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"Dear Internets,

This is Lulz Security, better known as those evil ******** from twitter. We just hit 1000 tweets, and as such we thought it best to have a little chit-chat with our friends (and foes).

For the past month and a bit, we've been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the Internet, attacking several targets including PBS, Sony, Fox, porn websites, FBI, CIA, the U.S. government, Sony some more, online gaming servers (by request of callers, not by our own choice), Sony again, and of course our good friend Sony.

While we've gained many, many supporters, we do have a mass of enemies, albeit mainly gamers. The main anti-LulzSec argument suggests that we're going to bring down more Internet laws by continuing our public shenanigans, and that our actions are causing clowns with pens to write new rules for you. But what if we just hadn't released anything? What if we were silent? That would mean we would be secretly inside FBI affiliates right now, inside PBS, inside Sony... watching... abusing...

Do you think every hacker announces everything they've hacked? We certainly haven't, and we're damn sure others are playing the silent game. Do you feel safe with your Facebook accounts, your Google Mail accounts, your Skype accounts? What makes you think a hacker isn't silently sitting inside all of these right now, sniping out individual people, or perhaps selling them off? You are a peon to these people. A toy. A string of characters with a value.

This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn't released something publicly. We're sitting on 200,000 Brink users right now that we never gave out. It might make you feel safe knowing we told you, so that Brink users may change their passwords. What if we hadn't told you? No one would be aware of this theft, and we'd have a fresh 200,000 peons to abuse, completely unaware of a breach.

Yes, yes, there's always the argument that releasing everything in full is just as evil, what with accounts being stolen and abused, but welcome to 2011. This is the lulz lizard era, where we do things just because we find it entertaining. Watching someone's Facebook picture turn into a penis and seeing their sister's shocked response is priceless. Receiving angry emails from the man you just sent 10 dildos to because he can't secure his Amazon password is priceless. You find it funny to watch havoc unfold, and we find it funny to cause it. We release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it.

Most of you reading this love the idea of wrecking someone else's online experience anonymously. It's appealing and unique, there are no two account hijackings that are the same, no two suddenly enraged girlfriends with the same expression when you admit to killing prostitutes from her boyfriend's recently stolen MSN account, and there's certainly no limit to the lulz lizardry that we all partake in on some level.

And that's all there is to it, that's what appeals to our Internet generation. We're attracted to fast-changing scenarios, we can't stand repetitiveness, and we want our shot of entertainment or we just go and browse something else, like an unimpressed zombie. Nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan, anyway...

Nobody is truly causing the Internet to slip one way or the other, it's an inevitable outcome for us humans. We find, we nom nom nom, we move onto something else that's yummier. We've been entertaining you 1000 times with 140 characters or less, and we'll continue creating things that are exciting and new until we're brought to justice, which we might well be. But you know, we just don't give a living **** at this point - you'll forget about us in 3 months' time when there's a new scandal to gawk at, or a new shiny thing to click on via your 2D light-filled rectangle. People who can make things work better within this rectangle have power over others; the whitehats who charge $10,000 for something we could teach you how to do over the course of a weekend, providing you aren't mentally disabled.

This is the Internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction. There are peons and lulz lizards; trolls and victims. There's losers that post **** they think matters, and other losers telling them their **** does not matter. In this situation, we are both of these parties, because we're fully aware that every single person that reached this final sentence just wasted a few moments of their time.

Thank you, bitches.

Lulz Security"
Wow! Nice reply to those hating them. :D
Post edited June 18, 2011 by KavazovAngel
They still are morons though :)
http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/

Someone is lulz-ing them.
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AndrewC: They still are morons though :)
They do make some strong points though... particularly:

"This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn't released something publicly."
Post edited June 18, 2011 by KavazovAngel
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AndrewC: They still are morons though :)
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KavazovAngel: They do make some strong points though... particularly:

"This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn't released something publicly."
Everything they do could have been done better if their goal was to increase security. As they say, their goal is not to increase security but to cause havoc, and therefore, they ARE morons
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AndrewC: They still are morons though :)
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KavazovAngel: They do make some strong points though... particularly:

"This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn't released something publicly."
Honestly don't give much of a fuck about that. My problem is that they're MO is DDoS-ing, which, along with the attitude remind me of little script kiddies.

