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LulzSec Announces That It Is Done
MaxBooger writes "LulzSec, the notorious hacker group that's been on a rampage, just announced that it's disbanding. This follows 50 days' chaos during which time it took down several websites (including CIA.gov at one point), exposed passwords, exposed documents of the Arizona penal system, and at one point threatened to hit Too Big To Fail banks. Obviously, it's possible that the group will not abide by its promise to quit. Nobody knows."
if you cant stand the heat, get your @$$ out the kitchen
What, life get too hard? Clearly someone got close to kicking them out of the game, and they ran before that would happen.
...fame is a helluva drug.
Quitting while they're ahead.
The brightest flame burns quickest. I'm surprised things even got this far.
As much as I'm for protests and such, these kids were just out to cause harm because they could. They need to get a legitimate cause, and stop pissing on ( innocent ) people randomly, or be gone.
They give the rest of us a bad name.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Now we can finally bring the troops home.
So, when the dust settles, what's left to ask is simply: Who benefits from it?
I predict some new laws...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This group is taking down many Brazilian government sites. Local Federal police is investigating.
Interesting that a hacker group just posted that they were going after LulzSec and now all of a sudden, it's time to bail. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't remember an announcement at the beginning of this storm that they were going to "plan to get lulz for 50 days" and then up and stop. Just a thought...
Once their names started coming out, and their chat logs started being dumped, they sure did tuck their tail and run away quickly.
So the government project is done? did the government funded attacks, spark enough outrage to get new laws passed by the senate and house regardless of their long term damage?
The Lulzsec Show was exciting. I'm not saying it was a good thing or I'm a fan. But I was hooked on the action.
I know I'd feel differently about it if I was one of the people whose credentials were posted.
Sorry LulzSec, you may be quitting your game (at least publicly), but you all still committed major crimes and you will still be hunted down and prosecuted like the dogs you are. Hope you enjoyed your 'lulz' though.
Yes, and they had a document release planned for Monday. Something must have just happened.
I don't remember them ever saying anything about limiting their hack-spree to 50 days. Sounds like they've pissed enough people off that they're starting to get ID'ed and arrested, and are hoping they can quit before it gets really bad. They're a bunch of weenies all right, but I don't think it's over for them. I for one will be lulzing my ass off when they all get caught and sent to pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
I don't reply to ACs
You knocked on the devil's door my friends.
My totally random guess here is that they are a group of people who probably knew each other well before creating this group. More than likely they have just stopped calling themselves LulzSec. They're just getting too much scrutiny most likely. I don't think this is the last we hear from them, just they won't be calling themselves LulzSec necessarily...
...is whether everyone else is done with Lulzsec. Unfortunately, they've likely pissed off the kinds of people who don't stop the game just because the opponent wants to quit.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!
Batty: I've done... questionable things.
Tyrell: Also extraordinary things; revel in your time.
Batty: Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
maybe change their strategy and mix things up to evade capture, the world needs benevolent black/grey hat hackers to dig up dirty laundry on the establishment, let the government & police know that if they do wrong that it will be found out and exposed for all the world to see...
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Pure and simple. People started attacking them back, so they close up shop before real harm gets done. check out Ars take on the whole thing, there are blogs of people who exposed people in the group big time. I'm willing to be the harm is done and some of them still go to jail. I certainly hope so, they deserve much worse.
improve your backend before you start such endeavors.
Though "LulzSec" has disbanded. the members will probably merge back into Anon or start another group.
So expect a release on Monday as planned. It will just have a different name attached...
They think if they change their name it makes it harder for "the Suits" to catch up with them.
They may be right..........
BASIC Gorilla tactics 101:
10 Come together in a small group
20 Make a few big Bolshie attacks
30 Have a few lulz
40 Disband
50 goto 10
Laters Sol "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
These are not the droids you are looking for...
just sayin'...
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips
Pathetic really. The only thing different is that these idiots have big mouths. Which, I bet, will be their downfalls. Nothing they did on the hacking side is impressive at all. Competent black-hats know that one of the most dangerous things you can do is public bragging. Having an information-channel back is beyond stupid.
