The leader of Lulzsec?
Yeah right.
And I'm the leader of Anonymous.
Plod. See icon.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested a man described "a self-proclaimed leader of the group ‘Lulz Security’ (Lulzsec), a computer hacking group that has existed since 2011." The as-yet-unnamed 24-year-old man was apprehended in the coastal town of Point Clare was arrested after using a known exploit to last month …
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Although I often feel an urge to slap whoever writes AFP press releases around the head with a copy of "A Grammar of Contemporary English", or some equally weighty tome, on this occasion I'll go in to bat for them. The police did not describe him as the leader of Lulzsec, they said: "The man is a self-proclaimed leader of the group ‘Lulz Security’ (Lulzsec)" - note the indefinite article and that he proclaimed himself.
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The Beeb news site's coverage of this story closes with this gem from our country's finest:
"Those thinking of engaging in such activities should be warned that hacking, creating or propagating malicious viruses or participating in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not harmless fun," Cyber Crimes Commander Glen McEwen said.
Too right, DDoS isn't harmless fun. In the wake of donation-throttling following from the Collateral Murder exposé, some of the DDoS going down seemed like a civic duty!
PS: that gets me thinking... "is not" harmless fun; "are not" harmless fun.
Clearly one of us doesn't know their are's from their elbow. Hope it's not me ;-0
"thos incompetents who can't set up servers and keep their patches current." Yeah, and people that get their houses burgled are at fault for not having steel shutters over the windows, and people that get mugged are at fault for not having a dozen armed bodyguards, and people that have their cars stolen are to blame for not putting boot clamps on every wheel AND steel shutters on all the windows, right? In truth, the real offenders would be the incompetents that "educated" you.
You wouldn't say that if I came to your house and defeated your security locks with a sledge hammer. Security is not on or off, it's on a scale, and ANY security measure can be overcome with sufficient force/power/time, whether you're talking about your home or your server.
".....Anons have dismissed him as likely operating generic software from a Windows machine...." Erm, excuse me, but ain't the fave tool of the Anonyputzs, the Low IQ Cannon, primarily a Windows app, even the Java browser version? Nice of them to expose the complete contempt they have for their own sheeple.
The suburb contains Point Clare railway station, which is on the Main North railway line,an Aldi supermarket, a pharmacy, a doctor's practice, Chinese and Thai takeaway, veterinarian. In addition, there is a Scouts' and Guides' Hall at Fagans Park.
Wow, in between the excitement of all that and the thrill of avoiding the flesh eating spiders, I am surprised he ever found the time to sit down at a computer at all.