Lulzsec Declares 'Operation Anti-Security'
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Lulzsec is encouraging everyone to deface government websites with #AntiSec as well as in physical graffiti.
'Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments'.
Claims to have Anonymous on board.
Does anyone else smell a less free Internet approaching closer?
If this government wants to survive this coming era, it will not do what's feared. If it does do the sort of crackdowns people are fearing, it will not survive. Either it will be broken outright by the hackers and those who still care about freedom or it will fair to accomplish security and be broken by the people that still aren't safe.
The best chance is to actually address the issues by developing better technology in dialogue with the hackers and the security minded. This may make the short term harder but it will set the foundation for a superior nation built on something that can actually be defended.
Hmmm ... any chance Lulzsec is really a false flag operation?
Don't act like rude kids, that just denigrates our image as a whole and eventually further spoils our beloved common space known as the Internet.
Make the punishment stiffer and/or secure your servers (not exactly possibly with DDOS) and these "problems" go away.
In the early/mid 90's there were lots of high speed chases in Los Angeles. The penalties got stiffer, the media stopped reporting it, no one really cared, and i guess the freeways/roads became "less free".
Axioms:
1. Most of the geeks and internet privacy aware people in America hate the American government. If not hate, they at least despise them for most of their new internet policies.
2. Out of these people there are a lot of smart teenagers and young men/women. This is the age where most of the sociologists (I don't know if that is the correct term, just read it as parents or people who have PhDs and study this kind of things) believe that this is the age where they are most impressionable. And more so if the idea is rebellious, that too at the highest level.
3. Terrorists are not a bunch of fools who don't know how to use a dvd player. Most of the times they are capable of carrying out sophisticated internet attacks. Also they have strategists competent enough to take on US intelligence. (Not very sure of the last sentence but who am I to suck the fun out of this).
4. After 9/11 it has become increasingly hard for the terrorists to do bomb blasts or other such activities. Also suicide bombers make recruiting a pain.
5. Terrorists hate America.
Hypothesis:
The chief aim of terrorists is to make you people's (read American's) life miserable. They used to do it with short term impact plans like bombs. One bomb and america is terrorised for around a year or max for two. Make them hate their own government and they would be terrorised for life. Well terrorised is not a very good word for it, but pedestrian word for massive pain in the rear end of human body is not allowed on HN. So they devise a new scheme. They start riding on the current AnonSec wave. While AnonSec did it for a cause (the wikileaks thing) they would say they did it for the lulz. Now the group is supposed to be an all american group but anyone can be anyone on the internet. Also doing it for the lulz sounds more rebellious. So more and more rebellious and smart to some level kids join lulzSec. In some time they may have an army of them. Then they would really start acting up and randomly deface the government site. The cyber crime department (whatever it is called in US of A) is spread thin looking for these young brats who are doing all this DDoS attacks. They may do a real attack on american security then or just sit back and enjoy while americans fight each other in a kind of civil war. As an added bonus here, the government, under the fear of such acts, will make new laws restricting internet use. This will further annoy people and make new LulzSec recruits. So the terrorists groups have their very own "Vicious Cycle". At this point all the terrorists will go "Whoopie".
Refutations:
1. I don't know but I think the government sites are not hosted on the same server as the other high security services. So DDoSing them will be just an annoyance. But still people shiver at the headline "Hackers successfully take down CIA website".
2. Government cyber crime unit is not that small that they are spread thin with just few DDoS attacks. Someone will have to help me out here as I have no idea if this is right or wrong.
Please feel free to come up with more refutations.
OTOH, the terrorists may not be involved initially but they may send in some of their cyber force to help organizations like LulzSec so that they can help american people take down their own infrastructure. We should not forget that AnonSec did take down many payment portals to some level.LulzSec took down sony also. What is stopping LulzSec to go full blown DDoS on payment portals? If Al-Quida or other cyber aware terrorist organisation gives them a botnet or two god knows what they might do.
Btw, what's it gonna take to raise zerofor0wned from slumber again? They haven't published in awhile and I miss them. Surely Lulzsec kids are of the age of majority now, let's get the soft gloves off and do some real doxing.
I wonder if LulzSec even intended to make this connection. This "call to action" is quite different from the Anti-Sec mission statement, but I would have a hard time believing they weren't aware of previous use of "Anti-Sec".
Where or not it works for them or turns in to a bit of an embarrassment for them, is yet to be seen.
I'll keep an eye on google trends to see how it pans out: http://www.google.com/trends?q=antisec%2Clulzsec&ctab=0&...
And antisec, no-disclosure fundies have been around for a lot longer then Lulzsec.
This can only result in more crazy laws unfortunately.
The effect this might have, if any, is to show who pretends to have/give freedom and who really has/gives it.