Fortunately, law-enforcement has very long memories and a lot of patience. It is just relatively slow. I predict that we will see them all begging for mercy. Might take months or years, but they were far to careless not to get caught.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
It's called cold feet. Too bad it's likely too late.
This follows 50 days chaos during which time it took down several websites
That should be either 50 days of chaos or 50 days' chaos (possessive, as in two weeks' notice).
Also, the phrase during which would have sufficed; during which time is verbose.
Grammar Nazi away!
an advent calendar.
What's the deal here - is it past their bedtime?
#DeleteChrome
Of course, if they are disbanding, then how can we know the elections will / wont be rigged?
I mean, the electronic ballot systems are totally secure right? We absolutely got those things top notch secure, and protected from insider rigging right? I mean, we won't have any of that 2004, 2000 DIEBOLD election scandal happening again. At least we can rest assured that since LuLzSec is disbanding, their rumor of rigging the elections with the most obvious method to show corruption in the election polls that it could never happen. again... right?
We all learned from the past right?
(hint hint... 2012 Elections are going to be rigged)
"Don't Forget to Salt the Fries"
These false-flag operations cost a lot you know.
[n/t]
Hey Teenagers,
Been There, Done That, Bought the T-Shirt.
Hope you enjoy the cock-gargling ass-raping in your near future,
Go to Hell,
The rest of the planet
Teenagers in general? If so, you truly are a crusty bastard.
Otherwise, you are implying that you've done something to deserve (unwanted?) gay sex. In which case, go fuck yourself, you hypocritical douche bag.
Sincerely,
The rest of the planet.
These basement dwelling morons are 'supposedly' stopping because they know the authorities are going to catch them and put them in jail.
Good riddance to teenage thugs who mention hitler and bin laden in their 'last' post.
What a bunch of misguided morons. They'll pose an insanity defense when they're caught and they _will be caught.
Prosecute the mom's and dad's too. They're just as culpable.
Other then a momentary loss of coordination and direction, the people that were doing this will, for the most part, be right back to doing this. LulzSec was an ad-hoc collection of individuals, and it will cost nothing for the people that were organizing and directing it to do the same thing again.
For gods sake, let it heal.
There is a history lesson alright: it was an idiotic fight picked by a bunch of paranoid lunatics. It killed, maimed and harmed a huge number of people for no reason at all.
Don't try to paint war-success stories from what is, at best, a cluster fuck of people that should know so much better.
At best, it is yet another lesson in how using weapons solves nothing. If I count correctly, the "using weapons group" is losing 30 to 1. When Afghanistan is over, it will be 31 to 1.
Does this mean Telstra can now fearlessly implement their internet filter?
A recent LulzSec post on twitter reads: "Oh, oh, finally! Media, please be sure to report on the actual files we leaked, not just our silly press statement. Much love. 3 Ciao. 3" As Rambo said, "Nothing is over!" At least, that's how I read it.
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i mean that they managed to wreak havic on the net owing big fat companys in the face and even makeing the fbi look like a bunck of fuckwits in a span of nearly 3 months. but with that brings alot of fame and media attetion. at some point you knoe its time to stop before you get cought. most groups dont and well they get cought.
they dont need to rig them they aruldy are. bush getting voted in not once but twice proved that. untill the corprations lose controle of are goverment the elctions will never mean a thing.
...they got a note from Anonymous, and they realized they'd best go away... NOW!
Willie...
I was in the Robot9001 BBS, above /new/sfront over at 4Chon.Net, and our domain got bumped off because /new/sfront and /r9k/1. Dreamhost was the web provider, so we weren't the only ones to go down, but Dreamhost discontinued our domain because they identified 4Chon as the target.
Ryan disliked what a few people debated him on
We've been around since M00t (moar liek Jewt) kicked us out of 4Chan to he can help mutate his website into a more friendly medium for hipsters from Canv.as(s) domain investors. This wouldn't have been a problem if our two boards were still on 4Chan, but instead we are the ones that got separated and then singled-out by our own provider. Ryan wouldn't be able to take down 4Chan, so he picks us smaller trolls. Then what's worse, he blames his temper tantrum on Assberger's Syndrome, and so now everyone at 4Chon is going to be traced and filtered/persecuted/censored off the Interblagospheretubes because Assberger's will be slandered and libeled to be a terrorist disease.