I've checked to see if my accounts have been compromised by them so far and they have not. In the end, this is the advantage of using strong unique passwords for each account.

Now, if they were doing some serious work on exploits, IDS penetration, interesting things like those (at least interesting for me) sure, props, but as things stand right now they're nothing more than a mob who decides to stop their cars on a public road.

I'd also like to see them target some more serious institutions (the DoD would be nice, only to see their response) or even rail against stupidity (Sarah Palin anyone?) and do some serious hacking.

The whole sleeper agent crap is void; I don't care about the "someone hasn't released something publicly" because as long as that information isn't public it's as good as inexistant to me and if it is public it's of no interest.

Now, the attacks on HBGarry were nice, because of the target (a "security" firm) and because of the response.

So far their lulz don't resonate with me.
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Vagabond: http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/

Someone is lulz-ing them.
I see it's going to be a year of zany trials as well as great game releases.
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AndrewC: Honestly don't give much of a fuck about that. My problem is that they're MO is DDoS-ing, which, along with the attitude remind me of little script kiddies.
That's crap, yea. :)
What a bunch of tossers. They try a few half-heated attempts to say other people are the bad guys. Then go on to say, we're on a power trip. I don't believe for a second that they have any benign intentions, either as a primary cause, or even as a side effect. They attack because they enjoy doing it, and they openly admit it.

And teach someone to be a white hat hacker in a weekend! Just goes to show they're script kiddies who are just getting lucky by the industry being caught with their pants down. Why don't Lulzshits enter Pwn2Own and demonstrate their weekend warrior skills. They'd be totally embarrassed.
Hmm..

I find all this anonymous and Lulzsec stuff difficult to judge.

On one hand, I totally agree with the principles, and in part a lot fo what their doing.

On the other hand, a lot of what their doing seems completely wronjgly aimed, and more damaging to their cause then helpful.

Though I must say, people who think once lulzsec are caught they'll just go to prison, I'm pretty sure your wrong. When (if, I guess) they're caught, a government'll say they caught them, then give them the most powerrful it jobs there are, turning them into white hackers.

Putting people this skilled behind bars would be worse than half of what their doing now.

In my opinion.
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Vagabond: http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/

Someone is lulz-ing them.
Right, hopefully someone will hack their amazon accounts, order 4 gallons of nitric acid, a vanload of bleach, copies of every bit of extremist literature on offer... oh and 10 dildos.
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chartinboy: Putting people this skilled behind bars would be worse than half of what their doing now.
What skill? That's the problem, so far their only "skill" demonstrated is using a tool to DDoS and maybe a couple of public SQL exploits. Sorry, that's no skill unless your highest standard are scriptkiddies.
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chartinboy: Putting people this skilled behind bars would be worse than half of what their doing now.

In my opinion.
They are not particularly skilled.

In my opinion.
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chartinboy: Hmm..

I find all this anonymous and Lulzsec stuff difficult to judge.

On one hand, I totally agree with the principles, and in part a lot fo what their doing.

On the other hand, a lot of what their doing seems completely wronjgly aimed, and more damaging to their cause then helpful.

Though I must say, people who think once lulzsec are caught they'll just go to prison, I'm pretty sure your wrong. When (if, I guess) they're caught, a government'll say they caught them, then give them the most powerrful it jobs there are, turning them into white hackers.

Putting people this skilled behind bars would be worse than half of what their doing now.

In my opinion.
Doesn't take much skill to "hack" a decade-old server like BioWare's. I, too, know how to use a tool that sends a ton of packets towards a designated target. Does that make me a hacker?
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Vagabond: http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/

Someone is lulz-ing them.
I wonder if that's those Sega fans at work?