An Open Letter To LulzSec

'It's not what you do it's who you are'?

I would like to politely disagree.

I was expecting a rickroll there at the end... Fresh prince - close enough.

(I feel like I need to clarify something after upvoting this.)

You're right, the "it's who you are that matters" card spells out resigned bullshit about most of the times someone plays it.

But it's not what they do that matters either: like the author of the article said himself, what they're doing is mostly kiddie stuff. Using well-known tools and techniques to goof around with well-documented security flaw 'patterns'.

And so they're not crafting anything either, they're just wasting humanity's bandwidth. In that sense I agree with you.

Some of their recent hacks were _not_ kiddie stuff. I don't think they will be very impressed by this letter.

Also: I wouldn't bet on them being autistic nolifers, which is what the author of this letter seems to be suggesting, you'd probably be surprised.

Can you expand on what kind of methods they employ, or the barriers they had to overcome with their targets?