LulzSec have posted a manifesto

[Cain]

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=HZtH523f

Dear Internets,

This is Lulz Security, better known as those evil bastards from twitter. We just hit 1000 tweets, and as such we thought it best to have a little chit-chat with our friends (and foes).

For the past month and a bit, we've been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the Internet, attacking several targets including PBS, Sony, Fox, porn websites, FBI, CIA, the U.S. government, Sony some more, online gaming servers (by request of callers, not by our own choice), Sony again, and of course our good friend Sony.

While we've gained many, many supporters, we do have a mass of enemies, albeit mainly gamers. The main anti-LulzSec argument suggests that we're going to bring down more Internet laws by continuing our public shenanigans, and that our actions are causing clowns with pens to write new rules for you. But what if we just hadn't released anything? What if we were silent? That would mean we would be secretly inside FBI affiliates right now, inside PBS, inside Sony... watching... abusing...

Do you think every hacker announces everything they've hacked? We certainly haven't, and we're damn sure others are playing the silent game. Do you feel safe with your Facebook accounts, your Google Mail accounts, your Skype accounts? What makes you think a hacker isn't silently sitting inside all of these right now, sniping out individual people, or perhaps selling them off? You are a peon to these people. A toy. A string of characters with a value.

This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn't released something publicly. We're sitting on 200,000 Brink users right now that we never gave out. It might make you feel safe knowing we told you, so that Brink users may change their passwords. What if we hadn't told you? No one would be aware of this theft, and we'd have a fresh 200,000 peons to abuse, completely unaware of a breach.

Yes, yes, there's always the argument that releasing everything in full is just as evil, what with accounts being stolen and abused, but welcome to 2011. This is the lulz lizard era, where we do things just because we find it entertaining. Watching someone's Facebook picture turn into a penis and seeing their sister's shocked response is priceless. Receiving angry emails from the man you just sent 10 dildos to because he can't secure his Amazon password is priceless. You find it funny to watch havoc unfold, and we find it funny to cause it. We release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it.

Most of you reading this love the idea of wrecking someone else's online experience anonymously. It's appealing and unique, there are no two account hijackings that are the same, no two suddenly enraged girlfriends with the same expression when you admit to killing prostitutes from her boyfriend's recently stolen MSN account, and there's certainly no limit to the lulz lizardry that we all partake in on some level.

And that's all there is to it, that's what appeals to our Internet generation. We're attracted to fast-changing scenarios, we can't stand repetitiveness, and we want our shot of entertainment or we just go and browse something else, like an unimpressed zombie. Nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan, anyway...

Nobody is truly causing the Internet to slip one way or the other, it's an inevitable outcome for us humans. We find, we nom nom nom, we move onto something else that's yummier. We've been entertaining you 1000 times with 140 characters or less, and we'll continue creating things that are exciting and new until we're brought to justice, which we might well be. But you know, we just don't give a living fuck at this point - you'll forget about us in 3 months' time when there's a new scandal to gawk at, or a new shiny thing to click on via your 2D light-filled rectangle. People who can make things work better within this rectangle have power over others; the whitehats who charge $10,000 for something we could teach you how to do over the course of a weekend, providing you aren't mentally disabled.

This is the Internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction. There are peons and lulz lizards; trolls and victims. There's losers that post shit they think matters, and other losers telling them their shit does not matter. In this situation, we are both of these parties, because we're fully aware that every single person that reached this final sentence just wasted a few moments of their time.

Thank you, bitches.

Lulz Security

[Juana]

Nice

[Captain Swampass]

I sort of support what they're doing. It is a wake up call for half assed web security, and I kind of like knowing that all my terrible, monstrous secrets are concealed on gmail. 

Though fuck them, PSN was down forever. Actually, fuck Sony. Actually, fuck giving a fuck because I rarely boot up my PS3.

...Fuck.

[Cramulus]

You may well ask, "If you've seen that existence is illusion, why care what happens in it and to id? Why do Magick, why publish, why speak, if existence is simultaneously illusory and perfect?"

The short answer is "for the sport" or "for aesthetic enjoyment." The long answer begins with the precept that there is no virtue in suffering.
      -Maat Magick, p87


I'm not sure whether I'm thrilled or terrified by the idea that the central secret of consciousness is "I did it for the lulz".
      -Doloras LaPicho



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[Triple Zero]

nice find, Cram!

[Doktor Howl]

I support this.

[maphdet]

From the manifesto that Cain posted.

A string of characters with a value.

Single best line to describe humans of today. At least I think so too. 

[Cramulus]

I mean it too - I don't know whether to be thrilled or terrified

I know this is hopeless romanticism, but I really like the idea of Anon et al being guided by some form of "moralfaggotry". These guys are outside the border right now, they're not well understood, and they have access to tools which are both wonderful and terrible. This gives them a degree of control over the public dialogue. So I always hope that they use it in a way which draws evil to the surface where it can be discussed and confronted. Like the scientology protests, or wikileaks.

It's like how we would go to a forum and not break the rules, but still be totally obnoxious. And the moderators would try to legislate away our behavior, so we'd just change our behavior to still be technically legal but still obnoxious as fuck. It draws the moderator's tribal / control issues to the foreground. We're being dickbags, but in the long run, it helps the community.

But on the other end...
There's this " " vibe that you see in trolling communities. I first ran into it back when we were trolling Klok's site. Those cats were untrollable because they simply did not care about shit. They produce no content, they have no ideas or group projects, they were wholly uninvested in anything. Through this jadedness, they were immune to most attacks. If we threadbombed a subforum, they wouldn't even delete the threads, they'd just start new ones. You couldn't disrupt their conversations because there was no substance to disrupt, and nobody gave a shit anyway. If we ever got under their skin, they disguised it very well. It was a den of hedons, and it would never be more than that.

