Hacker Group LulzSec Challenges FBI

Tiek00n writes "Hacker Group 'LulzSec' has gained some attention recently for their hacks of PBS and Sony. Their most recent target: FBI affiliate Infragard. The group claims, 'It has come to our unfortunate attention that NATO and our good friend Barrack Osama-Llama 24th-century Obama have recently upped the stakes with regard to hacking. They now treat hacking as an act of war. So, we just hacked an FBI affiliated website (Infragard, specifically the Atlanta chapter) and leaked its user base. We also took complete control over the site and defaced it...'"

Thay also defaced Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Or is Slashdot slashdotted? These 503 errors have been happening for a couple of days now.

Re:Act of war.

[Anonymous Coward]

What do you mean, "started"? USA has been bombing Libya for weeks already.

Re:Clear acts of War

[Warmlight]

It's not law but the Declaration of Independence says:

...that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence....

Again, it's not law but it is one of the documents on which our country is based.

Re:Section 31

[LizardKing]

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Re:Thay also defaced Slashdot

[NeutronCowboy]

That's noscript blocking addthis.com.

Re:Clear acts of War

[TubeSteak]

You, sir, are a coward. Show me an example of someone winding up on a no-fly list as a result of peaceable assembly. Yeah, I didn't think you had anything.

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/04/another-enemy-of-people.html [blogspot.com]

"Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that." I explained that I had not so marched but had, in September, 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the Web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the Constitution. "That'll do it," the [American Airlines clerk] said. "

That's just the first result off of google.
If you don't think people aren't being put on the no-fly list for asserting their right to free speech and to publicly assemble, you haven't been paying attention.

Re:working

[the_other_chewey]

This rule in Adblock Plus takes care of it:

slashdot.org##.busy.genericspinner.hide

Re:Haha

[jhigh]

I realize that asking people posting on Slashdot to RTFA is asking too much, but if half the people posting on this article understood basic English...well, there would be about half as many posts and LulzSec would look like the morons that they are.

The Pentagon does not classify hacking as an act of war. What they are doing is stating that hacking by a foreign power may constitute an act of war. There is a world of difference, and understanding that difference sheds some light on just how dumb LulzSec really is for their behavior. Here's hoping they get the jail time that they deserve for acting like spoiled teenagers.