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This follows 50 days chaos during which time it took down several websites (including CIA.gov at one point), exposed passwords, exposed documents of the Arizona penal system, and at one point threatened to hit Too Big To Fail banks.
Obviously, it's possible that the group will not abide by its promise to quit. Nobody knows.
Regardless, already other affiliated hackers are promising to "sail the stormy seas for booty and Lulz" so it would clearly be a mistake to think some major turning point has been reached.
The below note was pubbed here, and tweeted from the @lulzsec account.
See also: The biggest hack attacks of 2011 >
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Friends around the globe,
We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.
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.
While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently. Behind this jolly visage of rainbows and top hats, we are people. People with a preference for music, a preference for food; we have varying taste in clothes and television, we are just like you. Even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden had these unique variations and style, and isn't that interesting to know? The mediocre painter turned supervillain liked cats more than we did.
Again, behind the mask, behind the insanity and mayhem, we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz. We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we've gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don't stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve.
So with those last thoughts, it's time to say bon voyage. Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind - we hope - inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere.
Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon.
Let it flow...
Lulz Security - our crew of six wishes you a happy 2011, and a shout-out to all of our battlefleet members and supporters across the globe
You should be able to copy paste better then that. To remove the numbers on the side you didnt even have to go line by line and remove them. Just scroll to the bottom of pastebin and its there for you in plain text nice and easy for you to copy paste.
Although you did get this post up pretty quick so good on you for that (sort of)
Files included in the torrent:
50 Days of Lulz.txt 2.64 KiB
booty/AOL internal data.txt 63.6 KiB
booty/AT&T; internal data.rar 314.59 MiB
booty/Battlefield Heroes Beta (550k users).csv 24.67 MiB
booty/FBI being silly.txt 3.82 KiB
booty/Hackforums.net (200k users).sql 111.2 MiB
booty/Nato-bookshop.org (12k users).csv 941.8 KiB
booty/Office networks of corporations.txt 3.87 KiB
booty/Private Investigator Emails.txt 2.52 KiB
booty/Random gaming forums (50k users).txt 6.08 MiB
booty/Silly routers.txt 67.7 KiB
booty/navy.mil owned.png
I find it strange that they would go out in such a lame way.
Publishing tony blairs IP and address book is a bit of a sad end to such a dazzling show
Im guessing that the end came about due to the '6' lulzsec members
feeling the net is closing in just a little too much.
oh well guys you were entertaining while you lasted.
The real shame is that the authoraties of the world will use this to
introduce policing to the world wide web and thus end the openness of
the WWW
porn - free speach - rest in peace
This would make them harder target to hit. If the system security is able to track down one or two operators, who cares.
does anyone think that these guys really got away scot free?
heh heh heh
give it a few weeks, they messed with the wrong people.
Continuing on publicly is next to useless to them now, they got their publicity all they can do know is increase their chances of getting caught
I predict that within a year people will wake up one morning to find out that their bank "doesnt know what their accounts hold."
The one thing that Americans fear is a loss of money.
I don't care whether the lulsec people were talented or just "script kids" or what have you. That they were able to get so much stuff out of so many places is unacceptable.
This is the thing. Hacking the IRC Chanel give no info about Luzsec. The operator of the iRC Chanel has nothing to do with however visit the Chanel. Like in this blog users pop in and pop out as nobody has an acpte and nobody is require to log in.
Counting the number of people chatting on an IRC Chanel during an anonymous operation is pointless because most anon does not even go or post on the Chanel while most people chatting are not involved in the Ddos attack.
The Ddos attack on the Egyptian gov for example was involving more than 8 millions computers. There is no way any IRC Chanel can take even close to that many user.
Luzsec are no fool and I know for sure that they will never be found even though the CIA, FBI MI5, MI6 . . . to name a few are all after them.
Topiary, the apparent second-in-command(maybe he's joint leader now) basically thinks that if your security sucks then it's okay to steal from you. Having crap security is a mistake, but just because I don't lock my door doesn't mean that it's okay for someone else to steal, there's a moral question there which he totally ignores. He seems to operate on the principle: if I'm smarter than I can do whatever I want, stealing included. That's essentially the same mindset of the Wall St types.
I also read the full logs. People in that group think that pedo's have it 'bad enough already', and one even advocated against arresting a pedo on the grounds that 'arrests are always bad'. The fact that this pedo supports the practice of sexslavery of children doesn't even seem to bother him.
That these people then try to cloak themselves in the mantle of uppity anti-establishment figures and making gullible fools fall for that is just kudos to them and a definitive statement on the intelligence of the general population.
I was never personally affected by any of their antics but I don't see them in the same light as I see Assange and WikiLeaks which does genuinely important work and doesn't steal common people's amazon vouchers, hack their facebook accounts just because they can. These people are petty thieves, skilled thieves, but petty thieves nontheless. They have no agenda aside from stealing from other people just like physical thieves, but they do try to desperately cloak it in the mantle of rightousness.
N*gga plz.
Well, what if you are running a service and promise all the users of your service that they can give you all their personal info and you'll keep it in a nice sturdy vault, but really it's in your unlocked shed behind your house? As a user of your service, I would certainly want to know that.
The list of the leaked accounts is now available in searchable list at http://dazzlepod.com/lulzsec/final/
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What ? .... they don't offer good food, music,television & nice clothes in prison?
"We are just like you" .... (right .... free.....on the Outside and wanting to keep it that way).......
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Hack the Planet! LulzSec, Anonymous and the Call for Accountability
http://www.futureconscience.com/hack-the-planet-accountability-vs-persecution/
make an example of them. In addition to the security damages,
they've cost a lot of powerful organizations a lot of $$$.
I'm betting on a lot of jail time.
But they DID gain the attention of a few actual hackers. And now they are afraid.
And they did not even do anything that was funny.