LulzSec Teams With Anonymous, In Operation AntiSec

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LulzSec Teams With Anonymous, In Operation AntiSec

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 20, 2011 @02:15AM from the summon-dennis-leary dept.

c0lo writes "After a brief spat where the notorious Anonymous hacking collective sniped at Lulzsec, the 'upstart' hacking collective, for crowing about low-rent Denial of Service attacks on the CIA and 4chan websites, the two groups have apparently teamed up in operation Anti-Sec. The operation's 'top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments. If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood.' We can only predict that the following will be unpredictable: store canned food and flash batteries, change your eBanking password daily."

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Inflated sense of self-importance by MetalliQaZ · 2011-06-20 02:20 · Score: 3, Insightful

Dear Slashdot,
Don't feed the trolls.
Thanks,
Metalliqaz

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1. Re:Inflated sense of self-importance by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-20 02:53 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Actually, given the horribly insecure things that banks do, this might not be such a bad thing. EX: when I refinanced my mortgage last, I found it was SOP to shuffle the paperwork around via plain old ass-hanging-out-for-all-to-see email.
  And the password security questions can't be user-defined, and are things I know plenty of people can answer about me, and I could answer every option for many people I know.
  Two different banks I know have flash installed on their employees computers.
  Lulz and Anon won't have trouble hacking the banks... They'd have to put effort into not failing to hack them.
2. Re:Inflated sense of self-importance by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-20 03:20 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I work in a bank and I'll confirm this. There has been a big "security" push around here lately but it only consists of stupid shit like imposing the most ridiculous password policies for the 5 or so different incompatible systems in use plus a slew of sites and applications that don't use any of the centralized systems. The end result predictably being that everyone has taken to writing down their passwords. Banks are all about the semblance of security, not actual security.
3. Re:Inflated sense of self-importance by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-20 04:03 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Dear Slashdot,
  Please continue to provide updates on one of the most important events in recent technological history.
  These people are putting into motion a chain of events that will first, lead to massive draconian regulation of internet presence as well as personal internet usage and finally, start a revolution online which will create the most open and free global network the world has ever seen.
  They're also exposing the complete failure of the "whitehat" information security industry as a whole. They are a joke, they are thieves, and they deserve to be humiliated forever for the scams they perpetrate.
  We should be thanking Lulzsec and anyone else who agrees with what they do.
4. Re:Inflated sense of self-importance by hairyfeet · 2011-06-20 07:29 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Dear AC, this WOULD be one of the "most important events in recent technological history" if it wasn't being conducted by asshats that want credit for their actions.
  If instead of waving their dicks around while wearing images of Trollface they would just quietly drop the info they gather into Wikileaks and a dozen other sources? Then the government wouldn't know if the leaks were internal or external, wouldn't know whether they have been infiltrated or not, and paranoia helps to undermine power by making it harder for their little cabals to communicate.
  Instead what these guy Fawkes wearing dipshits will end up with is a nice new law where unless you are a developer (and if you say you are your line will be tapped) you will have to run an "approved OS to protect you from ID theft" which after all this high publicity will be quite easy to get the general populace to sign on to. This approved OS will be given software to "protect you" that will have a digital sig so that everywhere you go, anything you do, will be marked so as to be trivial to trace. Anyone who tries hooking up a machine without the sig will get a visit from guys in dark suits and their connection will be pulled seconds after the lack of the sig is detected.
  If anyone thinks that having that old scrap of paper known as the constitution will keep those in power from crushing your rights like a bug haven't been paying attention to current events lately, and those in power were already looking for excuses to clamp down after seeing the Arab Spring events and how their old cronies who held power for decades are ending up run out on a rail. The fact that the current administration claims dropping bombs isn't hostile and that they have the right to Assassinate Americans on American soil should be pretty clear indicators that the constitution is being ignored.
  By splattering their "Lulz" all over the Internet these dumbasses are playing right into the hands of those that want the Internet turned into cableTV. They COULD have been a major force of change, they COULD have brought to light many of the hidden evils these corrupt administrations all over the world are perpetrating on the peoples of the world. But by jumping up and down going "look at me, look!" all they will end up doing is having the ban hammer dropped on one of the last places of free expression left on the planet. So goodbye Internet, it was fun while it lasted but like most things online the trolls took a big shit all over you and ruined it for everyone.
  
