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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."
Not a network guy, but if they're repeating these hacks so quickly and with such regularity I imagine their backdoor is still up.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
no wait, I don't. Get me some popcorn, this is a good show.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
TFA doesn't tell us much except that Sony got hacked and some guy got arrested. The summary sums up the whole thing.
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.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
This kid isn't apart of LulzSec, he was in the process of being recruited. As you can see his arrest as no effect on LulzSec.
The posted details here: http://pastebin.com/yut4P6qN
I beg to disagree. Rape jokes concerning Sony ARE funny.
Grammar nazis are to this community what excrements are to gold.
You don't let people hack your consoles, they find something else to hack. Idle hands and all that. :)
Don't they realize they would gain much more by apologizing for and desisting against GeoHot
What part of "settled out of court" don't you understand?
Paragraphs, learn how to use them.
I mean, these intrusions are happening with such frequency that I can't imagine there's still a point to be proven... plus, reading about it all the time on slashdot is starting to feel like seeing a headline for a traffic light changing color.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Seriously, I expect this will be modded into oblivion because Slashdot hates Sony and loves anyone who sticks it to the man (see also: Wikileaks, Anonymous, etc).
But they are criminals, and therefore I for one am glad that the FBI has had some little success in tracking them down, and look forward eagerly to the day when the ringleaders are forced to defend their actions in court.
The fact that they are committing crimes against someone you hate cannot justify those crimes. 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.
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.
The article is pretty bad:
One member of the group, Robert Cavanaugh, was apprehended and taken into custody by the FBI after an apparent counter hack, according to an internal chat log from their private IRC server, posted through SecList, a network mapper website.
SecList? I think they meant the full-disclosure mailing list, which happens to be archived by seclists.org, which happens to be a "sister site" of insecure.org (the home of the nmap network mapper).
Anyway, here is the relevant post
heaven forbid they hack the presentation and the CEO starts blindly reading blather about a giant enemy crab off the teleprompter. That would be mortifying.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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.
Just like the TSA hasn't stopped a single act of terror, only passengers have done that; most security measures cannot stop a determined professional.
Safety and Security are largely mythological, the concepts are sold to a public that feels the need to exist with impunity.
In point of fact, it is largely manners that keeps people safe and secure. Most of us do not act on our darker natures because it would be rude.
Sony has demonstrated that they don't care about being well-mannered, and that they honestly believe that technology can keep them safe. They believe in DRM and they believe that they have the right to change a deal they have already made as if they were Darth Vader. They believe in their own Empire and they are willing to use any means necessary to maintain their grasp.
In point of fact, the technological community is simply having a very high immune response to this bad actor in their midst.
If Sony were to just come out, apologize for being douche-bags and promise never to do it again, they attacks would taper off quickly. They don't even have to mean it.
For all that the *IAA have been idiots and evil, they didn't mess with the technologists as a whole, so they have gotten a pass so far. They also don't actually do anything, so they have been impossible to strike.
Sony, as a member of *IAA(s) _and_ as a first person actor in technology via the PS3 etc, _and_ having stepped far across the line with the Hotz thing, has simply taken the first hit of lightning.
Thing is, the community at large has now learned that they _can_ make a company pay. The frontier has been opened. The Streisand Effect is real, and it will, sadly, take the business world a little longer to learn that "The Angry Villagers Rule" is real as well.
The torches are alight and the pitchforks are out and waving.
In the technological circles, the technologists are peasants, but they do feed the nation and they do strike back.
Companies need to rediscover their manners.
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
Actually, a website vulnerable to SQL injection really is completely inane in 2011. This is something that every DB framework knows how to handle, and also something that has been explained in detail again and again for over a decade. There is no excuse for having something like that on a production website, period.
It's not like not wearing a bulletproof vest, it's more like going out in the street naked with $100 bills glued all over you at 3am in Detroit. In these circumstances, it is entirely appropriate to blame the victim of a crime as well as the perpetrators.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jun/75
http://89.248.164.63/dox/xyz/
(for the lulz)...spoiler alert: mIRC, smoke weed errrday, WinXP, Amazon shopping spree