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LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard
Revotron writes "Anonymous hacker group LulzSec has begun to harness the power of the crowd in their latest griefing attempts. After a day of numerous DDoS attacks on a handful of famous MMOs, LulzSec's phone lines lit up with an estimated 20 calls per second. Using a fairly simple phone redirect, they sent all of their incoming calls to various offices, among them the FBI office in Detroit, Blizzard Customer Support, online retailer Magnets.com, and most recently, the corporate offices of HBGary." Update: It looks like they also brought down the CIA website tonight, but it is up now.
I don't want to sound like a tinfoil hatter (even if I do), but something tells me that these guys are contracted by the government because supporters of the Patriot Act are thinning in numbers.
So screwing over WOW players trying to get customer support is now "justice"? What a bunch of wankers.
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Doesn't take much courage to throw a rock into a window when you're wearing a ski mask and there's no one around.
Being behind a ski mask (7 proxies) doesn't really mean much unless you're outside the country, what with all the taps the NSA have, I'm sure if they wanted them gone it wouldn't take much.
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It was... "interresting" in the start.
But that has worn off long ago.
They're not doing anything intelligent or justifiable; they're just bullies out to hurt easy targets.
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But no, they would rather punk on the defenseless.
If the FB fucking I is defenseless then a lot of people need firing.
Can we use mod points to try and get an article off the first page? please? LulzSec stuff should never hit front page on principle.
"Lawmakers today announced new legislation that will take away more of our civil liberties, in response to recent attacks by the groups LulzSec and Anonymous."
One thing is certain. The crackers in LulzSec are damned good, OR they have considerable "inside" help at the CIA and FBI. Or BOTH!!
Or the CIA doesn't use the public facing web server for anything important, so they didn't bother securing it very well.
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I'm sorry I don't see the connection between "criminal" CEOs, bankers and government officials, and EVE Online, magnets.com and Minecraft. Please elaborate.
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The fact that easy targets still exist in this day and age just goes to show that LulzSec does serve a purpose, even if you disagree with their methods.
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Either these guys are fucked and we are about to get rammed with legislation, or the government is pulling this off and we are about to get rammed with legislation. Either way the general public takes the red white and blue schwanze in the end.
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i doubt it. The NSA had no idea about 9/11 and was unable to find bin laden for 10 years.
The Sony hacks illustrated just how exposed our data is; the treasure trove of personal data sitting out there for the EASY taking by real criminals is a disaster waiting to happen on an unprecedented scale. I'd rather a group like Lulz go around poignantly dispelling our notions of information security rather than have actual identity thieves take on the mantle of a wake up call themselves. I applaud their point: if you can't even stop people compromising systems for laughs, you'll never be able to stop those who are doing so for profit.
Interfering with someone else's electronics is in fact a serious crime in most places. The Internet is primarily privately run these days, so you might find it strange but private companies' resources being misused is not the same as dancing like an idiot in a public park. Its a direct assault on private property, like your examples.
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Thus anyone who breaks into your house and vandalizes it is serving a purpose, since they're demonstrating that your security could be better.
What is the state of the art security to prevent being phone bombed other than by disconnecting your phone service? What security weakness are they revealing here?
When a guy breaks into your house and steals your belongings, "Hey, he had a lousy alarm system and was gone over Labor Day Weekend, he was asking for it!"
A rapist: "She was wearing a provocative outfit! Anyone could see that she was asking for it".
Now these script kiddies: "Hey, we broke in and found plaintext! Sony was asking for it."
Same logic. "It's not my fault, you did not prevent me from committing a crime so it is your fault. I am not responsible for my criminal actions, you are. You are also responsible for the third-parties I hurt because you did not adequately prevent me from doing it".