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Impact on bitcoins? by turkeyfeathers · 2011-06-20 02:22 · Score: 5, Funny

They're targeting banks and other high-ranking establishments... are my bitcoins at MtGox going to be safe?
1. Re:Impact on bitcoins? by tenaciousj · 2011-06-20 02:32 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  This will in no way affect your bitcoin collection. They will still be as big of a joke in the future as they are now.
2. Re:Impact on bitcoins? by pla · 2011-06-20 02:48 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Y'know, I consider BitCoins pretty much just a nice idea, at this point, with plenty of problems and no real value (beyond speculation).
  
  That said, the number of people who bother actually posting just to tell us how much they dislike them, in response to even the slightest, even humorous (in this case) mention of BTC... Just wow.
  
  Makes me lean toward taking them a bit more seriously - No one hates on Linden dollars or even Facebook credits.
3. Re:Impact on bitcoins? by hedwards · 2011-06-20 03:04 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  The problem is that as soon as people are allowed to post things which aren't true without being challenged, over time the falsehoods come to take on an aura of truth which is then difficult to deal with. Just like how now people still believe refer to healthcare reform as "obamacare" despite the conclusive evidence and references that most of the controversial stuff was lifted from conservative candidates.
4. Re:Impact on bitcoins? by turkeyfeathers · 2011-06-20 03:08 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  To all the haters.... how did bitcoins hurt you so much that you know hate them?
  By clogging up Slashdot's front page with bitcoin stories, when the space could be much better used for Packt book reviews.
Misguided Intentions by what2123 · 2011-06-20 02:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

While I am not against their intentions of trying to open up the government-corporation love affair, this will only result in the creation of stupid legislature where everyone is forced to present an ID on the internet. Of course, those that want to get around this will, the same way all ID-thieves work, steal some other persons information.
1. Re:Misguided Intentions by LWATCDR · 2011-06-20 02:57 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  It is an ego trip. Notice they are not targeting China or North Korea or even Israel. The reason is those and some other nations wouldn't think twice about a few accidents happening.
  Yes this little ego trip will end up convincing the average voter and politico that they need to have the capital punishment for possession of packet sniffers. Books on TCP/IP will become classified and computer programers will have to show that they need to know those skills before they are allowed to own documents on APIs. All software will have to be signed and all programmers will have to be registered.
  Gee thanks thanks you creeps for spoiling all the fun. Hope you like the LOLs kids.
  
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2. Re:Misguided Intentions by _Sprocket_ · 2011-06-20 03:34 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  In essence your opinion is that we shouldn't stand up for truth because there are worse people out there and the perfectly innocent government will beat the tar out of us. That's a wonderful reason to do nothing; I wonder why wikileaks exists. You should tell them your idea :D.
  Which is great if what we're getting is truth. Wikileaks produces propaganda. Anonymous and lulzsec seem to produce little more than ego trips. What we have is groups thrashing around and creating really handy political targets for said "worse people" while producing very little for the effort. If anything, they are likely to be damaging the efforts of those who are or would be whistle-blowers producing evidence of real issues.
3. Re:Misguided Intentions by LWATCDR · 2011-06-20 03:45 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Funny but yea it is kind like being a hero that beats the crap out of jay walkers while the a serial killer is taking out a kindergarden. They do not pick on any really bad people just the safe ones like video game makers and front facing websites. Ewww they are soo worth looking up too. Wikileaks MODIFIED by adding emotionally manipulative video to the gunship footage to aid in fund raising. That right their makes them an outlet for propaganda. Instead of letting you decided for yourself they set you up to feel the way they wanted you too. Odds are that you will not see it or even believe it but that just shows how good of a job they did at manipulation.
  Truth? Anon picks on the disabled and children and those that they don't agree with. They do not produce the truth they produce ego trips. They harassed a kid that put a website to discourage kids from using foul language just for the LOLs. That is anti-freedom of speech folks.
  Sure stand up for the truth. Thing is no one stands up for the truth by hiding.
  You know that whole Stand up and be counted thing?
  
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This is what happens when... by pandrijeczko · 2011-06-20 02:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

...one hacking group with small willies meets another hacking group with tiny penises.

