Lulzsec Hack's PBS in Response to Frontline Documentary

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/technology/31pbs.html?_r=1&hp

by tyrewebdesign • 15 years ago

24 11 15 years ago

This, in and of itself, isn't particularly interesting. What is, and what doesn't bode well, on the other hand, is the possibility for groups like this to cause another flash crash or some sort of international incident.

pstack3• 15 years ago

I'm more shocked that John Markoff still has a career, when he hasn't had anything sensationalistic to tie his opportunistic bylines to since Mitnick.

grovulent• 15 years ago

I've supported anonymous like groups in their defence of wikileaks and other such causes. But I'm struggling to understand the rationale of this attack.

If you're a person who wants to defend wikileaks - don't you believe that one should be able to express one's views online without being harassed by thugs, whether they be government, corporate or hacker groups?

While I'm a big supporter of wikileaks and have donated money to them in the past, they are not, nor should not be immune to criticism or negative press.

These people are becoming exactly what they seem to hate. Leave PBS alone.

shii• 15 years ago

This is Lulzsec for the record, has absolutely nothing to do with Anonymous. It's an actual group with members and not 'everyone from the internet' like Anon. These guys have quite the history as well. Owned Fox pretty well recently and Sony.

Looks like PBS' claim to have the situation under control isn't quite accurate:

http://www.pbs.org/ShadowDXS/

http://www.pbs.org/lulz/

They're on Formspring answering questions as well: http://mobile.formspring.me/profile/view/LulzSec

Pastebin dump: http://pastebin.com/B3gmw5NS

inb4 'oh noez, they're crackers not hackers' sissyfit.

Note that they say this is just a warmup for dumping presumably Sony tomorrow in #sownage. Lulzsec says Wikileaks piece by Frontline was a smear and throwing dirt on Manning and Wikileaks. NYTimes piece is really sparse on details for some reason.

pstack3• 15 years ago

Meh. While I don't support this behavior without some sort of an understandable cause to compel them, I view the overall activities of "oh noes; posted something on your website!" and "oh noes; got yer emailz!" as an important part of boosting the immune system. Imagine what kind of shitty police department you would have if they never had any crime to pursue and just ate donuts all day? These small fries keep people on their toes just enough to almost justify security specialists and keep funding security efforts in corporations from being automatically crossed off the list to save a few bucks.

mattdeboard• 15 years ago

So, in your opinion, crime is a net positive because it reinforces the need for police?

ceejayoz• 15 years ago

> Imagine what kind of shitty police department you would have if they never had any crime to pursue and just ate donuts all day?

So what? THERE'S NO CRIME.

ultrasaurus• 15 years ago

It seems you're describing the difference between the police (who have to deal with a range of minor crimes regularly) and the TSA (where the average agent will never meet a real terrorist).

StudyAnimal• 15 years ago

The documentary appears to be "WikiSecrets", which the article neglected to mention. I would link to it, but cannot find an official one that works.

bcn• 15 years ago

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/wikileaks/

Lulzsec Hack's PBS in Response to Frontline Documentary

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