Haul Down the Flag!

Last Updated on June 26, 2011

Somewhat unexpected after 50 days of, apparently unstoppable chaos, the LulzSec Hacker group decided to haul down the flag of war and navigate to calmer shores, in which they will likely not attack other vessels in the sea of Internet.

The alleged dissolution of the group, leading the cyber-attacks at the CIA, U.S. Senate, Nintendo, Sony, SOCA, NATO and others, was announced in a statement, entitled 50 days of lulz in which the group has taken responsibility for the events, reviving the glory days of the AntiSec Movement, while claiming not to be permanently tied to the identity of LulzSec.

For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others – vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. It’s what we all crave, even the seemingly lifeless politicians and emotionless, middle-aged self-titled failures. You are not failures. You have not blown away. You can get what you want and you are worth having it, believe in yourself.

Probably this decision was also a consequence of the increasing attention attracted by the group, not only by CIA and FBI (which arrested an alleged 19 years old member of the group, Ryan Cleary, whose real involvement however, is yet to be shown), but also by other hackers: @th3j35t3r, @On3iroi, Web Ninjas and Warv0x (who hacked PBS a second time, just to show that “…LulzSec are just a bunch of script kiddies…”. Against those, in the last days, LulzSec was fighting a war with no holds barred, as in a modern cyberversion of a spaghetti western: on one side the so called good guys trying to unmask the identity of the bad guys with IRC logs leakages, DDOS attacks and anti-LulzSec PHP scripts; on the other side the bad guys claiming the futility of enemy attacks, their poor detective capabilities, and also their “horrible coding” (read this pastebin with the LulzSec fixed version of the PHP script used to scan their domains). At this link the possibile identities of the LulzSec members.

As their last goodbye the LulzSec released a final torrent with data taken from AOL, AT&T, NATO & others.

The motivations of the group can be shared or not, but one thing is certain: the ease with which classified information has been leaked should make us think ….