Ryan Cleary is another Judas: he did this to hurt himself, so he can say we were the one's that "transpired" him to anger. Now they're going to accept his profile as the default standard, and he's trolling every government officer to basically define everyone on 4Chon to take down our domain, and then he is going to be miraculously healed in some sort of Placebo treatment and be congratulated for exposing 4Chon as another tentacle of evil. Thanks, Ryan: you are light unto my anus.
This is the real reason they are quitting: http://www.gamemarshal.com/features/20110622113313/lulzsec-hacked-by-rival-hackers.html
Sen Blowhard, of the Intelligence Committee: "You mean to tell me that these !%^$# whippersnappers hired by the [redacted] were able to [redacted] and rub it in our face? I don't give a &#$^ about China! These Lulz people made us look like idiots! Shut it down, I'm pulling the funding."
Wreak havoc, fail to achieve any of your stated political goals, declare victory, and run away because it's too risky to stay. It's not only crackers who are this wasteful and destructive to innocent people's property: take a look at the mess in Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Vietnam and Korea for examples in the last 60 years.
..set the oven to "Carbonize". The cost of hubris is always unaffordable.
Every last one of you spouting your BS against them, calling them weenies for apparently quitting, talking down what they did "oh, they only did this or this, it's nothing."
Well *you* certainly didn't do it. Nobody else was doing it. They made a point to many companies about their lax and/or overestimated security measures, and managed to dump some very useful info exposing a group that continuously abuses their power stepping on our rights. What the hell have you done lately besides run your mouth here on /.? Hmmm? Yeah, not a damn thing besides bend over and take it up the shitter like the sheep you are. Talk tough on the internet, QQ all day every day, and never do a thing.
Try paying attention to and doing something about what "LulzSec" showed, instead of just being so much more useless yammering on the Internet. If people focused more on action than words, we wouldn't have any kind of need for groups like them.
We're getting offtopic here, but Bush wining the second time does NOT Prove that elections are rigged. What it actually caused Bush to get re-elected was a swift-boat campaign http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftboating on John Kerry right before the election.
I'm replying not to just be pedantic and correct you, I just want to raise awareness of the power of lying TV advertisements - if you know what swiftboating is, you will have the mental tools to recognise it when it happens and respond accordingly.
Do democracy a favor and forward that Wiki article around ;-)
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Ron Paul's going to win? ...That's about the only serious way to prove rigging. I mean, sorry, almost half the country voted for Senile McSenility and the Ice Twat, while over half the country voted for Slick Barry and Hollywood Joe.
If a mainstream Republican or Democrat gets elected, it's really not going to prove anything or even appear to be rigging - Americans are just that stupid.
On the other hand, I kind of hope this is true and they do something hilariously obvious, like make 'Reunification with the Crown of England' the winner.
I like tea.
"BASIC Gorilla tactics 101:"
You have trouble with synonyms, don't you? Look up the word "gorilla" in the dictionary. It doesn't mean what you think it does.
Chaos and Order... Chaos contains the seeds of infinite possibility yet Order only contains the seeds of incremental change... It is through Chaos that we are forced to evolve but it through evolution that we have establish Order... it is the Tao of Order and Chaos defines our reality...
Worked pretty well in the revolutionary war, world war II, and the star wars trilogy.
Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
I think, therefore you are.
So, does it mean they're done hacking high-profile sites or they're done publicly releasing the fruits of their hacks?
If you have ever been an IRC addict, you will know you cannot quit! Put on some trance music and get coding.
well no matter how you see it your vote doesent mean crap you are voteing for 2 copys of the same problem.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Legitimacy of a cause is in the eye of the beholder. To give the oft trotted example : the french resistance was certainly illegitimate for German or Vichy governement, but for the governement in Exile , legitimate. For you , LulzSec is illigitimate. For them , it was maybe worthy. Or maybe for the lolz. Who knows.
