This is Lulz Security, better known as those evil bastards 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 fuck 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 shit they think matters, and other losers telling them their shit 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.
ltamake !3vZ7A06glM joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 15 minutes after the original post[^][v]#133,122
Love those guys. :D
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 58 seconds later, 16 minutes after the original post[^][v]#133,123
@133,121 (Voice of !WisdomHsuU)
Confirmed for buttmad. Did someone steal your WoW account? :(
Voice of !WisdomHsuU replied with this 15 years ago, 38 seconds later, 17 minutes after the original post[^][v]#133,124
@133,116 (TTEH !penisGseqs) @133,120 (D) @133,122 (ltamake !3vZ7A06glM)
It amazes me how you guys actually SUPPORT a bunch of chantard script-kiddies. You people disgust me.
Tekamine !AnRbswGQv. joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 6 minutes later, 24 minutes after the original post[^][v]#133,126
@previous (Voice of !WisdomHsuU)
It's amazing how you think people actually give a fuck what you have to say.
protip !!pMmAiEwOm joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 8 minutes later, 32 minutes after the original post[^][v]#133,127
Anonymous O joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,262
pic related: it's the people behind lulzsec
Voice of !WisdomHsuU replied with this 15 years ago, 24 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,263
@133,252 (ltamake !3vZ7A06glM)
It's probably the same anonymous coward that kept bothering Ks.
Ks !KansasxqvM joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 30 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,298
@133,262 (O)
This. Its easy to sit around fucking shit up to make yourself feel cool etc. They failed at creating shit and actually contributing... losers.
Anonymous H replied with this 15 years ago, 39 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,345
@133,131 (Tekamine !AnRbswGQv.)
It's amazing that you're stupid enough to think everyone is a namefag.
protip !!pMmAiEwOm replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,349
Anonymous Q joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,416
USeye eye and eye
Anonymous H replied with this 15 years ago, 2 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,632
@133,349 (protip !!pMmAiEwOm)
Why are you such a creep?
Anonymous R joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,634
i want to join up with these guys, they're so great. not that i know how.
protip !!pMmAiEwOm replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,637
@133,632 (H)
Because it irritates the hell out of you angry anons.
Voice of !WisdomHsuU replied with this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,638
> I don't know what's supposed to be funny about this. These guys randomly attack innocent companies for the mere reason that they're successful at what they're doing (and the "hackers" are obviously not) and expose the personal data of random, innocent citizens. All I see is damage. I see nobody laughing. This shit is not funny, it's retarded. Like a spoiled little kid running through the living room destroying furniture because he desperately wants attention from his mother. It also draws the mainstream media's attention towards 4chan and further demonizes the internet as a horrible place to be and sets us back 5 years in social integration of tech savvy people. The news spreads distorted, uneducated and dramatized opinions and results in the average Joe's path of logic going like this: Oh, you're good with computers? That means you do anything else than browse facebook with your computer, so you're obviously a hacker. Oh I heard about hackers in the news once. They're terrible people and terrorists. Better avoid that guy.
protip !!pMmAiEwOm replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,639
@previous (Voice of !WisdomHsuU)
You’re really trying hard to convince MC.
Voice of !WisdomHsuU replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,641
@previous (protip !!pMmAiEwOm)
Why do you support these obnoxious brats?
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protip !!pMmAiEwOm replied with this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,645
@previous (Voice of !WisdomHsuU)
Who? LulzSec? I don’t support their methods, but I do support their goals. There should be greater understanding of issues that intersect technology and law, and “goodâ€Â security is greatly under-utilized.
I do think LulzSec has done a killer PR job, though.
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Voice of !WisdomHsuU replied with this 15 years ago, 6 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,648
> I do think LulzSec has done a killer PR job, though.
lol 10/10 bud
Nexus !jNexusRe/. joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 34 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,680
Inb4 massive arrests and media parade.
Nickalollyoff !Aw0s40dyqw joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 27 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,710
Seeing as none of my details have appeared in leaks so far, I'm okay with it. I follow them because watching this stuff makes me laugh, and it's interesting to see just how poorly some companies defend critically private data.
Like Sony storing tens of thousands of usernames/passwords in plain text. This is one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Priceless.
I don't necessarily support the things that they do, but the method, results and aftermath are all hilarious, so I don't give a fuck.
protip !!pMmAiEwOm replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,713
@previous (Nickalollyoff !Aw0s40dyqw)
I’ve been scanning the releases for my name or my family. So far, we’re doing alright :-P
Ks !KansasxqvM replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,716
I have to respect the risks they are taking, only someone with balls will put their ass on the line.
protip !!pMmAiEwOm replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,719
@previous (Ks !KansasxqvM)
LulzSec really needs a fucking haircut, though.
Ks !KansasxqvM replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#133,722