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They're scared cause they got doxed... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-20 02:29 · Score: 3, Interesting

http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/
Wait... wut? by d3ac0n · 2011-06-20 02:31 · Score: 3, Insightful

Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments
Soo... Do they think that various governments are keeping their email at the bank?? Or have they swallowed that stupid "The government is run by the banks!" argument? Are they gonna go after "Da Joooos" next?
Meh, sounds like Lulzsec is just graduating from general annoyance to genuine criminality and using pseudo-political cover from some Anons to try and hide it.

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Ignore the script kiddies by Bloodwine77 · 2011-06-20 02:32 · Score: 3, Insightful

I am getting tired of hearing about Anonymous and LulzSec.
While I do want a more transparent government, I am also to the point I want these script kiddies hoisted on their own petards before they do enough damage to cause more draconian laws and measures to be enacted by a knee-jerk (or carefully scheming, depending on your tinfoil hat) government.
1. Re:Ignore the script kiddies by pla · 2011-06-20 03:01 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  So it is their fault you voted for a totally corrupt out of control government who tramples on your rights daily in the name of "security"? Perhaps you should vote for someone who will actually uphold the US Constitution?
  
  Because in the US, we have a choice between people who will ignore the constitution to build their utopian socialist welfare state, and people who will ignore the constitution to build their Christian-Industrial heaven-on-Earth.
  
  I'd say showing support for the likes of LulzSec by publicly cheering them on comes about as close as most people can get to really voting for "none of the above".
Re:Focus, please by tnk1 · 2011-06-20 02:44 · Score: 3, Insightful

I hope they have forensic accountants, because just getting a list of accounts isn't going to do squat in uncovering anything.
Re:Focus, please by pla · 2011-06-20 02:56 · Score: 4, Insightful

Banks have classified "Government" information? What are these kids trying to achieve, exactly?

Quick question - Why did we bail out Goldman, but not Lehman?

Totally unrelated second question - Which former CEO of Goldman Sachs "just happened" to also serve as the Secretary of the Treasury who oversaw the bank bailouts at the peak of the recession?

You want to find out who has the real power, you look at who has the money. Simple as that.
Re:Focus, please by jeffmeden · 2011-06-20 02:57 · Score: 4, Insightful

Banks have classified "Government" information? What are these kids trying to achieve, exactly?
Emails, most likely. Like the alleged Bank of America scandalous emails that WikiLeaks talked up. Remember, these days nationwide banks and Governments have a LOT in common (see: speculation, regulation, insider deals, campaign contribs, etc.)
Re:Focus, please by ElectricTurtle · 2011-06-20 02:58 · Score: 3, Informative

All they have to do is get the raw data and dump it to the internet. Crowdsourcing will do the analysis, just as has been done with all previous email and doc dropping leaks. If you drop it they will come, bored or curious persons of all skillsets.

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Re:Focus, please by artor3 · 2011-06-20 03:55 · Score: 4, Informative

Because the Goldman Sachs bailout came over a month after Lehman Brothers crashed! TARP was in many ways a response to that crash. It wasn't even three years ago! How have you already forgotten?
Stop lying. Stop spreading conspiracy theories. Just stop.
Re:Focus, please by pla · 2011-06-20 04:43 · Score: 4, Informative

Because the Goldman Sachs bailout came over a month after Lehman Brothers crashed! TARP was in many ways a response to that crash. It wasn't even three years ago! How have you already forgotten?

Well, one of us seems to have already forgotten, anyway...

For example, which of us remembers the 50 billion in TAF approved six months before Lehman collapsed, with hundreds of billions more in near-weekly expansions to that program?

Or that the the first big-money bailout happened at the end of July 2008 (two months prior to Lehman), with the US government starting its buyout of Fanny and Freddy thanks to 300 billion from the HERA and a guarantee of unlimited credit?

Or that quite a few smaller banks had gone belly-up in the two months after HERA and prior to Lehman?

Or the fact that congress hauled Bernanke's butt in, before the end of that week to justify his decision (it didn't "just happen", we let it happen) not to bail out Lehman?

Or most telling of all, that the Federal Reserve did bail out AIG the same goddamned day Lehman's value dropped by 2/3rds?

Stop lying. Stop spreading conspiracy theories. Just stop.

I have no interest in revisionism, but We The People got fucked, and hard. So, which financial institution do you work for?