Interesting.. but I had just read this after seeing this article and had to wonder.
once more into the breach
My 2 opnions 1 - lulzsec is a covert ops... from US gov. Bringing chaos to approve censorship in the internet. 2.1 - People that find out a way to exploit a big botnet network and taking advantage of the "heat of revolution" made a lot more people to "donate" their machines to a botnet, exploits, previous hacked documents. 2.2 - People that worked in a way to spread malware for a couple of months or years and built their own botnet network and taking advantage of the "heat of revolution" made a lot more people to "donate" their machines to a botnet, exploits, previous hacked documents. I strongly believe in the number 1.
Out of curiosity, I downloaded the "50 days of lulz" torrent from their website. There really isn't much to see, except about 100,000 email addresses with passwords (which would make a good lesson for non-tech folk about how weak most passwords are).
Whoop-de-doo.
Whoever these clowns are, they don't seem to be half of what they're cracked up to be.
If Lulzsec's break-in methods were amateur, then what do you call the defences that were broken into?
Yes, and they had a document release planned for Monday. Something must have just happened.
I'll tell you what happened. They didn't have anything to release. Just a bunch of bragging pubescent script kiddies.
Prison rape is not considered acceptable in the UK (or most of western Europe) and so the authorities actually try to stamp it out if it happens. As a consequence it is not a major problem.
Prisons in Europe are thus not "Pound me in the arse prisons".
I wonder if judges in the US ever factor this in when they decide upon a sentence.
Hope you enjoy the cock-gargling ass-raping in your near future,
Go to Hell,
The rest of the planet
Maybe you should drop the "Saint" from your handle to be just "Stephen".
Too bad if it's true. I wish somebody would actually PHYSICALLY take down Goldman Sachs, Chase Manhattan, et al.
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
"Crack number 50 is the end of Unit A and our last one!" -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJjQM982S6s
The problem with the example you gave is that Kerry swiftboated himself in Vietnam. All his political opponents in 2004 did was draw attention to it.
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=iVujX4TR
I dunno how people get pissed off with lulzsec.
Can the stupid people of earth understand - the only reason they were ABLE to make ANY!!! breach - is because the companies and organizations you signed up to - BROKE THEIR CONTRACTS in their promise to protect your information. Who do you blame - the gun or the guy who tells you he's selling you bullet proof vests when its actually just jello!
Its funny how 99% of the world are total morons!
Though "LulzSec" has disbanded. the members will probably merge back into Anon
You're here forever.
At best, it is yet another lesson in how using weapons solves nothing.
As Salvor Hardin (Foundation, Asimov) said, "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". But that could read that it's the first refuge of the competent; it's a poor atom blaster that won't point both ways.
That said, Vietnam was indeed a clusterfuck we should not have been involved in. Afghanistan was only a clusterfuck when we kept fighting after we'd defeated the enemy.
Free Martian Whores!
Maybe they're not afraid, or changing tactics, or gonna lay low for a while then rise up again. Maybe, if they are leaving, they just got bored? Trolling is only fun for a small while, and, then, only when you're the one doing the trolling. Once people bigger and stronger than you start to push their weight, it quickly becomes tedious and boring. They had their 15 minutes. They were, at their pinnacle, one of the most popular "organizations" in the world-- for months. Now they're bored. Their need for popularity has been satiated. Time to go. They'll still be there. They'll still hack. I doubt this is the end. In a year they'll start remembering all the shit they caused and get to wondering if they could do it again. It's possible that some of them won't want to come back cause they'll have moved on, and that's probably when they'll turn the others in. Boredom is a powerful motivator.
The acts have been done. These script kiddies will have the police forces breathing down their necks for a while.
They said they were just pointing out security flaws but It was just an excuse for getting notoriety and getting their jollies at the same time. We know security sucks, we know a LOT of things suck in this world. We don't need to have it pointed out. I have a doubt security can really ward of a near infinite number of determined hackers anyway. Its little more than protection against folks that have better stuff to do. The one good thing for me, was listening to the reports at least provided a welcome relief from the mind numbing boring rehash about what some world leader or political party is doing. After the hearing about the same dead horse over and over on PBS I had to turn it off, lest I die of over exposure to politics. I thought it was pretty cool to turn down that 10k, but they could have just said send it to some charity.
