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Not to be too cheezy, but i'd like to quote The Dark Knight here: "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
Valid point and a great quote. It's just hard to believe such people exist outside the realm of comic books.
Not that LulzSec has made sense up until now but why bother taking out online video games? I feel like that's alienating the population that would normally support or at least be indifferent about a group like LulzSec.
Not to be too cheezy, but i'd like to quote The Dark Knight here: "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Valid point and a great quote. It's just hard to believe such people exist outside the realm of comic books.
Think of the Lulzsec activities as more of an art than an act of vandalism. (Most taggers/spray painters feel the same way, and are also known to deface their own stomping grounds) edit to the downvoters: I'm not defending their actions, just putting myself in their frame of mind
Anyone want to go conspiracy theory with me and wonder if some government agency wants more power to go after groups like anonymous and wikileaks and so are doing this themselves to get both people and the rest of government on board to give them more broad and exciting new powers (at our expense) to go after the real groups?
Can somebody give me a "worst case" scenario for a government crackdown on the internet?
What's to stop me from running tor? From VPNing out of the country myself? How would this alleged crackdown affect me?
And are you all new to the internet? Hacker groups like this have been around since...ever. I will admit that their publicity seems to have been waning in the last 5-6 years, but we're not really seeing anything new here. The only new thing about it is that this time it's happening on twitter.
This isn't a government cover-up. This isn't a conspiracy. It's one or several nerds doing what most nerds love to do: cause trouble. It's just that this time, it's happening on a much more public forum.
Not that LulzSec has made sense up until now but why bother taking out online video games? I feel like that's alienating the population that would normally support or at least be indifferent about a group like LulzSec.
Being a p.i.t.a is not cool. Throw the book at them.
Anyone want to go conspiracy theory with me and wonder if some government agency wants more power to go after groups like anonymous and wikileaks and so are doing this themselves to get both people and the rest of government on board to give them more broad and exciting new powers (at our expense) to go after the real groups?
I keep hearing this conspiracy theory pop up in almost every thread both here and on reddit about lulzsec's activities. Can somebody give me a "worst case" scenario for a government crackdown on the internet? What's to stop me from running tor? From VPNing out of the country myself ? How would this alleged crackdown affect me? And are you all new to the internet? Hacker groups like this have been around since...ever.…
The internet is a shitty place.
I just hope it wasn't code that I actually wrote that let them in. :) If I was betting, though, I would bet that it was a vulnerability in Adobe LiveCycle Data Services.