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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.
...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.
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.
No, that's gorilla STRATEGY. Gorilla tactics is deciding who to fling poo at.
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