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EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the think-of-the-children dept.

lordsilence writes "It seems LulzSec is now targeting CCP Games' Eve Online with a denial of service attack. The extent of this attack is yet not known but the game cluster and EVEOnline.com website are down at the writing of this post.. A possible reason for targeting CCP could be the affiliation with Sony. CCP recently announced during E3 that their upcoming game Dust514 would be Sony Playstation 3 exclusive."

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  1. I call BS by Dyinobal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I call BS on the Sony affiliate thing. They've also attacked Minecraft, and the Escapist Magazine. These guys have no purpose or cause other than drama, they are just Anonymous rejects (which is kinda sad) looking for attention.

    1. Re:I call BS by artor3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Paranoid much? Just accept that your heroes are no such thing. They do what they do, "for the lulz". There is no higher purpose. No false flag. They just enjoy making other people miserable and laughing at their misfortune.

      I saw something online a month ago or so. Apparently Anonymous responded to a bunch of dating site ads by lonely men, pretending to be interested women, and inviting them to a date at a predetermined place and time. They secretly filled the spot, hoping to live-stream the misery of these people as they realized no one was coming. Was that a false flag attack too?

      These people are just bullies, getting off on the suffering of others.

  2. Or... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or maybe they don't have a motive and are just being dicks for the sake of being dicks.

  3. If I wrote the news... by Scott+Lockwood · · Score: 5, Funny

    "IT departments everywhere noted huge gains in productivity today, as LulzSec announced it was taking Eve Online, offline. 'We don't know what happened exactly, but the whole tech crew start screaming about their crack being gone, and suddenly things started to get fixed. Oh - and they all even took showers.'"

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  4. After a shitty day by gatkinso · · Score: 5, Funny

    of writing shitty code... for a shitty company... surrounded by shitty coworkers... who think I am just as shitty as they are (haha bitches you are wrong I am NOT as shitty!).... and getting in a shitty traffic jam....

    I just want to go home, take a shit, wipe, and play a dumb space game (that eerily reminds me of Microsoft Excel in some ways) and unwind.

    Is that so much to ask? But no, the cocks have to be themselves.

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  5. Re:What.the.fuck. by smelch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps we should show the security flaws in real life system. Guess what? Nothing is secure. If LulzSec were serial killers would it still be the same for you? Proving how insecure our frail human necks are? Has it ever occured to you that the only thing that keeps society running is the threat of retribution and our years of weeding out sociopathic behavior? The reason you aren't murdered for every interaction you've ever had is not because you were secure. This is bullshit, anti-social, watching-the-world-burn asshattery.

    Did you know Goldman Sachs was just demonstrating the insecurity of the American financial system? Get your head out of your ass and look around at the world. You are at the mercy of everybody, and the only way to stop this kind of behavior is through social pressure which will come in the form of being able to identify internet users. Get ready to talk about the good old days when you didn't get raped at an airport and the government didn't ID you before you could log in to the internet. And what were you saying at the time? "Good! I'm glad people are assholes and we can't trust each other. It just shows how much we can't trust each other."

    It was inevitable but don't fool yourself in to thinking it is a good thing.

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