Speaking of.... they just released this statement on their site...
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
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