Anyway, DDOSing is not hacking and at least with these harmless kiddie attacks the defense mechanisms will be more readily available and cheaper (due to higher demand).
They never had a moral motive. When they targeted Sony, everyone was singing praise, but they have never claimed to be doing this for anything other than "lulz".
Someone made a great comment on a previous Lulzsec headline: When they're attacking Sony it's "righteous" and "good", when they're attacking companies we like they're "bad" and "immature".
I'll agree that as a whole security on the net is lousy, but drastic measures like this are an equally lousy method of dealing with it. No one should be surprised when laws get passed that limit freedoms on the internet in response to these actions. Cause and effect.
My statement is a fact. Politicians and large corporations WILL use incidents like these to push their legislation forward.
"For those wondering what the motivation was, earlier in the day there was a thread on the gaming site Escapist complaining about LulzSec hacking into Brink.
So LulzSec decided to take down that site and what I assume were a bunch of other easy gaming targets."