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LulzSec Debunks UK Census Hack

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-swear-we-didn't-do-this-one dept.

Earlier this morning we reported that an arrest had been made relating to the hacker group LulzSec. mask.of.sanity notes "Hacking group LulzSec has poured cloud water on claims that it had stolen UK Census data and was preparing to release the records. 'Just saw the pastebin of the UK census hack. That wasn't us — don't believe fake LulzSec releases unless we put out a tweet first,' the group said from its official Twitter account."

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  1. Tweet first by SEWilco · · Score: 4, Funny

    So after they put out a Tweet, do believe fake LulzSec releases.

  2. Anonimity has its price by i+kan+reed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How can you prove who you are when you're anonymous? Well, I guess there's always a public key.
    Use a public key, you dorks.

    1. Re:Anonimity has its price by cold+fjord · · Score: 2

      How can you prove who you are when you're anonymous? Well, I guess there's always a public key.
      Use a public key, you dorks.

      It won't work. How many times have we been told there are no members? That nobody can really speak for them? That any random group of people on a given day can take action without everyone else knowing or being involved?

      What they think is a clever tactic for shielding them from individual guilt also makes it practically impossible to deny anything effectively, or believably.

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  3. Will the real LulzSec remain silent? by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do we know anyone is speaking for the real LulzSec?

    let's see some ID

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  4. Debunks? by uberjack · · Score: 2

    Or denies? Because there's a big difference between the two, and I believe it's the latter.

  5. Cloud water? by Andy+Smith · · Score: 4, Informative

    Isn't it cold water? To pour cold water on something, to debunk it.

    Cloud water is rain.

  6. Cloud Water... by Ynot_82 · · Score: 2

    ...I think I've had that
    no matter how good your friends are, don't share your water bottle

  7. Re:Cloud water? by PitaBred · · Score: 2

    Yeah. Idioms are apparently confusing to a lot of people, especially if they heard them wrong initially and run with it. Had an ex that refused to believe that it was a "temper tantrum" and not a "tantertantrum." Or the more mainstream moo point.

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  8. Re:Cloud water? by Gideon+Wells · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wrote it off as a tech pun on the Cloud.

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  9. The funny part is... by threeseas · · Score: 2

    .. considering how such authorities make stuff up so to fabricate an enemy... you'd think they would better understand how foolish they appear at taking down one or a few people. i.e. Orlando Florida keeps arresting people for feeding the homeless... so haven't that gotten the ring leader yet?

  10. Re:Cloud water? by ackthpt · · Score: 2

    Yeah. Idioms are apparently confusing to a lot of people, especially if they heard them wrong initially and run with it. Had an ex that refused to believe that it was a "temper tantrum" and not a "tantertantrum." Or the more mainstream moo point.

    Je suid d'accord. I was searching for some specs on Heat Shrink Tubing when I encountered "Approcations" I wasn't familiar with the word, thinking it was "Engrish", so I did a search on Approcations and found it not to be not just one misspelling/misuse/confusion, but at least two. In this instance it should be Applications and in at least one other the meaning was for Appreciation.

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  11. Re:Cloud water? by gtall · · Score: 2

    Technically, they didn't debunk or refute, they rebutted. The first two require acceptable evidence, the latter says "I didn't do it, so there!"

  12. Re:Cloud water? by Toad+McFrog+Esq. · · Score: 2

    This whole thing is a bit of a damp squid.

    Not if you put it up on a pedal stool...

  13. I thought census data was secure by biodata · · Score: 2

    Weren't we told that this was being managed by a highly secure, terribly efficient American corporation, and there was absolutely no danger of our personal data being hacked into and released on the internet?

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  14. Re:Nothing to do with the census by biodata · · Score: 2

    BBC News are reporting however that there were intrusions in CIA and SOCA. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13859868 "Metropolitan Police's e-crimes unit had confirmed the raid was linked to the recent intrusion attacks on the websites of the CIA and Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca)." Just slack journalism or is this now a fact? I thought they previously said it was DDOS and nothing was intruded upon or compromised.

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