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The Media’s Coverage Of LulzSec Has Been Cowardly and Pathetic

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I found it distasteful that he calls other journalists cowards, when he himself writes this drivel after lulzsec has powered down.

His argument that lulzsec is more dangerous than someone making pipe-bombs seems a little mis-aligned.

His argument that kids do stupid things then comparing it to Columbine is unbelievable. It shows a lack of any intellectual capacity. And equalizes dissent with mass murder.

Again, arguing that lulzsec has dubious moral stand points misaligns the fact that lulzsec is not a coherent group. Nor should have a complete moral system. Their actions clearly show a level of complexity. However, their targets are also dubiously moral.

Agreed. He lost me when he quoted, with obvious approval, a source calling LulzSec "terrorists".

I think that if you attack and damage entities seemingly at random then its a brand of terrorism. Its not al-queda and its not taking a plane from the sky and yeah terrorism is such a loaded term that we've grown to equate with real evil, but as a method? Its terrorism.

There are other -ism's that could apply as well.

>blaming individual Arizona officers (and their families) for a state senate law is as wrong-headed as holding a single US army private accountable for the entire Iraq war.

2. Blaming senators for the law is wrong because they only expressed the will of the people. So who is to blame? As according to rule 1. the people, even the ones who actually performs the evil acts and receive direct material benefits for doing it, can't be blamed.

It is like in Bush's tortures - lawyers said its ok to torture and can't be punished for that, torturers acted based on lawyers advice and can't be punished for that... It is human nature that dropping personal responsibility unleashes all kinds of evil.

A better question is why most of it even got covered at all. Script kiddies deface and publish all the time - the only reason the press was covering at all was because it was pushed and packaged in PR friendly ways. Yawn.

> A better question is why most of it even got covered at all. Script kiddies deface and publish all the time.

How many previous groups of script kiddies have published such huge lists of email/password combinations? Note that publishing in an irc channel isn't the same as publishing on twitter, and giving the data away to a much broader audience.

Anytime there's such a tremendous gap in security it should be a story, script kiddie, government agent or other.

No, Paul Carr is obviously correct, because the current level of personal surveillance and state secrecy is totally normal and has always been this way, and nothing and nobody should be challenging it, and anybody complaining about it must be a total lunatic.

What a hack.

It is quite possible to be displeased with the increasing erosion of privacy by both corporate and government entities while also finding most of these hacker groups to be juvenile at best.

Reality isn't black and white.

They're juvenile because they're juveniles, but all that really means is that this has only just begun.

Because lulzsec is comprised of teenagers, it's O.K. for Arizona law enforcement officers to be racist?

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