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I saw a post on reddit.com today that linked a text file that said who the major players at lulz are, where they are, where they work, their IP addresses, etc.etc.
They're not gracefully bowing out, they are F'd in the A
The revolutiion? For some definition of worked. Ask the blacks and the indians how well it "worked".
Hard to say even the poor white folk really even benefited so much from the revolution
And we are still taxed without any representation in sight.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
You're still going to jail, fuckbags.
If LulzSec hacking the Arizona State Police and posting SB1070 isn't enough to show that they are actually working for(or are) the Feds then I don't know where critical thought is. I am prepared to share! They aren't heroes. They are liberal jobby chasers and this leak must be like a nocturnal emission cum true.
The new right fascists are bilingual. They speak English and Bullshit.
I am sure that with last weeks post of certain claims of possible arrests made against the group, and that law enforcement are knowingly trying to attack a type of organization set up almost like cells, and that they are not going to stop individually, but would need some sort of trigger to force the end of all activity, this could be it.
You put on the web that certain members have been apprehended, and that they may have info on the rest of the group, which in turn would lower hacking activity as a safe guard, and then turn around and announce (falsely) that the group has announced they are disbanding, in an attempt to disorganize the group as they await orders from all the c.c. s....brilliant, too bad i posted this response, and now the cat is out of the bag....
or i could just have watched too many movies, one of the 2
I wonder who their writer is. It's certainly a well-spoken person, what with the grand nature of this farewell announcement.
I they know they've done more than they could have reasonably expected to accomplish without getting hung out to dry. They've run their course, caused some chaos, and exposed loads of corruption. If they quit now, they're Robin Hood. If they kept going and got caught, or worse - screw up and publish information that gets someone killed, then they become villains.
There are already logs on pastebin that show that nearly all of the people from the leaked irc logs were also the big ringleaders in the anonymous attacks. They simply started working under the name LulzSec.
My biggest issue with all of this is that they inspired kids who think they're cool, to try to break in to servers and other people's computers. Even on something silly like Minecraft, kids are trying to "d0x" other users when they're mad. I don't believe these kids did any service to anyone but themselves. You can't even use the argument that "they were only showing it was too easy to get in, what if someone more malicious had done it?". How does that justify anything? They gave the accounts out to people who were then encouraged to get in to mischief themselves. They were encouraging other kids to become criminals just to have "fun".
If people behaved like this in real life, we would either be living in a society where vigilantism is the norm, or we'd be living in a police state within a decade. They did absolutely no good to anyone. Their intention was never to be good, it was to make names for themselves and feel powerful.
No small wonder you were modded up so highly. I've said that here numerous times that they ought to "get out while the getting's good & that they proved a point" etc.
They did so a few good things along the way as well (the NHS deal where they warned them that their admin passwords were open (LulzSec didn't use it against them, & instead helped them)).
In the end - They proved their point that things need "shoring up" security-wise out there today to protect not only companies but also individuals against negligence in the realm of computer security @ times.
APK
P.S. => This works out for you "fellow geeks" of mine if you think about it - because who ends up fixing this kind of thing? We do.
So, I suppose what I am trying to say here, is this: What they did exposed things that needed to be exposed on the security front (or rather, lack thereof). In a very real way, they did what a good citizen might saying "Hey, Mr. Bank Manager - your left the vault door's open, lock it!
That's really the ONLY real good thing that hacker/cracker types, OR, even malware makers do if you think about it (trying to look @ the "bright side" here is all, because some good always comes out of bad)...
... apk
Before grammar nazi's catch it:
"Hey, Mr. Bank Manager - your left the vault door's open, lock it! - by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27, @02:29PM (#36587250)
CORRECTION, per bolded portion of quote above: doors
APK
These "kids" were able to do things that we all know are not easy at-all, at will. And had enough confidence in their anti-track system that they tweeted everything, and posted data as torrents and such. With brains like that, It's probable they will never get caught.
I really hope I'm not the only person who's sick of seeing Lulzsec on every single tech news site available. Maybe now I don't have to hear about their "escapades" everywhere I turn.
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie/Ken Thompson, 1972