well as Sony's." Our legal system is designed to protect Sony's "rights" (which are not rights, but privileges granted to an artificial construct called Sony) at the expense of our rights (which are in fact, as enumerated in our Constitution, actual and legal rights). The idea you propose here matches neither the theoretical nor the actual system under which we live. And you know it.
That's one slope that history has proven time and time again to be very slippery indeed.
I'd say the exact same thing, but I don't think we're talking about the same slope.
And, hey, maybe they'll put up such a good defence that the jury will refuse to convict them and the balance of power between corporations and common people will be shifted, and that would probably be good too. But it should be done in courts or congress, not by vigilante mobs deciding to lynch a corporation that offended them.
Because that happens in courtrooms across this great land of ours every day, doesn't it? Congresscritters are pushing each other out of the way to champion Joe Everyman against the nefarious interests of Big Media, aren't they? And our well-informed, socially aware, and technologically savvy courts deal defeat after defeat to these villains! Why, it's a wonder things like this ever happen given the enlightened society and legal code under which we live!
Are you fucking kidding me?
Are you for some reason under the impression that those people work for you or something? I can assure you they do not.
Given all that, I'd like to hear a realistic alternative to vigilante mobs.
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Well, no, I think this is one of the few times that the "terrorists", so to speak, actually won.
10 years ago no one would have used the word "terrorists" (in quotations or otherwise) to describe straight forward black hat hacking.
There are at least a hundred definitions of "terrorism" and they all include violence or the threat of violence.
There's no violence here.
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