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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."
Quitting while they're ahead.
Now we can finally bring the troops home.
Yes, and they had a document release planned for Monday. Something must have just happened.
What, life get too hard? Clearly someone got close to kicking them out of the game, and they ran before that would happen.
Win the war, not the battle.
Live to fight another day.
I can think of others. Basically sounds like a smart idea to me.
Well, something tells me this is in response to legal activity. There are surely going to be new laws, probably not ones specifically in response to hacking activity, but others that allow various governments all sorts of access to records to track down hackers.
This will cause 'innovation' in the hacking scene, where people adapt to the new laws and develop new technologies that circumvent them and make them more challenging to implement. Hackers are simply going to go further 'underground' and be harder to track.
This, in turn, it going to lead to a number of high profile hacks of large services who have not matured in terms of how they secure their services. This will make the news, government officials will make unfortunate comments that draw the attention of various hacker groups, who will lash out through their newly developed anonymity.
In turn, this is going to result in new laws... stop me if you heard this before.
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.
>implying all kinds of things
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
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.
Aside from doxing Arizona law enforcement, what harm did they really cause? They've really just managed to point out a lot of trivial security flaws... I suppose one could argue that they cost Sony billions of dollars, but fighting Sony was a legitimate cause...
Excellent analogy, wrong conclusion. Know your objective, how what you're willing to invest to achieve it, and exit when you've reached your goal or exceeded your costs. LulzSec made some headlines and embarrassed a few major organizations. Going to jail isn't worth a few more headlines.
I fail to see how anything they did could be justified even if it was for a 'legitimate' cause. Taking away others' ability to participate in the community [network] is universally wrong.
But they didn't. Sony did that, as a knee-jerk reaction. Don't blame LulzSec for Sony's ill-considered response.
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The funny part is if they didn't disband and a significant number got nailed, everyone would be saying how stupid they were for not quitting while they were ahead.
Course that's not to say a significant number won't get nailed eventually anyway, just noting that crowds are fun
it's been a few beers in an airport, but still...
do you - downhole - personally feel that sexual abuse in prisons is appropriate ?
including all the innocents getting convicted (think movie witch hunt or other similar cases), all the minor convictions (smoked some weed) and so on ?
personally, i would not have guts to condemn a person who would in the end find the means to kill off those who got them in the prison wrongfully. and i believe we should not make prisons a place to breed people like that.
Rich
I see that many people here on /. seem very bitter and angry about those kids. First let me tell you that "laughing you ass off when they get raped in prison" only shows that you're a very mean and despicable individual. But apart from that those kind of hackers are really doing people a favor by exposing clearly to the general public how terrible the security of their personal data is. Rest assured that for every bragging Lulzsec there are ten quiet hackers from different governmental and criminal groups, silently collecting your data and placing back doors in your systems, and not saying a word about it. Without public exposure authorities and corporations will naturally do all they can to swipe the problem under the rug. The kind of very visible but mostly harmless actions from the likes of Lulzsec is what's necessary to have them move their ass and finally do something about the security issue. I for one see them more as the vaccine that will eventually help the Internet grow some real security than the hateful vandals that old grumps of your kind want to portray.
Their point was never that 'nothing is secure'. They used simple well known attacks and a lot of humor.
I see their points as:
1) Validate user input.
2) Don't reuse passwords.
3) The first two rules apply to everyone including government contractors.
4) If we can get your details so can, and so have, other groups.
5) So called whitehats are corrupt by nature.
6) It's still possible to be anonymous on the internet if you know what you are doing.
7) Cloudflare works well.
8) We are laughing at you.
9) j3st3r ( or however you spell it ) is a script kiddie who writes very bad PHP.
10) Send us some cash via bitcoin.
11) PROFIT!