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THE HACKER GROUP Lulz Security has announced it is disbanding. The group made its announcement through its Twitter account.
It gave no reason for the disbandment, but it could be a sign of nerves in the face of law enforcement investigations. Rival hackers have also joined in the hunt, releasing information they say could point to the identities of the six-member group.
A statement said that its “planned 50-day cruise has expired”.
One of the group’s members was interviewed by The Associated Press on Friday, and gave no indication that its work was ending. LulzSec claimed hacks on major entertainment companies including Sony and Nintendo, FBI partner organisations, the CIA, the US Senate and a pornography website.
Kevin Mitnick, a security consultant and former hacker, said the group had probably concluded that the more they kept up their activities, the greater the chance that one of them would make some mistake that would enable authorities to catch them.
They’ve inspired copycat groups around the globe, he noted, which means similar attacks are likely to continue even without LulzSec.
As a parting shot, the group released a grab-bag of documents and login information apparently gleaned from gaming websites and corporate servers.
The largest group of documents — 338 files — appears to be internal documents from telecom company AT&T, detailing its buildout of a new wireless broadband network in the US. The network is set to go live this summer. A spokesman for the phone company could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the documents.
In the Friday interview, the LulzSec member said the group was sitting on at least 5 gigabytes of government and law enforcement data from across the world, which it planned to release in the next three weeks. Saturday’s release was less than a tenth of that size.
In an unusual strategy for a hacker group, LulzSec as sought publicity and conducted a conversation with the public through its Twitter account.
Observers believe it’s an offshoot of Anonymous, a larger, more loosely organized group that attempts to mobilize hackers for attacks on targets it considers immoral, like oppressive Middle Eastern governments and opponents of the document-distribution site WikiLeaks.
LulzSec on the other hand, attacked anyone they could for “the lulz,” which is Internet jargon for “laughs.”
- AP
Delete instagram. Problem solved.
@Mr. Cullen: big time.
@Mr. Cullen: came to say that. I have deleted all social media apps. It’s a rabbit hole of disinformation. Leads to the next thing you don’t want in life. Can’t have a conversation about anything without the phone picking it up and bombarding me with adverts about whatever we were chatting about.
I have twitter and Facebook account under a fake name and only follow news and local things in my area. I block all who try add me as friends etc and only check them about once a week.
Social media is anti social.
@Mr. Cullen: comment of the day/week/month
@Rafa C: also a hood comment however less is more.
@Dman: thx
It’s mental, especially when the thing that affects a child the most is how happy their parents are. They worry about us just as much as we worry about them.
Social media is an increasingly polluted sewer.
People on social media complaining about being on social media, yawn.
Give me strength! Don’t be influenced!! Very easy….
@Caroline Urch: it’s a supply and demand thing though isn’t it?.. in the real world I mean.
I’m also a neurotic woman, can I write a weekly article here?
@: She left the comments open though. Oh and she put her name on it. So not that much of a pu$$y.
@Louis Jacob: Yes I’m sure that she has control over whether the comments are open or not.
Stay off Instagram & Tiktok. Full of nothing but degenerates ‘living their best lives’
Parents now have to deal with social media, parents before them lived under the gaze of the church. At lest parents of the “modern” era can just log out or press delete.
I think this is an extremely accurate and well written article, that will resonate with huge portion of parents.
In all fairness. Anyone taking life tips off influencers really need a reality check.
Anyone who cares what strangers think about them also really need a reality check.
Ah, another expert to advise us. Just what we need. Her problems are her problems, let her sort them in private
I think you need to wonder if even writing this column is good for you. It’s exhausting just reading it, never mind actually living it once and then recalling it for this column. Not necessary and not healthy.. and I can’t help but wonder do you maybe secretly welcome the mayhem as it’s content for your piece? With the greatest of respect, I think it was obvious to a lot of people that social media was always going to turn out this way. It’s not much more than a continuation of school yard ‘look what I got’ jealousy/popularity contest.. and most of it lies.
Look up Daniel Schmachtenberger on the tube, begin from there. Continue to grow past the strictures you describe!
@Chutes: I’ve seen that. Yeah. It’s very good. This is all very addictive shit though. We’re all trying so hard to be distracted.
We aren’t bombarded with images of perfection. We are bombarded with feigned images of what some people think perfection is. (and it’s often far from.)
It started with advertising, in terms of capitalism in the early 1900′s your ‘parents’ did have the same problems, but it infiltrated our lives less at the time. These days people’s lives exist on ‘their’ platforms, so the money machine is now creating housing for us to digitally live in. At the end of the day, Musk and Zukker are your bosses Margret. (It’s an old and obvious one but the Adam Curtis doc; Century of the Self lays some of it out really well).
You admitted your only get a snap shot of other lives – u know it’s not all sunshine and roses but yet it’s upsetting you? I think people who have this mind set should do themselves a favour and come off social media. If u can’t do that id advice you to think about it all in a different way. Also maybe look inward as to why this is upsetting you & I mean that with the best intent! Good luck
My parents were bombarded by my perfection. Lol.
I don’t agree. Back in the 70s, there were numerous adverts for diet aids and how compulsory is was to have a perfect beach bikini body. It was indicated you would only get men’s attention if you were slim. My mother was always miserable and moaning about being fat, yet my dad loved her no matter what size she was. When I look back at old photos she was not fat!
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