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Comment by Wickk | Hacker News Reader

>I thought at first they had a moral motive.

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".

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Whenever they're hacking anyone and making headlines, they're increasing political pressures to create a "civilized" internet in the name of safety and security.

This keeps getting regurgitated on a daily basis, and I don't think the people saying it are even aware of the disruption on a person's daily life that results from this.

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.

I agree with you that any security implementation will hurt the web and can be a very dangerous thing that will likely fail.

My statement is a fact. Politicians and large corporations WILL use incidents like these to push their legislation forward.

I just realized that I'm agreeing with you and COMPLETELY misread your comment earlier. I apologize

Or: the gatekeepers are just as vulnerable as anyone else, so maybe we shouldn't give them the key.

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