[Doktor Howl]

I mean it too - I don't know whether to be thrilled or terrified

I know this is hopeless romanticism, but I really like the idea of Anon et al being guided by some form of "moralfaggotry". These guys are outside the border right now, they're not well understood, and they have access to tools which are both wonderful and terrible. This gives them a degree of control over the public dialogue. So I always hope that they use it in a way which draws evil to the surface where it can be discussed and confronted. Like the scientology protests, or wikileaks.

It's like how we would go to a forum and not break the rules, but still be totally obnoxious. And the moderators would try to legislate away our behavior, so we'd just change our behavior to still be technically legal but still obnoxious as fuck. It draws the moderator's tribal / control issues to the foreground. We're being dickbags, but in the long run, it helps the community.

But on the other end...
There's this " " vibe that you see in trolling communities. I first ran into it back when we were trolling Klok's site. Those cats were untrollable because they simply did not care about shit. They produce no content, they have no ideas or group projects, they were wholly uninvested in anything. Through this jadedness, they were immune to most attacks. If we threadbombed a subforum, they wouldn't even delete the threads, they'd just start new ones. You couldn't disrupt their conversations because there was no substance to disrupt, and nobody gave a shit anyway. If we ever got under their skin, they disguised it very well. It was a den of hedons, and it would never be more than that.

I'm just enthralled by the occasional mayhem and the pompous manifestos.

I love this people, the same way I love termites.

[Faust]

I sort of support what they're doing. It is a wake up call for half assed web security, and I kind of like knowing that all my terrible, monstrous secrets are concealed on gmail. 

Though fuck them, PSN was down forever. Actually, fuck Sony. Actually, fuck giving a fuck because I rarely boot up my PS3.

...Fuck.

Because of them and the cutbacks they have lost a lot of uninvolved people their jobs and wasted millions of dollars with nothing to show for them.

So far they are utterly worthless, if they ever start doing something positive then maybe they will be more interesting.

[Juana]

And something more positive they did.

LulzSec announced Thursday evening the publication at Pirate Bay of a trove of leaked material from Arizona law enforcement agencies. Arizona's Department of Public Safety confirmed shortly thereafter that it was hacked.

In the press release included with the dump, a LulzSec affiliate outlines a more activist agenda than is usually associated with the group.

We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement. We are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona.

    The documents classified as "law enforcement sensitive", "not for public
    distribution", and "for official use only" are primarily related to border
    patrol and counter-terrorism operations and describe the use of informants to
    infiltrate various gangs, cartels, motorcycle clubs, Nazi groups, and protest
    movements.

    Every week we plan on releasing more classified documents and embarassing
    personal details of military and law enforcement in an effort not just to reveal
    their racist and corrupt nature but to purposefully sabotage their efforts to
    terrorize communities fighting an unjust "war on drugs".

    Hackers of the world are uniting and taking direct action against our common
    oppressors - the government, corporations, police, and militaries of the world.
    See you again real soon! ;D

With more than 700 bulletins, email archives, images and other files, the 440MB package will keep readers busy for days. A few excerpts from the most obviously newsworthy documents follow.

Examples of extracts in the article proper.

[Telarus]

I was about to post the reference from Slashdot:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/23/2352247/LulzSec-Posts-First-Secret-Document-Dump

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/93919/lulzsecs-first-secret-document-dump-hits-web-one-day-early/

Good on yah for beating me to that.

[Faust]

And something more positive they did.

That's slightly better then victimising a country that had a nuclear meltdown and got hit by a earthquake. I have no love of sony, but I know those fuckers are going to recoup money by firing people at the bottom.

[Triple Zero]

... wow this is getting a lot more interesting very quickly.

I haven't even had time to read up on what that Arizona data dump means--I'm sure that LulzSec is less careful with censoring real names than Wikileaks was, meaning that if that data dump contains info on informants and undercover people, they're pretty much dead. Right?

But there's more:

LulzSec extorting a botnet monitoring company for money and/or botnet intelligence [info that would make attacking their clients much easier, I guess] -- http://www.unveillance.com/latest-news/unveillance-official-statement/

LulzSec is doin' it wrong regarding secrecy, reading this I'm sure they'll get caught very very soon -- https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/14706-LulzSec-How-Not-to-Run-an-Insurgency.html

You might remember th3j35t3r, the "patriot hacker" responsible for the DDoS attacks on Wikileaks last year. Well he's hunting LulzSec too, and according to this tweet just an hour ago, he got one of them by the balls, see his pastebin log of a stalking session.

So that means the UK police caught this 19yo IRC-op Ryan, and maybe soon one or two others ... It won't last long.


BTW I found that wikipedia is often a good place to get a nicely collected and sourced run-down of the timeline and stuff concerning certain types of current events. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulzsec So much is written over so many places, I lose track sometimes. I thought [wrongly] the Sony attacks were pinned on Anonymous, for instance, not LulzSec.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Anonymous were blamed for the first Sony hack but, AFAIK, they never claimed responsibility. Or maybe they did (you know what they're like)

It's interesting to me just how much anonymous do get blamed for. They're fast becoming the internet's general purpose boogeyman.

LulzSec certainly make the world more interesting, IMO. Unlike russian hackers who do it for the money and chinese hackers who do it for great justice , lulzsec do it for the lulz - a much more noble cause and long may it continue

Was a pita when PSN went down but the punchline more than made up for it. I just hope they go after cinavia next - it's rendered my PS3 more useless than the fuckin network outage did