Today is a bittersweet day. Gentlelizards, I salute you.

[single manly tear]

If a man steals my wallet, the problem isn’t that I wasn’t carrying a gun. It’s that that man stole my wallet.

Well, I suppose that depends upon your philosophical and political point-of-views about humanity and society. Maybe you aren’t carrying a gun, but if there isn’t some force keeping order in a society, things tend to go all Wild West and wallets tend to get stolen.

What LulzSec was trying to point out is that people believe these companies have guns protecting our wallets. But they were revealing these guns to be toys.

Is demanding that every site have hardened security reasonable? Probably not. But we need to think about how to resolve this issue. I think we need to move to a system where individuals are empowered to keep their credentials, instead of being stored in 50,000 database servers. Minimize the attack vectors and harden the shit out of the ones which remain.

They act like this was all some great big gift and now we’re having our cliched sad parting as they sail off into the sunset with a wink and a smile. They act like we have ANY reason to believe them.

They aren’t being humble. They’re being massive egotists, pretending that their theft and vandalism is liberation and art.

They act like it’s never crossed their mind just what would happen if people no longer trusted the internet with any personal information, down to a meager login and password. They don’t seem to realize just how critical that trust is to the global economy.

Good riddance.

They act like it’s never crossed their mind just what would happen if people no longer trusted the internet with any personal information, down to a meager login and password. They don’t seem to realize just how critical that trust is to the global economy.

No…replace “their” and “they” with Entities on the Internet Who Don’t Bother With Good Security, and your statement will be correct.

The point of LulzSec (besides the lulz) was to point out that from top to bottom, the internet is filled with companies and governments who violated user trust by not caring about security, and to publicly shame them. I’m not sure if the latter was accomplished, but the former certainly was.

“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.” — ‘Antigone’, Sophocles

http://dazzlepod.com/redirect_anywhere/290f175a77b7ab0e7a28bb364e0accd2/

This article is right on. The fawning praise for (or at least uncritical commentary on) shitty behavior that’s occurred here lately is disappointing. -3 Respect.

Good on ‘em. Anyone who thinks they were the first to exploit these holes is kidding themselves.

Peace and may the force be with you!

Are you saying that you do? I think that you have cleverly missed the point. Wake up!

FARE THEE WELL!!!!!

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=iVujX4TR

Navy site shown above. It’s the Navy’s job advertisement website, so what Lulz has done is screw with the possibility of people finding work

A large part of the military isn’t “work”. It’s welfare queens living off the backs of those of us who really are being productive members of our communities and society at large. They’re “working” to enable murderous, profit-taking ventures that benefit already obscenely rich corporatists who manipulate the populace into endless war (profits).

You’re in the military? Get a real job, welfare queen. If you’re not a whistleblower, then you’re just a part of the wicked waste of our tax dollars. This is the information age, so ignorance is no excuse. Educate yourself or continue to fight for the enemy of the American people and the world. Our military has been corrupted at the top by corporatists that put Lockheed Martin profits over the American public.

You want to REALLY save Americans? How about these 40,000 plus Americans that die EVERY YEAR because of the corporatists that spread LIES every day that keep Americans in the dark about single payer systems? You want to be a REAL HERO that SAVES LIVES? Then quit profiting off of misery, waste and LIES.

Or just quit fooling yourself and admit what you are. A waste.

… until they get to the end of the trail. Which is exactly why you don’t want to keep it up for long.

Hahaha…

The end of the of trail can be a republican politician one doesn’t favor. One can pick up targeted wifi signals from afar with some very simple methods (and there’s much more powerful solutions than that, BTW), crack the WPA/WPA2 pre-shared key (or cut through WEP like butter) and have at it.

And, if one is lucky, the overzealous FBI will blow up the house you’ve targeted and the republican will be burned to death.