LulzSec Quits... UPDATE: Apparently they've been outed

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http://uk.gizmodo.com/5815546/lulzsec-calls-it-quits


LulzSec Calls It Quits
LulzSec, after having wreaked all sorts of global havoc over the last several weeks, has officially declared that they're hanging up their top hats. The AntiSec movement that they revived, however, lives on.

Here is the full text of their announcement:
Friends around the globe,
We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.
For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. It's what we all crave, even the seemingly lifeless politicians and emotionless, middle-aged self-titled failures. You are not failures. You have not blown away. You can get what you want and you are worth having it, believe in yourself.
While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently. Behind this jolly visage of rainbows and top hats, we are people. People with a preference for music, a preference for food; we have varying taste in clothes and television, we are just like you. Even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden had these unique variations and style, and isn't that interesting to know? The mediocre painter turned supervillain liked cats more than we did.
Again, behind the mask, behind the insanity and mayhem, we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz. We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we've gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don't stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve.
So with those last thoughts, it's time to say bon voyage. Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind - we hope - inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere.
Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon.
Let it flow...
Lulz Security - our crew of six wishes you a happy 2011, and a shout-out to all of our battlefleet members and supporters across the globe

Good. Fuck 'em

Update: Apparently they've been outed:

http://uk.gizmodo.com/5815599/a+tea...d-identities-and-locations-of-lulzsec-mmebers
 
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Doppel

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Not reading all their nonsense, so basically they got scared sh*tless of being ripped out of their bedrooms in the middle of the night by the FBI and disappointing their parents and they're quitting?
 

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Not reading all their nonsense, so basically they got scared sh*tless of being ripped out of their bedrooms in the middle of the night by the FBI and disappointing their parents and they're quitting?

Pretty much.
 

guyver01

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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

if ya believe this, i have a few bridges in Brooklyn to sell
 

somethingsketchy

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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

if ya believe this, i have a few bridges in Brooklyn to sell


Agreed, I'd highly doubt they would "just" quit after only 50 days. Considering some of the targets they were going after, I figured they were not going to stop for a while (a la Anonymous and the Chruch of Scientology).
 

guyver01

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I don't know what this is referring to, but I'm not interested in a bridge.

References to "selling the Brooklyn Bridge" abound in American culture, sometimes as examples of rural gullibility but more often in connection with an idea that strains credulity. For example, "If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you." George C. Parker and William McCloundy are two early 20th-century con-men who had (allegedly) successfully perpetrated this scam on unwitting tourists. The 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon Bowery Bugs is a joking reference to Bugs "selling" a story of the Brooklyn Bridge to a naive tourist.
 

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References to "selling the Brooklyn Bridge" abound in American culture, sometimes as examples of rural gullibility but more often in connection with an idea that strains credulity. For example, "If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you." George C. Parker and William McCloundy are two early 20th-century con-men who had (allegedly) successfully perpetrated this scam on unwitting tourists. The 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon Bowery Bugs is a joking reference to Bugs "selling" a story of the Brooklyn Bridge to a naive tourist.

Ahh OK. Ta.
 

Ichinisan

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I'm sure the Arizona thing turned so many people against them, they feared a group with similar resources would release personal details of LulzSec members.
 

dud

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References to "selling the Brooklyn Bridge" abound in American culture, sometimes as examples of rural gullibility but more often in connection with an idea that strains credulity. For example, "If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you." George C. Parker and William McCloundy are two early 20th-century con-men who had (allegedly) successfully perpetrated this scam on unwitting tourists. The 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon Bowery Bugs is a joking reference to Bugs "selling" a story of the Brooklyn Bridge to a naive tourist.


Guyver, use the term "twit" with respect to Neckhair in your future posts about him/her/it and he'll get the idea pretty quickly ... or perhaps he really is as mentally challenged as he appears.

Neck@^%# epitomizes the English reference to a twit.
 

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Guyver, use the term "twit" with respect to Neckhair in your future posts about him/her/it and he'll get the idea pretty quickly ... or perhaps he really is as mentally challenged as he appears.

Neck@^%# epitomizes the English reference to a twit.

GFY
 

QueBert

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only 6 of them and they still managed to reek that much h4v0k? Awesome sauce, I bet they're planning something hella uber as we speak. I can't wait to see what it is.
 

Ichinisan

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only 6 of them and they still managed to reek that much h4v0k? Awesome sauce, I bet they're planning something hella uber as we speak. I can't wait to see what it is.

Tool.

...also, it's: "wreak havok"
 
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Leros

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This would imply that LulzSec had some sort of central leadership, which they don't.
 

coloumb

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/agree with most comments - they heat was getting to be too much so they decided to quit rather than get caught... at least for now.

If you get a chance -read up what the original Hacker has to say about LulzSec:

http://twitter.com/#!/kevinmitnick

@jeremiahg And the copycats are the ones likely to get caught. Actually, it's a very intelligent move for them to stop the attacks

Hmmm. The Lulzsec manifesto: http://pastebin.com/HZtH523f Flashing back to the Unibomber case and how he was caught.

I think it was wrong for them to release data for public viewing -that was just plain stupid - especially the Arizona hack. However, hopefully this will be a huge eye opener for companies to improve security of private data - keep it off servers that are accessible to the public, require users to change their passwords more often [every 30-60 days], add additional login security features, etc.
 

ProfJohn

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I would say they are running and hiding.

Looks like the guy in London may have been a member after all and the rest are scared of going to jail.