News LulzSec takes aim at Brink and Bethesda

Mm, I mean today they've taken down Minecraft, Eve and the Escapist magazine, real funny.

 

Yep you're in luck:

https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec

 

thought they removed the user info from the torrent.. just wonder how long it'll take before a fix is out (they figure out this new hole)- how many more servers will go down

 

Good, if there is one company I have quite a lot of respect for it is CCP. I hope they manage this well

 

With each attack, the velocity we head towards a controlled and monitored internet increases.

If you know about the ransoms criminals pester blue chips with on a daily basis and their threats of DDoS attacks (that very often succeed - the DDoS that is, very few blue chips will pay-up) just like back in the good old days of the IRA and bomb threats, then you'll get some idea of how quickly this will all end. Don't be fooled in to thinking these guys are doing the world a favour.

 

It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Personally, I think that the actions of anonymous and lulzsec are the future, and aren't something to be afraid of.

If I have a problem with a small local business, i vote with my wallet, and I don't shop there. I tell my friends of my experience, and they don't shop their either. My point is made.

In days gone by, if people had a problem with the government or a business, they'd protest, and things would change.

Business have gotten too big. Governments have become too secretive. No amount of protesting will ever amount to anything any more. The only thing that big business feels is financial loss. Businesses have been putting profits before their customers for far, far too long. Look at Sony...

Sony get screwed. They tighten their security. They spend hundreds of thousands/millions in the process.

Sony get screwed again. They spend more money, lose more customers/developers.

And so it goes on...UNTIL...

Sony decides that they simply need to CHANGE. They start putting their customers first, and their shareholders second....they accept they can't win the security war, no matter what they throw at it, and simply focus on being "good".

Sony gets left alone.

...and I say this coming from the standpoint of someone who runs a business, ethically.

Viva la revolution.

 

So what about the other companies besides Sony they're hitting? Minecraft, indie developer comes good and then gets spanked by them, how is this helping?

 

Exactly - people need to stop making out that these idiots are fighting for some greater good. There's nothing grandiose or positive about 'lulz' it's a purile and misguided attempt to try and prove their superiority in the only way they know how to - by making the ordinary guy's life a misery. The REAL world would leave these morons behind in a second if they were 'unplugged'. How many people have had their gaming interrupted and are now worried about their details being spread all over some dirty little torrent site? Like I say - nothing noble here. Lulzsec need to wash themselves.

 

Why the attack on EVE seems completely pointless, though CCP is playing it safe and took everything down- what point is there to prove their its a developer that listens to its players.

The more attacks that happen, the quicker the people behind it will be found, theres always a trail.

 

Ha ha, yeah, I've yet to see a once-all-powerful-and-cocky hacker be caught by the law and NOT look like a scared little boy...

That thought has cheered me up.

 

Or make them really upset by denying them internet access.

 

They killed the LoL login servers last night with a DDoS attack. Irritating people.