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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.
Doesn't this make them griefers?
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.
“Tango down - http://t.co/2QGXy6f - for the lulz.” http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/81115804636155906 wtf
They're here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and they're all out of gum.
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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"Anonymous hacker group"...with phone lines? Does not compute.
These fiends have gone to far. Quick, someone turn on the internet bat signal!
Would you prefer another BitCoin story?
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.
what's SCO up to these days?
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Call them Lord Nikon. The King of Nynex.
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"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."
Isn't this along the same line as causing a traffic jam at a busy intersect just to say hay you should have a police officer watching every traffic corner?
Maybe I'm missing the point but mostly they just seem to cause petty disturbances. Are they trying to make it so companies have to weigh every new venture they role out with the thought of risk vs reward?
I always wanted to be a person who achieves something not someone that goes over to the next guys sand castle and kicks it down and says damn should have made that sucker hurricane proof. Better luck next time.
I'm just surprised these guys don't naturally just turn on each other over time.
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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Does anyone honestly believe that LulzSec is anything other that some government agency. They're clearly trying to piss off the general public... and to what purpose? Support for some key upcoming regulatory changes to the internet?
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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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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FBI... ok, so you're an anarchist
WoW... ok, so you're anti-capitalist
Magnets.com... uhh, so you don't like your shitty kid's art messing up your fridge...?
>> Or the CIA doesn't use the public facing web server for anything important
A honey pot would be important :). (but one with enough challenge to obfuscate the fact)
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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.
Since there are only a handful of us in the office today, it was ironic that only a few of us experienced it.
No, it was not.
I concede that it was not ironic at all.
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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The NSA was all over signals intelligence. The basic intelligence failure of 9/11 was human intelligence. We moved so far away from useful human intel the we were easy to blindside, mostly because, by executive order, the CIA stopped employing "bad people" as sources. Idealistic, but not very practical, and the best crypto skills in the world don't help much against plotters who never use electronics for planning.
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Or the CIA doesn't use the public facing web server for anything important, so they didn't bother securing it very well.
In fact, they probably set it up this way on purpose with an eye towards attracting interesting targets to their honey pot. It's a cheap and effective method when compared to other forms of surveillance and the CIA need only spend minimal effort and resources to promote their honey pot where desirable targets are likely to find it and follow up on any promising leads.
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".
Exactly...does anyone here really have that "action movie" idea that some massive mainframe inside CIA headquarters is really running the CIA website? And that it's not just farmed out to some contractor like rackspace?
They'll just declare them a terrorist and then use rendition to ship them somewhere from anywhere, or if they're in the UK then the UK government will just roll over and ship them to the USA before asking "so what did you want them for?"