Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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Post by __hudson__ » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 7:46 PM UTC

Interview with key LulzSec hacker
newscientist.com

Re: Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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Post by veb » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 8:02 PM UTC

He sounds like a politician...

Re: Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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Post by canistr » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 8:41 PM UTC

The interviewer should have asked what he thought of Stuxnet.

I am very curious to hear what these 'hacktivists' think of white hats in the military and how they will try to weasel their way around an answer that justifies such military action.

Re: Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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Post by rpearl » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 8:48 PM UTC

According to a variety of sources, including http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/lulzsecs-cloudflar... and http://backtracesecurity.com/page2 Sabu is Hector Monsegur. He lives in New York. He owns the domain prvt.org. This is the whois before he remembered to anonymize it:

http://pastebin.com/Atf3V2u9

Re: Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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Post by asdkl234890 » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 8:58 PM UTC

veb wrote: post #2

He sounds like a politician...

Because he wants to curtail everyone's freedoms to save the children?

Re: Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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Post by AndrewMoffat » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 9:09 PM UTC

I'm kind of shocked at the lack of over-inflated ego.

Re: Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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Post by rufibarbatus » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 9:18 PM UTC

rpearl wrote: post #4

According to a variety of sources, including http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/lulzsecs-cloudflar... and http://backtracesecurity.com/page2 Sabu is Hector Monsegur. He lives in New York. He owns the domain prvt.org. This is the whois before he remembered to anonymize it: http://pastebin.com/Atf3V2u9

What you just did, in my country, is a rather serious fellony, and I'm struggling to see your point.

(EDIT: though I'm still struggling to see the point of the parent comment, the above was in response to a slightly different phrasing that might've gotten the worst of me. At any rate, I don't wish to persue this dicussion any further.)

Re: Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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Post by Shenglong » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 9:20 PM UTC

The best line in this entire article: LulzSec's name comes from Lulz, a corruption of LOL, often denoting laughter at the victim of a prank.

Re: Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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Post by jackfoxy » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 9:23 PM UTC

This is an interview about politics. I think it is important to publish, but it demeans science journalism to publish it in this particular venue.

Re: Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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Post by ChuckMcM » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 9:25 PM UTC

I was more impressed with Khalid who went to Egypt and faced the bullets. Breaking into web sites, exposing passwords, is like 'pirate radio' in that its relatively low risk for the participants.

I appreciate that you can't believe Sony or someone who says "we'll keep your data safe" but I have to believe there are better ways to get that information out without all the collateral damage. I continue to hope that folks find a way to elevate the discussion without the theatrics.