LulzSec Debunks UK Census Hack 93
Earlier this morning we reported that an arrest had been made relating to the hacker group LulzSec.
mask.of.sanity notes "Hacking group LulzSec has poured cloud water on claims that it had stolen UK Census data and was preparing to release the records. 'Just saw the pastebin of the UK census hack. That wasn't us — don't believe fake LulzSec releases unless we put out a tweet first,' the group said from its official Twitter account."
Tweet first (Score:5, Funny)
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So after they put out a Tweet, do believe fake LulzSec releases.
What is your first clue these people need to get out more, or at least away from the screen?
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Slashdot users, or...?
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Only Anonymous is anonymous.
That means that your not LulzSec just because you say your LulzSec. But as long as you remain anonymous, your part of Anonymous.
capisce ?
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Yes, do. I think the next one will be: We totally didn't do that (now that we see there really could be consequences brought by intelligence agencies that we told to F off).
Bin Laden lasted 10 years because his messenger drove about 90 miles before putting the battery in the cell phone to make a call so the signal wouldn't be traced back to him. Since I doubt most of them would get off the sofa to change the TV channel, I give any particular member of "LulzSec" and "Anonymous" somewhere between 10 hours
wtf is (Score:1)
cloud water?
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We call that cider in the UK and it comes from the West Country.
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We call that cider in the UK and it comes from the West Country.
That do be scrumpy, laddie!
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Tables? What sort of a gay bar do you think this is?
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Rain -- as in rain on someone's parade.
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Anonimity has its price (Score:5, Insightful)
How can you prove who you are when you're anonymous? Well, I guess there's always a public key.
Use a public key, you dorks.
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How can you prove who you are when you're anonymous? Well, I guess there's always a public key.
Use a public key, you dorks.
It won't work. How many times have we been told there are no members? That nobody can really speak for them? That any random group of people on a given day can take action without everyone else knowing or being involved?
What they think is a clever tactic for shielding them from individual guilt also makes it practically impossible to deny anything effectively, or believably.
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LulzSec is not Anonymous. They may be better described as Pseudonymous.
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Related herds, same bull.
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I think you are confusing them with Anonymous. LulzSec has never claimed to be that kind of non-entity.
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How can you prove who you are when you're anonymous?
How can you claim you had nothing to do with it, when you just asked every cracker to help you "Hack The Planet" yesterday? (Operation AntiSec)
LulzSec requested assistance from Anonymous as well as any other crackers, stating that their "top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation."
It may not be a "top" priority, but doesn't this sound a little bit contradictory:
"Help us hack the world's Governments!"
Look, I hacked the census for
Will the real LulzSec remain silent? (Score:4, Insightful)
How do we know anyone is speaking for the real LulzSec?
let's see some ID
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http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com] for one.. they have some "d0x" and a number of chat logs. Having read through the logs myself, there are a couple of people that "speak" for the LulzSec. Though they all seem to have access to the twitter, there are a couple of "main" guys.. and there is definitely 1 or 2 leader figures.
Debunks? (Score:3)
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Cloud water? (Score:5, Informative)
Isn't it cold water? To pour cold water on something, to debunk it.
Cloud water is rain.
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Yeah. Idioms are apparently confusing to a lot of people, especially if they heard them wrong initially and run with it. Had an ex that refused to believe that it was a "temper tantrum" and not a "tantertantrum." Or the more mainstream moo point [youtube.com].
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Yeah. Idioms are apparently confusing to a lot of people, especially if they heard them wrong initially and run with it. Had an ex that refused to believe that it was a "temper tantrum" and not a "tantertantrum." Or the more mainstream moo point [youtube.com].
Je suid d'accord. I was searching for some specs on Heat Shrink Tubing when I encountered "Approcations" [sei-sfp.co.jp] I wasn't familiar with the word, thinking it was "Engrish", so I did a search on Approcations and found it not to be not just one misspelling/misuse/confusion, but at least two. In this instance it should be Applications and in at least one other the meaning was for Appreciation.
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Haha! I knew what that moo point link would be before I even clicked it :-)
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I don't usually post off-topic...but...
Joey: It's a moo point.
Chandler: I'm sorry...moo point?
Joey: Yeah, it's like a cows opinion - it doesn't matter. It's moo.
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Except it's Rachel, not Chandler :-)
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This whole thing is a bit of a damp squid.
Not if you put it up on a pedal stool...
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A former employer of mine used to (well, probably still does) say something was a "mute point". It grated on my nerves every time he said that.
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A former employer of mine used to (well, probably still does) say something was a "mute point". It grated on my nerves every time he said that.
What? You didn't take the opportunity to point out that "mute" means STFU?
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"I could care less" is my favourite since it actually means the exact opposite of "I couldn't care less".
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I wrote it off as a tech pun on the Cloud.
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Technically, they didn't debunk or refute, they rebutted. The first two require acceptable evidence, the latter says "I didn't do it, so there!"
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Respect, sir! :-)
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Technically, they didn't debunk or refute, they rebutted. The first two require acceptable evidence, the latter says "I didn't do it, so there!"
They refuted.
To rebut they must have initially been asserted to be the responsible party.
Claiming they are not the one and same who claimed responsibility is refuting.
and don't even get me started on prebutals.
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Cloud Water... (Score:3)
...I think I've had that
no matter how good your friends are, don't share your water bottle
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It's what they make rainbows out of, I believe. It's apparently very spicy.
"Cloud water" and "Debunks" (Score:2)
If you don't know what a specific word or figure of speech means, OR how it's spelled, DON'T use it. I beg of you.
To loosely quote Stewie, "Anyone caught using the terms 'irregardless,' 'a whole nother,' or 'all of the sudden' will be put in work camps.”
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But typoes are okay, right?
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I did proofread it.... Then I went back and added the "e" for effect.
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Worse, that particular quote comes straight from the source article. Random submitter makes a mistake and Slashdot editors miss it I can understand. 'Real' writer makes a mistake and 'real' editor misses it, that's much harder to swallow.
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The funny part is... (Score:2)
Covering their butts? (Score:2)
Perhaps the arrest by the UK police earlier has put some fear in to them so they are now trying to act like they haven't hacked the UK census in a desparate attempt to fend off the police.
Not sure that's an affirmative defense (Score:2)
"Your honor, I didn't do the crime. I would have tweeted about it. Just like I did for all my other crimes. See?"
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I thought census data was secure (Score:2)
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I had to google this, being an American I wasn't aware that Lockheed Martin was involved in handling UK Census data.
That's weird.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/19/census-boycott-lockheed-martin [guardian.co.uk]
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Old media news is a sham. (Score:2)
This is why I get breaking news from Twitter feeds. The journalism quality is just as good (or bad).