Following their unexpected Saturday announcement which said that their 50 day mission is over (even though they promised more attacks the previous day), LulzSec found themselves in a position best described by the word fucked. That is because after hacking many servers and pissing off an impressive number of people, organizations and governments, the identities of everyone in the group were revealed by hacker group The A-Team.
You don’t have to be a security expert to know what the loss of anonymity in a situation like that means (hint: fines, jail time, computer blacklists).
And even though I honestly thought it was pretty cool of LulzSec to dig up dirt on HBGary (and Sony, sans the user information leaks), my opinion of them dropped dramatically when they started releasing the emails of innocent people and DDoS’ing random services for absolutely no reason. That was taking the lulz too far, and seeing them brag all over Twitter about it only made things worse.
I’m not against hacking groups, but making an obnoxious circus out of hacking isn’t cool nor fun. Well, not until the end at least, because now I can’t wait to see the people behind LulzSec get owned by the law. Guess someone should have told them that they who lulz at the end lulz best.
I tip my hat to gents of The A-Team for the public service they’ve done.
